T-Mobile together with Google will present the first smartphone based on the Android platform. As usual, we already have the photo and some information about this device.
It is difficult to say that this smartphone has a brilliant design. Nevertheless, the device works on the Android platform and has many useful functions, which are worthy of attention.
According to some reports, T-Mobile G1 has HVGA display with a resolution of 280 x 320 pixels (iPhone has the same resolution) and displaying 65 thousand colors. Despite the fact that this is a touch-screen phone, the device is equipped with a trackball which is located below the screen. As to size, it is only slightly wider and slightly thicker than iPhone.
The smartphone also has a 3-megapixel camera, which, unfortunately, cannot record video. Bluetooth also has some limitations – it communicates only with a headset, but in the near future it will be improved.
ASUS launched a communicator with a Glide interface – ASUS P552w, supporting applications such as Asus Today, Anytime Launcher, EziPhoto and EziMusic. ASUS P552w has one of the most powerful on this day processors on the PDA (624MHz). In addition, it supports 3.5G HSDPA (3.6Mbps) for quick access to the Internet, transfer files and watching TV. Moreover, it has Bluetooth, WLAN 802.11b / g, GPS, USB and other standard communications that enable easy transfer of information to other devices and vice versa.
On ASUS P552w are already installed Google Maps and software ASUS SMS Location Link. If you click on a link, automatically built-in SMS, will launch Google Maps and will show subscribers the way of quickly being in touch with each other. ASUS P552w will also have pre-established entertainment applications. The most interesting of them are EziPhoto and EziMusic. EziPhoto allows users to flip through their photo collection with their fingertips as if it’s a real photo album.
Specifications:
• Network: HSDPA 3.6Mbps, UMTS 2100
• EDGE / GPRS / GSM 900/1800/1900, Class 10
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
• Dimensions: 102 x 60.5 x 14.5 mm
• Weight: 105g (with battery)
• Standby time: 300 hours with 3G and 250 hrs with 2G
• Talk time: 3 hours with 3G and 5 hours with 2G
• Display: 2.8” TFT, touch screen with 65 thousand colors, QVGA 240 x 320 pixels
• Processor: Marvell Tavor 624MHz
• Memory: 256MB Flash + 128MB DDR
• MicroSD with SDHC support
• WLAN 802.11b + g, USB v1.1 (FS), Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• WAP browser
• HTTP / WAP 1.2.1/2.0
• SMS / MMS / Email / MSN / Push E-mail
• Battery: 1100mAh Li-Ion
• SiRF StarIII with internal antenna
• Maps Google, Anytime Launcher, ASUS Today, Multi-Home, EziMusic and EziPhoto.
• Camera: 2.0 megapixel camera with autofocus
• Video: Record: MPEG4 QVGA 24fps / H.263 QCIF 24fps
• Playback: MPEG4 QVGA 30fps / H.263 QCIF 30fps
• J2ME (CLDC 1.1 + MIDP2.0)
It turned out that Rubik’s cube, despite its popularity still occupies the minds of some designers. We already wrote about the clock in the shape of this puzzle, but now it is time to tell about subwoofer MicroSub 2010 BT from the company Elac.
This “cube” can not twist in the hands because it weighs 4.7 kg, but it can be connected to sources of sound not only with the help of wires, but also through Bluetooth wireless technology, so you can feel the power of this bass from the music stored in memory of the mobile phone or other Bluetooth-devices.
MicroSub 2010 BT is available in two colors – black and white and colored cubes. Its price is not reported.
In Russia the company LG Electronics announced the start of sales of a new mobile phone KP265, optimized for listening to music. The model is made in the “slider” form-factor and has an original design, combining several colors: black, red and silver. Stereo speakers are located in the bottom of the shell.
You can listen to MP3 player or radio, using both regular headphones, and wireless headset stereo Bluetooth. Music can be stored on the MicroSD memory card, and you can capture interesting moments in the life with a 1.3 megapixel camera. Phone is connected to a computer by using USB 2.0.
KP262 is equipped with high-quality TFT display 128 x 160, displays 262 000 colors.
