Google has formally launched the over-hyped smartphone Nexus One at its headquarters in Silcon Valley, The Nexus One is the first phone that will be sold through Google’s online market.
The Nexus One runs on Android 2.1 OS, features a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen 800 x 480 pixels,and a 5MP camera with autofocus and LED flash, Nexus features also a 3.5mm headphone jack, 802.11b/g WiFi, stereo Bluetooth , a 4GB microSD card expandable to 32GB, accelerometer, active noise compression, compass support and GPS chip.
With the voice-to-text capability you can populate any text field by talking (not only text searches) and composing E-mails and SMS. The Nexus One also has live animated wallpapers that you can interact with.
The phone is currently available unlocked for $529 through google.com/phone, or for $179.99 on a two year deal from T-Mobile and will later be launched on other carriers.
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It’s been 18 months since the launch of Apple’s iPhone App Store, and since then we’ve had Google’s Android apps, Nokia’s Ovi apps and Windows Mobile apps, but none of these latter options are yet to reach the sheer choice available on their older rival’s platform. Apps have changed mobile phones from simple call/text functionality to powerful portable tool kits with solutions to a huge amount of needs. There are now 150,000 apps available from Apple, but as yet there’s no easy way to get through the App Store and find what you want unless you know exactly what you are looking for. However, help is at hand, and here’s a quick guide to five of the best apps currently available in the Apple App Store. If you would like to get an iPhone, then take a look at the Vodafone website where you can now find the latest 32 GB 3GS model.
Spotify – Music
There are quite a few different music streaming services available through the App Store, with Pandora and Last.fm regularly being touted as amongst the best. However, few have been quite so hyped as Spotify, which was anticipated as a ‘killer app’ before its launched. Read more…
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Verizon Wireless officially announced the awaited Samsung Omnia II smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and the new TouchWiz 2.0 user interface.
Samsung SCH-i920 Omnia II features a 3.7 inch, 480×800 pixel AMOLED touchscreen, 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera with flash, also includes 8GB of internal storage expandable up to 16GB through microSD cards, 3G connectivity, Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi.
The Omnia II includes Verizon services like V CAST Music, V CAST Video, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, and VZ Navigator GPS navigation.
Samsung Omnia II will be available for sale starting October 2, 2009 for $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate on a two-year contract.
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Sony Ericsson finally launched officially its first flagship XPERIA X10 powered by Google’s Android OS v1.6. The new smartphone previously known as XPERIA X3 or Rachael, coming with a new UX platform combining the cell phone’s communication capabilities and its entertainment features.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 features a 4 inch TFT touchscreen (480 x 854 pixels resolution), and an 8.1 Megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and AGPS.
Xperia X10 is the second Android phone based on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon after the Acer Liquid A1, and has 1GB of internal memory and an 8GB microSD memory card is included in the package.
the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, users will have access to download any application they want directly from both PlayNow and the Android Market. Read more…
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Motorola and Verizon Wireless officially announced the first handset that runs the latest Android 2.0 platform – the new Motorola DROID.
Motorola DROID features a 3.7 inch, 480 x 854 pixels capacitive touchscreen display, a 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, 3G and WiFi data connectivity, 16GB of storage space and a lot of Google applications.
DROID is the first smartphone with new Google Maps Navigation service, providing a free turn-by-turn voice guidance. Use Street View or satellite imagery to view your route, and get access to the most recent maps and business information from Google Maps without ever needing to update your device. The DROID also has a Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Android Market, Calendar, Amazon MP3 Store, and Verizon Wireless Visual Voice Mail.
The Motorola DROID will be released on November 6th for $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate on a two-year contract. Read more…
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Music and phones have had a happy marriage for quite some time now, but the latest generation of smart phones has seen storage and media players being taken to the next level. Many handset providers are now making serious waves in the music industry with the release of their own music stores. Of course, Apple has iTunes, but then there’s the Nokia Music Store along with other provider releases. If you’re looking to merge your iPod and phone handset into one device, then it’s now entirely possible to do that with the huge size of a phone’s memory. If you want to find a great music playing handset, then here are three of the best.
