Sony Ericsson and KDDI release Xmini ‘ Tiny Walkman Phone’

Japanese techno-firm KDDI in close cooperation with Sony Ericsson announces Xmini - a 44 x 75 x 18mm walkman phone - a musical slider. This tiny-mini phone has a set of nice dedicated music keys that control walkman player. It has certain novelties as well, namely LISMO Video Service and EZ â€˜Chaku Utaâ€™ Full plus Mobile Music Download. Though size does matter, but it’s functionality that matters more.

Technical Specifications: A 1.8 inch TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels, CDMA connectivity, clear stereo sound, Bluetooth, Email and 4GB of internal memory.

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Palm Pre (via Sprint) stands confident to outsmart iPhone and the likes

You definitely need a second thought if you think iPhone is the most sophisticated mobile phone on hand. Did you say HTC Touch? Not even this one! Instead, Palm stands a great chance to provide these supposed techie-gadgets a sturdy contest for sure at CES â€™09. Well, Sprint alliance enables Palm to introduce its new lustrous Smartphone dubbed as Pre. It has a wholly new interface and Palm WebOS makes it exemplar hardware sculpt.

Technical Specifications: A 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multi touch display with a silver center button, a full QWERTY keyboard, TI’s new OMAP CPU, EV-DO Rev, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP and 8GB of included flash storage, 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, microUSB plug and 3.5mm headphone jack.

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Nokia E63 is all set to hit U.S. shelves

Nearly two months after a world wide release, Nokia is all geared up to introduce its Eseries-E63 to U.S. markets. Boasting of a definite edge over other sophisticated messaging devices, this ESERIES mobile is available with no contract required. Well, this phone has an assortment of fairly mind-boggling attributes; certainly deserves a CES exposure.

Technical Specifications: A full qwerty keyboard, two customizable home screens, one-touch keys, intelligent input (including auto-correction, auto-completion and learning ability), 320 x 240 screen resolution, Nokia Calendar & Contacts, Nokia Maps, a 2-megapixel camera, FM Radio, music player and e-mail support. To make it U.S. optimized, it features 3G network speeds and Symbian S60 3rd Edition.

Pricing & Availability: According to a rep, it may hit U.S. shelves in two weeks’ time. The suggested pricing is USD 279.00.

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Meizu M8 and M6 video

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TalkLockâ„¢ (BETA) Touch Screen Lock

Are you annoyed by the BlackBerryÂ® Stormâ„¢ touch screen remaining active during a call? Frustrated with accidental screen presses activating programs while you talk? CellAvant has the answer... TalkLock. This free utility automatically engages a few seconds after a call is connected, and intercepts touch screen actions. This prevents screen presses from launching programs or invoking functions

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Nokia 5800 VS BlackBerry Storm Hands on

Nokia 5800 VS BlackBerry Storm media fight

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Sony announces DSC-G3 digicam with Wi-Fi

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Oh heck! This camera has Wi-Fi. It even has a browser built-in. Sony DSC-G3 is the worldâ€™s first digital camera to pull such a feat â€“ integrate Wi-Fi for easy uploading and sharing of pictures and videos. To promote the feature, Sony is also giving complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi access to Sonyâ€™s Easy Upload Home Page until Jan. 31, 2012. Uploading the content is really simple. A user just needs to on the Wi-Fi button and heâ€™s taken to Sonyâ€™s upload page where he can select the site he wants to upload. Another good thing is that G3 is DLNA compatible which means hooking it up with another DLNA compatible device is easy.

Moving to its core features, it is a 10.1-megapixel camera and 4X optical zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens. The rear space is taken by a 3.5-inch wide touchscreen Xtra Fine LCD and has a 4GB internal memory to store all the images and videos. External memory is only possible via Memory Stick cards (M2).

The camera has other features to boast, like the intelligent scene recognition system, face detection, smile shutter, image stabilizer and dynamic range optimizer. Sonyâ€™s revolutionary camera will sell in Black hue for $500.

