It’s got a Micro SDHC slot and the ability to share an HSDPA 3G connection with up to five devices over 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.

The guys over at ElectricPig.co.uk comment that the specs show ‘a slot for a 16GB microSD card’.
This is not yet clear form what Vodafone says but if so it can be enough space for a shared network.

The new dongle is available with an 18-month contract, with price plans ranging from £15 for 3GB/month.
Find more info on the official site: Vodafone.

They did raise some concerns about the placement of the D-Pad and Space bar, though, which the reviewer found to be uncomfortable to use.

Tech Radar had a very in-depth review which compared the C6 to the earlier C5 and thought that the newer phone “certainly has a step up in features to match its higher-numbered name”.

The display was complemented for its appealingly natural look when displaying images and clear, readable text and the phone was praised for its easy to set up email, ’sensible’ layout and for having such an impressive screen for the price point.

Tech Radar did feel that the phone was let down by a laggy OS and a rather unresponsive touchscreen but praised the overall robust feel of the operating system and apps.

My Nokia Blog felt that the C6 was closer to the 5800 XpressMusic than the N97, and was surprised at how hefty the phone felt copmared to other Nokia smartphones. The reviewer felt that call quality was “top notch” in common with many Nokia’s and that sound quality from the media player and headphone jack was acceptable for the price.

The camera was not considered one of the C6’s strongest features, but concluded “if you’re simply on a lookout for a capable and affordable device with one of the best physical qwerty keys out there, the C6 is hard bargain to match”

Source: NokNok

Based on the latest leaks on HTC’s roadmap, we might easily conclude that this is another device than the HTC Desire HD, or the G1 Blaze/HTC Vision, the official confirmation on the device should arrive only one month from now, at the said press event HTC is readying in London.

As Gizmodo points out, there are little chances that the device in question would be a Windows Phone 7 handset, since Microsoft already announced that the first such phones would ship in October, but we should consider this possibility too.

The bets seem to be on Desire HD, since the “button-shaped image” that can be seen in smoke on the invite resembles the lens of this device, as EuroDroid notes.

The box works as an over-sized dryer but I couldn’t find any specific details on it.
What I can say is that if your phone is salvaged you get to buy the product for a price of 1000 yen or about $12. Otherwise, feel free to return it.

This is not yet available in Europe or US but if it does make it through, my guess is that it’s gonna have killer sales.

Source: Gizmag

Please find their findings below but remember to check their page too for the full article:

Set display brightness to adjust automatically. Turning down the brightness is obvious. But the automatic adjustment setting is less well known. Activating it means the OS will automatically dim its display in darker environments, including seemingly well-lit indoor rooms.

Reduce e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook polling. This is a big one. Even handset manufacturers like Motorola don’t necessary get this. Set your various messaging apps to “manual” and you’ll instantly extend your device’s battery life by a significant amount.

Kill extra tasks. This one is controversial, because Android does its own task management. Each new version of Android has improved automatic task management. But some programs still misbehave, especially social-networking apps that like to poll the Internet frequently. Having a task killer like Advanced Task Killer around can help neutralize unexpected network access and lengthen your battery life.

Turn hardware features off. It’s great that today’s phones have GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, but do you really need all three activated 24 hours per day? Android keeps location-based apps resident in the background. The constant drain on the battery will become noticeable, fast. If you’ve got an HTC EVO 4G, you can turn off 4G mode separately—a good thing, since WiMAX consumes extra power but has yet to blanket the country. On AT&T and T-Mobile phones, you can even turn 3G off when you don’t need speedy Internet access.

Dump unnecessary home screen widgets. Just because they’re sitting on the home screen, seemingly inactive, doesn’t mean they’re not consuming power. That goes for widgets that poll status updates in the background, as well as ones that just sit there but look pretty and animated.

Reduce RSS feed update frequency. Staying current with the news is fine, but why update feeds constantly in the background? Plenty of third-party apps set their defaults to poll at a set period of time. Others may offer a choice, but give no indication to the user that battery life will suffer as a result.

Android Market can help. Power Manager is a powerful Android app that helps you manage many of the settings we discussed in this article. It also can add a few features here and there when necessary, such as the ability to tune the screen timeout while on a call (although the effect of that one can be miniscule). If your Android device lacks a task manager, try the free Advanced Task Manager.

Like most other wireless Internets services, however, Subaru’s Mobile Internet isn’t going to come free—nor unlimited. The company offers two standard access plans: $29 per month for one gigabyte of data or $59 per month for five gigabytes.

