Samsung Galaxy S

The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) is an international organization dedicated to providing consumers with all the necessary information regarding wireless products. Last March 2010, the CTIA conducted their annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada where Samsung unveiled their newest mobilephone , the Samsung Galaxy S. The mobile manufacturer is confident about their latest model. Their president, J.K. Shin even went as far as to branding the Galaxy S as a new class smartphone.

According to reports, Galaxy S will be distributed in the market later this year. But in the meantime let's take a look at how the Galaxy S is different from other mobile phones and why the latest addition to Samsung smartphones is worthy of every mobile phone user's attention.

It has Excellent Display

The Galaxy S comes with a 4.0 inch Super AMOLED touch screen. The Super AMOLED touch screen puts the sensor directly at the screen instead of placing the sensors in another panel. This results in a slimmer phone with no air gaps and with improved touch sensitivity and better screen quality. The screen is also 80% less reflective making it perfect for both indoor and outdoor use. And it also has wider viewing angles.

Samsung integrated the mobile Digital Natural Image engine to the Galaxy S. This is the same technology used in Samsung's LCD and LED TV. The result is a screen that gives a sharper viewing experience for photos, e-books and videos. This is a plus since Samsung is reported to have partnered with Paramount Pictures to provide Galaxy S users with full-length movies. The company has also sought partnership with Skiff e-book reader provider.

It's Slim and Sleek

The Galaxy S is one of the slimmest mobile phones of Samsung. The dimension of the phone is 122.4 by 64.2 by 9.9 millimeters. The whooping 9.9 millimeter thickness of Galaxy S is made possible through the Super AMOLED touch screen. The mobile phone is also remarkably light. It only weighs 118 grams. The mobile phone is sleek and classy since the casing comes in classic black and gray and it's depicted by contours on the sides.

It's the Fastest Android Phone

Samsung claims that the Galaxy S will be the fastest Android Phone to date. The Galaxy S is said to come with a 1GHz processor inside. Although, there are no exact details with regards to the chipsets that Samsung will use, Omar Khan of Samsung is reported to have said that Galaxy S will be able to process applications three times faster than leading smartphones today.

Apart from the mentioned features of Galaxy S, the phone also comes with 3G HSDPA and Wifi that provides internet connection through hotspots and WLAN connections. In addition, the phone comes with FM radio and 5-megapixel camera. The camera has autofocus and face and smile recognition features.

Before the end of this year, the Galaxy S is expected to be one of the best selling smartphones in the market. It may rival the popularity of Iphones and HTC phones. Read More..

Samsung Omina HD i8910

Key features:

* 3.7-inch 16M-color capacitive AMOLED touchscreen, 640 x 360 pixels
* Symbian S60 5th edition with TouchWiz 3D UI
* ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor; HW Graphic Accelerator
* 256MB RAM
* 8 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash, geotagging, face detection, smile shot, image stabilizer, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), ISO 1600
* HD 720p@24fps, 720x480@30fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording
* Tri-band 3G with HSDPA (7.2Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76 Mbps) support
* Quad-band GSM support
* Wi-Fi with DLNA technology
* Built-in GPS with A-GPS functionality
* 8/16GB internal memory
* Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 32GB)
* TV out (Standard Definition content only)
* FM radio with RDS
* Bluetooth and USB v2.0
* 3.5mm standard audio jack
* DNSe audio technology
* DivX/XviD video support with subtitles (HD video playback)
* Virtual 5.1 channel Dolby surround (in headphones)
* Proximity sensor for screen auto turn-off
* Accelerometer sensor for automatic UI rotation, turn-to-mute and motion-based gaming
* Magnetometer for digital compass
* Office document viewer
* Full Flash support in the web browser

Main disadvantages:

* No xenon flash
* No camera lens cover
* Sluggish browsing in the image gallery
* HD video recording sometimes drops below 24fps or duplicates frames to equal 24
* Samsung Mobile Navigator doesn't come with any maps or voice-guided navigation license
* No smart dialing
* Touch web browser zooming needs tweaking
* Somewhat limited 3rd party software availability
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Sony Ericsson W850i

Sony Ericsson W850i was a 3G Walkman® phone. Sony Ericsson W850i is beautifully designed to be fun, useable, comfort and compact. Sony Ericsson W850i comes from the Walkman® range of phones which include the Sony Ericsson W800i, Sony Ericsson W810i, Sony Ericsson W900i and Sony Ericsson W950i. Sony Ericsson W850i comes complete with a music management software, stereo headset, 1 Gbyte Memory Stick PRO Duo™ also a USB cable. The handset has a slide opening mechanism and is available in two stylish colours which are precious black and golden white which provides the user with a sleek looking and tactile handset. Sony Ericsson W850i is a mobile phone, camera phone and music phone all in one.

