Sony Ericsson Cedar with 3G HSDPA

Sony-Ericsson intros the Sony Ericsson Cedar, the mobile phone for consumers looking for an easy way to stay connected at an affordable price. The new Sony-Ericsson Cedar cell phone offers consumers fast and easy browsing capabilities with features such as 3G HSDPA and easy access to e-mail and social networking websites. With Sony-Ericsson Cedar, consumers benefit from key features which they have come to expect from Sony-Ericsson. The Sony-Ericsson Cedar phone will be available in selected markets from Q3 in the colours Black / Silver and Black / Red.
Sony-Ericsson Cedar

The new Sony-Ericsson Cedar mobile phone offers users an easy-to-use social networking experience with the Widget Manager 2.0 - an software application which allows users access social networking via the stand-by screen. In addition, the Sony-Ericsson Cedar phone also features the human curvature design that is now consistent across the Sony Ericsson mobile phone portfolio.

Sony-Ericsson Cedar affordable phone
“The Sony Ericsson Cedar handset is the ideal product for consumers who are looking for the perfect balance between a business and social device.” said Quentin Cordier, Global Marketing Manager, Sony Ericsson. “Featuring 3G HSDPA, a 3.5mm jack and a port for easy connection to your laptop - the Sony Ericsson Cedar is an affordable GreenHeart phone which allows consumers to easily connect to their various communities whether it’s for work, fun or play.”

Sony-Ericsson Cedar features
• Widget Manager 2.0 - Access to your social network and applications
• Social network applications - Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
• Keep contacts close - Hassle free phone book transfer and web backup
• Stay organised with calendar, phone book, e-mail
• Fast browsing with 3G and direct access to the web browser
• EAS Push e-mail and modem connectivity
• Connect your headphones on the 3.5mm jack
• Capture the moment with the 2MP camera and send it by MMS
• Human curvature design - Fits into the palm of the hand
• GreenHeart mobile phone - For a greener choice

Sony-Ericsson GreenHeart phones
In line with the company’s GreenHeart commitment, Sony Ericsson Cedar mobile phone features various green credentials such as recycled plastics, a low power consumption charger, an e-manual, waterborne paint and compact packaging. The new Sony-Ericsson Cedar phone is perfect for businesses that are looking for a green alternative as it offers push mail, Bluetooth connectivity and HSDPA.

Sony-Ericsson Cedar price & availability
The Sony-Ericsson Cedar cell phone supports UMTS HSDPA 2100 and GSM GPRS / EDGE 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, UMTS HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 and EDGE 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900. The Sony-Ericsson Cedar mobile phone will be available for retail from Q3 in the colours Black/Silver and Black/Red. The new Sony-Ericsson Cedar will retail for less than €100.

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RIM is rumored to be a Making a Blackberry Tablet PC

Research in Motion (RIM), manufacturer of the Blackberry is rumored to be following Apple by releasing tablet computer. The product is planned for a while will be produced in limited quantities and will be sold before December 2010. This 8.9-inch-sized tablet computer has been discussed in the forum sites like Crackberry.
Supply of the RIM tablet PC components were imported directly from Foxconn Technology Group. Foxconn and another three Asian companies who participate supplying tablet component has also confirmed the truth of this news.
Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide, and mainly manufactures on contract to other companies. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.
According to these reports, RIM is working on a Q3 or Q4 launch will come with a 3.5G modem and Wi-Fi capabilities. As expected, the device will also allow users to sync their tablet with their Blackberry.
IPad presence, no doubt has triggered a number of vendors to make similar products. Before RIM, Samsung and Nokia are also rumored to be developing these touch-screen tablet PC
For that please you imagine her with a BB for a big screen, whether it would be cool or even so strange. Let's wait its presence

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HTC Desire Specification and Review

HTC is a company yet to take a backwards step. You can say what you like about specific releases, but each generation of HTC handsets has improved on the last with superior physical design and notable improvements in the software. The HTC Desire is this case in point; it features the most up-to-date Android software, the slickest iteration of HTC's Sense user interface and is one of the most attractive touchscreen handsets available today.