If anything can ruin almost any perfect phone, it can be the fact that the phone supports only triple standard GSM / EDGE. Fortunately, this model is not among such mobile phones, so let’s first pass to its advantages.
LG KS360 had a brilliant debut at CommunicAsia this week. It has a QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio, a 2.4 inch QVGA display and whimsical black-and-red building with round convex buttons.
Phone can be suitable for consumers who do not have huge sums of money and do not need such functions as, for example, support for 3G.
As for the keyboard, this is the only minus – it has a bad legible inscriptions on the buttons.
During Computex 2008, Mio introduced a new phone Leap K1, which has a built-in GPS and two screens. Like Samsung F300, Leap K1 has a small screen with a usual mobile interface, while the other is much bigger for GPS navigation and multimedia.
Mio Leap K1 has a built-in 20 channel GPS receiver and installed software MioMap 2008. MioMap 2008 starts with the help of the large screen, depending on how it supports the movement of a vehicle and pedestrian modes. Maps are stored on the microSD.
Unlike Samsung F300, this phone has a removable battery, as well as a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 2,5 mm audio input and miniUSB.
It’s difficult to imagine something that can challenge with the new BlackBerry Bold mobile phone, especially after its bombastic advertising, but it seems that rivals – phone numbers, based on the platform of Windows – continue to appear, at least take for example Motorola Q 9h, showed a few weeks ago that BlackBerry is not the limit.The main highlight of BlackBerry is its keyboard. That is why the new SPV-E610 from Orange, of Amoi production, China, has a head start.
SPV-E610 angled diagonal keys are unusual and not very comfortable, like at Samsung i620, but, surprisingly, they make pretty easy typing, typing an email or text message, as well as working with applications, such as a calendar.
In fact, there aren’t any useful buttons. Screen buttons are not so easy to use because of their very small size. Scroll wheel is simply wonderful, but the on / off, Windows Media Player and the camera buttons are too small.
It was a wise decision to give SPV-E610 a rectangle form. Its dimensions are 115 x 62 x 13mm and weight – 125g, but with angular contours, it seems to be more.
Unfortunately, the phone does not support HSDPA, but only has EDGE and GPRS, and Bluetooth – only 1.2, not 2.0. There is no WiFi. There is only a 2 mega pixel camera with flash, and 128MB of memory plus the possibility of expansion through microSD slot.
Recently we wrote about a stylish Bluetooth headset, but today we have another Bluetooth device – Bluetooth Microphone Dental Insert.
The microphone is installed in a hole the size of which is 2,2 mm in diameter and 1.7 mm in depth. It should be installed in your tooth, however, with the help of a professional dentist. But in future you can enjoy an absolutely clean sound, which is removed directly from the jaws of the speaker. Microphone receives power from miniature solar panels, so in order to charge it you will only need to smile on a sunny day. Or remove the device.
Headphones are also big and quite comfortable. Headphones themselves are interchangeable.
The manufacturer promises compatibility with all Bluetooth formats.
Unfortunately, the price of the novelty is not yet announced.
Do you remember detective stories and movies about spies? So, there have been heroes with watches, through which they talked with their bosses. Now you can also become an owner of such a watch – Touchscreen Cell Phone Wristwatch.
Placing the SIM card of your mobile operator in this watch you can talk as on the usual phone. You can call (phone number is dialed on the monitor with stylus) and receive incoming calls.
This spy watch has memory of 60 MB. The user can listen to MP3 files, watch movies, record hundreds of phone numbers. You can also take notes using a stylus.
The price of this gadget is $249.99. You can connect to PC via USB to transfer files, you can also use BlueTooth. You can charge the device with batteries or via USB.
This gadget is a portable 4-Watt speaker, which can be connected to any device that supports wireless technology Bluetooth.
The device is a small cubic with the dimensions of 7.62 cm. It works on batteries of AA type.
In addition to wireless communications, Verbatim Mini Bluetooth Speaker can be connected to any device which is equipped with a standard 3.5-mm input.
Its approximate price is $70.
