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SmartphoneApril 1st, 2011
Seeing the major competitors such as Motorola, Samsung and LG has already launched the dual-core smart phones, HTC which was in the dry tree in the “dual-core upgrade” trend, of course has no reason to be willing to always fall behind. In addition to officially releasing the first dual-core 3D smart phone HTC EVO 3D in the CTIA 2011, HTC another flagship level new phone HTC Pyramid equipped with 1.2GHz dual-core processor has burst the spy photos on the internet.
4.3-inch qHD Touch Screen
From the spy photos of the HTC Pyramid phone exposed this time, it proves that not only this phone has almost no difference with the former flow of the overall design drawing, but also compared with the HTC Desire HD etc phone models, this phone seems to be much slender and the lines more smoothly. When people’s attention is on the size of the touch screen, as the rumors in the past, this phone is equipped with 4.3-inch qHD level (960 × 540 pixels) touch screen, and improved DPI resolution, which can bring better display.
Just as other new generation of smart phones, to accomplish the video call in the high-speed networks, this phone is also equipped with front and back two cameras. Among them, the front camera is of 300 thousand pixels and the main lens achieved the specification of 8 million pixels, supporting the auto focus, LED flash and 1080P Full HD video recording functions.
1.2 GHz Dual-core Processor
To enhance their attractiveness and competitiveness in the market, HTC will also add this dual-core processor in this smart flagship model, which is just like the formerly released HTC EVO 3D, equipped with the same Qualcomm MSM8260 processor chipset. Its feature is that the speed of each core has been increased to 1.2GHz and produced by the new ultra-low-power 45nm technology. It is built with Adreno 220 GPU chip, supporting the 3D/2D graphics engine using the Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 technology. It also supports the 1080P HD video codec and 24-bit color WXGA resolution display output, integrating the low-power GPS chip and audio engine chip.
4.3-inch qHD Screen HTC Pyramid Phone
Smartphones under the price of £100 really isn’t a big deal any more nowadays, but when teamed up with “without contract” it then do becomes a big deal. And the news is Orange’s San Francisco handset brings an Android smartphone under £100 without contract. I’d really love to have a try on this beauty.
Orange have taken smartphones under the £100 mark this week with a new Android phone costing only £99 with no contract. Their own-branded San Francisco handset is on pay as you go and packs decent mid-range features. But the killer of course is the price. Orange say they’re bringing apps to the masses.
Here are some main features on this phone:
· Talk Time: 4 hours
· Standby Time: 9 days
· Weight: 130g
· Dimensions: 116 x 56.5 x 11.8
· Camera Features: 3 megapixel
· Connectivity: WiFi / Bluetooth / USB / SatNav
· Music: MP3 / FM Radio
· Network Band: Tri band
· Video: Messaging
· Memory: 150 MB internal / Up to 32gb Micro SD Card
· Email: POP3 / IMAP4
· Data Speed: 3G +
· Operating System: Android
· Version: Eclair v2.1
· Other: Orange WiFi, Your Account
· Applications and Features: Orange Maps, Orange Messenger by Windows Live, Orange App Store, Email, Orange Wednesdays
As for the name “San Francisco”, I’ve really got nothing to say. But just wondering, when will there be a phone called London? soon I hope, though maybe it doesn’t have quite the same connotations.
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Saving the earth is a big and quite urgent subject nowadays; and because almost everyone today has a cellphone, so making more eco-friendly cellphones is a really meaningful effort. Although these electronic things can’t be totally eco-friendly, at least for now, but there’s something we can do to reduce the harm to nature. And this is why I’m here today introducing the Sony Ericsson’s new greenheart phone – the Aspen, an eco-Blackberry.
Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range.
The phone’s general features reflect the business niche that Sony Ericsson are gearing their Aspen handset towards: the key point being the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, the latest version of the Windows phone set up that allows users to co-ordinate their phone with their PCs. And a Blackberry-ish shape with both a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard makes easy typing a priority.
On the entertainment side, there’s also a media player and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The phone has built in Facebook and Windows messenger apps and the “Human Curvature” design lets it fit in the palm of your hand more easily.
It’s not just calling the phones after trees that make these phones eco-friendly. Their green credentials come from the manufacture, the packaging and factors like power-consumption. Green features on the previous Greenheart phones that we hope to see on this one come in three categories.
1. Less energy and raw materials are used in their manufacture and packing:
- Made out of recycled plastics
- Free from hazardous chemicals
- The instructions booklet is not printed on paper but is an e-manual in phone
- Packaging has been minimised
2. The Greenheart phones are designed to be more energy-efficient
- Low power consumption charger (EP300 GreenHeart(TM))
- Clearer voice technology should mean lower volume is required
- A Widget Manager application, which allows users access to their social networking page via the stand-by screen and quickly switch between different social networks, reduces the battery-wasting waiting time.
