Wireless connections
Jam-packed with the latest mobile innovations for the connected-exec-about-town is the new Glofiish X800 smartphone which is about to start shipping in key markets in about, ooh, two shakes of a lamb’s tale.
Sporting a two-tone silver and black design that can best be described as ‘industrial’ and ‘functional’, the X800 squeezes in an integrated GPS receiver, HSDPA radio and a large 2.8 inch 640×480 VGA touch screen display.
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Last Wednesday morning I went along to the first briefing with a company called Ubiquisys to see their product ZoneGate, a Femtocell. If you think you’ve heard of them, it’s could well be because of the investment that Google made in them recently.
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Trying to kick over some of the Apple party tables before Friday’s iPhone’s launch is LG’s new business smartphone, the LG-KS20.
Announced at the IFA 2007 in Berlin, the LG-KS20 HSDPA touchscreen smartphone will initially be released in France and Germany with other countries following hot on its trail.
Evoking memories of the recent ‘Life On Mars‘ TV programme, a pair of dolly birds were roped in to ‘sex up’ the product, with the 70s-style press photos showing the two glampussies lovingly caressing the new phone.
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Us Brits are going SMS supersonic, bashing out over one billion text messages every week, according to new figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA).
The number is up a hefty 25% higher from the same time last year, with a single week’s total matching the number of text messages sent during the whole of 1999.
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Apple’s well-oiled publicity machine may well have ensured that half the planet knows all about their innovative iPhone, but when it comes to dipping in their pockets and buying the thing, it seems us Brits are distinctly sniffy, with a recent YouGov survey discovering that just one per cent of Britons polled would be buying an iPhone.
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T-Mobile have today announced the Shadow, a low-cost, consumer-focused Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with a slide-out keypad heavily ‘inspired’ by the BlackBerry Pearl.
Just like the one seen on the hugely popular Pearl, the slide-down keypad is five keys wide with each key offering two letters, with the phone using Tegic’s XT9 predictive software for speeding up text input.
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As we expected the 3 Skypephone has been announced today.
It’s a fully-featured 3G Internet phone with Skype built-in, giving Skype to Skype calls and Skype instant messages over the 3G network – all for no payment for calls. To call up the Skype functions, there’s a Skype button in the middle of the handset.
The handset also has Web access built in and the ability to play music from the 3 MusicStore, giving the ability to play over 500,000 tracks.
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In an intriguing move, Herr Jobs has now dictated that folks without credit cards will not be allowed to purchase an iPhone, declaring that Apple will “no longer accept cash for iPhone purchases.”
Moreover, Apple will be limiting sales of the hit iPhone to two for each customer in an attempt to preserve stocks for Christmas and stop people reselling their handsets.
Smartphone kings i-mate have shuffled out two new high-end Ultimate smartphones, both packing QWERTY keyboards.
The 9502 packs in more features than a Friday night multi-screen cinema, offering a high resolution touch screen display, tri-band 3.5G, 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and quad band GSM with EDGE.
The beefy handheld features a 2.8″ VGA (640×480) touch screen that slides out Sidekick-stylee, with a 39-key Qwerty keypad lurking below.
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Samsung has pulled on the little rope and sent the velvet curtains shimmying asunder to reveal the Samsung G800, triumphantly declaring it the world’s first 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom.
Although the quality of phone cameras has been increasingly steadily recently, most come burdened with the digital zoom, which is, frankly rubbish.