Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone, Tips & Info | 
The BlackBerry Bold/9700/Oynx has been getting some unofficial saying that it’ll come to the T-Mobile this year. And now there is an official picture that has surfaced which gives stronger evidence that it’s actually on the way to T-Mobile in US.
The BlackBerry Bold/9700/Onyx supports 3G high-speed connectivity, backed with a full-fledged browser for better Internet experience. It also supports WiFi calling, visual voicemail and supports personal and corporate email options. This new Blackberry phone also comes preloaded with applications from BlackBerry app world, including a TeleNav GPS navigator that supports turn-by-turn directions and Amazon MP3 store for ease of downloading tunes.
Please note the device is not officially called Bold yet. It could come out with a different name later when it’s officially announced.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
The rumored HTC Raphael has now been confirmed as the HTC Touch Pro and will come with similar finish to its close brother, the HTC Touch Diamond. But will come with much better features. Other than the QWERTY, GPS, the TouchFLO 3D, it also comes with higher-capacity battery and a memory card slot that supports more choices of memory cards.
The HTC Touch Pro poses pretty close similarity to the HTC Touch Diamond. The HTC Touch Pro also features a 2.8 inch VGA TFT display. And beneath the display, there is 5-button navigation pad. The Pro retains the prism-like design for its back, which similar to the HTC Touch Diamond.
The Touch Pro features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, which has 5 rows of keys, similar to Advantage X7510, which gives extra handiness for Chinese input. The HTC Touch Pro seems to have included an additional short cut menu on its screen, which this menu will most likely present itself automatically, once the QWERTY get slided out to allow fast input of common functions.
The HTC Touch Pro boasts a thickness of 18.05 mm and weighs 165 gram with battery on. The bulky body of the Pro is mainly due to its sliding QWERTY. But the bulk gives you more lasting 1350mAh battery and comes with a memory card slot which supports various cards such as microSD and SDHC.
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MOTOZINE™ ZN5 is a camera cellphone, worked out hand in hand by Motorola and Kodak. This camera phone has got pretty much speculation before. And now it’s got official and officially announced to hit China first in July, followed by other parts of the world.
The MOTOZINE™ ZN5 is a camera phone that is put with more emphasis on its camera. It’s equipped with a 5-megapixel Kodak camera, which has a couple of shooting goodies including a quick-launch by sliding the lens cover, a Xenon flash, auto-focus and even auto-stitches panorama shots.
For the phone itself, it features CrystalTalk for high sound quality, Bluetooth, and a full browser.
The phone is also capable of WiFi connectivity, which is great for photo transfer and the Internet.
There are couple of Kodak’s goodies found on this phone, which makes everything so easy for taking photos. Such as it’s installed with KODAK EASYSHARE Software for easy uploading your photos to KODAK Gallery1 or any other online photo uploading or sharing websites. The phone also comes with built-in Kodak imaging technology that ensures every picture taken with this phone to look its best. Besides, the Kodak Imaging technology is also combined with the Kodak Perfect Touch Technology to ensure every picture is brighter and more vivid on the spot. The ZN5 also features one click uploading to online photo gallery, similar to those recently-released high-end cameras.
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As we’ve learned that Creative was preparing a flagship PMP in its line, which is called the Zen X-Fi. And now this new PMP has been officially released. The Creative ZEN X-Fi sports couple of firsts in its line, which will be detailed for you after the jump.
The Creative ZEN X-Fi offers onboard WiFi, which isn’t meant only for the instant messaging on Yahoo or MSN used with its 9-button keypad. It also lets you stream and download your tunes wirelessly via the WiFi network from your computers. The WiFi 802.11b/g module is available only on the 16GB and 32GB models. Whereas the 8GB model doesn’t come with a WiFi module.
Besides, as the name suggests, the Zen X-Fi is also the first device in its line to feature the company’s patented X-Fi, which is a two-way audio enhancement technology that we’ve introduced to you in the leaked details before. The X-Fi comprises of two, which the X-Fi Crystalizer enhances the audio quality by restoring lost detail due to file compression. And X-Fi Expand adds more range and virtual effect to the audio playback. The Zen X-Fi also bundles Creative’s premium in-ear EP-830 earbuds, which blast the best out of the X-Fi acoustic experience.
