SE Xperia X1 launched in India!!!

India is fast becoming the launch pad for hi-end mobile phones. Sony Ericsson launched the Xperia X1 in India a good two weeks before the US launch. WOW!

At Fonearena, we have been tracking the Xperia since Feb 2008 and covered the handset extensively. Read the coverage here.

While the specs and features of the Xperia are on Fonearena and can be viewed here, we take another look at what is touted to be SE’s most flamboyant handset.

The X1 has killer looks and an arc-slider design, with fully functional nine customisable panels, a 3-inch clear wide VGA display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 4-way key and optical joystick navigation and a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera within a quality metal-finish body. Phew!

It is SE’s first Windows Mobile handset and has the highest data transfer rate (HSDPA/HSUPA) and WiFi support. Continue reading “SE Xperia X1 launched in India!!!”

Nokia E63 announced

Nokia announced another addition to its Eseries range, the Nokia E63 at Espoo, Finland.

A mid range handset (priced at a reasonable Euros 199 or Rs 12100 approximately exclusive of applicable taxes) that has a QWERTY keypad and features that are useful to people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well.

“Our research shows that people want a device that deals with both their personal and professional lives, but helps them to separate the two. When someone sits down at lunch, they want to update their social network or browse their personal email account and they don’t want work getting in the way of that. It’s another great case of technology adapting to the people that use it,” says Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President, Nokia. “The Nokia E63 is a new proposition for Eseries – a messaging device where people will be just as involved in their social network as they are in their business network.” “People use Eseries to access their corporate mail, review their calendar and work in their business network, so the Nokia E63 still includes Wi-Fi connectivity, easy access to Mail for Exchange and dedicated key access to contacts, calendar and email” he adds.


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Stream your videos LIVE straight from your mobile phones with QIK

Qik is an amazing new software that allows every mobile user to share their moments live with their friends, family and their world with the click of a button from anywhere in the world.

Qik’s free service allows users to stream video live to the Internet from their mobile phone, while those watching the videos on the web can engage in live interactive chat with the person broadcasting.

Engaging two-way communication, a vision of the future?

“It’s a real milestone for mobile technology that an advanced utility like Qik is now available on mass market cell phones,” said Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Qik. “We have been astounded by the use of Qik by smartphone owners, and are excited to see what mass market cell phone users will stream live to the Web.” Continue reading “Stream your videos LIVE straight from your mobile phones with QIK”

Is The iPhone The Ultimate Windows Mobile Device?

It seems that the most unethical application for the iPhone has already been built, or has it? MyPhone2008 has an interview with Erik Kristiansen, a Norwegian developer, who claims to have managed to run Windows Mobile on the iPhone. The application seems like Bootcamp which is currently available on all Apple’s Mac computers, and allows you to run Windows XP or Vista when you first launch your Mac. Eric demonstrates the application which hits in the moment you turn the iPhone on, and presents you with 2 icons: an Apple icon which of course will launch the iPhone’s default OS, Mac OSX; as well as a Windows icon which will launch Windows Mobile 6 from the looks of it.

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S60 5th Edition Review

One of the first and most comprehensive reviews of Nokia’s new touchscreen-based S60 5th edition has been published by Eldar over at Mobile-Review. Full with tons of screenshots and a few videos, the review states that S60 5th is very resemblant to the current S60 3rd, with a few tweaks here and there to make it more practical on touchscreen enabled handset.

Jump after the break for a summary of the major points.

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Still Running WM5 On Your HTC? Upgrade Before October 31st!

If you have an HTC device that still runs the outdated and last-decade-looking WM5 software, then you might want to hurry up and install WM6 on it, before HTC takes the upgrade off the air.

If you don’t know what version of WM5 your device is running, then you can go to Start / Settings / System / About to check it out. If you never tried upgrading your software before, then chances are you have WM5 if you own these handsets: Continue reading “Still Running WM5 On Your HTC? Upgrade Before October 31st!”

Samsung Omnia FoneArena Exclusive phone footage

Omnia
Omnia

On 16th October, 2008, Fonearena was represented by Ritu at the ITC Grand Central, Mumbai where a demo of the Windows Mobile 6.1 on the Samsung Omnia was given to three mobile phone enthusiasts (Ankit Saxena and Rupesh from the WATblog were co-invitees).

