May 28, 2009

Palm Pre with Palm OS software

Sprint announced it will launch the expected Palm Pre on June 6. This phone, which is a combination between mobile and PDA, will be available in selected stores and will have a price of $199.99 with a service agreement included in a two-year contract and a $100 mail-in rebate.

By using the new mobile platform Palm webOS, the Palm Pre is able to collect all your important information, so you can access your complete records without having to use different platforms or phones.

Palm Pre is able to consolidate all the information that you need for different situations of the life (professional, social and personal). So, you can have all the important data in this revolutionary mobile. It uses an operating system that redefines the experience of living and working in a mobile manner.

“The argument that you need one phone for work and another phone for play, or that you have to make compromises between business and lifestyle productivity, is over”, said Give Hesse, Sprint’s CEO. “With Pre, compromises of the past are history”.

The Palm Pre will feature:

* Palm webOS
* 3G EVDO Rev. A
* 3.1″ 320×480 capacitive touchscreen
* Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
* Microsoft Outlook email and POP3/IMAP
* Integrated messaging (IM, SMS, and MMS)
* Built-in GPS
* 3MP camera with LED flash
* Integrated ambient light, accelerometer, and proximity sensor
* Music (MP3, AAC, AMR, QCELP, WAV) player
* Video (MPEG-4, H.263, H.264) player
* Image (GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP) viewer
* 802.11b/g WiFi
* 8GB internal memory
* MicroUSB connector
* 3.5mm headset jack
* Wireless charging
* 4.76 oz
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May 21, 2009

Leaked Photos of Blackberry Storm 2 Surfaced

Leaked photos of the Blackberry Storm 2 have appeared all over the web, which actually started when some tipster sent it to Crackberry. It looks a lot like the Blackberry Storm but since this is a successor to the original, then let’s expect it to have some upgraded features.

The tipster said that this will have Wi-Fi support in addition to the GPS. There will also be a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus, and will also have a new touch-screen technology, called the True Press, which is perhaps an improved SurePress on the current version. This is also said to be thinner and is much faster than its predecessor.

This will be launched under Verizon, though release date and pricing is still not yet known.
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May 18, 2009

Samsung Alias2 brings E-Ink keypad to Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless has just become the first wireless carrier to offer a mobile phone boasting E-Ink technology! Samsung and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless have announced that the Samsung Alias2 is now available for messaging fanatics that like living on the cutting-edge of keypad technology.
As expected, the new Samsung Alias2 features keypad buttons outfitted with mini E-Ink displays that allows the keypad to morph from traditional numeric keypad to QWERTY keyboard.
Open the Alias2 in landscape mode, and the keypad will automatically reconfigure itself as a four-row QWERTY keyboard. Open the dual-hinged flip vertically (in portrait samsung alias2 sch u750 verizon 3 300x832 Samsung Alias2 brings E Ink keypad to Verizon Wirelessmode) and the keypad reverts back to a numeric setup. Each key acts as a mini E-Ink display, capable of “redrawing” the symbols on its face. And, because the keypad uses E-Ink technology, very little power is required to reconfigure the keys. In fact, passive E-Ink keys only draw power when changing configurations.

The Samsung Alias2’s claim to fame is its E-Ink keypad, but it also brings a 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth (with A2DP), microSD card slot, one-touch “magic” shortcut keys and a 2.6-inch display to the table. It’s not huge on features, but if text messaging is your thing, and you love to “wow” your friends with new technology, the Samsung Alias2 is sure to please.

Grab your Samsung Alias2 from Verizon Wireless today for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new 2-year customer agreement.
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Acer DX900, the Acer Tempo with dual SIM card support

Recently Acer introduced its smartphone X960, and yesterday, the company also decided to make official the launch of its DX900 model, a mobile that is characterized by its support for two SIM cards, simultaneously. Even so, it is very possible this smartphone DX900 is more famous for the commotion it caused some days ago: it was the first Acer model in a development stage that was leaked to the press and it ended up being a redesign of another existing mobile (E-Ten Glofiish DX900).

Leaving aside this fact, the smartphone is presented with a screen similar to that of the X960: a 2.8-inch touchscreen (640 x 480). It supports HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access), but this support is limited to one of the SIM cards; for that reason, the another SIM card supports only the GSM standard. The mobile allows users to be connected via WiFi (802.11b/g) and includes a Bluetooth 2.0+EDR module.

This device is very oriented to a professional segment. It has installed the Outlook Mobile email client and other well-known programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. All those program are installed on Windows Mobile 6.1 (of course). Regarding the other features, the most important could be a 3-megapixels camera with auto-focus, GPS (SiRFstar III), and built-in microphone / speakers.

