Nokia n97 mini

It is a younger and smaller “brother” of the regular Nokia N97. It even has a different design, with sliding opening and improved features.

This is a Quadband GSM and UMTS equipped with HSDPA touchscreen display 3.2 megapixel resolution with 640×360 pixels and 16 million colors, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 8 GB of internal memory, Symbian OS v 9.4 S60 fifth edition, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connectivity, integrated GPS receiver, Nokia Maps, media player and FM radio, video calling, proximity sensor, accelerometer and qwerty keyboard that pops up.

The Nokia N97 mini was first presenten on the 1st of September 2009 in Stuttgart.

Nokia has the N97 in the design of a mini style conscious, socially active user had in mind.

design

the N97 mini is VERY heavy compared to the N97. The sleek metal finish on the case adds to both build quality and elegance of the phone. The metal fold-out battery cover does not creak or loosen. The N97 mini is how the N series phones SHOULD OF been made of in the first place!

But the bodywork is smaller than the bulky N97 - the N97 Mini measures 113(h) x 52.5(w) x 14.2(d) mm and weighs 138g, compared to the original's 117.2(h) x 55.3(w) x 15.9-18.25(d)mm, 150g pocket-bulging package.

Keyboard

The Keyboard is much different than the N97 as it does not have a D-pad. Instead it has the Up, Down, Left & Right keys in the bottom left corner much like a typical PC keyboard. The colors are also different from the N97 for it has Blue(Letters), White(arrow keys) and orange (symbols and numbers). The keys are kind of hard to press at first, but after a short while I got used to it. I supposed its so that you don’t accidentally mash the keys when you casually hold on to it while it’s open.

Memory

The included 8GB mass memory is a lot of room, but it was a quite a downgrade from N97’s 32GB. The phone memory was doubled from N97’s 128mb to a whopping 256mb, but the ram stayed the same at 128MB . At Idle, the N97 mini would have around 40MB free and filled up quite fast once a few applications were loaded. *Note to Nokia* : NEEDS MORE RAM!

Screen

The N97 mini has a slightly smaller 3.2″ screen from the N97’s 3.5″ but makes up for it by it’s smaller form factor

internet

Nokia's Ovi Store applications and content download store is just one of many online-based applications that come pre-loaded on the N97 Mini, connecting you to mobile-optimised internet services and social networking sites.With Wi-Fi onboard, when hooked up to a hotspot you can enjoy speedy zipping around websites and uploading or downloading of content (the phone also has a Share Online facility to bring together your online accounts details, speeding up the content sharing process).

High-speed mobile connectivity is available too via HSDPA (the up-to-3.6Mbps variety), so is pretty nippy for downloading too when you're out and about.The Nokia browser used on the N97 Mini is a tidy piece of software without dazzling with innovation. It renders full web pages quickly and efficiently, and supports Flash Lite. The user experience is an improvement over earlier S60 browsers.

Touchscreen buttons can be used to call up address bars, zoom in and out, plus a grid of navigation and control options can be brought up with a quick finger tap. It makes it easier to negotiate than on previous conventional S60 phones

media

With the keyboard out, the angled screen position is great for viewing video when the phone's sitting on your desk or lap.The display is large enough for a reasonable video-viewing experience, and playback looks smooth and bright on the display. It supports downloaded

or streamed video, so you can watch footage online or get clips from compatible services downloaded to your phone.The N97 Mini's audio performance is really pleasing to the ears. The supplied earphones are better quality than you normally get with a mobile (or iPod) - they're in-ear buds which come with alternative silicon gels to ensure a snug fit.

Music sounds rich and detailed through them, with a well-balanced frequency range including a heavy but well defined bass presence. The phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack socket on top, should you wish to try out your own headphones, though the in-box set are pretty good for a standard set of ear-gear.

Nokia N97 Mini Features

* Personalize your homepage with widgets that give you the live feed of social networks, press agencies and weather information.

* Add bookmarks and links to contacts on your main page and you have your websites and your friends just a touch away.

* Manage your email, calendar and music with dedicated widget for your page.

* Move the contents on the main page and place it where you want by dragging your finger on the display multisensory.

* Communicate in style with this stylish phone with a shiny metal cover.

* Multi-sensory touch the display to customize your main page and to move seamlessly between Web sites, maps, photos and menus.

* View web sites, videos, photos and maps with a natural angle of 35 º on the innovative tilting screen 3.2 “.

* Communicate your message quickly and easily using the keyboard or the touch keyboard on the screen.

* Log in to your contact list directly from the main page by tapping the Address Book icon.

* Stay in touch with friends, relatives and colleagues through rapid access to Ovi Contacts.

* Get instant notification from your favorite online social network dedicated to widgets thanks for your main page.

* Capture high resolution pictures and record video in DVD quality using the digital camera of 5 megapixels.

* Get a sharper image and vivid colors with Carl Zeiss optics.

* Capture pictures very successful, day or night, with the dual LED flash.

* View photos and videos directly to the big screen with the video cable connection.

* Save up to 10 hours of quality video on 8GB internal memory, or store up to 30 hours with a microSD external memory card.

