When it comes to mobile carriers in the US, most people would probably think of the big three that comprise of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T. These giants operate on a totally different scale compared to the smaller mobile carriers, but that doesn’t mean that those outside of the equation won’t get cool handsets from time to time although it can be pretty rare for that to happen. Cricker Communications will be offering the LG HELiX from LG Electronics, marking LG’s reintroduction into the Cricket handset lineup after a time of absence. The LG HELiX will come in the form factor of a clamshell and not a candybar, so if you’re the type who loves flipping phones open and closing them with a satisfying smack, this is the one for you.
The LG HELiX will come with a large 176 x 220 2.0″ TFT 262K internal color display alongside a lesser 96 x 64 TFT 262K external color display. With its large keypad, users will be able to dial the desired number in a jiffy, while the increase in font size makes for a fast and easy read. This does lead us to wonder – was the LG HELiX designed to cater to those who are older among us and already have troubles trying to make out tiny print? Nice to know this entry-level phone does not come with a VGA camera but will instead contain a 1.3-megapixel camera for impromptu shots, while Voice Clarity brings speech intelligibility a notch higher, where it will automatically adjust hearing level when a user is receiving or sending calls in noisy environments. You can also opt to use a Bluetooth headset with this cellphone for your hands-free needs.
You can choose from silver or pink colors for the LG HELiX, where it will retail for $139.99 per handset. Guess this can start off as a first cellphone for college going kids (who will grumble because it is not an iPhone) and among the older population who want nothing more than a regular cellphone to keep in touch.
HTC A3232 is compact 3G candybar running Android OS with Sense interface. It features color QVGA touch screen, 3.2MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, FM Radio, stereo Bluetooth, microSDHC card slot and 3.5mm audio jack.
GSM : GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G : HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 384 kbps GPS : Yes OS : Android OS Wi-Fi : Yes Keypad : Touchpad Talk time : Up to 390 minutes
Android-based device with a 2.8-inch QVGA (240 by 320 pixel) resistive touchscreen. Previous ones have all used HVGA capacitive displays.
HTC Tattoo is a 3G phone with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, digital compass, FM radio, audio input 3.5 mm and a slot for MicroSD cards to expand storage to 512MB integrated. For connectivity, the handset integrates WiFi and Bluetooth.
The 108-gram handheld measuring 106×55, 2×14mm and is using a 1100mAh Li-ion battery powered. This battery is good according to HTC for a total time of 5.7 hours and a standby time of two weeks. HTC Tattoo software includes widgets for Google services (Maps, Search, Mail, YouTube) and Android Market, plus the social network Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Through Tattoo albums can also be accessed online to albums loaded on the latter two sites.
Tired of boring Ringtones. Not got your favorite ringtones. Forget all.
Now there is an option for you to easily make your own ringtones. This facility is provided by a website. The site has it all, you just need to click on the upload button to select the song you want to make ringtone from or any other audio file. You can switch between 3 modes of operation depending upon the experience or the purpose. http://www.makeownringtone.com/ also supports most of the very well known audio formats and the best part is that this online facility is free.
Steps to use ringtone maker:
Just press the upload button on the very part in the middle of the screen and select the audio file you want to make ringtone from.
There are 7 file formats supported by ringtone maker which include mp3, aac, m4r, mp4, mpc, ogg, qcp.
You can also select the duration and the portion of the audio file according to your wish and this can also be done easily from the GUI.
You can also select the bitrate and the sound quality and listen to the changes done by you at the same time.
There are filters available which you can use to ease out your work of making ringtones. You can either normalize or add fade effect to the audio files.
Then you need to select the download option, which includes downloading the converted ringtone to your pc or your cell phone or via email.
The last and the final step is to click on the make a ringtone button and you are done.
