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Jul

Sony Ericsson C905 to Bring Adventure in Your Life

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Categories: Gadget, News and Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson C905, the latest Cyber-shot handset that the Swedish-Japanese company will try to conquer the high-end market with, is now featured in a new video demo, aimed to lure “adventurous mobile
users.”

The C905 slider has already appeared in a video presentation released by Sony Ericsson, but the new one is more like a commercial, relating the handset to the daring side of life and concentrating on its photo camera and GPS capabilities.

C905′s camera seems to be one of the best ever integrated into a mobile phone, as it brings 8.1 Megapixels, Xenon flash, auto focus, face detection, image stabilizer, geotagging, smart contrast, red eye reduction and video recording. Besides this and the built-in GPS, the handset also features: a scratch-resistant 2.4 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 262K colors, Wi-Fi, Music and Video players, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP included), TV out, FM radio with, email, NetFront browser, Instant Messaging and quad-band GSM connectivity plus HSDPA.

The C905 weighs 125 grams and, when closed, it measures 103 x 55 x 18 millimeters – maybe a bit too thick, but we’ve seen thicker sliders before (Nokia’s N95 8GB, for example).

Although lots of mobile users can hardly wait to get their hands on the new C905, Sony Ericsson will only release the Cyber-shot flagship in the fourth quarter of the year, most probably starting October, in three color versions: Ice Silver, Night Black and Copper Gold. The official retail price of C905 was not announced, but it should be around 500 Euros ($790) in the first months of availability. After that, the price will most probably become more affordable, as it happens with most phones a while after their initial release.

Until October, enjoy the C905 video:

Jun

What Your Future Phone Will Do (Part 2)

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, News and Others

Your future phone will do the following, some of these features are available now, but your future phone is definitely going to perform all these features. What a gadget!

Wireless Charging

Tired of negotiating a tangle of wires to charge your cell? Boulder, Colo.-based Wildcharge makes a flat panel built to charge phones resting on its surface. Currently, phones need a special adapter to connect the plate’s charge with their battery, but Wildcharge hopes to integrate its technology directly into cellphones in the coming year. Another company, Pittsburgh-based Powercast, is working on an even more impressive feature: Using the small amount of energy transmitted in radio waves, it hopes to charge a phone placed near its devices without even making contact.

Alternative Energy

Another way to take the pain out of charging your phone: tapping into natural energy sources to extend the power of your handset. Phone makers including Motorola and Nokia are researching ways to use solar power, fuel cells and kinetic energy. Batteries aren’t going away anytime soon, says Motorola’s Jerry Hallmark. But alternative energy is a practical way to provide an “instant refuel” to your phone through a built-in application or a plug-in accessory.

4G Networks

To power all these advanced features, phones will rely on speedy 4G networks, which will roll out across the world over the next few years. Whether based on technology called WiMax or LTE, these 4G networks will enable faster Web browsing, more reliable streaming video and, possibly, lower connection costs for consumers.

Touch-Free Motion Sensing

For your phone to be a “magic wand,” it needs to be able to detect motion. A handful of current phones from the iPhone to Sony Ericsson and Nokia models already do this. So do phones powered by “shake, rock and roll” technology from a California firm called GestureTek. In the future, motion sensing won’t even require you to touch your phone. Simply make the motions in the air; your phone’s camera will read your commands. The best part? No fingerprints to wipe off later.

Source: Forbes.com

Jun

What Your Future Phone Will Do (Part 1)

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, News and Others

Your future phone will do the following, some of these features are available now, but your future phone is definitely going to perform all these features. What a gadget!

Video Chat

We’ve dreamed of two-way video conferencing ever since AT&T debuted its Picturephone at the 1964 World’s Fair (and probably long before). But video calling is a bandwidth hog–and that means real-time chatting remains a dream for U.S. cellphone users for now. The advent of WiMax, a speedy fourth-generation (4G) wireless technology, should change this in the next few years.

Phone As A Magic Wand

In the future, your phone may also be the device that ties together your other gadgets. Think of it as a remote control that can transfer files and activate or shut off other devices with a shake or swing of your arm.

Mobile Payments

Cellphone manufacturers like to say that your phone is the object aside from your wallet that you’re least likely to leave home without. So why not combine the two? In fact, carriers Mobilkom in Austria and NTT Docomo in Japan already allow users to make small purchases by swiping their cellphone across a sensor. The technology has yet to catch on in the U.S., but credit card companies including Visa and MasterCard are experimenting with similar phone-based payment systems.

