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Motorola Evoke QA4

2009-06-12T16:40:00.000-07:00

The Motorola Evoke QA4 also slides up to reveal a traditional numeric keypad. You can text here as well, though we imagine that most users would prefer the virtual keyboard on the display. We like the silver-and-black color scheme and the rounded edges.

Stocked with a midrange multimedia-feature set and sporting an eye-catching design, the Evoke should turn a few heads on the show floor. The 2.8-inch display takes up most of the phone's real estate. In addition to an icon-based mobile phones menu, it also shows a virtual QWERTY keyboard for messaging and e-mail. Other exterior controls are minimalist; we only see a navigation control beneath the display.

Features on the CDMA Evoke include EV-DO Rev. A support, stereo Bluetooth, a music player, a full HTML browser, a 2-megapixel camera, organizer features, a memory card slot, USB mass storage, and a speakerphone.

We don't have price or availability details yet, but we'll let you know just as soon as we get them.

HTC Touch Diamond

2009-05-12T23:07:00.000-07:00

The Touch Diamond and Touch Pro are undoubtedly game-changers in Windows Mobile land. Soon, VGA resolution will be standard, most phones will utilize accelerometers, and having some sort of Windows Mobile interface replacement will be expected. We have all read a lot of hype surrounding the HTC Touch Diamond and recently a lot of negative comments on how it actually performs, well we have had some hands on experience over the last week and its definitely a phone that will split opinions right down the middle.

The phone comes packaged in a box shaped like a pyramid with the top chopped off and it really is well packaged and looks very enticing. Inside the box is the phone, wired headset, spare stylus, two CD ROM’s with a user manual and extra software, battery, mains charger and a USB cable, all neatly tucked away inside.

The Diamond comes with a GPS receiver built in and we tested this with the pre-installed Google Maps application, this GPS also has an assisted option where updated satellite positions can be downloaded to achieve a quick fix with the satellites, using this system we managed to get a fix in around 30 seconds which was pretty impressive.

The pre-installed Youtube application works great over HSDPA with search functionality and bookmarks, videos streamed very quickly and automatically rotated to landscape view, very similar to the original iPhone application.

The Diamond comes pre-installed with Opera 9.5 and it is definitely a massive improvement on Pocket IE, it renders pages very nicely and scrolling around web pages is very finger friendly. Another good feature on The Diamond is the virtual scroll wheel, circling your finger around the wheel either clockwise or anti-clockwise zooms in or out of the webpage, a nice addition. Actually the whole zooming process is definitely much better with Opera 9.5 simple taps zoom into the area of the webpage you want to see and text is automatically resized to match the screen making web surfing very usable on this device. The phone also has a built in accelerometer so when the phone is rotated into landscape mode the screen automatically does the same although this doesn’t work with all applications.

Text entry as a whole is pretty good, the on-screen soft keyboard is very easy to pick up and get the hang of, once you realise that you have to press the screen firmly to register a character, word recognition was also very effective.

With Touch Flo 3D running it is far from a polished user experience, it is slow and buggy, if HTC really are intent on attracting consumers away from feature phones to experience smart phones they are going to have to do a much better job with Touch Flo 3D than this, it needs to be more fluid, more responsive and intuitive, its a good start for sure but its just not good enough for such a high end device with a high end price to suit.

Turning off Touch Flo 3D this device is a totally different proposition, I enjoyed using it, it is fast, powerful, easy to use and reliable. It is a fantastic size, comfortable to hold and is packed with features, we didn’t even mention the music and video play back or the built in FM Radio which all work great. The screen is gorgeous and at last web surfing is a good experience on Windows Mobile.

The built in storage of 4 GB is a good addition although it would have been nice to have a memory card slot for further expansion if needed.

Battery life as predicted though is poor, less than a day with average use is not acceptable and really needs to be addressed.

source: http://www.okephones.com/

Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH

2009-05-01T22:05:00.000-07:00

Known as Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH or simply Tocco Ultra depending on the market, the latest touch phone by Samsung comes in the slider form factor. Beside the killer looks and slim profile of only 12.7mm, 8 megapixel camera the specs sheet of the Samsung S8300 continues with a 2.8" capacitive OLED touchscreen, and a GPS-receiver with Route 66 navigation.

