Cell Phones

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The HTC Touch Pro2, successor to the popular Touch Pro smartphone, adds advanced speakerphone technology to turn any room into a conference room. Flipping the handset over turns it into a sophisticated speakerphone similar to those found in corporate boardrooms. HTC’s new Straight Talk technology delivers high-fidelity voice through asymmetric speakers and noise suppression. The Touch Pro2 also runs on HTC’s new TouchFLO 3D interface and a customized version of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional so users can quickly access people, messaging, email, photos, music and weather. Conversation are grouped together for a single convenient contact view — whether voice, text or email — so histories can be viewed from the contact card or during a phone conversation. The Touch Pro2 integrates a 3.6-inch widescreen VGA display with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, expandable memory, a touch-sensitive zoom bar and gravity, proximity and ambient light sensors.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
Released for Sprint, the Sanyo SCP-2400 combines the speed and convenience of a full QWERTY keyboard with an easy-to-use interface. The handset features a 1.3-megapixel camera, Sprint Navigation, Sprint Mobile Email Work and offers access to advanced services including web, email and navigation. It includes a powerful speakerphone, Bluetooth wireless technology, a large, colorful LCD screen and voice-activated dialing. Enhanced messaging features include threaded text messages and a dedicated emoticon key. The SCP-2700 comes in Impulsive Pink with a subtle floral overlay or Deep Blue — both with a square designer pattern on its back.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
Released for Sprint, the Samsung Instinct S30 is the successor to the highly-popular Instinct. The smoother, more streamlined handset comes in Cobalt Metal and Copper colors, and offers instant messaging, an Opera 4.2 Web browser and the popular games ‘Guitar Hero - World Tour’ and ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?’ The handset provides access to corporate calendar functionality through Microsoft Outlook and corporate email and contacts from Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Domino. The Instinct S30 has localized haptic for a gentle vibration feedback when the screen is pressed, Live Search for Sprint directory and GPS assistance, Visual Voicemail, advanced stereo Bluetooth and a 2.0-megapixel camera with camcorder.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson W995 is bundled with Sony’s new Entertainment Unlimited subscription-based movie service. Consumers can download films to a PC and then transfer them over to phones. The W995 has an integrated stand to watch videos with built-in stereo speakers. It also includes Clear Stereo, Clear Bass and HPM-77 premium headphones. The W995 can connect to other home electronics letting users view high-quality content through TV, PC and Hi-Fi systems. The W995 includes Media Go, a download application, to transfer audio, photos and videos between the phone and a computer.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson W705a has a metal finish and a large 2.4-inch screen. The elegant and compact slider integrates a 3.2-megapixel camera to capture photos and upload them using Wi-Fi to social networking sites. The W705 also features popular Walkman options such as the music recognition application TrackID, SensMe, for matching any mood to the music and Shake control to change tracks with the flick of a hand. PlayNow arena provides unique themes and wallpapers, ringtones, free content and DRM-free music tracks and TrackID charts from around the world.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson W508a is music phone with interactive technology such as Shake and Gesture control, SenseMe and TrackID. Listeners can raise the volume or set the shuffle function with a quick shake of the wrist or snooze and mute the volume with a sweep of the palm. With SensMe, the W508a can match the music to the mood. TrackID can find the names of unknown songs when listening to the FM radio. An built-in 3.2-megapixel camera with Flash and 3x zoom has Photo Fix to edit images directly on the phone, geo-tagging to stamp the location of the photo taken, and online features such as Photo Feeds, Picture Blogging and Video Blogging. HSDPA high-speed Internet and 1GB M2 card completes the offering.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson C903 has an integrated 5.0-megapixel camera to take pictures and videos. It also features Face Detection to find up to three people in the frame. Then Smile Shutter picks out smiles and captures the photo. Consumers can also automatically snap up to nine images in a row and pick the best one. With aGPS, photos can be geotagged with location coordinates so users can remember where photos were taken. The C903 can share images on its auto-rotating 2.4-inch display or on a TV screen using the TV-out function.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson C510a is an affordable camera phone with a focus on camera features. It has a built-in 3.2-megapixel camera with auto-focus that can detect a person’s smile and immediately take the photo. The C510a can also focus on up to three faces at once. Consumers can browse the photos in landscape and portrait view by simply rotating the handset, then adjust the light balance, brightness and contrast simultaneously via Photo Fix. Users can upload videos and photos to the web or use Snapfish by HP, a preinstalled application that sends print orders from the phone to Snapfish. Quality photo prints are then delivered to the users’ homes.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Nokia N86 8MP focuses on photography with a wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens. It features an integrated 8.0-megapixel wide-angle Carl Zeiss Tessar lens for panoramic photos, shorter latencies and variable aperture for sharp photos in challenging bright and low light conditions. It has a fast mechanical shutter to lessen motion blur. A dual LED camera flash illuminates dim environments for clear photos. The smartphone includes 8GB of internal memory to store up to 4,000 images. Memory can be increased with exchangeable 16GB microSD cards. The N86 8MP has a bright OLED screen with a scratch-resistant hardened glass surface, photo management software, sync capability with a PC and TV-out support for slide shows. It ships with Nokia Maps and a built-in compass, so users can geotagged photos and share their locations with friends and family.

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Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Nokia E55 business phone is the smallest Nokia device with a QWERTY keyboard. The smartphone offers a 2.4-inch screen with automatic landscape support for easier email browsing. It also provides access to email, calendar and contacts via Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. The E55 offers a predictive engine that suggests word completions, error completions and automatically learns new words. The E55 offers improved company name search, remotely access to company directories and the ability to create and receive meeting requests. It integrate with Nokia’s new Ovi apps store and has A-GPS on board and N-Gage gaming support.

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