Samsung Sprint Instinct touchscreen phone

Samsung Sprint Instinct touchscreen phone

As repeatedly announced starting April, Sprint has released today, June 20, its Samsung Instinct touchscreen handset, presented from the beginning not only as an iPhone competitor but also as a device that can easily outperform Apple's handset. Well, the Instinct is now available for purchase, priced at $129.99, so that everyone can try its capabilities. Of course, not "everyone" in the full meaning of the word, but only those who don't mind getting an unlimited data plan (at $69.99 per month) after signing a contract agreement for two years.

Sprint wants to be a generous carrier and, in the initial $129 price for Samsung Instinct, it also offers a 2GB memory card, a set of 3.5mm headphones (with microphone), a carrying case and a stylus. The Instinct can be bought online, from Sprint's official website, or in all of the carrier's US stores.

Due to business decisions Apple and the US carriers have made, most Americans are still not faced with the choice to buy an iPhone or not. They have to pick the best "feature phone" that their carrier has to offer. That is, a phone that costs somewhere between $50 and $250, built first and foremost to make voice calls, then serve additional social purposes—messaging, photos, etc.—and, finally, offer data connectivity to the web but more importantly to e-mail.

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New Nokia 8800 - Pink Diamonds

Nokia 8800 Pink Diamonds

In a piece of news that can easily fall into the "how to waste a lot of money" category, we now present you the latest luxury edition of Nokia 8800 Arte, dubbed "Nokia 8800 Arte Pink", which comes after less than two weeks since another luxurious Nokia 8800 was unveiled.

Created by Peter Aloisson, the famous Austrian jeweler, the new Nokia 8800 Arte Pink is dressed in 18k white gold, plus more than 680 white and pink diamonds of the "best quality". These "tiny" details set the price of the phone no higher than 85,000 Euros – the equivalent of about $131,650.

If stripped of diamonds and gold, the new handset is actually not at all new, being the same 8800 Arte that was released by Nokia at the end of 2007. This means that the pink diamond-studded 8800 has the following features: a 2 inch scratch-resistant display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, a 3.15 Megapixel camera with auto focus and video, Music player, Web and email capabilities, 3G connectivity (only UMTS 2100), Bluetooth 2.0, handsfree, microUSB, T9 predictive text input, voice memo and 1GB of non-expandable memory.

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Samsung U900 Soul in a pink version

Samsung's phones and female users have always had a special relationship, and I say this because the South Korean handset manufacturer is known for coming up with girls-only versions for lots of its mobile devices. Now Samsung has done it again by presenting the U900 Soul slider in a pink edition.

The Samsung U900 Soul Pink is a luxury dual-screen slider phone with both a normal keypad and a touch screen navigation pad. The Samsung U900 Soul Pink has a 5 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, auto focus and flash. This pretty pink phone has a 2.2 inch TFT screen displaying 16 million colours in superb quality. The Samsung U900 Soul Pink has a digital MP3 music player and a stereo FM radio which can be enjoyed using Bluetooth connectivity. This pretty pink phone is a 3G Tri band phone with HSDPA(3.5G) connectivity. It comes with 128 Mbytes memory plus MicroSD Memory Card option.

Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition for Beijing Olympic

The Russian division of Samsung announced today the release of a Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition, which will be the official phone of Russia's Olympic team for the Beijing Olympic Games held in August. The handset will be commercialized as a limited edition, starting the 8th of August – the date when the 2008 Olympic Games debut.

Besides being plated with gold, the luxurious D780 also has the official logo of the Olympic Games engraved in its back case. These aspects aside, the golden D780 is the same device as the one Samsung released in Russia back in May.

The retail price of the Olympic Samsung D780 was not announced yet, but it will surely be higher than the one of the original handset, which is around 300 Euros ($465).

Sony Ericsson F305

The Sony Ericsson F305 is Sony Ericsson’s first Motion Gaming-enabled phone. Or well, no, that’s actually not true, but it’s the first to go by that name in particular. It’s a quad-band GSM phone with support for EDGE network speeds.

F305 features loud stereo speakers on the back of it, making your gaming experience even better. If you feel like challenging a friend of yours in a match, you can do this via Bluetooth on some games.

F305 has got a decent music player capable of playing the most standard audio compression codecs, including the über-compressed eAAC+ codec. The phone memory is a bit limited though at only 10 megabytes, so you’ll have to expand the memory with a Memory Stick Micro card. Your music can then be transfered via a USB connection. You can stream your music wireless in stereo, as the phone features the Bluetooth A2DP profile. You can also have a listen to the radio with the built-in FM radio, and recognize the music playing with TrackID.

The display on the front of this Polar White or Mystic Black phone is a 2-inch large TFT display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels, and up to 262.144 colours. While the resolution isn’t exactly excellent, it’ll make the rendering of 3D games quicker, and more games are available for phones of this screen resolution.