Video Projectors

One constraint on the utility of phones has been their tiny screens. The solution of companies including 3M, Texas Instruments and Redmond, Wash.-based Microvision is to install projectors into handsets. Equipped with what these companies call “pico projectors,” cellphones can expand their displays to fill the nearest white wall or desktop. Microvision’s plans to sell pico projectors in 2009, while 3M may install them in Samsung phones as soon as late 2008.

Unfolding Screens

If projected screens seem too science fictional, the Dutch company Polymer Vision offers a product that hints at a more practical solution. The company’s Readius cellphone, announced last January, offers a flexible folding screen. Wrapped around its core, the gadget is no larger than a typical cellphone. Unfolded, the Readius sports a five-inch electronic ink screen. While that’s only slightly larger than an iPhone, it may foreshadow bigger foldable screens resembling a digital broadsheet newspaper.

Source : Forbes.com

Jun

Samsung Instinct

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Categories: Gadget, News and Samsung

Samsung and Sprint have collaborated together on a touchscreen handset that could finally give the iPhone some decent competition. The Samsung Instinct is an EV-DO Rev.A handset with GPS and access to Sprint TV, together with a 2-megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD storage supporting up to 8GB cards. However the interface deserves some attention too, with haptic feedback, single-touch access to favourite functions.

Samsung Instinct, exclusively available from Sprint, has a high-tech look with large, vibrant touch screen featuring localized tactile feedback, called haptics, which allow the virtual QWERTY keypad and other operations to become a sensory experience. The device also offers a Voice to Action button providing many functions using voice activation including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search.

“Instinct brings customers what they want with the immediacy they want. Every decision during the development process focused on simplifying the user experience,” said John Garcia, senior vice president of Product Development and chief marketing officer for Sprint. “The end result is a great looking phone that makes the value of Sprint’s fast NOW Network come to life, but most importantly, it is fun and easy to use.”

Jun

Motorola Alexander to Bring 8 Megapixels and Moto’s Lost Glory

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Categories: Gadget, Motorola and News

Motorola Alexander is the codename of a new handset prepared by the Schaumburg-based company and set to bring back its lost glory. How could it do this? Well, recently
appeared rumors say that the so-called Alexander will have a 8 Megapixel camera, an NVIDIA graphics chip, a new UIQ OS (version 4.0, apparently), GPS and lots of other features that are currently kept secret.

Chances are that the new Alexander is a touchscreen phone and, for Moto’s sake, it better be. I say this because the future of high-end mobile devices is touchscreen-only, and this fact is sustained by all the important manufacturers which, after Apple’s iPhone huge success, started to bring lots of new full-touch handsets to the market.

In order to be a great device and attract as many mobile users as possible, Motorola Alexander will need more than just a great list of specs. The phone will have to be easy to use, smartly priced and nicely designed.

For the moment, we can’t possibly imagine how the new Alexander will look, especially since Boy Genius Report (the website that came up with the leaked details) doesn’t have any image of it. But if it’s somehow similar to E10, the thin and fancy music-oriented phone appeared back in April, then Motorola will indeed have a hit in this new 8 Megapixel phone. The E10 looks really unique, even if compared to other touchscreen handset currently on the market, so it wouldn’t be bad at all if Motorola tried to leverage more on this kind of design.

If you remember, another Moto handset with a nice look and an advanced photo camera got recently leaked, a 5 Megapixels slider with Wi-Fi and other nice features. The name of the slider is not known, so it might be a phone that will come together with the new and mysterious Alexander, which should be announced sometime at the beginning of this fall.

The bottom line is that Moto’s really trying to come back and offer awesome handsets. The company already has some pretty cool new phones, like the Z10 and the ZN5, but apparently it’s not enough. Let’s wait then for Alexander and see if it will be as great as the legendary king Alexander the Great, who probably inspired Moto to name its new handset.

Jun

Smartphone Nokia N78 Hits the US at $560

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Categories: Gadget, News and Nokia

Nokia N78, the first of the two new Nseries smartphones announced by Nokia this year, is now available in the US, as the Finnish company itself announced this in a press release appeared a few hours ago on its official website.

The North American N78 has a suggested retail price of $560 and can be found, as of today, at various retailers as well as in Nokia’s Flagship Stores from New York and Chicago.

