Nokia C7 will arrive soon to Vodafone UK and T-Mobile UK, Nokia C7 is the second Nokia smartphone to run the latest Symbian platform Symbian^3 after the overhyped Nokia N8.
The Nokia C7 has a 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, an 8-megapixel camera and a stainless steel and glass chassis that’s 10.5mm thick. There’s also 680 MHz processor and the internal storage capacity is of 8 GB with support for MicroSD card of up to 32 GB, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0, together with GPS and both an FM radio and FM transmitter. The 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery is supposed to last for up to 552 hours of standby time and 9.3 hours of talk time.
Nokia C7 also brings excellent social networking abilities with updates from Facebook and Twitter fed directly to the home screen, as well as one touch access to many popular email accounts including Ovi Mail, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail. The Nokia C7 also provides a world of apps, games, videos, and location-based services through the Ovi Store. Read more…
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The new 5 MP camera comes complete with both flash and image stabilisation technology, meaning taking quick and clear snaps on the go is as easy as a walk in the park. The new handset also houses 11 photo modes as well as video recording, meaning it’s incredibly easy to capture all those spontaneous moments. This is great for those that love to share their photos and videos with friends and family as such files can be directly uploaded to any social networking site or alternatively transferred by email or MMS.
As well as Facebook, there is also an application for Twitter which directly links you to the site, enabling you to post links, update photos and be amongst the first to know what’s happening in the world.
There is also the option of richer browsing, enabling users to manage an abundance of open websites through tabbed browsing. This in turn allows customers to bookmark their favourite sites, using either custom names or alternatively branded icons. These icons can then be placed on the homescreen, making accessing them an extremely easy and hassle-free process. This is one of the all-new features that have been introduced by the Blackberry Torch.
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CMC Markets, The leading provider of spread betting and CFD trading has launched the spread betting app for iPhone, users of this app will have access to live streaming prices and the capacity to trade on price movements of financial markets including shares, indices, commodities and currencies.
The application has a huge collection of functions such as streaming prices, real-time news, live charts and up-to-the second information. The spread betting app also features interactive, multi-touch chart navigation, customizable watch lists and advanced orders including transactional based-stop losses. In addition, fact sheets on each instrument provide streaming news, trading information like trading hours, margin rates and some insights on how other market forces can influence prices.
The CMC Markets executive Chairman and founder, Peter Cruddas, said: “We are not the first company in the industry to launch an iPhone app but without doubt, I believe ours has the highest level of functionality and usability of all the spread betting apps available. Unlike other firms, we haven’t just re-tuned our existing platform and website and put in an app. We’ve taken a different approach. Read more…
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With the Galaxy S, Samsung have finally relinquished their insistence on producing phones that only run on their own bada operating system.
In putting the terminally flawed OS out to pasture, Samsung have realised their potential to become big players in the smartphone market.
bada had, quite rightfully come under criticism. Not only for being one OS too many in a market already full of high-quality competition, but further for having flaws that set it some way behind those that it was trying to match.
It was unreceptive to third-party developers, unlikely to support any future technological developments, and didn’t support multi-tasking – something certainly necessary in any new platform trying to assert itself in 2009.
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Apple revealed the iPhone 4 (neither iPhone 4G nor iPhone HD) at the WWDC conference today. Iphone 4 is the thinnest smartphone in the world.
The iPhone 4 comes with a 3.5 inch and 960×640 pixels IPS LCD called “Retina Display”, which features “326 pixels per inch”, and a 5 megapixel camera with a backside illuminated sensor, autofocus system, 5x digital zoom, and an LED flash, and recording HD video at 720p resolution. The phone also features quad-band HSPA, 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity, a compass, an accelerometer, and a 3-axis gyroscope sensor.
The iPhone 4 is powered by an A4 processor designed by Apple and runs iPhone OS 4.
The iPhone 4 has a large battery for up to 7 hours of talk time, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours browsing over WiFi, 40 hours of music, 10 hours of video playback, or over 300 hours of standby time. Read more…
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Vodafone Uk has just announced that the Nokia N8 will be available soon on its website. N8 is the first Nokia handset to run Symbian^3 OS.
The Nokia N8 features a large 3.5 inch 640 x 360 pixel resolution touchscreen, a Carl Zeiss 12 megapixel camera with wide-angle lens and Xenon flash, shooting 720p HD video, N8 has also 16GB of storage , an FM radio, 802.11 b/g/n WIFI connectivity, 3g and a GPS chip.
The Nokia N8 will be loaded with the Ovi Maps, which provides free turn-by-turn directions, and the Ovi Store for finding and installing nokia apps. The Nokia N8 will be the first device to work with Nokia’s Qt 4.6.2 software development environment for making application also loaded with Java MIDP 2.1 and Flash Lite 4.0.
Vodafone hasn’t announced neither date nor price for the N8, but it is expected to be released between July and September. Read more…
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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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The LG GW520 handset is a touchscreen phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. With this simple description, one would assume that the mobile is a high-end smartphone. Well, it isn’t. It only looks like one but uts actually one of the best slide mobiles currently on the market. This made doing this LG GW520 review very interesting.
LG made a lot of money with their LG Cookie. The latter was a touchscreen handset that was very popular for its competitive price. LG added the slide-out QWERTY factor to the equation and we got ourselves the LG GW520 handset. Smart of the manufacturer to add another cool thing to an already famously cool handset, we feel qwerty phones are on the rise as emailing and texting is so much easier. 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. Read more…
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