10/1/08 - 11/1/08

Samsung unveils i7110 Symbian Smartphone

After leaking a couple times, Samsung i7110 has been officially announced a few hours back. The i7110 is the Nokia N79 rival from Samsung and has better specs than it's rival. The i7110 also runs on the S60 3rd Edition FP2 like the N79. The i7110 is very slim in size with a thickness of just 12.9 mm. Also it has a OLED 2.6 inch QVGA Screen as compared to the 2.4 inch screen of N79. The Nokia N85 has a similar 2.6 inch AMOLED screen in it. It has an 8-way Optical Trackpad like the Samsung i900 Omnia which allows the user to move the cursor just like a mouse.

Coming to specs, the i7110 has in addition to the screen, a 5 Mega Pixel Camera with dual LED flash. It also has geotagging, face, smile and blink detection. Also it has Wi-fi(with DLNA certification) for surfing as well as GPS for navigation. Samsung also bundles it's Samsung Navigator application which has maps of 10 European cities in it including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, and Rome. However you can't use the Nokia Maps like you do in Nokia Mobile Phones as it's incompatible with Samsung S60 phones (atleast till now).

The i7110 can also double up as camcorder with impressive VGA recording capability and support for high speed recording also. It also comes with DNSe 2.0 Engine, like the Samsung Innov8. Among other things it also has a FM Transmitter which allows transmitting any playing song to a nearby FM receiver. The FM transmitter can also be switched on to receive voice navigation guide via car speakers when using GPS. It also supports DivX playback natively, without any need for conversion. It also boasts of TV-out so you can view your videos & photos on your TV.

It comes with a MicroSD Card slot with support for SDHC (SD High Capacity) Cards. It comes bundled with FIFA 2008 & Asphalt Games, however Nokia's N-Gage can't run on it. The only thing missing in it are a Camera Lens Cover, Xenon Flash & a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The Samsung i7110 should be available in Europe just in time for the Christmas holidays. It will start shipping first in Russia from November 2008 with other markets following soon.

Detailed Specs of Samsung i7110 :

5 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with Dual LED Flash
VGA (640 x 480) 30 FPS & QVGA (240 x 320) 120 FPS Video Capture
Face recognition with smile detection and blink detection & GPS geotagging
2.6 inch QVGA OLED Screen with resolution of 240 x 320 pixels
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
DivX playback
DNSe Engine 2.0
3G, HSDPA, Wi-fi & GPS
Quad Band GSM
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
DivX/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4 player
MP3/eAAC+/WMA/AMR/RealAudio player
FM Radio with RDS
FM transmitter
Micro SD card slot
Optical trackpad
FIFA 2008, Asphalt Games
Symbian OS v9.3, Series 60 rel. 3.2 FP2
1200 mAh Battery
118 x 52 x 12.9 mm dimensions & 125 gm weight

Source : Samsung

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LG launch Prada II KF 900

LG today announced the successor of the ever popular Prada phone which had leaked earlier. Officially called KF 900, the Prada II bumps up the specs of the original Prada phone to 5 Mega Pixel Camera, Wi-fi, 3G, HSDPA & Qwerty Keypad. The 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens comes to replace the modest 2 megapixel shooter of the original Prada phone. With 3G & HSDPA present, users can use to surf on the go. The handset has become thicker with a thickness of 18 mm against a thickness of 12 mm in the original Prada due to the inclusion of the sliding Qwerty Keyboard. The absence of GPS in Prada II is bound to raise a few eyebrows considering that LG is demanding a price of € 600 euros (£469 & $810). The new Prada mobile will be available though major mobile dealerships in Italy, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Netherlands in the 4Q of 2008.

Detailed Specs of LG Prada II KF 900 :

5 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with Flash
Schneider-Kreuznach optics
VGA (640 x 480) Video Capture
3.0 inch WQVGA Screen with resolution of 400 x 240 pixels
Quad Band GSM
3G HSDPA & Wi-fi
Physical Qwerty Keypad
Video player MPEG4/3gp/DivX6
Media player MP3/AAC+/WAV
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
Micro SD card slot
Photo & Video Editor
104.5 x 54 x 16.8 mm dimensions

Source : LG

Get push feature for your gmail in iphone

Hi Friends,

As you all must be aware that the latest firmware of iPhone has introduced the feature of push mail. But sadly for Gmail its not fully push, its a fetch system, which checks for your mail ever 15 mins or 30 mins or more.

The real push is only for Apple's paid service mobile me, MS Exchange and yahoo mail.

So I came across an idea to get Gmail as push in iPhone via yahoo. This may be useful to many Gmail users.

Its a very simple process.

Step 1:
Create a new ymail account at yahoo (If you have a yahoo account then u can use that & combine the yahoo & Gmail into 1)

Step 2:
Login in your Gmail & go to settings....and then select the option of filters....and then finally click on "Create New Filter".
Then enter your Gmail email address in the to section like shown in the image below.

