Vodafone announced its range of Christmas 2006 consumer handsets offering the widest choice of handsets ever and 3G phones at entry level prices.
The extended range includes: 24 Vodafone live! with 3G handsets, all offering Mobile TV services 14 Vodafone live! with 3G handsets offering Vodafone Radio DJ, Vodafone’s innovative music service 6 3G broadband consumer handsets from Motorola and Samsung, allowing faster access to multi media services such as mobile TV and full track music downloads, faster download of music and video files and high speed download of emails when the handset is used as a modem for the PC.
10 Vodafone exclusive 3G handsets which include well known European, US and Asian manufacturers. Five of the Vodafone exclusives will be offered at entry level pricing. Vodafone’s first own branded 3G handset – the Vodafone 710– will be another phone priced at the lower end to encourage further adoption of 3G services amongst the pre-pay market.
This range also includes Vodafone live! with 3G handsets manufactured for Vodafone by LG for the first time. The two handsets are the LG KU800 - a stylish 3G slider handset with innovative touch keypad - and the LG L600V, at entry level pricing. Both LG handsets support Vodafone live! with 3G services, including video telephony and full track music downloads.
Cath Kidston, the queen of the floral prints industry decorated the Nokia 6111 and Nokia 6230i. The Carphone Warehouse has put it all together, offering Cath Kidston's facelifted models in your choice of "Bird," "Pop Flowers," or "Star" designs. Of course, neither Cath nor Carphone Warehouse bothered to tweak the phones' guts to add UMTS or anything cool like that, but hey, the patterns sure are purty anyway.
The guys at techfresh found this cool promotional video of the Sony Ericsson W850i available on youtube. The phone features a 240 x 320 pixels 256k colors TFT display, a 2 megapixel camera and 1GB memory.
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The Sony Ericsson W950 is an exciting new addition to the Walkman series of Sony Ericsson. It is a smartphone based on the Symbian 9.1 UIQ 3.0 with a stylish and yet classical design. Although it doesn’t feature a camera, the 4GB of free space and the dedicated multimedia keys would make any music lover jump from joy. The large touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution is just another fascinating feature for the tech buffs. It seems that the W950 has got what it takes to overtake the high-end music phones market and it is our job to see how it performs in every possible aspect.
The Sony Ericsson W950 seems like the utmost music phone in its pure form. The whopping 4GB of internal memory are enough to store all the tracks you love to listen to. The addition of dedicated music keys that come alive when you start the player is just great. Moreover, all this comes in a rather compact body.
Although the 4GB of storage memory might make you think of Nokia N91, in fact the Nokia handset has more to offer such as a 2 megapixel camera and Wi-Fi. Nevertheless, N91 is much bigger and weighs a hefty 50 g more. Therefore, there is no room for comparison between the two and we would not make such attempt in our review.
The Sony Ericsson W950 retail package includes a USB cable and a Walkman stereo headset with a remote control. Of course, as with any other mobile phone, the contents of the retail package remain strictly market and country dependant.
The music player is the same as the one used in the Walkman-branded Sony Ericsson phones. Well, not quite. In fact, Sony Ericsson W950 boasts one of the most developed music players we have seen in a mobile phone. Of course, it supports playlists with shuffle and loop options while offering the usual equalizer presets including the Walkman MegaBass one. The dedicated music player key on the keypad along with the multimedia keys, that come alive once you have started the player, really make the life easier for the user - not that we would expect any less than that when we are talking about a Walkman-branded mobile.
Nice innovations are the several animated background visualizations, which are a very nice touch, by the way. An added way to sort all your music is by using the added rating and mood designations. First, you can add ratings to the songs and then filter the available tracks by their rating. The mood designation, on the other hand, means that after adding a corresponding mood to your tracks you can later on filter the songs and virtually listen only to those that suit your current mood.
In the end, it all comes to your priorities. Sony Ericsson W950 is a great smartphone, a great phone, and a great music player. That is if you don’t expect your mobile phone to take pictures and you are not much into messaging. That great display would have put to a good use a Wi-Fi capability but it would have added to the price.
It’s up to you to decide whether this is the right smartphone for you, but if you are into listening to music, the Sony Ericsson W950 is among the best solutions on the market.
The Groupe Sense PDA has launched in Hong Kong the Xplore M70 smartphone, 18 months after the launch of its predecessor, the M68. I have mentioned here the M68 because the two handsets seem to have a very close relationship, both phones practically sharing the same technical specifications. There is a plus for the M70 though: it offers a very nice and good looking design to all future users.
The tri-band GSM handheld, working on 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz networks, is running an almost defunct Palm OS Garnet v5.4 operating system, a 64k colors 176x220 pixels touchscreen, a WAP browser that can be upgraded by installing a HTML browser that comes with the included software CD, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, a multimedia player offering MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and 3GP playback, a SD/MMC memory card expansion slot, Java games support, Bluetooth, Infrared and USB connectivity, and last, but not the least, an optional push e-mail service.
Even if the device's operating system is on the edge of being declared an endangered OS species, you will be happy to know that this would still be a very good choice because of the continuous development of new Palm applications and the outstanding number of apps already developed.
Until now, the Xplore M70 is only available in Hong Kong and a release date of it in other parts of the world has not been made public yet.
Via mobile-review.com
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The Sony Ericsson W950 is an exciting new addition to the Walkman series of Sony Ericsson. It is a smartphone based on the Symbian 9.1 UIQ 3.0 with a stylish and yet classical design. Although it doesn’t feature a camera, the 4GB of free space and the dedicated multimedia keys would make any music lover jump from joy. The large touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution is just another fascinating feature for the tech buffs. It seems that the W950 has got what it takes to overtake the high-end music phones market and it is our job to see how it performs in every possible aspect.
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