Posted by hina on February 24, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone | 
MWG will produce Windows mobile phones or PDAs that can be charged wirelessly via magnetic induction. And they target to ship the wirelessly chargeable devices by mid 08. Basically, the technology used is similar to the one used in portable toothbrushes, provided by U.K.-based Splashpower.
The picture shows a charging plate which users have to place the mobiles on it for charging them wirelessly. Similar to electric toothbrushes, inductive power sends current obtained from a wall adapter through a coil in a charging unit. As current flows through the coil, it generates a magnetic field, which in turn induces a current to flow to the receiving coil in the toothbrush handle.
Splashpower says its inductive charger can deliver up to 850mA of current, at up to 8.5 Volts. It’s got capability to detect the legitimate devices to avoid misuse. And most importantly, it ain’t affect or erase any magnetic media, interfere with any equipments such as pacemakers. The inductive charger allows multiple devices to be charged on it at once and gives short charging period.
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
iPhone is only coming into Asia market in 2008, there is no surprise that we’d see lots of iPhone-clones coming up in Asia before iPhone launched in 2008. Well, the copycats phenomenon has become a norm in Asia market, especially China.
M8, the rumored product of Meizu, which looks pretty much like an iPhone, but it was first reported having no cellphone function, which was said as purely a MiniPlayer, the newer version of its M6. The M8 was first said to feature a 533MHz Samsung ARM processor, a 2.6-inch screen and loaded with the Windows CE OS.
This is something that we’ve rarely seen before , i.e an MP3 player with Windows CE loaded. Due its “imitation of design” of the iPhone, the touch-screen feature is difinitely a must.
iPhone and Meizu M8 iPhone clone!
According to Engadget, the post by a senior discussion-forum jockey on the Meizu site, the M8 is now said to measure in at a scant 57×105×11.5-mm and packs both a GSM and Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G radio, a 3.3-inch 720×480 pixel display, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera, and an ARM11 CPU capable of recording video at 30fps at the device’s full 720 x 480 resolution. GSM, camera, Windows CE loaded? A smartphone? A PDA ? I guess it could be a change of direction by Meizu into producing an iPhone clone instead of only an MP3 player due to the overwhelming buzz of iPhone. Will Apple take any action on this ?
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Nowadays, whenever any cellphone maker other than Apple, is getting ready with a new cell phone that comes with iPhone-like or better features will be considered as a iPhone challenger. Whether you like it or not, the LG KS-20 smartphone is deemed as LG’s new effort to challenge the iPhone, after LG’s few previous attempts such as the LG Prada etc.
The LG KS-20 has a very clean and uncluttered candybar design, which makes it look like a luxurious baby. The front panel comes with only three buttons, for main calling functions only. As the LG KS-20 smartphone is equipped with a 2.8 inch touchscreen, which is the basic need to be qualified as an iPhone challenger. Besides, it has a stylus for the touchscreen.
The phone comes loaded with Windows Mobile 6 OS, which is clear an attempt aiming those business class who prefer a smartphone with the Windows Mobile environment. The KS-20 is also equipped with wireless connectivities such as WLAN, which is quite common in almost every smartphone these days. And of course, high-speed Internet connectivity that rides on the HSDPA. The phone also supports Bluetooth 2.0 and the memory expansion can be via the microSD card slot. The camera of this guy is definitely much behind with today’s high-end cellphones from other makers. The phone has a 2-megapixel camera only. Other than the LED flash that comes with the camera, the megapixels that it carries is simply disappointing to many of us. Overall the features seem to be qualified as a iPhone challenger except the camera.
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Asus P560 is a mobile PDA phone that runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and is scheduled to hit Europe in June this year. The phone is targeted for a price of about 500 Euros.
The Asus P560 comes with a GPS navigation kit, which this GPS kit includes a couple of accessories such as the mounts, car charger, the iGO 6 navigation software with regional European maps preloaded on a 512MV memory card. As mentioned, the P560 will run Windows Mobile 6.1 as the OS, which has couple of improvements on the UI and Internet browsing over the earlier versions and it’ll feature a new touchscreen.
A round-up of the entire features that you can find on the Asus P560 including A-GPS compatible SiRF Star III receiver, 2.8? TFT LCD touch screen with 320×240 pixels resolution (QVGA), Processor TI Omap 2430 at 450 MHz, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 3.2 MP camera on the back plus a 0.3 MP camera in front, Quadband GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G dualband and HSDPA with 3.6 Mbps, 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM, MicroSD HC Port, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, iGO 6 navigation software with maps from Tele Atlas, 1150 mAh battery, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Boygenius has been known in very keen to bring us with leaked photos and specs of latest phone models from various makers.
