January 2009 Archives

Nokia has just announced a new cell phone called the Nokia 6700 Cell Phone. This phone, combines smooth surfaces, rich materials and precisely crafted parts with a full metal keymat which completes the premium finish. Improving on all areas of its forerunner, the Nokia 6700 comes with a 5 megapixel camera, assisted GPS navigation with Nokia Maps, and high speed data access meaning sharing images or video is faster and easier than ever. At an estimated retail price of EUR 235, before taxes and subsidies, the Nokia 6700 addresses the original Nokia 6300 customer need and aspiration level perfectly.

The Nokia 6700 classic, continues the legacy of one of the company's most successful products, the Nokia 6300. "The Nokia 6300 raised the bar in terms of design and premium materials when it arrived in 2006 and topped all sales records for a mid-range mobile phone. The Nokia 6700 moves that bar even higher with a beautiful, slim design and perfectly balanced practicality," said Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President, Nokia. "Our new arrival shares the same 'DNA' as its predecessor and we believe that it will be one of our best selling devices in 2009," continued Petersen.

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The Nokia 7510 flip phone is the second phone T-Mobile launched today. Some if most important features are the swappable faceplats and the semi-hidden external display. The clamshell will be available for $49.99 with a contract after $100 instant rebates and $50 mail-in rebate.

And here are the most important features of the Nokia 7510:

Fun

• Changeable face plates


• 2 Megapixel Camera with Video Capture


• FM radio


• Music player

Communication

• Wi-Fi and Mobile Calling


• Speaker phone


• Easy text input


• E-mail

Information

• Micro SD memory slot


• Photo caller ID


• Vibrating alert

Assistants

• Bluetooth® connectivity

via T-Mobile

Motorola unveiled a sporty looking handset in the MOTOACTV W450 at the CES and this will certainly be a great gadget to have when you going outdoors. Featuring a rubberized external coating for easier handling, it also comes with a white chin bar to allow users for clipping onto a belt or a bag.

MOTOACTV W450 also features two color schemes, alpine white and black slate, with either canary yellow or mandarin accents. In addition to its sturdy exterior, the W450 allows users to look up symptoms and first aid tips for ailments that develop on the trail.

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MotoPrizm, a 2G full touch phone, is the Korean version of the Motorola Crave ZN4. The Motorolla MotoPrizm was officially launched in Korea sporting a good-looking orange version. Motorola has blessed the Prizm with 840 x 480 pixels touchscreen display as well as some other great features.

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LG Electronics is certainly on the prowl these days, unveiling new innovative phones one after another. After the success it had from its LG Venus, LG is bound to get more attention with the release of their latest mobile phone, the LG KF310.

This latest LG mobile phone comes with 2 megapixel camera that helps you to take snaps and develop short clips to share it with your dear ones. It's a slide open and light weight mobile phone that provide more comfort than any other basic handset.

LG KF310 provides you an option to browse internet and stay connected with your dear one by instant messaging. All the basic features are included in this latest phone and offered at very cheap prices.

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Here we go people! The rumors have started to come in about the arrival date of the Pre. Palm has announced that the new smartphone will be available in the first half of the year. Well it looks like that first half of the year means June for some of you. Sprint employees are being trained on that Pre. Here's what Sarah Lucy (a tech journalist) Twitters about it:

i honestly tried to bribe sprint employees to give me an unlocked pre. they're all training on them! i know they have them back there

sprint employees told me the pre doesn't come out until JUNE! :(

Looking for a new phone? Is it an LG? Is it a slider? I hope you answered yes to all those questions as I have a new LG for you. Well actually, AT&T is going to have a new LG slider for you. It's the CF360 phone is arriving at AT&T in the following days. It's an entry-level phone which lacks any impressive features. You should expect a 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth, music player, GPS with AT&T Navigator but that's about it. It should be cheap too, especially if you get it with a contract, so go stalk some AT&T store for more info about actual arrival date.

via Engadget Mobile

It looks like Samsung is releasing two more gadgets soon, the Samsung Louve and Pilot. These two upcoming WiMo devices will come in sliding and bar forms respectively.

Samsung Louve features:

Samsung Pivot (not to be confused with X830) features:

Hopefully these devices will be officially introduced by next month. A definite new gadget to watch out!

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All phones are prone to drops and this offering from Honeywell should be able to help address that. This pistol-like Dolphin 9950 smartphone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.0.

