With release of most awaited Smartphone and its next release in Nokia N series, Nokia N8 and lineup of most anticipated X5, Nokia claims that its Ovi stores site has surpassed 2.3 million downloads a day.
Nokia has releases set of statistics, which supports its claim of making progress in building out its Ovi Stores and distributing applications. As per those statistics 200,000 people sign up on Ovi Stores site on an average day.
Count of Ovi Stores users worldwide have crossed 140 million mark. Ovi store is available in 190 countries. Across these countries, application communities reaching 1 million users include Digital Chocolate, Gameloft, Indiagames, Electronic Arts, PepsiCo, Qik, HeroCraft, Shazam and Offscreen Technologies. Geographical spread of users of these communities includes 39 creators from EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), 14 from US, 10 from Asia Pacific and 7 from China.
Ovi Maps is another popular application, which is available in 78 countries and 46 languages. This application which provides maps along with public transit details in more than 80 cities. Its daily usage is equal to driving around the world 80 times.
After Ovi Maps another most popular feature in Ovi music store, which hosts 11 million tracks across 38 markets, which has become most popular source of revenue in Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa and Finland.
Samsung has released Mesmerize i5000 to mesmerize its users with power packed features. This is fifth mobile from Samsung’s factory belt in Samsung Galaxy S series. Its powerful features makes it power packed dynamite among the Galaxy league.
Comes with fastest of its league 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, which makes it to respond quickly to users interactions. Interactions of users happen through 4 inch super AMOLED touch screen, which is very sensitive to touch among its peers.
Hearing aid pack of the device comes with a headphone jack and most updated technology in market, Bluetooth 3.0, which not allows to connection augmented hearing devices, but also makes compatible with most of recent Bluetooth enabled devices.
Its 5 mega pixel camera allows it to take high quality pictures with superb resolution. Supports mp3 format audio files and you can store as many as you want with memory expandable up to 32 GB in forma of Micro SD card.
The cute powerful Smartphone, which is ready to be released in October, runs on Android 2.1, which can be upgraded to Android 2.2, when released in next year.
Nokia is name of trust for most of its users. One of the mobile companies, which has tradition of offering ground breaking new technologies coupled with top quality features to its users. The company has offered many firsts to its users, which has improved their loyalty to the brand. Nokia X5 is yet another release from Nokia to prove Nokia. Increasing demand for its contract proves this point.
The Nokia X5, a stylishly designed Square shaped gadget is a light weighted, which weighs 129 grams with dimensions of 74.3 X 66.4 X 16.8 mm. The handset comes with internal memory of 200 MB, which can be augmented up to 32 GB of external memory in form of Micro SD Card.
This gadget comes with 5 Mega pixel camera to capture images with superior quality up to resolutions of 2592 X 1944 pixels. Its 2.36 TDT color screen provides high quality display resolution of 320 X 240 pixels, which allows viewing high quality images taken with 5 MP camera.
Thus Nokia X5 is dynamite of features on the shelves of Nokia dealers and retailers.
For those who want to own the Sony Ericsson W595 Black rather than going for monthly contracts, the handset is now available on Pay As you Go (PAYG). The handset comes in other hues like pink and white too.
The Sony Ericsson W595 is a sleek handset with 2.2 inch colour display. It has an alphanumeric keypad that slides out from a rubberised curved chassis.
The handset boasts of its music features as it comes equipped with Sony Walkman 3.0. The mobile phone thus doubles up into a music player with stunning sound quality as you capitalize on the in-built stereo speakers. The shared headphone jack only tops it up.
Thanks to expandable memory upto 8GB and a 3.2 megapixel camera helps you shoot good imagery apart from being able to record videos. It also has FM Radio, and GPS powered by Google Maps.
Vodafone has priced the Sony Ericsson W595 Black at just £69.37 on Pay As You Go (PAYG).
Virgin Mobile has confirmed that it has stocked the Sony Ericsson Cedar and that the handset is up for grabs on monthly contracts. The Cedar is now available for monthly deals starting at £20 per month through which you get the handset free, 3000 texts, 200 minutes and 1GB data. If you are amongst those who are looking forward to reduce their carbon footprint the Cedar is a great fit as it is a member of the GreenHeart range of handsets from Sony Ericsson. The mobile phone is manufactured from recycled plastic, has an energy efficient charger and it comes with reduced packaging.
