Archive for May, 2008

Motorola‘s latest attempt at stopping their market share from vanishing into thin air is the Z9, a slim slider handset making waves on AT&T‘s high-speed HSDPA network.

Motorola Z9

The Motorola Z9 is a large handset, measuring 114mm x 54mm x 14mm (4.5″ x 2.1″ x 0.5″). It feels very wide in your hand, and the 140g (4.9oz) gives a noticable heft.
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Now this is one for the books, many health experts say smoking seriously damages health as so do mobile phones apparently, well what the hell happens when you combine cigarettes an a mobile phone all in one package?

Cigarette box

We all know that smokers have their cigarettes in their pocket and they also carry mobile phones, so when you think about it why have two separate items in your pocket when you can just have one.
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Monsoon Multimedia today announced HAVA Mobile Player for S60, a TV place-shifting video-streaming solution for S60 3rd edition on Symbian OS. The HAVA Mobile Player gives HAVA owners the ability to watch and control all of their home television channels and services from anywhere in the world on a mobile device.

Mansoon Multimedia

The HAVA Mobile Player for S60 was designed for seamless integration with Nokia’s unique two-way slider multimedia devices allowing viewers to toggle between portrait and full-screen landscape mode at the slide of the screen.
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One of the famous mobile phone maker in China, Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment has just announced their In-Xiang series (K-Touch) camera phone. First three models of the series has been introduced, which all powered by 7 and 8 megapixel camera module and 3x optical zoom capability.

Camera phone K-touch

Announced last week in China, the new K-Touch C800 and C280 are powered by a 8 megapixel CCD camera module, the K-Touch C700 is using a 7 megapixel CCD camera module instead.
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Motorola VU20

Lending credence to the fact that Motorola‘s bringing a phone called the VU30 to Verizon in the near future is this, the “VU20” that we just saw pop up in the FCC’s approval records. The manual for the roundish, nondescript flip makes mention of NATE and June — both features of SK Telecom — leading us to believe that it’ll definitely be landing in South Korea where Moto maintains a noticeable presence.Is a interesting cell phone for classic peoples.

Sony Ericsson‘s white papers have already provided plenty of details on its much-anticipated XPERIA X1 handset, and it looks like its latest one is no exception, with it shedding yet more light on the device’s specs.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

Most notably, Sony Ericsson has now confirmed that the device will ship with 256MB of SDRAM, in addition to 512MB of NAND Flash, and it’s gotten specific about the device’s battery life, which it says will clock in at 10 hours talk time using GSM or 6.5 hours using UMTS.
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The Nokia 7310 Classic looks like a cross between Nokia’s steely 6300 and 6233. But you can bet it’ll be showing off more features, being a new model and all.

Nokia 7310 Classic

From what we can tell you, the Nokia 7310 Classic is a S40 powered phone, which is to say you won’t be needing this if you’re looking for a supercomputing smartphone.
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The phone more known as “Paris” has been the talk of the town for quite a while now – tidbits of precious info are leaked one after another, and generally most people are starting to imagine that the Paris is the flagship among UIQ products, or, at very least, Sony Ericsson’s most capable offering on this front.

Sony Ericsson G900 - Paris

UIQ-powered devices have always been the most fashion-conscious solutions from Sony Ericsson – there has never been many, so they’ve always tried to ship the maximum in every phone of this breed.
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