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LG ENV3 Cell Phone Review

Most of LG’s line of consumer products has given me very little complaint, or even much to take note of negatively.  Sure, they haven’t been wildly impressive cell phones, but I’ve seen some great stuff come out of LG, including that incredible LG Chocolate Touch.
The LG ENV3 cell phone features voice dialing, conference call capability, caller ID and speakerphone. It also features Bluetooth connectivity, a phone number with capacity for a thousand names and numbers, mobile email and internet browser, VCAST and VZNavigator, audio and video file support, a variety of downloadable games and similar files, a three megapixel camera, alarm clock, calendar, calculator and a battery capable of up to three hundred and twenty seven minutes of talk time on one charge.

Better yet, this is really two phones in one.  Not only does it have a fairly “normal” flip phone with keypad on the face, but it also opens up and offers a QWERTY keypad.

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February 12, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

LG GW620 Review

Android is an operating system that failed to bring about the eagerly anticipated revolution in the cell phone world, but has managed to become overwhelmingly popular. At this time, probably the only cell phone manufacturers that are not heavily preoccupied working on Android-based devices are Apple, Nokia and Palm. Many studies prove the platform is getting more widespread and influential by the day and most of them also indicate that Android will rank second to Symbian in just a few years.

Android and LG. These are words that we don’t typically use in one and the same sentence. So far, the Korean manufacturer has introduced two Android-based handsets to be sold globally – the LG GW620 (also known as the Eve) and the GT540. What the company seems to be trying to accomplish with them is get a proper feel of the market and showcase its personalized S-CLASS interface on a brand new platform. Neither of these two comes with powerful hardware or contemporary software. LG GW620 hit the shelves equipped with somewhat obsolete software, because is runs Android version 1.5, while the current OS edition as the time of this review is 2.1.

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February 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile starts shipping its card processing sleeve for the iPhone

VeriFone announced that it has started shipping its PAYware Mobile credit card processing sleeve for the iPhone, and that the complementary PAYware Mobile app is in the AppStore.

As you may know, PAYware Mobile (and Square for that matter) provides small businesses with secure card processing capabilities using the iPhone. The device works in conjunction with a mobile application that utilizes patent-pending card encryption technology.

However, unlike Square’s device which connects over 3.5mm headset jack, VeriFone’s sleeve uses the docking port and also comes with a stylus for signature capture and a mini-USB port for charging iPhone while the sleeve is attached…

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February 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

AT&T letting SlingPlayer stream over 3G on the iPhone at long last

After all the hubbub and controversy caused by the release of SingPlayer for iPhone back in May, we knew it would take a serious change of heart for AT&T to reverse course on the issue of 3G streaming. The app’s super-conspicuous lack of 3G was one of the clearest statements around that the iPhone represented a level of data consumption that AT&T was fairly unprepared for, and that certain uses like VoIP over 3G and live video streams were just not going to fly. Well, we’ve just now gotten over that VoIP hump, and now AT&T has given in to SlingPlayer demand at last. AT&T says it has been testing an “optimized” version of the app on its 3G network since December, and Sling says the dynamic bandwidth adjustment should keep the app from bringing the network to grinding halt — in not so many words. The 3G-friendly version will be a free upgrade to the $30 application, and should be available as soon as the revised software makes its way through the App Store approval process.

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February 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Inbrics’ Android-based M1 slated to ship this year

Inbrics has announced it is to launch the Android-based MID M1 at next week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

The “smartphone-like device” offers a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Specs include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3G or WiMAX, a 3-megapixel camera, front-facing VGA camera, 16GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot.

As well as phone functionality, Inbrics sees the M1 serving as a media controller for other devices, in order to “make it easy for consumers to access and share their digital photos, music, movies and more from any device in their home and outside wireless networks”.

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February 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Nokia C5 3G S60 handset leaks ahead of MWC 2010

Nokia weren’t tipped to be announcing anything significant at Mobile World Congress 2010, but according to DailyMobile there’s at least one new handset on its way to Barcelona.  The Nokia C5 has leaked, a Symbian S60v3 FP2 device with HSDPA/HSUPA, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 2.2-inch QVGA display.
As you might have guessed from the photos, you’re not looking at a particularly advanced phone.  Still, you do get GPS/A-GPS, a microSD slot (to augment the 50MB of integrated memory), an FM radio and a 3.5mm headphones jack.

Design-wise it’s hardly inspiring, but considering Nokia have been stomping down on their prices recently so as to leverage their market share we’re expecting the C5 to be at the affordable end of the spectrum.

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February 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Vodafone UK getting Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 in April

Vodafone UK have announced that they will be offering Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone, the XPERIA X10, come April 2010.  The handset – which made its official debut back in November 2009 – has seen various suggested release dates, including one quickly-removed date on Sony Ericsson’s own site, but until now nothing official.

There’s plenty about the X10 to make it worth waiting for, though.  The Android handset has a 4-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen together with UMTS/HSPA, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, along with an 8.1-megapixel camera.  Sony Ericsson have also loaded up their own UI and two new apps, Mediascape and Timescape, which aim to pull together local and online multimedia and social networking content.

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February 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Android 2.1 Samsung M100S hitting Korea in March

Samsung’s latest AMOLED smartphone has broken cover, the new SHW-M100S, and like the Google Nexus One it’s running Android 2.1.  The M100S has a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, WiFi b/g/n, T-DMB TV tuner and a 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording; it’s apparently set to arrive on South Korea’s SK Telecom network next month.
Other specs include GPS and DivX playback, a 3.5mm headphone socket and – unfortunately – Samsung’s own TouchWiz UI.  They’ve also added a social networking app, though that’s not fully detailed, and the M100S will get access both to the regular Android Market and SK Telecom’s own T Store.

No news on pricing for the phone, nor whether it might make it over to the US or Europe.  We won’t argue with more Android 2.1 devices – even if we do have to suffer through TouchWiz on them – so our fingers are crossed for a broader launch.

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February 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Motorola Zeppelin spotted pre-launch in Brazil

A new Android handset believed to be the Motorola Zeppelin has been spotted in Brazil, where’s it’s expected to go on sale imminently.  Gizmodo Brazil caught up with the entry-level smartphone, which runs Android 1.5 and packs Motorola’s MOTOBLUR social networking aggregation.
Otherwise specifications aren’t entirely clear – this is only a prototype, too – but the Zeppelin is described as a Motorola BACKFLIP without the hardware keyboard.  The original source works for Motorola, apparently, where the phone was demonstrated to employees last week.

The Zeppelin is expected to go on sale in Brazil in March 2010, but there’s no confirmation or otherwise about whether it could cross over to the US or Europe; last we heard, however, there were rumors of it arriving at some point on T-Mobile USA.  Although there’s a market for budget Android devices, we can’t get quite as enthusiastic over them as some of the high-end options we’re expecting to see in the next six months.

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February 9, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Symbian OS going free and open source for first time

The source code for Symbian’s operating system platform will become entirely open source and free (Symbian’s software currently powers most of the smartphones in the world, and is owned by Nokia).  Tomorrow hence the day developers will be able to download, alter, and apply the software at no costs at all.

“The dominant operating system provider out there is Symbian,” says Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, “and now we are offering developers the ability to do so much more.”

Symbian software is used on over 330 million phones around the world, as stated by the Symbian Foundation.  It’s facing increasingly dynamic competition in the smart phone arena from Apple’s iPhone OS platform as well as Google’s Android OS, the two front-runners at the moment.

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February 9, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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