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Posted on March 4, 2010 by Colm
It’s expected that Apple will launch a new iPhone this year and with that in mind we are starting to see concept idea’s appearing on the web.
At present no one really knows what the 4th generation iPhone will actually look like and absolutely no idea of specifications. It’ll be nice to think it would have at least a five megapixel camera, maybe a little bit extra internal memory and the option to add a MicroSD card.
I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens in a few months time as it’s possible that Apple will announce this in June or July this year.
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Posted on March 2, 2010 by Colm
Nokia have officially announced the release of their new C5 mobile phone. This is part of the new Cseries range of mobile that they are launching. The Nokia C5 is a candybar phone calls with S60 3rd Edition, 2.2 inch QVGA display, HSDPA, Ovi Maps 3.0 with free navigation, Nokia Messaging, 3.5mm headset jack, “stereo IHF speaker”, 3.2MP camera, and a 2GB card in the box.
It has many applications to help users with social networking and you can get the Facebook status updates from the phonebook. The applications have been designed to make it easier to access the likes of MySpace and Twitter.
It’s expected that the C5 will be on sale in the second quarter of 2010 and will sell for around €135.
The Cseries is part of a new naming convention that Nokia are launching. As they launch more products with in the Cseries range they will be numbered from 1 to 9 each signifying the functionality on offer. 1 will be the lowest and it’s expected that 9 will be the highest.
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Posted on February 28, 2010 by Colm
Over the past while there has been a lot of media attention on the Google Nexus One Android smartphone. As you maybe aware the phone is actually made by HTC sold by Google through various carriers.
Below is an interesting review of the phone which is definitely worth looking at if you are considering purchasing. In terms of specifications to phone runs on the Android operating system 2.1. It has a built in 5 megapixel camera, built-in Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS as well as a SDHC card slot with a 4 gig card included in the package. It also comes with 512 megs RAM and 512 megs flash storage.
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Posted on February 25, 2010 by Colm
In India Samsung are launched the Jet 2 mobile phone. It comes with a number of features including a 3.1 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, TouchWiz 2.0 UI, Wi-Fi, GPS, DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology, 5MP camera, and a 800MHz processor.
The phone is actually on sale now and there is a bit of speculation on the web amongst various websites as to what the difference is between this and Jet S8000. MANY WEBSITES ARE REPORTING THAT THIS IS IN CUTS
Many websites are reporting that the main difference is that it combines some smart features an easy to use user interface to give a different user or more superior user experience.
The phone also has a host of multimedia features which include built-in GPS, DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology for superior sound quality, and DivX and XviD video support.
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Posted on February 24, 2010 by Colm
Puma have been synonymous with making sportswear since 1920 something or 1930 something. Anyway, they have been working with Sagem since 2009 on a license agreement to launch a mobile phone. The phone simply called PUMA has been specifically designed and launched to coincide with the World Cup in South Africa later in the year.
As you can see from the picture above it comes with a built in solar charger. The phone also comes with a 2.8-inch 240×320 capacitive touch screen, Bluetooth, 3G, aGPS, Quad-band GSM and a 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flash.
With many social networking applications also built-in as you would expect from a sports brand it also has many sporting applications including stopwatch, GPS speedo, GPS run tracker, pedometer and a yachting compass.
So far no pricing is available but we do believe that it will start to sell around April 2010 in various markets.
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Posted on February 24, 2010 by Colm
LG have announced that their LG Pop, which has been on sale since October 2009 has now reached 1 million units sold since its launch. They have also announced a couple of new colors to the lineup aqua blue and lineup.
Only received lots of praise for innovative use of green technology. It comes with an optional solar battery cover which charges the phone for two minutes talk time for every 10 minutes it’s been than the sum. It also comes with some eco-software applications, Eco-tree and Eco-calculator. You can also calculate exactly how much CO2 has been reduced when you are using the solar battery cover.
The phone comes with a number of user friendly features, which includes quirky icons and brightly colored skins. There are options for changing and back cover (this is available in most countries) and many other options to personalize the phone.
“From the start we based the LG Pop on customer needs, leading us to create a compact and intuitive touchscreen phone that wasn’t weighed down by useless features,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by Colm
One of the latest announcements at the mobile world congress in Barcelona is that Microsoft are releasing a new operating system for mobile phones. Windows Phone 7 series will offer a fresh approach to phone software with a distinctly smart design and integrated experience.
Unfortunately we will not see any handsets with this new software until late 2010. We have posted a couple of videos below if you want to have a closer look.
Via: engadget
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by Colm
Samsung today announced the Samsung Beam which is their first official project on. It comes with a pico projector and makes them one of the latest manufacturers to jump on the bandwagon with this latest technology. This is definitely something that many business users will find a use for. Being able to show presentations at meetings for example is there something I could see his purpose as people wanting to have any projector built into their mobile phone.
The phone is based on the Android 2.1 operating system and uses the TouchWiz 3.0 user interface to help navigate around the menu system. It comes with a 3.7 inch AMOLED screen, a 5 megapixel camera, 720p video recording.
