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Cellphones / News / Nokia

Nokia Unveils Nokia N82 in Black

March 18, 2008

n82 blackNokia today unveiled the Nokia N82 in stylish black, bringing a blend of state-of-the-art imaging, integrated navigation and high-speed Internet connectivity to the Nseries range of converged devices. This jet black multimedia computer enables people to “geotag” the images they capture – allowing them to not only be saved by date, but by location as well. This adds to a line-up of compelling photography features, including a 5 megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash. Not only does the Nokia N82 take great pictures, array of advanced connectivity features makes it easy for consumers to share their discoveries, journeys and locations. The Nokia N82 in black is expected to start shipping within weeks, with an estimated retail price of approximately 400 euros, before taxes and subsidies.

“The Nokia N82 is made for storytelling,” says Juha Kokkonen, Director for Nokia Nseries devices. “As one of Nokia’s leading-edge connected camera, the Nokia N82 in black captures people’s journeys and discoveries. With built-in A-GPS it even helps people to find new places by pairing ‘contextual’ information with a wide array of connectivity features such as Wi-Fi and HSDPA. We make it easy for consumers to quickly share those moments as they happen.”

When it comes to camera capabilities, the gloss-black Nokia N82 is set to wow world travelers and photography enthusiasts alike. The 5 megapixel camera, powerful Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics, ultra-fast camera activation, autofocus with a dedicated assist lamp, fast reloading between shots and DVD-like quality video capture all ensure that special moments can be captured “picture perfect” – even in low light conditions.
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Cellphones / News / Sharp

Sharp Releases Sharp SH705iII

March 15, 2008

Sharp recently unveiled one of its latest mobile phones, Sharp SH705iII. The handset features a built-in TV tuner and a wide 2.8 inch internal screen with a 400 x 240 pixels resolution and support for 262,000 colors, hence it can offer a good mobile TV viewing experience.

Sharp SH705iII comes in an elegant clamshell form factor, weighs 106 grams and, when closed, it measures 106 x 48 x 16.1 millimeters. Other features, except the TV related ones, include an external OLED screen with 96 x 39 pixels, 3G international roaming capability, microSD card support to boost the internal memory, and a 3.2 Megapixel camera (with flash and video recording). The phone’s battery can provide an unlimited time of watching TV, but only if you re-charge it after every 160 minutes.

For the moment Sharp SH705iII is only available in Japan, exclusively via NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in the country. The handset is released as FOMA SH705iII and not as Sharp SH705iII, because the Japanese carrier renames all its 3G-enabled mobile phones with “FOMA”, regardless of their producer.

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Cellphones / HTC / News

HTC P3470 Will Be Available in May 2008

March 7, 2008

The new GSM communicator HTC P3470, also known as Pharos will be available in early/mid May at a price of $550-600. HTC P3470 is one of the best communicators to date, and is a perfect replacement for the P3300.

HTC P3470 Pharos Specifications:

* Type: communicator;
* Form-factor: candy bar;
* Materials used: plastic, soft-touch, metal;
* Operating system: Windows Mobile 6 Professional;
* CPU: TI’s OMAP 850 200 MHz;
* RAM: 128 Mb (~106 Mb available);
* ROM: 256 Mb (~140 Mb available;
* Connectivity: microSD (SDHC), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (A2DP), USB 1.1 for charging/synch/headset;
* GSM: 850/900/1800/1900, GPRS/EDGE;
* GPS: SiRF Start III;
* Display: TFT 2.8″ with a resolution of 320×240 pixels, shows up to 65K colors;
* Camera: 2Mpix, macro mode, self-portrait mirror, 176×144-pixel video recording;
* Battery: detachable 1100 mAh Li-Ion;
* Dimensions: 108 x 58.3 x 15.7 mm;
* Weight: 122 g (with battery).

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Cellphones / News

Philips Unveils Philips 9@9j

March 3, 2008

Philips recently unveiled its latest mobile phones from the Xenium family, Philips 9@9j, a handset that comes to bring a standard Li-Ion battery plus an extra slot where AAA batteries
can be introduced. The handset is made in collaboration with Techtium and Energizer, two companies that also worked with Philips in 2007 to bring the first ever mobile phone with support for AAA batteries: Philips Xenium NRG.

The new Philips 9@9j is a quad-band GSM device that works on the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz frequencies and provides GPRS and Bluetooth connectivity. Measuring 110 x 45 x 15 millimeters and weighing 98 grams, the phone comes in a candybar form and it looks stylish enough to attract everyone’s attention. It also has a TFT display with a 176 x 220 pixel resolution, video and music players, FM Radio, 1.3 Megapixels camera, 1 GB of internal memory and microSD card support.

Philips 9@9j’s Li-Ion battery provides a talk-time of 8 hours and a stand-by time of up to 720 hours, which means about a whole month. Moreover, when the standard battery is out of power, the AAA battery comes in (supposing that there is one in the special dedicated slot) to give the phone a plus of about 2 hours of talk-time and a stand-by time of up to one week.

Philips 9@9j should be available starting April 2008 for an unknown (yet) price.

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Cellphones / Samsung

Samsung Releases Samsung i550w

March 2, 2008

Samsung rolled out an improved version of its i550 handset, Samsung i550w. The new i550w offers Wi-Fi, tri-band GSM connectivity (900, 1800, and 1900 MHz) plus EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA, hence being one of the most evolved phones in terms of featured connectivity, comparable to Nokia’s N-series handsets.

Samsung i550w has a candybar form factor and measures 115 x 53 x 13.8 millimeters, weighs 109 grams, and packs a 2.6 inch QVGA TFT display with 262,000 colors. It runs on Symbian 9.2 with S60 3.1. and comes with built-in GPS receiver, pre-installed Google Maps, full HTML browser, RSS support, Music player (supports WMA, MP3, AAC ,AAC+, OGG and ASF), Video player (supports WMV, 3GP, H.263 and MPEG4), Flash player, FM Radio, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Java MIDP 2.0, USB 2.0 and a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack which, for some odd reasons, is not found in too many Samsung phones. Furthermore, there are built-in handsfree, document viewer (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF), organizer,150 MB of built-in memory that can be expanded up to 4 GB with a microSD card, and a standard Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery.

Another cool feature of Samsung i550w is its 3.15 Megapixel camera with auto focus and flash that will allow users to take pictures at a pretty high quality. There’s also video recording capability, plus a secondary VGA video-call camera.

Samsung i550w is already on sale on some websites, unlocked, for $395 (about 260 Euro).

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