Sony Ericsson W850is screen, measures 2 Inches and provides a clear 262k colour display with a 240 x 320 pixel screen resolution. Sony Ericsson W850i screen works as a colourful viewfinder for the camera and video features incorporated in the phone. You can view their chosen picture wallpapers and animated wallpapers on the screen. Sony Ericsson W850i comes with a easy to access menu system with useful icon displays. You can express your personal taste and style with the style up™ covers that are available for Sony Ericsson W850i.

Sony Ericsson W850i built with Walkman® 2.0 music player, provides you with the perfect music companion. You can gain access to an online music store directly from your Sony Ericsson W850i and download yout chosen tracks quickly. Sony Ericsson W850i comes with a integrated FM radio with RDS which allows you to see text information provided by the radio station.

Sony Ericsson W850i's user can listen to the radio whilst the station provides information on the track that is currently playing, weather reports, sports results and news. The TrackID™ feature allows You to find out the name of a track that is playing on the radio complete with the name of the artist. You can simply selects the TrackID™ feature which will record a few seconds worth of the track and then the music recognition will return with the name of the track, the artist name and offcourse the name of the album.

Sony Ericsson W850i comes with polyphonic sound with forty voices and you can choose ringtones in either MP3, polyphonic or ACC music formats. The MusicDJ™ feature allows you to create your own polyphonic ringtone with the use of the built in instrumental sounds and rhythms. The Sony Ericsson W850i comes with a Mega Bass™ feature which will enhance the bass frequency to ensure that a great sound is provided for the your music. You can preview and download music, games, videos and images quickly with the PlayNow™ feature which you can access with three clicks of a button.

Sony Ericsson W850i has a 2 megapixel camera feature which comes with a 4 x zoom which allows the user to zoom in and out on their target to ensure that a precise and perfect shot is captured. The camera feature comes with a built in light which allows you to take photos in duller conditions. Sony Ericsson W850i comes with a video recorder and video clip feature which allows you to record your memories in full colour action which can be stored for later viewing or sent and shared with other contacts. You can stream video onto your phone and enjoy all of the latest real time video on your phone. The VideoDJ™ feature allows you to add together video clips to create a smooth video sequence which can be enhanced with music or sound for a professional finish.

Sony Ericsson W850i comes with a 3G video call feature which allows you to take part in a face to face video call. Sony Ericsson W850i comes with a second camera which is located just above the phones screen and used for video calling. You can have a conference call with more than one contact which allows a group of contacts to talk to each other on a group conference call which is ideal for making arrangements with multiple contacts all in one simple call. The handsfree speakerphone allows you to have a conversation over the phones speaker system and have a handsfree conversation allowing you to continue working whilst you talk.

Sony Ericsson W850i is a 3G phone which offers you 3G video calling and fast downloads. You gain connectivity to other devices using a Bluetooth® wireless connection, infra red connection or a USB cable for a wired connection. Sony Ericsson W850i also comes with a Internet browser and RSS feeds which allows you to get all the latest news directly onto your Sony Ericsson W850i. Sony Ericsson W850i comes with tri band technology and UMTS.

Sony Ericsson W850i user can enjoy nine hours of talk time and four hundred hours of standby time on their Sony Ericsson W850i. Sony Ericsson W850i weighs a total of 116 grams and measures 98 x 47 x 21 mm which provides you with a compact handset. Sony Ericsson W850i comes complete with 64 Mbytes of built in memory and with a Memory Stick PRO Duo™ card which allows you to extend the phones memory for extra storage purposes.

Sony Ericsson W850is messaging services include SMS messaging which is a text message service and MMS messaging which is a multi method message. The MMS message can contain a photo or image with sound and text which can be sent to any MMS compatible mobile phone. The push email feature allows you to receive emails straight to the phone in an instant. You can create, send and receive emails which are logged as sent and received which in easily accessible and manageable.

Sony Ericsson W850i also comes with a flight mode option which allows you to switch to flight mode when on an aircraft. This flight mode feature, inactivates radio transmitters and receivers, so you can gain access to a certain features on your phone whilst in restricted areas including an aircraft or in a hospital.

Sony Ericsson W850i was also comes with a file manager, organiser, phone book, calendar which will ensure that the user remains organised at all times. The clock features include an alarm clock, stopwatch and timer feature.
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Samsung Monte Bar C3200

Creating a budget phone is often a balancing act between features and cost that get fine tuned as you target specific market segments. The big five in mobile phones do this all the time to covers as much markets as their products can reach.  The Korean mobile phone leader Samsung got a few of these handset unveiled at the recently 2010 Mobile World Congress, like the Samsung Monte Bar C3200 in candy bar format and a slider sibling the Monte Slider E2550.