Design
There's no denying the similarities between the Desire and the HTC-manufactured Google Nexus One, they look like identical twins who get different haircuts to assert their individuality. There are a few obvious differences in detail, but overall you have a very similar shaped and sized handset with a similar two-tone colour scheme and matching 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA touchscreens. For our money, we like the Desire better, the optical trackpad works nicely, and we prefer the mechanical buttons below the screen over the touch-sensitive ones you find on Google's phone.

Once you fire up the Desire, the comparisons end and the Desire streaks ahead. HTC's Sense UI gives Android something you can't find on the competition's offerings: a mixture of usability and style that truly sets it apart. HTC Sense features seven customisable homescreens (as opposed to the standard five on Android 2.1), to which the user can apply a wide range of widgets and shortcuts. But as owners of the iPhone will attest, scrolling back and forth across seven different screens can be a laborious task, so HTC has implemented a new tweak to Sense called 'Leap': a pinching touchscreen gesture that displays all seven screens as thumbnails, allowing you to 'leap' from one screen to the next without scrolling across the screens between.

Sense doesn't totally overwhelm the homescreen functionality; in fact Live Wallpapers, one of our favourite features of the Nexus One (and of Android 2.1 in general), is still active. Live Wallpapers are animated homescreen backgrounds, and in some instances are touch-active too, which really helps to make your phone feels somewhat alive, if at the expense of your battery life.

Features
If you've followed the progress of Android, and you've read our Nexus One review, then you're basically up to speed with the capabilities of the HTC Desire. It sports all the smartphone hardware you'd expect; it supports Telstra's 850MHz network plus standard 2100MHz HSPA data transfers; it has a GPS receiver, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, supported by the standard suite of Google apps; and it has an excellent Webkit browser. Out of the box you'll find a comprehensive mixture of apps and web shortcuts to play with, representing the three corporations behind this release: Google, HTC and Telstra (in Australia), but any service or tool not on the phone when you receive it is likely to be found on the Android Market to download.

HTC has made sure the Desire is as capable a business smartphone as it is a phone for fun, extending its usual support for Microsoft Exchange email to include the ability to search a corporate database for contacts, a feature rarely seen on even the most advanced smartphones. Quickoffice is also installed for viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents, and the pre-installed HTC calendar is a winner with its clean UI and the integration of the weather into calendar entries over the upcoming five days.

Staying in touch
All new smartphones now support a wide range of communication methods. From Facebook and Twitter, to old favourites like SMS and email, staying in touch with contacts and the wider web is one of the highest priorities to those of us searching for a new phone to buy. The Desire ticks all of these boxes, and does it in some really innovative ways. Previous HTC Androids, like the Hero and Tattoo, featured HTC Peep for Twitter and integrated Facebook with the phone's address book. The Desire maintains this functionality and adds to it with Friends Stream, a new homescreen widget that aggregates Facebook and Twitter updates into one place and gives you the ability to update either profile without launching an app or the browser.

On top of this, the Desire also sports HTC Footprints, a geotagging app that tags photos you take with a location it generates using your current location, and Google's Latitude widget, which lets you see where your friends are using Google Maps. Within the phone's address book you can view photos via a contacts Facebook or Flickr stream, and you can merge contacts from a variety of sources into a single address book listing.

Media and the web
In previous Android reviews, we've complained about the various media capabilities of earlier devices, but the Desire features a media player of a high enough quality to keep us quiet this time around. This is by no means a show-stopping piece of software, but it does the job of organising and playing media files, and it looks good doing it. Media file recognition is marginally better than previous HTC Androids, adding Windows Media video and audio files to the usual assortment of MP4 videos and MP3 and AAC music.

We mentioned it before but we'll say it again: this web browser is a winner. Pages load quickly and render correctly, scrolling over long pages is smooth and fluid, and the browser supports some Adobe Flash content too via its Flash Lite plugin. To be honest, we were never really too concerned about the iPhone not supporting Flash content, but now that we've watched videos in the browser, we never want to go back to Apple's restrictive web experience. Also to Apple's ire, the Desire features multitouch pinch-zooming in the browser, as well as in the photo gallery and apps like Google Maps.

