A big storm is coming next month and it is going to be a cause of a big celebration for Verizon Wireless customers. Verizon Wireless officially debuts the “Blackberry Storm”, the first touch-screen BlackBerry.

The storm features a 3.25-inch diagonal display with a 480×360 pixel resolution and support for 65,000 colors. The phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack, four shortcut keys (Talk and End, Back, and BlackBerry menu) and a microSD slot. It is equipped with the most comprehensive global roaming capabilities than other wireless devices in the market today, featuring EV-DO Rev. A, quadband EDGE, and 2100MHz HSPA for Europe.

The blackberry Storm also includes a full HTML finger-navigable browser, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0 with support for stereo Bluetooth headsets and dial-up networking, GPS, 1GB of on-board storage with an 8GB microSD card bundled in the box, automatic orientation and ambient lighting sensors, and a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with video recording, auto focus, and dedicated flash.

Storm includes a new feature called “ClickThrough”, a unique suspension system that lies beneath the phone’s display, making the display a clickable surface where everything can be pressed downwards, like a real button.

The Storm allegedly lasts 15 days on standby mode and 5.5 hours of talk time on either GSM or CDMA networks.

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Sony Ericsson has announced a youtube ready, sexy, shiny, slim slider design cell phone called Sony Ericsson G705.

The  Sony Ericsson G705 has a 2.4-inch display and its 3.2-megapixel camera can capture YouTube-compatible videos. It also offers a lot of features like digital zoom, flash and video light, picture blogging and PictBridge photo printing.

Other features include Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, music player, FM radio, speakerphone, voice recorder, Java support, messaging and e-mail, USB mass storage, personal organizer features, 3G (UMTS and HSDPA) and an HTML browser.

The G705 will arrive in worldwide markets in the first quarter of 2009.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, the much awaited Windows Mobile 6 Professional powered smartphone will be released this coming October and its Software Development Kit is now available for free. The SDK is a set of development tools that allows software engineers and enthusiasts to develop custom applications for the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 handset.

The XPERIA X1 features a full alphabetic (QWERTY) keyboard with a unique “arc” slider design, metallic body and a large 3″ display with a WVGA(800 x 480) pixel resolution touchscreen display and built-in GPS receiver.

According to reports from Register Hardware, the handset’s problems with Windows Mobile 6.1 have been resolved.  Germany, UK and the USA will be the first countries to get the handset this coming October while other countries will have to wait until next year.

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Vyke Communications has completed the alpha testing stage of its stand alone Symbian VoIP client for Symbian mobile phones. The Vyke Standalone Mobile VoIP client will allow users of Symbian phones to make VoIP calls directly from their handsets regardless of their mobile subscription or limitations imposed by their mobile operator.

Vyke has already established a beta test group and Vyke users can sign-up for the beta test at http://www.vyke.com/contact-us.jsf.

 “This beta release demonstrates that Vyke is on track with its product strategy and is continuing to position itself as the world’s leading provider of mobile VoIP and IP messaging solutions. It is important for Vyke to continuously deliver mobile-operator independent solutions to allow our customers to make effortless and cost saving calls from their mobile phones regardless of their subscriptions and/or their whereabouts!” said Jan C Berger, CMO of Vyke.

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The Fujitsu Lifebook U2010 is now available in Hong Kong through Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Notebook Ownership Program. The price for HK Polytechnic University students and staff is reduced to HK$7,280 from the original price of HK$10,800.

The Lifebook U2010, which is available in Ocean Black, Pink Gold, Cool Silver, Fuchsia Red and Luminous Blue colors  is powered by an Intel Centrino Atom Z530 1.6GHz processor (with the SCH US15W chipset), a 5.6-inch WXGA display, a standard 60GB hard drive (or an optional 64GB SSD), a built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam and a fingerprint scanner. The U2010 supports WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

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Sony Ericsson has unveiled the Sony Ericsson T700, a slim and very elegant candy-bar mobile phone.The T700 comes with quad-band GSM support and single-band 3G support with HSDPA. It measures 104 x 48 x 10 mm and weighs only 78g making it more compact than its predecessor, the T650.

T700’s features include a 3.2 megapixel camera “without”  auto-focus, a 2-inch 262K color display with QVGA resolution, FM Radio with RDS,  Bluetooth with A2DP, USB connectivity, 25MB internal memory and a Memory Stick Micro (M2) card.

The T700 will be available in Q4 in Black on Silver, Black on Red and Shining Silver.

Popularity: 19% [?]