Virgin Mobile has confirmed that it has stocked the Sony Ericsson Cedar and that the handset is up for grabs on monthly contracts. The Cedar is now available for monthly deals starting at £20 per month through which you get the handset free, 3000 texts, 200 minutes and 1GB data.
If you are amongst those who are looking forward to reduce their carbon footprint the Cedar is a great fit as it is a member of the GreenHeart range of handsets from Sony Ericsson. The mobile phone is manufactured from recycled plastic, has an energy efficient charger and it comes with reduced packaging.
With its compact candy bar looks, a 2.2 inch colour display and a unique metallic design, the Sony Ericsson Cedar looks good too. At its affordable pricing, the mobile comes with an impressive array of features like 3G connectivity, and a 2 MP camera with video recording capabilities.
The Cedar helps you keep up with friends and family on social networking sites thanks to the Twitter and Facebook integrations. The Cedar comes equipped with an in-built media player, so that you can watch videos on the move and you can as well listen to music.
Four months after its official announcement, Sony Ericsson launched Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 and the shipments are out. The mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson which aims to spread the Xperia’s overall brand appeal to the new market segments unveiled the new Xperia X8 smartphone around July after its success of the Xperia X10.
Powered by Android 1.6, the Xperiad X8 sounds a tad too antique but Sony Ericsson has promised to upgrade the handset to Android 2.1 later this year.
The amazing handset which provides great entertainment to its users features a 3-inch HVGA capacitive touch-screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a simple four-cornered user interface, a full Web browser, video streaming support, FM radio, an on-board music player with PlayNow and TrackID and social networks access via Timescape.
The Xperia X8 is powered by a 600MHz processor combined with Google’s popular Android OS 1.6 version. Other specs of the gadget are Wi-Fi and Buletooth connectivity, AGPS, 128MB of memory along with a 2GB microSD card, expandable storage capacity up to 16GB. It also supports a range of Google’s services like Maps, Street View, Search and the Android Market.
The handset comes in two-tone colour choices of aqua blue & white, dark blue & white, silver & white and pink & white.
Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer, HTC made announcements last month about the launch of two new handsets HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z powered by Google’s Android OS. However, rumour mills are abuzz that the launch is delayed by a few weeks because they failed Google’s testing process.
Both the handsets were earlier slated for mid-October release, but now they seem to hit the shelves around October end. HTC had made it clear on Friday that the two handsets will not be available in the Asian markets before November.
No official confirmation over these reports is available yet and these bits continue to be a rumour until clarity emerges over the issue.
The HTC Desire Z and Desire HD Smartphones were unveiled last month and customers were to place their hands on the Desire HD on all networks except O2. Carriers even made public plans with monthly tariffs for the handset. The Desire Z was to be available via Vodafone, Phones4U, Carphone Warehouse and other retailers.
The 164g weighing Desire HD handset sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255 1GHz processor, a 264K colour LCD display of 4.3 inch, 768MB of RAM and 8MP camera. It also allows the users to wirelessly transfer video to other device.
Coming to the 180g weighing Z model specs, it boasts a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7230 800MHz processor, a Super LCD 3.7-inch display, 512MB RAM, a QWERTY keyboard and a 5MP camera.
Both the handsets features Android 2.2 Froyo, CDMA, GSM, HSPA, EDGE, GPRS, BT 2.1 & Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n connectivity, 1.5GB of storage along with a microSD slot, a micro USB slot, a 3.5mm ear jack socket, motion and proximity sensors, 720p video recording and WVGA Touch Screen displays.
Both the models also come with an updated Sense UI overlaid on Android 2.2. Other HTC devices can also get the new Sense UI in the future provided they feature Android 2.2 OS.
Three UK has made the BlackBerry Torch 9800 Smartphone, the first such phone powered by BlackBerry 6 OS. Three UK also launched the BlackBerry Curve 9300 on PAYG (Pay As You Go). You can thus enjoy all the BlackBerry services viz., BlackBerry Messenger, email, and App world by not getting into any monthly contract.
RIM said that the BlackBerry Torch was its ‘best BlackBerry ever’. The Torch 9800 which is the RIM’s latest device to hit the smartphone market sports a full touch screen along with QWERTY keyboard and trackpad. The phone also boasts a 5 MP camera with autofocus & flash.
