Today, Samsung and U.S. Cellular together launched the Samsung SCH-U440, also known as Samsung Gloss (not Gross, although it looks like) in the US. The Gross phone is a compact flip style phone equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard.
The Gloss phone is available in pink and charcoal color. Features and specifications wise, it doesn’t have any new fancy feature that would excite you, however, this phone has all the basic features and some multimedia features of a regular cell phone in the market. It has 1.3-megapixel digital camera, MP3 music player, Stereo Bluetooth, and a 2.2-inch Landscape LCD screen, a microSD memory expansions slot that supports up to 16GB.
“Customers are looking for more out of their cell phones every day,” said Alan D. Ferber, Chief Marketing Officer at U.S. Cellular. “The Samsung Gloss offers a full qwerty keyboard for easy texting as well as a built in camera and music player to make this phone a unique all-in-one device.
Handmark, the company which we know for its Pocket Express application/service, announced Express News, a free mobile news application for Android-based phones.
App’s key features include:
Interested? Express News is available as a free application through the Android Market.
Justice League theme T-Mobile G1 Themes publish by killa_tattz at android community.
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Toshiba’s Biblio is touted as an e-book reader. Instead of an electronic paper display like ones found in established e-book readers, such as Amazon’s Kindle, the biblio makes do with a traditional 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen with an extra-long 480×960 resolution. The advantage here is that the Biblio can render crisp color images rather than grayscale, but the e-ink display is more battery friendly and is said to cause less eye strain.
It features 7GB of user-accessible storage on board for books, and also has a slide-out dynamic keyboard that can display a numeric pad in the portrait orientation or full QWERTY in landscape. Books and other content can be downloaded thanks to a Wi-Fi connection. Opera Mobile 9.5 browser is preloaded onto the handset, which includes YouTube and Flash support, as well as AJAX scripting. Moreover it has a 5.1Mpix camera module, and an electronic dictionary module.
Sadly, there’s no word on pricing or availability for the device.
Rumor has it on the next Nokia Internet Tablet referred to as the N900, Rover,coming this year to T-Mobile USA. MobileCrunch has published what is believed to be specifications of Nokia’s upcoming Internet Tablet, possibly called the N900. The specs they report are no surprise: They’re a combination of the existing N810, some features of the N97.
The N900 comes with features like: HSPA, WiFi and GPS connectivity, Maemo 5, 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, a 5 megapixels Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash and 1GB total virtual memory. The device is said to be powered by Texas Instruments’ OMAP3430 processor, the same as that in the Palm Pre. The new tablet is believed to be powered by Nokia’s Maemo5 Linux-based operating system. Additionally, the Rover does not appear to feature the navi-keys found on the slide-out layer of the N97.
Tablet is supposedly planned to be announced in June, with availability in August or September.
Two giant carriers Spain’s Telefónica and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo will debut Toshiba TG01 Windows Mobile Phone in Japanese and Spanish market starting June 2009, respectively. The Japanese version, called PRO T-01A, will arrive sometime in June, while Spain will get the TG01 in July. This high-end smartphone offers a huge 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS (upgradeable to 6.5), 3.15MP camera with autofocus,a 3D user interface, Wi-Fi, GPS and a microSD card slot. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. In addition, both companies are also planning to collaborate for developing “possible services and applications for open OS handsets.”
Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Pictures - The Nokia 5630 XpressMusic runs on a powerful ARM11 processor at 600 MHz and features a 2.2” TFT QVGA display with 16 million colors. It features microSDHC memory slot and stereo Bluetooth. Also on-board is a 3.5mm jack, which is one of the must-have features on a music phone, and a 3.2-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, also capable of recording 640×480 video at 15 frames per second.
Leonard Rossiter is one of the greatest comedy geniuses who’s ever lived, and many people reckon his finest hour was The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (in the interests of fairness, though, just as many people reckon that series had a tremendously weak script, and was made great solely by Rossiter and the other actors’ performances). Anyone who thinks that remakes are the work of Satan had best look away now, because the remake of that classic series, Reggie Perrin, is actually rather good.
Oh, and yes, it’s got mobile phones in it.
Well, come on, in a series that’s all about becoming disconnected and alienated by the world around you, a boring job, and the various ways the world can make you crack up in spectacular style (including having onscreen fantasies about snapping your boss’s neck), mobile phones are going to get a mention. Because not everyone loves them as much as me, let’s be honest.
