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Huawei Smakit S7 On Android

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

If you thought the Dell Mini 5 (5-inch screen) was big for a phone, you haven’t seen the Huawei SmaKit S7 (7-inch screen)! In all due fairness, the device is considered a MID with 3G voice capabilities, and with Bluetooth you’ll probably be using a headset to talk more often than not. Either way, it [...]

Samsung Wave

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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The Samsung Wave is the first phone to rock Samsung’s new mobile operating system, Bada, which aims to make feature phones more app-friendly. We first heard the rumbles of the approaching tsunami after Samsung flaunted the Wave on a billboard outside Mobile World Congress on Friday. The Wave’s frothy crest is a 84mm (3.3-inch) touchscreen that [...]

Going from Mobile to Full-Fledged User Experience

Monday, August 3, 2009

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By creating the S-Class UI 3D Widget, LG has expanded customers’ usual notion of “mobile user interface” into something much more fundamental: “user experience around YOU”. The widget not only allows users to experience LG’s ambitious S-Class UI even while away from their mobile phones but also presents non-LG-phone-owners to [...]

LG’s Arena

Monday, July 20, 2009

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As the cell phones continue getting sleeker, smarter, and more versatile, it is increasingly the installed software the enables us to distinguish on another. LG’s latest touchscreen Arena KM9000 with an extra-whizzy user interface in the form of a three dimensional cube. You can call up your contacts and access widgets and create a customizable [...]

Acer DX900 Smartphone

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Acer isn’t yet an official entrant into the smartphone market and already it’s having the same problems keeping secrets as established players Apple and Palm. On Wednesday, a smartphone called the Acer DX900 popped up for preorder on the Web site of UK retailer Clove Technology.

Nokia’s New Trio Of Classic Handsets

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Times are tough, so why not consider the uber cheap Nokia 2700? Image: Nokia. With much of current mobile phone focus centred on highly desirable smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry line, you’d think other manufacturers would bow to the pressures of the economic downturn and hold back more ‘conventional’ products. Evidently Nokia has [...]

Why BlackBerry users will love Storm and iPhone users won’t

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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We’ve had a couple of days to play with the BlackBerry Storm, Research in Motion’s answer to the iPhone. It’s the first all-touchscreen, no-keyboard BlackBerry. And let’s be clear: It’s no iPhone. Its web browser is slow, and you can’t pinch to zoom (as with the T-Mobile G1, the Storm doesn’t have multi-touch). It doesn’t [...]

Palm Treo Pro – Super Smartphone

Sunday, November 2, 2008

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A sleek design, smart shortcuts, and strong call quality make this premium unlocked smart phone worth owning. Palm has finally released a smart phone that isn’t bulky. In fact, the unlocked Palm Treo Pro looks downright elegant compared with previous Treos. And you get an integrated touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and GPS. The keyboard could be better, [...]

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