Construction

Upon opening the packaging, I was quite impressed with what I saw. The S8300 is a nicely styled phone with metal and strong plastic components.

Picking it up in your hand and feeling the weight of it gives you the impression that it is of sturdy construction.

The slide mechanism is flawlessly smooth and precise. The battery cover is well made. And opening it just requires you to pop it out instead of forcing you to pry it open.

Upon turning on the phone and viewing the 2.8in OLED screen light up, I was impressed with the quality of the display.

Colours were bright and well represented. The screen is also supposedly covered with tempered glass to make it scratch and glare resistant.

Well, I didn’t want to do the “keys-in-pocket-with-phone” test, otherwise the nice folks at Samsung would have my head on a stake for messing up their review unit.

As for glare resistance, the screen still suffers from legibility problems under bright sunlight.

It seems that all handphone manufacturers have yet to tackle this problem successfully be it TFT or OLED screens.

The touchscreen response for a capacitive display is a mixed bag. It may be because I have not adapted from a phone with a resistive display.

Rather than just pressing with the tip of your fingers or even your fingernail, you have to use your whole fingertip (read: Skin contact) to get the screen to work.

This may be great in most situations but when the button is tiny or even a tad narrow, you will tend to miss it and will be forced to tap a few times to hit the sweet spot to activate the button.

It is frustrating at times, but let’s hope Samsung can optimise the touchscreen with firmware upgrades.

source: http://www.okephones.com/

HTC Touch Pro

2009-04-14T23:02:00.000-07:00

The scene of the PDA market can sometimes be highly confusing. On one side there is the mighty iPhone 3G where as to counter it are winmo devices like the Samsung Omnia i900, HTC’s Touch Diamond. Well these devices are good, but for a serious business user these devices almost mean nothing. Yes, nothing because they don’t come with any dedicated hardware keys. So all that big touchscreen real estate they talk about has to be shared with the virtual keyboard and in case you have big chubby fingers, then those devices are almost useless for you.

The phone comes packaged in a box shaped like a pyramid with the top chopped off identical to the HTC Diamond and it really is well packaged and looks very enticing. Inside the box is the phone, wired headset, spare stylus, CD ROM with a user manual and extra software, battery, mains charger and a USB cable, all neatly tucked away inside.

Nothing really new inside the Touch Pro compared to the Diamond except the addition of an on screen tilt sensor calibrating tool. Not sure why you would need this but it is there if you ever do. Apart from that you have the usual Windows Mobile goodness like Windows Live, Google Maps, Office, Opera 9.5 and the HTC Youtube application which I found very slow to use, even over WiFi.

The GPS worked very well with TomTom and Google Maps locking very quickly and both looked fantastic on the VGA screen.

The battery life is so much better than the Diamond, it is a bigger capacity battery and it shows, other differences are the increase in the amount of Ram but unfortunately only 512MB storage of which the OS takes up quite a lot of. Also included is a TV Out feature unfortunately HTC have not included a cable for this so its a bit useless.

HTC have taken the flack on the Diamond, learned from it and released a very solid, well performing device, the TouchFlo 3D works perfectly now and enhances the device greatly. Added to that, high quality hardware, a great slide out keyboard, lots of Ram and this device is a winner. Its a work horse with a lot of power and runs as smooth as silk. I cannot think of many negatives, it has all the features, good battery life, good camera, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.

Sony Ericsson Idou

2009-04-09T01:57:00.000-07:00

As you know, this handset comes with a whopping 12-megapixel count in terms of camera capability, while the full touchscreen display places it on par with the rest of the other touchscreen smartphones that are currently in the market. No idea on how much this will cost, but it sure as heck looks desirable. The stylus looks like some sort of eyeliner, leading some folks to think that this is more of a woman's phone.

