The first Android-powered phone for Verizon Wireless, the 3G-enabled Motorola DROID smartphone offers a full package of powerful mobile connectivity–from easy access to all your social networks and viewing of full Web sites to spoken turn-by-turn directions thanks to the new Google Maps with Navigation Beta app. One of the thinnest full-QWERTY slider phones available, the Motorola DROID also features a high-resolution 3.7-inch touchscreen display and a virtual onscreen keyboard that auto-rotates depending on the phone’s orientation. And you’ll be able to capture high-resolution images and DVD-quality videos on the go with its 5-megapixel camera with flash.
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Combining the convenience of a tilting touch screen with the practicality of a slide out full QWERTY keyboard, the HTC Tilt 2 smartphone from AT&T keeps you connected with friends, business partners and world events with its ultra-fast HSDPA 3G cellular connectivity and the revamped Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. It intelligently arranges your conversations by people, not by the application that you use to communicate with them. So when looking at your contacts, you can now see a history of your conversations in whatever form it took place, quickly and easily–even Facebook updates.
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BlackBerry Bold 9700 Phone (AT&T)
Powerful and refined, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone for AT&T includes built-in support for both AT&T’s fast 3G network as well as access to the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network with more than 20,000 U.S. hotspots–including approximately 7,000 Starbucks locations. The Bold 9700 offers fast data delivery and an enhanced Web-browsing experience that lets you connect quickly to social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. And, of course, you’ll enjoy all the communication and connectivity features you’ve come to expect from a BlackBerry phone–including email served up by the BlackBerry Internet Service and a full menu of messaging options (SMS, MMS, and IM).
Powered by the Android OS and featuring the socially minded MOTOBLUR overlay, the Motorola BACKFLIP for AT&T features an original reverse flip design, 3.1-inch touchscreen display, spacious physical keyboard, and unique BACKTRACK touch panel located behind the screen when the device is folded open–providing you hands-free navigation of the phone without having to touch the display. It also boasts super-fast Web browsing on AT&T’s 7.2 HSPA 3G technology as well as Wi-Fi networking with access to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Google iphone killer nexus one smartphone
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.
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Samsung Blue Earth Phone
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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Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Phone
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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Nokia 5330 XpressMusic Phone
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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Sony Ericsson W705a Phone
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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LG Arena KM900 Phone
Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The LG Arena is a touch-screen smartphone with a 3D user interface and Dolby and DivX technologies. It will feature LG’s new 3D S-Class User Interface, a UI designed for better access to multimedia. The cube-based layout provides four customizable home screens to music, movies and photos. The Arena also integrates Dolby and DivX technologies, Internet connectivity with HSDPA 7.2 networks, Wi-Fi and A-GPS.