Nokia x6
This phone has either 16GB or 32GB of hard disk space, which is room for 5,500 or 11,000 tracks respectively. The larger model can have the Nokia ‘Come with Music’ feature, which means you won’t have to spend as much time transferring data onto your phone. Read more…
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HTC has been officially unveiled its latest Google Android smartphone, the HTC Hero, featuring a new user interface called HTC Sense. also features an anti-fingerprint coating on the screen for smudge resistance and a Teflon coating on the exterior.
Hero’s specs are very much similar to its predecessor HTC Magic, but ups the ante with a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, Adobe Flash support, HTC Sense UI, and improved battery life.
HTC Hero comes with a 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution. a 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera and expandable MicroSD memory. HTC Hero also includes a GPS, digital compass, gravity-sensor, Quad-band GSM, trackball, 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.
A dedicated Search button enables you to locates people in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through appointments in the calendar or search in any other area in Hero. HTC is also providing a new profile feature called scenes that allows you to create different customized content profiles about specific events or times in your life. Read more…
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Apple has announced the next generation iPhone, the iPhone 3GS (the ’s’ stands for speed). The device looks almost the same as the current 3G model but has increased processor speeds, higher quality camera and storage capacity has been also increased to 32GB.
The new iPhone features a 3 mega-pixel camera, with auto focus, it is able to capture video at 640 x 480 at 30 frames per second. Supports the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA standard, and also features a 3.5-inch widescreen Multi-Touch display 480×320 pixel resolution at 163 ppi.
Apple had increased the RAM and the speed of the processor in the new iPhone 3G S which made it up to twice as fast as the previous model when browsing the web or launching applications. RAM has doubled to 256 MB while the ARM processor has been cranked up to 600Mhz from 412Mhz previously.
Apple says also that the iPhone 3GS will last nine hours using WiFi, compared to six hours before, will play video for 10 hours, up from seven hours with the iPhone 3G. You will get 30 hours of audio playback is opposed to 24, and 12 hours of talk time on 2G instead of 10 hours, but 3G talk time is the same at five hours. Read more…
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Just after launching of Satio by Sony Ericsson, Samsung unveiled on its turn their first 12 MP camera phone with full touch screen Samsung Pixon 12 M8910, this latter will be on sale before Sony Ericsson’s Satio at the end of June in Europe.
The Pixon12 sports a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display that boasts a contrast ratio of 10,000:1 and a 12 Megapixel autofocus camera equipped with Xenon and power LED flash, 28mm wide angle lens, touch-focus and Smart Auto. The phone also features 150MB of internal memory, microSD slot, GSM/GRPS/EDGE, HSPA, GPS, FM radio with RDS and and Bluetooth 2.1.
With phone’s high-connectivity functions including Wi-Fi and HSUPA capabilities allows users to upload images and videos easily to popular social networking websites such as Facebook, Picasa, Flickr and MySpace. In addition, the phone can also record 720×480 pixel resolution video at 30 frames per second, and supports a wide variety of audio and video formats, such as MPEG4, H.263, H.264, DivX, and XviD. Read more…
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When the HTC Magic was released, a lot of people immediately compared it to the iPhone. With its looks and features, this was pretty much predictable. But how does the HTC Magic compare to the iPhone? Is it better? Will it finally topple over iPhone’s reign as leader of the smartphones?
At first look, one will see that the HTC Magic is well-designed. It is definitely better-looking than the T-Mobile G1, the only other android phone available in the UK. Unlike the G1, the HTC Magic does not have a slide-out keyboard. This makes the device more compact and a whole lot lighter. Obviously, the touchscreen is a little bit smaller, too, and this can be a problem for some people. Right below the screen are buttons for navigating the device. There is a trackball that proves to be useless as you can navigate the menu through the touchscreen. When it comes to inputting text, you have to use the on-screen virtual keyboard. This takes some getting used to and some might say that a real slide-out keyboard would have been better, but if you have an Unlimited Texts contract I am sure you will still text the best as the HTC Magic’s responsive screen makes typing so much easier. The vibrate feedback is also a great help. Another good aspect is the accelerometer, which allows you to change from vertical to horizontal orientation. This is especially helpful when you’re viewing web pages. Read more…
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