Over the past 10 years, Samsung have gradually climbed their way up the mobile communications list of top manufacturers and are continually gaining market percentage against the most recognisable brand names such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson. In more recent years they have in fact surpassed their rivals for mobile phone dominance with last summer seeing them overtake Sony Ericsson for second spot in Q3.

Over the past 10 years, Samsung have gradually climbed their way up the mobile communications list of top manufacturers and are continually gaining market percentage against the most recognisable brand names such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson. In more recent years they have in fact surpassed their rivals for mobile phone dominance with last summer seeing them overtake Sony Ericsson for second spot in Q3.

Samsung is today a innovative brand name, continually releasing new technology and sleek design that todays mobile phone users are excited by. So it comes as no surprise that the hype surrounding their latest product launch in the mobile phone arena has had the forums and blogs of mobile enthusiasts tapping away through the small hours of the morning trying to gain more information this groundbreaking product.

It is of course the already infamous Samsung G600, after that build up you may have been dismayed with such a simple model name, but this is Samsung first 5.0 megapixel camera phone to hit the market and it is not some bulky, square edged, ugly device. The Samsung G600 offers as much in its design as it does in its features, the outer casing is finished in a matt black and cold silver covering that immediately gives the phone a sense of expense and quality. The TFT LCD display screen offers 16 million colours with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels which can also be used in landscape mode for wide angled picture taking.

Once opened using the smooth slide action the G600 offers you multiple menu options with the most important being the camera. 5.0 megapixels was high specification technology of the best stand alone digital cameras only a couple of years ago and yet Samsung have managed to squeeze this into a device that measures just 14 millimeters in depth, and it does not hamper the image quality at all. The camera also supports video recording and sports a built in LED flash, 4 x digital zoom and the all important auto focus for high quality and fast photography. The Samsung G600 also features an MP3 Player, a Video Player with MPEG4 and 3gp support, hands-free speakerphone and document viewer.

The overall look of this model and consiquent price will appeal to busy professionals, the business orientated and the affluent gadget lovers. The Samsung G600 has been launched initially on the Vodafone, O2 and Orange networks, but being a Quad band device, will released onto the other networks very shortly. Interestingly, the Quad band support means that the G600 has a major selling point over its closest competitor, the Nokia N95, and means that users will be able to travel to the 1900 mhz frequency using countries and still use their phone.

In conclusion, the Samsung G600 is set to rock the mobile world and break new barriers that will set it apart from other mobile phones. The G600 makes a statement not only to its customers but to its rivals and places the Samsung brand well and truly at the top of the mobile industry.
Source:http://www.freepressreleases.co.uk/

HTC Corp, provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart devices, has launched its latest P3300, a Global Positioning System (GPS) phone in India.

This device allows users to take any photos outdoors and then automatically embeds the satellite coordinates into the photo. The phone is equipped with MapKing R12, the latest version of the mobile mapping system.

Apart, from the GPS navigational capabilities the P3300 is a feature-packed PDA phone offering high-speed wireless LAN access, high-resolution 2megapixel camera and an in-built FM radio.

"With an already existing portfolio of world class smartphones and PDAs available in India under the HTC brand, we are now introducing the P3300 GPS phone with photo navigation capabilities in India. We are confident that this phone would become the preferred choice among customers," said, Ajay Sharma, country manager, High Tech Computer Corp HTC mobile phones India.

The P3300 operates on the Windows Mobile 6 professional platform and comes with a 128MB built-in ROM and 64MB RAM memory with persistent storage. The device is equipped with Microsoft Office programs like Outlook Mobile, Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, IE Mobile and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile. In addition, users can also have access to Adobe Reader (PDF), Sprite Backup, Activesync, Comm Manager, Internet sharing, Network Wizard and Audio Manager. Connectivity options include high speed Wireless LAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth v2.0 and quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE.


Source:http://www.ciol.com/content/151007100679.aspx

The Sony Ericsson Z750i was announced toward the end of Q1 2007 and it marked the Japanese-Swedish company's foray into the HSDPA market. At this time, if you're thinking the Z750i looks familiar, it is. In fact, you'll be hard pressed to find any major differences between the Z750i and the earlier Z610i.

Design

We have to admit sheepishly that we really like the stylishly designed Z750i. Part of the reason, we suspect is the Japanese "kei tai" (mobile phone) allure which has typically followed the clean and simple design philosophy.


Like the Z610i, the Z750i retains the seamless mirror-like surface with a hidden OLED screen. When activated, the screen illuminates to give the effect of a floating display on the surface. If you look at it from an angle, it appears as though the various "layers" of the screen extends into the handset, giving it depth and a three-dimensional feel. The OLED screen displays incoming message alerts and calls, music information and in idle mode, the time, battery level and signal strength.