Other specs of the gadget are a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display, 4GB internal memory, 624MHz processor, microSD card reader and Wi-Fi. Above all, the Torch 9800 is the first device to run on the latest BlackBerry OS 6.
RIM hopes that the BlackBerry 9800 Torch which will run on the latest BlackBerry OS 6 will rival Apple’s iPhone 4 which has already sold millions of units in just first month of its launch.
BlackBerry Torch 9800 has already created a niche for itself by joining the top 30 Smartphones listed on Amazon where it pipped another much awaited Smartphone the HTC Desire Z which costs just £430. The HTC Desire Z has a bigger screen, a processor with considerably more power, and better specs but it runs on Android 2.2 instead of BlackBerry OS 6.0.
The Torch 9800 in black is available at Three for £249 on a monthly rental of £35 where in you get 2000 any network minutes, 5000 Three-To-Three minutes, 1GB data and 5000 texts.
The BlackBerry Curve 9300 3G smartphone comes in an extremely appealing design and is said to be an accessible option for those looking to buy their first smartphone. It features a QWERTY keypad, optical trackpad navigation, 2 MP camera, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS along with microSD cards support up to 32GB.
Motorola’s new stylish CommandOne Bluetooth headset, not allows transforms the way Motorola’s users talks over phone, but also allows to send messages directly from headset. This new peripheral from Motorola augments the style and beauty of headsets.
This new stylish peripheral is built on Motorola’s new technology Motospeak, a new application built on Android 2.2. Motospeak unveils new Text to Speech and Speech to Text technology, which when downloaded on Motorola handset will speaks out the text messages, calls out names of the callers loudly. Another feather in cap of this little cute and yet powerful accessory is it feature to sync up with device to amplify the voice.
Not only speaking out messages and callers name, the solution also notifies users with alerts about incoming calls, battery life and messages. The handset also boasts about its battery longevity. It can work up to 2.5 hours with 15 minutes of charging.
Motorola’s another patented CrystalTalk technology, which utilizes dual-microphone noise cancellation, to reduce background noise and thereby giving utmost clarity of voice. The device also allows users to connect to two devices at a time to allow them to do multi task.
To add to its features is its ability to keep a call on hold and receive calls from other handsets easily. Another patented technology of Motorola, EasyPair technology, the ear piece comfortably fit in ear. This is all set to change the Bluetooth experience in last quarter of year 2010.
Samsung Transform, is a decent and value for money mid range mobile Smartphone. This phone actually can be classified into higher mid range of phones, comes with medium sized touch screen, a cute sliding small, powerful qwerty keypad and a remarkable front and rear facing cameras, which enables it for making video calling too along with Voice calls.
The phone slips into your hand comfortably and its cute size makes it too cute and comfortable to hold it, when its call quality marks it at higher side of its comparables.
One of the first Android phone to come with Sprint ID pack, though does not have great features to keep at on sidelines with high end Smartphones, is a best value for money in mid range phones. Clear voice clarity is what makes it stand out of the many mid range phones.
On the negative side of the features is shorter battery life and longer turnaround time to load Sprint IDs (it takes minutes to load). As stated above, this is best of mid range of phones, other expectations out of high range phones like music playing capabilities are not packaged with the piece.
Samsung has introduced three new riders to its Wave stable – the Wave 525, the Wave 575 and the Wave 533 – which are built on its Bada OS platform. Bada OS allows it to come with Samsung patented features like Samsung’s Social Hub and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
The trio comes with 3.2 inches touch screen, which gives wider look to them and enough bulky storage space of 100 MB, which can be expanded up to 64 GB externally, which can store virtually each and every piece of your personal information and in fact more than that. Each of the three is equipped with one or the other best features, which makes them competitors within themselves. While 533 come with slider feature, 575 come with all brand new Bluetooth 3.0.
Introduction of these three in Samsung’s wave family has increased range of choices for users to select within Samsung and to ensure that competition is placed within Samsung, pricing of the three is strategically ranged, so that it won’t clash interest of each other.
Nokia has finally launched its next version of Smartphone – the N8 – it has taken a long pause after N97 before releasing N8. N8 comes with lot of firsts like – it is first phone with 12 mega pixel camera, it is first phone with new Symbian 3 operating system and it is first phone with a breaking technology, which allows N8 to come with a non – removable battery.
