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Google unveils Nexus One smartphone
Google on Tuesday unveiled the Nexus One, the online giant’s leap into the smartphone market.

At a 1 p.m. ET event, the company presented the phone.

“Nexus One is where Web meets phone,” said Google’s Mario Queiroz.

The announcement puts Google, which before relied on other companies to make the phones that ran its Android operating system, head-to-head with the darling of the market, Apple’s iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Sony Ericsson Idou features a 16.7 million color screen in 16:9 widescreen format. It has a full-touch media menu to tap directly into movies, TV-series and video clips. An integrated 12.1-megapixel camera with touch focus and Xenon flash snaps pictures and videos in high-resolution quality. The Idou is packaged with Sony Ericsson’s new subscription-based Entertainment Unlimited movie service. Viewers can download films to a PC and then transfer them over to phones.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Samsung Ultra Touch is a slim touch screen slider with an 8.0-megapixel camera. As the newest flagship phone to the Ultra range, the Ultra Touch has a 2.8-inch AMOLED anti-scratch, anti-smudge touch screen for brighter and more vivid colors. It features an 8.0-megapixel camera with dual power LED flash to snap high-quality photos and capture VGA videos at 30 frames per second. With TouchWiz’s user interface, users can flick through photos, navigate maps and surf the web easily. Additional features include geo-tagging to ‘tag’ photos with geographic information, high-speed HSDPA for fast Internet access, and mobile widgets to quickly access favorite applications.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Samsung Omnia HD is an 8.0-megapixel phone is the world’s first handheld capable of recording and decoding high-definition-quality video (720P). With a 16:9 aspect ratio screen and 16.7 million colors, Omnia HD’s bright 3.7-inch AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) auto-rotating screen offers improved sharpness, more vivid colors and greater clarity in direct sunlight. Users can watch what they record on an HD TVs or share real-time live video via qik.com. It has high-speed HSDPA Internet up to 7.2Mbps. Built-in GPS with compass turns the smartphone into a personal navigation device, for both pedestrians and drivers. Dual stereo speakers offer voice guided directions for navigation.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Samsung Blue Earth is a touch-screen phone with a solar panel charger located on its back. Its design symbolizes a flat, rounded pebble. Made from recycled plastic that is extracted from water bottles, Blue Earth helps to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process. The handset and charger are also free from harmful substances. The packaging is also made from recycled paper. A 5 star energy efficient charger uses standby power lower than 0.03W. Consumers can set Blue Earth to ‘Eco Mode,’ reducing the screen’s brightness, backlight duration and Bluetooth to an energy-efficient mode. In ‘Eco Walk,’ users can count their steps with an in-built pedometer, even calculating how much CO2 emissions have been reduced by walking as opposed to motor transport.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Samsung Beat DJ is a music phone with technology from high-end audio maker Bang & Olufsen that lets users ’scratch’ tracks on its touch screen. The Beat DJ has superior sound quality with SRS Virtual surround sound 5.1. It has with built-in stereo speakers — powered by Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower amplifier — to pump out deep rich bass and clear treble. A DJ application allows music lovers to add voice and sound effects to songs. With the phone’s 2.8-inch AMOLED touch screen display, they can ’scratch’ records and create their personal tracks.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Samsung Beat Disc is a music phone with technology from Danish audio maker Bang & Olufsen. The result of a four year collaboration between the two companies, B&O’s ICEpower amplifier pushes out rich and powerful sound — for deep bass and clear treble. Inspired by the iconic jukebox, the Beat Disc integrates a 2.6-inch 16.7 million color touch screen with a 3.0-megapixel CMOS camera. Additional features include a slide-out keypad, FM radio, stereo Bluetooth technology, HSDPA high-speed Internet, and music recognition and tagging software.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Nokia 6710 Navigator is a mobile phone focused on in-car navigation and pedestrian guidance. It runs on Nokia Maps 3.0. An in-built 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics can also geo-tag photos. The 6710 Navigator suppports high-speed 3G Internet for fast photos and videos sharing and comes with a car holder accessory to cradles the phone on a dashboard. It delivers up to 12.6 hours of GPS pedestrian navigation and 6.6 hours of car navigation.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first music phone to have a QWERTY keyboard for quick messaging. Its homescreen has an improved contacts bar that lists up to 20 friends and accesses music, people, N-Gage games, email, calendar and other applications such as Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts and Maps. With Nokia’s Ovi Contacts, consumers can view which friends are online, chat and see what music they’re listening to. Users can also play games through dedicated gaming keys and online through the N-Gage Arena community. Bundled with Nokia’s ‘Comes with Music’ service, users can download unlimited music to the 5730 and a single computer for free. The music can be kept after the yearly contract has expired.

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Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic features an edgy, top-sliced design and illumination effects, ideal for music and keeping in touch with social networks. Touch keys on the side of the phone can access music. A standard 3.5mm jack lets users connect headphones. While the extended battery life gives more than 26 hours of playback time. Single tracks can be downloaded to a phone and on one computer for free. Music can be kept after the yearly contract has expired. The 5330 can also view online sharing websites such as Ovi, Facebook and MySpace.

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