Wednesday 06 December 2006

Samsung SGH-i718 - a new Windows smartphone    [ 06-12-2006 21:01 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

At the current ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong Samsung Electronics has unveiled its new smartphone powered by Windows OS - the SGH-i718 for the Chinese market. The device has been recently approved by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The short technical specs of Samsung SGH-i718:

• GSM, EDGE, GPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Operating system: Windows Mobile 5.0
• Display: touchscreen, 2.8", TFT, 65K colors and 240x320 pixels
• Office documents
• Camera: CMOS, 2-megapixel with auto focus
• Video formats: MPEG4, H.263, WMV
• Audio formats: AAC, AAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV
• Memory: 128 MB ROM, 64 MB RAM, microSD cards
• Bluetooth v2.0 EDR
• Handwritten text and voice recognition
• Dimensions: 108x58x13.5 mm

Photos from el Movil

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New Ultra slim phone: Samsung SPH-V9500    [ 06-12-2006 20:37 ]

Author: Serge Novikov   Source: Akihabara News     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

The South Korean company Samsung Electronics seems to be seriously involved in releasing the slimmest phones. It has introduced another slim phone – SPH-V9500.

Samsung SPH-V9500 is a clamshell phone, 11.9 mm thick, designed for the networks of the Korean operator KTF. Below you can find the info available for the moment:

• the company applied glass fiber in making the shell
• its built-in camera has a 2-megapixel resolution
• there is the support of USB Mass Storage
• it has the slot for microSD cards

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Official announcement of MOTOROKR E6    [ 06-12-2006 18:01 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Motorola has officially announced its new product: it calls it the premium PDA with entertainment functions – MOTOROKR E6.

Taking into account that Motorola focuses the entertainment function and omits phone opportunities in its official report, we can assume that the company treats MOTOROKR E6 as the PDA first of all, and considers the phone functionality of minor importance.

The main specs of MOTOROKR E6:

• Slim and elegant design with the RAZR-style keyboard and 14.5 mm thick shell
• 2-megapixel CMOS camera with 8x digital zoom
• Video capture at CIF and QVGA
• Full screen video playback
• Built-in MP3-player with separate control buttons, FM-tuner
• Business functions: V card reader, e-mail client, office documents viewer, organizer
• Connectivity: Bluetooth; HTML-browser; USB 2.0 (hi-speed); 3.5 mm audio jack
• 8 MB od user available memory, SD storage cards (up to 2 GB)
• 1000 mAh battery
• 2.4” TFT touchscreen display, 240x320 pixels, 260K colors

Currently MOTOROKR E6 is available in China.

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Samsung to release a HSUPA-phone in 2007    [ 06-12-2006 14:47 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Samsung Electronics shows its latest telecoms technologies and products at ITU Telecom World 2006 event taking place in Hong Kong on December 4-8. In particular, it demonstrates mobile wideband technologies of the next generation – Mobile WiMAX and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA).

The HSUPA technology is the next step following HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access). HSDPA is considered to be the 3.5 generation and HSUPA is positioned as the 3.75G. HSUPA will help users to exchange data from the mobile terminal at high speeds.

The company shows new HSUPA equipment and terminals. The technology features 2 Mbps transfer speed from the terminal and 3.6 Mbps download speed to the terminal. Thus, if you want to send 5 MP3-tracks (3 MB each), it will take you about a minute on HSUPA and about 5 minutes on WCDMA.

According to Samsung, it expects to introduce the first commercial HSUPA-phone in Europe in 2007.

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Ultra Mobile Broadband: the new name for a data transfer standard    [ 06-12-2006 09:59 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

CDG (CDMA Development Group) has chosen the name “Ultra Mobile Broadband” (UMB) for advanced technologies and services, which will support CDMA200 1xEV-DO Revision C (Rev. C). The new standard is expected to be published in the beginning of 2Q 2007 and be commercially available worldwide in 2009.

CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev.C is a stage in the development of the current high-speed data transfer standard EV-DO. 1x EV-DO Rev.C supports 280 Mbps peak download speed in mobile conditions. CDG believes that UMB will be the real breakthrough in next generation services.

I’d remind you that services based on 1xEV-DO Rev.A are commercially used in Japan and the US. The first commercial products based on Rev.B should appear late in 2007.

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