Thursday, June 10, 2010
Apple iPhone 4
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Here are the phone’s main specs and features:
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- UMTS HSPA 900/1700/2100 or UMTS HSPA 800/850/1900/2100
- 4.0 inches scratch-resistant capacitive touchscreen display with 480 x 854 pixels
- Wi-Fi
- Gesture control
- GPS
- Google Maps with Street View
- Wisepilot turn-by-turn navigation (free trial version)
- WebKit web browser
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Media Uploader
- Google phone-top search
- Google search widget
- Google Talk
- Google Voice Search
- 3.5mm headset jack
- Bluetooth
- MicroUSB
- 8.1MP autofocus camera with touch focus, intelligent face recognition, smile detection, image and video stabilizer, and geotagging (no flash, though)
- 1GB of internal memory
- 8GB MicroSD card included
- 119 x 63 x 13 mm
- 135 grams
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and X10a will be available starting the first quarter of 2010, in two color versions: Sensuous Black and Luster White. The smartphone’s price was not announced.
Sony Ericsson says about the X10 that it’s “the flagship phone in a family of phones coming to market during the first half of 2010”, so we should expect more Android handsets to be announced soon by the Swedish-Japanese company.
The X10 will run Android 1.6 Donut, coming with a new UX (user experience) platform that we’ve seen before. This UX platform should provide a unique user experience, as it’s “combining best-in-class entertainment features with signature applications, unrivalled integration of social media services and a rich graphical user interface.”As previously rumored, the Xperia X10 is based on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor – being the second Android phone to use a Snapdragon platform, after the Acer Liquid A1.With the X10, users will have acce
ss to both Android Market and Play Now Arena. At the same time with the X10, Sony Ericsson will introduce two new features: Sony Ericsson Timescape, which “manages all your communication with one person in one place – you can browse through your conversations the bright way to check out your Facebook, Twitter, photos, emails, and texts all in one go”; and Sony Ericsson Mediascape, which “is the smart way to get all the music, photos and videos you want from your favorite friends and artists. It accesses content from everywhere – your phone, YouTube, PlayNow – and presents everything for you.”
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
MetroPCS Lands Motorola VE440
Today the Motorola VE440 became available for sale from MetroPCS. This monoblock-style phone is billed by Motorola as a music phone and has dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The VE440 is a tri-band 800/1700/1900 CDMA device that is limited to 1x data but it has GPS. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel fixed-focus camera and support for MetroPCS’ chatLINK service. The VE440 costs $129 and is available online.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Nokia 5233
Samsung commands a good market share in this category with their Corby and Star. Now the time has come for market leader Nokia to grab a larger pie in the affordable touchscreen segment. After its higher-end 5800 and 5230 getting good response, Nokia has now launched 5233.
Nokia 5233 is an affordable Touchscreen Mobile phone with only 2G and without Wi-Fi which makes it different from its 3G sibling, Nokia 5230.
Features of Nokia 5233 at a glance
* Responsive touchscreen with tactile feedback
* Accelerometer for auto-rotate
* Proximity sensor to save power and prevent inadvertent touches
* Handwriting recognition
* 3.2″ screen having resolution of 640 x 360 pixels (nHD), 16:9 aspect ratio and capable of supporting up to 16.7 million colours
* 2 megapixel camera
* 3x digital zoom
* Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality), up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality), up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality), up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
* Up to 4x digital zoom
* RealPlayer
* Video playback file formats: MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
* Music playback file formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, WMA
* Dedicated music keys
* FM radio with RDS
* 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
* 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Nokia N900
The Software Update has quite a bunch of fixes and a couple new features too, and will roll out region by region. Be patient if you can’t see an update yet, as it will come to your time zone at some point in the following 24 hours.
This update can be installed over the air by users with the PR1.0.1 (1.2009.44-1) firmware already installed (The PR1.1 update is some 85 MB. You might want to get yourself to a WLAN and avoid doing this over GPRS). Users on Older PR1.0 Software will have to Install it using Nokia Software Updater. You might want to uninstall any apps from extras-devel first, too
The Maemo 5 SDK and tools are also going to be updated and available later today, to work with the OS and new content.
More Details can be found over at Nokia Conversations and the Maemo Wiki.
Sony Ericsson Satio
Sony-Ericsson Satio : Get the best multimedia experience with the new Sony |
Sony-Ericsson Satio - PlayNow arena Download exciting music, movies and games from Sony-Ericsson PlayNow arena to personalise your entertainment experience on Sony-Ericsson Satio and enjoy them in crystal clear 16:9 widescreen format. The Sony-Ericsson PlayNow arena provides a full range of mobile entertainment available by dual download to both your Personal Computer and mobile phone with specially developed ring tones and music tones and DRM-free music tracks and TrackID charts from around the world. Sony-Ericsson Satio features • Visual communication like never before • True 16:9, 3.5 inch widescreen - feast your eyes on movies • Express yourself through images - 12.1 megapixel • Intuitive touch focus, Xenon flash and face and smile detection • Web albums with messages - talk through pictures and share info • Intuitive full touch media menu - tap into your favourites, from web pages • Symbian Foundation operating system - 1000+ applications available online • Music player - play your tunes loud and proud Satio Sony-Ericsson latest multimedia phone “With the Sony-Ericsson Satio cell phone you can enjoy any form of entertainment anytime, anywhere. Whether its music or movies you will never be more than a tap away from your favourite tracks or shows,” said Fredrik Mansson, Market Business Manager at Sony Ericsson. “Just tap directly into your favourite videos and music with the unique full touch media menu, standby panels and music player. Snapping perfect pictures also just got so simple thanks to the 12.1 megapixel camera, intuitive touch focus and Xenon flash. Share them with your nearest and dearest via your social networking site, produce huge prints and you can even comment directly on your images.” Sony-Ericsson Satio specifications • Size: 112 x 55 x 13.3 mm • Weight: 126 grams • Colours: Black, Silver and Bordeaux • Main screen: 16,777,216 colour nHD TFT • 16:9 widescreen • Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels • Size: 3.5 inches • Cell phone memory: 128 MB • Memory Card Support: SanDisk microSD Sony-Ericsson Satio review & price info The Sony-Ericsson Satio mobile phone supports GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and UMTS / HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100. The Sony-Ericsson Satio multimedia phone will be available in selected markets from early Q4 in the colours; Black, Silver and Bordeaux. As soon as we receive a Sony-Ericsson Satio test sample, we will publish a photo gallery with high resolution pictures, followed by an extended Sony-Ericsson Satio review. |