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. Details and Download…
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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. Details and Download…
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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. Details and Download…
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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. Details and Download…
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