It is called Innov8 and the ‘8’ certainly stands for the 8 megapixel camera this high end handset is equipped with, apart from the Symbian S60 smartphone OS(3rd edition Feature Pack 2). Oh wow! Action packed and feature packed.
Specs and features:
• Quad-band GSM
• 2.8-inch QVGA display
• 16 million colours
• Resolution of 240 x 320 pixels
• Accelerometer for automatically adjusting screen orientation Continue reading “Samsung i8510 INNOV8 announced!”
S60 is feature-rich software for smartphones with advanced data capabilities. Based on the Symbian OS, it includes an application suite, user interface framework, and middleware components. The flexibility of S60 allows for a variety of hardware designs and software configurations.
S60 devices include built-in features varying from messaging and calendar to a wide variety of personalization options and advanced web browsing.
The touch user interface in S60 smartphone software offers licensees the opportunity to develop devices with a variety of input methods, whether it is a touch screen with a traditional keypad, touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard or touch screen alone, supporting both finger or stylus optimized input, in addition to the range of access options that already exists today.
S60 touch user interface comes with support for tactile feedback, which means that there is a physical pulse and feedback when the user taps on the screen. This provides better awareness of the device’s response.
Existing S60 3rd Edition applications will run on touch enabled devices unmodified. Tools will be made available for developers to further optimize the touch experience of their applications.
Also, the new UI Accelerator toolkit will allow device manufacturers to develop rapidly and easily impressive graphical effects and new types of interactions, further increasing the user appeal and excitement. Continue reading “The S60 user Interface: A revolution waiting to happen”
Looks like it is still a rumour although meetings between the two companies are underway even as we report this.
Spice Mobiles is possibly going to be incorporated into Sony Ericsson.
Feature rich Spice handsets incorporated into high-end Sony Ericsson could only mean that the entry level market for handsets will improve. Buyers of entry level phones will largely benefit from this alliance.
More on the tie-up as news trickles in.
Watch this space.
Its going to be a zoomin’ rockin’ handset!
As the Formula One racing culture catches fast with the youth in India, Motorola has partnered with world-renowned sports car label Ferrari to launch a co-branded 3G-enabled handset named the “MOTORAZR 2 V9 Ferrari” in the Indian market.
Specs and features as indicated:
• 3G-enabled
• Unique racing interface
• 2 Megapixels camera
• 2 GB expandable memory Continue reading “MOTORAZR 2 V9 Ferrari”
As the Indian government regularises m-commerce, Spice Mobiles has launched a new handset – the Spice S-707n with the feature. Spice Mobiles has tied up with ngpay, one of the leading mobile commerce services in the country.
Spice S-707n allows its users to transact through fast, simple and secure means with the pre-loaded ngpay feature enabling them to book railway, airline and bus tickets, make bank transactions, send gifts, pay bills, book hotels, movie tickets and more.
The Thunder is BlackBerry’s first ever Touch Screen Device. It is touted to be a piece of mobile perfection.
It runs on OS 4.7 and is also known as the BlackBerry 9500. The user interface is quite similar to the iPhone, while the media player is already up and running. Other confirmed specs include a 360 x 480 touch sensitive display.
Announcing LG Chocolate 3 – a music phone.
Specs & features at a glance:
Nokia’s application ‘Comes with Music’ is being prepared for a heavy duty launch in the second half of the year.
The application will enable consumers buy a Nokia device complete with a year of access to tracks from a range of great artists — past, present, and future. Continue reading “Nokia Comes with Music to feature Warner Music Group”
Reliance Communications unveiled Motorola’s new CDMA handset W362 in Chennai. This handset is claimed to be made entirely in India, at the Motorola plant in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.
This low end handset has very basic features and is a great buy for college students.
Specs & Features:
• 4x zoom VGA camera
• 1,000-entry phone book Continue reading “New Motorola W362 CDMA for Reliance users”
Asus launched the P320 Mini PDA phone recently. It is very stylish and kinda like a HTC Touch look-alike.
Specs & features at a glance:
• 2.6-inch TFT touch screen
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• GPS navigation
• EDGE/GPRS
• WiFi
• Bluetooth
• USB
• 128 MB Flash ROM
• 64 MB DDR RAM
• 2.0 megapixel camera
• RSS Reader Continue reading “Asus new PDA launched in India”
At the Singapore Telecommunications Exhibition 2008, held last month, Samsung unveiled two new slider handsets – J800 Luxe and the L870.
J800 Luxe
Sleek and neat would describe this handset with standard features.
Specs & features at a glance:
• 2.2-inch TFT display
• 176 x 220 pixels resolution
• 256K colours
• Tri-band
• Bluetooth A2DP
• microSD cards
• Media player Continue reading “Two new slider handsets from Samsung – J800 & L870”
Spice Mobiles, known in India for its range of highly functional economy handsets, has launched a dual SIM PDA in India.
The Spice D-1100 Dual SIM PDA has the capability of having both SIMs simultaneously active and has a touch panel, an integrated stylus and alpha-numeric keypad.
Motorola unveiled two handsets that are categorized as business class devices that run on the same Linux OS, i.e. MING handsets – the A1600 and A1800.
Motorola MING A1600
A typical business phone as the Specs & Features will prove, but this is also a handset that tourists will love because the handset will feature the option of taking pictures of signboards and having them translated with the help of an on board dictionary.
Continue reading “MING handsets – the A1600 and A1800 from Motorola”
Sony Ericsson announced 5 new handsets for the discerning buyer and user.
Sony Ericsson C905
Leading the launch is this 8 megapixel that is touted to be Sony Ericsson’s flagship Cyber-shot handset. It look slick and comes equipped with a host of attractive features.
Specs and features at a glance:
A with scratch-resistant mineral glass cover will serve as a viewfinder on the C905.
Colours:
Copper Gold, Ice Silver & Night Black
Will be available from Q4 2008, which effectively means early 2009. No word on the pricing yet.
Sony Ericsson F305 & Sony Ericsson S302
Two lower mid-range handsets off which F305 offers interesting gaming features to the mass market and the S302 is one of the Snapshot series.
Finally…an innovation from Motorola!
The first mobile phone to combine Motorola’s ModeShift Technology and Kodak Imaging Technology was unveiled in Beijing, China. With Kodak Easyshare Software and easy access to Kodak Gallery or other web sharing sites, pictures are easily moved off the device, allowing consumers to print, share and enjoy their favourite photos whenever they want.
Camera features:
• 5 megapixel auto-focus camera
• Xenon flash
• Settings for low-light environments
• Multiple capture modes
• Multi-shot and
• Panorama – which automatically stitches together continuous shots taken on the horizon line into a single, extended image
• Gallery Link – to upload images in one click
