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Samsung announced the availability of the Samsung SCH-i760, a full QWERTY horizontal slider Samsung mobile phone featuring Windows Mobile 6 operating system with Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network. The Samsung SCH-i760 is a mobile device for the professional consumers who wants a stylish, yet intelligent and robust smartphone. The Samsung i760 operates Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional featuring Microsoft Office Mobile software applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Samsung i760 Verizon Wireless

The Samsung SCH-i760 slider phone features a touch-sensitive LCD screen and many convenient features such as a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a separate dial-pad and Wi-Fi capabilities. To accommodate the horizontal sliding feature of the cell phone, the screen automatically changes orientation to portrait and landscape views. The Samsung i760 cell phone also features a digital camcorder, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera and Windows Mobile Video Player 10.

Samsung SCH-i760 Key features

• 1.3 megapixel digital camera
• Camcorder to record movies
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• V-CAST Capable
• Speakerphone
• Text messaging
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Audio support
• Video support
• Dimensions: 2.28" x 4.49" x .77"
• Display: 240 X 320 pixel, 65K color TFT
• Touch sensitive LCD display
• 2.8" inches diagonal

Samsung i760 price & availability

"The Samung SCH-i760 cell phone is an exciting handset for Samsung because it features a full QWERTY keypad in a horizontal slider," said Peter Skarzynski, senior vice president, Samsung. "This is the next generation in smartphones and features the total business package.", added Peter Skarzynski. The Samsung SCH-i760 mobile phone is available for $349.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two year user agreement.

Source:http://www.letsgomobile.org/

Online mobile phone shops and retailing sites have once again proved their importance in the cellular market by introducing Contract Phone UK that is worked as a bridge to fill the gap between mobile media services and their prices in mobile communication.

Posing a threat to the street shops, Contract Phone UK releases a magical spell in terms of telecommunication which is beneficial for the mobile phone users. Contract Phone UK , name of trust and reliability in the area of mobile communication is the creation of online mobile phone shops and retailing sites in order to provide productive and impeccable communication to the users at the most subsidized prices.

Gradually, with the inclusion of high-end technologies in the mobile phone, the users do not able to keep control on their phone bills resulting in the easy debarment from mobile media. Consequently, UK ’s Contract Phone acts as a panacea to heal the pain of hefty phone bills in association with the major service providers of the nation. The users should enter in a contract with a service provider to access to Contract Phone UK. It is long-term solution for the users to save unnecessary expenditure on the services of mobile media. Contract Phone UK has adopted suitable measures to reduce the phone bills. It can curtail the service taxes to a great extent.

Of late, having a high-end mobile phone means you are showing your standard in the society. Hence it becomes essential for everyone to avail a mobile phone that is featured with mega pixel camera, music player, multimedia messaging, Bluetooth, USB, GPRS, EDGE, WAP and XHTML allowing individual to experience multimedia at ease. Simultaneously, the introduction of Contract Phone UK has added fuel to the fire simply because it can reduce the cost of services delivered by these high-end gadgets. How Contract Phone UK reduces the cost of the services? Contract Phone UK is structured with certain pre-determined terms and conditions which are acted as beneficiaries for the users. These include, SIM free mobile phone, free mobile phone accessories, free mobile phone insurance, free mobile phone handset, free upgrade of mobile phone after a certain period of time, free text and multimedia messages, free roaming facility, reduction in downloading and data transmission charges, reduction in peak hour call charges, and many more.

Are there facilities of Contract Phone UK fulfilled your desires? Obviously, you can keep the phone bills within your reach and enjoy the glamorous world of multimedia at ease.

Source:http://www.huliq.com/35383/contract-phone-uk-uncover-the-realm-of-technology

Mobile phone deals are facing fierce competition every passing day. With a number of retailers and services providers getting in to the mobile market, there are enough mobile phone deals available in the market which are quite lucrative. 

 

Often the phone deals comes with a plethora of advantages—free talktime, free gifts, cashback, and most importantly a free handset. Specially, the mobile phone industry in the UK is constantly moving ahead by introducing various mobile phone deals, thereby luring the customers.  But, most of the deals though seem to be very lucrative are not so in the real sense.