And so, Reggie (played by Martin Clunes) gets an LG Viewty. Reasonably decent phone at what it does, showing its age in the modern world of mobile phones. So, was it chosen because of that, to make it a proper counterpoint to Reggie, a man whom the exact same things could be said of?
Or was it because someone on the production team likes ‘em?
Either way, it ends up making sense. I can’t see someone like the character they’ve crafted in Reggie Perrin using something like an HTC Magic, no matter how hard I try.
Although it would’ve been nice if they stuck a sneaky reference to Nokia in, when they did the episode set in Finland that had ‘globalisation’ as a theme. Us mobile phone types could have guffawed for ages, then.
So, what of Reggie Perrin the series, then? Well, a weird thing’s happened. Watching it objectively, it’s not actually that laugh-out-loud-and-wet-yourself-giggling funny… and yet, I really like it. I tune in religiously to watch it every week, and in all honesty, for the life of me, I can’t work out why I like it. Maybe it’s the pretty harsh lens it casts modern life through. Maybe it’s the fact that Martin Clunes plays downcast and fed up better than anyone else I can think of. Maybe it’s the fact it’s got personality coming out of its ears, despite not, objectively, being that hilarious. Maybe it’s because I can just feel them building up to the same fake suicide ending the original series had, which was genuinely poignant.
Or maybe it’s because it’s got Lucy Liemann in it, who knows…
No, I’m not talking about that Blossom… I’m talking about a Blossom theme for the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)… on the BlackBerry Curve 8900, Storm and Bold to be exact. Elecite have launched yet another great looking premium theme. This one is primarily pink, and is clean, crisp and simple to use. You can see from the shots above that this one was built with the female BlackBerry set in mind… I don’t think I’ll be adding this one to my repertoire but I know a few that will certainly consider it!
The Premium Blossom theme from Elecite is available for $6.99 over at Elecite. Again, it’s compatible with the Curve 8900, Bold and Storm… So if you’re runnin’ one of those devices and like the looks of this one
Samsung Electronics just announced the availability of its new full touchscreen Haptic phone (SCH-W770/SPH-W7700/W7750) in South Korea. These handsets adopt Korean figure skater, Yuna Kim as an official AnyCall cell phone model.
Available in Snow White, Sweet Pink and Noble Black, the ‘Yuna’s Haptic’ cell phones provide ‘My Diary’ function to edit a diary or a scheduler like a blog and to record popular restaurants, movie information, etc. Other features include a 3MP shooter with an auto-focus capability, T-DMB, SOS functionality, and more. You can buy the Samsung ‘Yuna’s Haptic’ for 600,000 Won ($481).
Two giant carriers namely Spain’s Telefónica and japan’s NTT DoCoMo are set to launch the highly anticipated Toshiba TG01 smartphone starting June or July. NTT will be selling it under the name of docomo PRO series T-01A in Japan. As a reminder, this high-end smartphone offers a huge 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS (upgradeable to 6.5), a 3D user interface, Wi-Fi, GPS and a microSD card slot. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing so far. In addition, both companies are also planning to collaborate for developing “possible services and applications for open OS handsets.”
No, I’m not talking about that Blossom… I’m talking about a Blossom theme for the BlackBerry … on the BlackBerry Curve 8900, Storm and Bold to be exact. Elecite have launched yet another great looking premium theme. This one is primarily pink, and is clean, crisp and simple to use. You can see from the shots above that this one was built with the female BlackBerry set in mind… I don’t think I’ll be adding this one to my repertoire but I know a few that will certainly consider it!
The Premium Blossom theme from Elecite is available for $6.99 over at Elecite. Again, it’s compatible with the Curve 8900, Bold and Storm… So if you’re runnin’ one of those devices and like the looks of this one, head on over to Elecite!
Motorola portrait QWERTY slider Iron Man has appeared again. Today it comes with the AT&T namely Motorola Heron (Iron Man). Motorola smartphone “IRONMAN” is another Moto Android handset.
With the AT&T-bound Heron, listed specs being a 2.8-inch touch screen, 3 megapixel camera with flash, aGPS, 3G. The video capture also looks nice, as AT&T takes the time to brag up the 24 fps QVGA capabilities. Also on the menu is another portrait slider, the Sawgrass. This one may in fact be Alexander, and a big red “subject to change” notice since the device has moved to Android OS
The Heron is geared up for a November release.
