Motorola droid is one of the most hyped and talked about smart phones that is going to make its way to the market on 6th Nov 2009. The phone is powered with the Android version 2.0 and is expected to show a noticing leap in the over all performance as compared to other android mobile phones. This CDMA phone comes with Verizon wireless network. Let’s see what makes it better or at least at par with other smart phones.
The Tech-Spec:
The processor: Arm Cortex A8 (600MHz, OMAP 3430). This brings a significant improvement in the speed specially while switching from one app to another.
It possesses 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM.
Screen: 3.7 inch touch screen with a resolution of 480 x 854. It is not a multi- touch screen, a point worth noting.
Keyboard: It sports both a physical and an onscreen QWERTY keyboard. The sleek slide out physical keyboard has a toggle bar similar to RIM’s Blackberry trackball where as there are no enhancements in the onscreen keyboard.
Camera: It is coupled with a 5 megapixel camera having 4X zoom, dual LED flash, automatic focus, image stabilization, real-time colour effects, scene modes, location tagging, and videos can be captured at 740 x 380 resolution, upto 24fps and playback up to 30fps. It also has image editing tools.
Connectivity: It has Stereo Bluetooth Technology v2.1, WiFi 802.11, micro USB connector, provides support for Corporate calendar, email and contacts( Exchange 2003 and 2007), Google contacts, calendars, Gmail, Facebook contacts
Battery power: Up to 385 min of usage time and standby time up to 270 hrs.
Messaging: Includes email (corporate, Gmail, IMAP, POP3, Attachment and browser document viewer), MMS, SMS, IM (Gtalk), Voice mail.
Navigation: It has come up with beta version of new navigation service that tells us the real-time direction, turn by turn in collaboration with Google maps. Google provides a good combination of its satellite, map, traffic and location info with text to speech directions. This is considered as one of the major enhancements.
With droid being the first mobile loaded with Android v2.0, it is a much awaited smart phone. Let’s wait and watch how well it grips the market.
Satio, a Sony Ericsson product, launched in market on 7th Oct, 2009 will definitely leave you amazed with it’s the startling features. You might call it a perfect blend of a whooping cyber shot 12.1 megapixel camera, a walkman music player and of course a touch screen mobile phone. It has all the multi media features you can think a phone can have. This phone was first introduced in Barcelona with a name ‘Idou’. Now to substantiate on the above claims, let’s have a brief overview of its tech specs:
Talk time : Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 4h 50 Min (3G)
HD and 3D Games
FM Radio with RDS
Facebook Application
YouTube
Google Maps
Media Player, Bluetooth Stereo ( A2DP), Music Tones ( MP3/AAC)
Web Feeds
Document Readers/Editors
GPS Positioning
Satio comes with many other basic functionality along with the above mentioned ones. One striking change is the customization of the OS, as a result of which Satio features a tabbed homescreen with tabs that link to favourite app, gallery, contacts, network services etc. It comes with colour-matched Wireless stereo hands free.
Satio provides you with ultimate multimedia experience, from HD Games to smooth High Definition video viewing, from GPS positioning to photo and document editing to a rich experience of a Digi Cam. What else do you want from a mobile phone?
Last, but definitely not the least, its price – Rs 35,500 (Approx). Now, It’s for you to decide if Satio deserves to be your handset or not.
Maptor : The upcoming happening way of finding direction, if you are lost
Getting lost, forgetting the roadmap to our destination will be more of fun than a cause of anguish, kudos to Maptor, a trendy pocket device which integrates a map and a projector that projects a desired map (map of the current location you are in) on a solid surface like wall, floor, palm or any flat surface. etc and smartly indicates your current location with a red arrow, with the help of GPS, already installed in it. GPS automatically downloads the appropriate map.
This is conceptualised and designed by Jinsun Park and Seonkeun Park of Samsung Art & Design Institute, South Korea.
It is made of a biodegradable plastic PLA(Polylactic acid) with a touchpad button to perform basic operations like zoom in and zoom out. There is a heat discharging hole that puts away the heat generated by the in-built projector while projecting the map. It is also accompanied with Bluetooth facility for transferring maps in to the device.
Two major concerns about its performance is the readability of map in day light and the batter life.
It is already in news for good reasons. Maptor backed a silver award at International Design excellence award, 2009 organized by Industrial Designer Society of America (IDSA).
This device, being a smart way to get rid of the discomfort of folding and unfolding a paper map and forgetting directions, is definitely going to create waves in market.
Samsung’s S9110-Wristwatch styled touchscreen phone to be launched this month.
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Under its S-series Samsung is adding some cool gadgets. This Korean company has recently launched for its country SCH-W760, the latest mobile that would allow video conferencing in total darkness with sharp 3 mega pixel night vision camera.
But it’s the S9110 touchscreen mobile that would definitely be the showstopper in this S series from Samsung. It will be the thinnest mobile styled as a wristwatch. This is expected to be a high-end one. It is fashioned with stainless steel body with scratch-resistant touchscreen. However, it is loaded with host of features, the details of which is yet to be released. But little sneak peek tells us this S9110 will support Bluetooth 2.1, sync with Outlook email and will be equipped with MP3 player, voice recognition system and a speaker phone.
Another on the anvil is the SCH-i920. Keep waiting as we will keep it posted as details are out.