 

Today, mobile phone deals have become very much a part of  life of the people, because the deals are so appealing that the expectations of the consumers are becoming higher and higher. Every time a phone deal is introduced, the retailers come with varied attractive packages and innovations. The generation today is more fashion conscious as well as analytic. The consumers often go for comparison shopping and cheap contract deals.  Since these mobile phone deals comes with lot of free offers, it is natural that majority of the consumers get inclined towards the most lucrative offer.  That is why the introduction of varied mobile phone offers like the 12 months free line rental or pay as you go or the 18 month half line rental contract phone deals have changed the whole concept of marketing of the mobile phones.

 

In UK alone there are more than seven mobile phone service providers, including Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-mobile and Virgin. All these have collaborated with mobile manufacturing companies and have launched a wide range of mobile phone offers. Their association has given birth to numerous deals where consumers are provided with opportunities of owning the latest gadgets in a very cheap rate, which otherwise would have been very expensive. In these contract phone deals consumers needs to sign a contract with a particular network service provider  by submitting a minimum subscription fee to the retailer. Some deals are specifically meant for pick time users and others comes with free calling minutes, free text messages, and discounted minutes for a specific period. 

 

In pay as you go deal, the users are allowed to purchase a specific amount of airtime beforehand, which can be economically used according to ones needs, and refilled when expired. Thus it is the users who are benefiting from the fierce competition of the merchants.

Source:http://pr-gb.com/ 

Nokia is making moves on Apple in more ways than one. While its latest rendition of the N95 mobile device debuted as a so-called iPhone killer, its Ovi Internet services are launching as a formidable iTunes competitor.

Nokia announced Ovi, the company's new Internet services brand name, at London on Wednesday. The announcement marks Nokia's shift to include a digital portal with various services in its mobile strategy. Ovi, meaning "door" in Finnish, enables consumers to access their existing social network, communities, and content, as well as Nokia services.

As part of Ovi, the Nokia Music Store and N-Gage services promise to make it easy for people to discover, try, and buy music and games. Also under the Ovi umbrella is Nokia Maps, a navigation service that offers maps and city guides directly to compatible mobile devices. Nokia said these services are just the beginning.

"The industry is converging towards Internet-driven experiences and Ovi represents Nokia's vision in combining the Internet and mobility Relevant Products/Services," Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement. Looking into the future, we will deliver great devices, combined with compelling experiences and services, to make it easy for people to unlock the potential of the Internet."

Music to Nokia's Ears

Of all the components Ovi offers, the Nokia Music Store is garnering the most attention this week. The iTunes competitor offers millions of tracks from major artists, independent labels, and local artists from around the world. The store is accessible via a desktop computer or directly from a compatible Nokia device.

Attempting to replicate the ease of use of iTunes, the Nokia Music Store lets consumers browse for new music, buy what they like, or add a song to their wish list to download later. Consumers can transfer purchased songs to their mobile device and, with the built-in music player, create playlists on the go and manage their music collection. The Nokia Music Store offers full track streaming on a PC as well as individual track and album purchase.

"It's obvious that innovation and imagination in the digital music download business are the keys to future growth," Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group International, said in a statement. "It's good for music -- and good for our artists -- that consumers can easily find and buy the songs they want, when they want."

The Nokia Music Store formally opens across key European markets this fall with additional stores in Europe and Asia opening in the coming months. In Europe, individual tracks will cost one euro while albums and monthly subscriptions for streaming will cost 10. There is no word yet on the date of a U.S. launch.

Over-the-Air Competition

Although the content itself does not give Nokia any significant advantage over iTunes, the way it's delivered might, according to Tim Deal, a digital media analyst at Pike & Fischer. "Nokia's over-the-air downloads model is compelling," he said. "ITunes, AT&T, and the iPhone cannot do this, and it's something they are going to need to do."

If Apple and AT&T want to tout a revolutionary, multimedia-centric phone, Deal said, they need to "cut the tether to the PC" and let users "get music on demand wherever they have wireless service."

Over-the-air downloads are likely in Apple's product roadmap, Deal added. In the meantime, he concluded, wireless providers that are late to the game with digital media and digital content still can take advantage of Apple's lack of on-demand, over-the-air capabilities.

Source:http://www.cio-today.com/news/Nokia-Readies-Challenge-to-iTunes/ 

As expected, Verizon Wireless has officially launched the Motorola RAZR2 V9m. As you know, Sprint has already launched this phone, now we just have to wait for AT&T and T-Mobile to do the same.

Features of the RAZR2 include a 2.2" (320x240 pixels) main display, a 2.0" (320x240 pixels) external display, 2.0 megapixel camera, external touch sensitive keys, media player with MP3 and WMA support, EV-DO and Bluetooh.

