Many questions arise from such a product. First off — is this really an official Walt Disney release, knowing that it came from China?
For roughly a little bit more than a hundred dollars, Alcatel, a minor player in the mobile phone industry has introduced the OT V770. The slim phone with an attractive futuristic keypad design comes with a 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, microSD expansion and music playback.
The Sony Ericsson P1 is the follow up from the chic M600 series of smartphones with keypads resembling Blackberrys. I guess Sony Ericsson has rebranded the design to fit a more corporate market bringing in much of the same we’ve seen from the previous model.
I’ve just had an epiphany. When we talk of “entry level phones” in 2008, we’re referring to phones that don’t have expansion slots. So looks and features are really givens in today’s entry level market.
The Nokia 8800 Arte is the latest in Nokia’s fashion line. There are two available units, the Nokia 8800 Arte and the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, with the main difference being that the latter comes with a leather slider. In terms of features, aside from the elegance of both units as fashion phones, the Arte displays a status menu of the time and missed events by tapping the metal bar at the bottom of the screen. The phone also comes with motion sensitive gestures like tilting the phone downwards to turn it to silent mode.
It’s really been bugging me. When I set my eyes on the cool and slick real estate of the HTC Touch Dual, I experienced one of those moments that could only be described as an epiphany - finally understanding that thing that has been bugging me at the back of my head. The HTC Touch Dual reminds me of a device that didn’t sell very well and yet was almost brilliant enough to change the way Windows Mobile smartphones were developed. And I’m talking about a blast from the past — the O2 XDA Stealth
The shiny pink version of Samsung's Soul phone is now available in UK and it is certainly going to be a big hit amongst the ladies. It is available exclusively at phones4u.co.uk online store for 35 Pounds with an 18 months contract with Orange network.
Philips has recently announced its two iPhone like devices. The Philips X800 is a low end 2G GSM device with a 2.9 inch screen display, a 2 megapixels camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth, document reader and handwriting recognition. The Philips Xenium on the other hand is a high end UMTS/HSDPA device with Windows Mobile 6 and a 3 inch display. More coming on these soon...
E-TEN won this year with Glofiish DX900 category Best Choice on the Computex Award 2008 from Taipei. The company also announced launching on the market of four Pocket PC Phones: first dual-SIM of the company, a phone with a mobile TV technology, and two other terminal models.
New Glofiish DX900 - the first dual-SIM Windows Mobile handset that supports HSDPA and EDGE was the star of the Computex this year. The DX900 gadget was presented at the E-TEN stand with other three last generation Pocket PC phones: Glofiish V900 (the first that supports mobile TV), Glofiish X900 and Glofiish X610.
LG's state of the art device, the LG Dare VX9700 is now officially available in the US on Verizon Wireless. It is available for $199 after $50 rebate on a 2-year contract, $249 after $50 rebate on a 1-year contract, and $409 full retail on Verizon's on-line web store and TeleSales division. This device is all set to compete with the likes of Samsung Instinct and iPhone 3G.
Russia is one of the strongest contenders in the coming Olympics in Beijing and Samsung has thought of the perfect marketing strategy by announcing a Gold Plated version of Samsung SGH-D780 as the official phone for the Russia Olympic team.
f you are looking for a fashion phone with some decent features, then look no further. Nokia is bringing its new stylish and shiny Supernova fashion phones in Q3 this year.
Disney is really picking on the merchandise - and who can blame them. With less than fantastic movies coming out for the big screen (Enchanted was good though), why not just concentrate on a completely odd competence: mobile phones.
The Motorola RIZR Z10 has been talked about on the Internet for quite some time now. Here are some photos of the unit I took in a briefing. The most peculiar thing about the phone is its unique design as you can see from the photos. The slider-candybar style allows half of the phone to bend to fit the contour of your face.
What do you get when you cross a Treo with a K750i?
Well, nothing still. But the closest match comes in a surprising little package. The M600i was recently announced by Sony Ericsson as the new candybar replacement for the P-series smartphones.
Was talking to Carlo from The Unwired and he dropped by my office toting the new online OEM favorite, the HTC Dopod 838. He posted a mini-review which I would like to link you guys over to.
An updated version to the first Q, the Q9h is Moto’s follow up to their “MotoBerry.” Motorola met up with me to show off some of the newer phones which were demo’ed at CES 2008. Now it’s the Q’s turn to shine. The main differences between this model and the previous Q is made apparent from the real estate. It sports a better use of space in the keyboard, utilizing the entire bottom half of the keypad for buttons. The Q runs on Windows Mobile 6 as well.
