Posts Tagged ‘2010 Phones’

Nexus One – Google Phone

January 6th, 2010

Today the news about the Google phone it's a hot trend in searches. Nexus One it's the first phone from Google, and the phone was designed and created in collaboration with HTC company.

As we expect the phone will have the well-known operating system Android, developed by the operating system from Google. The Android system that run on the Nexus One has the 2.1 version. The phone has a 5 Megapixel camera with LED Flash, and a screen with 3.7 inch with touchscreen.

To run the SO and also to run applications, the phone should have a strong processor, and the Google team build the phone with 1GHz Snapdragon Processor. Also the Nexus One can be used like GPS, GPS which use Google Maps, also has integrated the Wi-Fi technology and a digital compass.
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Microsoft Windows Mobile phones

November 2nd, 2009

After Android phones, it’s time to write about Microsoft Windows Mobile phones. Windows Mobile is a compact operating system developed by Microsoft, and designed for use in smartphones and mobile devices.

It is based on Windows CE, and features a suite of basic applications developed using the Microsoft Win32 API. It is designed to be somewhat similar to desktop versions of Windows, feature-wise and aesthetically. Additionally, third-party software development is available for Windows Mobile, and software can be purchased via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Originally appearing as the Pocket PC 2000 operating system, Windows Mobile has been updated multiple times, with the current version being Windows Mobile 6.5. Most Windows Mobile phones come with a stylus pen, which is used to enter commands by tapping it on the screen.

This article presents the phones which will come to market with Windows Mobile.

Windows Mobile on HTC HD2

The HTC HD2 is a sequel to the HTC Touch HD. The major features of the HTC HD2 are similar to its previous model but only with a few minor changes. The display on the HD2 absolutely dominates the handset, measuring in at a breath taking 4.3 inches, with a pixel resolution of 480 x 800, supporting up to 65,000 colours. The HD2 is the first device running Windows Mobile to come with a capacitive touchscreen, so there is no need for fiddling around with a tiny stylus.

The HD2 measuring 120.5 x 67 x 11mm and weighing in at 157g. But it has all the hallmarks of good design: it looks and feels luscious, with a brushed metal finish and stunning quality.

Windows Mobile on HTC HD2

The HD2 comes with a micro USB connector instead of the mini USB that all prior HTC models had. Perhaps surprising considering the 4.3 inch size of the screen it is powering, the battery is a 1200mAh cell.

The device comes with 448 megabytes of random access memory(RAM) and 1GHz Snapdragon CPU powers the device. HTC HD2 comes with integrated music player to satisfy the wants of the music lovers. It can play music files of different formats such WAV, WMA, eAAC+ and MP3. Like the music player, the video player of the device is also impressive as it can also play diverse types of videos that include DiVX and XviD along with WMV, MP4, H.264 and H.263 player. HTC HD2 supports good memory back up so that the users can enjoy more and more music and videos. The handset is loaded with internal memory of 448 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. Also, there is microS (TransFlash) card slot for expanding memory up to 8GB.

The HD2 brings a high quality 5.0 Megapixel camera, with Autofocus and an LED flash. Thanks to the built in GPS, the HD2 can embed positioning data into the digital information on captured images, which can be displayed when viewed online. Video recording is enabled, but there is no front facing camera, so no 3G video calls.

Windows Mobile on Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2

It´s the first Windows phone of the company, meaning it runs Windows Mobile 6.5. The panel interface we know from the X1 haunts us again, but it has been revamped and the manufacturer´s personalization pack seems to have taken over the standard Windows interface deeper. The XPERIA X2 sports 8-megapixel camera with touch focus, larger display, new keyboard and navigational keys design, plus a microUSB port. The Xperia X1 features a 3-inch touch screen that displays 65,536 colors at an 800×480 pixel resolution.

Windows Mobile on Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2

At 4.4 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.7 inch deep and 5.6 ounces, the Xperia X1 is compact and has a nice, solid construction. The phone is available in two colors: silver or black.
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Nokia phones by end of 2009

October 27th, 2009

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries.