3. They come with apps for helping you cut down on CO2 and energy use in other areas of your life..
- Walk Mate eco application
- Green calculator
You can also use a special power-saving charger which minimises the power wasted when charging the phone.
The Sony Ericsson Aspen looks beautiful, and it is a tough phone with amazing functions, and it’s quite eco-friendly. So how do you like this Sony Ericsson green heart new phone? The phone’s available in Iconic Black or Silver White.
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SmartphoneSeptember 1st, 2010
We always love Dell for its affordable PCs, and now it has stretched its long hands into the tablet and smartphone markets. Giving consideration to the Dell’s current performance in this new market, the dell new product line has been quite good and quite affordable (like Dell always have), but honestly not strikingly great. However it seems like Dell intends to change this situation with its new smartphone – the Dell Thunder, it is real, and it looks like a rock.
The Thunder, a hard-cornered new Android smartphone from Dell has just emerged from the rumour cloud and proved that it is a real phone in a video preview on Engadget.
Dell is best known for its affordable PCs, but it is flexing its muscles in the tablet and smartphone markets. The Dell Streak, a tablet computer powered by Android went on sale in the States earlier, the Dell Lightening will be a Windows 7 phone, and the Dell Thunder mooted for Quarter 4 will be a top-specced Android smartphone.
Dell has already promised us the Aero, a mid-range Android phone out in the States shortly. With a 2 megapixel camera and only a 624 MHz processor it’s not a game-changer.
The Thunder promises to be a stronger contender in the top end of the market: with a 4.1-inch OLED display, an 8-megapixel camera and 720p video capture, all built over Android.
From the video the Thunder has hard horizontal lines, sharp corners and the screen looks huge. With the dell logo on the back it does feel more like a mini computer than your average handset. It may not be the sexiest one out there, but design-wise it cements the Android preference for macho, hard shapes.
Well let’s just wait to see more details on this new Dell Thunder, hopefully it’ll be really fun.
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We love smartphones, and I sometimes love simpler low-end phones too. High-end smartphones with great functions are indeed great, but sometimes all I need is some basic functions and a little entertainment, so a low-end phone will just do fine. Now let’s take a look at the Nokia 5250.
With the proliferation of highly advanced smartphones, it’s amazing how Nokia still continues to produce low-end phones yet possessing some nice, advanced features. One of these phones is the Nokia 5250, a touchscreen phone powered by Symbian and is being geared as a music-centric mobile phone.
The Nokia 5250 main feature has got to be its music player which has its own icon on the phone’s homescreen. The music player app supports Nokia’s Ovi Music Store, meaning you can purchase music tracks from the online store and download it directly to the Nokia 5250 phone. While the phone’s built-in memory is only 512MB which could hardly accomodate thousands of music tracks, you have the option to expand it via a microSD memory card up to 16GB. Aside from this, the Nokia 5250 also comes with a built-in FM radio and a complementary copy of Guitar Hero 5 Mobile.
Aside from the music player on the phone’s homescreen, there are also other apps, particularly social networking app such as Facebook, MySpace and others. The phone also lets you access your Ovi Mail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. You can also check out your IM accounts. For more apps, you can just check the Ovi Store to get the apps supported by the phone.
And since this is a music phone, it has to have long battery life. Fortunately, the Nokia 5250 can last you up to 24 hours of continous music playback or up to 18 days standby and 7 hours talktime.
Other features of the Nokia 5250 include – Symbian^1 OS, GSM/EDGE Network connectivity, 2.8-inch TFT screen with 16:9 aspect ratio and 640×360 resolution, and a 2 MP camera.
The Nokia 5250 is slated for a 4th Quarter release. It will cost you €115 to score this phone.
Well, how do you like the phone? I really like the polished design, it is quite chic, and the functions are ok to me. It seems a really nice phone to me.
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Honestly I’m not a fan of slide phones, so the Alcatel VM202 for Virgin is not really my girl, actually I wouldn’t want to talk about it if it isn’t a pink phone! But it is a pink phone indeed, and thanks to that I take a further look at it, otherwise I would have missed a really nice phone without even knowing it.
A chunky feature phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the VM202 from Alcatel is not exactly going to trouble the iPhone, but it does look like a decent sturdy mid-range handset. Alcatel is a French-Chinese company which aims to produce phones for all over the world, probably a company to watch given their foothold in the world’s fastest-growing consumer market.
On a pay as you go deal exclusively with Virgin (for the first month) this is pretty cheap.
It has internet connectivity with Facebook and Twitter Widgets. The browser is the speedy Opera Mini. The VM202 also has a 4 megapixel camera which shoots video.
One key asset is the large storage space afforded by the handset. Virgin are packing a 8gb micro-Sim card in with the phone.
The VM202 handset will be available from Virgin Media stores and online at www.virginmedia.com for £39.99 including 300 free texts when bought with £10 airtime on pay-as-you-go. And you can check out more details on Virgin’s official site.