Samsung - Smart Phone! Slimmest submersible phone, stylish enough for both work and leisure life. Submersible up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes. Protected against limited amount of dust and sand. This Phone has a 1.3MP camera with video recording. Samsung Marine Mobile Phone Features:
Platform: • Network & Data (Communication System for data transmission which is opposite to analog system.) - GSM/GPRS • Band (Groups of frequency which is allocated to wireless communication.) - GPRS 850/900/1800/210 • Operation System (The organized essential part of Telecommunications Management Network (TMN)) - Samsung Proprietary • Browser (Software used to view information pages on WAP pages. The Internet browser gives you fast online access, a PC-like layout and full-browser status. PagePilot, Visual Bookmarks and more make life extra convenient.) - WAP1.2 HTTP Stack • Java - MIDP2.0, CLDC 1.1 HI • GSM/CDMA – GSM
Samsung Marine Mobile Phone Size: • Weight - 102.8gms • Dimensions - 113 x 48.9 x 17.4 Display: • External Resolution - 128 x 160 • External Technology - 262K TFT • External Size - 1.77
Samsung Marine Mobile Phone Battery: • Type/Capacity (Standard) - 1000mAh • Talk Time (Standard) - Up to 9.5hrs • Stand-by Time (Standard) - Up to 670hrs
User Interface: • Input Device – Keypad Samsung Marine Mobile Phone Camera: • Camera Resolution - A measure of how closely packed the dots in a bitmapped image are CMOS 1.3MP • Digital/Optical Zoom - 4x (Digital Zoom) • Shot Mode - Normal/Timer/Multi/Mosaic/Night/Capture • Photo Effects - Yes
Video: • Video Player (A type of media player that shows video files) - Samsung proprietary • Video Recording (A function that records video in a digital format) - Yes • Video Messaging - Yes
Music & Sound: • Ringtones - 64Poly • Music Player - Stores, organizes and plays digital music files - MP3 Player • MP3 Ringtones - Yes • Music Library (The Music Library makes cataloguing, organizing and finding titles easier than ever. Sort by song, artist, genre and more.) - Yes • DRM -DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a technology used to protect the copyright interests of the owners of content and services. - OMA DRM v1.0 FL/CD/SD , Windows Media DRM Fun & Entertainment:
• Embedded Wallpaper (Wallpaper built in Mobile Phone as a default Image) - 6 • FM Radio (Users can listen to the live-broadcast FM Radio and also can save favourite channels) - Yes
Business & Office: • Offline Mode - Yes • Voice Memo & Voice Mail - Yes
Messaging: • SMS/MMS - Yes • Predictive Text Input T9 (Your mobile phone predicts what word you are going to type as you tap in each letter. This feature makes texting quicker) - Yes • Cell Broadcast - Yes • vCard/vCalendar - Yes
Connectivity: • Bluetooth (New radio link standard with short working range, used for the purpose of connecting various terminals to one another on a wireless basis. Contrary to a wireless infrared connection, intervisibility between the devices is not necessary. Thus, the user could simply keep the mobile phone in a jacket pocket while it sends or receives data from the internet via a laptop) - Yes (v2.0) • WAP (The Wireless Application Protocol serves to show internet content on the mobile phone display. A WAP capable mobile phone is required for this. Also, the internet page must be appropriately edited and be available as a WML document. Due to the low rate of data transfer and the small mobile phone display, the contents are reduced to text and simple graphics) - Openwave 6.2.3.3 • USB (A type of plug-in connection that is used to connect devices) - Yes (v2.0) • Internet HTML Browser - Yes
Memory: • User Memory (Portion of system memory in which user processes run) - 6MB • SMS Memory - 200 + SIM Messages • Phone Book Entries - 1000 • External Memory (The permanent storage of large quantities of data) - MicroSD (Up to 8GB)
Personal Information Management: • Scheduler (An operating system allows you to store scheduling and event information) - Yes • Clock (An instrument that shows the time of the day.) - Yes • Calendar (A Schedule showing the months of a year (including days and weeks)) - Yes • WorldTime (Which shows all time zone for overseas countries.) - Yes • Alarm - Yes • Converter (Translates some languages by voice recognition) - Yes • Calculator (in-phone calculators which perform simple math, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) - Yes • Stopwatch - Yes • Countdown Timer (A countdown is the backward counting to indicate the seconds, days, etc. remaining before an event.) - Yes
Call Functions: • Speakerphone (A telephone with a microphone and speaker, it can be used without putting the handset to your ear.) - Yes • Dialled/Missed/Received Calls - Yes • Caller ID (A feature which allows you to determine the origin of the incoming call before answering the phone. The caller's number is displayed on the screen of your phone) - Yes
The best thing about this mobile – it’s very good looking. In fact, in the first look, you will get bowled over its sleek design, broad screen and the good combination of silver and reddish – mauve color, and the first impression is really good.
