Nokia Launches 5230 and 5530 Cheap TouchScreen phones in India

Its raining new Nokia phones and laptops this week as we are just 1 week away from Nokia World 2009. Nokia has launched the 5230 XpressMusic Touchscreen phone at an attractive price of Rs.10000. The 5230 and 5530 were launched today at New Delhi, India. It’s interesting to note that 5230 was launched today in India for the first time. The device has not been spotted anywhere else in the world. Looks like Nokia is trying hard to retain its title of being the most trusted brand in India

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LG Arena Review

FoneArena presents the LG Arena Review

The LG Arena is the latest full touchscreen multimedia smartphone from LG mobiles.Interesting features include a 5 Megapixel Camera with Flash, DVD Quality video Recording , Dolby Mobile Music, 8 GB inbuilt Memory, DivX Movie Playback. This is just a short review but will try to cover the major areas. We have a Video review at the end of the post just in case you want a quick look !

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Palm Pre Pics FoneArena Exclusive

While we told you Palm Pre is coming soon to India , we are yet to hear from them about the official launch date.The GSM Version certainly does exist as it was spotted at MWC in Barcelona and also in Vietnam. Here are some pics of the CDMA version for now.

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The phone is really small and can be used without opening the keypad. But if you need o type , you need to slide out the QWERTY keyboard. The screen is a gorgeous 320×480 pixels

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Nokia 5800i passes the FCC test: Looks very similar to 5800 but loses Wi-fi

After 5800 has turned out to be a major hit for Nokia, they are now readying for a small update to its first touch screen handset in the form of Nokia 5800i XpressMusic phone. After you hear the name, you may think that this is a upgrade over Nokia 5800 with some extra feature but sorry to disappoint, this model is not an upgrade over Nokia 5800 but in fact a downgrade over the present model, The Wi-fi connectivity has been removed from this particular model. Continue reading “Nokia 5800i passes the FCC test: Looks very similar to 5800 but loses Wi-fi”

Samsung Star 3G Review Photo Gallery

Samsung Star 3G is a 3G version of its popular Star phone. These phones – Star , Star 3G and Beat DJ were announced few months ago. We take a look at the Star 3G in this review with a bunch of photos of the phone. The phone uses TouchWiz technology for an intuitive touch experience . The Accelerometer enables the display orientation to rotate automatically .

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Blackberry Storm Preview

The Blackberry Storm just arrived in our test labs today. The BB 9500 a.ka. Storm is the first ever full touchscreen Blackberry device.

No QWERTY keyboard like the other blackberries but it’s got SurePress technology so that you can use the screen alone. The display is gorgeous and we are drooling at it already.

Since we have got a lot of requests from users to review Blackberry phones you can expect to see lots of posts on the 9500 Storm and 8900 Javelin. Here is a short preview of the Storm.

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  • Some interesting features of the phone include
  • 3.2 MP Camera with Video Recording with Flash
  • GPS
  • 3.5 mm audio port and media player
  • microSD memory expansion in addition to 1 GB onboard memory

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LG Arena Preview – Music Playback

LG Arena KM900 is the latest touchscreen multimedia device from LG Mobiles and we have a review coming up soon. It’s a full touchscreen device with a 5 Mega Pixel Camera, Dolby Mobile Music, USB Charging,Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

We just preview the music playback on this phone in the video below. The speaker in action below but Its really impressive with the in-ear earphones.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOKZ4RSjYNA

In the meanwhile you can also checkout the LG Arena pics and launch details

Nokia N97 Touchscreen you won’t need a keypad !

The Nokia N97 is the second phone to run on the S60th Edition OS. Its also the 2nd phone from Nokia to run on this platform. The phone has both a onscreen input and physical keypad .Do you think the phone has a keypad looking at the below pic ? What is the feature that makes the phone special ? Do you remember that song from Race featuring Katrina .. Zara Zara ..

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Apple iPhone Video and iChat appear in Operator Inventory – Variants , Price and colors Revealed

WWDC is Tomorrow and the next gen Apple iPhone  has been leaked on an Italian Website SpazioCellulaire

See the screen of the inventory below showing all the different variants of the new iphone .

  • The new iphones are called iPhone Video and iPhone Video iChat
  • There are possibly 12 variants of the phone
  • 16 GB – 64 GB memory to be available
  • Its going to be available in various colors – White , Black, Orange , Green with Flower, Yellow , Red – This concept was bang on target Apple wants to carry the ipod nano colors concept to the iphone too

Some interesting facts about the colors are the Green W/Flowers , Yellow with fluffy bunnies

Product Red has been part of ipod family

iPhone Video Price

Even the price of the new phones have been leaked.

The 64GB version might cost $179 – $199 . Apple might charge extra for colors.

There is even a $99 16 GB version

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Retroclock – A Cool Standby Clock for the Nokia 5800

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Are you a proud owner of the popular and first touch screen phone of Nokia – Nokia 5800? Wanna flaunt some of your friends and add cool effects to this cool phone? Continue reading “Retroclock – A Cool Standby Clock for the Nokia 5800”

Google ION Unboxing Pictures and Observations

You just read about Google giving away free android phones to developers.

We thought it was the HTC Magic but then looks like Google has branded the handset as ION to mark the occasion – Google I/O

Folks from AndroidandMe have posted some great unboxing pictures of the phone.

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Nokia N97 rolling out in June,more Touchscreen phones coming soon

According to Digitimes , Nokia is launching the N97 in Taiwan next month – June. Also it going to announce more touchscreen phones , based on the Symbian S60 5th Edition  platform. This was from a Michael Hsu, general manager of Nokia Taiwan.

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Three Touch Screen Phones Star,Star 3G and Beat DJ Launched by Samsung

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Samsung recently launched three new touch screen phones named Samsung Star, Star 3G and Samsung Beat DJ. As you can view in the image above, all these three phones come with full touch screens.

During the launch, Sunil Dutt, Country Head, Samsung mobile says:

Samsung Star and Samsung Star 3G are significant additions to our full-touch screen mobile portfolio, featuring all the essential functions in one single device. At Samsung, our effort is to deliver full touch products for every consumer lifestyle”. Continue reading “Three Touch Screen Phones Star,Star 3G and Beat DJ Launched by Samsung”

Will the Blackberry Storm 2 Launch by this month end?

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In one of the recent post, Varun mentioned about Blackberry Storm 2 and all its new features. After reading it out, many blackberry lovers described their willingness to know more about this phone. Continue reading “Will the Blackberry Storm 2 Launch by this month end?”

Blackberry Storm 2 with Wi-fi is in the works

We were all cursing RIM for Blackberry Storm not having Wi-Fi

We pay so much for a hi-end touchscreen smart phone and no Wi-fi ?

Who cares if it can even control a Formula 1 Car

Now folks at Crackberry have posted some highly credible pictures of the BB Storm 2

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