It is the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones: its global device market share was about 38% in Q3 2009, at the same level as in Q3 2008 and in Q2 2009. Nokia produces mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia offers Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games.

This article will describe the Nokia phones to be launched by the end of 2009.

We will start with the phones that will be released on 2009 November, and these are: Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X3, Nokia N9000, Nokia 3710 Fold and Nokia 7020; and we will continue with the phones that will be released in 2009 December, and these are: Nokia 6788, Nokia X6, Nokia 5230 and Nokia 3208c.

Nokia N97 mini

The Nokia N97 mini was first presented on the 1st of September 2009 in Stuttgart. When the designers for Nokia has thinking to create this phone,they take the original N97 and create a different design, with sliding opening and improved features.

This is a Quadband GSM and UMTS equipped with HSDPA touchscreen display 3.2 megapixel resolution with 640×360 pixels and 16 million colors, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 8 GB of internal memory, Symbian OS v 9.4 S60 fifth edition, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connectivity, integrated GPS receiver, Nokia Maps, media player and FM radio, video calling, proximity sensor, accelerometer and qwerty keyboard that pops up.

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Between Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 mini we can observed three primary differences, and first of these is that Nokia N97 mini has a memory of 8GB and Nokia N97 has a 32 GB memory size, the second difference is that N97 Mini has a smaller battery and hence less talk time and standby by 20%, and the last difference is that N97 Mini has lost few mm in width and thickness.

The display of Nokia N97 mini is 0.3-inches smaller than the original, scrapped the D-pad in favour of arrow keys, and overhauled the keyboard to be more tactile.

About the features of Nokia N97 mini, you can personalize your homepage with widgets that give you the live feed of social networks, press agencies and weather information, other features is that you can add bookmarks and links to contacts on your main page and you have your websites and your friends just a touch away.

With Nokia N97 mini you can manage your email, calendar and music with dedicated widget for your page, and other feature is that you can move the contents on the main page and place it where you want by dragging your finger on the display multisensory.

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With Nokia N97 mini you can view web sites, videos, photos and maps with a natural angle of 35 º on the innovative tilting screen 3.2 “, and get instant notification from your favorite online social network dedicated to widgets thanks for your main page.

Camera with Carl Zeiss optics makes pictures with a high resolution and record video in DVD quality, and also you can capture pictures very successful, day or night, with the dual LED flash

Nokia X3

Nokia planning to releasing devices under two new sub-brands, the Xseries and Cseries. One of the Xseries phone is Nokia X3.

The Nokia X3 is designed first and foremost for music lovers and is also the first Series 40 Ovi Store-enabled device. The phone shows a large 2.2 inch TFT display, supporting up to 256,000 colours, with a QVGA resolution. The X3 also comes with a built in 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, quad-band GSM support with GPRS and EDGE, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.5mm audio jack, microSD slot and integrated stereo speakers.

Nokia X3

Supports a range of formats like AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, eAAC+, M4A, MIDI Tones, MP3, MP4, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA.
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Phones with resistive touchscreens

October 23rd, 2009

In this industry of cell phones exists two types of touchscreens displays. One type of display is the display with resistive touchscreen and the other one is the display with capacitive touchscreen. Resistive touchscreen displays are composed of multiple layers that are separated by thin spaces. Pressure applied to the surface of the display by a finger or stylus causes the layers to touch, which completes electrical circuits and tells the device where the user is touching. As such, resistive type touchscreens require much more pressure to activate than capacitive touchscreens.

On the market we can find solar powered cellphone, android phones, phones with TV tuner and the list can be continued. Some of these phones have something in common, some of these have touchscreens displays, and this article describe the best phones with touchscreens displays.

Nokia N9000 with resistive touchscreen

Nokia N9000 is a smartphone from Nokia, and is Nokia’s first Maemo 5-powered handset. Maemo 5 is an open-source platform developed within Nokia and based on Linux.

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Its 3.5-inch resistive touchscreen display sports a WVGA with a maximum resolution of 800×480 pixels, which should make it a very capable web browser and multimedia player.