The camera is well good for small clips like 2megapixels. It also supports video recording. You can record 15 f/s QVGA video in MPEG4 and H.263 formats (playback in 25 f/s QVGA). The screen is wide enough to give good you a really good image of the “subject” whom you are clicking. The Pan aroma shot of this mobile takes picturesque photos of landscapes – so that you can capture the beauty of nature with your own hands. The large 5.59cm TFT LCD offers an expansive canvas with 16 million colors and QVGA clarity which surpasses all other things for brilliant photographic colors.
Music Player runs all the tunes in their best and the FM Radio lets you listen to the best of the music. The embedded music player supports MP3/AAC/AAC+/MIDIplayback. OMADRM support added in it ensures seamless compatibility of music files. The FM radio is supported by RDS which streamlines the information as you listen to various stations of radio. The good thing is that you can record FM radio music and can use them as ringtones. So, there is no need to download caller tune or other tunes to make them ringtones.
The Samsung Corby S3650 is a quad-band GSM phone with a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, MP3 player, FM radio and a 2MP camera.
Design: The Samsung Corby aims to stand out from the crowd with its pop-style contours and curved edge design. The cover is made up of plastic.The slider feels smooth to be handled. It has a highly stylised graphical menu and wallpaper that adapts according to handset functionality.
Interface and Technology: The Samsung Corby incorporates Samsung’s new Touchwiz UI and haptic feedback system making touch screen operations simple and easy to use. New features like Chat Style SMS, Buddy List adds plus to Corby. It can store 5000 contacts with 5 entry field for each contact.
Multimedia: Mp3 player, FM radio with RDS, Track-ID, Dedicated Music keys, Super cool External Speakers, supported formats MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA (polyphonic)
Special Feature: The handset also supports “one finger zoom” and “smart unlock". “One finger zoom” enables consumers to zoom in and out with one finger while “Smart unlock” is a feature which enables users to unlock the phone and use the menu by drawing a letter on the screen. Social networking sites include Facebook, Flikr, Friendster, Myspace and Picasa. We can upload the files directly and logging in has also been made easy.
Adobe Reader is the mobile version of Adobe PDF Reader. Symbian mobile users can now view rich, high-impact, more secure content on a variety of devices.
Supported Devices:
Nokia Symbian, Symbian OS 6.x NTT DoCoMo and more..
Features in Adobe Reader LE 2.5:
Version 2.5 features memory usage improvements allowing larger files to be opened and performance improvements within the reflow logic - allows for smoother scrolling and viewing.
Ultra Mobile 3GP Video Converter is a powerful 3GP converter that will help you convert almost all popular video formats to 3GP/3G2/MP4 video clips and play them in mobile phone or other software 3GP player. No other program can convert so many video formats including: DivX, XviD, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, M4V, FLV, 3GP, ASF, RM, RMVB, MOV, ASX, MKV, OGM, SVCD, VCD, VOB to 3GP 3G2 H263 MP4 format.
Ultra Mobile 3GP Video is an extremely easy to use video converter which can convert AVI to 3GP, MPEG to 3GP, WMV to 3GP, MOV to 3GP, RM to 3GP, etc. It helps you watch music video and movies on your mobile phone with easy. With variable settings and fast converting speed, it is an affordable, high quality 3GP video encoder.