The Motozine ZN5 - this is what you get when you combine the technology of the Motorola ROKR E8 with Kodak’s imaging. What you end up with is an elegant cameraphone wiht Xenon flash and a Kodak lens.
The Sony Ericsson T280 will be available soon in Asia. This is an elegant candybar with a built in 1.3MP camera and Bluetooth. The T280 can be classified as a basic triband handset for those that don’t need a powerhouse device.
The W980i is the latest music phone from Sony Ericsson. The phone is of clamshell design and is basically the same thing we get from previous Walkman phones but with two updated features.
If AT&T has the iPhone, LG’s got the Voyager, or the VX10000. Available exclusively for Verizon for $199.99, the LG Voyager resembles much of what we loved from Nokia’s Communicator series with an added iPhone like interface when the phone’s QWERTY keypad is kept.
The C905 is Sony Ericsson’s first Cyber-shot slider and its most advanced camera phone yet. With an 8.1 megapixel camera and real camera flash amongst its cutting-edge capabilities, it offers easy photo-taking in a phone that derives its looks from a digital camera and offers the picture quality to match. In comparison the S302 Snapshot is for those who want it all at an affordable price – good looks, must-have features and a pocket-sized slim design.
While Nokia makes a habit of practically defining "featurephone" for the industry, traditionally it's handsets like the N95 that hog all the spotlight, leaving Nokia's few QWERTY phones in the shadows. Not that they've been trying too hard -- while the E62 and E61i have both shipped over here, neither has featured 3G data in US bands, and the E62 even had the distinct pleasure of having WiFi stripped out. Enter E71, the successor to those phones, and Nokia's very first QWERTY device to feature US-friendly 3G.
What's the N85, you ask? We don't know a heck of a lot about this one, but we're told that it features a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, and geotagging -- sort of an N96 lite, perhaps.
Like it or not, the combination of high-function media players with high-function cellphones is officially an inevitability (just ask Apple). It seems like every day a new handset's being announced with that obligatory 3.5mm headphone jack on board, one of the final pieces of the puzzle that had prevented phones from becoming legitimate PMP competitors for years. Motorola took this fusion particularly seriously with the ROKR E8, a slick little candybar announced at CES earlier this year, and we sat down with a China-spec model recently to see just how well it functioned as a full-time replacement for our dedicated music boxes -- and whether it could avoid losing its identity as a phone in the process.
Get those textin' thumbs ready, peeps, because your latest weapon of choice is just about ready for you. LG's enV(2)-- a phone that we'd argue takes attractive design far more seriously than its predecessor -- will be available in exchange for a reasonable sum of cash (or cash equivalent) tomorrow, April 30, in Verizon stores across the land. Far more than a mere text machine, the enV(2) features a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, GPS, and a big ol' 2.4-inch display when the clam is opened. The only question left, really, is black or maroon?
Fans of mid and low-end cell phones who happen to live in Hong Kong can add another handset to their lust list, the Samsung Anycall J708, which is quite a sexy and diminutive handset considering its price. The 0.6-inch thick slider costs 1,480 HKD (about $190), which means a slim feature list, but there's plenty for the media-hungry to be getting on with: H.263 and MPEG4 video playback, MP3 and AAC audio playback, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, a micro SD slot, a 1.3 megapixel camera and EDGE. In the end, it's always nice to see a low-end phone that doesn't look like someone folded a three year old candybar in half and slapped a new coat of paint on it.
Depending on where you’re from you may or may not have heard of ASUSTEK’s P527. Although ASUS doesn’t come out with phones as often as the big players do, they seem to have some sort of cult following, not as zealous as Mac users pray tell, but zealous nonetheless. The P527 is jam packed with features — although it doesn’t have next gen HSDPA technology built in, it still makes up with 802.11g wireless Internet, 2MP camera, MP3 and multimedia functions, and an office suite solution for only USD $420.00.
Looking more like an MP3 player than a phone, the Philips M600 (not to be confused with the ETEN M600 or the Sony Ericsson M600), the Philips M600 really shines with its music playback equipped with SRS Wow technology for “bigger” sound. It basically helps create a 3D audio environment by only using two speakers (stereo).
Samsung Bang and Olufsen, the LG Prada and the Levis’ phone couture graced our desks.
At first glance, this is a looker a phone. Credit-card-sized exuding and chic in its chocolate-colored metallic paint. If we are in possession of an Armani suit you imagine that this would be quite in the bag, but it is as well to our M & S is the best.