Hewlett-Packard is back with their new smartphone namely the iPAQ K3 — codenamed “Obsidian”, which is scheduled for November 30 retail availability on AT&T. This new handset is equipped Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a 2MP camera, a full QWERTY keyboard, a 256MB of RAM, a 512MB ROM, a microSD card slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack, GPS, WiFi and supports triband HSDPA as well as quadband EDGE connectivity. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing yet.
Here is the latest business oriented cell phone from LG. The LG-KU4000 comes equipped with a 2.8-inch LCD display with an external LED display, a DMB TV tuner, a 2MP shooter, Global Roaming, Outlook Sync support and the Mobile Franklin Planner. Sadly, there is no info on pricing at this time.
Two more HTC devices are coming out soon, and they’re biggies because they are the Touch Pro2 and the Touch Diamond2.
AT&T is the last US carrier to announce it’ll be getting the Pro2, though here it is named the HTC Fortress. We wouldn’t be surprised if the name sticks, much like how the Touch Pro became the HTC Fuze. The Touch Diamond2 is named the HTC Warhawk.
HTC Fortress:
Supposedly scheduled for launch as early as tomorrow (which doesn’t sound at all right considering we haven’t heard even any rumors up to this point), the HTC Fortress has:
We’ve noticed that none of the slides we’ve seen so far today have mentioned WiFi, so we don’t know if they are included but just left out on the spec sheet, or if they just won’t have it. Seems silly that WiFi would not be included to ease the bandwidth burden AT&T’s experienced lately.
HTC Warhawk:
Scheduled for August 24, the Warhawk should have Windows Mobile 6.5 on it from the launch. But just as any other rumor or tentative release date, these specs could change at any time.
The Warhawk will also have:
This is great news. We had heard the Magnum was confirmed for AT&T but it is great to hear that the other three are coming there as well. This will give the Blackberry lineup a large boost.
So let’s go through each one and see what the slides say, and what info is already circulating about those devices.
Blackberry Onyx
While most of the specs are identical to the Bold, a couple key changes are the 3.2 MP camera, and the slide also mentions using a micro USB connector instead of the standard Mini USB that RIM has used for eons.
The style also looks a little different. It’s reminiscent of Bold vs Curve 8900. The below crystal-clear picture shows off the Onyx, reviewed earlier by Kevin at Crackberry.
Blackberry Magnum
Such a detailed picture, isn’t it? The Magnum is being touted as the “Blackberry Bold portfolio evolution”. We’re excited about this one, as it’s supposed to have full QWERTY as well as HVGA touchscreen. Nice!
The Magnum is also bragging up a Navigation evolution. Huh? Should be interesting to find out more about this mysterious handset, for sure. Here’s a fuzzy pic of what the Magnum should really look like.
Blackberry Pearl 3G
Not much needs to be said of this one, as it is a natural upgrade to the current Pearl line. A much needed upgrade, considering the Pearl dates back a good 3 years. This will be of the non-flip variety and will sport triband AT&T 3G, as well as a high resolution display (exact res TBD). We hope the Pearl 3G will look a little more stylish than the one in the slide.
Blackberry Gemini
Also known as the Blackberry Curve 8520, the Gemini is well-named because of the look and feel of it. Here’s the confusing part though — according to our previous reports, the Gemini is supposed to come with an optical trackball (or trackpad, whichever you want to call it) instead of the usual Curve-style trackball, yet the above slide mentions it comes with a trackball.
By the looks of it, the Gemini is meant to be more of an entry-level Blackberry as it won’t have 3G, it may have GPS but not sure yet, and 2 MP camera with no flash. Picture below.
As of yet we don’t have any release dates for these handsets, but it’s refreshing to see a whole slew of new phones to replace the aging Blackberry devices currently for sale on AT&T. Your thoughts?
We hope you’re having a fun time keeping up with the schload of leaked internal specs for forthcoming AT&T phones, because we’re not done yet. It’s Nokia’s time to shine, as they supposedly have four phones on deck for the 2nd largest US carrier.
Until the release of the E71x last month, things between Nokia and AT&T were rather quiet. The last major phone released was the 6650, which became EOL only a few short months after it was launched.
For you Nokia fans — and there are a lot of you out there — hearing about these four new handsets are like a breath of fresh air. Let’s check them out.