Already available in Europe, India and other global markets, the new Nseries has now a US version that comes with quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) as well as dual-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz), the latter allowing users to achieve high data transfer speeds (up to 3.6 Mbps) and to browse the Web with ease.

Presented as a flawless mix of “features and services”, the N78 weighs 101.8 grams, measures 113 x 49 x 15 millimeters and comes with the following highlights: a 2.4 inch TFT display (16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels), a 3.2 Megapixel camera (with auto focus, flash, geotagging, Carl Zeiss optics and video recording), built-in GPS, A-GPS, Nokia Maps, Wi-Fi, full HTML browser, RSS reader, email and Instant Messaging, Music and Video players, a 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, FM radio and FM Transmitter, Push to Talk and document viewer – all running on Symbian S60 3.2 OS.

Talking about the new American Nseries handset, William Plummer, Vice President of Go-to-Market for Nokia, said: “Offering the robust feature set expected from an Nseries device, the integration of these features with Nokia’s new suite of Ovi services is what makes the Nokia N78 a perfect companion for a connected and mobile lifestyle. Whether using GPS to find my way across town, adding geotag information to the images I capture and upload to Share on Ovi, or using the FM transmitter to listen to my music collection through my car stereo, the Nokia N78 keeps me connected and entertained wherever I go.”

While not as advanced as the N96 flagship (which should be released in the next months), Nokia N78 is surely a good smartphone that represents a viable option for those in need of a reliable and highly-featured mobile device.

Jun

Olympic Samsung Phones for Canada

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Categories: Gadget, News and Samsung

Bell Mobility and Samsung seem to be pretty involved in Canada’s participation at this year’s edition of the Olympic Games (celebrated in Beijing, China, between August 8 and August 24), as the companies have announced that they will offer Samsung Ace smartphones for every member of Canada’s Olympic Team. Moreover, Bell and Samsung will also release, on the 4th of July, a Samsung M530 Olympic Edition phone.

Samsung Ace is a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone that features a 2.3 inch TFT display, a full QWERTY keypad, stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, email and Web capabilities, document viewer and so on.

Talking about Samsung Ace, Paul Brannen, General Manager, Wireless Terminal Division, Samsung Electronics Canada, said: “With its all-in-one wireless solution, including built-in web browser, camera, camcorder, email and voice, the Samsung ACE will enable the Canadian Olympic Team to stay closely connected to the people and information they need while competing in Beijing and around the world.”

Sylvie Bernier, Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, completed: “The Canadian Olympic Team athletes are so excited to receive these phones and service from Samsung and Bell. Being able to connect with their Olympic support network of coaches and trainers from Beijing will also ensure Canada’s athletes have the tools they need to remain focused on their performance.”

Samsung Ace is also available for non-members of the Canadian Olympic team – hence normal users – but in order to have the handset they have to pay $149.95 (with a contract agreement for three years).

The other Olympic Samsung, the M530, is a brand new handset that comes in a clamshell form factor and is packed with GPS, Media player, external music-dedicated keys, a 1.3 Megapixel camera and 40MB of expandable memory. The price of the clamshell will be $99 with a 3-year contract agreement.

Jun

Sony Ericsson C902i Released in the UAE

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Categories: Gadget, News and Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson C902i, the latest Cyber-shot candybar, was released today in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), one of the richest countries in the world. The phone is offered exclusively by Axiom Telecom, a leading mobile retailer from the Middle East.

Although the C902i is available in all the 113 Axiom locations across the UAE, its price was not mentioned by the retailer.

Coming in a 10.5 millimeter thin case, Sony Ericsson C902i packs the following features: a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, image stabilizer, sliding lens cover, video recording and dedicated touch-sensitive keys, a 2 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 256K colors, Music player, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, NetFront browser, email, GSM and HSDPA connectivity and so on.

Talking about the new Sony Ericsson phone, Faisal Al Bannai, CEO of Axiom, said in a press release issued today: “At Axiom, we continue to look for ways to ensure that our customers are receiving the latest phones, first. Our exclusive deal with Sony Ericsson means that Axiom customers will be the first in the UAE to experience this distinctive mobile camera phone. Axiom customers also benefit from an extended two-year warranty, a price protection guarantee and our free for mobile phone repairs.”