Sony Ericsson Satio is a new trendy Mobile Phone with Sony Ericsson Idou is announced to be the manufacturer...
Satio gives the ultimate multimedia experience in the palm of your hand. First all-in-one device, packing a 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, a 3.5-inch touch-sensitive display with 16:9 widescreen format and a resolution of 640x360 pixels.
Special Features:
Camera :12.1 megapixel camera(Up to 12x digital zoom) Multimedia :Album art Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP) Media player Music tones (MP3/AAC) Browsing & Web :WebKit web browser Bookmarks Web feeds Design :Auto rotate Gesture control Media Touchscreen Wallpaper animation Entertainment :HD and 3D games Facebook application Video streaming Video viewing YouTube Connectivity :Bluetooth™ technology Modem In-built WiFi
Bolt Mobile Browser 1.5 provides a full PC-style browsing almost on all types of mobile phones. The content not being re-formatted to other types(wap etc). Loads the pages faster than other competing mobile browsers.
Opera Mini is a sleek lite mobile browser with added features, Tabbed browsing, Password manager, Inline text editing, Copy-and-paste function from files, and a fast loading browser.
The TeaShark browser renders the page in the same way you browse the web on a PC. A cool handy little browser perfect for those who are online for most of the time.
Key Features:
Navigate intuitively 2-level zooming Landscape view Multiple tabs and history Bookmark management Enhanced click
The owners of iPhone in Australia stopped sleeping this weekend to find their devices targeted by self-replicating attacks. They got an image of 1980s heart throb Rick Astley that's not easily removed.
The researchers say "the world's first iPhone worm in the wild". These target on SSH software installed phones and change the Apple's default root password of "alpine".
A review of some of the source code, shows that the malware, once installed, searches the mobile phone network for other vulnerable iPhones and when it finds one, copies itself to them using the the default password and SSH, a Unix application also known as secure shell.
Users who tried to delete the image were chagrined to find it reappear once they rebooted their device.
"An US cell phone security firm has found many smart phone applications retrieving the sensitive datas and sending them to third parties without notification"
Beware, your smart phone application is watching you much more closely than you might do. Lookout Inc., https://www.mylookout.com/ , a cell phone security firm, scanned nearlt 3000,000 free applicayions from Apple iPhone and photos built around Google Android software.
Datas are used for Targetted Ads....
There is a major concern that has been bubbling up in privacy and security circles. The data can include full details about users contents, their pictures, text messages, internet search and history. The third parties can include advertisers and companies that analyze data on users. These information is used by the companies to target ads and learn more about their users.
Lookout Inc., found that nearly a quater of the iPhone apps and almost half the Google Android apps containd those capabilities.
Codes given by third-parties.....
The code written and given by the third parties are inserted into the applications by the developers, usually for the specific purpose such as allowing the applications to run ads. But the code winds up forcing the application to collect more datas on users that even the developers may realize.
"Apple did not resopnd to the request for comment on Lookout's research....."
Motorola introduces iPhone like Smart phone with Android OS...
The Motorola's BlackFlip features an Interesting Design. This has a "Reverse-Folding" clamshell form. It is good looking, non traditional phone. The Social-Centric MOTOBLUR interface is included to keep up-to-date with your friends. Hands-on Video included.
It has a 3.1” HVGA display screen (full touchscreen), pimped with MOTOBLUR, a 5-megapixel camera (LED flash included), a 3.5mm jack, a full HTML browser, comes with 2GB of onboard memory, A-GPS and supports Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and USB 2.0.
Sony Ericsson Spiro has a clear and intuitive Walkman® player interface. Navigating your music is a breeze. Built-in digital camera with screen viewfinder, dedicated menus and direct interaction with in-phone imaging and messaging features.
Nokia unveiled two new series 'X' mobile phones. They are X5 and X6 8GB. Nokia XG-01 is unique, square shaped highly portable. It also has sliding QWERTY keypad. Let's loo at the Specs....