N97 Specs

Dimensions

* Open side-scrolling screen tilting

* Dimensions: 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm

* Weight (with battery): 138 g

* Volume: 75 cc

* Additional information on the size and shape: tilting sliding mechanism

Keys and input method

* Full keyboard – retractable

* Keys on the cover (S60 buttons, Menu button, buttons Send / end call button, delete)

* Touchscreen

* Direction Keys

* Dedicated keys for camera and volume

Display and User Interface

* Dimensions: 3.2 ”

* Resolution: 640 x 360 pixels (QVGA)

* Up to 16.7 million colors

* Touchscreen resistant

* Brightness control

* Orientation sensor

* Proximity Sensor

* Ambient light detector

Colors

* Color available:

Cherry or Black

or Garnet

Personalization

* Home customizable

or widgets

or Topics

or Icons

or Links

or Menu

* Customizable profiles

* Ring tones: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC +, WMA

* Video ring tones

* Themes

or backgrounds

or screensavers

or ringtones

or pre-installed themes

or changeable color themes

Verdict

The Nokia N97 Mini is a decent device with plenty of features going for it, a good quality performance and build, and a very usable QWERTY keyboard to complement its hefty amount of onboard functionality. The 'Mini' label hasn't shaved a huge amount off the price tag though - it's £429 SIM-free at launch, with the N97 currently £449.Despite scaling down some features, however, the N97 Mini is possibly more attractive as a pocket QWERTY-packing smartphone handset than its N97 big brother. Its familiar S60 user interface may get the vote from Nokia smartphone fans, too - though it lacks the pizzazz of some of its touchscreen rivals.

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sony ericsson aino

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Sony Ericsson Aino

Sony Ericsson are on the move recently and the Aino is very much part of the agenda.
But living in the shadow of the Satio and X10 is not much fun we guess. So, the Sony Ericsson Aino is keen to live a double life. At first glance, it's a touchscreen PMP, but on a second look it's a regular slider phone with an extra big screen. It's not the ultimate PlayStation phone but it does have Remote Play, to wirelessly pair with Sony's PlayStation 3.

Sony Ericsson Aino is a musical mobile phone with great screen. It is, really an interesting model and is indeed worth attention.

Display and keypad

It is equipped with a 3-inch display, with non-standard resolution of 240 x 432, high brightness (adjustable by hand), greater viewing angles.

Screen is convenient, comfortable to understand information. It allows you to read e-books, to watch photos and video. I will tell you honestly, Aino is suited for this purpose perfectly. You can watch images on your PC.Interestingly, when the keypad is locked (the phone is closed) the screen turns into a horizontally oriented one.Simply put the closed device, go with a finger across the screen, thus removing the lock, you’ll see five icons multimedia features and … can chose what you want to run. Finger input is easy, because all the icons are large (even as beautifully drawn) and mistakes simply do not happen.

The sensitivity of the screen is what should be. Just great!

Camera
In Aino is installed an 8-megapixel camera with flash. Resolution is impressive; there are users that pay attention to it. As we already know, the camera works only when the phone is closed. Interface is touch, you can take a snapshot by traditionallypressing the shutter button, or simply clicking on the screen by selecting the focus point. After 1.5 seconds the camera “catches”the focus and makes that shot. By the way a very amusing feature. As I already mentioned,it’s very convenient to control – the icons are large and well-painted.

Entertainment
Yes, Aino does not belong to a series of Walkman, but the MP3-player will be enjoyed by all without exception,I am sure for one hundred percent. Music application is tastefully decorated. It’s nice that some of the settings slightly redraw that somehow distinguishes the shell of what we have seen in old models. Also, we note that the scroll bar to display
the names of songs is located on top. If you flip phone, then it will turn taking a horizontal position and an image. There is no sacred meaning in this act, if you do not pay attention to animation styles.These are decorating tricks to please the user’s eyes. Most of all I liked the tape, which swirls while playing videos.When the track comes to an end, it ends on one side of the tape. If anyone remembers, the way it happens in the recorder, it may cause nostalgia. There are more animations with CD, records, flying balloons, etc. This looks more than amusing.


in Sony Ericsson Aino 3G Mobile Phone, one can browse the internet in the widescreen mode.
The crystal clear audio clarity makes it quite enjoyable to listen to the favourite tracks in this smart gizmo upto 31 hours. It comes with a charging stand and a matching headphones to make it more attractive. The internal memory of the phone is upto 55MB which can be upped using the microSD cards. The talktime of this device is 13 hours(GSM)/4.5 hours(UMTS) nand the standby time as claimed bythe manufacturers is upto 380 hours(GSM)/367 hours(UMTS). The video talktime is upto 1 hour 40minutes,and Aino comes with the dimensions of about 104 x 50×15.5 mm. Many of the user may find this phone slightly heavy, as it weighs around 134 grams.


this mobile phone comes in Obsidian Black and Luminous White.

Key features:
3" 16M-color capacitive touchscreen, 240 x 432 pixels
Quad-band GSM support
Tri-band 3G with 7.2Mbps HSDPA, 2Mbps HSUPA
8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash; geotagging, touch-focus, face detection, image stabilization; VGA video recording @ 30fps
Some degree of touchscreen functionality - touch-enabled media and camera interface
Touch works in Java apps as well, e.g. Opera Mini
Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS; Trial version of Wisepilot navigation software
Wi-Fi with DLNA
FM radio with RDS
Stereo Bluetooth 2.1
microSD card slot
Wireless Bluetooth headset with 3.5 mm audio jack and nice headphones, desktop docking station and 8GB microSD card in box
Remote play for Playstation 3

Main disadvantages:
No standard USB port
No 3.5mm audio jack (but there's one on the Bluetooth headset)
Touch control is limited to camera, gallery, multimedia players and some Java apps
Media library updates very slowly in the touch media menu
No DivX/XviD support
No xenon flash
No camera lens cover



The good: Solid build quality; Remote Play with PS3; synchronizes with Microsoft Exchange; wireless FM radio;bundled charging dock for handset and Bluetooth headset; 8GB microSD card included; Wi-Fi and HSPA.

The bad: No front-facing camera for video calls; buttons a tad too stiff for our liking; some people may find the keypad layout

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samsung omnia hd i8910

The Omnia HD does everything fine, and a few things extremely well.

Video playback is top notch and widely compatible, the camera is among the best
we ever seen on a cellphone, and the video recording can actually hang with a lot of pocket cams, like the Flip or Kodak Zi series. On all other counts the phone never falls flat, but it never really shines, either.

