Sony Ericsson W910i

Sony Ericsson has launched the W910i Walkman mobile phone in the Indian market. This latest entrant to the company’s Walkman series of phones offers two very unique features called Shake Control and SensMe.
The W910i sports a large 2.36 bright crystal 262,000 TFT screen, offering users a great multimedia experience. The feature-rich phone weighs just 86gms and is only 12.5mm thin.
The Shake Control feature of the Sony Ericsson W910i allows users to better control their music. So, just by flicking the phone one way or the other, you will be able to skip to the next/previous track. Whereas, if one shakes the phone back and forth, this will shuffle the playlist. Besides music, users will also be able to play motion-sensing games on this phone.
The phone’s SensMe feature offers users a new way to browse playlists, allowing them to choose songs and create playlists according to their own tastes, rather than by artists or album. Tracks on the phone are presented in a unique visual that shows each song as dots in a matrix and places them according to tempo and style.
Yet another great feature is the auto rotate display function that automatically adjusts the W910i handset’s display according to the way the user is holding the phone. All the user has to do is turn the phone to see the image or video automatically rotating according to the orientation of the phone.
The Sony Ericsson W910i phone offers a new media browser which places all the phone’s media in one central area, making it every easy to access music, videos or podcasts from one single icon on the phone menu.
Plus, the new Media Manager PC programme allows users to organize music, photos and podcasts on a PC and transfer them either via USB to a phone or to a MemoryStick Micro card using the bundled USB adaptor.

Other unique features offered by the Sony Ericsson W910i Mobile Phone:

Motion Sensor Gaming – Control game functions by balancing the phone on your palm

Audio books – listen to your favorite books

Pod cast – Subscribe, Browse & Listen to Podcasts

Unique Media Experience with Walkman 3.0

Enhanced Track ID- Sample a song playing and get to know the artist & lyrics of the song

PLUS – Access TV, movies, music and more

Comes with Unique USB Adapter – convert your 2GB card into pen drive

Sony Ericsson W902

The Sony Ericsson W902 delivers music as it was meant to be heard through Sony Ericsson’s revolutionary clear audio experience. With crystal clear sound quality and a dramatically richer bass, together with Sony Ericsson premium headphones, HPM-77 included in-box, your favorite tracks will sound better than ever. The Sony Ericsson W902 is a higher end Walkman phone, featuring not only the latest state of the art Walkman 3.0 player, but also a 5.0 mega pixel camera with autofocus and flash.

LG vx6000

The new generation of color screens. LG released the VX6000 to become the flagship model for Verizon Wireless. The clamshell design has both internal and external displays for easy viewing. An internal 262k TFT color screen, and an external rolling OEL screen.

Other features include CMX-MIDI polyphonic ring tones, and a built-in 640 x 480 pixel CMOS camera, voice activated dialing, and Get It Now service. The VX6000 is released to compete in the high end cellular phone market.
Perhaps the biggest drawback with the VX6000 is beyond its control. LG designed this phone specifically for Verizon's CDMA network, incompatible with all other networks. But if you're a loyal Verizon subscriber, the you 

 