The Motorola RAZR2 V9m is available right now on Verizon's site for $249.99 after a $100 online discount and a 2-year contract. The phone will be available in stores nationwide starting next week.

Source:http://www.mobileguerilla.com/articles/2007/08/30/motorola-razr2-v9m-verizon.php 

 

LG Electronics has announced its latest mobile phone called the Cyon Cristal Edition, which carries a crystal and flower pattern.

The very chic and stylish looking mobile phone is designed by Robert Ryan, a chief designer of ‘Pau Smith’. The clamshell mobile phone features a 2.2 inch display, external color display with big size keypad and hot keys on the top flip.

The additional features of the mobile device are not known. Glue yourself to our site to know the remaining information.

The LG Cyon Cristal Edition phone is expected to be out in the Korean market at a suggested price of 400,000 KRW (approx. Rs. 8000). The cost of the phone is appropriate to its designer tag.

Source:http://www.techgadgets.in/mobile-phones/

We brought you news of this new high-end mobile phone from LG earlier in the week, but the company

has now officially acknowledge the phone and made a statement.

Saying that the 5-megapixel touchscreen handset is due to "redefine the camera phone standard", LG

has said it will officially launch the KU990 "Viewty" at this year's IFA event.

The LG Viewty, described as "the first feature-oriented handset" claims to combines functionality

with style.

Boasting a 5.1-megapixel camera, manual focus and image stabiliser features, the phone promises to

take high-quality photographs and - with no more info revealed at this stage - offers "endless

possibilities to allow users to enhance their images through the extensive editing features".

This LG handset will introduces the world's first 120 fps video recording feature in a mobile camera

phone. A single-click connection to YouTube allows users to share their film moments quickly and

easily.

Dr. Skott Ahn, CEO of LG Mobile says: "This is a very exciting time for us. The LG Black Label

Series and our collaboration with PRADA have cemented our position as an innovator in design and

style.

source:http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9580/10604/LG-statement-KU990-Viewty-mobile.phtm

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Let the music play baby. That’s what Nokia seems to tell GenX with its new 5700 MusicXpress. It’s an innovative mobile phone with the ‘twist’ effect.

Nokia has tried something new with the 5700. It’s made the bottom part of the phone turn around 270 degrees. The question is — is it necessary? The answer is no. And whether it’s easy to navigate after the twist? The answer is again no. So, there goes the innovation. Nokia had tried something like this with its Nokia 3250 model. It wasn’t a success either. And frankly speaking, the Nokia 5700 may not be either. Youngsters, for whom this phone is designed, dumped the Nokia 5700 straightaway. Why?

For two reasons. The design is ugly. And second, it’s feminine. I don’t understand one thing here — any mobile phone which is not black or coffee, is termed feminine. So more than half the target market is off the product. That leaves you with the thought whether the fairer sex will bite the bait.

The answer to this is also in the negative. For one, they are (presumably) not as tech savvy as the boys. They love simple stuff when it comes to mobile phones. And many girls usually love the clamshell models rather than a candy. I seriously don’t know why? So, the 5700 being a candy and not-so-simple really didn’t attract any interest from girls either. There is usually a small crowd around my cabin whenever a new gadget is offered to me for review. This time around it was deserted. Too bad.

Having said that, I searched for some comparisons. A small research found that when you think of a mobile phone with music capabilities, the first thing that hits the mind of the user is the Sony Ericsson Walkman series. True the ‘W’ range of Sony Ericsson phones offer amazing music clarity and are usually bought by the next generation users. So, does the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic have any unique offerings? Frankly speaking no. The most important thing in the phone is the music since it’s a music phone.

But, even the music quality through the headphones could be at best termed average. The 5700 is not even priced attractively. The retail kit costs Rs 14,399 (inclusive of taxes) bundled with a decent set of earphones, 1GB of micro SD card and USB cable apart from the standard apparatus. No doubt the pricing is aggressive.

Our value for money meter points the Nokia 5700 to 40%. Maybe the pricing is on account of the 16 million colour display and the bundled 1GB micro SD card.

Now, let’s look at some of the features and functions of the Nokia 5700. The twist motion is not user friendly, making navigability tough. When the bottom is twisted to click pictures, it’s difficult to access the shortcut keys and the joystick. The 2-mega pixel camera is not very effective. The phone malfunctions.