The device features a 2.5-inch screen, which is kind of small to some people. Some other goodies are onboard speaker, SDHC expansion slot and FM radio/recorder. You can this PMP from Creative’s online store.
Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
Phone 3G has just hit the stores for a few days only. But it’s found that it can be easily unlocked using the old SIM card method.
The iPhone 3G shown in the picture, doesn’t show the original carrier, AT&T, which it’s supposed to be locked for. Instead, it shows another carrier, which means it’s been freed from the AT&T’s lock. The method of unlocking the iPhone 3G falls back to the old SIM card method, which uses of a SIM card adapter that works exactly like unlocking the first-gen iPhone.
The mentioned iPhone 3G has successfully been unlocked by some Brazilian guys. And one of them has made a brief statement: “Our procedure consist in using one SIM adapter to simulate a fake IMSI test card. Instead of the AT&T IMSI like in the universals.” The method forges the International Mobile Subscriber Identity, deceiving the phone that it’s working in the network in which it’s supposed to work. I believe a couple of the SIM card adapters that we’ve shown to you before might be able to unlock the iPhone 3G as well. Take a look at the video how the unlock process is carried out below.
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Things have changed. Sunlights are now used to make ice instead of being used to melt the ice. A prototyped solar icemaker has been created by a team of engineering students from San Jose State University.
The solar icemaker is an eco-friendly device, which has zero carbon footprint. And some more it doesn’t need electricity to keep the ice cool, which is super handy for places like a developing country or disaster zone where electricity is unreachable.
The solar-powered ice maker uses a refrigerant liquid which evaporates when exposed to the sun. The vapor then travels through pipes that come into contact with an absorbent material which cools when the sun goes down. When this absorbent material reaches the 104°F, the refrigerant turns back into a liquid, which its temperature then drops below the freezing point due to pressure difference. When some water is added to the exterior of the evaporator, then ice will form.
The solar ice maker needs no electricity, uses only solar energy to produce ice and it has no moving parts. It’s capable of making 14 pounds of ice per day, which is more than enough for average Joe during their hot summer’s barbecue session.
The device is definitely a super handy one for those remote areas which are always exposed to the hot sun, and where those people desperately want some ice to cook themselves down. Currently, it’s still a prototype of the engineering students. Hope they could get it ready by next summer.
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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.
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BlackBerry Pearl Flip, also known as Kickstart Clamshell, had come to our attention early in May. And now it’s got official. But disappointingly, it’s got no 3G high-speed data support. But you’ll find WiFi, a 2-megapixel camera and a full-on document editor on this first flip phone of RIM.
This flip phone will debut on T-mobile sometime in spring this year but the pricing details is still unknown. The Pearl Flip measures 3.9 x 1.9 x 0.7-inch, which is thinker than the original Pearl that measures only 0.57 inches in thickness. But the Pearl Flip presents a relatively compact look.
The Pearl flip carries an external display and an internal display that has a resolution of 240 x 320-pixel. And the SureType keypad lies exactly beneath the internal screen. As mentioned this flip phone can reach EDGE which has no 3G support, so you can only do simple emailing and Internet browsing on this phone. Heavy download tasks and streaming video will need you for a long wait.
The Pearl flip’s WiFi comes with UMA support, which might mean the phone is compatible with T-mobile’s HotSpot @Home Wi-Fi voice calling. GPS support seems to have no luck on the Pearl Flip, as the press release says that the Pearl lets you connect to a GPS receiver via Bluetooth. Meaning that it’ll have no built-in GPS module.
To elaborate more about the full-on document editor – it’s an editor that allows you to edit Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc) on the go. Other goodies are a video/music player, an “enhanced” HTML browser, 2 MP camera that’s capable of video, voice commands and microSD memory expansion up to 16GB.
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