Sony Ericsson C901

2009-04-06T01:55:00.000-07:00

Sony Ericsson C901 is the new addition for the companies Cyber-shot phone line up, that features a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus, automatic lens cover, image stabilizer, video stabilizer, face detection, smile detection, and Xenon flash which promises to produce a good indoor images even without very bright lighting. The C901 is runs on Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) with 3G (900/2100 MHz) network and also features an integrated media player, a 110MB of internal memory, Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot, USB 2.0 and stereo Bluetooth, a 240 x 320 pixels with 262 144 colors TFT display, Access NetFront Browser and RSS Feeds supports. The Li - Polymer 950 mAh battery provides up to 9.5 hours of talk time and 430 hours of stand-by time.

Sony Ericsson C901 specifications
* Network GSM 850/900/1800/1900
* Dimensi 105 x 45 x 13 mm
* Weight 107 gram
* Display TFT, 256.000 warna, 240 x 320 pixels, 2,2 inci
* Ringtone Poliponik, MP3
* Card Slot Memory Stick Micro
* Transfer Data GPRS clasc 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps; EDGE clasc 10, 236.8 kbps
* Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, IM
* Browser WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront), RSS reader
* Camera 5 megapiksel, 2.592 x 1.944 piksel, autofokus, xenon flash, video
* Other Fitur Google maps, Motion-based games, FM radio dengan RDS, MP3/
AAC/MPEG4 player, TrackID music recognition, Picture editor/
blogging, YouTube application, Organiser, Built-in handsfree, Voice
memo/dial, Java MIDP 2.0
* Battery Li-Po

Sony Ericsson W995

2009-04-02T01:53:00.000-07:00

the Ericsson W995 is a top-of-the-line, fully featured media phone from Sony. Featuring a 2.6-inch QVGA screen, 8.1MP camera, A-GPS capabilities with Google Maps software, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, DLNA certification, 118MB of built in memory and an included 8GB M2 card.

Nokia 6710 Navigator

2009-03-31T01:48:00.000-07:00

integration of Maps with Ovi allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronize with their mobile device. Additionally, Maps has been updated to include a number of new features such as high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities, terrain maps, weather service, premium travel and events content and traffic and safety warnings. With both of the new devices including a compass, working in conjunction with the new features of Maps, the pedestrian navigation experience has been significantly improved.

apple macbook air

2009-03-27T07:02:00.001-07:00

Nokia 6600 Fold

2009-02-25T23:36:00.000-08:00

General

2G Network

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network

UMTS 850 / 2100

Size

Dimensions 87.7 x 44 x 15.9 mm, 52 cc

Weight 110 g

Display Type OLED, 16M colors

Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.13 inches

- Second external, hidden OLED display (128 x 160 pixels), 1.36 inches

Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3

Memory Phonebook

Photocall

Call records

Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB

- 18 MB internal memory

Data GPRS Class 32, 123 kbps

HSCSD, EDGE

Class 32, 296 kbits

3G 384 kbps

WLAN

Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP

USB v2.0 microUSB

Features

Messaging SMS, MMS, Email

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Opera mini)

Games

Colors Mysterious black, Sophisticated purple

Camera 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video(VGA@15fps), flash; secondary VGA videocall camera

- Push-to-open mechanism
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Stereo FM radio
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- Nokia Maps / Nokia Search
- FM radio with RDS
- T9
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo/commands

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4CT)

Stand-by Up to 300 h

Talk time Up to 4 h

Samsung i900 Omnia

2009-02-25T23:34:00.000-08:00

Specification :

General 2G Network

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network

HSDPA 2100

HSDPA 850 / 1900 - American version

Dimensions 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm

Weight 122 g

Display Type TFT touchscreen, 256K colors (65K effective)

Size 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches

- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Handwriting recognition

Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3

Customization

Download

Vibration Yes

Memory

Phonebook

Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records Practically unlimited

Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB

- 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- 624MHz Marvell PXA312 processor
- 8 GB/16 GB internal memory

Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE Class 12

3G

HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN

Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

Bluetooth

Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

USB Yes, v2.0

Features

OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds

Games Yes + Java downloadable

Colors Modern Black

Camera 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video, flash; secondary videocall camera

- Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM Radio with RDS
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player
- DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player
- TV Out
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1440 mAh

