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Motorola is one of the most popular communications companies in the world and its role as a pioneer in the development of this industry is recognized worldwide. It all started in 1928 under the name of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation a company that was producing power adaptors that were allowing the electrical devices that were running on batteries to operate at the outlet.

From walkie-talkie’s three kilograms to tiny transceiver stations today, Motorola was one of the leading providers of communications equipment for critical sectors such as police, rescue or construction.

In the 30’s and 40’s Motorola has brought entertainment in American homes with radio and then TV. Also, Motorola processors were the basis for development of computer company Apple and for other devices that use microchips. With the first DynaTAC in 1983, Motorola has participated in writing the history of mobile telephony.

In 1936, Motorola Police Cruiser is released and it was working as a modified radio receiver to capture a single frequency. Next year marks the company’s entry in the segment of households with the launch line of home appliances phonograph and radio. The company launched Handy-Talkie SCR536, a transceiver station that would be widely used in the Second World War in 1941, Galvin Manufacturing launches the first commercial radio in two frequencies, AM and FM. FM transmission technology allowed a much better sound than the PM. The first FM system is installed in Pennsylvania. In 1943, Daniel Noble, chief technology of the company, made the first FM transceiver System, weighing over 15 kilograms and having a range of 20 to 30 kilometers. The station was for the U.S. military.

Later on, Motorola launches a paging service which transmitted a radio signal to a person. Pagers start replacing announcement systems in hospitals and factories. In 1985 the company introduced the first completely transistorized radio, Motrac, which, because low consumption, can be used in the car without the need to start the engine. In 1960, Motorola sales are approaching 300 million dollars. Also this is the year when they release the Astronaut TV which measures 19 inch, the largest diagonal of a television until then.



Towards the end of the seventh decade, the company is expanding abroad to Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Taiwan, Britain and West Germany. In 1969, Neil Armstrong’s first words are brought to Earth By Motorola transponder. There were sent two-way audio files, video, telemetry signals and guidance. In the eight decade, the company’s sales were approaching one billion dollars. Motorola continues collaboration with NASA, providing a radio transmitter that is installed on the lunar module. The receiver is 100 times more sensitive than a portable radio, although weighing only 680 grams.

Late 80’s showed a big step in radio based on chips made by Motorola and Maxon, which facilitated the way to the hand radios and then appeared the old motorola radios maxon. The old motorola radios maxon are extremely rare.



Maxon Australia was founded in 1989 and is a private company. Since 1990 they are focused on solutions and wireless data development and they progressed passing through the time of synthesized RF data modems and crystal controlled modems, the time of CMDA circuit switch and packet data technologies. Nowdays, they are among the few companies that develop hardware functioning on wireless networks.

Lots of costumers from various harsh environments used for more than 30 years Maxon 2-way radio. Even they are reporting that when somebody ask them about the Maxon 2-way radios they can describe it in two words: “dependable” and “trusted”.

On www.radioshowcase.com you can find an antique Motorola radio from 1950-6X12U model. It costs $199.95 and it’s a plastic radio in an excellent shape. This radio plays, and it has its paint is the original factory one. It has no problems or cracks. Even if today Motorola company is known for the mobile phones or other electronic devices, in the 40’s and in the 60’s it was known for its great radios.



At Radio Showcase you can also find other old radios, like an antique Arvin Hopalong Cassidy Radio from 1950 in a great condition with no damage, cracks or dents and it works. It’s cabinet is red metal with silver foil front depicting William Boyd on his famous horse. The price for this radio is $995.00.

Another Antique radio that you can find on the internet is Emerson Radio Model 176 Ingraham tombstone from 1938. It is an unusual and beautiful radio that doesn’t come up for sale to often. The case of this radio is made of walnut and selected veneers with wide wood striping. The cabinet is in very good shape and is the original one. The price for this radio is $ 699.95.

Philco 1931 Antique radio is another old radio that you can find on Radio Showcase which is a piece of History and is real, not a replica. This radio that was designed by Edward Combs plays and in 1931 it sold for $69.99. Today you can buy it for $1495.00.



The “racetrack” as the collectors know it is also available for $249.95. Zenith H511 Antique from 1951 has shiny brown Bakelite. The Zenith literature names this radio as the “tournament” and it’s without any cracks or chips. It is accented beautifully by the brass trim with a great deco-modern styling and very geometric. You can buy this radio for $245.95.

The Philco 66 B that was released in January 1934 has a deco styled grille and there were produced only 15.000 including the production of 60 MB and 66B tomsones model which is similar to 66 B. This radio is a great Art Deco radio that receives AM and also shortwave bands and it still plays good. It has been restored and you can have it for $399.95.

The Olympic Radio and Television Corporation made a radio in the year 1949 and that is Olympic table radio 7-421. This radio was restored and had some interior parts changed so it could play. It has 5-tube and it plays great with more than ample volume. Price: $249.95.