The only cosmetic differences we find between both handsets are the Z750i's matte-plastic backing, taller spine (the part of the bottom lid that extends above the top cover), inclusion of call/end keys and the slightly different layout of the buttons.

That said, the buttons on the Z750i are easily one of the best in the market today. The alphanumeric keys are large and provide excellent tactile feedback. The rest of the control buttons are also adequately sized to provide reasonable sense-of-touch. There are three quick access music controls on the left edge of the handset. Two of these buttons double as volume keys.

The Z750i is not only aesthetically pleasing on the outside, the cascading flow of lights starting from the bottom of the keypad and ending with the lighting up of the 2.2-inch LCD screen is also a very nice finishing touch. Obviously, those with a chronic habit of wiping their handset may get deliverance with this Sony Ericsson, since the huge glossy surface requires constant cleaning.

Although the Z610i and Z750i are like peas in a pod on the outside, the latter is more advanced in terms of features. For example, the quadband Z750i is now on the GSM 850 frequency and it also offers triband HSDPA which add to its network compatibility in the US.

A little less known fact of the Z750i is that it comes with built-in A-GPS receiver. This is a little different from Nokia's N95, E90 and the 6110 Navigator which have built-in GPS chips. The Z750i relies on an assistance server such as a cell phone tower to triangulate the user's position. According to Sony Ericsson, this feature requires the telco operator to activate the A-GPS capability and, from what they understand, only Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan has enabled this feature. They added that the A-GPS receiver can also connect to GPS satellites, although it will take a longer time to get a location fix. We tried the A-GPS feature during our review, but we never managed to triangulate our position. The way we see it? The proposition of the A-GPS here is somewhat dodgy and we recommend users to take this with a huge pinch of salt.

Source:http://www.bangkokpost.com/gadget/gadget.php?id=232&p=2

The Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone made its debut global shipments today, and will be hitting a retail shop near you soon. The Nokia N95 8GB is the memory packed brother of the Nokia N95 multimedia computer. Boasting up to 8 GB of built in memory, the Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone has all the features of its predecessor, including a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, built-in AGPS, WLAN, HSDPA and an innovative 2 way slide. With its expanded memory, the Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone offers up to 20 hours of video or up to 6000 music songs. The sleek black Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone also boasts a luminous 2.8" (240 x 320) QVGA screen, so watching videos, browsing the Internet or viewing maps and photos is a real pleasure.
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"Our Nseries multimedia phones has expanded with added pizzazz and performance with the Nokia N95 8GB, a mobile device as personal as it is powerful," said Jonas Geust, vice president, Multimedia, at Nokia. "We've reached a pinnacle with the Nokia N95 and now with the addition of one of the largest ever displays, built-in Assisted GPS and improved battery power, the Nokia N95 8GB multimedia phone takes entertainment enjoyment to another level."

Source:http://www.pma-show.com/0303/nokia/cameraphone/nokia-n95-8gb-camera-phone/

There is room to grow in the mobile browser market. While there are several options to pick from, most of them fall short of customer and user expectations. Mozilla said they are going to attempt to enter the fray and design a mobile browser that will “rock” the mobile web and coming soon mobile phones.

“People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here's some information about what we're planning to do with hiring, technology, partnerships, and products, and how you can get involved. Short summary: we are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's VP of engineering, in his blog on Tuesday.

With more than one hundred million active users, Firefox is popular. Mozilla thinks that bringing the open-source browser to the fragmented mobile market “will do the world some serious good.”

“A large portion of the world accesses the Internet from mobile devices, and this will become increasingly true over time (mobile devices outsell computers 20-1). Each Firefox install is an individual choice by a person to download something that didn't ship by default on their computer. Why not offer that option for mobile devices?” Schroepfer said.


“You can already get a Mozilla-based browser for the Nokia N800 and Firefox is a key part of Ubuntu Mobile and the new Intel Internet Project, and most recently ARM has put serious effort towards Firefox on mobile devices. Through Joey, we've seen how the desktop and mobile browsing experiences can be bridged to build a better experience for both. Wouldn't it be great if your bookmarks, history, extensions, etc. from Firefox on your computer just worked on your phone?” he adds.

With that said, he officially announced, “Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we will make core platform decisions with mobile devices as first-class citizens.” Mozilla will ship a version of "Mobile Firefox" which can, among other things, run Firefox extensions on mobile devices and allow developers a chance to build rich applications via XUL.

“Up until very recently device limitations required writing new mobile browsers from the ground up. Being able to leverage all the investments in the Mozilla platform across both desktops and devices is the right approach. There is far from a dominant player in this marketplace and even the best mobile browsers today have compromises in user experience, performance, and compatibility. There is still *plenty* of room for innovation,” Schroepfer points out.