Functionally, though, it holds up fine: The browser could be easier to navigate with,
but renders with WebKit, supports Flash and generally does its job. Same goes for pretty
much everything else: The experience could be smoother, but you'd be hard pressed to find
a task that the HD explicitly can't handle. And if you do find a gap, remember that this is full Symbian,so you can always go app hunting. As dumb as the UI can be, don't be fooled into thinking this is a dumbphone: It can do pretty much anything an Android or Windows Mobile phone can, and sometimes even more—it's just that sometimes, it's painfully awkward.


The Hardware:
Your first impression of the Omnia HD is that it's big, but that's not really fair:
It's a tall device, but it's not meaningfully larger than any of the other popular touchscreen
phones on the market today—it's just proportioned differently (see the gallery below for comparison).inside, it's reasonably thin. Speaking of guts: It's got HSDPA (on European bands),GPS, 8-16GB of internal storage with microSD expansion, and 8MP, 720p-recording camera sensor,a built-in flash bulb, a forward-facing video camera, USB connector and a 3.5mm jack.The lack of HDMI-out is semi-replaced by DLNA network streaming, though it's not really an even trade. At any rate, it's a healthy phone, hardware-wise.

The Software:
This is where things fall apart a little.Wherever the Omnia HD's hardware shines—along with the kickass camera,it can handle HD video playback in plenty of codecs—the software is fine.The camera interface and media playback interfaces, music and video,are never distracting and usually do what you expect. Everything else? That's a different story.

Decent audio output

The Omnia HD demonstarted passable audio output, getting commendable scores on several of the readings in our traditional audio quality test. We have certainly seen better performers but things aren't hopeless with the Samsung i8910 either.The most notable problem with the Omnia HD audio quality is its shaky frequency response and cut-off bass frequencies.The intermodulation distortion is also slightly higher than average.On the positive side the noise level, the dynamic range and the stereo crosstalk readings are excellent.The total harmonic distortion extremely low value is also commendable achievement.

Web browser has Flash video and all the works

The Samsung i8910 Omnia HD web browser is a fully functional application that would have used somewhat more user-friendly interface. The Flash support is cool and so is the kinetic scrolling.To zoom in and out of a page you drag a small slider in the top right corner. The actual zooming is a bit unresponsive and quite slower than we would have liked it to be. To avoid zooming this way at all is by double-tapping a specific part of the web page. Zooming that way is sometimes a hit and miss thing as the web browser fails to fit the text on screen.At least the page rendering algorithm is quite good, making all the pages look as if browsed from a desktop computer. The high resolution is also a welcome bonus here, as it allows more content to fit on the screen. Finally, the web browser has support for both Flash and Java, which means that you can enjoy flash videos straight from your browser without having to use the mobile versions of sites like YouTube or a dedicated client applications.

memory:

And here comes the Omnia HD with its 256 MB DRAM,

providing almost 140 MB free RAM with the system fully loaded and running, which is almost THREE TIMES MORE than the N97.It does not need further comments....

processors:

So, what's so special about it? Let the specifications speak for themselves.

Texas Instruments OMAP3430 (made in 65 nm technology) is a dual-core processor

(which means that it contains an ARM host CPU and one or more DSPs) consisting of

ARM Cortex A8 application processor running at 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX530 GPU

(graphics acceleration processor) and TMS320C64x DSP/ISP (Digital/Image Signal Processor taking care of telephony, data transmission, image processing, etc) running at 430 MHz. Sounds too complicated? Too compare, the N97 is based on a single-core processor running at 434 MHz (i.e. 164 MHz / 27% less) having to do all the work by itself, as it does not contain GPU for graphics acceleration,nor the remaining accelerators. This should give you an idea of how much more powerful the OMAP3430 is.

Key features:

-3.7-inch 16M-color capacitive AMOLED touchscreen, 640 x 360 pixels

-Symbian S60 5th edition with TouchWiz 3D UI

-ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor; HW Graphic Accelerator

-256MB RAM

-8 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash, geotagging, face detection, smile shot, image --stabilizer, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), ISO 1600

-HD 720p@24fps, 720x480@30fps, QVGA time-lapse and slow-mo video recording

-Dual-band 3G with HSDPA (7.2Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76 Mbps) support

-Quad-band GSM support

-Wi-Fi with DLNA technology

-Built-in GPS with A-GPS functionality

-8/16GB internal memory

-Hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 32GB)

-TV out (Standard Definition content only)

-FM radio with RDS

-Bluetooth and USB v2.0

-3.5mm standard audio jack

-DNSe audio technology

-DivX/XviD video support with subtitles (HD video playback)

-Virtual 5.1 channel Dolby surround (in headphones)

-Proximity sensor for screen auto turn-off

-Accelerometer sensor for automatic UI rotation, turn-to-mute and motion-based gaming

-Magnetometer for digital compass

-Office document viewer

-Full Flash support in the web browser

Main disadvantages:

-No xenon flash

-No camera lens cover

-Sluggish browsing in the image gallery

-HD video recording sometimes drops below 24fps or duplicates frames to equal 24

-Samsung Mobile Navigator doesn't come with any maps or voice-guided navigation license

-No smart dialing

-Touch web browser zooming needs tweaking

-Somewhat limited 3rd party software availability

-No office document editing (without a paid upgrade)

HTC touch pro

HTC Touch Pro, also known as the Raphael. The Touch Pro is basically an HTC Touch Diamond with a new 5 row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It comes equipped with high end features like a 2.8" VGA touchscreen display, HSDPA/HSUPA high-speed data, and a 3.2 megapixel AF-capable camera

Introduction
Following on from the release of the HTC Diamond, the HTC Touch Pro (Raphael) is as much high end as you are going to find at the moment. The price tag does match its status and to prove itself as value for money it has to be near perfect......