These are you basic budget entry level feature phones that Samsung has crafted with a balance of affordability with ensuring the market only gets the features they want.

Making Every Basic Detail Count
Looking at the press release spec sheet on the Monte Bar, it becomes plain that Samsung did some homework to give the Monte Bar only what it needs to appeal to the market and make each one work at their elemental best.
Knowing that its intended markets rarely bothers with 3G or WiFi data plans, Samsung took out any 3G or WiFi feature and left the Monte Bar as a basic 2G in quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE.  It still comes with Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB 2.0 for local data transfers.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200s candybar body measures 111.8 x 46.9 x 13.3 mm and weighs a light 77.3g to put it among the lightest pocket-friendly phones out there. For this size, Samsung could have used a slightly larger display while reducing the keypad size, but prefers to put in a more ergonomic keypad leaving you with just a 2-inch TFT LCD QVGA display with 256k colors.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200's the frills that often make one handset more appealing to the market than another and here, Samsung made a wise judgment call to leave the entertainment and imaging features the market has grown accustomed to see in mobile phone at any price point.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200Imaging gets a basic 2 megapixel fixed focus camera that would have been a hit back in 2004.  You also get QCIF video recording at a mere 15fps frame rate. Its multimedia takes the honors starting with FM stereo with RDS and FM recording, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, DNSe (Dynamic Natural Sound engine) and a 3.5mm headphone jack, not to mention the media playback support for popular audio and video file formats.

Entry level and budget phones have the least internal storage capacities and the Samsung Monte Bar C3200 gets just 40 MB and up to 1,000 phonebook entries.  You also get microSD expandability of up to 8 GB.  With a minimal set of features, its 960 mAh li-ion battery gets to work for up to 8.3 hours of talk time and 500 hours of standby time when fully charged.

Samsung Monte Bar C3200 clearly is no social networking phone.  Though 3rd party apps might do the trick. But even with WAP 2.0 HTML web browser, we won't easily recommend a data plan for surfing on a slow GPRS/EDGE network on a 2-inch screen.

Availability
The Samsung Monte bar C3200 will only come in black and should ship in the 2nd quarter together with its other Monte siblings.  There's still no pricing information but if Samsung prices it correctly, that is below many budget and entry level feature phones, it may have a sure winner in its hands. Read More..

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is an extremely trendy mobile phone and filled with modern day mobile tech. Nokia 6700 Classic Gold mobile phone is the best device for you. Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is designed for those individuals who need class with their communication device - class and edification embodied in a stainless steel design with an impressive 18 carat gold polish.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is a real beauty. The Nokia 6700 Gold features a 2.2 inch, 320 x 240 picture elements QVGA resolution display which sustains up to 16 million colors. Navigating the menu is really simple for this device features large and extremely responsive buttons. There is a light detector as well as a brightness control key for you to raise or correct the display. Furthermore, the 6700 Classic allows users to modify wallpapers that go well with the golden theme.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold is extremely gratifying and lightweight on the grip and suits absolutely well in your pockets or purses for its dimensions only measures around 109.8 x 45 x 11.2 millimeter or approximately 46.5 cubic centimetres and weighs only around 116.5 gm.

The Nokia 6700 Classic includes a remarkable 5MP camera with autofocus and LED flash and seizes favored moments at a resoluteness of 2592 x 1944 picture elements. You may likewise relive those best-loved events and take videos with the included camera at 15 frames per second. Depending on the modality you can set the settings of the photographic camera and fiddle with white balance settings, capture mode and even the color shades.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold's recorded videos can be shared over OVI and FLICR and can be played back over the embedded media player. Executing music can also be done by the Nokia 6700 via an MP3/MP4 player. Support for all audio recording and video recording formatting is exhibited in the Nokia 6700 turning this device into a trusted multimedia device. Stay tuned to your favored radio station via the FM Tuner with RDS and browse on the web via the full HTML web browser.

Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Writing messages is a joy to do because of the well spaced and well propotioned keypad, ideal for large thumbed individuals. SMS and MMS electronic messaging is likewise consolidated. You can choose from an assortment of connectivity options such as GPRS, HSCSD, 3G HSDPA, WLAN, Bluetooth, Infrared and USB. Storage space is at 170 MB internally but may be extended up to 8GB via a memory card. Provide a golden effect and catch the Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Sim Free a mobile phone certainly fit for royalty. Read More..

