Archive for February, 2010

MetroPCS has recently launched its first touchscreen from Samsung known as the Caliber R860. Specs-wise, the handset is equipped with a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, a 3MP camera with flash, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, a microSD card slot (up to 16GB), a full HTML web browser, GPS with MetroNavigator, e mail, social networking integration (Facebook, MySpace), Bluetooth, a 1080 mAh battery and supports CDMA (1×800/1900 MHz) connectivity. The Samsung Caliber R860 is sold for $250 with free of contract.

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With competition in the mobile phone market growing daily, there are new handsets hitting the shelves on an nearly weekly basis.

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Apps the Way I Like It

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I like playing games on my iPhone. I probably spend more duration gaming on the thing than talking on it. whether you like to game on yours, but you want a real controller the iControlPad is in production and said to be launching soon. The device gives real buttons for gaming.

Apple recently killed off about 5,000 apps on the App Store that were adult in nature. A rumor was circulating that a new category for explicit apps might be coming. That rumor has now been quashed according to an Apple spokesperson who stated, “It’s not going to happen anytime soon.”

Apple has enhanced MobileMe when accessed on Mobile Safari browser by iPhone users. The app will offer direct urls to things like calendars, contacts, and more. You can additionally access the Find My iPhone feature from any iPhone or iPod touch when your phone is lost. There are several other features as well.

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Nokia leads the world in the smartphone sector, but no one can sit still in that fast moving space. The latest Gartner goods for the 4th quarter of 2009 shows that Symbian leads with 46.9% market share with RIM in second at 19.9%. Unfortunately, Symbian saw a drop of 5.5% from the same quarter a year ago.

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The Smart Phone Market at a Glance

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Motorola has recently announced that their latest touchscreen phone ‘QUENCH (aka CLIQ XT)‘ will be coming to Brazil in late March via TIM (the country’s third largest mobile carrier, with more than 40 million subscribers). However, there’s no word on pricing yet at the moment. To refresh your memory, the QUENCH offers a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash, a full virtual QWERTY keyboard, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), an electronic compass, A-GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack and runs on Android 1.5 OS with supports for Google services and MOTOBLUR features. [Press Release]

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Nokia has started to produce the Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition that comes covered with 18 carat gold. The special edition phone plus boasts a 3.2-inch touchscreen display at 360 x 640 resolution, an 8GB of internal memory, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a microSD memory card slot, 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi connectivity, an integrated FM transmitter and a 5-megapixel camera with AutoFocus and Carl Zeiss optics. The luxury edition of Nokia N97 Mini will be launched in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Middle East from Q2 2010 onwards for around $850. [Mobile-geeks]

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The Almighty FCC has finally approved the Acer beTouch E110 Android-powered smartphone, so folks in the US will receive that handset very soon. that entry-level smartphone is equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a GPS capability, a 3.5mm headphone jack, social networking capability, Acer web widgets support, a 3.2-megapixel camera, a 256MB ROM, a 256MB RAM and a 416MHz ST Ericsson PNX6715 processor. Stay tuned for more updates. [UnWiredView]

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