The looks of the LG BL-40 will amaze anyone ! Is it a phone or a chocobar ?  The phone has some revolutionary features like a 4inch Touch- Screen with resolution of 800x345 pixels and for the first time on a mobile, screen with 21:9 aspect ratio. Actually it’s just recently that the first 21:9 aspect TVs were announced by Philips, so this is a remarkable achievement. It also sports a 5 Megapixel camera.Its also got  HSDPA, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Multi-Touch, Flash Based 3D UI

Features

• 4 inch widescreen HD LCD
• Complete Web Display
• Dual Screen UI
• Panoramic Entertainment
• One Touch Copy & Paste

BL40 Price

We spotted the phone in UK and the price there was around 400 pounds without a contract .  The price in India IF its launched would be around Rs.30-35000

BL40 Official Video

• LG BL40 Official Pictures!

The keypad is a touch-sensitive controller which lets you to move through menus, navigate the Web, and even write using handwriting recognition. When you slide the mobile while typing, the onscreen keyboard disappears and you’re ready to use the hardware one.  The multi-touch features lets you to zoom in on images with the pinching gesture.

GD900 Features:

• Dimension: 105 x 52.5 x 13.5 mm
• Weight : 120g
• 3-inch 16M color TFT touchscreen, 480 x 800 pixels
• 300 hours of standby time, 4 hours of 3G talk time,6 hours of 2G talk time
• GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100 (alternative version: 850/2100) MHz, GPRS/EDGE class 12, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• 1.5GB integrated memory, 16GB microSD card
• 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and D1 video recording at 30 fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port
• FM Radio
• Ambient light sensor and the video-call camera
• 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery
• Smooth animations
• 3D spatial effects, motion blurring
• Available in Chrome and Titen color.
• Price – Rs.26,000

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$25. Thats the price you will pay for a brand new Palm Pixi at Amazon on a 2-year contract with Sprint. Having been released just about a week ago this entry-level webOS smartphone will please those customers who are on a tight budget while still being capable of doing your everyday task.

If you didn’t know, the Pixi comes in a candy bar factor, has a 2.6″ capacitive touch screen, a full qwerty keyboard and is a 2 Mp snapper. Connectivity wise you have the usual 3G, GPS and 8 Gb of on board storage though you will have to say goodbye to the WiFi

Ready to live your life with Sprint for the next 2 years then head over to this page

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MyPhone, The 5800 app launcher which converts your 5800 to iPhone has just released a new version 2.40 with many new feature additions.

The Main Attractions of MyPhone 2.40 are:

1. Speed dial.
2. Memo Deduction game.
3. Memo Mosaic game.
4. Enhanced performance.

To use the Speed dial function, just go to MySetting -> MyAPP & Links, Replace the appname with your preferred friend’s name and the exename with the respective friends phone number. Then choose an icon and click add to find the speed dial icon on your homescreen.

The Application is available for trial and if you liked the application, then you can buy the full version for 12.99 USD.

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After removing 450 employees from the payroll last September, Sony Ericsson is now planning to close down four of it’s facilities and lay-off 2000 employees worldwide.

The facilities that are planned to be shutdown are the facilities in RTP (North Carolina), Small Facilities(Miami, Seattle and San Diego), Sweden and Chennai. 2000 employees will be laid off and some of them will have the option of getting transfers to other places like Atlanta or California.

The process will take place in different steps, one at a time. This decision comes after incurring huge losses during the year. This maybe mainly due to the lack of competitive handsets from Sony Ericsson. Hopefully Sony Ericsson comes back with the launch of the XPERIA X10 which looks to be a very promising device. At least, lets hope that the employees get their jobs back.

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Its been 5 months since Nokia’s Ovi Store has launched. Bill Perry, the Sr. Services Marketing Manager for Forum Nokia, California has written about the statistics of Ovi Store so far.