It is a sleek phone with 113.5 X 59.1 X 12.99 dimensions, which makes it very easy to carry. Equipped with a screen as big as that of iphone (3.5 inch), the powerful Smartphone is enclosed with aluminum chassis, which gives stronger look to this Smartphone. The phone comes with almost scratch proof glass display. Though all these features make it look like a stronger, it is still have slightly narrower and slim look on the balancing side. Symbian 3 has allowed it to come with a strong and refined user interface, which has minimized lags and frozen screens.
Nokia N8 is equipped with one of the best cameras fitted in Smartphones. It not only has best and superior 12 megapixel still camera, it also allows to shoot full HD video.
As whole N8 is nice package from Nokia after a long time, which may give good competition to Android based phones and iPhone.
Virgin Mobile has confirmed that, it has filled up its inventory with Nokia X2 to make it available for orders with monthly contract plans.
Nokia X2 is another piece on Nokia stack for music lovers. Nokia X2, available in combination of Black and Red or White and Blue, is equipped with dedicated music keys on its comfortably crafted body for easy and quick access to your favorite tunes. This one is definitely better than its peers of affordable range of mobiles in terms of music player quality.
The mobile set comes with inbuilt functionalities to browse through music albums and it also has FM radio receiver to catch up your favorite shows on the walk. Not only just music the handset is loaded with set of features to keep you entertained alongside.
Currently the handset is available on Virgin stack with multiple offers, one of which gives you handset free with monthly pay of £ 8.50, which also comes with 100 minutes of talk time and 100 text messages free.
While it is also available with Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, Virgin has come up with most attractive offer amongst.
Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Motorola, is a recent player on mobile legal theatre to file legal suit against its peers. Recently on Oct 6, Motorola Mobility has filed a complaint with International Trade Commission (ITC) against Apple.
The accusation, as per Motorola Mobility is, Apple has infringed on Motorola’s patents and used them in its suite of products like iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Mac Computers. The complaint has been filed in Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Illinois.
In the legal suit, Motorola Mobility even demanded stay on import of Apple products which has infringed into its intellectual rights. As per sources at Motorola, it has tens of thousands of patents filed across almost entire lifecycle of telecommunication industry ranging from invention of cell phone to first smart phone. The company has involved in negotiations with Apple from a long time, failing which it has turned to legal option.
The company has filed three complaints covering 18 of its patents, which Apple has used in its product range. Motorola is not alone in legal battle against Apple. Recently Apple has locked its horns with Finland based Nokia and Taiwan based HTC recently.
Two new Android powered tablet PCs from Advent are all geared to hit the UK markets and Dixons Retail has promised to support the tablets exclusively. The 7-inch Advent Amico and the 10.1-inch Advent Vega will hit the shelves of Dixons Retail subsidiaries, Currys and PCWorld on 1st November.
The Eclair (Android 2.1) powered Amico is priced at £129.99 while the Froyo (Android 2.2) powered Vega is priced at £249.99. The tablets will join the burgeoning Tablet market as we have seen announcements from bigwigs as well as smaller players join the fray. Advent tablets will face a herculean challenge as they enters the much crowded tablet PC market to compete with Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Dell Streak, and Next tablet.
Amico comes with built-in Wi-Fi and is going to be amongst the cheapest tablets in the market. The Vega has Wi-Fi connectivity, 4GB internal storage, and a 10-hour battery backup apart from a 1.3MP camera in its 14mm thick body.
Now that there is an unending variety in the tablet space more and more people seem to catch up with them. How about you? Let us know.
Even as Vodafone officially gears up to launch HTC Desire HD phone on 14th October, T-Mobile is trying to catch up by launching the handset very soon.
A source in T-Mobile revealed that the company is busy stocking up the HTC Desire HD Smartphone and that plans are afoot to make the 4.3-inch Android Smartphone available to its customers in few weeks.
The handset is already being offered by Vodafone on pre-order with various contracts ranging from £35 to £55 per month. The handset can be bagged for £25- £30 monthly contracts as well but then the handset needs to be bought.