This time, they’ve brought us the leaked photo and also the full specs of the latest Palm smart phone model, the Palm Treo 850.
Attached above is the leaked shot of the Palm Treo 850. The leaked specs of the 850 smart phone are still subject to change, the specs at a glance are as follows:
* 14 mm in thickness, width 60 mm and length 113 mm
* GSM, EDGE and UMTS HSDPA 3.6
* aGPS
* Wi-FI b/g
* 320×320 screen, touch panel
* micro-SD slot under the battery
* 2 MP camera
* 1500 mAh battery
* A micro-USB connector for both power and sync
* Bluetooth 2.0 EDR + A2DP, 256 MB NAND-Flash
(> 175 MB for user), 32 MB SDRAM
* Windows Mobile Pro 6.1
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
HKC is a completely new brand to us, it’s actually a mobile maker from Hong Kong, which has recently released the so-called world’s first dual sim and dual-network PDA phone, the HKC W1000.
The HKC W1000 runs Windows Mobile 6.0 as the operating system. It supports dual band networks, which you can have two different SIM cards to work for two different cellular networks, which are the EDGE/GSM 900/1800/1900MHz and CDMA 2000 1×800/1900. The W1000 measures 117×61mm and with an averagely acceptable thickness of 16.4mm.
The HKC W1000 boasts a 2.8-inch 65536 color TFT QVGA touchscreen. The screen has a resolution of 240×320. It is equipped with a 2.0 megapixel camera, which doesn’t come with auto-focus function. But the camera is equipped with the auto-detection of shooting in a landscape or a portrait mode. The camera also emphasizes on function for self shooting, which it comes with easy adjustment for the frames and styles for the self-shot pictures.
The HKC W1000 PDA phone is best used by stock market watchers, which it’s equipped with various short cut menus on its screen to let users to easily subscribe to live stock market update.
Some other goodies found on this PDA phone are a USB port for easy data transfer and USB charging, music playback, talk time of 200 mins and standby time of 120 hours. Under the hood are the OMAP850(200MHz) processor, 256 MB ROM, 64 MB RAM and memory expansion can be done by using T-Flash memory card.
HKC W1000 Windows Mobile 6.0 PDA phone features dual SIM and supports dual networks, GSM and CDMA
After all these goodies, the down side is the phone runs a Chinese-version Windows Mobile OS, which are only usable by those who can read Chinese.
Posted by hina on under Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Palm is back! Palm launched its Palm Pre at CES 2009. It’s dubbed as the next coolest smartphone that you should not miss, which may outsmart iPhone, HTC G1 etc.
Sprint will be the exclusive provider for the Palm Pre, so you will get Sprint’s exclusive content on it. It runs the Palm webOS and with a whole new interface. The webOS is well integrated with many online applications such as Google Calendar, Facebook. The webOS was also built on industry standard Web tools such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Developing applications for the webOS is simple.
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On the hardware, you get a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multi touch display with a silver center button (which is the gesture area), a full QWERTY keyboard, TI’s new OMAP CPU, EV-DO Rev, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP and 8GB of included flash storage, 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, microUSB plug and 3.5mm headphone jack. And some more it can be wirelessly charged.
Posted by hina on February 17, 2009 under Cell Phone, Software |
Can’t leave your hands off those solid Lego bricks? What about if you could have endless Lego bricks stacking session on your iPhone? That is simply a cool idea, right? The Lego Touch is a newly proposed concept application which lets you play Lego bricks on your iPhone with the multi-touch capability of the touchscreen of your iPhone or iPod Touch.
The Lego Touch app is developed by PlayNYC, which has everything that you need to have endless LEGOs stacking session on your iPhone. It’s got every possible Lego brick for you to use. And having a “Brick-Bin” that shows you all the available pieces in a ‘Cover Flow’ style. Simply use your fingers to select the bricks you wanna use and build your Lego empire on your Apple gadgets. You’re allowed to send your Lego masterpiece and circulate it through your friends via SMS or email. Of course, you can also receive those Lego projects from your friends via the same channels.
The Lego Touch app also allows you to enter various Lego building competitions among your buddies and form your networks along. Virtual Lego on the Apple gadgets definitely gives less hassle, such as you no longer need to tidy up the mess after a hard day of Lego work.