Nokia Mako
For a landscape QWERTY device, the Mako is the most uniquely designed that we’ve seen in a long time. But on first impression, it looks rather clever. Instead of having a bulky look, the keyboard appears like it easily tucks into the phone without adding any extra size.
The Mako runs on Symbian S60 3.2, the same as the E71x and the 6650.
If we had to guess, this will be intended more as a messaging phone than a smartphone, because the specs are ho-hum. Only 128 MB internal memory with expandable slot, 2 MP camera, and a 2.5 mm headphone jack (Really? 2.5? Really?), for example. But this new design could certainly spark the interest of some of the younger folks.
The slide mentions an early June release, though we tend to disbelieve such a notion simply because we haven’t heard anything about the Mako until now. But we’ve seen crazier things happen.
Nokia Grouper
The Grouper almost looks though Nokia is actually finding inspiration from the Motorola RAZR. The Grouper is a super thin clamshell with external music controls, running Series 40, and offers plenty other standard specs for a mid-range phone.
Below is the pic taken for the FCC filing, and everything looks like it’s going straight to AT&T here, complete with CV button.
Anticipated release date is the end of July.
Nokia Snapper
The Snapper seems to be the 6555’s replacement. Another standard clamshell, the Snapper has almost identical specs to the Grouper, and is music-optimized. Feel free to check the above slide to get exact specs, but nothing we can see really stands out to us.
Anticipated release date is August 7.
Nokia Thresher
As seen above, the Nokia Thresher has a very N-series look to it, complete with a sporty slider style. The Thresher has a few neat features to help it stand above the Grouper and Snapper, such as:
Perhaps not the most loaded device on the planet, but certainly it has a few things going for it. This one will apparently hit stores September 18.
Earlier today we discussed breaking news about the HTC Lancaster becoming the first Android phone on AT&T, a big shocker to many considering the company was quite hush-hush about what the future held for the Google mobile OS.
Good news, Android fans — that’s not all AT&T has in the pipeline! The Motorola Heron, aka Iron Man, is still on the roadmap for the holiday season.
There were some rumblings almost a month ago that the Heron was in the works, but there was no information as to what specs to expect with it.
Let’s go over some of the specs on the Heron.
As you can see, nothing terribly mind-blowing, though the 2.8″ QVGA touch screen isn’t shabby considering it’s a slider that reveals a full qwerty underneath. The video capture also looks nice, as AT&T takes the time to brag up the 24 fps QVGA capabilities.
The Heron is geared up for a November release, but we can’t be certain as to how accurate these slides are, or how old they truly are.
With the advance use of technology and mobile applications Samsung has been able to pull up its status and reputation quiet high nowadays. You can see the brand introduce over the top mobile models from time to time that not only lets you experience great features but call and picture quality as well. The latest Samsung Trance also belongs to the same era. The Samsung Trance availability can be assumed in April. 2009.
Read the Samsung Trance review to know more about it.
• The Samsung Trance supports CDMA dual band and comes in 4 x 1.97x 55 inches dimensions. The phone weighs 100 grams and easy to hold and carry. It uses a Li-Ion 880 mAH battery to give you great battery backup. The mobile comes with a 1.3 megapixel resolution camera, brightness control and a digital zoom feature. You can take clear pictures in the dark as well by turning on the night mode.
• If you are looking for mobile that is light in weight, has good looks and all the latest features then you can certainly choose the latest Samsung Trance which is priced reasonable according to its feature. You can check the current Samsung Trance price online.
• You can talk up to 4.5 hours with a fully charged battery. It has a resolution of 176×220 pixels and comes with a TFT display exhibiting 262144 colors.
• It has 1 GB internal memory and also supports 2.0 WAP feature. You can share files and pictures among your friends using the blue tooth 2.0 features. The other mobile features include world clock, converter, stop watch, calculator, calendar and alarm.
You can read other mobile review for Samsung Trance before purchasing it to satisfy yourself completely with its features and quality online. It is the best phone for its price.
Samsung is out with another one of its affordable phone namely the Samsung t239 that will soon make its way to T-Mobile USA later this month. This new slider phone offers dual band GSM connectivity 850/1900 MHz, a 177 x 220 pixels TFT display, a VGA photo camera, a 10MB of internal memory, web2go, MMS, myFaves capable and Bluetooth connectivity. The t239 comes in two color versions, dark scarlet and grey, and priced at $59.99.