The only let-down in the media experience is the content you create yourself, namely photos and videos shot with the Desire's 5-megapixel camera. On paper this camera passes muster with its decent image resolution, touchscreen auto-focus and bright LED flash, but the end results aren't nearly as exciting. Our photographs look colder than in real life, with a chilly blue hue produced by the flash, and the auto-focus really struggles, especially with subjects that are prone to moving. Of our thirty-plus test images, only a small selection of them were captured clearly.

Performance and battery
Not only is the Desire a sexy phone full of excellent features, it is also a veritable powerhouse, packing a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a huge 576MB of RAM. The results speak for themselves, with consistently zippy performance in the complex menus and inside the various apps we installed. We should point out that we turned down the animations in the display settings from 'All animations' to 'Some animations' to iron out some subtle jaggedness in the homescreen animations, specifically some tiny pauses when scrolling in the 'All programs' shortcuts list.

Importantly, the Desire also makes the grade as a mobile phone. Our test calls sounded clear in a variety of situations, and messaging is a breeze with the great on-screen keyboard.

With the top-line hardware and the large touch display, it's not surprising that battery life maxes out at a single work day, though this can be as low as eight or 10 hours depending on how you use the phone. The good news is that HTC provides you with a variety of widgets to manage the battery consumption as much as is possible with a phone of this calibre. There's a standard power settings widget that switches the Wi-Fi and GPS on and off, as well as controlling the auto-sync schedule and screen brightness. There's also a mobile network widget that turns mobile data on and off, a great way to save battery and make sure you're not overspending on your monthly data allowance.

Overall
HTC is onto a real winner with the Desire, striking a perfect balance between design, features and performance. The screen is fantastic, the software is best-in-class and the performance throughout the phone is mostly flawless. There are a few shortcomings, the 5-megapixel camera needs work and the phone could do with the addition of some substantial internal storage, but these issues are easily forgotten while surfing the web or communicating with friends using a wide variety of different protocols or social networks. You will have to manage the battery to get the most out of it, but HTC makes this task simple with its custom-designed homescreen widgets. Best of all, the Desire is priced aggressively at AU$779 outright and unlocked, but don't forget you'll probably want to upgrade the included 2GB microSD card, so you'll need to budget that into the cost.

• Prosesor: Qualcomm QSD8250 1Ghz
• OS: Android 2.1 with HTC Sense
• Memory: ROM 512MB dan RAM 576MB
• Dimention: 119mm (L) x 60mm (W) x 11.9mm (T)
• Weight: 135g (with battery)
• Touchscreen WVGA 3.7 in with 480 x 800 resolution
• Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g
• GPS: internal GPS, HTC Footprints™, Google Maps
• 3.5mm stereo audio jack, Standard micro-USB (5-pin micro-USB 2.0)
• Camera:5.0 Mpixel with auto focus and flash, Face detection, Geotagging.
• Battery capacity: 1400 mAh
• Memory slot: MicroSD upto 32 GB

cnet.com.au

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Samsung Champ C3300K and the HTC Smart, Simple and cheap.

New mobile phone models are constantly appearing on the market. Keeping up with them is not so simple! Two popular new mobile phones are the Samsung Champ and the HTC Smart. Both are briefly examined and compared in this article.
The Samsung C3300K Champ proves to be a touchscreen mobile from Samsung which is affordable. It possesses a 2.4 inch QVGA touchscreen and runs on TouchWiz Lite, software which touts a home screen. The widgets are arrayed in the configuration of a 3x3 grid. Besides Java support and Samsung Applications integration, the mobile comprises a Touchwiz experience feature, social networking integration.