Thosiba TG01 vs TG02

Knowing when is the right time to upgrade your mobile phone can be tricky and often requires a lot of online research. It could come as early as when you just came out of the store with what you thought was the latest uber phone on the planet when there's a better one elsewhere. Or it could be never, depending on how well your current handset serves you. There are folks out there still using a 2002 Nokia model and they still have no plans of upgrading. And there are folks who just can't sleep soundly enough with a 2-month old handset.

TG01

TG02

Toshiba just unveiled a few smartphones that supercede models they released in the summer of 2009. One of them is the Toshiba TG02 which, as the numeric increment in the name betrays, is the successor to the landmark TG01 released in June last year as the first ever smartphone to use the mighty 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

It still runs on the same Windows Mobile 6.5 that's about to be superceded by the more able Windows Phone 7 Series. And only on the promise of Toshiba that the TG02 can be upgraded to it do we relax our hesitation to recommend this phone.

Distinguishing Features

The TG02 is basically the TG01 that went on a diet to get slimmer and 10 grams lighter on the same elegantly styled touchscreen monoblock form factor. It gets a more responsive 3D UI replacing what many considered a clumsy UI on the TG01. You get the same gorgeous 4.1-inch wide-VGA touchscreen supporting 64k colors but it's now a capacitive touchscreen instead of resistive.

Toshiba is banking on the upgrade path the TG02 has for the more appropriate Windows Phone 7 which has the native support for capacitive touchscreen that WinMo doesn't have. Outside of these marginally better features, the TG02 is essentially the same TG01.

* The TG02 is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on the 2G network and is also a dual band UMTS/HSDDPA/HSUPA on 3G. It inherits the same local data connectivity features like WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP and USB2.0. Then there's SatNav functionality with built-in A-GPS receiver that supports QuickGPS. You get the same modest 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery that can cough out 5 hours of talk time and 275 hours of standby time when fully charged.
* The same 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor powers the new TG02 which also gets the same 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM with microSD expandability for up to 32 GB.
* You get the same mediocre imaging in the TG01 with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with geo tagging that can be considered at this time or once it gets out as outdated for a flagship smartphone in any OS. But at least you still get the same excellent VGA video recording at 30fos. It front also gets a secondary VGA camera for 3G video calls.

Like the TG01, the Toshiba TG02 comes with a suite of SNS apps that allow integration and instant updating of your favorite SNS sites like Facebook as well as media sharing sites like YouTube, You get the same document viewer for PDF and MS Office files including standard email client and HTML web browser.
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Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro

It came with other new smartphones in the company's lineup for 2010 including slightly inferior versions of the delayed Xperia X10 in the form of the Mini and QWERTY-sliding Mini Pro running on the same older generation Android 1.6. The Vivaz Pro has nearly all the cutting edge features of the Vivaz Touchscreen except the diminished imaging resolution from 8 to 5 megapixels. Other than that and the new side-sliding QWERTY, the two Vivaz smartphone models are identical.


An HD Vidcam

The earlier Vivaz sports a remarkable 8-megapixel autofocus and touchfocus camera with LED Flash, face and smile detection and geo-tagging. You get all that in the latest Vivaz Pro minus the 8 megapixel resolution which has been reduced to 5 megapixels.

But it retains the high definition 720p video recording at a Blu-ray grade 24 fps made better with continuous autofocus and video light. HD recording is made possible with the capable PowerVR Series 5 SGX engine clocked at 720 MHz. The Symbian S60 5th edition had been tweaked to get this done.

Upscale Features

* It's a dual band 3G/UMTS with HSDPA/HSUPA and a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. You get WiFi 802.11b/g with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0. There's a built-in A-GPS receiver with Google Maps and the WisePilot navigation system.
* All its HD video captures get displayed in the same 3.2-inch WVGA (360 x 640) near-HD resistive touchscreen with 16 million colors and a scratch resistant surface coat. You get an accelerometer but no proximity sensor. It comes with gesture control with turn-to-mute and alarm snoozing by turning the face down.
* As a media-centric smartphone, there's no video playback support for Xvid and DivX formats. There's the usual stereo FM receiver with RDS, a 3.5mm headphone jack and TV-out (VGA resolution) ports. It has a 1200 mAh Lithium-polymer battery that delivers an outstanding 12.5 hours of talk time a standby time of 18 days.
* The phone memory is a decent 75 MB expandable to 16 GB from its microSD slot. Interestingly, you get an 8 GB microSD card free with the retail kit.

Available Soon

Sony Ericsson plans to have the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro released in the 2nd quarter of the year. It will be available in two body colors, black and white. No pricing information has been released though we expect than sometime next month at the earliest. We figure with its cutting edge features, this and the earlier Vivaz could be the successor to the venerable Satio in its flagship Symbian portfolio. If so, expect this to come in the same Satio price range at a around ‚¤400 SIM-free. Read More..