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Verizon’s V CAST service has been the talk after they announced it and frankly it has been kind of successful for them. It has been reported now since quite a few weeks that the two companies were having talks about a tie up. We never thought it would come so early, but according to Reuters the two companies have confirmed that they have tabled a deal which will allow Verizon to show a select range of ‘You Tube’ videos to their customers through their V CAST service.
It of course does not end here, in addition to viewing streamed content from You Tube, the Verizon subscribers can also upload videos to the site. All the customers who go for this service will be provided with an ‘auth code’ which will enable them to do the same. This was however possible earlier but it involved a lengthy processing of sending the content via email.
The You Tube service however is not going to come with any extra fee as it will be included in the V CAST services. The details of the deal between Verizon and You Tube are not yet known but the users will be able to use it from December onwards.
Tags: verizon, you tube videos
There is a word out that the Motorola ROKR E6 has now been officially released in some parts of Asia, China being the most prominent home for this device. The phone is a high-end handset with some great features with a good design. It is less than 15mm thin and works with Tri band GSM networks. The Motorola ROKR E6 comes with a 262,000 colors screen with a neat display resolution.
The Motorola ROKR E6 houses a beauty of a camera, which comes with a 2 mega pixel CCD. The camera can take still pictures at 1600 x 1200 pixels. A technological advancement for this phone is the PTT technology used. PTT is basically ‘Push to Talk’ which will come into play only with certain carriers but is quite useful. The handset comes with a iTunes instead of the famous RealPlayer. The player is capable of playing almost all extensions like Mp3, Mpeg-4, AAC+, WAV player and more.
There is a microSD card slot which can take memory cards up to 2GB in size. The battery of the Motorola ROKR E6 lasts for a maximum of 7 hours talk time and 240 hours of standby duration.
Tags: e6, motorola rokr, push to talk
The Samsung SPH-P9000 is the latest phone announced by Samsung and it is surely one of the most stand out ones we have seen in a long time. The device is due to be released in early 2007 and was announced just last week. It is a EV-DO, i.e. a 3G CDMA phone and comes with WiMax support. So you can be assured you will have the fastest data transfer wherever you go.
The Samsung SPH-P9000 comes with a 262,000 colors screen with a display resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The phone is extremely heavy at 560 grams, yes, that’s about 1lb! The P9000 measures 5.6 x 3.5 x 1.2 inches and is definitely a very bulky phone. It comes with a 1.3 mega pixel camera and has a 30GB hard disk! Yes we are talking about a device which is almost a computer and yet a phone. You can call it a handheld capable of making voice calls.
The handheld device also comes with a Bluetooth but does not have the primitive Infrared which is not even needed nowadays. On the whole we think this is where the future lies and we will be seeing more of these in the coming years, but lighter ones ofcourse.
Tags: 3g cdma, bluetooth, samsung sph, wimax
The ‘Capital Market Days’ in Amsterdam gave Nokia the platform to announce 4 new handsets in order to compete with the latest range of Motorola and RIM phones. Motorola and RIM have announced that they will be launching over 5 new phones in the holiday season and that has got Nokia to come out with these new phones.
The release of new models does not always mean that they will go well with consumers. We are pretty skeptical about the latest ones they have announced in the press conference. One of them is the entry level Nokia 2626 and it comes with Xpress-on covers with various color combinations, FM Radio and a color display. The phone is going to be priced at around $100 and decent for the price.
The other 3 phones are all marked for the mid-range category and they have nothing ‘special’ in them. Just the usual run of the mill kind of features and design from Nokia. This is where is gets really dull. The phones look very similar to the old ones in the market and have just a few advancements in terms of technology and options. The Nokia 6086 is a Quad band GSM phone and an UMA enabled camera. This one will cost you around 200 euros. The Nokia 6290 comes with a Symbian OS and it is 3G enabled costing you just over 325 euros plus tax.
The Nokia 6300 is the only one which stands out from the pack. The phone has a monoblock design and is only 13mm thick adding new dimension since Nokia does not have any ‘thin’ handsets out in the market.
Tags: 3g, motorola, nokia 6290, nokia 6300, quad band, rim
In the spirit of the Holiday season, LG has introduced new cherry (red) and mint (green) versions of their popular LG Chocolate cell phone. These new versions are for the slider version of the phone, and we have not heard anything about the flip version that was announced a few weeks ago.
The red version is very sleek; while the mint version, in my opinion, is one of the worst cell phone color schemes I have ever seen. Regardless, the phone is now available in black, white, cherry, and mint.
There have been a number of ultra luxury cell phones (those made of rare and expensive materials, such as gold or platinum) released in recent weeks and today, we have just gotten word of the newest ultra luxury cell phone available, the new Nokia 8800: Sirocco Diamond Edition. The phone is plated in 24 carat gold and is diamond studded.
Only 1000 of these cell phones have been produced and like everything else that is rare, the best place to purchase one is on eBay where they are selling for as high as $3450