Design

The LG VX6000 is Verizon Wireless's flagship model. Unlike GSM phones, the VX6000 was specifically design to work with Verizon's CDMA network. This phone is incompatible with other CDMA networks.
CDMA varies with GSM and TDMA fundamentally based on how voice is transmitted through the airwaves. The inherent technical properties of CDMA makes voice quality more resistant to interference and noise. That results in cleaner and clearer voices.
The VX6000 voice quality is much better than GSM phones. It has to do more with the technology and service rather than to phone itself. But regardless, superior nonetheless.
So if CDMA is the better technology why didn't it take off? Well, simply put, because the rest of the world already had already settled on a standard. GSM's appeal was its ability to store customer information on a SIM card. So swapping phones was effortless. With Europe and Asia firmly embracing GSM, CDMA came too late and was always the minority. So the VX6000 is not compatible when outside the Verizon network. To many this may not be what they are looking for. If a world phone is needed, then GSM is the way to go.
From a hardware perspective, the VX6000 is stunning. With color internal and external screens, the VX6000 is sure to be a hit. As for ring tones, the phone is CMX 3.0 compliant. Midi files can to be converted to 16 bit mono wav and used for ring tones. As opposed to midis which is like storing a sheet music of notes to play. By using wav files, VX6000 has the ability to not only play music, but use voices, or real music from CDs.
Additionally, with the popularity of built-in cameras on cellular phones, the VX6000 does not disappoint. In a market filled with camera phones, the VX6000 is the first one to be released on the Verizon network. A built-in 640 x 480 pixel, 330k pixel resolution, CMOS camera is attached to the back. The camera as a whole performed well, but where it really shines is the versatility of the functions. In addition to a 4X digital zoom, the phone also comes with a wide variety of image adjusting filters and tools. And for the playful side, custom frames to add to your photos are available too.
So with all the great features what's not to like about the VX6000? Well... for one, the difficulty in sending content to your phone. Verizon has made it very difficult to transfer files from a PC to the VX6000. Coincidentally, it is extremely easy to use the built in BREW platform to download Verizon's online content... at a fee. Undoubtedly, people that buy this phone want to take advantage of all the colors and multimedia features. And if you want to customize it, it's going to take a couple bucks.
Another thing to consider is that the VX6000 does NOT have analog. It only runs on digital CDMA 800 / 1900 bands. So if you do frequent traveling to rural areas and use analog, then this will be a big setback.

Nokia E52

GLOBAL – Alongside breaking news of the brand new Nokia E52 we’ve managed to pull together a fine photo gallery of Nokia’s latest slimline Eseries caller – a collection of shots of the E52 dressed in golden aluminium and metal grey aluminium. Plus, we’ve rounded up a bunch of the key highlights and a few of the nerdier numbers and facts associated with the E52.

Alongside its marathon talk and standby time talents (up to 8 hours and 23 days respectively) one of the E52′s core talents is the fact that it’s as speedy as it is svelte when it comes to devouring data and uploading information via your network – it supports HSDPA download services at up to 10.2Mb per second, and also features newer HSUPA upload services at up to 2Mb per second, making it one of the best Nokia devices for your sharing photos, movies and getting more from social networking on the move. It’s happy to soak up and store your shared content in abundance within its slender frame, thanks to its ability to stomach microSD memory cards up to 16GB – plus it comes with a 1GB card in the box.

Launch: Nokia C5

ESPOO, Finland – Nokia today launches the latest C5 device, an inexpensive touchscreen smartphone with a couple of neat features that may well pique your interest if you want a new device that’s simple to use but covers all of the essentials for modern-day phones. What’s new with the C5-03? Find out more and feast your eyes on the pictures after the break

The device has a 3.2-inch touch display and now features Wi-Fi, for fast internet access without the need or expense of a data plan. It also features a compass and assisted GPS for use with the latest version of the free Ovi Maps hands-free navigation service, now featuring public transport support and location sharing through social networks. Like many recent Nokias, you can put your most important contacts directly onto the homescreen so you can call, message or chat them up in just two taps. The C5 has a 5-megapixel camera with 4X digital zoom, but no flash.

It measures 105.8 mm x 51.0 mm x 13.8 mm (L x W x H) and weighs 93g – that makes it a similar size to the (imminently) forthcoming C6-01, and quite a bit smaller than the Nokia N8 or C7. It comes with up to 40MB of user memory and support for MicroSD cards up to 16GB. The talktime is quoted at 11.5 hours for GSM use and 4.5 hours using 3G. Standby time is estimated at 24-25 days. The operating system is Symbian^1 (aka. S60 5th edition touch-edition).