While it is unknown what devices Mobile Firefox will run on the news is positive all the same. However, one comment on the blog post makes a valid point. If the browser does not fully support AJAX and other emerging Web standards, then it will be “useless.”

Source:http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1364468.php/Coming_soon_to_your_mobile_phone_%96_Firefox

T-Mobile today released their version of Motorola’s latest jack, the MOTORAZR2 V8. if you want to know the big difference between this model and the ones that everyone else got, it’s a slight bit of software customization and then the lack of any storage expansion slot, but in trade, it does come with 2GB of storage built in.

After the release of the iPhone, in fact after just about any phone released since a few months ago, releasing the RAZR2 with it’s only impressive feature being a high res external screen with a touch-sensitive portion at the bottom, that’s just unacceptable. Especially at a price point of $249 after a 2 year contract, that’s just crazy.

Sure, it has a GSM/EDGE quad band radio, a high resolution screen on the inside too, and the whole MOTOMAGX thing, but that’s just not enough to make up for gap between feature set and price. T-Mobile, possibly in a move to help close that gap, is giving away a few free songs with the phone as well as a free 30-Day Napster trial, and the phone of course supports the whole myFaves thing too.

Source:http://www.slashgear.com/motorazr2-v8-on-t-mobile-now-157977.php

Overall, I was impressed with the price and the size of the Centro. The operating system is old, but stable and highly functional. The wireless connection is just fast, but not the latest which allows voice and data at the same time.

If you will, the Centro is a list of compromises, but those compromises increase the size of those who can get into the smartphone game. This is a solid compromise, and possibly the best one that needs to be made in this class of devices.

1.Palm OS 5.4.9
2.320 by 320 pixel touchscreen
3.2.1 in by 4.2 in by 0.7 in
4.4.2 oz
5.128 MB ROM, 64 MB user accessible RAM
6.microSD card slot supporting 4 GB microSD (SDHC untested by reviewer)
7.Sprint EV-DO Rev.
8.1150 mAh battery with up to 3.5 hrs continuous talk time
9.1.3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom
10.Bluetooth 1.2

11.Included Applications: Google Maps, Sprint IM, Documents to Go 10, VersaMail 4.0 email client, Pocket Tunes Deluxe, trial version of Nuance Voice Control, Astraware Suduko, and built-in user manual in the My Centro application.


The Palm Centro should not be considered so much a low cost Treo as a shot into the area of affordable smartphones by Palm. While the operating system and even aspects of the design are similar to this company's Treo models, the pricing and timing of its introduction makes the Centro a compelling buy in view of other devices in its price range.
Source:http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13418

Haute couture has shifted its gaze from the catwalk to the world of high technology as the world's top fashion houses jostle to stamp their exclusive labels on mobile handsets and other personal devices.

Italian fashion designer, Giorgio Armani, is the latest to direct his talents to mobile phone design, with the joint launch last month of a credit card-sized 3G phone with Samsung.

The shiny 9.9mm-thick touchpad phone is intended to reflect Armani's signature simplicity. Expected to cost somewhere around the $1000 mark, Armani says the phone was designed to cater for "those who aspire to own a technologically advanced and beautifully designed telephone".

Much like the recently launched LG Prada KE850 phone - retailing in Australia for $999 - the Armani phone has followed Apple's lead and done away with the traditional keypad, leaving users with a compact, glossy handset prominently displaying the designer's label.


"The idea was that we wanted to create a phone that felt like a natural part of Armani line-up. To do that it had to echo the general theme that he puts forward in his fashion label," says Kurt Jovais, Samsung's general manager of marketing.

Although cynics might argue that collaborations with the likes of Prada and Armani are little more than a branding exercise for the handset makers, both LG and Samsung are quick to emphasise the input made by their new partners.

LG says Prada's involvement in designing the KE850 extends well beyond simple aesthetics into the phone's touch screen interface, ringtones, content, and accessories.

Armani, who presented his namesake mobile phone at a press briefing in Milan before his Spring/Summer 2008 women's fashion show, is similarly credited.

"While the Armani brand certainly does help, we're not relying on a brand association in order to put this phone forward. This is a beautiful phone in its own right and one of the reasons why it is so is because it was co-designed with Armani," says Mr Jovais.


Samsung's partnership with Armani is not the handset maker's first foray into the fashion world. It has previously collaborated in one-off projects with the likes of Betsy Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg and Anna Sui to create phones that strongly echo their unique design style.

But fashion can be fickle and one high profile fashion partnership that has not stood the test of time is Motorola's collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana last year.

Motorola said the partnership with D&G, which resulted in a line of gold and silver models for its popular Razr phone, served as a vehicle to launch its own luxury handset designs.

Source:http://www.smh.com.au/news/articles/taking-a-fashionable-turn/2007/10/09/1191695878682.html