Just how tough is the Dolphin 9950? Well, Honeywell claims that it is definitely no Humpty Dumpty, capable of withstanding multiple five-foot drops onto concrete as well as over 2,000 three-foot tumbles.

This will be a bulky handset, which does help in housing a 2500mAh lithium-ion battery that boasts a whopping ten-hour battery life. It will probably outlast humans without special clothing by withstanding a wide temperature range between -10 to 50 degrees Celsius.

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(Source) Windows for Devices

The LG Dare mobile phone was launched at the CES. Available via Verizon Wireless, the LG Dare is not a typical smartphone but has web browsing and PDA-like capabilities. This is a simple yet trendy mobile phone that novice cellphone users may want to have.

Features:

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The Meizu M8 might just be an Apple iPhone knock off, but it might also be so much more than that. The Chinese smartphone looks just about ready to be launched. It uses the new 0.9.0.1 firmware which comes with copy and paste, Outlook calendar sync and a full backup system. There's a published SDK available and a license for the Chinese airwaves. All that might lead to a March release in China. And Meizu seems really confident in its M8:

Let's bear witness together, to the great moment of MEIZU formally entering the big stage of mobile phone industry!

Will Apple react in any way when the M8 gets released?

via Meizu

LG has a new phone in the works, the VX9600 or the Versa. We have no official details yet and therefore we have no idea when the phone is coming and how much it will cost.

One of the most obvious features of this phone is the detachable QWERTY keyboard module. Besides the detachable QWERTY keyboard we should expect a detachable gamepad, a pair of speakers and an Internet module with WiFi.

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A new Cyber-Shot phone is heading our way. It's the C903 from Sony Ericsson which we heard it's going to be unveiled at MWC next month. The C903 or the Frances looks similar to the C905 Cybe-Shot which has an 8 megapixel camera. But the C903 will only sport a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, active lens cover and face detection. You will also get A-GPS, 2.4-inch TFT screen with a 240x320 pixels.

The C903 will be available sometime in Q2 2009 but we don't have an exact date or any pricing details just yet.

via SEMC

The handset in the picture here is Nokia's E75. You might think it's the 5730 XpressMusic that Nokia announced a while ago but it isn't. It's a brand new phone which might be announced at the upcoming MWC.

The E75 will feature a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a keypad, a 2.4 inch screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA and WiFi connectivity. I'd drop the keypad in favor of a larger screen but you can always get the N-97 if you want more screen space. No idea on the pricing and actual arrival date but MWC might bringon all these details.

via Daily Mobile

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U.S Cellular recently introduced a new clamshell phone to its line of LG devices, the LG UX280 Red and Silver Wine. The LG UX280 is a basic mobile phone with easy-to-use features that include a decent 1.3 megapixel camera, voice command, a one-touch speakerphone, and Blue Tooth capability. The LG UX 280 is available under U.S. Cellular for $29.95 after a mail-in rebate, and comes with a two-year service agreement under the cellular provider.

You can use the phone's menus and commands for basic functions, or you can use voice commands as well as some dedicated keys instead if you like to make things happen a bit faster. The phone also supports basic text and picture messaging functions, plus, it's pretty cool looking too. The new UX 280 Wine measures just under 4 x 2 inches and is slightly more than half an inch thick.

February is getting closer and closer and we should already be anxious to see what the big names in the mobile industry are going to unveil at the Mobile World Congress. Take Huawei for example. The company is ready for the Android market and it will show its first Android smartphone at the MWC. We don't have any specs yet so someone should definitely leak some.

On a different note the company will bring the world's smallest modem to the Congress and the world first commercial HSPA+ Stick. A new digital photo display will also be announced at the MWC. I guess that Huawei is really going to make an impression. Let's hope their Android phone will sweep us off our feet.

via Huawei

Palm's next-generation smartphone is a touch-based device called the Pre, which features a 3.1-inch display with 320 x 480 resolution, and EVDO Rev. A for connectivity, as well as GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with stereo support. The Pre will come with an astonishing 8GB of on-board storage, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a replaceable battery, and a 3.5mm headset jack.

Its 3 megapixel camera with LED flash will be superior to what you would expect to find in a handheld device, and the next-generation mobile platform, called webOS, will include gesture-based input for interacting with the Pre. Look for the Pre to be released on the Sprint network in the first half of 2009. Palm says that it is also working on a WCDMA version of the Pre, although the release date on that version has not yet been announced.

