Things that aren’t static
The new phones just keep on coming as the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona looms ever-closer, and the latest update to hit t’Internet is a fact’n’stat assault by Nokia’s new Nokia’s 5630 XpressMusic candybar-style handset.
Powered by the Symbian S60 OS and serving up nippy HSDPA and HSUPA connectivity, it’s rather a pleasing slimline slab of shiny black plastic with a natty coloured trim around the outside.
In yet another leak ahead of next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, retailer Expansys managed to let the cat out of the bag and posted up full details of the new Nokia E75 business smartphone.
With the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona looming on the horizon, details of new phones are leaking out all over the place.
News has just reached us of LG’s latest flagship multimedia phone, the Arena KM900, which packs a ton of functionality into a familiar-looking package.
Available in a range of damn funky colours is Samsung’s natty new Ultra Touch S8300 slider phone (called the Ultra Touch everywhere but Britain).
The two tone handset sports a 2.8 inch scratch-resistant screen AMOLED touchscreen supporting a smaller-than-expected 240×400 pixels resolution capable of showing 16 million colours.
After being blown away by the impressive screen quality of Sony’s first gen PRS-505 Reader back in 2007, we’ve been keeping a close eye on the development of eBook readers.
Although several manufacturer have entered the market since, including the Cybook Gen3, the one that really caught our eye was Amazon’s Kindle reader.
Analysts at Juniper reckon we’re all going to go smartphone crazy in the coming years, with sales hitting 300 million plus by 2013.
This may well run against the Private Fraser doom and gloom predictions of falling mobile sales during the credit crunch, but Juniper believes that sales of smarter and more expensive handsets will prove to be a major factor in the recovery.
The Blackberry Bold has been around for a while (having been released during summer last year) and it’s already been superseded by the Storm (which is probably in a tea-cup) though they are designed for different markets.
The Bold is a business phone, it has a nice screen and a keyboard that is usable – as usable as the earlier Curve and better than the dual key bodge of the Pearl.
The Storm is RIM’s attempt at a consumer phone to compete with the iPhone and public opinion says it pretty well fails at all counts, especially the software which is buggy.
There seems to be a growing band of unhappy bunnies among Blackberry Storm customers, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal.
The paper reports that Research In Motion’s first touch-screen device has attracted a storm (sorry!) of complaints from users about the handset’s buggy software and temperamental hardware.
For computer nerds and technology freaks in New York, the place to be around Christmas was the excellent Wired Store in midtown Manhattan, which veritably bristled with the latest gadgets, gizmos and must-have widgets.
Photos claiming to show the new T-Mobile G2 have appeared on the web, with a release date set for the first half of the year.
Although the T-Mobile G1 impressed us immensely, there were a few issues with the phone, least of all its rather chunky appearance. Compared to the sleek likes of Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone, we have to say found the Android powered contender looked rather lardy.