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The renowned Nokia E-series has made their reputation with the powerfully nicely designed functions and the compact beautiful exterior design. Now the latest device of this E-series — the Nokia launches E5 device has come, especially designed for hardcore email addicts! You’ll love it.
Nokia fans and hardcore emaillers will be interested in the launch of the Nokia E5, the latest device in the E-series range. Described as a sophisticated messaging device – it’s built for email on the go. The QWERTY keyboard makes input easy, it can host multiple email accounts, has a lot of applications for instant messaging. Then there’s the the phone of course and a 5 MP camera.
Here are some main features of this incredible new cellphone:
1. Work and personal email accounts from the homescreen
2. Super quick, intuitive set up for email
3. Free Ovi Maps – a Sat Nav and pedestrian turn by turn navigator with richly informative TimeOut, Expedia, Michelin, Lonely Planet, Qype and Trip Advisor applications for most countries
4. Business-grade security and device management functions such as remote locking with SMS and device and memory card encryption
5. Great internet access (HSDPA/HSUPA and WLAN)
6. 5 MP camera
The Nokia E5 is now available sim-free in Carbon Black or Chalk White, priced at about £259 each.
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Motorola, the renowned cellphone manufacturer yet makes another gorgeous cellphone — the Motorola Droid 2. Although I haven’t really get my hands on this beauty, there’s indeed lots of buzz out there already, enough to drive us to check this new phone out!
Verizon just made the Droid 2 available to the public! It was a much awaited release. Following the successful Motorola Droid phone, finally here comes its successor – the Motorola DROID 2. And Verizon has just made it available for pre-order days ago under its various mobile data packages. But perhaps what makes the Droid 2 a much awaited Android device is the fact that it will be pre-loaded with the Android 2.2 Froyo OS.
Being a much talked about and overhyped smartphone, expect the Motorola DROID 2 to pack-in tons of great features that will surely give its rivals a run for their money. Let’s take a closer look at what the DROID 2 has to offer then.
DROID 2 features a 3.7 touch screen 480×854 WVGA display that supports up to 16M colors and has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It is equipped with a 5MP camera with auto-focus, touch-to-focus, face detection, panoramic modes and other great camera features. This camera also captures DVD-D1 videos and has its own dedicated camera key.
Going further inside the DROID 2, you’d have an Android phone running on T1 OMAP 1GHz processor with its own dedicated GPU, an 8GB internal memory, 8GB pre-installed microSD card, Android 2.2 OS with Motorola Application Platform, aGPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and speakerphone.
The DROID 2 is also loaded with various Verizon-specific features including 3G Mobile Hotspot support for up to 5 devices, Visual Voice Mail, VZ Navigator, Skype Mobile, V Cast Media Manager, VZW backup assistant and of course a plethora of Google apps and third-party Android apps.
The Motorola DROID 2 is available for pre-order now from Verizon Wireless. It will set you back for $199.99 if you opt to get it with Verizon Contract which will run for 2 years.
With such gorgeous hardwares and so many powerful useful functions, the Motorola Droid 2 is a smartphone of the highest quality! So if you’re looking for a nice smartphone now, just check it out, you won’t be disappointed.
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August is golden season for cellphones, (and for vedio games too), so it’s really no surprise that we finally see AT&T’s Samsung Eternity II and Flight II get a true release date. I love the blue exterior design, so great news!
The incoming Samsung Eternity II and Samsung Flight II wanna-be smartphones for AT&T finally have an official release date, with the Eternity II being released on August 15th. It looks like they’ll both be ready to take on the onslaught of back to school competition that will be starting in a few weeks.
The Samsung Eternity II sports a 3.0″ touchscreen that helps take advantage of the fact that it has support for the optional AT&T Mobile TV powered by FLO TV in it for streaming live shows. It’s also got a full HTML web browser with one-finger zoom, a 2.0 megapixel camera, a mobile email, music and video player, and AT&T Social Net for keeping on top of your Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace accounts.
The Samsung Flight II sports a touchscreen as well, but has a slide-out horizontal QWERTY keyboard, along with a 2MP camera, full HTML web browser, mobile email, a music and video player, and enhanced social networking with PicDial, Star Tweets and WHERE. The Flight II is available now exclusively at Radio Shack and the Eternity II now available at AT&T too.
Go and get a dark blue beauty to dive with you for this august!
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Sony Ericsson phones are famous for its elegant and fashionable design, which makes us proud to show others our Sony Ericsson cellphone. And as we should always keep in mind, they never stopped the attempt to make some even more beautiful cellphones. So this is why the Sony Ericsson FH Mobile Phone Concept comes.
Cellphone designers and manufacturers have never ceased to amaze us, and recently Du Jun has created a concept Sony Ericsson FH Mobile Phone that features a turning point. Just based on that design, FH’s dual screens can be rotated sideways to create a wide screen display for media viewing and web browsing. The phone can also serve as an intercom when split into two, which allow instant communication via Bluetooth connectivity.
I live the wide screen idea, and it is really very beautiful!



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