SmartPhones

LG Optimus 3D

2011-09-01T11:53:00.000-07:00

LG Optimus 3D is the latest 3D smartphone from LG. You can make 3D movies and view them on 4.3 inch screen without using 3D glasses.

HTC EVO 3D

2011-09-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

HTC EVO 3D the latest smartphone from HTC, which has 3D display as well as 3D movie making capability. 3D movies are very sharp as long as nobody is making sudden movements, which can result in blurry results. You can view 3D pics and movies on a big 4.3 inch screen without 3D glasses.

You can use it as mobile phone too, I think:)

HTC Hero

2009-06-24T09:26:00.000-07:00

HTC Hero is Android-based smartphone. It has new inovative interface called HTC Sense, which is contact/person oriented and not application oriented. For example, all communications from a person (email, photos, texts and calls etc.) will be listed under that persons name. To look for any information, you don't open a new application, instead you just click on the name and all communications from that person will showup.

HTC Hero has five mega-pixel autofocus camera, GPS navigation, digital compass and gravity sensor.

Hero will be available in Europe in July 2009 and in US by the end of 2009.

Palm Pre Smartphone

2009-06-12T11:24:00.000-07:00

Palm Pre Smartphone

HTC S740 Smartphone

2008-09-09T11:36:00.000-07:00

This device uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard as its operating system.It has a 2.4 inch TFT bright and clear view (240 x 320) display, and auto sliding QWERTY keyboard, compatibility with both downloaded polyphonic as well as MP3 ringtones, and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The included keyboard makes typing emails or text messages a breeze, and camera opens up the device’s entertainment options. HTC S740 include support of both 2G (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) as well as 3G (HSDPA 2100 /900) networks.

HTC S740 smartphone device also has support for microSD cards, a Qualcomm MSM7225 processor with a speed up to 528 Megahertz and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g support. As far as smartphones go, this one includes some impressive features for a very competitive price.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

2008-02-22T10:45:00.001-08:00

XPERIA X1 is the first Windows Mobile smartphone from Sony Ericsson. It has huge WVGA touch screen (3.0 inches, 800x352 pixels), 3.2-megapixel camera with touch auto focus, optical joystick and 3G radio bands for North American networks.

XPERIA X1 should be available in August 2008.

Palm Centro Smartphone

2008-02-19T09:53:00.000-08:00

Palm Centro smartphone (being offered by AT&T and Sprint) has voice, text, IM, email and web, all in a phone. It has a touchscreen and a full keyboard. It has camera to shoot photos and video.

AT&T is offering Palm Centro smartphone for $99 with two year contract. AT&T offers it on GSM-powered wireless network.

HTC TyTN II

2007-08-31T11:50:00.000-07:00

HTC is coming out with new TyTN II featuring high speed HSDPA connectivity, built-in GPS for personal navigation and has a screen that can be adjusted at any angle.HTC TyTN II runs on Windows Mobile® 6, has 3-megapixel auto focus camera, Bluetooth 2.0, 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM and touch scrolling. It has 2.8-inch color screen which slides back to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. Screen is also tiltable so that it can be positioned for perfect viewing.HTC TyTN II allows users to get connected in any country with tri-band UMTS and quad-band EDGE and offers HSDPA upto 3.5G high speed internet.

HTC Home™, HTC's new homescreen, offers easy access to photo dialing, text messages, calendar entries, emails and contacts. HTC TyTN II provides a complete mobile set of business applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint , contacts, calendar, push e-mail, PDF viewer and more.This device will be available in Europe (HTC, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica Group and Vodafone ) from September and in USA (T-Mobile) in October 2007.

HTC Touch Smartphone

2007-06-05T06:57:00.000-07:00

The HTC Touch with TouchFLO™ betters the way you use the touch screen by allowing finger scrolling and panning. It also features the Touch Cube which is a unique user interface that makes quick dialing and navigation easier.

Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

TI's OMAP™ 850, 201 MHz CPU

TouchFLO™

2.8 inch touch screen display

Tri-band GSM with GPRS/EDGE

2 megapixel camera

Internet browsing and Push E-mail

Multimedia capabilities

Stereo Bluetooth® 2.0 and Wi-Fi®

1 GB microSD™ memory card

Samsung i620

2007-06-01T07:15:00.000-07:00

The Samsung i620 is latest slider smartphone from Samsung. Samsung i620 runs on Windows Mobile 6 standard. It has a wide 320x240 pixel display and also includes Wi-Fi, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, MicroSD expandability and more. Its has full sliding QWERTY keyboard which slide down instead of to the side, so this smaprtphone look more like a regular cellphone.

Palm Foleo

2007-05-30T19:18:00.000-07:00

Palm unveiled a new gadget today which is something inbetween a smartphone and a laptop. With 10.5 inch screen, full size keyboard and instant on-off functionality are some of the main features of Palm Foleo. After US$100 rebate, Palm Foleo will cost US$499.

HTC S710 Smartphone

2007-05-26T06:59:00.000-07:00

This is the first device that I have seen with duel keyboard, so to make a call, you don't need to take the slider keyboard out, just use the numeric keypad. (Well, just found out that Samsung Ultra Smart F520 also has duel keypads)

HTC S710 smartphone has TI's OMAP™ 850 CPU, 201 MHz, with 128MB ram and 64 MB SDRAM. It has 2.4-inch LCD screen and 2.0 Mega-Pixel CMOS imaging sensor. S710 runs on Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6 Standard. Also it supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE Quad-band module networks. Comes with Sliding QWERTY keyboard as well as simple cellphone keypad. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are also included.

HTC Advantage X7500

2007-05-25T14:32:00.000-07:00

The HTC Advantage X7500 is a powerful mobile office device that lets you work wherever and whenever you want. This laptop look-a-like will make you want to have it.

Specifications

Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5 Pocket PC Edition
Intel® PXA270 624 MHz with ATi™ Graphic Chip W2284
Built-in 8GB hard drive with miniSD™ expansion slot
Laptop-style design with 5-inch touch screen display and detachable QWERTY keyboard
Always “on”, connect to your office, watch videos or listen to music anywhere
Built-in GPS
Supported networks are Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Bluetooth® 2.0 and Wi-Fi®
3 megapixel camera with auto focus and flash
HTC VueFLO™ for easy navigation
TV Out for output to external viewing device

Defining PDA and Smartphone

2007-05-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

I always have problem distinguishing between PDAs and Smartphone. Following is a description that might clear this unclear situation.

"Gartner Dataquest defines a PDA as a data-centric handheld computer weighing less than 1 pound that is primarily designed for use with both hands.

Smartphones on the other hand offer all the attributes of a PDA, except that smartphones are voice-centric with data access as a secondary capability, and are designed for primarily one-handed operation."

Toshiba G900

2007-05-24T07:43:00.000-07:00

Softbank Japan will be comming out, in late August 2007, with Toshiba G900 as Softbank-X01HT smartphone running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional.

HTC Cavalier

2007-05-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

Softbank in Japan offers new HTC Cavalier as Softbank-X02HT. This smartphone run on Windows Mobile 6. It is available in orange, black and white colors.

Black Berry Curve

2007-05-13T09:04:00.000-07:00

BlackBerry Curve 8300 smartphone is the smallest and the lightest BlackBerry smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard.

It has camera, a media player, Voice-Activated Dialing, BlackBerry® Maps, expandable memory, tethered modem, trackball navigation, email & text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality.

Mobile Spy activity monitoring software

2007-05-11T07:17:00.000-07:00

Mobile Spy activity monitoring software (from Retina-X Studios LLC.) for Windows Mobile based smartphones , is the first activity monitoring software for Windows Mobile based smartphones. Once this software is installed on a smartphone, the program enables users to monitor, in real time, SMS details and incoming & out-going call details online.

