Nokia today announced the Nokia N97 desktop PC phone, claiming the world’s most advanced mobile computer, in Barcelona, Spain. The Nokia N97 features a big 3.5-inch TFT LCD Wide touchscreen (as big as Apple iPhone), a full QWERTY keyboard that slide out from the side, and Nokia’s Ovi services.
“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.
The N97 comes equipped with 32GB of built-in memory, and a microSD memory expansion slot that supports up to 16 GB of memory upgrade. So, the maximum total memory of Nokia N97 is 48GB, thrice of Apple iPhone 3G’s 16 GB.
The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.
The N97 phone will be available in Europe in the first quarter of 2009. The estimated selling price is EUR 550.
Written by info on December 2nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Pantech today announced a new touchscreen mobile phone, Pantech Presto, in South Korea. The Presto is a one-touch music phone, featuring intuitive and easy access to most-used features and users’ favorite music tracks. This mobile phone allows the users to quickly replay the music by setting gesture and free control of play, stop, next music piece, previous music piece and volume is available even in held state.
Jang, Ho-Yeong, the exclusive duty researcher for the differentiated design of releasing the lock to touch screen when the top cover being pushed up by pop-up sad: “The users unconsciously remember that they should push up the cover each time they are using a handset and, ” “to reduce fatigue of the users due to unconscious act and realize an easily used full-touch handset, the design of pushing up the top cover by pop-up is first applied to the full-touch handset. ”
The Presto phone will be launched in South Korea. Its selling price is 750-800 thousand won. Users will get an external 4GB memory with the Presto phone.
Written by info on November 24th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Motorola today announced the release of Moto VE66, a phone that comes equipped with a 5.0-megapixel digital camera. The VE66 also features a built-in MP3 music player, FM Radio, and Wi-Fi connectivity. The MOTO VE66 will come with the FastScroll™ one-touch navigation wheel for faster and easier navigation. Besides that, the VE66 will come pre-loaded with Widgets, such as weather, sports scores, stock tickers, flight information, social media and news headlines. Users also can download widgets from Motorola site to the VE66 phone.
“The MOTO VE66 delivers on consumer’s demand for more personalized listening and imaging experiences on a mobile phone,” said Tracey Koziol, corporate vice president, Mobile Devices, Motorola. “With a diverse multi-media experience, the VE66 truly enables you to make a statement and express yourself on your terms.”
It remains to be seen whether Moto VE66 will revive Motorola’s handset sales or not.
Written by info on November 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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AT&T together with Pantech officially announced the Pantech Slate mobile phone that comes equipped with a full QWERTY keypad. Pantech is proud to claim that the Pantech Slate is the world’s thinnest QWERTY phone with thickness less than 1cm.
Managing director Lim, Seong-Jae, the chief of overseas marketing headquarter of Pantech Group said: “I am very happy we have launched another model of handset with new design concept. With the trends of increasing demand of easy and cool handset, it’s convinced that Pantech Slate with world’s thinnest appearance and QWERTY keypad will present a new standard in style and convenience as well for the users who use message and email features through handset
Complete features and specifications of Pantech Slate can be found here.
Written by info on November 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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The Sharp 930SH phone is a world-class camera phone for users who want to take high-quality pictures. Its built-in camera features and specifications blow any competitor anyway easily. The phone comes equipped with 8-megapixel CCD camera with advanced camera features, including, ISO 2500, face-detection, Pro Pix, 4-seconds night flash, and etc. Plus, the phone is equipped with a 3-inch New Mobile ASV screen in 854 x 480 resolutions. If you live in the United States, please don’t hope that this phone will land in United States anytime soon, unless you have friends in Japan, who are willing to ship the Sharp 930SH phone to you.
Written by info on October 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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You can’t deny that cellular phone manufacturers are now entering a new war - 8-megapixel camera phone war, by looking at how many 8-megapixels camera phones that have been released in September, and October. Before the LG-KC 790, we have seen the releases of LG KP500, Samsung Pixon M8800, and LG KC910.
The LG-KC780 is a slim slider phone at just 13.9 mm thick, but manages to include a large 2.4-inch widescreen LCD. The phone is designed to ensure that its myriad camera features are convenient and easy to use. A Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens ensures that the LG-KC780’s camera takes high quality photos that are sharp and clear.
“We found that most of the time people use the cameras on their mobile phones to take pictures of themselves, their families, friends and significant others,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “With this in mind, LG developed the LG-KC780 with a number of face-enhancing features to augment its high quality 8 megapixel camera.”
Several of the LG-KC780’s smart technologies focus around the most expressive part of a person, the face. Face Detection automatically finds and focuses on people’s faces to allow photographers to take clearer pictures. Part of this feature relies on LG’s Smile Detection technology, which can recognize the angle of people’s mouths and adjust focus for faces.
