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Pharos Traveler 137 GPS Navigation

Posted by sawaru | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System

Pharos Science & Applications offers a different type of pay-as-you-go service on its unlocked GPS-enabled Windows Mobile smart phones: Initially, U.S. maps and service are free, but you must pay for access to maps of Canada, Western Europe, or Eastern Europe at the rate of $2 per day, $5 per week, $7 per month, or $50 per year. (Pharos says that it will soon offer maps of China, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil on the same terms.)

Once you obtain the maps you need (a step that does require a network connection), nothing more is tied to network coverage. Instead, the maps and location-based services are available only for the period of access you pay for. During that period, however, the unit is fully functional as a GPS navigation device, capable of generating routes and identifying your location, regardless of whether you have got a cell phone signal. And because Pharos’s phones are sold unlocked, you can use them on any GSM-based network.

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Touch-Screen Phones Expected to Reach 833 Million by Year 2013

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Trend Watch & News

CIT MOBiDIV delivers the first ever complete touch experience on Windows Mobile phones.

Touch screen devices are expected to dominate personal computing for the next few years…and numbers are beginning to roll in to support that forecast. More mobile device vendors have started touch-screen manufacturing and integration in 2008. Given this strong expected growth, about 60 companies plan to show off their touch-screen sensor, module or system technology during the 2008 Society for Information Display (SID).

At the leading edge of this new technology, CIT MOBiDIV, the mobile division of CIT Global, has invented a Touch Interface technology over Windows Mobile platform that merges the usability of Touch phones with the power and productivity of Windows Mobile to deliver an unparalleled touch experience to smartphones.

TouchMAX meets the rising consumer demand for touch-enabled devices and powerfully delivers the usability of iPhones with the productivity and versatility of Windows Mobile smartphones. TouchMAX can be completely customized giving Device vendors and Mobile Operators complete control over the device’s functionality, usability and most important the overall user experience.

With exciting touch enabled applications, improved functionalities and ease of use will appeal to a wide range of consumers especially the X-MessagingTM that enables sending live personalized messages with handwriting, animations, colors, smileys and emoticons.

source: PR.com

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I-mate Ultimate 9502 standard package review

Posted by admin | Category: Smartphone, Windows Mobile

I-mate Ultimate 9502 is the larger sibling of the i-mate Ultimate 8502, and shares the honour of being Australia’s first HSUPA phone. While this phone is in the same league as a Blackberry or the iPhone, be wary of Telstra’s promised internet speeds.

Design wise
What is immediately striking about the i-mate 9502 is the bright 2.8-inch touch screen that occupies most of the front panel. The generous 640×480 resolution means you can really enjoy multimedia content on this phone.

Unlike its smaller sibling, the i-mate Ultimate 8502, the QWERTY keyboard on the 9502 is hidden underneath a sliding screen. While it’s quite small, raised keys means typing is acceptable. In a similar manner to the iPhone, the 9502 automatically detects which way the phone is oriented and tips the screen accordingly.

At 116 by 60 by 17.8mm the 9502 is just fractionally larger than its smaller sibling, the 8502. While this isn’t a small phone, it’s a compact for the range of features it offers — and much smaller than a monster like Nokia’s E90 Communicator.

The 9502 offers a range of additional buttons, and we like the scroll wheel placed on the top left hand corner along with the with e-mail and IE key shortcuts. One annoying feature is that the button placed on the left hand side of the phone sits right next to the sliding screen, which opens in a spring loaded fashion. This left us occasionally pushing the screen rather than the "OK" or "wireless" shortcut.

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HTC Shift wireless mini PC by Orange

Posted by admin | Category: Laptop & Notebook, Tablet PC & UMPC, Trend Watch & News

Mobile communications firm Orange is planning to offer UK businesses the latest device from HTC, known as Shift, which includes a seven-inch touch screen mobile computer.

The Shift is smaller and lighter than a laptop, with mobile data connectivity.

It has a seven-inch touch screen that “slides and tilts” to the perfect viewing angle, said Orange. It also has a full Qwerty keyboard.

