After the comparison between G1 and the iPhone we at Fonearena had presented, here is our comparison of Nokia 5800 with the Apple iPhone 3G
As we had mentioned earlier, regardless of the outcome of the comparative study, Apple should sure be proud of its achievement – of the iPhone setting the benchmark for all future super phones.
Nokia has always been at the forefront of environmental initiatives. With their Take-back campaign, they have proved that they do care.
With this campaign, Nokia aims to encourage handset users to dispose off their unusable or old handsets and accessories of any brand at recycle bins installed at Nokia Care Centres and Nokia Priority Dealers.
Users will be given a gift for participating in the campaign and Nokia will plant a tree for every dropped mobile.
Kicking off the campaign from New Delhi, it will soon be replicated across 1300 outlets across the country.
The recycling will be undertaken by reputed companies. Continue reading “Nokia starts Environment Initiative to Recycle mobiles”
Asus announced their latest business PDA with full touch screen – the P565.
The handset has the fastest CPU – the 800 MHz Marvell TavorP and comes with the company’s latest touch-driven interface – the Glide.
Specs & features at a glance:
• 2.8″ VGA screen
• Tri-band (900/1800/1900)
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• 3G with HSDPA
• Wi-Fi Continue reading “Fastest business phone in the world Asus P565 announced”
Nokia launched its much awaited Touch Screen Music handset the Nokia 5800 in India.
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is the ultimate music and entertainment device that will bring touch User Interface to a broad segment of Indian consumers as well as provide them with a newer & better way of experiencing music. The device along with offering a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, also has a pen stylus and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a music and entertainment device complemented by a touch interface. Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the Web and to online sharing.
Continue reading “Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Touch phone launched in India”
Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC are being dragged to court by Avi Koschitzki who claims that the iPhone 3G is defective.
The suit was moved from the Nassau County Supreme Court, the state court where it was filed by plaintiff, to a federal court in the Eastern District of New York. The primary complaints are with the allegedly easily breakable casing and spotty 3G network coverage.
“The 3G iPhones do not and cannot adequately perform due to the insufficient 3G bandwidths and AT&T infrastructure,” the suit says. The suit is “based upon information and belief that the 3G iPhones demand too much power from the 3G bandwidths and the AT&T infrastructure is insufficient to handle this overwhelming 3G signal based on the high volume of 3G iPhones it and Apple have sold,” the suit says.
The class-action suit may include consumers that bought defective iPhones designed, marketed, manufactured, distributed and sold by the defendants. Continue reading “iPhone in trouble! Suit filed against Apple and AT&T for ‘defects’ in the iPhone”
vKewl launched by Virgin Mobile is an economical handset with a 1.3 mega pixel camera and Video Recording capability, perhaps the only one in this price range with these features. The handset also includes lifetime incoming validity and a prepaid connection.
Specs & features at a glance:
• 1.8-inch TFT LCD
• 176 x 220 pixel resolution display
• 262k colours
• Preloaded games
• microSD card slot
• WAP
• Modem
• MP3 player
• FM Radio Continue reading “vKewl by Virgin Mobile – Economical + Camera + Video recording – great buy!!”
India is fast becoming the launch pad for hi-end mobile phones. Sony Ericsson launched the Xperia X1 in India a good two weeks before the US launch. WOW!
At Fonearena, we have been tracking the Xperia since Feb 2008 and covered the handset extensively. Read the coverage here.
While the specs and features of the Xperia are on Fonearena and can be viewed here, we take another look at what is touted to be SE’s most flamboyant handset.
The X1 has killer looks and an arc-slider design, with fully functional nine customisable panels, a 3-inch clear wide VGA display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 4-way key and optical joystick navigation and a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera within a quality metal-finish body. Phew!
It is SE’s first Windows Mobile handset and has the highest data transfer rate (HSDPA/HSUPA) and WiFi support. Continue reading “SE Xperia X1 launched in India!!!”
Nokia announced another addition to its Eseries range, the Nokia E63 at Espoo, Finland.