Quoting from his blog mobileperry, the following stats of Ovi Store are from 26 May 2009 through the 31st October 2009:

• Available on over 100 different Nokia devices (60+ Symbian S60 devices)
• Active users from over 180 countries
• Developers from 65 countries are distributing content
• 8 countries today have local content, local language support and mobile billing: UK, Spain, France, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Italy, Russia. By the end of Q1 2010 there will be more than 20 countries.
• Top 10 Ovi Store Markets by performance in alphabetic order: Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Russia & UK
• In almost all of the top 10 Ovi Store countries, 5800 XpressMusic and N97 are the #1 and  #2 devices for Ovi Store activity and consumer engagement
• Re-Download now available and search is much improved.
• Ovi Store will ship embedded on most new compatible Nokia devices including Symbian S60 and Series 40 from Q4 2009
• On average, each registered user has downloaded at least 8 items from Ovi Store
• In October, the number of content items downloaded was over 70% higher than in Sept.

Hmmm Looks like the Ovi Store is doing pretty well. Isnt it?

Also it seems like the rise in the sales of touchscreen phones like Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97 are showing on the Ovi Store as well. What do you think?

Have you used Ovi Store? What do you think about it? Pass on your views below.

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Today, we come with great news for many of you. The Nokia N900 will start selling in the USA starting from today. The Nokia N900 has already begun shipping to customers who had pre-ordered it. The N900 is also expected to hit other countries in the coming weeks.

The Nokia N900 will be sold as a sim-free model without any network branding or restrictions at a price of 649 US$ at the flagship stores, retail stores and various online retailers including Amazon. The pre-order price was cheaper at 559 US$. But the Nokia N900 is worth the 649 US$ nevertheless.

Nokia hopes that the N900 will enable it to regain its market share and will fix the errors it made with its recent releases.

Source

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One of the main gripes of Motorola’s latest flagship beast is it’s problem with getting a proper auto focus with its 5 Mp shooter. This has been the case since it’s launch and it now seems, to have been magically(through a silent over-the-air update actually) to have been fixed, until the 11th of December that is.  The strange thing is that according to Dan Morrill, from Google’s Android team, the bug is related to a time-stamp bug:

“According to Google Engineer Dan Morrill, there is an unfortunate bug in the Droid’s auto focus routine. It improperly rounds a timestamp used in the calculations, which somehow throws the entire focusing process off. Today it works, and tomorrow it will work…but 24.5 days from now, the bug will be back.”

Meaning to say that after the 11th December, if you do not update your droid, the camera’s autofocus will automatically go bonkers. But according to Verizon’s 5 page treatise on the Droid’s known issues, their firmware update will be coming with a permanent fix which should solve most of the droid’s software related bugs.

Still, its a little creepy in the way how the Droid got updated so silently and without the knowledge of the consumer. But for the year of 2009, were there an award for the weirdest bug, this auto-focus bug would surely win it…

Sources:

TechCrunch, Engadget

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Basic features:

CorbyTXT (B3210)

• Dimensions: 110,96 x59, 55×12, 9 mm
• Weight: 94 g
• Full QWERTY keypad
• 2.2 inch QCIF 262K TFT-LCD screen
• 2MP camera, Video: H.263, MPEG4, WMV
• Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• FM-radio
• 40MB internal memory, expandable microSD cards up to 8 GB
• Battery: 800 mAh
• One finger zoom, Smart Unlock
• Quick launch buttons on the front
• USB connectivity
• Price : Rs. 7900

Corby Mate(B3313) :

• 2.0 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 resolution
• Full QWERTY keypad / Keypad slides out
• 2MP camera
• 40 MB internal memory, expandable with microSD card upto  8 GB
• Bluetooth
• Quad-band GSM support
• Available in Black, Blue, Pink, Green colors
• FM Radio
• Quick touch access to various applications
• Price : Rs. 7300

Here is the list of common features regarding the Messaging and Emailing facilities available in Corby TXT and Corby Mate.

• Buddy list
• Chat style SMS
• Easy Email set up wizard
• Instant chat messenger
• Integrating User Generated Content sites such as Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and Friendster.
• Allow users to update their current status and access friends’ updates through pop-up SNS.

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The GSMA has announced the Winners of its 2009 Mobile Awards and a real good surprise for Nokia. The N97 Mini which has been launched in India recently has won the Award for the Best Mobile Handset Best Mobile Broadband Handset/Device . I played with the Mini at Nokia World and most recently at the Nokia N-Tourage Event in Blore and this handset is very impressive in terms of build quality , speed and kinetic scrolling and much better than the big brother. Enjoy our Nokia N97 Mini Gallery

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