Messaging: SMS, MMS, IM, Push Mail, MS Exchange Server
MEMORY:
Internal: 8GB microSD, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM
External: microSD expandable up-to32GB
BATTERY:
Stand-by: 320 hrs
Talktime: 4 hrs 30 min
PRODUCT:
Size: 116 x 60.9 x 10.9 mm
Screen: 480X800 pixels, 16 Million colors
Keypad: Touchpad
PRICE: approx INR 26,540/-
My Mobile Gadget's opinion:
The new Motorola Milestone XT720 is an Android 2.1 smart phone, with its 8MP camera and Xenon flash. This phone really looks to be the most camera-centric Android handset to date, especially when you throw 720p HD video recording into the deal. Other than that, the Motorola Milestone XT720 seems to be a very good looking handset with characteristic design, large 3.7-inch, 480x854 resolution capacitive screen, HDMI interface, 3.5mm jack, and all other kinds of stuff.
One of the Computer Laptop manufacturing giant, the Acer entered the mobile phone manufacturing sector. Recently Acer has unveiled Acer M900, F900, X960 and DX900 smart phones, working on Microsoft Windows 6.1.
The Acer M900 has been ideally fabricated for the users who need uninterrupted access to e-mail and files. Three of them utilize a new interface, called Acer Shell, made by the company itself. It is a high-end, business oriented phone, that sports QWERTY keyboard, a 5 mega pixel camera, 3.8 inch display as normally seen on smart phones. It also includes functions that's rare on smart phones "fingerprint reader protection". This can be seen below the display terminal.
Design:
This comes under heavyweight category. It is not that mush comfortable in your pockets. The screen size 3.8 inches, makes it looks bigger. The keyboard buttons are large enough to type.
Camera:
The camera is really convincing. All the icons are large enough to press. It takes 4 econds to start. The Acer M900 delivers high quality pictures with different modes/settings, like Outdooe, Indoor, Strong light, Medium light, Low light, and Document captures.
Multimedia:
The Windows Media Player is apt for Acer M900. It can handle MP4/h.264 format with a better resolution of 720 pixels. A good quality of sound is coming out from loud speaker.
Performance:
The performance of Acer M900 is good. Voice clarity is good with built-in ear piece. The stability and speed is ok. The only grip is the accelerometer. Turning the phone to the landscape position is annoying.
The Plus:
Huge Display: 3.8-inches
HSDPA Connectivity
SiRF Star III GPS
Finger Print Senser
The Minus:
Clunky Interface
Heavy
Poor build quality
Poor keyboard
Poor Battery life
No dedicated audio port
The Verdict:
Though Acer M900 possess high-end features and sensors, it FAILS in key areas when compared to other smart phones like HTC, Samsung and iPhone.
The all new LG GX500 mobile phone has a 7.62cm Full Touch Screen interface with A-Class UI, a dual SIM and dual battery stand-by. A better 3 Meagpixel camera with video recording, Wi-Fi, always friends in touch Social Networking, and embedded applications like Opera™ Mini Mobile Browser, NewsHunt, Just Cricket and more....
Samsung I5801 Galaxy 3, released in the year 2010. It has a inbuilt phone memory of 170 MB and external microSD card, which is expandable upto 32GB. This smart phone comes in two colors Black and White.. I5801 is a multimedia oriented Android OS smart phone. It comes with DivXXvid Playback support, Music player, Wi-Fi and GPS as seen on major smart phones...
Zen recently unveiled Z82, a QWERTY keyboard mobile phone with Analog TV. Watch live telecast and new updates on your mobile phone. It has a multi-color track ball which enhances stlye. Allways friends in touch with social networking sites like, Facebook, Nimbus, Yahoo.
Zen z82 Specification:
Camera: 2 megapixels
Screen: 2.4 inch QVGA widescreen
Multimedia: MP3 MP4, FM with 3.5mm jack
Network Band: Quad 850/900/1800/1900
Memory: microSD 4GB, 1000 Phone and 1000 SIM contacts
Special Feature: Dual SIM, Live TV, QWERTY keyboard
