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Hands-on of Samsung Projector Phone by Popular Science

Samsung Show in Action

Samsung is going to announce a Projector Phone called the W7900 Show. It has a 3.2 inch OLED Touch Screen, TV Tuner and a 5 Mega Pixel Camera, but the most important thing that differentiates it with other phones is that it has a DLP Projector which can display images of upto 50 inches. Here are a few pics of it in action which were taken by Popular Science.

The Specs of the SAMSUNG SHOW W7900 include a Projector of 10 lumens having a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels and image size of up to 50 inches diagonal. It has OLED Touch Screen with resolution of 240 x 400 pixel and display size of 3.2 inches. It has 3G HSDPA up to 7.2Mbps and Tri GSM Bands (900/1800/1900 MHz. It has a 5 Megapixel Camera with a VGA front facing camera for video calls. The Show measures 4.4 inches x 2.2 inches x 0.7 inches. The Price is yet to be determined.

Comparison with iPhone

Thickness Comparison with iPhone

Home Screen

Projecting a Movie in Dark Room

Another Frame from the Movie

Widgets

Indoor Photo without Flash

Indoor Photo with Flash

Source : Popular Science

Nokia launches N97, first N-Series with Qwerty

Nokia launched the N 97 multimedia smart touch phone (Nokia just calls it Multimedia Computer

). The most distinguishing feature of N97 is that it has a physical Qwerty keypad to help in messaging and mailing. Another touted feature is the 35 degree kickstand that helps in watching videos but can be bothersome if you drop the phone.

Looking at the spces, it has a 5 Mega Pixel Camera with Carl Zeiss Optics, 32 GB Flash Storage, a huge 3.5 inch screen with a decent (by HTC Touch HD's standards) resolution of 640 x 360, Wi-fi, GPS, FM Transmitter, 3.5 mm jack and a digital compass too. The styling is different than the N81/N96/N85 clones we saw from Nokia and we welcome that. Apart from the huge storage and the huge screen there's not much in it to differentiate it from it's other N-Series Brothers and Sisters like N85 & N96. The N97 is basically a Qwerty version of Nokia 5800 with double the storage of N96 and having all the features of N85. The N97 also supports widgets on it's home screen. The N97 also has a social feature which Nokia calls "So-Lo" which allows your friends to update their location and status.

Nokia seems to have learnt from it's mistake of N95 and N96 & has equipped the N97 with a 1500 mAh battery which should be adequate for a phone of it's size. The phone comes with a Digital Compass and Nokia Maps 3.0. The N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies. Nokia is definitely impressed to make the N97 it's Flagship of 2009. How much of a fight will it give to Sony Ericcsion Xperia X1 and a possible HTC Touch HD Pro is to be seen.

Detailed Specs of Nokia N97 :

5 Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera with Dual LED Flash
VGA (640 x 480) 30 FPS Video Capture
Qwerty Keypad
3.5 inch Touch Screen with resolution of 360 x 640 pixels
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Proximity Sensor
3G, HSDPA, Wi-fi & GPS
Quad Band GSM
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
MPEG4/WMV/3gp video player
MP3/eAAC+/WMA/AMR/RealAudio player
Digital Compass
FM Radio & FM transmitter
Micro SD card slot
32 GB Internal Memory
TV-Out
Symbian OS v9.5, Series 60 rel. 5
1500 mAh Battery
117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9-18.3 mm dimensions & 150 gm weight

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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

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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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.