Despite being based on a stable Symbian S60 platform, the malfunction rate is quite high. It often restarts, microphone goes dead and volume of music/radio/call maximises automatically while multifunction is at play. Next, the phone appears patchy.

The red colours used on the side bar and the battery lid are very different. This is because the side bar is rubber while the battery lid is plastic. So, the phone is not two coloured, but virtually tri-coloured.Overall, a phone that doesn’t reach out to the target audience. An innovation has been attempted but it has not succeeded 100%. Maybe future models will try and attack the laggards of the Nokia 5700.

Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Telecom/Nokia_5700_MusicXpress_fails_to_rock_the_floor/articleshow/2293153.cms

One thing you have to give Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry phone — even when newer mobile phones are launched across the world, the company is successfully able to distinguish itself. But, once you are branded, it’s very difficult to move away from that reputation. From feature-rich-with-no-frills phone to gadgets with sex appeal, RIM phones have come a long way.

Ask anybody about BlackBerry and the first thing that pops in their mind is mobile e-mail. It’s a standard feature. And even when RIM is trying hard to move away from that image and portray itself as an ‘all rounder’, the message has not yet been completely absorbed by the market. Having said that lets take a look at RIM’s latest offering — the BlackBerry 8300 (aka Curve). The Curve comes out as an instrument that every mobile manager must possess. But, I still wondered why the BlackBerry 8300 is called the Curve. In fact, it has no curves.

The retail kit is bundled with the standard accessories including stereo headset and a leather case. At Rs 24,990 (MRP inclusive of all taxes), the retail kit offers no memory card to customers. So, you need to spend a few extra thousand on buying the expandable memory. Price has always been a key concern for many users.

With substitutes for BlackBerry now available in the market, one wonders whether it really makes sense to charge such a premium. Part of the argument could be laid to rest with the success and the continued premium charged by the iPod. People who want class will stick to it. However, the other part of the argument, always nudges me to question the reason for paying a premium when a match-to-match is available in the market.

The Nokia E61i is one such product with similar looks and performance and available much cheaper. I don’t have any answer yet, but one of my reviewer friends in Europe suggested that if you had the money, you would probably stick with the innovator rather than buy a copycat. Also, in India only two service providers support BlackBerry — Airtel and Hutch, through the BlackBerry Connect application.

Source:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/BlackBerry_8300_a_must-have_for_mobile_managers/articleshow/2258044.cms

The days of SMS are numbered now that mobile email access is becoming a commodity, research firm Gartner says.

Long the preserve of businessmen in power suits, mobile email is about to hit the masses with one in five email users accessing their accounts wirelessly by 2010, according to Gartner.

Monica Blasso, the firm's research vice-president, said mobile email had moved beyond the BlackBerry and was increasingly a feature of even low-cost mobile phones, driving consumer adoption.

"By 2012, wireless email products will be fully inter-operable, commoditised and have standard features," she said. "They will be shipping in larger volumes at greatly reduced prices."

Today there are less than 20 million wireless email users worldwide, but this will grow to 350 million, or 20 per cent of all email accounts, by 2010, she said.

Blasso added email-enabled mobile phones traditionally lacked consumer-oriented features like cameras, music players, video players and GPS navigation, but this was not the case anymore.

Even the BlackBerry, once chunky and bland, now offers all of the above features in the new BlackBerry 8800 device. Other mobile email devices, like the Motorola MOTO Q 9h, the Palm Treo 750 and the Samsung BlackJack, were all designed with aesthetics, usability and fun features in mind.

The devices, Blasso said, were becoming more personal as the line between personal and professional life blurred.

Robin Simpson, mobile and wireless research director at Gartner Australasia, said mobile email access in Australia would soon be offered for free as part of mobile phone contracts.

"Once email becomes available more or less free of charge by default on your mobile handset, people will gravitate to that rather than just continuing to use SMS," Simpson said.

He said mobile email uptake in Australia had been held back due to the high access prices charged by carriers, but recent price competition, particularly driven by Hutchison 3 and Virgin Mobile, indicated prices would drop rapidly.

"The interesting thing is that SMS, if you look at it in terms of actual cost for the data, is really expensive, and where we're heading is you'll get a free email package when you sign up to your monthly plan," he said.

Source:http://www.theage.com.au/news/mobiles--handhelds/for-sms-the-days-are-numbered/2007/07/27/1185339221496.html