With a population of about 4.5 million and more than 7 million cell phones in use, the UAE has a mobile penetration rate of slightly over 150%. The country has only two mobile operators, Etisalat (6.2 million users) and du (1 million users), and the new C902i will most probably work on both these carriers, as Axiom sells it unlocked.

After the C902i, Axiom Telecom will also bring the C702i Cyber-shot phone to UAE, which only has a 3.2 Megapixel camera, but its advantage is that it’s dust and splash resistant.

Jun

Motorola A810 and A1600 Are Official

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Categories: Gadget, Motorola and News

Motorola A810 Motorola’s latest touchscreen handsets, A810 and Ming A1600, are now featured on Moto’s Chinese official website, which means they will both be soon available across China.

The new handsets were first seen together back in April, when Motorola’s Chinese line-up of handsets was unveiled. At the time, A810 and A1600 appeared together with A1800 (of which we’ve already talked about), the 5 Megapixel ZN5 and several other Moto phones. Now A810 and A1600 are officially confirmed, and Motorola hopes the Chinese market will receive them well.

The A810 is a candybar with a simplistic design, which might prove to be one of its strongest points. The features packed by Motorola in A810 include: a 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen display with 240 x 320 pixels and handwriting recognition, a Linux-based OS, tri-band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, Music and Video players, FM radio, a 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth, Web and email capabilities, USB, microSD card support and a 2 Megapixel camera with video recording. The handset measures 105 x 51 x 14 millimeters and weighs exactly 100 grams.

Part of the Ming series, especially created for China, Motorola A1600 can be considered the little brother of A1800. The A1600 comes with the same weird clamshell form factor as the A1800 and brings similar features, the main difference being that A1800 has dual-SIM support while the A1600 was not blessed with this capability. At 128 grams and 98.9 x 53.5 x 19.6 millimeters (when closed, A1600 brings the following: a 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen display with 256K colors, 240 x 320 pixels and handwriting recognition, quad-band GSM connectivity (800 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, the same Linux-based OS, built-in GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, a 3.15 Megapixel camera with auto focus and video recording, Music player, FM radio and expandable memory up to 4GB.

The prices of A810 and A1600 were not announced by Motorola, and for the moment we can’t say whether the handsets will be available only in Asia or if Moto also plans to releases them in other regions of the world.

Jun

iPhone 3G Officially Hits 23 Countries on July 11

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Categories: Gadget, News and iPhone

After yesterday’s official presentation of the second-generation iPhone, named “iPhone 3G”, Apple also announced that its new handset would be available starting July 11, in no less than 23 markets around the world. Also, iPhone 3G will be released by the end of 2008 in other 50 countries, allowing about all the mobile users on the globe to buy it.

The 23 countries where iPhone 3G will be released on July 11 are (we’re also mentioning the operators to carry the handset):

– USA (AT&T)

– Canada (Rogers)

– Mexico (América Móvil)

– UK (O2)

– Ireland (O2)

– France (Orange)

– Germany (T-Mobile)

– Spain (Telefónica)

– Switzerland (Swisscom and Orange)

– Austria (T-Mobile and Orange)

– The Netherlands (T-Mobile)

– Italy (TIM and Vodafone)

– Portugal (Vodafone and Orange)

– Sweden (Telia)

– Norway (NetCom)

– Denmark (Telia)

– Finland (Sonera)

– Japan (Softbank)

– Hong Kong (Hutchison Telecom – 3)

– Singapore (SingTel)

– Philippines (Globe Telecom)

– Australia (Optus and Vodafone)

– New Zealand (Vodafone)

“Later this year”, iPhone 3G will also be released in other countries, including: Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, India, Egypt, Jordan, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and other markets from Central America, the Middle East and Africa.

iPhone 3G will be available in two versions (8GB and 16GB) as well as in two colors: black and white. According to Apple, the retail price of iPhone 3G should be the equivalent of $199 (130 Euros) for the 8GB version and $299 (190 Euros) for the 16GB one.

When it comes to design, the new iPhone 3G is not too different from the original iPhone, but it has more rounded corners and it looks more elegant. On the feature side, the novelties iPhone 3G comes with include tri-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz), built-in GPS, A-GPS and Mac OS X 10.4.10. Aside from these aspects, the new iPhone is pretty much like the old one.

All in all, Apple’s new handset will probably be a huge success all around the world, considering its price (lower than the one of the original iPhone) and its improved features.