May 26
Willcom introduces a smartphone made by Sharp that has the looks of Sony Ericsson and of course, competes with the iPhone.
Here are the specs:
- 3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display
- 1seg mobile TV tuner
- WiFi and Bluetooth
- 256MB of memory
- MicroSD card slot
- 2 megapixel camera
- Windows Mobile 6.1
- 50 x 116 x 18 mm
- Fingerprint reader
- Infared port
- Flash player
The Willcom 03 smartphone will be out within a month in Japan only.
Tags: willcom, smartphone
May 20
By now you would have heard of the 3G iPhone rumors and that it will be announced on June 9th by Stevie himself. While we are all excited, I can’t help but hope that there will be more great features besides the 3G upgrade. At least give us a GPS chip and integration with Google Maps and a higher pixel count camera with video recording!
Anyhow, while we all have to wait, here are the latest rumored specs:
- 3G data speed
- Purchasing iTunes items over the 3G network
- Standard earphone jack
- Secondary camera in front
- Slightly thicker
- Same screen size
Tags: iphone, apple, 3g iphone, smartphone
May 12
BlackBerry introduces the Bold 9000. It is an attractive, sleek, PDA-styled cell phone that is very feature-packed.
Here are the specs:
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100
- 114 x 66 x 14 mm
- Weighs 133 grams
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Trackball navigation
- 3.5 mm stereo headset jack
- MicroSD & microSDHC
- 128 MB flash memory
- 1 GB storage memory
- 624 MHz processor
- GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g
- Bluetooth and USB
- BlackBerry OS
- 2 Megapixel camera with video and flash
- Built-in GPS
- BlackBerry maps
- DataViz document viewer/editor
- Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
- Video player DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp
- Up to 310 hours standby time
- Up to 5 hours of talk time
BlackBerry is definitely upping its game, and the Bold 9000 will make business people trendier.
Tags: blackberry, bold, 9000
May 6
HTC is finally stepping up its game to compete with the iPhone. The Touch Diamond, is a mysterious, sleek, and attractive PDA-style cell phone and the front of the phone does not copy the iPhone, yet is still attractive.
Here are the specs:
- GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
- HSDPA 850 / 1900
- 102 x 51 x 11.5 mm
- Weighs 110 grams
- 2.8-inch TFT touchscreen with 65K colors
- TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive navigation control
- Handwriting recognition
- 4 GB user available memory
- 192 MB DDR SDRAM, 256 MB ROM
- Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 Mhz processor
- GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Bluetooth and miniUSB
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
- 3.15 Megapixel camera with autofocus and video
- Secondary VGA videocall camera
- Built-in GPS with A-GPS
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook, PDF viewer)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Up to 285 hours
- Up to 5 hours 30 minutes
The Touch Diamond is a little smaller than the iPhone, yet managed to shove whole lot more into its sleek body. Of course there are drawbacks, but it is a short list. The screen is a little bit small, the battery life is short, and it only has 65K colors. Another thing that might be odd is the back of the phone has cuts to resemble a diamond, like the Nokia Prism series.
Tags: htc, touch, diamond, apple, iphone, gps phone, nokia, prism
Apr 28
Nokia release a new series called “Beautiful To Use”, an odd name for a group of three cell phones that are not all that exciting and different from what Nokia had offered before. One of the phones is the Nokia 6600 fold, and the “fold” in the name means it is a flip phone (continuing with the obvious naming theme).
Here are the specs:
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- UMTS 850 / 2100
- 87.7 x 44 x 15.9 mm
- Weight 110 grams
- 2.13-inch OLED screen with 16 million colors
- Second external, hidden OLED display (1.36 inches)
- MicroSD memory slot (up to 4GB)
- 18 MB internal memory
- GPRS Class 32, 123 kbps
- HSCSD and EDGE Class 32
- 3G at 384 kbps
- Bluetooth and microUSB
- 2 Megapixel camera with video(VGA@15fps) and flash
- Secondary VGA videocall camera
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Stereo FM radio
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- Nokia Maps / Nokia Search
- Up to 300 hours of standby time
- Up to 4 hours of talk time
Overall, the 6600 fold is pretty average, but if you want something that is common, yet “beautiful to use”, this one is for you.