Its measures are: 106mm tall, 60.5mm wide and 17mm thick. It weighs 147g. This mobile is able to offer a talk time of up to 5 hours and a stand-by time of up to 150 hours.
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May 14, 2009

Nokia E61

Design
The E61 is branded by Nokia under the tagline of "Nokia For Business", and the business in this case appears to be mimicking the BlackBerry model, adding a few interesting features along the way.

From a design standpoint, that means that the E61 looks and more or less feels like any other BlackBerry-styled handset that you've seen before. Weighing in at 144g with the battery installed and measuring 117mm x 69.7mm x 14mm, this is hardly a tiny unit by mobile standards, although it's lithe by BlackBerry standards. A business-like silver finish gives the E61 a nice professional look and avoids the scuffed/grubby look that some black phones pick up all too easily. The keyboard on the E61 is backlit with a function key to switch between dialling and alphabet entries, although for the most part that's handled quite well in a context-sensitive way. A five-way joystick sits at the top of the reasonably-sized (for a phone) keyboard, flanked by the E61's dedicated menu and email buttons. Volume and voice recorder buttons sit on the left hand side, although the right hand side is left clear of buttons. If you're a BlackBerry afficionado used to a scroll wheel and back buttons, you may find the E61 takes some getting used to. The E61's 320 x 240 TFT display screen is bright and clear for pretty much every application you could think of to use on the phone -- both business and non-business related.

Features
It's pretty clear which route Nokia's designers chose to take when deciding which technologies to implement on the E61. It basically chucked them all in. The end result is a phone with (deep breath) support for GSM 850/900/1800/1900, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared, VoIP, Push To Talk, and Mini SD storage cards. On the software side, you can add to that list support for Symbian OS 9.1 compatible applications, Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, as well as Zip files and PDF files via Adobe reader. The E61's screen can be sent out to compatible projectors via the E61's screen export package, making it a potential replacement for some ultraportable notebooks, depending on your usage patterns. Naturally as a competitor in the BlackBerry space, the E61 has full support for POP3, IMAP, SMTP and Microsoft Exchange Server email. In an odd, and decidedly non-corporate way, it also supports instant messaging clients from Yahoo and AOL, MP3 and AAC music playback and RealPlayer video support. Just don't let the IT department know about those features and you should be fine.

One feature that's normally de rigeur with 3G phones that the E61 omits is any kind of camera, so if your business life also includes the odd video call, this isn't the phone for you. The flipside of this is presumably that it'll be easier to convince your IT department to buy one if it doesn't look like a consumer phone in any way whatsoever.

Performance
Where the E61 impressed us the most was in the breadth of its scope, especially given the inbuilt support for WiFi. The inclusion of WiFi makes it a true option for work within the office and outside of it, as it's capable of using whatever data connection is to hand for incoming messages and other data transmissions. The mobile carriers may not be happy with this -- data rates over 3G and GPRS are typically very high -- but it's a good argument in the E61's favour that you'll be able to use wireless services for data transmission when you're in a compatible hotspot or in the office. The same also holds true for voice calls, where you can use VoIP clients for calling purposes. Naturally, it's a good idea to make sure you are connected properly to your WiFi connection before initiating a VoIP call, otherwise you'll find your VoIP savings evaporate when your carrier charges you data rates for your call.

The one caveat we'd attach to the E61 is that a lot of its menu choices aren't as clear as they could otherwise be, and you'll sometimes find yourself trekking through multiple screens to achieve a desired result. As an example, you can scan for nearby wireless access points in the phone's connection manager, but only connect to insecure points that way -- if you need to classify wireless security settings for an access point, that's in an entirely different menu and sub-menu structure.

Like most BlackBerry-style devices, the E61 is technically capable of making phone calls, although it's arguably a somewhat secondary consideration; like most phones in this form factor it feels a little daft holding up a small brick to your ear, and the phone dialling buttons are on the small side. Presumably Nokia figures that the business market the E61 is pitched towards will all go down the Bluetooth headset/voice dialling route. While we're on the physical problems page, we also found that the navigation joystick on our review sample was a little twitchy when it came to differentiating between a downwards push and a selection click, which made some online navigating and menu selections a touch trickier than they needed to be.

Nokia rates the E61 as being capable of up to 9.5 hours talk time and up to 17 days standby time. Given the wide range of battery-sapping applications that you can have enabled -- Bluetooth and WiFi alone can bring even the biggest and meanest battery to its sobbing knees -- we expected to hit the lower sides of those estimations, and were pleasantly suprised to hit them almost exactly with moderate use of the phone in 3G and WiFi modes.
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Samsung Instinct s30 Reviews

Samsung Instinct S30 also known as Samsung Mini has been officially released and is already into a lot of buzz these days. The new mobile has many of the features embedded from the Samsung Instinct mobile but it can be called as the improved version of its predecessor. It is much more advanced and lot slimmer than Samsung Instinct. Apart from the other names, this set is also popularly known as Samsung M810. Now looking deeply into the features and the technology it offers, we would see why this mobile is better than the Samsung Instinct.