Like the Touch Diamond the Touch Pro sports HTC's shiny new TouchFLO 3D user interface extensions and home screen. TouchFLO 3D provides users with a high-gloss 3D animated user experience that is backed up with across the board tweaks to make regular applications more finger friendly, so that the Touch Pro should be easily usable with either one hand or two.


The Touch Pro runs version 6.1 of Microsoft's Windows Mobile Professional operating system, and comes equipped with over 256MB of application RAM and a respectable 512MB of internal flash storage space. A SD 2.0 compatible microSD card slot means that users can add even more storage capacity with 8GB or, in the future, 16GB microSD cards. other features of note on the Touch Pro include GPS and WiFi support

The HTC user interface is also easy to use and covers all the practical applications that are used regularly. With quick access to menus such as People, Messages, Email, Internet etc. tap the bottom scroll bar and drag your finger sideways to access all the other application such as Photos, Music, Weather, Settings and finally a customisable Programs. For me it would be nice to be able to customise the scroll bar itself for a more personal touch.


The animated weather screen adds a nice touch, and there is also a dedicated You Tube icon as well.The Touch Pro is Windows 6.1 professional as standard, and as such is fairly standard, programs wise there is not a great deal out of the ordinary, there is Google maps preloaded,the screen was easier to see being clear, even in bright sunlight. Google maps of course worked equally well.
There is a Jetcet Print program allowing you to send and print documents, images, files etc. direct to a wireless network or Bluetooth enabled printer.
An MP3 trimmer application, which allows you to shorten songs and then save your work, as a new file or assign as a ringtone.

Opera 9.5 also installed as standard is a joy on the screen as well with added ability to automatically rotate screen from landscape to portrait, a quick double tap on the screen zooms in to the selected area in a clear and precise way.

Physical design
The HTC Touch Pro has a nice design. Its glossy surface will immediately catch eyes around, but fortunately this is not a readability issue. When you hold it in your hands, it feels a little heavy but its volume is comparable to a Nokia N73 or N96. The stylus is hidden at the lower-right of the phone. It seems to have a nice magnetic retention mechanism that works very well. The EXTUSB at the bottom is the only accessible port (the MicroSD card is near the battery). EXTUSB is compatible with the standard mini-USB port for connecting to a PC, or charging the battery.
This mobile phone is positioned as a business device, thanks to its Outlook Exchange access and Powerpoint video-out capabilities (requires a separate cable) and that's good news because at Ubergizmo we're on an Exchange server. The first good news is: the initial sync to my mailbox was really fast - the fastest of all the Windows Mobile phones that I have tried. I suspect that this is due to Sprint's EVDO network more than to the phone itself, but hey, it's a package, right?

QWERTY keyboard
For heavy texters, having a physical keyboard is a must. However, not all keyboards are not created equal. In order to fit the sliding design, HTC had to make the keys really flat (we noticed that during an initial hands-on). This makes the keyboard harder to use than, let's say, a Blackberry 8800 or 83xx. It is still way better than the integrated virtual keyboard, but I'm under the impression that we're getting only slightly better typing speeds than an iPhone virtual keyboard

All in all, you won't break any typing records while typing on the HTC Touch Pro, at least not without traning. I'm not sure how much better you can get, but I suspect that the physical limits mentioned above are hard to overcome, even with practice.



Touch Display
The display is certainly the strong point of this phone. The 640x480 resolution on a 2.8" display is incredibly crisp and I was able to remove the font smoothing without seeing any artifacts. If you like reading text using small fonts, it's just fantastic (great for long emails!). It has a high contrast and overall is a real asset



Touch Interface

Using a touch interface on a small display is tricky. HTC knows that the default Windows Mobile wasn't built for being used with fingers, so they went on and built a touch-friendly interface called TouchFLO. The result looks good: Big icons and clean design. However, this is no iPhone: slide and scroll with the finger doesn't work very well in some situations because you might press the "menu" button or hit a link in a page or email. There are also user-interface inconsistencies: sometimes, scrolling has a momentum (email, web), sometimes it doesn't. Even if HTC made things a lot better, they cover only the first user interface layer. As soon as you're in Outlook or the settings, the old good stylus-happy Windows Mobile is back.

That explains why using the stylus makes things so much better. All the touch features work normally because the stylus can accurately move around without touching anything that you did not intend to. Typing on the new virtual keyboard is accurate enough to not have to correct your text every other word. If you plan to use this phone heavily, you mgiht have to use the stylus more than you think

Photo quality
The HTC Touch Pro has a 3.2 Megapixel camera. It is a good number, but Megapixels are not really a measure of image quality and you should not expect too much of this phone. The photos are OK on a sunny day, but they tend to be a blurry indoors. It's not unexpected, but this is far from what you can get on a Nokia equipped with a Carl Zeiss phone like the N73

Battery life

The battery life is actually pretty good. This phone did last almost two days before requiring a charge. I set it up to receive push-email and I read/reply fairly often. Plus, WIFI was on although I did not browse a whole lot. That basically means that you can forget to charge it once in the evening and get away with it.

What's in the Box?

• The HTC Touch Pro handset
• 1350mAh battery USB Sync/charge cable
• Mains charger (USB style)
• Application CD and user guide CD
• Spare stylus
• Leather flip case
• Wired headset
• Printed user guide and warranty information

Conclusion
Can HTC Touch Pro live up to the hype? I think it can, it is by far the best phone I have tested; I think it is a great size, not too big or too small. It has all the functionality and speed that I need day to day.
The price tag? Well, anything worth buying is invariably not cheap, and this is no exception, it is relatively expensive in the PDA world, but it is probably the best on the market at this time.
Is it the Ultimate device? It is very close, I am sure they could get it a little thinner in time, the camera and rear speaker could do with an upgrade, in my opinion, that apart it is very impressive.
it has to be said this IS a very nice device, the screen is a pleasure at 480x640 the VGA is sharp and clear and a vast improvement to the usual 240x320. It is touch sensitive and is very responsive, I found that I had to resort to the stylus very little which is a great plus for me. Remember to tap and then drag, it works much better than drag alone.

