The chart below compares the new iPhone to a Motorola Slvr, 30GB iPod and an iPod nano, as you can see its about as high as the Slvr and as deep as the iPod :
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The one we’ve been waiting for has been announced, the apple iPhone has been unveiled at the Apple Keynote speech 2007. All in all it looks very tasty indeed, combining a phone, iPod and mobile computing in a thin (11.6mm) widescreen shell. It has no keypad, instead relying on touchscreen technology.
Technical Specs :
- Screen size : 3.5 inches
- Screen resolution : 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
- Input method : Multi-touch
- Operating system : OS X
- Storage : GB or 8GB
- GSM : Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
- Wireless data : Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
- Camera : 2.0 megapixels
- Battery : Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing : Up to 16 hours Audio playback
- Dimensions : 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
- Weight : 4.8 ounces / 135 grams
Take a look for yourself at the official website.
Samsung has come out with another exciting technology which will be put to use over the space of the next few months. Samsung claim they have created the first LCD which can produce independent images on both sides of the screen. If what is reported is infact true, we are going to have a great time in terms of new mobile phones with such screens. The biggest advantage for Samsung here is that other manufactures who have managed to come close to these type of displays use two light sources while this one makes use of only one.
What these double sided LCDs will do for the mobile phone market is pretty evident. For one, it will reduce the thickness of the phones which nowadays is one of the major benchmarks for newest generation of phones.
These LCDs as reported will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in the next 3 days. The LCD TFT display measures 2.6mm thick and 2.22 inches wide. At the moment they have come out with displays with a QVGA resolution but that can change very fast.
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What with all the junk out there on the internet promising free stuff for your mobile, we at mobile.newsthis.com have put together a usefull list of sites with real freebies :
- Wappal: Offers free hosting for files such as ringtones, wallpapers etc that you can then download onto your phone.
- Ringtones Galore: Loads of free ringtones for download, offers the latest chart tunes and even the mosquito tone. No need to paying a weekly fee for ringtones.
- Mobile Rated: A collection of free Java game goodness.
- Unlockitfree: Want to unlock your phone so it works on any network ? Dont pay, head over to this site.
- Mobile Park: Offers over 25k wallpapers to decorate your phone with.
- Chord Maestro: For all the budding guitarists, downloadable software for your phone that shows chords to learn and help in writing songs.
Hope you find something usefull there, if anyone has any to add - please do so in the comments.
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I have come across a lot of concept phones in the last few days but this one is specifically noteworthy in comparison to the others. The Eclipse phone as its called is actually just a square in its close form ofcourse very thin as imagined by the designer. The phone could even make use of the Motorola SCPL technology which is undoubtedly the future of mobile phones.
The phone is pictured with a nice LCD that pops up like a screen and it will have a LED type display. Not necessary a color phone, but on the similar lines of the Motorola MOTOFONE. The mobile phone being a concept phone could have just been portrayed with a color screen and the extra jazz which would have made it difficult to re-create in the near future, but since its monochrome it gives that realistic feel to it.
When the display is popped up the light on the keypad glows which looks pretty good in the photos we’ve seen. Lets see if we get to see any of these at the price of the MOTOFONE especially.
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We did a sneak preview of the Samsung Z720 last week and we didn’t know too much about the software that would come pre installed with this phone. We have now seen enough of this phone on the internet and other reports suggesting that the Samsung Z720, the Ultra Edition 13.8 comes with a whole host of Google apps loading in it.
Yes, this is infact true. Till this time we knew that about the various applications Google had released for mobile phones and you can install them at your own risk on your phones. This is the first phone to release which already have the apps installed like the Gmail mobile, Google search app, Google Maps and a few more.
Earlier there was a rumor suggesting that it would be Orange and HTC starting out for the Googlephone but it looks like everyone was wrong and its Samsung’s turn to begin the trend which looks as if its going to continue for some time to come.
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There is some healthy competition coming in for the Nokia N91 phone which boasts of a 4GB of memory space. The N91 was the first phone to deliver that but is now successfully followed by the Sony Ericsson W950i which also comes with 4GB of flash memory. The phone adds a touch screen TFT display which definitely does enough to out do the N91 or does it? The N91 comes with a 2 Megapixel camera which the SE phone does not have.
The Sony Ericsson W950 is very similar to the M600 in terms of looks and dimensions. The main difference is noticeably the missing QWERTY keypad and the presence of high storage capacity. The phone does not come with a Camera so if you are one of those people looking for an ‘All in one’ package then you probably need to look away. Other important features like 3G, Bluetooth and FM Radio come with the phone.
Would you go for the N91 or the W950 is totally your choice. If you fancy a touch screen and a better looking phone you can go with the Sony Ericsson, but if you want a couple of more features like Camera and Wi-Fi then N91 would be a better choice.
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The Sony Ericsson K790i Cyber Shot phone is a wonderful addition to the ‘K’ Cyber shot series from SE. The phone is made for Tri band GSM network and has many different version for various regions. We’ll just have a generic view of the ‘international’ edition of the phone since the features are absolutely the same with only the signal band changing. The phone was announced earlier this year and is now available for a price of close to $400.
The Sony Ericsson K790i comes with a nice 256k color TFT screen with a display resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The phone weighs close to 115 grams and measures 105 x 47 x 22 mm. As you expect from a ‘cyber shot’ series phone that the camera will be outstanding and you bet it is! The camera has a 3.15 Megapixel CCD which can take photos up to a maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. The phone comes with autofocus capability and also xenon flash for taking pictures within closed doors or bad light.
The battery of the Sony Ericsson K790i lasts for over 7 hours talktime and close to 300 hours standby. The impressive battery life on this phone is a bonus considering the features it offers.
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All the talk over which company makes the slimmest and the sleekest phones will go on forever, but it looks like Samsung has definitely taken the lead in this particular battle. The Samsung Z720 is the latest HSDPA slider phone which measures only 13.8mm thin.
HSDPA allows you to very high data transfer speeds going as high as 1.8Mbps. With the help of such high data transmission you can enjoy good quality video streaming. The phone weighs only 80 grams and is pretty nice to hold. In addition to these great features it also comes with a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus, and flash too. It also has a 2.1inch QVGA display featuring 262k colors.
It comes with other obvious features like Bluetooth, HTML browser, microSD card slot and also a secondary camera specially for video telephony. If you service provider does not provide you with HSDPA, you also have EDGE and GPRS as a life savior.
The Samsung phone will soon be released in Europe, but the price at which it will come out is not yet known.
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Toshiba has been concentrating on adding phones as much as they have been looking to capture the LCD / Plasma TV market share. This time they are looking at slimmer phones which are targeted towards youngsters and the next generation.
The Toshiba TS605 is a slim candy bar phone which has just been announced in Korea and is specially for the European market as they say. The TS605 will come with a 1.9 inch screen. The display is a neat 262k color TFT LCD screen.
Overall the Toshiba phone is pretty thin measuring only 10.3 mm, but still not the thinnest we have seen. We have previously seen much thinner Samsung phones and also a couple of phones from Motorola in the sub 10mm benchmark.
The Toshiba TS605 will carry a 1.3 megapixel camera and will come with a memory card slot in addition to the user memory already provided free with the phone. The place where marketing of the phone is overdone, is the color aspect. Toshiba are planning to get these in the stores in pink, green and a few other flashy colors. Are they trying to say silver, gray or black isn’t trendy? If yes, they have got it totally wrong!
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