Other people-focused features on the LG-KC780 include easy-to-use shot modes that help make people look their best. With Smile Shot enabled the camera automatically triggers the shutter when it determines that the subject is smiling. And with Beauty Mode users can remove spots and imperfections on people’s faces, making sure the faces appear bright and clear in photos.
Great memories can happen anywhere and the LG-KC780 has a number features that ensure great shots no matter where they are taken. The LG-KC780 can almost see in the dark with adjustable light sensitivity up to an amazingly high ISO 1600. If an image is too bright, however, LG’s SmartLight™ setting automatically fixes it. A built-in Image Stabilizer ensures that pictures come out clear and sharp, even in shaky situations.
For those times when a picture is not enough, the LG-KC780’s D1 Video recording captures DVD-resolution video of every exciting moment. This means that movies captured on the handset will still look great when played back on a large screen TV.
The LG-KC780 is a full featured handset and includes the latest in mobile phone technology, including Smart Bluetooth, which opens up a number of new options when the phone is connected to a personal computer. For example, the phone’s camera can be used as a webcam for use in online conversations. Unlike USB webcams, this world’s first feature means that the camera can easily move with the user, as long as the phone stays within Bluetooth range.
Transferring the 8 megapixel photos that the phone takes is also far simpler thanks to Bluetooth. In addition, Smart Bluetooth makes it easier to send and read text messages, allowing them to be typed and viewed on the computer. The LG-KC780’s fun goes beyond its picture-taking capabilities; Motion Sensor Games make it easy to get into the action.
LG-KC780 will go on sale in November 2008, in Europe, later expanding to CIS and Asia, including India, Thailand, Hong Kong and China. LG expects that the LG-KC780 will build on the leadership the company established with its multimillion selling Viewty and enhance its lineup of 8 megapixel camera phones, along with the recently released an 8 megapixel touch screen multimedia phone, LG Renoir (LG-KC910).
Written by info on October 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry StormTM will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Designed to satisfy the needs of both consumers and business customers, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone combines the powerful communications features, global connectivity and personal productivity advantages of the BlackBerry platform with a revolutionary touch-screen technology that dramatically enhances the touch interface and enables easy and precise typing. The world’s first clickable touch-screen responds much like a physical keyboard and also supports single-touch, multi-touch and gestures for intuitive and efficient application navigation.
In the U.S., Verizon Wireless customers will benefit from the nations most reliable wireless voice network and the pervasiveness of Verizon Wireless reliable high-speed 3G Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) network for rich Internet browsing and multimedia applications. In Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, Vodafone will support customers with its high-speed 3G mobile broadband networks and the power and reach of the worlds leading international mobile communications group.
We are proud to introduce the first touch-screen based BlackBerry smartphone together with Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, said Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive officer at RIM. The BlackBerry Storm is a revolutionary touch-screen smartphone that meets both the communications and multimedia needs of customers and solves the longstanding problem associated with typing on traditional touch-screens. Consumers and business customers alike will appreciate this unique combination of a large and vibrant screen with a truly tactile touch interface.
The BlackBerry Storm offers our customers more ways to stay connected to both their personal and professional lives whether in their communities or around the globe, said Mike Lanman, vice president and chief marketing officer of Verizon Wireless. The BlackBerry Storm combines the reliability of our 3G network with the dependability and network efficiency of the BlackBerry platform to deliver our customers the ultimate wireless experience all in one of the coolest smartphones available on the market today.
We are delighted to bring the power of the purpose built BlackBerry Storm, directly into the hands of consumer and business customers, said Frank H. Rovekamp, global chief marketing officer, Vodafone Group. With its unique clickable touch-screen, giving access to all the desirable multimedia features and services such as browsing, music and video, turn-by-turn satellite navigation, messaging and social networking, and BlackBerrys mobile heritage and strong business reputation, the BlackBerry Storm is being brought by Vodafone into the consumer world. With Vodafones ultra high-speed, reliable mobile network and this exclusive and exciting new smartphone, there has never been a better time to be with Vodafone.
Written by info on October 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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Sharp Launch a powerful multimedia phone, Sharp WX-T825, in Taiwan. The mid-level T825 slider phone is equipped with a 2.8-inch high-definition 240 × 400 pixels display with ASV technology, a built-in 2.0-megapixel digital camera / camcorder, Stereo Bluetooth connectivity, and microSD memory expansion slot that supports up to 4GB of memory upgrade. One of the coolest feature of the phone is its built-in motion detector that can rotate screen, change pictures, and etc. Let’s see how the motion detector in the video.
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Written by info on October 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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