A mid range handset (priced at a reasonable Euros 199 or Rs 12100 approximately exclusive of applicable taxes) that has a QWERTY keypad and features that are useful to people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well.
“Our research shows that people want a device that deals with both their personal and professional lives, but helps them to separate the two. When someone sits down at lunch, they want to update their social network or browse their personal email account and they don’t want work getting in the way of that. It’s another great case of technology adapting to the people that use it,” says Soren Petersen, Senior Vice President, Nokia. “The Nokia E63 is a new proposition for Eseries – a messaging device where people will be just as involved in their social network as they are in their business network.” “People use Eseries to access their corporate mail, review their calendar and work in their business network, so the Nokia E63 still includes Wi-Fi connectivity, easy access to Mail for Exchange and dedicated key access to contacts, calendar and email” he adds.
Qik is an amazing new software that allows every mobile user to share their moments live with their friends, family and their world with the click of a button from anywhere in the world.
Qik’s free service allows users to stream video live to the Internet from their mobile phone, while those watching the videos on the web can engage in live interactive chat with the person broadcasting.
Engaging two-way communication, a vision of the future?
“It’s a real milestone for mobile technology that an advanced utility like Qik is now available on mass market cell phones,” said Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Qik. “We have been astounded by the use of Qik by smartphone owners, and are excited to see what mass market cell phone users will stream live to the Web.” Continue reading “Stream your videos LIVE straight from your mobile phones with QIK”
The LG KS500 is a slider is just okay in its looks but its features are knock out.
Specs & features at a glance:
• 3 megapixel camera
• QVGA display
• GPS receiver
• Yahoo! Go maps
• Tri-band GSM
• Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA
• 102.8 x 49.2 x 14.9 mm
• 262K colour display
• 100MB of built-in memory
• microSD card for 8GB
Continue reading “LG KS500 – Knock out features, okay looks”
Nokia N79 is another phone from the Nokia N series, after N85 made its way earlier and this one is a combination of intelligence and customizable design with a fully-loaded multimedia device.
The Nokia N79 is THE handset for music buffs. The handset comes preloaded with ‘Anthems 1998-2008’, a compilation of 19 all-time favourite classic club songs and 17 new age music videos, presented by the Ministry of Sound…only for the Indian market.
It is raining Motorola handsets in India.
If you are considering upgrading your old Ming A1200 handset .. the time has come !
After the recent launch of the ROKR EM30 has come MOTOMING A1600
Motorola has always been selling touchscreen phones . Now this Ming brings one more handset to the Touchscreen phone battleground
Stylish and sleek would define the new AURA by Motorola. (Yes…finally a handset that looks different from the box type iPhones and Nokias!)
Discerning feature:
The AURA has the FIRST EVER circular LCD display with colours and 300 dpi resolution and a Grade 1, 62-carat sapphire crystal lens.
Encased in stainless steel housing, the AURA has textures and patterns chemically etched into its surface. The Swiss-made main bearing, gears composed of Rockwell 50-55 hardened steel and 130 precision ball bearings work in tandem to drive the assisted-opening blade. Motorola likens the effect to that of opening a luxury car door rather than accessing a mobile device. Its custom-engineered rotating mechanism is composed of more than 200 high-precision individual parts, and the gears are protected from harsh conditions with the same coatings used in high-performance racing engines.
Motorola ROKR EM30 was recently launched in India.
Specs & features at a glance:
• 2-inch TFT display
• 2MP camera
• Media player
• FM radio with RDS
• microSD card support (up to 8GB)
• Bluetooth with A2DP
• EDGE/GPRS support
• USB 2.0
Continue reading “Motorola ROKR EM30 – budget handset – Now in India”
Spice launched the S-580 yesterday. This handset is a great Diwali gift idea from a husband to a wife, boyfriend to girl friend, or dad to daughter.
The highlight of the handset is a feature called Dazzle Ring-tone that allows users to listen to a fresh ring tone every time they get a call. The phone shuffles and picks a new ring tone from the list of 10 user-selected ring tones on every new call.
Continue reading “Spice S-580 Diwali gift idea Economy music handset”
