Posted by hina on October 12, 2008 under Cell Phone | 
Sony Ericsson G series are made to help busy city dwellers to organize their daily life better. The G series are built with convenient organizer and Internet access, which is what a busy city geek needs for getting his life in pace.
The flagship phone of the G series is the Sony Ericsson G900 and it’s been given a review by PhoneArena despite the phone still has some bugs and problems with its firmware and hardware. The SE G900 is based on the Symbian UIQ without making it too hard to use. It offers intuitive work and the OS gives it a better organizing options.
The G900 is similar to the earlier model, G700, in the G line, which is also equipped with a touchscreen which allows you to write or draw notes on. The SE G900 comes with a high-res camera of 5 megapixel and supports WiFi, which seems to imitate the latest digital camera technologies that allow you to shoot quality photos, upload and share it on the Internet.
The package includes great accessories such as handsfree, charger, data cable, additional stylus, software CD, and manual etc. The SE G900 boasts a super slim body which measures only 0.5 inch for its slimness. Some more it’s super lightweight, making it pretty easy to be carried around in a pocket. The touchscreen is 2.4 inch wide and has a resolution of 240×320 pixels. The color it offers seems pale but it’s still kind of usable even under direct sunlight. The touch sensitivity is great but the touch feedback is only available in sound but no vibration, which isn’t convenient when used under noisy environment.
It comes with a pretty short stylus, but it seems giving no much problem as the touchscreen of this cellphone is meant more for inputting text via handwriting recognition, and not for navigation. You’ll get navigational buttons are under the touchscreen, surrounding the 5-way D-pad and are used for going back, delete and shortcuts to the functions important for the model – writing of notes and message.
SE G900 flagship phone in the G series which comes with great personal organizer and Internet access
On the right side of the phone, you’ll find volume controls, the key for locking the display and the keyboard (simultaneously) and the camera shortcut. They all seem to have a short drive and look cheap, making them inconvenient to use.
On the left side, you’ll find the the charger connector, LED (to show missed calls, messages and as charging indicator when constantly lit) and the M2 card slot. The card slot seems to need you to remove the back lit in order to reach it, which is pretty inconvenient. Overall, the reviewer is happy with the cellphone despite it’s still got some glitches and still waiting for SE to patch it.
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone |
Samsung Rant, is a new cellphone by Samsung, which is claimed to give great handiness to texters. The phone has no speciaty in its dimensions and weigh. Well, what I mean is it isn’t the thinnest nor the lightest cellphone of Samsung to date.
The Samsung Rant measures 4.5 inches by 2.1 inches by 0.7 inches and weighs about 130 grams. The Rant comes with a numeric keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard that you can slide out horizontally.
The keys on the slide-out QWERTY are nicely spaced out that give comfortability to heavy texters. And even people with big fingers will find no difficulty while carrying out heavy texting on the QWERTY of this cellphone. Furthermore the cellphone has four rows of keys which is a plus for texters too.
The Rant is a 3G phone that is to ride on Sprint and comes with various highly entertaining features, including the the support of Sprint Music Store, Sprint Navigation, and Sprint TV. The phone is also equipped with a 2-megapixel camera, which is capable of both static images and videos. Other goodies found on the Rant are music player, Bluetooth, GPS, expandable memory slot, voice dialing, and some other common things of a cellphone such as SMS and email.
You also get a little personalization of the case of this phone, which is to have its back cover to be a tattooed one, as shown in the picture below. The Samsung Rant will hit Sprint’s site next month for a price of $49.99 with a 2-year contract.
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The long-anticipated HTC G1, aka Dream, a Google Android-powered smartphone is finally released on the T-Mobile.
On this first Android-powered smartphone, you will find a a 3.2-inch 65k colour HVGA screen that boasts a resolution of 480X320 with touchscreen capability, QWERTY keyboard, quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band UMTS support. GPS, Wi-Fi and built-in accelerometer, 1.3 megapixel camera are also found on this phone.
The little disappointment is the phone’s camera is not capable of capturing video. And the Bluetooth is only on mono headsets which has no stereo support and also no file transfers. Furthermore, you won’t find any 3.5 mm headphone jack on the G1, so you can’t make use of normal headphones for listening to music.
Since G1 is powered by Android OS it’s well designed to use it along with various online Google Applications, including Gmail (with push support), YouTube, Google Talk, Google Maps with Street View. You will also be able to hook up on AmazonMP3 marketplace for getting some DRM free tracks. And later on the Google’s own Android marketplace which would supply the handset with various third-party applications.