Software is completely hidden from view and it records all SMS text messages and call information. It then uploads logs to the user's private account which they can check online without needing further access to the smartphone. Mobile Spy activity monitoring software runs in full stealth mode and shows no entries inside Windows Mobile Task Manager.

Mobile Spy gives parents the ability to remotely monitor the family members text and call activities. Businesses can also use Mobile Spy to enforce their Acceptable Use Policy on company-provided phones. Or, you can use is to backup a your own cell activity as a record of all important communications.

Mobile Spy is designed for smartphones running the Windows Mobile operating system including Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 SE, 5.0 and 6.0. The product is available now at http://www.mobile-spy.com/.

HP's IPaq 514 Voice Messenger

2007-05-10T13:37:00.000-07:00

HP has come out with its first smartphone, the IPaq 514 Voice Messenger. It will let you send voice messages as attachment with the text message. The iPaq 514 runs on Windows 6 and comes with Wi-Fi and 3G. It only has a numeric keypad (no Qwerty keyboard) as voice attachment system is to cover this short coming.

IPaq 514 is aimed at enterprise users and include new security features that can lock down or wiped if lost or stolen. Also it has the option of remote application installation and diagnostics.

The iPaq 514 Voice Messenger will be launched in June 2007.

Palm Treo 755p

2007-05-09T18:37:00.000-07:00

Palm Treo 755p is the latest Palm OS Treo, available through Sprint in the U.S. The CDMA Treo 755p is the first Treo device to offer a series of software features, plus the built-in antenna design brought by Palm with Palm Treo 750.

The smartphone comes with 128MB memory being 60MB available for the user and support for Mini-SD memory cards up to 4GB. Part of the multimedia functionality is the 1.3-megapixel digital camera and video recorder, and application to organize and share photos. Treo 755p has DataViz Documents To Go Version 8.0 software , which offers support for native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents as well as full PDF support.

One new feature to the Treo 755p is the integration of Google Maps service for mobile. With Google Maps built-in, Treo 755p users can get directions, perform local searches, and view moveable/scalable maps, satellite imagery, and traffic updates while on the go.

Treo 755p features and benefits include the ability to watch mobile video directly on the Treo 755p with Sprint TV, which has more than 50 channels of live and on-demand content.The Treo 755p is available starting mid-May 2007, in two colours, midnight blue and burgundy and runs on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, based on the CDMA EVDO standard for fast 3G networks.

Sony Ericson P1 Smartphone

2007-05-09T06:58:00.000-07:00

Sony Ericsson has announced the 5th generation P-series smartphone which is based on Symbian v9.1 having UIQ 3.0 interface.

The handset includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with business card scanner and a 2.6 inch touchscreen with 240 x 320 pixels. One basic feature of P1 handset is the dual function keyboard, which include full alphanumeric QWERTY keyboard combined with one hand phone usability.

The Sony Ericsson P1 comes with Opera Web Browser pre-installed, and serves as a multimedia companion including a music and video player and built-in FM radio. Users can expand its memory from the 160MB standard with Memory Stick Micro cards and device comes with a 512MB Memory Stick Micro out of the box.

Sony Ericson P1 measures 106x55x17 mm and weighs only 124 grams. The battery can deliver up to ten hours talk time on GSM networks and over three hours on UMTS networks.

FIC Neo1973 Smartphone

2007-04-17T20:25:00.000-07:00

Open-Source Neo1973 from FIC is a fully programmable phone with 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen. You can write your own applications for this smartphone or download available apps from the internet.

This quad-band GSM/GPRS phone uses open-source OpenMoKo Linux operating system. It also has Bluetooth 2.0 and USB. It also has built-in GPS system. All these features can be used by developlers to create all kind of applications for this smartphone, so that this phone does what you want it to do rather than what the phone provider wants it to do. Costs around US$350 and service is provided by AT&T or T-Mobile. Should be available by end of 2007.