Users can switch between Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Windows Vista, said Orange.

The device supports 3G/3G+ and Wi-Fi. The Shift also comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Office in Vista mode, enabling users to download, view and edit Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint documents.

It comes with a 30GB hard-drive, large enough for most mobile offices.

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Samsung SGH-i718

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Windows Mobile

Even though touch screen cell phones like the LG Prada, the HTC Touch, and the much-hyped Apple iPhone have gained quite a bit of media attention, a lot of people are still wary about the lack of tactile feedback . Immersion, a company from San Jose, Calif., has come up with a unique solution called VibeTonez, a haptic technology that lets you feel tiny vibrations whenever certain virtual keys are touched. VibeTonez hasn’t really caught on in the United States just yet, but it has been implemented in a lot of Asian and European phones.

One such phone is the Samsung SGH-i718, which was released exclusively in China late last year and is now available worldwide. Aside from the VibeTonez technology, the SGH-i718 is a decent Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC smart phone with a 2-megapixel camera, quadband GSM support, a music player, push e-mail support, and Bluetooth 2.0. While we appreciate the unique tactile feedback of the VibeTonez technology, it’s only available with certain applications–we still had to enter text (for e-mails and messages) with a stylus and a tiny virtual keyboard, without any of the haptic technology helping us along. We also didn’t like the lack of 3G support and its high price tag. There is no U.S. carrier support, so you’ll have to cough up around $479 for one.

Design
As far as Pocket PC phones go, the Samsung SGH-i718 is one slim and sexy device. Measuring 4.28-inches long by 2.28-inches wide by 0.53-inch thin, the SGH-i718 is clad in a lovely black soft-touch finish that gives it a nice feel in the hand. It’s also quite lightweight at around 3.8 ounces and can be easily slipped into a pocket or purse. The SGH-i718 is topped off with an orange plastic shell as the front face. I was a little put off by the bright orange hue, but that’s just personal preference. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sony Xperia X1 first look

Posted by admin | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System, Mobile Phone, Video Player

BARCELONA—Sony Ericsson Sunday night announced its first Windows Mobile phone, the Xperia X1 – and it’s coming to the U.S. soon.

“It’s a truly converged device for entertainment and productivity. We’re trying to avoid the use of the term ’smart phone,’” said Suzanne Cross, head product marketing manager for Sony Ericsson North America.

The Xperia line signals a new focus on innovations in ‘user experience’ for Sony Ericsson, said Rikko Sakaguchi, the company’s head of portfolio and propositions.

“What is tomorrow, what’s the vision?” he asked. “A very simplified view is mobile communication with a rich, enriched environment with the Web … it’s not about a great-looking phone or nice design, it’s more about appealing to the senses.”

Whatever it is, the X1 is smart. The 0.68-inch thick, 5.2-ounce device slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard and a 3-inch, incredibly high-res 800 X 480 touch screen. Yes, that’s a higher pixel density than the iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »

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How touching is HTC Touch Dual 850

Posted by admin | Category: Windows Mobile

Although HTC, one of the world’s largest makers of Windows Mobile smartphones, launched their original 2G Touch a few weeks before Apple launched their iPhone in the US to great fanfare, especially given its iPhone-esque touch screen, one thing was clear: it was still no iPhone.

But given that HTC has much more experience in making smartphones than Apple, many more partners, and dozens more models under their belt, it was always a given that we’d see an upgraded 3.5G HTC Touch model long before Apple would get their act together in releasing a 3G (let alone 3.5G) iPhone.

And that, of course, is what happened. HTC launched 3.5G Touch that runs on the 2100Mhz 3.5G network late last year, but this didn’t work on Telstra’s Australia-wide 850Mhz 3.5G network.

This has all now changed with the introduction of the HTC Touch Dual 850. Equipped with a 400Mhz processor and double the memory of the original Touch, along with a slide-out keypad that allows for easy number dialling and entry of text, the new Touch is much better than the original version. Read the rest of this entry »

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