Microsoft was represented by Sumeet Gugnani, Director – Mobile Communications Business, who also enlightened the bloggers on the rise of MS in the world of mobile phones.

“We have a 33% share in the market of hi-end convergence devices (devices that are not only business phones, but also pack in multimedia features, a good camera and a simple UI)” revealed Sumeet. Continue reading “Samsung Omnia FoneArena Exclusive phone footage”

Y Browser – My Take – A Must Have

Hello Readers, I am going to review Y-BROWSER today this 3rd party software is THE most important software for a S60 user according to me. This software is an explorer for your device. This software is developed by Dr.  Jukka. It is very easy to install this software on your S60 device you just have to visit the site of Dr. Jukka and click on the Y-Browser application and install the sis file on your S60 device. I have taken screen-shots of the installation to make it easier for the readers.

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AutoSisInstaller – One Click Solution

Do you hate reinstalling all your favorite software’s after you switch devices or update your firmware? Tired of again downloading them to your computer hand then to your device or searching them in some hidden folder, well no more worries as we have just come up with the perfect answer.

Presenting the latest AutoInstaller v1.0 (A New Full Automatic Installer for S60). This new application that offers auto install functionality in a simpler and less buggy way.

click to go back

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Meizu M8 in India too

Touted as the iPhone killer in the market, the Meizu M8 will be launched sometime in December this year. The good news is that the Taiwan-based distribution company is also planning on an official Indian launch!  

 Specs & features:

  • 105mm x 58mm x 11.8mm (H x W x T)
  • ARM11 667MHz+
  • 3.32″, 16600K, 720×480 pixel resolution, Touchscreen TFT LCD
  • USB 2.0 Ultra Fast Data Transfer
  • 4, 8 or 16GB of built-in memory
  • Windows CE for Meizu M8 (Based on Windows CE 6.0)
  •  AVI, MPEG-2, RM(VB), MPEG-4/H.263/H.264 at 30FPS
  • 0.3+ MP camera on front, 3.0 MP camera on back. Auto-focus, no flash.
  • GSM + SCDMA Networks
  • Bluetooth 2.0
  • Wi-Fi

S60 OS – A Closer Look

Well over my blogging for the past six months i have noticed that people hardly know what operating system is running on their cell phones. They do know that computers run on windows or mac or linux for a handful but they are completely unaware of what their mobile is running on.That was the whole point of my starting the blog. I’m sure all know what Nseries and Eseries are but S60 is what lies in the background. So here is a quick look at what S60 OS is all about. S60, the world’s most popular software for smartphones, lets you add new applications to your mobile device and keeps you connected to your favorite internet services in much the same way you do with your PC.

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Samsung Omnia comes to India

Samsung launched its fully-loaded handset, Samsung Omnia (SGH-i900), in the Indian market recently. A touch phone that features Samsung’s patented TouchWiz user interface is a stylish and fully loaded handset that could be tough competition to some HTC touch phones.

Specs:

High resolution screen

3.2-inch WQVGA LCD screen

On-screen QWERTY keyboard

Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system

MS Office documents such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Outlook Express

12.5-mm

16 GB Internal Memory

16 GB microSD card from Sandisk

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First Google Android phone coming to T-mobile today

The stage is all set for T-mobile to launch the G1 handset today at New York.

The handset powered by Google Android  operating system will retail at $199 , the same price Apple iPhone3G

8GB is available with AT&T.

The Gphone  is manufactured by Taiwanese phone maker HTC

We will try our best to get our hands on this phone as it is  going to be available in USA starting this October

New Asus PDA P552w launched

Asus launched a new PDA handset called the P552w.

The P552w runs on Window’s Mobile 6.1 Professional. This handset has a touch screen and aims to be a competitor to HTC Touch Diamond and other touch screen mobiles.

The handset features Glide (Gester technology) which uses the handset’s touch-responsive user interface to make navigating and performing tasks on the mobile more intuitive and interactive, by scrolling and flipping pages etc. with the touch of your finger.

Some of the widget-like applications are called – Multi-Home, Anytime Launcher, EziPhoto, and EziMusic. Continue reading “New Asus PDA P552w launched”