No pricing has been released yet on this but I’m sure we will hear something in the next couple of weeks as it has only been announced and more Mobile World Congress meeting in Barcelona.
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Posted on February 11, 2010 by Colm
The Samsung Galaxy Spica is now available on the O2 network. It’s the first Android operating system phone available in Ireland and comes with some really nice features like 00MHz CPU, and features a 3.2-inch HVGA (320 x 480 pixel) TFT display, a 3 mega-pixel camera, and 180Mb of internal memory with microSDHC card support.
It also comes with DivX video support which when released last year was the first android-based smart phone to comes with this.
If you have time for a quick look at the video review below is it really gives you a good overall insight into some of the features that are on this particular model. It’s now available from O2 on prepay and bill pay.
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Posted on February 2, 2010 by Colm
The LG KS360 comes with a Qwerty keyboard which is ideal for sending text messages or e-mail and is a feature that is becoming very popular on the vast majority of handsets now available.
This is a midrange phone that is definitely full of character because of the combination of colours that it comes in. It is now available on the O2 network for a super price of only €69 (at the time of writing this paper also offering €30 call credit) this is a fantastic price for a phone that comes with a two megapixel camera which incorporates digital zoom a large 2.4 TFT display which offers QVGA resolution.
It also has stereo Bluetooth, FM radio, micro SDmemory card slots. One nice feature a particular like it that it has Threaded SMS. Overall it offers value for money and features that you would expect to find on a phone that would cost a lot more money.
You can find more details over at the O2 website
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Posted on February 2, 2010 by Colm
Fantastic to see the price of touch screen phones falling to reasonable levels that are now affordable for most people. The Samsung Hello Kitty Tocco Lite is now available on the O2 network on prepay for only €99.
The phone comes with a 3.0 inch display which makes it easy for navigation around menus and features. It comes with handwriting recognition and a accelerometer to rotate the screen when needed.
It also has a 3.15 megapixel camera, stereo FM radio it’s also Bluetooth enabled and comes with Hello Kitty wallpapers. Overall this is really good value for the price and it is available for first-time customers and existing customers over at the O2 Website.
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Posted on February 2, 2010 by Colm
2010 looks as if it’s going to be a good year for Motorola because according to Digitimes Research they are going to ship more Android powered mobile phones then HTC this year.
Last year HTC are responsible for shipping around 6 million android phones which made him the number one vendor with about a 65% share of this particular segment of the market. This year it is expected that Motorola will account for 34.7% of the market compared to HTC 31.9%.
Motorola are expected to launch at least 30 Android models in 2010. They are expected to sell any where between 12.5 and 15.6 million android smartphones this year. It’s interesting to see that Motorola pushing ahead and getting back into competitive markets with this interesting news. It will be interesting to watch over the next couple of months to see new models appearing.
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Posted on December 27, 2009 by Colm
I came across this interesting article recently which was disgusting the iPhone and connecting it to a Bluetooth keyboard. It makes a lot of sense because this is actually available on lots of other smart phones at present but for some reason is unavailable on the iPhone. This of course is a complete shame because the iPhone has so much to offer and would allow lots of people to access e-mail and do what they need to without the need for carrying around a laptop or netbook.
I then came across the iPhone Bluetooth keyboard driver which is an open-source BTstack project, a Bluetooth stack designed for embedded devices where resources are scarce. The driver can work on G(S) and all iPod touch devices with Bluetooth support. But, apparently it is only working on Jailbroken iPhones which is a bit of a pity but maybe it’s something that Apple will support in future updates of their operating system.
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Posted on November 9, 2009 by Colm
The Nokia X6 is now available on pre-order from Expansys. The phone is expected to be available around 12 November and although advertised on their website with “Comes With Music” as far as I remember is that there is no exclusivity deal with Nokia and record companies in Ireland to provide this service. It’s something that Nokia said would be in place within a few months back in March 2009 and but I’m unaware that this is available at present.
The X6 comes with 32GB of internal memory which of course is ideal for playing music tracks it also has a 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen. Other features include a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss optics, A-GPS, and a 3.5mm jack.
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Posted on September 21, 2009 by Colm
We know that Sony Ericsson are slowly moving their operating systems over to Android on some of their higher end phones and this is something that many users are definitely looking forward to or so they say. Something else we are definitely looking forward to is the yet to be announced Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 which was leaked back in July.
The funny thing is that this phone is rumored now become available in January 2010 animals roam the same operating system as the Xperia X2 and use windows mobile OS. It’s kind of interesting this because back in May Sony Ericsson announced that they would be putting more focus on two the Android OS moving forward. Back then their vice president of marketing Peter Ang, talk about the development of Android smart phone and said that they would be putting more resources into the new Android smart phone. So it’s quite interesting that we are starting to see them still using the Microsoft platform on some of their upcoming phones.
The Xperia X3 is set to comes with a fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and possibly an eight megapixel camera. The phone will also comes with WiFi, GPS and a 3.5mm headphone jack for listening to music.
I’m a big fan of Sony Ericsson mobile phones so it will be nice to see when they finally start moving many of their phones over to the Android operating system.
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