Nokia X6 16GB

Nokia X6 is a touchscreen smartphone within a compact and square for music lovers, since it provides up to 35 hours of uninterrupted music.The X6 looks like a traditional slider phone – at 13.8mm thick it certainly looks like it could accommodate a physical keyboard. Not to mention the 36 GB of internal memory that stores a large number of tracks and more. X6 slightly sunken in the back.to lay down and scratches on tables.
Ring Tones
Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Weight
122.00g
Display Colour
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Frequency / Band
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100)
Entertainment
Stereo FM radio with RDS,Spore, D Mix Tour, Asphalt4 + downloadable,Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0,WMV/RV/MP4/3GP playe,MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A player,OrganizerVoice command/dial TV-out,Flash Lite 3.0
Connectivity
GPRSClass, 32 ,EDGE Class 32, 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps;Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology ,Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP,USB v2.0 micro
Display Size
360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
Messaging
SMS, MMS, Email, IM
Battery
Talk timeUp to 8 h 30min Stand-by Up to 401 h
Dimension
111 x 51 x 13.8 mm
Browser
WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Memory
Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries, Photocall,Call records,Practically32GB storage 128mb RAM ,microSD.
Camera
5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics,autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light,Geo-tagging

Nokia C7 – the smartphone for everyone

FARNBOROUGH, England – Creating a smartphone for everyone, such as the new Nokia C7, isn’t without its challenges. Sure, it shares much of the same architecture as the new Nokia N8 and incoming Nokia C6-01, but it’s still an individual device in its own right. Consider that it’s being sold through many network operators around the world, that it’ll be used by people from multiple cultures, who speak myriad different languages and you start to get a picture of the complexity involved. We caught up with the man behind the plan, Tim Allen, the product manager responsible for bringing the Nokia C7 to life.

Texting is a big part of the Nokia C7 users’ interaction with the device and Tim says it was vital to get texting just right on the Nokia C7 touchscreen. So the project team implemented a new method of haptic feedback, using a linear vibra to offer the feedback instead of using a traditional rotary vibra (the vibra is a mechanical device which causes the vibration you sense from the haptic feedback). This enabled them to better tune the response so it was just right for the volume of texting Tim and his team felt users would be doing. Having played with the device for the past couple of weeks, I was surprised I hadn’t turned the haptics off – something I normally do with a new touchscreen device as I’m not really a fan of that kind of feedback. “It works, then” was TIm’s response.

Although the device is now going on sale across the globe, the work doesn’t stop there. The team are already nearing approval stage for the first software update and the second one is already in the works. They are monitoring initial feedback, to ensure that where possible, key features early users may be looking for are part of the road map for software updates. Late in the development process the team weren’t happy with the portrait QWERTY keyboard so it was left out of the final build. Since then though they’ve continued development and although Tim tells us it isn’t quite there yet, it will be very soon. Expect to see it in an upcoming software release.


Tim believes his role is “to represent the consumer” and ensure all the things he believes they will want in a device, appear in a device. Resources are finite though, and deadlines need to be met, which is where tough decisions need to be made. It’s Tim and the team who need to make those calls and he says “it’s a question of finding the sweet spot, not trying to do everything for everybody”. Having played with the C7 for a few weeks now, I’d say he’s pretty much got it right. What do you think? What else would you like to see?

Nokia C3 launches

GLOBAL – The Nokia C3 is the first of three new messaging devices to break cover today. It’s also the first Series 40 device to come sporting a full QWERTY keyboard, but that’s not the only trick up its slender sleeve. Designed to put messaging and social networking in the palm of your hand this tiny tyke comes packing access to your favourite Instant Messaging, social networking and email accounts, all courtesy of Nokia Messaging. Read on after the jump to find out what else is in store.

With Nokia Messaging comes one click access to Ovi Mail (for easy email account creation right on the device) and Ovi Chat (for keeping in touch with your friends). The Nokia C3 also boasts conversational SMS chat, so you can keep on top of your text dialogue and you’ll find your favourite contacts right there on the homescreen, where you’ll also see news and alerts.

Not content with just being a social butterfly the C3 also boasts Wi-Fi connectivity, a two-megapixel camera, 2.4-inch screen and support for up to 8GB of storage on a microSD card.

The C3 will be available in the second quarter of 2010 in a medley of colours including golden white, slate grey and not forgetting hot pink and is expected to retail at about €90 before taxes and subsidies.