The HTC Desire HD as known to many is a clear upgrade of the HTC Desire as the bulkier Desire comes bundled with more memory ( RAM and ROM ), a higher pixel camera, a faster processor and a larger screen. The handset supports Dolby Mobile, SRS Surround and DLNA sound.
Showed off at HTC’s London conference last month, the HTC Desire DD features a 1GHz processor and an 8 MP camera with 720p HD recording capability. It has a 4.3-inch LCD display instead of the AMOLED screen sported by the original HTC Desire mobile.
The HTC 7 Trophy Smartphone seems to go Vodafone’s way. A leaked snapshot of the company’s inventory suggests the Trophy as amongst one of the upcoming models. Motorola Defy also features in the picture. BestBoyz’s sources in a Vodafone’s German database spotted the HTC 7 Trophy for the first time.
HTC 7 Trophy is probably named that way to suggest that the much-awaited Windows Phone 7 platform powers it up. It seems more of a smaller sibling of HTC HD7.
The specs of the Trophy were leaked last week and the handset is expected to sport a 3.8-inch 800×400 WVGA display, 8GB memory, and a 5MP camera with LED Flash and autofocus. The handset is expected to have a 1GHz Snapdragon processor apart from 3G and Wi-Fi.
Just the way HTC Mozart handset powered by Windows Phone 7 has a fixed 8GB memory the HTC 7 Trophy has memory as its Achilles heel.
Details about the first HTC handset powered by the much anticipated Windows Phone 7 platform got leaked thanks to some leaked screenshots from the mobile phone retailer, Phones4U. HTC Mozart is more of a mainstream handset than an elite / niche model as the HTC Desire HD.
HTC Mozart shares similar specs as the HTC Desire HD except that it comes with a 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive Touch Screen compared to the 4.3-inch screen of Desire HD. HTC Mozart comes with 8.5GB in-built memory with no option to increase the same.
Mozart looks a little bigger than the iPhone 4 with dimensions of 119×60.5×11.9mm. It has an 8Megapixel camera with Xenon flash and supports 720p video recording too. Other specs include a 1GHz processor 512MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, Wi-Fi, FM Radio, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a GPS and a 1300mAh battery.
HTC Mozart is mentioned as “Our first Windows Phone 7 device” by Phones4U and it also mentions Mozart as the only one being offered by it this year though around 10 handsets are expected to sport WP7 by end of 2010.
HTC Mozart is to get launched on the same day as Windows Phone 7 release to public i.e., October 11. After a fortnight, shipments for the Mozart handsets are expected.
We have seen Android tablet PCs being offered by Disgo and Next at £180 and that sounds pretty cheap. However, if you think that they are a little too costly to be presented as a Christmas gift to you near and dear little ones the 7-inch tablet from Morgan computers might just fit the bill.
Despite the fact that the tablet will sport Android 1.7.4 with an ARM9 VIA8505+ 400MHz processor powered by just 128MB of RAM, it still sounds a good deal with the price tag of £85. The 7-inch tablet comes with 2GB memory which can be further expanded by SD or USB.
The tablet comes with 800×480 QVGA display, and a 0.3-megapixel webcam. It supports H.263 AVI files and can be connected by Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n. 3-hour battery life makes the tablet look mean but it is the same as that of the £180 tablet for that matter.
Morgan Computers is the place to go if you want to get your hands on one such tablets. The company is accepting pre-orders for the tablet which is expected to ship on 18th October.
Motorola has settled its long outstanding lawsuit with Iridium Communications, its ex joint venture company in constructing one of four global satellite systems for Personal Communications (PCS). The lawsuit is over a loan to the extent of US $ 24.7 Million arranged during 2000. Iridium Holdings LLC was guarantor for the loan.
Motorola has entered into this joint venture to construct Personal Communication System (PCS) using one of four global satellite systems. Iridium Company was floated to own and operate this Personal Communication System in 11 or 12 countries.
The venture was supposed to offer global telephone coverage for GSM phones, when its usage was very limited in only few countries other than Europe. With unexpected boom of GSM technology and mobile business revolution in many countries in form of liberalization has made the joint venture a big hit.
Later another dealing company has bought the joint venture company for US $ 25 million, whose assets actually valuates at US $ 6 billion.
Though terms of settlement are not out for public disclosure, Iridium Communications and Motorola has entered into an agreement to settle all remaining disputed matters in the lawsuit.
