Nokia Launches Its First Phone for China Mobile’s 3G Network

Nokia announced its first smartphone for China Mobile’s 3G network on Tuesday.

The Nokia 6788 runs the Symbian operating system and has a 2.8-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera with a dual-LED flash, and support for A-GPS (Assisted GPS).

Content can be stored in the phone’s 4GB memory or on a microSD card up to 8GB in capacity. The phone also supports instant messaging and e-mail, according to a spec sheet from Nokia.

Nokia expects to begin selling the 6788 at the end of December, but has not announced a price.

China Mobile’s 3G network uses TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), a radio technology developed in China. Nokia said it plans to introduce more TD-SCDMA phones in the near future.
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Samsung reveals pricey Instinct HD

When Samsung introduced the Instinct S30 earlier this year, we hoped the company didn’t seriously consider the stripped-down handset to be a worthy update to the satisfying Instinct M800. At the time, we heard rumors of another Instinct model, but Samsung kept us hanging until now.
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Starbucks offers coffee card holders free Wi-Fi

Pay £5, get free BT Openzone internet access

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Starbucks’ UK customers can now get free Wi-Fi in the chain’s coffee shops, in a tie-up with BT Openzone.

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Motorola Droid specs leaked on Motorola website

Motorola has managed to leak the full deets of its second Android phone, the Droid, on its own website.

Spotted in a few spy shots last week, we now know we can expect a slider phone with a 3.7-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with zoom, autofocus and dual LED flash, full QWERTY keyboard and a connectivity trio of Wifi, Bluetooth and GPS.

The specs also said the phone will have 385 minutes of talktime, or 270 hours on standby, and will come with a 16GB pre-installed microSD card.
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Motorola is an Android Smartphone House

SAN DIEGO—Motorola is now completely focused on making Android-based smartphones, Motorola chief executive Sanjay Jha told an audience of 800 software developers today at a conference co-located with the CTIA Wireless trade show.

“Our focus right now quite simply is to become a good provider of smartphones,” Jha said. “Internally we will reorganize ourselves to support that mission of ours.”
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Wi-Fi Direct connections coming soon

The Wi-Fi Alliance this morning announced that it is nearing completion of a new specification that will allow WiFi devices to connect to each other - devices such as mobile phones, cameras, printers, as well as devices such as keyboards and headphones - and that certification is expected to begin mid-next year.

I know. It sounds an awful lot like Bluetooth. But I suspect that this will be better.

The key here is that these devices will operate on a peer-to-peer basis, instead of linking to each other via the WiFi network. Read more

Giorgio Armani Smartphone

The much talked about Giorgio Armani phone from Samsung was finally announced by Samsung following the official release of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 platform last week.

The announcement came in Italy, where the phone will be initially released. Incidentally, the phone was released by none other than Steve Ballmer who felt, the phone was “the most fashionable phone he’s ever had a chance to talk about.”

The new phone is only known as the Samsung Armani phone as Samsung hasn’t given it a specific name. Hardware wise, the device is similar to existing WinMO phones from Samsung — especially the W820 and the W8200. On the features front, it comes with a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, GPS, 5MP camera, 8GB of internal memory, MicroSD card slot, and a full QWERTY keyboard.

When released, the phone is expected to cost $1032 (approx. Rs. 47,913) which is the price you pay for owning Armani branded stuff. There is no word as to when the phone is expected to be released worldwide. Glimpses of the phone can be seen in the video below.

Credits: TechTree

Sony Ericsson Satio

We first reported about the Sony Ericsson Satio back in May 2009. This was followed up with a long video review a few months later, and a UK release date last month.

Today we have another hands-on review, which takes a first look at the Sony Ericsson Satio. The 12.1-megapixel-multimedia phone is sure to please those that love to take photos on their phones.

You may also remember this phone as the “Idou”, this was revealed at the 2009 Mobile World Congress event. You see the hands-on review below, which shows the phone in action.

Is the Sony Ericsson Satio your next phone? It’s released this month (October 2009).

Credits: ProductReviews.net

Dell confirms Android phone

Chalk up another win for Google in the 21st Century mobile phone war: Dell has announced its first foray into the cellphone market - and it will be with a mobile that runs on the search giant’s Android operating system.

Dell’s Android phone, featuring both a touchscreen and a keyboard, is expected next year on US carrier AT&T, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Dell is also talking to multiple other carriers.

In the PC market, Dell has always been closely tied to Google rival Microsoft.

HTC already has a Google Android based phone in the market (sold here by Vodafone; read review here), while LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola have Android-based models in the works.

While it still has a larger user-base, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile has yet to catch fire with customers or phone makers. This week’s local launch of Window Mobile 6.5 was backed by a single handset maker (LG), although an HTC model running 6.5 is promised in the New Year.

Both Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile are squaring off against Apple’s proprietary iPhone OS, and Nokia’s open-source, more old-school Symbian OS.

Dell and HP are also trialling a netbook version of Android - a precursor to Google’s full-blown Windows competitor, ChromeOS, due in 2010.

Credits: NBR

Competition for community wi-fi

Librarians, youth-workers, and local vicars are being encouraged to apply to a fund which will provide free net access in selected UK communities.

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