LG’s LG550 Musicphone

LGEngadget has some details on a new phone from LG, and while LG would not let them have any hands-on photographs of it, they managed to snag what they consider a bad photo of the phone, and some specs.

Yeah, that touchpad on the front definitely reminds us of you-know-what, but the rest of the phone is sleek and thin, and along with the Chocoloate Phone, the LG550 represents an evolution of LG’s handset design sensibility Specs are decent, but not extraordinary: EV-DO, Bluetooth, a MicroSD memory card slot, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, swappable faceplates, and software for creating your own ringtones by humming the melody of what you want it to be (or something along those lines).

We should see the LG550 in the U.S. in the second quarter of this year, but from who? Not sure yet.

April 5th, 2006 Posted by David in LG at 9:41 am Comment Now! »

Nokia 9500 Communicator Review

Nokia 9500 CommunicatorMobileTechReview reviews the Nokia 9500 Communicator a phone that looks very much like the ones from the 90’s until you open it up.

The new generation of devices continues to target the enterprise market with a wide screen and full QWERTY keyboard that resembles a mini laptop. These new devices run on Symbian OS 7 with Series 80 UI and are packed with full PIM applications, an office suite and easy synchronization with PCs. The Nokia 9500 is the larger one of the new generation of Communicators equipped with a 640 x 200 pixel 4.5” display, Bluetooth and WiFi for connectivity and music and video applications for multimedia. The Nokia 9500 is a GSM phone operating on the 900/1800/1900 MHz bands and it has GPRS and EDGE for data. The built-in VGA camera isn’t going to impress anyone, but it’s good enough for taking photo IDs for your contacts database and it can shoot video with audio. Throw in an email client, a web browser and a full size MMC Card slot, you’ve got a powerful mobile devices that’s connected and expandable.

Some of the things they liked is that it is like having a mini-office in your pocket, and the screen is pretty decent in resolution for viewing documents and even websites. The QWERTY keyboard and number row are rare on cell phones. Phone reception was listed as good and so was the data speed when using the phone as a modem.

Things they did not like was that the device is large and heavy, web browsing is slow, and there is no push e-mail support like Blackberry’s.

April 5th, 2006 Posted by David in Nokia, Reviews at 9:04 am Comment Now! »

Asus Launches 2 Megapixel M307

Asus M307Details coming from Engadget Mobile on this one, it looks like Asus has released a 2 megapixel camera phone that caught them both a little surprised and unimpressed.

Asus had themselves a little launch this week, it seems; we’re not sure why they couldn’t hold out until CTIA, but their M307 still ain’t too shabby. The non-US tri-bander features MiniSD, external media controls, and a 2 megapixel camera, although its internal 1.8-inch QQVGA display is a little disappointing, and we’d hope it might at least have 3G. Ah well, it’s an Asus, we’re sure they’ll want to get it right eventually.

April 5th, 2006 Posted by David in News at 8:47 am Comment Now! »

LG CU320 Review

LG CU320Mobiledia has a review up of the LG CU320, a nice slider that takes function over form.

Contrary to the edgy razor-thin clamshells sweeping the market, the CU320 has unusually rounded shape. In fact everything from the casing to the camera lens and even the navigational keypad and shortcut keys are curved, giving a relaxed feel some consumers may not find appealing.

In the end they say that those that can get over the lackluster visual design of the phone will be pleasantly surprised as they enjoyed the multimedia features of the phone.

April 5th, 2006 Posted by David in Reviews, LG at 8:30 am Comment Now! »

Samsung SCH-W399 with GPS

This is really neat, a cell phone that will shout out directions via GPS to help you find where you are going.

Samsung’s new SCH-W399 is the first that I have heard of to have voice guided directions via GPS.

Other features on this tri-band GSM / CDMA 1x clamshell include an integrated 1.3 megapixel shooter that swivels a full 180 degrees, a decent sized 2.2-inch 260k color LCD display (176 x 220), and Bluetooth connectivity. Although the SCH-W399 does have music playback (as well as a loudspeaker), there is only 57MB of on-board memory with no expansion slot in sight. The keypad has a similar “touch pad” text recognition functionality to it as that found on a few Motorola phones.

This 90 gram GPS-enabled cell phone should retail for about $600 USD and available now… in China.

Via Mobile Mag.

April 4th, 2006 Posted by David in Samsung at 4:07 pm Comment Now! »

Sony Ericsson W700 Walkman Handset

Sony Ericsson W700Adding to their Walkman line, Sony Ericsson has added the W700, built on the W800’s style, the W700 mixes in a “Titanium Gold” colour scheme.

It also includes a 256MB Memory Stick PRO Duo, a 2.0 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, a 262k color 176×220 pixel resolution display, Bluetooth 2.0, and a battery providing up to 30-hours of music playback time.

The new Sony Ericsson W700 will be released during the second quarter of 2006, in two variants, the W700i for Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, while the W700c will be for China.

Source: Mobile Burn

April 4th, 2006 Posted by David in Sony Ericsson at 4:02 pm 5 Comments »

Motorola’s Slim SLVR L7 Review

Motorola SLVR L7Mobile Burn is talking about the SLVR L7 from Motorola.

While it took a year’s worth of time and a name change to get to us, the Motorola SLVR L7 has finally arrived in most world markets. First introduced as the SLVR V8 back at 3GSM 2005 and later renamed to the L7, the SLVR was designed to do to the candy bar form factor what the Motorola RAZR V3 did to the clamshell. It appears to be working to some extent, too, since we are starting to see a fair number of SLVR-like devices coming out of Asia.

The Quad-band GSM/GPRS SLVR L7 has gone through a number of specification changes since its initial introduction, as well. The L7 is, as I mentioned, no longer a triband device, and no longer supports EDGE. People who have been following the device for a long time (or are reading old web pages) might notice other discrepancies, as well.

They basically say that this is not the phone to use for its camera abilities as it does not have a decent camera, and does not include a flash, but otherwise its a pretty decent phone thus earning a highly recommended rating.

April 4th, 2006 Posted by David in Reviews, Motorola at 3:34 pm 1 Comment »

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