The G1 has a unique feature which is an embedded compass that syncs with Maps StreetView which allows live 360-degree cityscape browsing by just turning the handset around. Apparently, the T-Mobile G1 is made everything tied to the Google services. As you have no options to use other email services on this phone such as MS Exchange, and no syncing tool at all for other services. So, you can only hook up to Google apps such as GMail, Google Calendar etc.
The G1 is SIM-locked, which isn’t usable with a prepaid card. Hackers will surely start craking their ways to unlock this phone for the use with other cellular operators. Not sure, if one of those SIM unlock solutions that we’ve told you before is able to unlock the T-Mobile G1. If you have one, you probably could have a try. But once it gets unlocked, the warranty of this phone shall be void!
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Samsung Pixon is a new full-touch 8-megapixel camera phone that has just been announced. The phone features a 3.2 inch WQVGA full touch screen and is dubbed as the world’s slimmest camera phone that measures 13.8 mm only in thinness.
The Pixon is a camera phone that is specially designed and equipped with various goodies for shooting photos. Other than the 8 megapixel camera, the cellphone’s 3.2 inch full touch screen makes it so easy to operate the phone like a camera. It’s also integrated with smart software, the Photo Browser which makes sharing and viewing of photos much easier.
It’s got almost all the latest technologies found on today’s digital cameras such as x16 digital zoom, auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection and geo-tagging. It’s claimed to work even better than an actual camera.
Besides photo shooting, it’s also loaded with various other goodies such as music player (MP3, AAC, e-AAC+, WMA), FM radio, DNSe, Bluetooth, and an internal memory of 200MB that is Micro SD card compatible. This Pixon is expected to surface in France in mid of October but the price still remains unknown.
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LG KC780 is an 8 megapixel camera phone from LG and it’s officially confirmed that this phone is real. And LG claims that this phone is the slimmest 8 megapixel camera phone to date.
In other words, LG shall be pretty confident that the KC780 is slimmer than the Samsung M8800 Pixon that measures 13.8 mm in thinness. The LG KC780 had surfaced last week, which got a few blurry images floating around. GSMArena has got some much clearer pictures here to ensure you that this camera phone is really coming its way.
The LG KC780 is a slide phone, that offers GSM support. It’s equipped with touchscreen but is said to carry only limited functionality that works for multimedia applications. This camera phone should be capable of video recording at a rate of 30 fps.
A picture attached below shows the LG KC780 is compared side by side with the LG Renoir. It’s hard to tell from the picture which phone is slimmer. But according to the guy who sent the picture to GSMArena, the LG KC780 is no slimmer than the Renoir.
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The Nokia Eco team is scrambling their brain juice, now with all the eco-friendliness in their mind – the next conceptual phone to show us is this wooden 8-megapixel camera phone.
The wooden camera phone is said to have its body made from sustainable timber. So, there isn’t a worry about that more trees get cut down while Nokia is going for a mass production for this wooden phone. This concept phone is to feature an 8-megapixel camera, bluetooth, speaker and a Symbian S60 as the operating system.
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RIM’s latest 3G smartphone is the BlackBerry Storm, which has been officially announced in the States on Wednesday by Vodafone and Verizon wireless. After the BlackBerry Bold, the Storm is also dubbed as one that would change the world of smartphones as well as BlackBerry itself.
The Storm features a full clickable 3.26-inch touchscreen with resolution 480 x 360, making it fit to compete with Apple iPhone. Other goodies that can be found are a built-in accelerometer, 3.2-megapixel camera, built-in GPS with a-GPS funtionality, 1GB onboard storage with microSD/SDHD memory card slot, built-in handsfree, 3.5 mm headphone jack, Visual Qwerty keyboard and the great thing is it’s loaded with lots of applications.
For connectivities, the Storm supports 3G/EDGE for high speed Internet access, Bluetooth and mini USB. The touchscreen also offers great feedback, eliminating the little frustration found on other smartphones that provide poor feedback.
This phone is only slightly bigger than a 30GB iPod video, although it looks bigger than that in the picture. As mentioned there are lots of great apps loaded on the BlackBerry Storm, here you go, a list as follows:
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There are always ways to make your products more appealing. Just look around, anything would make a new idea for making your design outstanding and unique. Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has got a couple of cool and interesting product ideas. Look, the picture shows that a Chicken Head Lamp, which looks so real, as if a real chicken has its head chopped off and with a lamp sticking on its neck. Hope this would not trigger the protest from the animal rights groups. The guy has more other interesting designs, more pictures to show you after the jump!
