February 29th, 2008 admin Posted in Android, News, Handsets No Comments »
I found this interesting video today on BBC’s website. Android platform developer Andy Rubin shows prototype phone running on Android platform.
It is impressive performance as we can see, graphics and applications load fast and work without any glitches. It is early days to draw any conclusions at this moment, but looks promising!
February 12th, 2008 admin Posted in LG, News No Comments »
Following Nokia’s announcement last year about launching unlimited music service to all Nokia owners: “Comes With Music”, LG has announced that it will launch it’s own music library called “MusicStation Max”.
LG has teamed up with Omnifone, UK based company that provides this service in 40 countries worldwide. In UK, Vodafone already uses their services.
According to Financial Times, users who buy LG handset will be able to access more than 1.5 million tracks and download them to their handset.
LG promised to make this service available before June 2008, which is ahead of Nokia’s announced music service. It is interesting to see how mobile phone manufacturers are now aggressively trying to enter music market, trying to compete with other electronic music retailers such as Apple’s Itunes. Currently Omnifone has agreement with Universal Music Group to provide music, but will try to sign up other labels as well.
Tracks are delivered in Enhanced Advanced Audio Coding format (eAAC+) over 2.5 or 3G networks.
Do you listen to music on you mobile phone? Do you download full tracks to your mobile? Do you think all these new services that are being launched will be useful to mobile users? Share your thoughts with us!
February 6th, 2008 admin Posted in Motorola, News No Comments »
With Oscars Award ceremony approaching fast, Motorola announced today that they have given each of the Oscar nominees in the directing and four acting categories not-yet-available ROKR E8 handset.
Phone is delivered in custom box, female nominees get fuhsia and male nominees cobalt colored box
Nominees also recieved Motorola S9-HD™ bluetooth headset so they can enjoy music on their new phone.
It is a quad band phone, which supports variety of music formats:
MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR-NB, Real Audio (RA) v10 Microsoft™ music ecosystem
Motorola promises uncompromised consumer experience for music or talk, new patented pending ModeShift technology, which changes music player to phone and vice versa at a touch of a button. Depending on what you are currently using, phone will display ony relevant controls.
There is also FastScroll navigation wheel allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library with the slide of a thumb.
Other features include 2MP camera, bluetooth support, 2GB internal memory and memory slot up to 4GB.
Quick Specs:
Motorola’s website claims that phone will be available 1st quarter of 2008 in US, in Europe probably later in a year.
February 5th, 2008 admin Posted in Nokia, News No Comments »
If you remember I have blogged about Nokia launching music site, now Nokia is expanding it’s online services to N-Gage games. Moreover Nokia has consolidated all of it’s online services under 1 site branded as Ovi.
Site contains following services:
You can connect to these services using your Nokia mobile phone or PC.
Nokia has moved agressively into mobile content and services in 2007.
Another service Nokia launched previously is Mosh where you can download, upload and share files with other subscribed users. You can download client to your compatible Nokia handset and start using it straight away! Site contains various files, including ringtones, themes, images, videos, widgets, wallpapers and many more.
February 4th, 2008 admin Posted in LG, News No Comments »
Today LG Electronics announced new slim slider phone: LG-KF510. According to press release phone is just over 1cm thick (10.9mm), includes 3MP camera and MP3 player.
Phone will be on display at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain on February 11 - 14, 2008. Phone will be available starting from March 2008.
This fashion phone will be available in Stardust Gray and Sunset Red metal gradation paint schemes.
