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Monday 26 March 2007

Symbian OS 9.5 gets officially announced [ 26-03-2007 17:01 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova Translation by: Oleg Kononosov

Symbian has inaugurated new version of its operating system - Symbian OS 9.5, meant for increasing performance and functionality of smartphones at keeping production costs and development time same as before.

Symbian OS 9.5 is fully backwardly compatible with the previous versions bearing 9.x indexes. The change log includes:

High-performance smartphones to run on feature phone hardware, 20-30% lower RAM usage achievable, reduces device start-up time by several seconds, reduces application start-up time by up to 75%
Faster time-to-market, Symbian OS v9.5 introduces standardized support for digital TV and location-based services (LBS).
Enhanced support for built-in cameras. The 35 new camera features include support for tilt sensors, preset image enhancements, panorama stitching, and red-eye reduction.
Enhanced VoIP and streaming, automatic switching between 3G and Wi-FI

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Pantech C710: multimedia-ready phone for 3G [ 26-03-2007 16:39 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova Source: http://www.slashgear.com Translation by: Oleg Kononosov

Pantech has announced at an exhibition taking place in the US its new handset - the C710, which is a 3G-enabled offerings for the US market.

The phone is in a fact a heavily multimedia-armed device - packing a 1.3 Mpix camera, stereo speakers and ability to transfer stereo sound wirelessly via Bluetooth, and Flash-based user interface. Apart from all that the C710 comes enabled with Push-to-Talk functionality.

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Details on Pantech C510 folding phone for AT&T [ 26-03-2007 14:48 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

From this year on the US operator Cingular is shifting to the new brand once acquired from AT&T. The South Korean company Pantech has already completed the certification of several models to be released under the renewed logo. In the list we see a music phone C510 supporting EDGE and packed in a folding form. The info on the phone popped up in news, however there was poor info on Pantech C510. Now the info is available on the FCC site.

The short technical specs of Pantech C510:

Band: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Dimensions: 87.5x43.5x18.5/16.8 mm
Display: 1.52”, TFT, 128x160 pixels, 262K colors
External display: monochrome, 96x16 pixels
Sound: 40-tones polyphony, MP3-ring tones
Camera: 1.3-megapixel, CMOS
Messages: SMS, MMS
WAP browser
Java games
MP3 player with control buttons
microSD storage cards
Connectivity: USB (supporting Mass Storage mode), Bluetooth (SPP, DUN, HFP, OPP, FTP, BIP profiles)
Other features: alarm clock, calendar, text and voice notes, world time, calculator, measure converter, stopwatch, fitness functions

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Sony Ericsson W580: sliding Walkman [ 26-03-2007 14:05 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Translation by: Oleg Kononosov

Sony Ericsson has introduced today its new music-heavy phone coming from the WALKMAN range - the W580. This slim handset housed in slider-style form-factor packs all music abilities of a Walkman phone and a bit more: 2.0 Mpix camera, hidden within the slider, and tons of games and entertainment-aimed apps for sport and fun. Walkman W580 is hitting selected markets in the 3Q of 2007

Short spec sheet of Sony Ericsson W580:

GSM/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) connectivity
Dimensions: 99x47x14 mm
Weight: 94 g.
Display: 2-inch TFT with 240x320 pixel resolution
Camera: 2 Mpix
FM-radio with RDS
Java MIDP 2.0
Messaging: Java push email, SMS, EMS, MMS, POP3/IMAP4 email
Memory: 12 Мб, expandable with Memory Stick Micro (512 Mb comes boxed with the phone)
Connecitivty: Bluetooth 2.0 EDR + A2DP, USB
Full-fledged HTML browser with support for RSS feeds
Other features: flash themes, pedometer, sporty applictions, Disc2Phone, TrackID, PlayNow

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Sony Ericsson Z750 – company's first HSDPA-enabled offering [ 26-03-2007 13:49 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Translation by: Oleg Kononosov

Sony Ericsson has announced today its first tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE handset - the Z750. As the maker claimes, this model ensures full speed of a broadband connection to Internet, enables email management, posting photos in your web-blog on the go, and all this crammed into an exceptionally designed phone.

Sony Ericsson Z750 sports flashy looks and mirror-like coating on its clamshell design. The outer display is hidden and appears from beneath when you receive a call or message, or get updates from great many of sources, including Internet, push email and RSS news feed in real-time mode, that flashes through the phone's display.

Z750 is armed with Exchange ActiveSync feature and supports wireless synchronization and Direct Push functionality for email, calendar and contacts. Over and above, it boasts support for Java push mail solutions offered by third-party developers and most popular email standards, like POP/IMAP. Advent of enterprise-email feature in Sony Ericsson-branded phones other than smartphones allows all kinds of business to offer push email technology to a broader audience of mobile professionals.

Short spec sheet of Sony Ericsson Z750:

HSPDA (850/1900/2100); GSM/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900) connectivity
Dimensions: 97.4x49x20 mm
Weight: 110 g.
Main display: 2.2-inch TFT with 240x320 pixel resolution, 262 K colors
Secondary display: OLED
Camera: 2 Mpix (main) / VGA (for videoconferencing)
FM-radio with RDS
Java MIDP 2.0
Messaging: Exchange ActiveSync advanced push email, SMS, EMS, MMS, POP3 email, support for instant messaging in several clients
Memory: 32 Mb, expandable with Memory Stick Micro up to 2 Gb (128 Mb comes boxed with the phone)
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 EDR + A2DP, USB 2.0
Full-fledged HTML browser with support for RSS feeds
Customizable user interface

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Lenovo ET600 on WM6 [ 26-03-2007 12:46 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg Source: newlaunches.com Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

Lenovo has introduced a new communicator for the Chinese market. This is the ET600 based on the new Windows Mobile 6 OS. The new phone carries 128 MB flash ROM and 64 MB RAM onboard. Besides the ET600 is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera and an expansion slot for microSD cards.

The communicator features tri-band GSM and Bluetooth, but the info on the wireless networking is missing. Anyway, this device will be hardly available outside China.

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TV-tuner on SD [ 26-03-2007 12:26 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg Source: akihabaranews.com Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

ELSA, the company known for its accelerators, has introduced a 1Seg digital TV tuner on SD (SDIO) card. The developer offers the new product for both PC (Windows XP and Vista) and Windows Mobile devices (the version expected this summer).

Measuring 55x33.5x8 mm it weighs only 5 g. Unfortunately, the price isn’t disclosed yet.

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New RAZR-esque handset by Motorola is coming up - rumors [ 26-03-2007 09:06 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova Source: BengalBoy Translation by: Oleg Kononosov

BengalBoy, infamous for its love for semi-naked girls and snaps of not announced mobile phones, has released a few images of what is believed to by another RAZR-style gadget by Motorola. As always, this information is still unofficial, thus nothing is for sure about this phone as of today.

However, as the source reports, "Motorola LAZR" as they call it, bases off Linux OS and is capable of handling email and even a lucky owner of 2-inch display. They also suppose there should be 512 Mb of built-in memory and possibly no place for memory expansion slot.