The F305 measures a good 96 x 47 x 14.6 millimetres, and weighs in at just 97.5 grams, making it a bit heavier than it actually looks. F305 will be out in selected markets in Q3 this year. We expect the price tag to be relatively low, considering this is a low/mid-end phone.

New samsung mobile VSleek

Samsung VSleek features

• Micro SD card slot
• Mp3 player
• VGA camera
• 65k colour screen -65K TFT display, Screen Size ( 1.77”)
• Speaker phone
• Surf the web
• FM radio
• SMS - Hindi, English
• Weight - 66 g (including battery)
• phone as modem

ETEN Glofiish M810

ETEN Glofiish M810

3G, WiFi, GPS, keyboard… The Glofiish M810 comes compete with Windows Mobile models high-end HTC and Samsung, but without any particular effort on congestion.

Despite its size, this very comprehensive PDAphone has serious arguments to appeal to professional users, searching for a terminal solid, efficient and ultra communicating. Damage: changing its keyboard, E-TEN rate somewhat the boat and the lack of accessories for the GPS is always disappointing given the price of Glofiish M810.

Performances global GPS performance, seamless connectivity, self-correct, offers software beyond Windows Mobile, solid.

Keys certainly illuminated but not comfortable, no accessory provided for GPS navigation, quite cumbersome.

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PDA phone from Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia

Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia

A few weeks after the first rumor, Samsung unveils the SGH-i900 Omnia, a new 3G PDA running Windows Mobile. This device has several specific interest: firstly a sober and modern design that is reminiscent of the Apple iPhone. Then a screen to the atypical resolution (240x400), which will display a little more useful information and providing for the first a sort of "force feedback" improving interaction between the user and device. The Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia is expected to arrive in Europe this summer.

The technical characteristics of the SGH-i900 Omnia correspond to current standards: 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS ... The screen 3 "2 of 240x400 innovates doubling the resolution first, and especially the" force feedback "which emits a kind of small vibration when a button is activated by example. The specs sheet of the Samsung i900 is then boosted by the quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE support plus HSDPA 7.2Mbps. Thanks to the built-in accelerometer, the UI automatically rotates to follow the handset's current direction. Wi-Fi support is also on board to make the i900 sound even juicier. Wi-Fi support is also on board to make the i900 sound even juicier. The USB port, FM radio with RDS and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) are among the final touches to this loaded PocketPC.

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Price HTC P 4350 in India

HTCP 4350

The HTC Herald comes to us under HTC's new global brand as the HTC P4350. This familiar form factor features a spring loaded qwerty-slider, WiFi, EDGE, 2 MegaPixel shooter, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD slot albeit without a macro lens or flash. , HTC's ext. USB, and that 2.8 inches of glorious 65K color LCD. The device is noteably thin and comes with the standard kit you'd expect - although there's no 3G, which is a shame. It comes with Windows Mobile 5.0 (or 5.3, whatever you wanna call it - there's AKU 3 on board), quad band GPRS / EDGE, WiFi, 128Mb ROM and 64Mb RAM running on a TI OMAP 850 CPU at 200Mhz. There's also a microSD card slot which actually isn't tucked away under the battery.

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HP IQ504 sports pc model a 22-inch touchscreen LCD

TouchSmart IQ504 PC

Hewlett-Packard unveiled on Wednesday its new line of the TouchSmart All-In-One series of PCs, featuring proprietary technology for touchscreen applications. The IQ504 model sports a 22-inch touchscreen LCD, with all the other hardware – apart from its mouse and keyboard – packed into its body. The system is equipped with a 2.0GHz Intel Core2Duo processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive and an Intel GMA X3100 graphics chip. Running on Windows Vista, the device will carry a price tag of $1,299 (Rs 56,000 approx)

Apple New 3G iphone

Apple New 3G iphone

Almost one year after the original Apple iPhone went on sale, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced a 3G version of the device, finally putting to rest months of rumors and speculation. While some of the rumors panned out--the new handset will offer full GPS--other rumors, like the addition of a 32GB model, fizzled. But even with the long list of basic features that Apple still is denying us (hello multimedia messaging?), the addition of 3G support is a big win. If data speeds hold up as Jobs demonstrated (more on that later), the new iPhone really will put the Internet in your pocket. We also approve of the new price: $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB version, a pleasing price for all but the poor souls who shelled out nearly $600 a year ago. The new iPhone will go on sale July 11.Though the iPhone 3G is thinner at the edges than its predecessor, the phone measures a hair thicker (0.48 inches versus 0.46 inches) in the gut. The other measurements are the same except that it weighs just the slightest bit less (4.7 ounces versus 4.8 ounces).