Palm Announces Linux based Smartphone

2007-04-11T13:08:00.000-07:00

Palm which already has Palm OS and Windows Mobile as its operating systems for PDAs and smartphones, annonced that it will develop operating system based on Linux operating system. Devices with new operating systems should be out "soon". Seem like a good idea!
More info at http://www.playfuls.com/news_06928_Palm_Inc_Announces_Linux_Based_Smartphone_OS.html

Nokia N95

2006-09-28T19:37:00.000-07:00

A unique 2-way slide concept and GPS functionality with maps of over 100 countries will definitely make the life of a world traveller much easier. 5.0 Megapixel Camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 2.6 inch QVGA screen with 16M colors, 3D surround sound effect with built-in speakers, that's what are some of the feature of the soon (start 2007) to come to market Nokia's latest smartphone. Its a bit bulky and will cost around US$700 when it comes to market in start of 2007 [last updated Sep 28, 2006]

2006-08-10T12:59:00.000-07:00

Nokia N73:
Phone Camera or Camera Phone?, this smartphone has 3.2M pixel camera with Carl Zeiss autofocus lens. This phone also plays MP3s, 240x320 display to play video, and has an FM radio. It runs Symbian OS 9.1
with Nokia S60 3rd Edition and has capable PIM applications, MS Office and PDF viewers. Nokia N73 is a GSM quad band world phone with EDGE and Euro 3G for use with any GSM carrier in the US.

What's missing, hmm, GPS ?

2006-07-29T11:39:00.000-07:00

Nokia E70
The Nokia E70 features a wide, high-resolution screen, broadband data connectivity, compatibility with push email solutions, large memory capacity, and improved security. Has all the basic frills such as 2.0M Pixel camera, MP3 player, games, 75M shared memory, Symbian OS 9.1 as operating system, USB andBluetooth

2006-04-22T20:46:00.000-07:00

Samsung SGH-T719

Samsung T719 is the first flip phone (clampshell formfactor) which has RIM BlackBerry connect e-mail support and works on GSM/EDGE network. It has hybrid QWERTY keyboard that is licensed from Research In Motion (BlackBerry maker). T719 has color internal display and greyscale external display. Also has 1.3-megapixel camera with video recording and playback capabilities. Other features include speakerphone, speaker-independent voice control, digital media player, wirleless Web browser, voice recognition and basic PIM applications.

In US, T-Mobile is expected to launch the Samsung t719 smartphone in Late summer.

RIM BlackBerry 8700g
The RIM BlackBerry 8700g offers T-Mobile customers a robust, user-friendly messaging device and mobile phone with excellent performance.

The RIM BlackBerry 8700g offers easy email setup and adds support for popular instant-messaging clients. The quad-band 8700g also comes with an Intel processor, EDGE speeds, Bluetooth 2.0, a speakerphone, and a full QWERTY keyboard.

Cingular 8125
The Cingular 8125 features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile 5, and four forms of wireless (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, EDGE, and infrared). The quad-band world phone also offers a speakerphone and extralong talk-time battery life.

T-Mobile MDA
The new T-Mobile MDA is a messaging powerhouse, with a full QWERTY keyboard that slides away plus GSM, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 1.3-megapixel camera, a Mini SD expansion slot, Windows Mobile 5 and the extra speed you need to take advantage of the T-Mobile Total Internet network

Nokia 7710 widescreen smartphone

Wide (640x320-pixel) screen with pen input, up to 90 MB internal memory, 128 MB MMC card, handwriting recognition, HTML browser supports Flash 6, 1.23 megapixel carmera (1280 x 960) , music player with stereo audio, Bluetooth, audio and video playback and streaming FM/Visual Radio. Currently this toy is only available in Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, Americas will have to wait.