New Gadgets

Verizon’s second 4G LTE smartphone, the Samsung DROID Charge, is finally available. Here’s a quick refresher of the phone’s spec sheet: it offers a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a 32GB microSD card, and an 8-megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video.

We recently reviewed the DROID Charge, and with data speeds that hovered regularly around 20Mbps in New York City, we called it the 4G LTE “phone to beat.” You can pick up the DROID Charge in Verizon Wireless stores and online for $299.99 with a new two-year contract.

It took Three UK six months to bring the Nokia E7 to its customers, but better late than never, as the E7 is one good Symbian^3 smartphone.

The carrier is offering the Nokia E7 smartphone for free with a new two-year £40 per month agreement called The One Plan.

Potential customers who wish to avoid being tied with a long-term contract can purchase the smartphone on PAYG (Pay As You Go) for £449.99.

With the ‘The One Plan’ that is offered with the Nokia E7 customers get 2000 minutes (anytime, any network), 5000 texts, all-you-can eat data, 5000 Three-to-Three minutes, Voicemail, as well as free PAYG SIM for a friend.

Those thinking of ordering the Nokia E7 from Three UK should be aware of the fact that the earliest delivery for the Symbian^3 smartphone is Friday, 6 May 2011.

As the carrier states, this is a time limited offer that will expire on May 31st.

It is worth mentioning that the carrier also throws in Free delivery for every customer who buys the E7, as well free Skype-to-Skype calls.

However, when clicking on the ‘Pick’ link, the correct image of the Nokia E7 is displayed.

As a side note, Nokia E7 is already available for UK customers, who can purchase the smartphone directly from Nokia’s webstore for £499 off-contract or £469 on PAYG (Pay as You Go). Check out in-depth Nokia E7 review for more info on deals and offers.

Those who are not bothered by a long-term contract can obtain the E7 for free from T-Mobile and Vodafone with a new £35/month two-year agreement.
To get more information on the Nokia E7 and all the other latest handsets visit phones4u.co.uk today. When visiting www.phones4u.co.uk make sure to check all available deals on best mobile phones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

A new smartphone speaker dock called Perch has been socially developed by Quirky’s online community in less than 3 weeks, creating a very unique and stylish speaker dock.

Perch is the 81st product designed and developed by the Quirky community since Quirky’s launch on June 2, 2009 and was unveiled at Pepcom’s Digital Experience at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.

Perch is a portable wireless speaker system designed to be used with smartphones and media players. The speaker can be removed from the dock and connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth. You phone or media device can sync and charge while connected and the dock has a built in microphone for conference or video calls.

The Perch Speaker Smartphone dock is now available to pre-order from Quirky’s online store for a hefty $179.99

Yesterday, O2 announced the XDA Zest, adding yet another smartphone to the range of their phones. As the model is made by Asus, it, of course, works on the platform of Windows Mobile OS v6.1 and has a large VGA TFT display diagonal of 2.8 inches. As you already know from the title, it also boasts the presence of Wi-Fi and GPS-transmitter, working with the CoPilot Sat Nav application, providing first-class maps of Great Britain and Ireland.

O2 Zest is working on a powerful Marvell TavorP processor with a frequency of 624MHz and has 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of internal flesh.
The smartphone works in GPRS / EDGE triband, supports 3G and HSDPA. 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, Bluetooth v2.0, microSD memory expansion slot and MP3-player only complement the list of its characteristics.
The smartphones will go on sales on Nov. 17 for $ 249.99, or free, in case of agreement signing for several months.

In Europe, the exclusive right to sell Blackberry Storm smartphone is owned by the Vodafone operator, but in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless. In Canada, the novelty will be able to please the subscribers of Telius.
Blackberry Storm is the first model of Blackberry, which has a touch screen. It immediately attracts attention by its expressive design, which is able to compete even with Apple iPhone.

Now, after the official announcement, when all the features of this smartphone were unveiled, it turned out that the device does not support Wi-Fi.
Blackberry Storm 9500 will be officially available in the networks of Vodafone; there is also a possible option to buy it on credit without advance payment and further payments for 35 British pounds for 18 months.
In addition to supporting GSM and 2100Mhz UMTS, the model 9500 supports CDMA2000 1xEV-DO.
Now Blackberry Storm is still missing on the shelves, but soon this smartphone will again be available.

Within the next two months, Hewlett Packard will release a new smartphone, thanks to which his audience will cease to be purely corporate users. Phone will debut in Europe, but it can be purchased in stores of different operators.
The new device will have a touch screen and keyboard, and will work on the basis of the operating system Windows Mobile 6.1. It will be able to send and receive e-mail and will have access to the Internet.

This phone is the last device in the line of iPaq. IPaq first appeared in 2002, when Hewlett Packard bought the PC Compaq Computer Corp company – manufacturer, and, being aimed at business customers in the stores of the operators they did not appear.
It is hoped that HP Oak will not make the same steps as the infamous HP 910c did.
Meanwhile, competitors of HP Dell and Acer are also planning to fill up the smart phone market with their models. Confirmed is the  rumor that the debut of its first Acer phones will take place in 2009.

Specifications:
- HSDPA 7.2
- Quadband GSM / GPRS / EDGE
- Color LCD display
- Form Factor slider
- WM6 Professional
- QWERTY keyboard
- Touch-sensitive display
- Bluetooth, USB
- Wi-Fi
- GPS
- Battery 1010 mAh
- Talk time: up to 3,5 hours
- Standby time: up to 360 hours

The smartphone from Apple has become, perhaps, one of the landmark events in the world of gadgets. Indeed, it is difficult to recall any other smartphone, which is considered to be an accessory. Many competitors try to create machines to fight in the market with iPhone.

Company Factus, which came to be known precisely due to release of case and covers for the iPhone and smartphone player iPod, has presented its new products – case for iPhone with integrated widescreen lens. It has lens through which extends the functionality of the camera.

However, it is not cheap: the price of lenses varies from 15 to 55 dollars, and is made of leather and metal sheath, intended only for the iPhone 3G; it costs about $200.