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.
The news of the PDA running on two processors is spread in the Internet. S400 is created by Ndrive company, which has a wide popularity due to its GPS-transmitters. The details of joint work of these processors are not clear yet: whether they will work together or one will be responsible for, say, GPS, and the other- for everything else.
Ndrive S400 Features
OS: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Processor: Marvell PXA310 624Mhz + Qualcomm 6280
Memory: 256 MB ROM / 128 MB Ram
Networks: Quad GSM / UMTS / HSDPA 7.2MBps
Display: 2.8-inch with a resolution VGA (640 x 480)
Camera: 3.0 megapixel camera with auto focus
GPS: A-GPS
Bluetooth 2.0
Wi-Fi
Expandable memory slot MicroSDHC
Battery: 1500mAh
Accelerometer
FM-radio with RDS
Samsung i7110, the latest novelty from South Korean company, was announced at the show of Symbian-smartphones in London. The model comes without any nicknames and is a serious player in the arena of smartphones.
Under the belt of the heavyweight among phones hides a huge range of characteristics. It works on platform S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 and has a thickness of 12,9 mm.
Samsung i7110 has an OLED display with a diagonal of 2.6 inches with QVGA resolution and automatic rotation due to built-in accelerometer. There is Wi-Fi with GPS. To facilitate the work with GPS, Samsung has a model of application Samsung Navigator, based on the popular software for GPS navigation – Route66. This will provide a pedestrian GPS navigation for the 10 largest cities of Western Europe.
Samsung i7110 has a 5 megapixel camera with a wide range of possibilities, such as geotagging and the detector of face, smile and blink. It also shoots video at VGA resolution and a frequency of 30fps.
The novelty can be considered as a multimedia smartphone, because it supports DivX and XviD video, audio technology DNSe 2.0 and has a FM-transmitter, which allows transferring music from your collection to any FM-radio. Built-in 50MB memory, of course, is not enough, but you will always be able to upgrade it up to 16GB by using microSD card.
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.
Owners of laptops that use wireless Internet certainly faced the problem of searching for available Wi-Fi networks in order to determine: whether you are in range of the network or not, they have to constantly open and run the laptop.
There is a solution to this problem in the form of a Wi-Fi Watch; the owner by simply pressing the button will get information about wireless networks within range of 10 meters.
Wi-Fi Watch is quite an ordinary watch with an alarm and stopwatch, shock protected and can operate underwater at depths up to 100 meters (though there hardly can be found a network of Wi-Fi). You can become the owner of this watch paying about 50 U.S. dollars.
Perhaps it is needless to explain that calls through the Internet are cheaper than those made by mobile phone. Once you could make video calls only by using a computer, as there was no video telephony in IP-telephony market. And this is changing.
Asus Company will soon release a AiGuru SV1 phone, designed to work with Skype. You can use the phone without connecting it to a computer. All that is necessary is the access to the Internet.
In this case you can use standard 802.11, Wi-Fi or ordinary Ethernet. The battery will last until 20 minutes of video without connecting to a power source.
The gadget will go on sale in October. Its approximate price will be $299.
Looking at Philips Pronto TSU9800, you will not immediately say that this is a remote control. Large 6.4 inches touch-screen with VGA-resolution will be associated with a laptop computer of Tablet PC format.
Nevertheless, Pronto TSU9800 can be used to control a wide range of home appliances, and thanks to special fasteners can be installed in any convenient place, such as a wall or a desk.
Moreover, it is possible to connect the gadget to your home wired Ethernet-network or wireless Wi-Fi. Price and date of sales of Philips Pronto TSU9800 has not been reported yet.
In January,this year, Garmin announced the upcoming withdrawal of its novelty – Nuvifone – mobile phone and GPS-navigator in a single device.
Massive sales of Nuvifone will begin in the third quarter of this year (if all goes well).
This phone is expected to be equipped with a 3.5-inch screen, 3.5G support, Wi-Fi, photo and video camera, MP3 player and MPEG4/AAC.Currently there is no data on the memory of this device and no possibility to install additional applications.
I think Nuvifone can be an excellent solution for those who do not like Apple, as it has some features and capabilities than iPhone has.
Alarm clock, combined with a radio is not a novelty. But the alarm clock, combined with the Internet radio is something interesting.
Ability to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and play Internet radio stations makes this gadget from the company Aluratek a bottomless music box. After all, you can listen to more than 11 000 stations.
If it is necessary, you can use the gadget for playing MP3.
As for the main function, here is provided an opportunity to set two alarm clocks with different options. You can wake up under the tunes of your favorite song, a radio broadcast or one of the preset sounds of the alarm.
The only disadvantage of this gadget is its price. No matter how many radio stations and alarm clocks it has, but $199 seems a little excessive.
Some digital photo frames are used not only for their intended purpose, but also have a very large number of additional functions. The functionality of these gadgets have exceeded the company Sungale introducing new digital photo frames code named ID800WT.
The gadget has a touch-sensitive display with resolution of 800×600 pixels and 512 MB of internal memory. The novelty has a set of widgets for quick access to weather, news, Picasa photos download service, YouTube service, Gmail e-mail and Internet radio.
The device supports image formats such as JPG, TIF, PNG and BMP, music formats are WMA and MP3, and video format of AVI. Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi, a gadget is synchronized with your computer via USB-port.
The main advantage of the ID800WT model is its setup: the gadget starts, as it is switched on, no additional manipulation is required, it is easy to find own wireless network. A distinctive feature is the fact that the touch screen responds to the pressing of any location, not in certain areas, like the majority of frames.
It is obvious that Sungale was mainly focused on widgets, but unfortunately, the manufacturer couldn’t implement this objective in a proper way. For example, it’s not convenient to use Google-post because of the small number of rows which are displayed simultaneously, and some widgets are unstable.
The price of this gadget will be 164 dollars 85 cents.