Apple iphone 3gs

Apple’s smartphone still at the top of its game


Let’s get this out the way right away. The latest revision of Apple’s ridiculously popular mobile phone is the best one yet. It’s the fastest and it is the
most powerful. The iPhone 3G S is, also, the most over-priced handset to ever hit the market.

In slightly less than two years, Apple’s iPhone has transformed how the world thinks of cellphones. Phone companies and hardware-makers alike have rushed to ape the iPhone’s touchscreen interface, easy access to the Internet, and bustling App Store. The iPhone is no longer the mind-blowing, category-busting product it was in the summer of 2007. Our minds have been blown, the category was busted, and now competitors such as Palm, Google, Nokia, and Research in Motion are fighting back.
In the face of the stepped-up competition, it’s possible to consider Apple’s new iPhone 3GS a minor step forward for Apple. After all, it looks almost identical to its predecessor, which itself offered very few changes from the original iPhone model. But with the iPhone 3GS, combined with the iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update, Apple has addressed all of its product’s keyweaknesses while adding several important new strengths.
Yes, the competition is much closer to Apple now than it was two years ago. But the iPhone 3GS makes it clear: Apple is still leading the pack, in most cases by a wide margin.

The S is for “same”

Externally, Apple hasn’t messed with success—the iPhone 3GS is almost completely indistinguishable from the original iPhone 3G model, which itself was remarkably similar to the original iPhone. Front and center is the iPhone’s signature feature: a bright, beautiful high-resolution 3.5-inch diagonal touchscreen, offering a resolution of 480-by-320 pixels. The iPhone 3GS has Apple’s usual complement of four physical buttons (Home just below the touchscreen, sleep/wake up top, a volume up/down rocker on the left side, and a ringer toggle just above the volume controls) and the same black or white plastic back shell introduced with the iPhone 3G.



If you need to know which model is which, there’s only one clear way to do so: Look at the lettering on the back of the phone. If it’s in the same silver ink as the Apple logo, it’s an iPhone 3GS. (Likewise, if 32GB appears below the word iPhone, you know it’s an iPhone 3GS—the previous model was only available in 8 GB and 16 GB editions, while this phone’s capacities have doubled to an impressive 16 GB and 32 GB, allowing users to load their phones up with even more apps, tunes, and videos.)




The S is for “speed”

The lack of external changes belie what’s going on underneath the iPhone 3GS’s glass and plastic exterior. The iPhone’s last upgrade added a faster cellular radio and a GPS chip, but otherwise, the iPhone 3G’s internals were largely unchanged from the original iPhone. The iPhone 3GS, on the other hand, is a major step forward in terms of the iPhone’s technological underpinnings. Its processor runs at 600 MHz, compared to previous models’ 412MHz. It’s got 256MB of RAM, compared to 128MB in previous models.

The result is an indisputably faster device, not just at some tasks, but at every task. The iPhone 3GS booted faster than any other iPhone OS-based device, and launched every app I tried in record time. Its Safari browser had the dramatically fastest JavaScript engine as measured by the SunSpider benchmark, and loaded Web pages dramatically faster as well. Every aspect of using the phone felt noticeably faster on the iPhone 3GS than on the iPhone 3G. Even actions that only took moments before now happen instantaneously.

The speed doesn’t stop with app launches and fast-loading Web pages, either. The iPhone 3GS supports the new OpenGL ES 2.0 standard, meaning that a slew of iPhone game apps will be able to capitalize on advanced graphics features to create higher-quality graphics than have been seen on the iPhone up to now. But more important, the iPhone 3GS is just better when it comes to graphics. Games that featured jerky, low-frame-rate gameplay on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G—we’re looking at you, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D—spring to life on the iPhone 3GS with high frame rates and smooth motion. The end result: old games will get new life, and the new games to come will blow away anything you’ve seen so far on the iPhone platform. Sony
and Nintendo, be warned.




The S is for “snapshots”

The iPhone 3GS finally addresses perhaps the iPhone’s weakest feature, upgrading the camera to a 3-megapixel model (still not exactly earth-shattering in terms of resolution). It still won’t zoom or flash, and the low-light images it produces are better, but still not great. Still, there’s no
denying that this new camera is an improvement on the original. In general I found the images from the iPhone 3GS to be clearer, with brighter colors and sharper definition.
Aiding the iPhone 3GS camera’s output is the ability to focus, which the previous iPhone camera lacked. By default the camera auto-focuses on the scene you’re shooting, though you can tap on the touchscreen to make it focus on a particular object. If that object is in a darker or lighter area of the frame, the camera will also adjust to make sure that location is properly exposed, even if that means other areas of the frame will be blown out or left in darkness. The focus isn’t exactly quick, but it does work, and the resulting images are definitely sharper than in previous models.

The new camera also allows you to take pictures of close-up objects—a test that previous iPhone cameras utterly failed. Not only is this exciting for people who want to e-mail a shot of a newspaper or magazine page or a close-up of one of their kids’ toys, but it opens up the possibility that the iPhone 3GS can actually function as a barcode reader for the first time, now that it can snap images of barcodes with clarity. (In many countries grabbing a bar code with your cell phone in order to get more information about a product on a billboard or in a magazine has become a somewhat common activity; personal-inventory apps such as Delicious Library could also benefit from integration with the new camera.)



