LG Fusic Review

LG FusicDigital Trends has a review up on the Fusic from LG, a very stylish little cell phone.

Inside you’ll find an advanced series of features, aside from the music player, which we’ll get to in a minute. On the phone side, Fusic is a broadband EV-DO dual-band CDMA phone for the Sprint network, equipped with text, voice and multimedia messaging, voice memo recording, and speaker-independent voice control. On the digital camera side, the 1.3 megapixel imager can snap stills at up to 1280 x 960 resolution and 15 frame-per-second 3G2-format videos, matched with a 15-step digital zoom and PictBridge for PC-less picture printing via the included USB cable. There’s a microSD flash memory slot, and LG included a 64 MB card to get you started.

In the end they gave it a 7.5 out of 10. In the con’s list, the Fusic is nocked down a notch because of frustrating music management, and seperate Bluetooth 1.1/stereo connectivity. I would love to have one of these small phones, and I think the con’s for me would be of little consequence.

September 12th, 2006 Posted by David in Reviews, LG at 6:18 pm 1 Comment »

RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100 Launches

RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100Roger’s Wireless in Canada is getting the RIM Blackberry Pearl 8100, a great little Blackberry device that sports some nice features. Mobile Burn takes a look at it on their site.

The Blackberry Pearl 8100 not only includes all the features people have come to expect from a RIM device, such as push email, full PIM functionality, and corporate data access, but also sports some more ‘fun’ inclusions such as a 1.3 megapixel camera as well. A large, 240×260 pixel resolution 65k color TFT display features prominently on the front of the device, as does a glowing track ball, similar to that on the Sidekick III. Below the track ball, a SureType hybrid QWERTY keypad can be found.

People in the USA can expect to see it with T-Mobile starting today. And Rogers Wireless this October.

September 12th, 2006 Posted by David in News at 6:08 pm Comment Now! »

Nokia N91 Smartphone Review

Nokia N91MobileTechReview has a review up on the Nokia N91, a smartphone that includes a four gigabyte hard drive, thus allowing it to be more than just a phone.

Nokia is taking aim at the iPod and while that might seem like risky business, it’s not when that device also converges a mobile phone and PDA features into a very sexy package. Though large and heavy by phone standards, the N91 feels good in hand and oozes quality thanks to its beautiful stainless steel casing. This triband GSM smartphone has a 4 gig hard drive which holds approximately 1,000 songs, similar to the higher capacity iPod nano. It supports MP3, WMA and AAC formats among others and can sync to iTunes on the Mac and Windows Media Player 10 on Windows.

In the end they say that if you are looking for a device that mixes a portable music player, a cell phone and a PDA, the Nokia N91 is worth a look. I think the style of the handset is also very interesting though I don’t like the way the number pad keys look. They list the drawbacks to the phone being the size, weight and price tag, but say that if you compare it against three devices it could replace it is lighter, smaller and a deal.

September 8th, 2006 Posted by David in Nokia, Reviews at 10:07 pm Comment Now! »

HTC Launches S620

HTC Launches S620HTC recently launched their new S620 smartphone, which is looking to compete against the Motorola Q. Like the Motorola Q, the S620 is relatively thin, sports a 2.4″ QVGA screen and has a full QWERTY keyboard on the front.

Instead of throwing a normal scroll wheel on the side similar the the Q, HTC put a “JOGGR” control, which is a touch sensitive strip located on the side of the device that allows its user to scroll at a variable speed, as well as perform a drag and hold maneuver.

MobileBurn with all the details:

The quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset also supports WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 wireless connectivity, but does not support 3G connections. It comes with Microsoft’s push email support built-in, includes a 1.3 megapixel camera, and also has a microSD memory card slot. All in a package measuring 112mm x 63mm x 13mm (4.4″ x 2.5″ x .5″).

Expect to start seeing the HTC S620 in Europe sometime in October, and then other markets under different brand names later this year.

September 8th, 2006 Posted by David in HTC at 9:18 pm Comment Now! »

Sprint Adds Movie Streaming

Those of you on the Power Vision EV-DO service might have something else to be excited about today, as Sprint has added the ability to stream full-length feature films right to compatible handsets.

The movie catalogue will currently be made up of both recent box office releases and classics from companies such as Buena Vista, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, and Universal Pictures. Prices for ‘renting’ a movie ranges between $3.99 USD to $5.99 USD, with the user able to watch the movie an unlimited amount of times but only for 24 hours to one week, depending on the title.

As an added bonus, the streaming movies behave similar to DVDs, in that the movie is divided into chapters that can be skipped and navigated between, and the movie will resume from the same point if it is stopped mid way through.

I don’t know if I would ever want to watch a movie on a small two inch screen, but I guess some people do, and screens on cell phones are getting bigger. Interesting idea.

September 7th, 2006 Posted by David in News at 8:56 pm 4 Comments »

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