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Click on Next Step

Select the option of "Mark as read" to avoid confusion in your Gmail account. (If you don't select that, then all the mails forwarded to ymail> will be shown as unread in Gmail)

Then enter your "ymail" email address in forward it to column as shown in the picture below.

Enter your ymail id in forwarding column

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Click on Create Filter to finish the process.

Now all the mails sent to your Gmail will be forwarded to ymail automatically.

Step 3:
In your iPhone, delete or deactivate your Gmail mail setting. (This is done to avoid duplication of emails in your phone)

Step 4:
Create a new mail account of yahoo (your new ymail address which you just made).
And in settings of iPhone don't forget to keep the push on for yahoo.

That's it guys & gals..........you will now get all your Gmail mails pushed immediately via free yahoo.............!! Isn't that awesome?

The only minus point in this system is, you cant edit the outgoing smtp & use the Gmail for sending mails. So when you send email from your iPhone, it will go via yahoo. But you can always add a signature in settings and mention your Gmail address.

I hope this would be useful to the many iPhone + Gmail users who wanted free push mail. And one more important thing........with the new iPhone firmware 2.1, apple seems to have messed up the push feature altogether....and when the phone is idle, it does not work. It works only when the phone is in use. Even the fetch of Gmail is not working in idle mode. But apple has recognised this bug & is working upon it and will correct it soon in a future firmware.

However the users with firmware 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 should be able to get push emails even in idle mode.

HTC T8920 leaks, has WiMax support

HTC has presented a WiMax enabled device at the WiMax World Conference in Chicago. The phone in question is the HTC T8920 and looks exactly like the HTC Touch HD. The T8920 also contains the 3.8 inch screen with a resolution of 840 x 480. We can see from the images that the phone runs on Windows Mobile with Touch 3D running on the top. Let's wait for HTC to announce it.

Source : Mobile Review Forums

Meizu M8 to launch in India & China by December

Meizu has announced that it will launch it's iPhone clone in India & China from December onwards. The 8GB model of Meizu M8 will cost somewhere between US $380-470. Taiwan-based retailer Geek IT Stores announced that it's signed up as a distribution partner. While it didn't announce a date in its press release, the company's sales head revealed that the phone would be released in December, with China first on the list to be followed shortly by a roll-out in India, where it'll cost between Rs. 18,000 and Rs. 22,000.

Source : Indiaprwire

LG launch KC 780, has 8 Mega Pixel Camera

LG today announced the KC 780 Camera Phone after it was leaked earlier. The KC 780 contains a 8 Mega Pixel Camera & is just 13.9 mm thick, which is quite a feat considering it contains such a high resolution camera in it. It is the slimmest handset till now to have a 8 Mega Pixel Camera as the Samsung M8000 Pixon is 14.8 mm thick. Apart from being a digital camera, it also doubles up as a camcorder as it can shoot in Wide VGA at a resolution of 720 x 480 at 30 Frames per Second. The KC 780 also has other features like ace and smile detection, beauty shot, image stabilization and ISO 1600.

The KC 780 has a 2.4 inch display with support of 262 colors & QVGA (240 x 320) resolution. It has the latest Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, 140 MB Storage & MicroSD card slot. However it doesn't have support for 3G or HSDPA so the only choice for data transfers is EDGE. The KC 780 will be also be able to stream video over it's bluetooth connection so it can also double up as a wireless web cam.

The Kc 780 is the second 8 Mega Pixel Shooter from LG after the KC 910 Renoir. It's main competition is from the other 8 Mega Pixel phones like the Sony Ericsson C905, Samsung i8510 Innov8 & Samsung M8000 Pixon. The tri-band (900/1800/1900) handset will start shipping as early as November this year at a price which is yet to be announced.

Detailed Specs of LG KC 780 :

8 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash
Schneider-Kreuznach optics
720 x 480 & 640 x 480 30 FPS Video Capture
Camera face and smile detection, Beauty shot
2.4 inch QVGA Screen with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Tri Band GSM 900/1800/1900 with EDGE
Video player MPEG4/3gp/DivX6
Media player MP3/AAC+/WAV
Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
Micro SD card slot
140 MB Internal Memory
Document viewer (DOC, XLS, PDF, PPT)
107 x 52 x 13.9 mm dimensions & 119 gm weight

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Motorola launch Q11, has no 3G

Motorola has launched a new Winodws Mobile Smartphone today. It's running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard & is the successor of the Motorola Q9. The Q11 has Wi-fi, GPS & the 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera as it's main attraction. However it also suffers in some respect due to only 64 MB RAM & a slow ARM 7 LTE CPU from Freescale. The Q11 also has USB v1.1 and Bluetooth v 2.1 on board and also contains a microSD card slot for expanding the built-in memory. The lack of 3G & HSDPA support however will force users to use EDGE for on-the-go wireless data or Wi-fi when they can find a hotspot.

Also the battery is on the slim side with capacity of just 1170 mAH. The Q11 has a 2.4 Inch QVGA Screen which is not aligned to the center of the phone but is shifted to right. In it's place there are notification LED's. Motorola Q 11 measures the pretty slim 117 x 6 4x 11.7 mm, totaling a volume of 85cc. Its weight is passable 115 g. Motorola Q 11 is expected to be available in December 2008 but there is no information regarding its pricing yet.

