Archive for the ‘Handhelds’ Category
August 6th, 2008
BenQ has announced that their latest Mobile Internet Device a.k.a MID ,BenQ Aries2 is ready to be launched in the Europe within couple of weeks.The company’s Free Surf UI, which allows users to shake the device to minimize and align active windows, impressed the judges with its “unprecedented operation experience of mobile Internet and complete removal of consumers’ usage barriers in handheld devices.”
Externally the device is surely eye catchy with 4.8 inch WXGA display with 800 x 600 resolution .The device is powered by Intel Atom 800 Mhz with 512KB Cache and has 512MB RAM and 4GB SSD storage.The extra features supported by it includes wireless connectivity through WLAN 802.11b/g , Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and it supported HSDPA networks.
The price of the BenQ Aries2 is not yet known.
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September 26th, 2007
Just a month after Sony’s last sale of VAIO UX series of UMPC’s , Sony has announced re-awakening of the series with a lot of “serious” upgrades..The new members in the VAIO UX series are UX72 , UX92S and UX92NS.
Intel Core 2 Solo CPU’s which are 64 Bit [ U2200 - 1.2 GHz and U2100 - 1.06 GHz ] are also offered along with 32 bit Celeron processor.Another option being provided by Sony is of the Hard Drive, you can now opt a 64 GB NAND SSD drive instead of the good-old 40 GB HDD.Plus its going to be shipped with Windows Vista edition.
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September 15th, 2007
BlackBerry will be announcing their latest upgrade to the BIS, BIS 2.4 probably today.The upgrade features numerous improvements like support for vCard , MP3 , PDF and RTF attachments.Other features includes the ability to login into your Blackberry account without a username and password, this works by using the identification of product.
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September 8th, 2007
Let me resume my work after 1 week of absence with this spectacular Walkman phone from Sony, I am a fan of Walkman series from Sony and its so exciting to know that they are releasing a Walkman phone with [tag]Symbian[/tag] [tag]UIQ[/tag] OS.
The new going-to-be-released-in-Q4-2007 Sony W960i phone has some interesting features like :
- Animated Walkman visualizations.
- Symbian UIQ OS.
- Its designed elegantly , Sony has paid enough attention to it in making it look like a normal cellphone though its a smartphone
- 3.2 Megapixel camera with LED flash
- .8 GB internal memory
- Bluetooth with A2DP enabled
- and best of all, its claiming a 9 hour talktime battery life. Beat that Nokia !!!
More detailed pics after the break.
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August 30th, 2007
Samsung has updated its Q1 series of Ultra Mobile PC range [tag]UMPC[/tag].The updated members are Q1U-SSDXP, Q1U-ELXP and the Q1U-XP , all of them running on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.Samsung has improved the display of thee U1 series and improved battery life.
The Q1U-SSDXP is the SSD storage option of Q1 with 32 GB SSD backing the storage department.
Specifications of Q1U-ELXP
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August 27th, 2007
Asus released a new series of UMPC called Eee.The Eee stands for Easy to work , easy to learn and easy to play.The main feature about the Eee series is that the cheapest in the family comes at mere $200.
Asus Eee is rumored to be having a 7 inch display and a 4GB flash based hard drive and RAM of 512MB.Another feature that’s present is WiFi.
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August 26th, 2007
While it has been just days since the first briefing of Palm Centro by Palm officials , there hasn’t been any Official pics available to date.But here it is,
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August 17th, 2007
Palm is getting ready to release a smartphone which is lots smaller than its treo series.This Tuesday company named it as Centro , it was codenamed Gandolf and treo 800 till now.The Palm Centro runs on the new OS from Palm , Palm Garnet.The Palm Centro is said to be having a microSD card slot and an infrared port.Also the battery is assumed to be a 1150 mAh Lithium-ion type. More details after the jump. 
Centro is also supposed to be available in two OS flavors , Windows Mobile Edition and the mentioned Palm Garnet.The Above picture is that of the Windows Mobile Version.
Here’s the Palm OS Garnet Version, this one is certainly less wider.
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August 13th, 2007
Meizu was considered to be a total rip-off of the iPhone but now it is even more advanced than the iPhone specifications wise and has its own unique look now which isn’t bad either !, in fact it looks awesome in the newly released pictures.
Now the specifications of the Meizu Mini One are known to us , still they are a bit more clearer now.here are the specifications and more pictures [ just after the jump ]
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August 11th, 2007
North American telecom operator Sprint is getting ready to offer WiMAX enabled Nokia N800 next year onwards.The 4G wireless technology, WiMAX is having range of kilometers compared to the normal [tag]WiFi[/tag] and technologies similar to that.Sprint deployed the first 4G wireless network back in August 2006 and they also announced then that they are partnering with Intel, Motorola and [tag]Samsung[/tag] for manufacturing of WiMAX chipset’s while [tag]LG[/tag], Samsung, [tag]Nokia[/tag] and ZyXEL were said to be developing [tag]WiMAX[/tag] enabled consumer devices.
Nokia’s Director of Open Source , Dr Ari Jaaksi said that the new WiMAX enabled Nokia N800 will be having WiFi and [tag]Bluetooth[/tag] and the interferences problem will be reduced in the near future.According to him, N800 will initially support only [tag]Mobile[/tag] WiMAX which is actually a stripped down variant of WiMAX.WiMAX enabled Tablet means high speed broadband net access on the move!.
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