Then there’s the big news with this new iPhone camera: it shoots video. It’s real video, too—not high-definition, granted, but full standard-def video.
To shoot video, you flip the Camera app into video mode by touching a small switch in the corner of the screen and press the big red button. Once you hear a chime and see a time code begin to count upward from zero, you’re recording video.
Once you’re done shooting your video, the iPhone 3GS stores them within the (now confusingly named) Photos app. Videos appear in the same grid as still images, but with a small strip at the bottom of their thumbnail image with a small movie-camera icon and an indication of how long the clip is.

User Interface and Software:
The Apple iPhone 3GS naturally ships with the latest version of iPhone OS. The most useful upgrades are the addition of voice command and copy and paste, though these have been standard in most smartphones for years now. The OS update is available to all iPhone owners, but voice command is only compatible with the 3GS. Apple has a weird balancing act going on of playing catch-up on basic features (video recording also makes its official debut here) while innovating in others areas (video editing, UI, the App Store.) The addition of stereo Bluetooth and MMS round out the “why the hell doesn’t a phone this advanced have this” features, but the “why the hell did it take this long” question still remains a mystery. There are many more
small tweaks in 3.0, for a more comprehensive list check out the unofficial iPhone User’s Guide



Voice Memos and Compass make their debut in the Apple iPhone 3GS, with the former being more useful than the latter. The most useful part of the compass is that maps now orientate in the direction you’re facing. however, when it is applied to the Maps application, it is actually quite handy. By double tapping the locate me button on the lower left hand corner of the map application, the program not only indicates where you are, but gives a free-flowing representation of the direction in which you are facing. Spin around and the map will spin with you, and a graphical cone of perspective will better acclimate you to the area you are in.

Beyond this you will find the standard set of applications out of the box, with tens of thousands of others ready to be downloaded, most for a price. We should start seeing some better games come for the 3GS due to its support of OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible hardware and a more powerful 3D chip. This probably means that we’ll also see games compatible only with the 3GS.

Spotlight search allows the user to search their contacts, calendar, notes, mail and iPod, similar to the universal search found in the Pre. Unlike the Pre, when the iPhone comes up empty on results the iPhone does not go out and search the web for the answer. It also only searches mail subjects, not the entire message. It’s a useful enough feature, but we feel Apple could have taken it further to make better use of it.




Performance:
The battery gets a modest bump from 1150mAh to 1219, but thanks to other hard and software improvements battery life has increased to 5 hours of 3G talk time and 9 hours of Wi-Fi browsing. More talk time is great, assuming you can make a call. While our reception seemed just fine, call quality was awful. Despite showing full 3G signal strength callers complained that we were static-ey, cutting in and out, tinny and just generally poor. Our end wasn’t much better; the volume was low enough that we had a hard time understanding callers even in quiet environments. There were a few calls we had to abandon because the quality was so poor.


Attractive Features
-3GS iphone have added few common features which are available in general phones like multimedia massaging, video recording, voice dialing etc.
-As Iphone 3GS is running on 600MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM, it is considerably faster than 3G, as a result it is called iphone 3GS (speed).
- It will allow faster access of heavy web pages. Inbuilt video camera is attractive and giving sharp result like Flip video camera. The 3GS display is ever-so-slightly warmer than the 3G’s, having a yellow/orangish tint when viewed side by side.
-Iphone 3GS height and width are almost same as 3G, so you will not have to buy new iphone accessories for 3GS.
-Iphone 3GS phone booting process is taking half of the time as compare to 3G Briefly, most of the applications are same in look and feel.
-The main improvement we can see in speed to run application, brows web pages, and videos.


Unattractive Features
-The iphone 3GS call quality is still same as 3G, there is no improvement and the 3G signal receptions remain uneven.
-There is not improvement in flash light I was expecting facility for USB transfer, but again disappointed.
-There are no multitasking facilities available in iphone 3GS version.




When all is said and done, the iPhone 3G S is a solid improvement to an already stellar smartphone that has energized an entire area of consumer electronics. There is no doubt that the iPhone has more room to grow and some problems still persist – lacking battery life, better video support, etc. – but like any product, those problems will be fixed in time as the necessary technology becomes more readily available and cost-effective. However, the value of the product ultimately comes down to the customer in question, and pre-existing iPhone owners should definitely proceed with caution.

From a consumer perspective, the iPhone 3G S is a mixed bag. Those who are considering picking up an iPhone for the first time should definitely go for the 3G S, as it is without question the best iPhone available.




From a purely performance and technical standpoint, the iPhone 3G S is an impressive piece of hardware, but like any major purchase, picking one up requires some serious consideration on the behalf of the consumer. If you insist on being on the cutting edge at all times, picking up the 3G S now only to upgrade a year later is a nonissue, but for those who want to settle into a phone for the next two or three years, we'd recommend waiting to see what's in store from Apple in June or July of next year.


For now though, the iPhone 3GS takes the crown as the best consumer handset available, but with the imminent Palm Pre and new Android based handsets on the horizon, it will be interesting to see how long it keeps it.


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Nokia's N97 is, for us, one of the most eagerly anticipated handsets of 2009. Yes, we know, we've had Apple and Android stealing a lot of the attention as far as smartphones are concerned, but Nokia was doing well with smartphones long before either of these two got into the game. Its Communicator series has been going for many years, and the N97 is the logical successor to that range.

Nokia N97 is first mobile computing have the Ovi Store that gives you reach to access to applications, games, videos, Podcasts, Productivity Tools, Web, services that meet location or you are traveling and other services. other much more freely available. Or may be charged fees by the developer. Or Local provider and global provider requirements such as yahoo, Facebook, youtube and Twitter.

Nokia's Communicators were thick-ish sizeable handsets with a clamshell design that housed a serious mini QWERTY keyboard and a wide screen. In the early days, they were seen very much as rivals to the non-network aware Psion Series 5 (still yet to be beaten for sheer usability as a mini computer as far as I am concerned).

