Archive for June, 2012

Nokia Astound

The Nokia widened its Symbian variety with the introduction of Nokia Astound by way of T-Mobile. The Symbian three based mostly Smartphone Astound incorporates some of the newest updates to Symbian incorporate: a new browser and portrait QWERTY keyboard, as effectively as split screen performance to let you see the input location when typing. The cell phone is extraordinary for its construct and created up of bio paints, a recyclable metals, and glass. Furthermore it has eco-friendly apps to assist minimize unnecessary energy usage.

It is discovered to be extremely light in the hand and the display is elegant. The telephone has customizable widgets that can be used on three different house screens. Customers can get the most out of gadget and get pleasure from favorite pictures, video games and movies even much more with a high-resolution show.

Smartphones are the talk of today so it has turn out to be more and more difficult to imagine existence without having access to thousands of apps at our fingertips. The new entrant Nokia Astound follows the other mobile operating techniques and end users can access to the world’s most thorough location experience, Ovi Maps, with free turn-by-turn drive and a awesome app within referred to as ‘Own Voice’ which lets them personalize that niggling voice telling wherever to go! And let’s not forget the actual-time traffic information, safety camera alerts, speed limit warnings and visibility of parking and services stations that can help get consumers to their destination smoothly. Read more
Courtesy : smartphonenews.net

Virgin Mobile has become the second wireless carrier in the United States to offer the iPhone to pre-paid customers. This allows shoppers to get Apple’s latest smartphone without having to sign a contract.

This carrier, a subsidiary of Sprint, now has both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. Because customers are not tied to a multi-year contract, they have to pay the full price for these devices — carrier subsidies come only when consumers sign lengthy service contracts. Therefore the iPhone 4S (16GB) costs $650, and the iPhone 4 (8GB) goes for $550.Read more
Courtesy : www.brighthand.com

Lava Xolo X900 review

There’s something significant about this Android smartphone from Lava – it says Intel Inside on the back cover. In fact, Lava’s Xolo is the first Android smartphone powered by an Intel processor – a processor based on Intel’s Atom processor, which still does duty in netbooks. But what does this mean for you?

The new platform is codenamed Medfield and even though it’s a single architecture, it promises performance to match and even better many dual core smartphones. Making processors for smartphones is way different from making processors for desktops or laptops. That’s why the Atom processor here is modified for higher efficiency. Read more
Courtesy : economictimes.indiatimes.com

Army to Deploy Android Smartphones in Oct.

The U.S. Army is preparing to send hundreds of Android smartphones overseas in October, as part of a secure battlefield communication system.

Sixteen years in the making, the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) will provide more than 1,000 troops with Motorola Atrix phones, according to a report from Wired.

Using Rifleman Radios plugged into the Motorola devices, soldiers will be able to rapidly send voice messages, texts, photos, and data across war zones.Read more
Courtesy : www.pcmag.com

Attorney Bob Burns already gets a lot of information from his smart phone, but he welcomes the prospect of getting a little more – free warnings about life-threatening weather from a sophisticated new government system.

Beginning Thursday, the new Wireless Emergency Alerts system gives the National Weather Service a new way to warn Americans about menacing weather, even if they are nowhere near a television, radio or storm sirens. It sends blanket warnings to mobile devices in the path of a dangerous storm.

Thursday was a quiet day for severe weather nationwide, so officials did not expect to send any immediate alerts, said Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at the national Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.Read more
Courtesy : www.sfgate.com

Smartphones hardly used for calls

While smartphones are replacing more of our gadgets, such as alarm clocks and digital cameras, actually using one to make a phone call is not that common, according to mobile network O2.

The average smartphone owner spends more than two hours each day using the device. During that time, smartphone owners spend an average of 25 minutes using their phone to browse the web, 17 minutes on social networking, 13 minutes playing games and 16 minutes listening to music.

Making phone calls with the smartphone was only the fifth most popular use for the gadget, only slightly more time than they spend writing and checking email (11 minutes) and text messaging (10 minutes). Read more
Courtesy : www.telegraph.co.uk

It is hard to make it through a single day in recent months without running across a news outlet covering the massive revolution that smartphones are causing in our world today.

There is little disagreement that mobile computing is having a radically disruptive impact on every corner of both business and consumer life, and on a global scale.

The latest evidence of this disruption: Facebook pays $1 billion for revenue-less, two-year-old mobile company Instagram with 13 employees, while 124-year-old camera and film manufacturer Eastman Kodak languishes in Chapter 11 bankruptcy with more than 17,000 employees globally.

Worldwide smartphone activations now outnumber child births on a scale of three to one.
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Courtesy :www.mobilemarketer.com

Rugged phones have been around forever, but melding extreme survivability into a true Android smartphone that’s not laughably large or looks like an off-road tire is a challenge. Samsung feels it has created a tough device that has beaten the odds.

The $99.99 Samsung Rugby Smart certainly has a rough and tumble name. The company claims it’s built to meet both the U.S. military Mil-spec 810f and the IP67 international standards for ruggedness. In a nutshell, that means the phone should be able to withstand submersion in 3 feet of water for 30 minutes, plus prolonged exposure to blowing dust, driving rain, extreme temperatures, and the odd drop onto hard surfaces. Read more
Courtesy :news.cnet.com

Spice M-5600 Flo is an additional touchscreen display double sim tele cell mobile cell cellular mobile lined up along together using M-5665. The particular cellular phone is sold with 3.2-inch huge TFT exhibit having 320 x240 components display monitor quality. The actual cell phone is powered with a 1200 mAh Li-Ion common battery pack for approximately 6 hours associated with extended talk time and also 8 hrs of music playback.
Spice M-5600 Flo Dual SIM Smart contact Functions and also Specifications

Proportions: NA
Network: 2G
Dual SIM Contact & Kind
Operating system: Na
Processor: Sodium
Sensors: NA
Exhibit: 3.2-inch TFT display
Two hundred and forty times 320 pixels display monitor decision Read more
Courtesy :www.coolmarx.com

The much anticipated successor to the renowned Samsung Wave S8500, the Wave II or Wave S8530, is now unofficially available across various retailers in the country, and can be procured online at Flipkart.com or Univercell.in for Rs. 18,999. Sporting a 3.7-inch Super LCD display, the S8530 has a bigger form-factor than its predecessor. Although the display resolution has been retained at 800 x 480, the bigger screen dimensions will play a significant role in enhancing the visual appeal for movie-watching and provide more room for the on-screen QWERTY keypad in portrait mode.Read more
Courtesy :www.thinkdigit.com

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