Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Samsung M3110 for low-end market

Samsung M3110 for low-end marketSamsung M3110 for low-end market. A new low-end clamshell - Samsung M3110 has been unveiled. The handset comes with two screens (external - 96×96 pixels and internal 128×160 pixels), 1.3 megapixel camera, standard 3.5mm audio jack, and possibly Bluetooth. Available colors include purple, blue, green and lemon-orange.

Samsung M3110 will be sold for about $180 without any carrier subsidies.

(via justamp)

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic starts shipping

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic starts shippingNokia 5800 XpressMusic starts shipping. Nokia announced that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now, or soon will be, available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market with a 3.2″ widescreen display.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, a pen stylus — and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum — are all available. It also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch, images or videos can be shared via a favorite online community, such as Share on Ovi, Flickr, or Facebook.

(via nokia)

Top Gear: The Mobile Game by Gameloft

Top Gear The Mobile Game by GameloftTop Gear: The Mobile Game by Gameloft. Publisher Gameloft will release a new racing game for mobile, it’s ‘Top Gear’, the famous British TV show about cars. Jeremy Clarkson himself appears in the game. It’s much more than just a racing game. You’ll be able to race against an Apache helicopter, play darts with a caravan, or even play the justifiably-renowned game of car football.

Top Gear: The Mobile Game will also have eight licensed cars to try out, including supercars like the Audi R8 and Aston Martin DBS, through to family car the BMW 135i. And of course there’s a reasonably priced car or two, including the Chevrolet Lacetti.

(via pocketgamer)

Handy Alarm Pro for Symbian S60

Handy Alarm Pro for Symbian S60 1Handy Alarm Pro for Symbian S60. Epocware, a subsidiary of Paragon Software Group, announces Handy Alarm Pro – an advanced application with six types of alarms and five kinds of reminders supplemented with multiple-setting configurations and options to make all possible alarm features available directly on the S60 smartphone.

Handy Alarm Pro provides user-friendly interface with intuitive control, making multiple options and alarm settings available at a glance. For every user’s need, alarms can be set to ring once, daily, weekly or monthly, as well as fixed to ring only on working days. The user can choose an alarm song and vibration for each alarm and reminder, and a text note may be added to any alarm or reminder. Users can set five types of reminders for all possible everyday situations. In addition to standard reminders – which includes time, date and note options – Handy Alarm Pro allows users to set voice reminders, call or send texts directly from the reminder, and even create reminders from incoming messages.

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Nokia Home Control Center

Nokia Home Control CenterNokia Home Control Center. Nokia announced it is developing a smart home platform, Nokia Home Control Center. The platform is opening a new era for networked home services and solutions. Nokia’s Home Control Center will be the basis for next generation security, smart home solutions and household energy management systems.

The platform is open allowing third parties to integrate their own smart home solutions and services; its core consumer value is the plug and play experience across all solution areas with high security levels built in. All solutions based on the platform can be used through a smart phone or PC locally or remotely. Consumers can monitor and control their electricity usage, switch devices on and off, and monitor different objects, such as temperature, camera, and motion. In future, entire systems within the home can be connected to the Nokia platform, including security, heating, and ventilation systems.

Nokia Home Control Center will be part of Nokia’s home offering. The solution will be demonstrated at the Nokia World event in Barcelona, Spain, on December 2-3, 2008 and is expected to become commercially available by the end of 2009.

(via prnewswire)

Samsung Tobi S3030 phone for kids unveiled in Europe

Samsung Tobi S3030 phone for kids unveiled in EuropeSamsung Tobi S3030 phone for kids unveiled in Europe. A mobile phone for pre-teens, Samsung Tobi S3030 in a number of colors — including Sweet Pink, Bright Orange, Loyal Blue, Oasis Blue, Apple Green and Snow Silver, has been unveiled by Samsung in Europe. The new slider is made from “eco-friendly and non-toxic material” and comes with a set of SOS function, like: SOS call, SOS message and Fake call.

Samsung Tobi S3030 comes with a tri-band GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) radio, 1.9-inch 65k-color 176×144 pixels screen, 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, Bluetooth support, 15MB of internal memory that is further expandable with microSD memory cards. It measures 94.7×45.4×17.5 mm and weighs 85 grams. Continue reading ‘Samsung Tobi S3030 phone for kids unveiled in Europe’

Chinese Fake iPhone Flip

Chinese Fake iPhone Flip 1Chinese Fake iPhone Flip. Here’s a Made-In-China handset that turns iPhone into a clamshell (Chinese unofficial version). We’ve already seen many clones and copyright infringements by some Chinese companies before. This fake iPhone clamshell comes with a VGA camera, 2.6-inch QVGA (240×320 pixels) screen, media player and some games.

Coming with the plastic “brushed aluminum”, it measures 105×53×17 mm, and weighs roughly 110 grams. The price? it’s only $100. As always we NEVER recommend you to buy a poor-quality device. Continue reading ‘Chinese Fake iPhone Flip’

Samsung BizBee aka i780 for Europe

Samsung BizBee aka i780 for EuropeSamsung BizBee aka i780 for Europe. Samsung has launched its new business smart phone brand ‘BizBee’, targeting the busy executive, who requires a business mobile that offers optimum performance, 24/7, from any location. The Samsung i780 is the first product from the BizBee range to be introduced in Europe, initially in the UK, Nordics, Spain and Netherlands. The Samsung i780 is specially designed with a larger screen to enable document viewing and amending. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and comes with an optical mouse and stylus, as well as full QWERTY keyboard.

The BizBee name is designed to drive awareness of Samsung’s new smart phone range in the business community and ensure consistency in marketing communications. The target market is business people looking for the ultimate solution for their busy, professional lives. In particular, this target segment requires all-in-one connectivity, email and applications, a QWERTY keyboard and increased business productivity. A typical BizBee consumer is passionate about business, a heavy mobile phone user and frequent traveler.

(via businesswire)

Alltel Motorola Hint QA30

Alltel Motorola Hint QA30Alltel Motorola Hint QA30. A new feature phone lands on Alltel sporting a full QWERTY keyboard under the sliding mechanism like Verizon Blitz. Alltel will sell the Moto Hint for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract starting from Nov 28th.

Alltel Motorola Hint QA30 comes with a 2 megapixel camera, 2.5-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) screen, standard 3.5mm headset jack, EV-DO connectivity, Bluetooth, GPS, microSD memory card slot, 256MB of ROM, and 128MB of RAM. There are also dedicated keys for accessing camera, MP3 player and web browser. It has pre-installed softwares; a music player, web browser, threaded messaging app, Telenav-powered Alltel Navigation, XM Radio Mobile and Aricent Celltop.

(via slashphone)

Toshiba 16GB microSDHC card to be launched in 2009

Toshiba 16GB microSDHC card to be launched in 2009Toshiba 16GB microSDHC card to be launched in 2009. Following the previous report about SanDisk 16GB microSD cards, Toshiba will also launch 16GB microSDHC card next year. At the same time, Toshiba extended its range of industry-leading memory card solutions by adding ultra fast read/write 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards to its line-up. Mass production of the new SDHC cards will start in December, with production of the new microSDHC slated to start in January 2009. Continue reading ‘Toshiba 16GB microSDHC card to be launched in 2009′