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Contents of the box:

• nokia n97 handset
• Classic Nokia Hands-free
• USB / Micro-USB Cable
• Charger AC-10E micro-USB
• Charger adapter micro USB to Nokia classic charger
• Standard Nokia headset
• Cleaning cloth
• CD containing Ovi Suite Package
• User Manual

Art from Nokia N97 beginning when you see the look of your device. As with the computer. You can upgrade your Nokia N97 with features and functions of new Make more effective. What do more than ever. The second half of the year. Features are introduced and new functions. Exciting upgrades you can continue.

Nokia N97 :Fulfills all boundary Entertainment
With connection speeds of multi-Epil memory 32 GB (with memory card support a Micro SD accessories add up to 48 GB) You can download music and store-by tens of thousands. Listening to music with stereo headsets. Through a Bluetooth BH-905 of Nokia stereo headsets, sound quality and clarity eliminates noise. To perfect the music and Nokia N97 through discussion also applies to players and other mobile devices.

Design:

From a design standpoint, the Nokia N97 isn't exactly a showstopper. It doesn't quite have the wow factor of the distinctive Palm Pre and apple and HTC Touch Pro2, the N97 is a bit of a handful at 4.6 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.6 inch thick and 5.29 ounces. It doesn't quite have the high-quality build of the Nokia E series and we're a bit weary of the flimsy battery cover, but overall, the smartphone has a solid construction and is a nice departure from the Nokia N95 and N96, especially with the addition of a touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard

Similar to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the Nokia N97 has a resistive touch screen that measures 3.5 inches diagonally and shows off 16.7 million colors at a 640x360-pixel resolution. While clear and bright, it's not quite as sharp as the competitors, such as the HTC Touch Diamond2, and the built-in accelerometer has just a bit of a lag when switching from portrait to landscape mode or vice versa. The handset also features a proximity sensor so it will automatically turn off the display when you lift the smartphone to your ear for a phone call.

In the hand, the N97 adds a few extra millimetres in width (allowing for the larger screen), in height (ditto) and in depth (due to the qwerty keyboard), but the overall device is still great to hold, with the bottom of the rear face curved downwards to both provide a natural handhold and stabilise the N97 when on a desk being typed on. It's still quite a bit narrower than other competing full-face devices, e.g. the iPhone, but the difference from the 5800 is enough that the N97 feels less of a touchscreen phone and more of a miniature tablet computer.

One with a rather well hidden secret. There's a hinge mechanism (with struts apparently made from a metal alloy, thankfully) and the screen slides and tilts up, as shown above. The thing is - the build quality of the mechanism is so high that it takes a few seconds for you to even work out which way the screen slides - the fit when closed is that tight. Some great mechanical design here and one which I'm sure Nokia has patented. HTC and Apple, to name but two, will be eyeing up this design enviously. It brings to mind the great Psion palmtop designs of old and, like the Psions, there's a ribbon cable allowing the magic to happen while keeping data flowing to the screen. However, we're talking a ribbon cable with more maturity and suppleness than the clumsy component in the Psion - so I don't anticipate ribbon cable problems here. Here's a shot of the cable itself:

Another design element which would have been trivial to fix is that the current key legends are comparatively small. They look clear enough in the photos, but use the N97 in real life in average light and your eyes have to be pretty good to always see which key you're about to hit. Larger letter legends would help enormously here, Nokia. Changing the key layout and then making the legends tiny is not a good combination... It's worth noting that in, low light, the keys are backlit beautifully and the experience is transformed, with no visibility problems.

The screen is still TFT LCD and with a resistive top layer, of course, but the N97's component is of much higher quality than that in the 5800 XpressMusic, with the result that it's slightly more responsive to finger taps and drags, and with there being significantly better contrast outdoors in bright light - although the TFT does get harder to see the more you angle the screen into the sun, it stays clear for much longer than the 5800. This is especially valuable when taking photos or video, as the chances are that you'll have the sun behind you. Of course, a transflective screen (such as on most traditional S60 phones or on the Apple iPhone) would have done even better - maybe making a resistive transflective screen is a problem? Anyway, perhaps that's an option for a future device - I don't think many people will be too disappointed by the N97's screen overall

The cameras in Nokia's Nseries smartphones haven't really improved much since the classic N95 - the specification has remained identical, while we've seen minor variations in colour handling and video focus. We now have dual LED flash, which is obviously better then single LED, but light years short of the Xenon flash on the N82 and 6220.

Stereo speakers are at both ends of the left hand side of the device, with both microUSB slot (equipped with LED indicator) and slider button to lock/unlock the screen in between. The latter, as well as camera shutter are really easy to use. This, unfortunately, doesn’t hold true for the volume rocker. Well, situation is not that bad with the button that turns volume up, because it has enough travel, the thing is you will have to apply much more force to turn sound down. The 3.5 mm earphone jack is on top of the device, so you won´t need to swivel the N97 in weird positions while carrying it around into the pocket of your trousers or jeans. Power button is on one of the sides and feels comfy to press despite it doesn’t have much travel. The only thing on the bottom side is a lonely gap, where the stylus strap is attached - but you can hook any knick-knack that is to your own taste.

Talking of which Nokia's excellent hands free kit and less excellent headphones are included in the box, as well as a screen wiper for when you get your mucky paws all over the shiny and scratch-resistant touch screen

We can only assume that Nokia's research showed it that the main demographic for this phone would be using it to make a lot of dates and meetings, otherwise it would have been better served by putting a video player or similar there instead.

The applications section in the bottom left of the screen is where all downloaded programs from the newly created Ovi Store now live, which means that it can quickly become cluttered with different applications.

The Apple iPhone obviously brings a similar navigation system to the party, but we had hoped that Nokia would have found a more efficient way of searching through the plethora of applications we would be looking for.

Each menu comes complete with its own virtual scroll bar at the side, and despite being slim it's surprisingly easy to 'grab'and slide up and down, so menu navigation is blindingly simple on the Nokia N97.