Detailed Specs of Motorola Q11 :

3.2 Mega Pixel Fixed Focus Camera with LED Flash
2.4 inch QVGA Screen with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels
Full Qwerty Heypad
Push E-mail & IM
Freescale ARM 7 LTE processor
LTE + Intel Bulverde Chipset
64 MB Ram
EDGE, Wi-fi & GPS
Quad Band GSM
Bluetooth 2.1
Video player MPEG4/3gp/WMV/H.264
Media player MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA
Micro SD card slot
Pocket Internet Explorer 6
microUSB Slot, USB 1.1
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
117 x 64 x 11.7 mm dimensions & 115 gm weight

Source : Motorola

Blackberry 9500 Storm is finally announced

After numerous leaks, Research in Motion (RIM) finally announced the Blackberry 9500. It will be exclusively sold by Verizon in US, Vodafone in Europe & Telus in Canada. After the final specs were released a notable omission is the lack of Wi-fi in the Storm. That seems to be a big mistake on part of Blackberry to make an iPhone rival Touch Screen Smartphone without Wi-fi functionality. In present times, Wi-fi has become a must in High-end Smartphones & RIM's decision to not pack the 9500 with Wi-fi could hurt it in 9500's sales. Especially when Nokia has started to put Wi-fi in all of it's new N-Series & E-Series phones. In Windows Mobile world, almost all phones have Wi-fi in them. The decision is also confusing as the Blackberry 9000 Bold already has Wi-fi in it.

The Blackberry Storm 9500 will be sold through Vodafone networks and will be free on monthly plans of 35 GBP and up with an 18-month contract.The Blackberry Storm 9530 is the variant of the handset that will be sold in North America through Verizon & Telus. Along with the quad-band GSM and 2100Mhz UMTS support that the 9500 model has, it will also offer CDMA2000 1xEV-DO support. The 9500 Storm will be available for purchase soon.

Detailed Specs of Blackberry 9500 Storm :

3 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash
3.3 inch Touch Screen with resolution of 360 x 480 pixels
True Haptics
3.5 mm headphone jack
624 Mhz CPU
192 MB Ram
3G, HSDPA & GPS
Quad Band GSM
Bluetooth 2.0
Video player DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp
Media player MP3/WMA/AAC+
DataViz Document Viewer/Editor
Micro SD card slot
Blackberry Maps
Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
BlackBerry OS
112.5 x 62.2 x 13.9 mm

Source : Research in Motion

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Blackberry 9500 Storm User Guide leaks

After the Video & Slides of the Blackberry 9500 leaked, now the whole user guide has been also presented. The user guide has many photos detailing all the features of the Blackberry 9500. The Blackberry 9500 should be officially launched soon judging by the leaks & hype surrounding it. Let's hope RIM announces it soon.

Source : Boy Genius Report

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Sony Ericcson Kate leaks, has 5 Mega Pixel Camera with Xenon Flash

Sony Ericcson's new 5 Mega Pixel shooter has leaked. Codenamed 'Kate', the phone is rumored to better than the current C902 in SE's line up due to the presence of Xenon Flash. The phone is thicker than the C902 but xenon flash, LED Flash, camera mode switch, and Smile shutter feature. It should also have 3G & HSDPA. The phone looks like a mix between C902 & the K770 phones from SE. Let's wait for it's launch to see how it performs.

Samsung i7110 leaks, Symbian 5 Mega Pixel Shooter

The Samsung i7110 has again leaked, but this time the i7110 is a different looking phone altogether. The Keypad has changed to the one found in the Soul handsets made by Samsung. The i7110 has 5 Mega Pixel Camera, accelerometer for auto screen rotation, Dual LED Flash, 2.6 inch QVGA Screen, VGA 30 FPA Video Capture, slow motion & high speed QVGA recording, FM Radio with RDS, Bluetooth, FM Transmitter, DLNA support, Wi-fi, GPS & DivX & XviD playback support. It runs on the latest Symbian 3rd Edition FP2 OS.

The i7110 is Samsung's response to the recently launched Nokia N79 & should have a similar price to it. In addition the i7110 has a bigger screen compared to the 2.4 inch screen on the N79. The only thing missing in the i7110 is the 3.5 mm headphone jack which can be found in the N79. The i7110 should be announced in the upcoming Symbian Smartphones Show.

Blackberry 9500 Storm video & slides leak

RIM's Blackberry 9500 Storm's slides have leaked. The slides show the Storm's Qwerty Keypad, it's basic features and it's UI/OS in action. The Storm is the Touch Screen Phone from Blackberry & is scheduled to be offically launched this month. It has already appeared on German Vodafone site. The Storm features 3.25-inch display with a resolution of 360 x 480 pixels, quad-band GSM support, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack and a 3 megapixel auto focus camera. It's also running RIM's latest Blackberry OS which has Touch Support.