There are no overage charges, however; Autonet Mobile merely throttles your bandwidth down at an increasing rate for every bit of data transferred beyond the limits of a given plan.

The one-year service contract for Subaru’s 2011 Outback comes with the first free months free-of-charge before the service switches over to Autonet Mobile’s standard rates.

Average download speeds, as indicated by the company, range from 400 to 800 kbps downloads and 128 to 300 kbps uploads when hitting up a 3G connection to a lesser 120 to 200 kbps download rate and 50 to 100 kbps upload rate over 2.5G service.

The Kicking Tires blog over at cars.com remains unconvinced.

“We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: It doesn’t make sense to pay for most in-car Wi-Fi solutions from automakers,” writes editor David Thomas.

Sharon Silke Carty over at USA Today’s Drive On blog crunched the numbers, however, and found that in-car Wi-Fi through Subaru’s Mobile Internet plan actually runs cheaper than comparable smartphone plans.

“For 24 months, the Subaru plan will cost you $1,164,” she writes, referencing Billshrink’s Total Cost of Ownership infographic. “The average iPhone user is paying $2,838 for that same timeframe.”

For what it’s worth, smartphone-based Internet is also truly “mobile.” While one is free to uninstall and reinstall Autonet Mobile’s Wi-Fi device into supported vehicles, you can’t exactly carry it with you.

That kind of functionality is built into the company’s newer product, the CarFi, which allows you to slap docking stations into your fleet of vehicles and transfer the wireless “bubble,” as it were, at a whim.

Source: PCMag.com

The idea comes with ground breaking creative notion, wherein the phone responds to notifications through movement. The concept was viable with a built in electromagnet in the base of the phone, which is responsible of allowing weight to be shifted from one side to the other and causes the phone to be in motion and gradually stands up.

The user can use a gentle tap in order to dismiss a call, causing it to descend and returns to its passive standby mode. However, the concept is still in abstract and remaining as an idea. Its possibility was never given any assurance nor declined. This amazing breakthrough brought difference and uniqueness among other wise spec featured phones. Somehow, phones in motion are cooler than those vibrating ones and it would be handy and even does not require anymore an additional stand accessory if it could independently do it by itself.

The Big Picture
Windows Phone 7 is good. Really good. It has the raw components needed to build a great smartphone. Or at least, one from 2009. Is that enough? It’s starting a generation behind Android and iPhone, which now support tens of millions of devices. On top of that, it’s behind them functionally, too, missing things that are now table stakes, like copy and paste and multitasking for third-party applications. People might not know what ‘multitasking’ is, they’ll just wonder why they can’t play Pandora in the background.

And apps? iPhone and Android both have over 100,000. Developers go to where the users are; users go to where the content is. Microsoft has to break a vicious, virtuous cycle. If anybody can do this, rebuild an empire from less than nothing, it’s Microsoft. Patience is perhaps Microsoft’s greatest virtue, but sheer greed is what it needs right now. Making Windows Phone something that people want to buy is going to require the most herculean effort the company’s made in a long, long time. Windows Vista and 7 style onslaughts for mindshare. It has to snag developers and users, by the screaming bucketful. Microsoft has to want it bad enough. Fortunately, Windows Phone 7 might just be good enough.

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today announced the upcoming availability of Motorola CHARM™, a touch screen smartphone that packs a social networking punch with Android™ 2.1, MOTOBLURTM enhancements, a compact design and a BACKTRACK™ feature that makes screen navigation even more intuitive.


Motorola CHARM is expected to be available this summer exclusively in the U.S. for customers of T-Mobile USA, Inc.

“Motorola strives to provide an increased customizable user experience, which is enabled by our latest enhancements to MOTOBLUR and featured on the new Motorola CHARM,” said Jean Pierre Le Cannellier, vice president, Americas Marketing, Motorola Mobile Devices. “Combine that with a compact design, easy handling and all the features you would expect from a smartphone, and we believe that CHARM with MOTOBLUR adds the social ability and workability consumers are looking for.”

Motorola CHARM provides consumers all the features of a smartphone with the intuitive navigation of a 2.8 inch touch screen – all in a compact, pocketable design that makes messaging a snap using the combination of a full QWERTY keyboard and touch screen. The BACKTRACK navigation pad, located on the back of the smartphone directly behind the home screen, is similar to a laptop touch panel and enables an unobstructed view of the Web, texts, e-mails and news feeds. Plus, with Android 2.1 and enhanced MOTOBLUR features, CHARM offers new customization and filtering options.