The display of the mobile is great and the 3.2 inch wide TFT touch screen display can accommodate up to 262K colors in it, giving a resolution of 240X432 pixels. This signifies the brilliant color display of the LCD. Design of this set has been mad slimmer and better. The overall size of the mobile is 4.53 x 2.13 x 0.50 inches which signifies a change in the width over Samsung Instinct. Looks nice to hold in the palm and is excellent as far as interface design is concerned. Samsung Instinct S30 does not come in with a keyboard but it offers a virtual QWERTY keyboard with full functionality. The GPS System of the mobile runs well and there is no complaint regarding this in the cell.

Among the striking features, Samsung Instinct S30 offers visual voicemail technology, Microsoft live search, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, sprint navigation, text messaging with threaded text and many more features that makes this mobile a great buy. The talk time of this mobile is similar to Samsung Instinct and lasts for 4.6 hours. Battery life is great and the call quality is decent. Speaker phone is of the average quality and so is the music. Sounds are clear but when played at too high volumes, they seem to be distorted a bit. It weighs less at only 3.9 ounces and is a portable model of Samsung Instinct.

The web browsing experience is better since it comes in with in-built Opera Mini 4.2. However, again the camera quality of the mobile is not up to the mark. It offers a 2 mega pixel camera which gives decent quality pictures but they seem to be quite hazy and blurred when taken while zooming. It supports microSD card for the expandable memory option and the internal memory of the mobile is fine.

Considering the software conflicts and other problems that were noticed in the Samsung Instinct, this new version guarantees less errors and almost no software problems associated with it. In short, if we were to describe this mobile in terms of its predecessor, it would not be wrong to claim it as a better and improved version of Samsung Instinct. With all the great features enabled an software problems eliminated completely, Samsung Instinct S30 has a long way to go and will surely turn out to be yet another classic smart phone from Samsung.
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May 3, 2009

Vegas phone launches UK's cheapest touchscreen phone

24 APR 2009
Vegas touchscreen phone – easy on the wallet
If you're looking to hop on the touchscreen bandwagon on a budget, Orange has just uncovered a new wallet-friendly handset that might be right up your street.

At a credit crunching £48.50, the Vegas is the cheapest touch screen pay as you go handset in the UK, and is available in classic black or, exclusively to the folk at Orange, a bubblegum pink for the ladies.

The specs are pretty limited as you might expect, but for under £50 you'll get a 1.3 megapixel camera, a media player and built-in FM radio. There's 128MB of built-in memory to store your snaps and music, but you get a microSD card slot that will let you whack up the capacity to a rather respectable 4GB.

Not wanting to discriminate against the pay monthlies among you, the Vegas is also available for contract users, but we'd think this will probably be more of a pull for the pay as you goers out there.

You can get your hands on the Vegas now from Orange stores or online. Keep your peepers fixed on Stuff.tv for a hands-on vid review very soon.
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K-Touch C800: Mobile Phones with Camera 8MP

Now K-Touch, issued a series of cheap mobile phones with features that complete. This product is a mobile phone K-Touch C800. 8Megapixel mobile phone with camera and TV out.
TV Out feature is a feature where we can view the LCD display screen hp into a TV monitor. Maybe this series from the type of previous research, namely K-touch E60.
Spesifikasi K-touch C800

Common
GSM / GPRS 900MHz/1800MHz
2 Fruit Micro SD slot (Maximum 2GB each slot)
Motion Sensor (Medium asked for the Indonesian market)
Bluetooth
TV-Out (Not so analog TV)
USB 1.1 for HP
For the USB 2.0 Digital Camera
Battery 1300 mAh
2 Fruit Speaker

Camera
Lens 1/2.5 "
8.0 Mega pixels (Pure Without interpolation)
Xenon Flash
Auto Focus
3x Optical Zoom, 4x Digital Zoom
Maximum resolution: 3264 * 2448

Dimensions
123 * 56 * 21mm

Software
Telephone answering machine
Background voice calls
SMS / EMS / MMS
MP3/MP4 Player
Photo Artist
Photo Tile
Slide Show
Voice Recorder
Camera (Only for digital camera memory slots)
Video Recorder
Video Maker
Melody Maker
Java
Black List, Call / SMS
Remote Control
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