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Sony Ericsson introduces three phones â€“ C510, W508 and W715

Sony Ericsson announced triads of phones, two belonging to the Walkman while the remaining one from the Cyber-shot category. The lone Cyber-shot revealed today is C510, which Sony Ericsson claims to be the cheapest Cyber-shot phone from them. The phone will feature a 3.2-megapixel camera sensor along with the different Cyber-shot features like face detection, smile shutter, auto-rotation, auto focus, photo fix and applications like YouTube and Snapfish will come preinstalled in the phone. The phone will come out in this quarter.

Specifications:

Network: C510 â€“ GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSPA 2100
C510a â€“ GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100
C510c â€“ GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900
Size: 107 x 47 x 12.5 mm
Weight: 92 grams
Main screen: 2.2-inch (240X320 pixels) 262,144 colour TFT, scratch-resistant
Phone memory: Up to 100MB
Memory card support: Memory Stick Micro (M2)
Camera: 3.2 megapixel with autofocus, 3x digital zoom, Smile Shutter, Face detection, Photo fix, Photo light, Video light, Picture blogging, Video blogging, Video recording
Music: Media Player, PlayNow, TrackID, FM Radio with RDS
Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
USB 2.0
Geo-tagging
Google Maps
YouTube
Java
Motion sensing 3D games
Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 10 hrs
Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 400 hrs
Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs
Standby time UMTS: Up to 350 hrs
Video call time: Up to 2 hrs 20 min
Colours: Future Black, Radiation Silver

Sonyâ€™s next offering is the W508 Walkman phone. The phone is loaded with the customary Walkman UI and features Shake, Gesture Control, SenseMe, TrackID and Style-Up covers makes the phone more interactive. Q2 is the destined period when this phone will begin to appear.

Specifications:

Network: W508 â€“ GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSDPA 2100
W508a â€“ GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100
Size: 93.5 x 50 x 14 mm
Weight: 98 grams
Main screen: 2.2-inch (240X320 pixels) 262,144 colour TFT, scratch-resistant
External screen: 1.1-inch (128X36 pixels) Monochromatic OLED, scratch-resistant
Phone memory: Up to 100MB
Memory card support: Memory Stick Micro (M2)
Camera: 3.2 megapixel, 3.2x digital zoom, Photo fix, Picture blogging, Video blogging, Video recording
Music: Walkman Player, Mega Bass, PlayNow, Shake Control, SenseMe, TrackID, FM Radio with RDS
Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
USB 2.0
Gesture Control
Auto Rotate
YouTube
Java
Motion sensing 3D games
Touch Music Keys
Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 10 hrs
Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 400 hrs
Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs
Standby time UMTS: Up to 400 hrs
Video call time: Up to 2 hrs 20 min
Music listening time: Up to 24 hrs
Colours: Metal Grey and Poetic White with one extra Style-Up cover and other colors like , Sunny Orange, Forest Green, Architectural Purple or Mysterious Graffiti

Finally, the W715 Walkman will be a Vodafone exclusive. Apart from having Walkman onboard, the phone will try to suffice users with location-based services like Vodafoneâ€™s Find&Go. Other than that, itâ€™s a decent Walkman phone under the hood. Its sound quality is at par with W980 and has other regular Walkman features like SenseMe, Shake Control and TrackID. The list of countries is yet to be finalized but Vodafone is expected to launch the phone in the first quarter.

Specifications:

Network: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSPA 900/2100
Size: 95 x 47.5 x 14.3mm
Weight: 98 grams
Main screen: 2.4-inch (240X320 pixels) 262,144 colour TFT
Phone memory: Up to 120MB
Memory card support: Memory Stick Micro (M2)
Camera: 3.2 megapixel, 3.2x digital zoom, Photo fix, Video light, PictBridge printing, Picture blogging, Video blogging, Video recording
Music: Walkman Player, Vodafone Music, Clear Stereo, Clear Bass, PlayNow, Shake Control, SenseMe, TrackID, FM Radio with RDS
Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
Wi-Fi
DLNA certified
USB 2.0
Gesture Control
Auto Rotate
YouTube
Java
Motion sensing 3D games
Touch Music Keys
Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 10 hrs
Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 400 hrs
Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs
Standby time UMTS: Up to 350 hrs
Video call time: Up to 3 hrs
Music listening time: Up to 20 hrs
Colours: Garnet Black and Luxury Silver