Obviously with a 32GB internal memory, media is going to figure heavily on this phone, and it certainly does through photo, video and audio playback all on offer, as well as the usual sound recording options.

The video player, for instance, doesn't play AVI files, which means most of our video collection is suddenly obsolete. An extensive search around the nascent Ovi Store found no solution yet (although it obviously is very early days) so that means the lovely widescreen display is going to be getting very little video use

battery:

The first thing that impressed us about the battery life is the fact that it could be charged fully in roughly two hours, which is more handy than people realise when you suddenly are aware you need full juice for a trip away or similar.

However, the quoted 20 days of standby seems a little optimistic, given that we could get around 1.5 days out of the phone on an average charge, and managed to run it down in a day twice under very heavy usage conditions.

Given that it's supposed to give you over 30 hours of music playback, it's probably best you don't use it for anything else to come near to that point.

Nokia N97 specification :

• Nokia N97 features 3.5 inches 360 x 640 pixels TFT resistive touchscreen which produces approximately 16M colors .
• Latest versions of industry standard communication facilities like GPRS ,3G,WLAN,Bluetooth,Wi-Fi and Micro USB 2.0 are available on Nokia N97 .
  
  
• Like in N95 and recent Nokia Nseries phones , N97 also has a 5 mega pixels Carl Zeiss with autofocus and LED flash which supports video recording upto 30 FPS .
  
  
• Nokia N97 is powered by ARM 11 434 MHz processor and Symbain touch OS S60 V5 .
  
  
• Nokia N97 is the first phone shipped with inbuilt facilities for accessing recently launched Nokia Ovi store .
  
  
• All applications for Nokia 5800 xpress music will work with Nokia N97 and further you can download more at Nokia Ovi store .
  
  
• Normal messaging features Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email and IM are supported .
  
  
• Full functional web browser with WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds.Unlike the default Nokia Visual radio in earlier Nseries phones , Nokia N97 has a FM transmitter to transmit radio signal to near by FM receivers .
  
  
• Assisted GPS support and Nokia Maps touch version .Java MIDP 2.1Digital compassPlays music formats MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+/MP4/M4VPlays video formats like MPEG4/WMV/3gp/Flash video playerTV outVoice command QuickOffice Pocket Office solution to open Microsoft office documents like Word ,PowerPoint and Excel .
  
  
• Video and photo editorFlash Lite 3 for playing Youtube videos and other streaming FLV media .
  
  
  

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blackberry bold

BlackBerry Bold 9000 come with a 2 MP camera and video recording, you can capture and share the imags and videos . It has 128 MB flash memory,1 GB storage memory and 624 MHz processor. Dimensions are 114 x 66 x 14 mm and Weight is 133 g. It supports GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP and USB. Also supports SMS, MMS, Email & Instant Messaging. BalckBerry 9000 comes with an integrated organizer, it can help you stay on top of your day.

One annoying feature on some older BlackBerry devices was that you could have WiFi or GPS but not both. The 9000 rectifies this by adding a GPS receiver as standard.
Another new feature is the "half VGA" 480 x 320 pixel display. We can't think of any other manufacturer that is using this at the moment, but the higher resolution combined with some new technical wizardry with the 9000's panel means that this look to be a very promising display. Remember, the display on the 9000 is not a touchscreen, but the trackball is easy enough to use once you have gotten used to it.
The software has also been upgraded, and the 9000 now runs BlackBerry OS 4.6. The interface looks sleeker and less busy than older BlackBerries, and it gives the device a more polished look which should help to compete against the iPhone generation

Internal memory is an impressive 1GB, and the 9000 can be expanded using microSD cards with a theoretical maximum of 16GB. On the back of the Bold is a pretty basic 2 megapixel camera with a flash, and there's no video calling camera. This isn't really marketed as an imaging phone.

Of course, the 9000 Bold offers excellent support
and it also comes with a web browser and document editor. Multimedia support is good, and the 9000 comes with a graphics equaliser with several present functions depending on the type of music you are listening to. The BlackBerry Bold supports stereo Bluetooth.
It is almost exactly the same size and weight as the 8800, with the 9000 weighing in at 133 grams and 114 x 66 x 13mm in size. The large capacity 1500 mAh battery can drive the Bold for up to 5 hours talktime and 13 days standby time

The advanced phone features include a speakerphone and conference calling. With voice activated dialling and a Bluetooth headset, it's capable of fully handsfree operation

Email is BlackBerry's forte, and the Bold fully supports all email standards:
Push email (messages are delivered automatically to your smartphone and you can be notified as soon as they arrive)
-Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Microsoft® Exchange
-Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for IBM® Lotus® Domino®
-Works with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Novell® GroupWise®
-Integrates with an existing enterprise email account
-Integrates with existing personal email account
-Integrates with optional new device account
-Web-Based Email Access (AOL Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo! Mail)

You can view attachments in the following formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, WordPerfect, HTML, zip.) WordToGo and SlideshowToGo let you edit Word and PowerPoint files. Security is given full attention, with password protection and a keyboard lock, plus full support for encryption when using BlackBerry Enterprise Server to access data.

The Bold also incorporates some fun features, in particular the camera and media player. The camera is rated at just 2 megapixels, so this is no replacement for a digital camera, but it can take snaps and video clips. The media player offers light relief between meetings, and can play music and videos. Software is provided for ripping music off CD's and for synching your phone with your PC. In common with previous BlackBerries, there's a 3.5mm headset jack, so you can plug in any third party stereo headphones - a feature that's still surprisingly rare in the mobile phone world. GPS navigation is also included, and works with Blackberry Maps. This is another welcome feature, and can in principle be used as satnav for a car, but perhaps a more obvious use is navigating around a city by foot or public transport, as most Bold users probably already have a proper satnav system in their car

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