Nokia N9000 with resistive touchscreen 01

The measure of the phone are 111mm in length, 60mm in width and 19.5mm, with a weight of 181g. Nokia N9000 has 32GB of storage with microSD expansion, a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with flash, a web browser based on Mozilla technology incorporating Flash support up to version 9.4 and AJAX, HSPA data connectivity with 10Mbps downloads and 2Mbps uploads, plus Wi-Fi and A-GPS.

Also Nokia N900 comes with a 1320mAh battery pack, which Nokia estimates is good for five hours talk time.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 with resistive touchscreen

This phone was presented by us in other article about android phones, but now we present again the phone because is a subject of our topic. It’s the first Windows Mobile smartphone with an 8 megapixel camera with touch focus and WVGA video recording and it’s actually the first ever full QWERTY phone to have that sort of imaging prowess as well. The display size is 3.2 inches, and type is TFT resistive touchscreen, with 65K colors, and a maximum resolution on 800 x 480 pixels.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 with resistive touchscreen 01

The XPERIA X2 measures 110 x 54 x 16 mm and weighs 155 g. The battery of the phone is a standard battery, which has a rated battery talk time of 6 hours on 3G and 10 hours on GSM/EDGE and up to 20 days of standby time.

Nokia 5230 with resistive touchscreen

The Nokia 5230 is designed for those who lead an active life and use their mobile phone as their primary instrument for music, photos and videos, as well as sharing their lives online. The features of Nokia 5230 are HSDPA, A-GPS, Bluetooth, a 3.2-inch 16 million colour display, plus it comes with the full suite of Nokia Ovi apps too, including Nokia Maps.

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The Nokia 5230 has 3.2-inch TFT resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels,with 16 million colour display, FM radio, 3.5 mm audio jack and microSD card slot.
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Android phones

October 2nd, 2009

What is an android phone? The shorter answer for this question is: an android phone is a phone who use like operating system Google Android.

Android is billed as the mobile phone operating system that will change the way we use mobiles. Where traditionally, phones have all worked differently, with usability ranging from the passable to the infuriating, Android’s mission is to simplify, partially by devising a more intuitive interface, and also by making it so widely available that it becomes a standard.

Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.

Sprint HTC Hero

The HTC Hero offers a highly customizable user interface thanks to HTC Sense. It also improves on past Android devices with Outlook e-mail, calendar, and contacts synchronization, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 5-megapixel camera. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G support are all onboard.

Underneath the fancy HTC Sense user interface, you’ve got one feature-packed smartphone running Android 1.5. While the HTC Hero can do many things, it wouldn’t be worth much if it couldn’t do the most basic and core function of a phone: making calls.

Sprint HTC Hero 01

As a Google Android phone, the HTC Hero obviously supports a number of Google services like Google search, Google Maps, and Google Calendar, but it also comes with a number of standard personal information management tools, including a clock, a calculator, a voice recorder, and a PDF viewer.

In addition, you get a handful of extras, including Documents to Go, a Twitter app called Peep, and the new Facebook for Android, but you can have access to plenty more utilities and games through the Android Market, which now has more than 8,000 apps in the catalog. Unfortunately, you still can’t save apps to a microSD card – you must store them on the phone’s shared internal memory.

In addition to the Android goodies, Sprint throws in a few of its own services on the Hero, including Sprint Navigation, NFL Mobile Live, and Nascar Sprint Cup Mobile, which are all included with Sprint’s Simply Everything plan.

Sprint HTC Hero 02

T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ

The CLIQ  is Motorola’s first Android device, and has both a touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. While it runs Google’s open-source OS, Motorola have developed a custom UI and social networking sync service called MOTOBLUR which funnels all of your various Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other information into one Happenings stream.

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With integrated Google technology, CLIQ brings one-touch access to the popular Google mobile services, including Google Search by voice, Google Maps with Street View, YouTube and Picasa. CLIQ also provides easy access to both personal and corporate e-mail, calendars, and contacts supported by Exchange Server and Gmail. E-mail is also supported by Yahoo!, Windows Live Hotmail, and other POP3 and IMAP e-mail services.
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