Stand-by Up to 500 h

Talk time Up to 5 h 50 min

BlackBerry Bold

2009-02-25T23:31:00.000-08:00

Specification

Screen 65K colors

Size 114 x 66 x 14 mm

Weight 133 g

GSM 900/1800/1900

GPRS yes

Downloadable yes

Talk Time / standy 5 hours / 300 hour

WAP yes

SMS,EMS,MMS SMS /EMS / MMS

Blue Tooth yes

Ring Tone Polyphonic, MP3

Phone Book yes

Hands free yes

Game yes

Java enabled yes

Camera yes

3G yes

3,5G HSDPA yes

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

2009-02-25T23:27:00.000-08:00

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Size Dimensions 110.5 x 52.6 x 17 mm

Weight 145 g

Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors

Size 800 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches

- Full QWERTY keyboard

- Optical trackpad

Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3

Customization Composer, download, order now

Vibration Yes

Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records Practically unlimited

Card slot microSD (TransFlash), buy memory

- 400 MB internal memory

- 256 MB RAM, 512 MB storage memory

- Qualcomm MSM7200 528MHz processor

Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

HSCSD No

EDGE Yes

3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

Infrared port No

USB Yes, v2.0 miniUSB

Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push email, IM

Browser WAP 2.0/HTML (IE), RSS feeds

Games Yes + downloadable, order now

Colors Solid Black, Steel Silver

Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera

- Built-in GPS receiver

- A-GPS function

- Java MIDP 2.0

- FM radio with RDS

- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player

- 3.5 mm audio jack

- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)

- TrackID music recognition

- Picture editor/blogging
- Organiser

- T9

- Built-in handsfree

- Voice memo/dial

Battery Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41)

Stand-by Up to 833 h

Talk time Up to 10 h

NOKIA 5800 Xpress Music

2009-02-25T23:25:00.000-08:00

General

2G Network

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network

HSDPA 900 / 2100

HSDPA 850 / 1900 - American version

Size

Dimensions 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm, 83 cc

Weight 109 g

Display Type TFT touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches

- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Handwriting recognition

Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3

- Stereo speakers

Memory Phonebook

Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records Detailed, max 30 days

Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included

- 81 MB internal memory
- 128 MB SDRAM memory
- ARM 11 369 MHz CPU

Data GPRS Class 32

HSCSD

EDGE Class 32

3G

HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps

WLAN

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology

Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP

USB v2.0 microUSB

Features OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds

Games Yes + Java downloadable

Colors Black, Red, Blue

Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera

- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS support
- Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MPEG4/WMV/3gp video player
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- TV out
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- Voice command/dial
- Document viewer
- T9
- Photo editor
- Built-in handsfree

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1320 mAh(BL-5J)

Stand-by Up to 406 h

Talk time Up to 8 h 45 min

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

2009-02-24T20:34:00.000-08:00

Fitur utama
Tombol musik khusus untuk akses cepat ke lagu favorit
Beralih antara lagu dan panggilan tanpa terganggu
Desain gaya, mengkilat dan kecil
Layar vibrant QVGA (240x320), 16 juta warna
Bluetooth, speaker terintegrasi dan player S40 lanjutan
Tri-band EGSM 900/1800/1900 MHz

Layar
Layar 16 juta warna True Color 240 x 320 piksel

Multimedia
Music player untuk format MP3/Midi/AAC/eAAC+/WMA dengan skin dan dukungan album art
Playback sampai 18 jam
Tema musik yang dapat diganti
Radio FM

Sony Ericsson G502

2009-02-24T20:18:00.000-08:00

Sony Ericsson G502 Specifications

Ukuran

* 103.0 x 46.0 x 13.5 mm
* 4.1 x 1.8 x 0.5 inci

Berat

* 83.5 gr
* 2.9 oz

Layar

* 262.144 warna TFT
* 240x320 pixel

Warna yang tersedia

* Premium Black
* Brilliant Hazel
* Celerity Red

Memori

* Dukungan Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) (hingga 4 GB)
* Memori Telepon 32 MB*

Jaringan
UMTS/HSDPA 2100
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900

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2009-02-24T20:02:00.000-08:00

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