“Being social with friends and family comes naturally for T-Mobile customers, and we think mobilizing their social experiences should be effortless,” said Saj Sahay, director of product management, T-Mobile USA. “With the new Motorola CHARM and enhancements to the Android and MOTOBLUR experience, we’re bringing more social skills to our broad portfolio of Android-powered smartphones.”

Motorola CHARM will be the first device in the U.S. to feature an enhanced version of MOTOBLUR built on Android 2.1, which syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more in easy to manage streams — from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter™, Gmail™, work and personal e-mail. MOTOBLUR now allows for even greater customization, providing users more options to follow who and what really matters.

MOTOBLUR filters can be selected from a single social networking account, contacts, group or messaging account so that users can select only the information they want to stream live to the Happenings and Messages widgets. Users can move and resize pre-loaded home screen widgets to personalize up to seven home screen panels for an even more custom experience. Lastly, consumers can manage their phone’s battery consumption by selecting different power modes to conserve battery.

Contacts in MOTOBLUR are automatically synced to the phone from personal and work e-mail and social network accounts. MOTOBLUR will continue to provide convenience and peace of mind, as lost devices can be located from a secure personal information portal and even remotely erased if necessary. In addition, one user name and password brings back contacts, messages and connectivity to previously configured networks and e-mail providers.

Last, but not least, Moto Phone Portal enables you to access and manage your phone’s data from any browser through a USB or Wi-Fi connection. Edit content and view important phone information while at home or on-the-go. Leave pictures on a friend’s PC, share a video at the local Internet café or share a presentation during an important business meeting.

Additional features on Motorola CHARM include:

* Adobe® Flash® enabled Web browsing experience to view most of today’s content-rich sites
* Full suite of Google™ services including: Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™ and access to thousands of apps on Android Market™
* Pinch to zoom functionality and two-finger swipe to easily surf the Web and sort through photos

* Capture sharp photos with a 3MP camera and KODAK PERFECT TOUCH technology for better, brighter pictures
* One-touch social media uploads to Facebook®, MySpace, PicasaTM and PhotoBucket®
* CrystalTalkTM PLUS for enhanced audio and call quality with a second microphone for increased voice quality while filtering out background noise
* Corporate email pushed immediately to the device for instant inbox updates

Availability

Motorola CHARM with MOTOBLUR is expected to be available exclusively to T-Mobile USA customers this summer. For more information on Motorola CHARM with MOTOBLUR, please visit here. To view images please visit here.

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Certain features, services and applications are network dependent and may not be available in all areas; additional terms, conditions and/or charges may apply. Contact your service provider for details. All features, functionality and other product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.

MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The MOTOBLUR logo is a trademark of Motorola.

Android, Google, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Android Market and Picasa, are trademarks of Google Inc. Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc. Photobucket is a registered trademark of Photobucket.com, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners © 2010 Motorola, Inc. All rights reserved.

About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to mobile and wireline digital communication devices that provide compelling experiences, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) had sales of US $22 billion in 2009. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com.

Ergonomics

In use and as a phone, the iPhone is wonderful—minus that stupid antennae problem. As a camera, not so much. For starters, it seems like you’re shooting with a piece of glass. Thin cameras are nice, but when they’re too thin there is a problem. Think twice about using your iPhone as your primary camera. The ergonomic layout of it doesn’t allow users to grip it in a way that allows the photographer to take the best pictures possible.

One major reason for this is the fact that one needs to press the button on the touchscreen to take a photo. With the buttons on the side of the iPhone, I don’t understand why one of these couldn’t be programmed to take the pictures instead.

And if Jobs says that I’m holding it wrong…
Autofocus

The autofocus is actually very, very good. It focuses exactly where you would want it to and it seems to also have facial recognition which works even better for the types of things that iPhone users would shoot. Despite this, it is a bit slow to focus but it will focus. The tap to focus feature is very useful and works well enough for most people that know how to use their iPhone.

The autofocus seems to work very well even when the shooter is in low-light situations. Devindra and I tested this out in some of the darker and shadowy areas around Seaport. Part of this is once again, the very good tap to focus feature. It works very well in areas that most other point-and-shoots will struggle.

The even better feature is that if your subject is moving, the iPhone 4′s autofocus will track the subject as it moves. This is great for when your friends are mildly intoxicated or even when you are. From this test, it can also be concluded that being jittery after drinking lots of coffee will not effect your focusing very much unless the focusing is being slow.