With a potent battery inside it, the Samsung Champ boasts an impressive twelve straight hours of talking time, along with six hundred sixty-six hours on standby. This enduring battery will provide many hours of multimedia entertainment, of either music or radio. Sound effects are 3D via the stereo speakers, a 3.5 millimeter audio jack, a microSD card place for 8GB cards, quad band GPRS/GSM/EDGE, USB ports, and Bluetooth 2.1. Furthermore, it boasts a 1.3 Mega-pixel camera which is capable of recording QCIF videos at fifteen frames per second. Other Samsung Champ specifications in brief are summarized below, as follows:
Samsung Champ Specifications
Network Technology GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Dimensions (mm) 96.3 x 53.8 x 13 mm
Weight (g) 80
Available colours Deep black, Espresso brown, Sweet pink, Chic white
Screen Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
Screen Color TFT 256K colors
Navigation Key Touch Screen
Antenna Fixed Internal
Phonebook 1000
Internal(MB) 30 MB
Memory Slot microSD, up to 8 GB
Battery Type Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Stand-by (hrs) 666
TalkTime(min) 720 minutes
The HTC Smart Phone has a motto of Quietly Brilliant. Its screen features Scenes, which are various configurations of the phone intended to reflect alternate moods in your daily personality. Your bustling weekdays have a mode which lays out your home screen using panels which assist you in getting through those working days with apps such as calendar, email, and the web browser. Weekend mode lays out the screen with an emphasis on relaxation and fun, showcasing apps like camera, music, and photo album panels. It also has a scene which may be individually personalized to match your one of a kind individual style and day to day requirements. These scenes are really rather brilliant. Beneath the pictures of your favorite persons are located the applications themselves. And, the user does not have to open up numerous applications, since a single view exists of all of your various communications, whether they be text, email, or a Facebook update with any of your personal contacts. With but a single tap of the screen, you are capable of making your web browser alter to landscape mode so that you receive a superior view, whilst surfing the Internet. It also has smart zoom. This feature expands and reflows the text so that you can enjoy reading, with but a double tap on the screen.
The battery life of the HTC Smart mobile is far inferior to that of the Samsung Champ mobile. With a talk time of up to seven and a half hours, and a standby time of up to four hundred and fifty hours (GSM) and six hundred hours (WCDMA), it proves to have a less enduring battery utility life than the one in the Samsung. The HTC Smart mobile camera showcases 3.0 megapixels, making it more than twice as detailed a resolution camera device as the Samsung mobile is. The microSD card capabilities are comparable on the two phones. Other specifications of the HTC Smart mobile are detailed below, as follows:
HTC Smart Mobile
Processor 300 MHz
Memory ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 256 MB
Dimensions (L x W x T) 104 x 55 x 12.8 mm ( 4.09 x 2.17 x 0.50 inches)
Weight 108 grams ( 3.81 ounces) with battery
Display 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
Network HSDPA/WCDMA:
Connectivity Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0)
3.5 mm stereo audio jack
Capacity: 1100 mAh
Expansion Slot microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A

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Nokia C3, specifications and Picture galery

Nokia C3 Full Specs:

▪ 2.4 inch QVGA display
▪ 320 x 240 pixel resolution
▪ 262K colors
▪ Series 40 User Interface
▪ Full QWERTY keyboard
▪ GPRS/EDGE
▪ Opera Mini
▪ Wi-Fi
▪ 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
▪ Media Player
▪ Stereo FM Radio
▪ Built-in hands-free speaker
▪ 55 MB internal memory
▪ 8 GB expandable memory
▪ 2 GB MicroSD card included
▪ 3.5mm headphone jack
▪ Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR
▪ OVI Chat
▪ OVI Share
▪ 7 hours talktime
▪ 20 days stand-by time

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Nokia C2, Another Dual GSM Phone

Although it sits higher up in the C-series, the Nokia C2 still has a low price point, making it the perfect device for developing nations. To find out more about the Nokia C2, join us after the break…
As with the new Nokia C1, the Nokia C2 features dual SIM functionality, meaning you won’t need to have more than one mobile phone. Instead, you’ll be able to send and receive texts and calls from both your home and work numbers, with everything appearing in one location.
Even more impressive, while one SIM card is located under the battery in the standard place, the other SIM card is hot swappable, so you’ll be able to take it out of the Nokia C2 when on the move, and even swap it for another SIM card without having to turn off the handset or take out the battery.
The Nokia C2 will initially go on sale in Kenya, and Nokia has done as much as possible to make the device perfect for the developing world. Despite the low price point – the Nokia C2 is expected to cost just 45 Euros (plus taxes) when it goes on sale – there are loads of applications pre-installed to make the handset as useful as possible.
The Nokia C2 will support Nokia’s Ovi Life service, offering healthcare, agriculture and entertainment advice, and it provides Ovi Mail – bringing email to the mass market in developing worlds.
Nokia has yet to release other specs for the Nokia C2, but in the meantime check out our photo gallery below.

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