Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Samsung Announces Its First Android Phone


Today Samsung announced the i7500, its first phone running Google’s Android platform. The i7500 will have a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, and 8GB of built-in memory. It also has a microSD clot for additional storage (up to 32GB). The i7500 is quad-band GSM/EDGE, tri-band 900/1700/2100MHz HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps 3G and Wi-Fi. Notably, the i7500 will support T-Mobile USA’s 3G network. It will be available via European network operators starting in June. Pricing was not disclosed.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

LG CF360 ATTCELLPHONES


This is another one of the AT&Tcellphones that is to be released the 1st quarter of 2009. The LG CF360 is a great 3G entertainment phone that you can use to listen to your favorite songs with the built-in MP3 player and playlist. It comes with Bluetooth wireless technology that you can use to talk handsfree to family and friends. The CF360 has AT&T Navigator for easy turn-by-turn driving directions, maps, and real-time traffic alerts. Once users get to their destination, they can snap a photo with the integrated 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder. You can get the best price here for the LG CF360

Opera Mobile 9.7 coming with Opera Turbo server acceleration


I will be covering CTIA on my ZDNet blogs next week and just received a press release that Opera will be announcing Opera Mobile 9.7 at the event. Opera Mobile is the best web browser currently available for Windows Mobile devices and looks to be getting even better with Opera Turbo and Presto 2.2 rendering engine. This updated browser also offers full support for dynamic web technologies like Ajax and Flash.
I haven’t seen any announcement yet from HTC, but since they include Opera Mobile in many of their current high end devices, sometimes as the default browser of IE Mobile, I imagine that their upcoming new devices will use this latest 9.7 version of Opera Mobile as well. HTC and Opera also have worked together in the past to create device-optimized versions and we can probably expect that in the future as well. I find that Opera Mobile on HTC devices actually text reflows better than the Safari browser on my iPhone and offers a fantastic browsing experience.
Opera Mini is the server-based version of their mobile browser and the Turbo feature now adds some of that server side acceleration to the dedicated mobile browser in Opera Mobile 9.7 so you get the best of both worlds for a faster experience. YOu can check out Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo in this video and you can bet I’ll be checking it out in person myself next week too

Google Mobile App with voice search now available for BlackBerry


The Google Mobile App with Voice Search was launched previously on devices running the Android OS, Windows Mobile, and iPhone OS and it is now available for RIM BlackBerry devices. I use the Google Mobile App daily on my new Curve 8900 to get to Reader quickly and conduct fast searches. This updated version also supports My Location so you won’t even need to speak a location when you conduct a voice search.
Simply go to m.google.com in your BlackBerry browser to grab this latest version. You then simply launch the app and press and hold the send key to activate voice search. FYI, this new version apparently does not work on the BB Storm.
Thanks to PhoneScoop for the heads-up on the news.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Megaconcept Sony Ericsson W1i: 20 MP camera, 120 Gb memory


Internet user ToShaRa issued at the forum se-nse.com a megaconcept Sony Ericsson mobile phone W1i, which has fantastic by today’s standards characteristics…The phone is equipped with touch-screen with a resolution of 2048×1024 pixels, 3.2-MP video camera and 20-MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics for photography, Intel 2 GHz, 120 GB of internal memory, modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and slot for memory cards formats miniSD, microSD and M2. A full list of features is below.Tech characteristics of Sony Ericsson W1i:* Operating system: Windows Mobile* Net: 8 ranges GSM* Display: Touch-screen, 2048 x 1024 points* Camera for photography: 20 megapixel, Carl Zeiss optics* Camera: 3.2 megapixel, Carl Zeiss optics* The built in memory : 120 GB* Slot for memory slut: miniSD, microSD, M2* Media-player: Walkman 5.0* Wi-Fi* Bluetooth* GPS

NOKIA N96 MOBILE PHONE


Nokia has released the new Nokia N96, which has 16GB of storage internally that can be further expanded with MicroSD cards. The Nakia N96 also has a 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, camcorder function with video light. The 2.8 inch QVGA display will come in handy for the integrated DVB-H mobile TV tuner, while a 3.5mm headphone jack, A2DP, and integrated stereo speakers. Other features Bluetooth, Wi-Fi , A-GPS and supports HSDPA only on the 900 and 2100MHz bands.