The HP Compaq nx9420 laptop is an ideal mobile computer to have, especially if you are the type of person looking for a lightweight mobile computing solution with a wide screen to work on. If you are going to use this gadget for work or for your studies, the nx9420 is definitely the laptop to consider.

HP's new flagship business portable has a 17-inch WXGA screen and weighs 7.4 pounds, so it ranks among the lightest notebooks in its category. If no other surface is available, the HP Compaq nx9420 feels perfectly comfortable perched on your lap, huge screen and all.

Notable features:

Price: $2,399.00

(Source) PC World

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The G1 has been launched only in the USA and UK so far. That means lots of potential Android customers around the world haven't been able to consider buying a G1 yet. And T-Mobile is going to start launching the device in other European markets. That's a good start right?

The Netherlands, Austria and the Czech Republic are getting the G1 on January 30 while Germany is getting it on February 2. Poland will also receive the smartphone but at an unannounced yet date.

We don't have all the price details yet but we do know that in Germany the G1 will cost 1 Euro with a two-year contract.

The E71x is arriving from Nokia US and AT&T soon. And you might be interested in getting this Nokia phone here. The handset will have Feature Pack 2 inside unlike the previous version of the phone. So what about everyone else who already purchased the Nokia E71 with S60 3rd Edition FP1? Will they get the firmware update to FP2?

We have no arrival dates yet and the price is still unknown but AT&T is suspected to pick this one up soon.

via symbian-guru

The Nokia N79 comes now in an eco-friendly form. This is another green initiative coming from the Finnish company. The Nokia N79 Eco will ship to you without a charger. You will still pay the same price but £4 will go to WWF since there's no charger in the box. The box of the N79 Eco is smaller which means you'll also save on energy and waste.

Where will you get a charger from? Well you do have an old Nokia phone right? Or you can always buy an extra one from any shop. The N79 Eco is currently available in the UK but be sure to check with your local Nokia representative to see if it's available in your country too.

via Nokia UK

Facebook is expanding to all modes of being accessed and it looks like most mobile phone companies are trying to race one another to be the first one. But it looks like there is one who beat them to it and that company is Sony Ericsson with its NAN model. Sony Ericsson Nan is now being branded the "Facebook Phone".

Sony Ericsson Nan is a mid-end web-oriented device, that packs a 3 inch TFT multitouch screen (320 x 480 pixels), a 5.1 megapixels autofocus camera with photo flash and a secondary VGA camera. Android OS is also on the specs list, together with WiFi 802.11 b/g support, aGPS Google Chrome and Picasa for Android.

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Let's forget the Pre for a second there! We have one more hotter than hot phone due to come out this year. It's the Nokia N97 from our favorite Finnish phone manufacturers. The phone didn't get all the attention it should have and with all the buzz surrounding the Pre, the N97 could be neglected even more by the average consumer.

Is this why the phone seems to be arriving on March 31st? That's what Play.com is saying right now. The unlocked and SIM free N97 will cost around $707. Not to bad for probably the best phone Nokia has created so far. Rumors say that the U.S. version is set to arrive just after the European version so April might be definitely a good month for Nokia.

via Play

Sony Ericsson has released two new Walkman phones. One is the W715 which we have already seen and the other is the W508 Walkman mobile phone.

As with the W715, the W508 will come with the SenseMe and TrackID technology. Shake and Gesture control are also present. That means you're going to get the same Walkman experience. But let's take a look at this phone's specs:

• One extra Style-Up cover in the box


• Walkman player


• Touch music keys on top - switch tracks the easy way


• TrackID with text search - find your favourite songs in seconds


• PlayNow arena - customise your mobile phone with unique ringtones and wallpapers


• Shake control- skip through your tracks with a flick of the hand


• Gesture control - Move your hand above the W508 to mute an incoming call or put the alarm clock on snooze without touching it.


• quad band EDGE 850/900/1800/1900


• HSDPA 850/1900/2100 for the W508a and HSDPA 2100 for the W508


• two colors: Metal Grey and Poetic White


• 1GB Memory Stick Micro


• 3.2 megapixel camera with 3.2x digital zoom


• Bluetooth stereo A2DP

via Press