Which one is the best smart phone? Well… This depends on what is important for you. Even if you read the latest reviews you could still be confused about which smart phone you would like to buy.

If you are looking for the best aesthetic, Apple iPhone 3G and the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 might be the best. For Best Usability the winner is Apple

iPhone 3G followed by Nokia E71 and the HTC Touch Diamond.

iPhone 3G has superb parts but still needs some big features on it, and price is pretty big not everyone can afford to buy one. It has a simple design and maybe that’s the key, and the typical characteristic for Apple’s products. Because of it’s  simplicity this phone is delivered without a manual in it’s box. But there are people that said that they needed Google several times to search for methods on how to perform certain tasks.

Even if it’s still not a 3G phone, the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 it’s impressively lightweight -91g-  and very slim. But the improving in the BlackBerry is the dual-input QWERTY keypad with it’s keys that share two letters.

Nokia E71 comes with a sexy design being sleeker than Nokia E61 i. The good things at this phone are full QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, feature-rich, Wi-Fi, GPS and HSDPA. It has an excellent battery life and strong voice, productivity tools and messaging. The bad parts are the facts that it’s keyboard is a bit cramped and the display is positioned on the small side.

Performance is important to, as with any computer system best performance is a must. Even if they test your patience seriously, smartphones impair productivity. But in this category -Best Performance- on the first place is ranked the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, followed by i-mate Ultimate 6150.



The i-mate Ultimate 6150 has an excellent VGA display and a fast 520 MHz processor with XGA TV-Out and excellent connectivity options. Too bad that it has a dismal battery life and it’s large and has a  heavy handset. The Ultimate 6150 is far from being named the fastest Windows Mobile device that is currently available.

On connectivity the best is i-mate Ultimate 8502 because it has 3.5G data speeds, USB connections, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. On the second place is i-mate Ultimate 9502 and on the third one is i-mate Ultimate 6150. So, if you want the phone with the best connectivity you probable should get an i-mate Ultimate.

All the smartphones have useful features included but none has them all. Nokia E71 seem have most of the features that are available now for the mobile phones. The Nokia E71 is followed by the i-mate Ultimate 9502 and by the Apple iPhone 3G.

Nokia E71 is the winner for Best Value category and is followed by Apple iPhone 3G and Samsung I 780.



The Samsung SGH-i780 has a separate charger and two batteries and could be a good choice for the mobile professional. But it has the screen to small for some applications 2.5 inch display and it’s a bit bulky. It has a good mini-QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS/EDGE, connectivity, tri-band GSM and 3G/HSPDA. I is equipped with 129 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM but you can always add a micro SD card. You can find this phone on both Vodafone and Optus for $799 at Vodafone without maps and at Optus for about $AU849 with maps and GPS.

Best smart phone in Australia could be i-mate Ultimate 8502 for it’s basic criteria and value for money. It is solid and slim, with TV-out Telstra services including Foxtel, GPS and Wi-Fi and excellent connectivity including HSPA. Too bad that it has a low resolution display if you compared it with previous i-mates and a small QWERTY keyboard. This phone has even great greater mechanical input compared to the previous phones from Ultimate and it was the first full HSPA smartphone available in Australia together with the 9502. The bottom line: The 8502 does nothing more then what it’s supposed to do but it would be much better if it had a bigger software package.



Nokia E90 Communicator is another smart phone. It is true that is expensive but also that is the most impressive of all. This could be a suitable phone for the business people because of it’s big number of features oriented to business. After ten years of Communicator and ten Communicator phones Nokia released the E90 with a lot of Hi-Fi functions almost close to SCi-Fi but with a design that could be better. It has a QWERTY keypad and a huge display for the current standards with a resolution of 800 x 352 pixels. Using the keypad is not that easy, unless you have fingers as a piano player has. So if you are not a women with a small bag, or a obsessed of small phones with simple and original designs you could try this smart phone for sure.

HTC TyTN II is a decent Windows Mobile PDA-phone that could please the business users because of it’s features. The good things about this phone are Wi-Fi, HSDPA, Excellent QWERTY keyboard and the GPS WITH CoPilot 7 maps. Too bad that is huge with a heavy handset and a poor battery life.



Palm Treo 500v has a stand-by up to 24o hours and a talk time up to 4 hours and 30 minutes. It as a 2 Mega Pixel camera with 1600 x 1200 pixels, and the dimensions are 110 x 61.5 x 16.5 mm. It has full QWERTY keyboard and 5-way navigation button. The good things about this phone are: not carrier locked, jazzed up windows Mobile 6 Interface and the bad ones: No Wi-Fi and no HSDPA. If you want a phone with QWERTY keyboard you should go in a mobile stores and try also the BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the Palm OS-based Treo 680 and see which one you like more.

There is no best smart phone in Australia. There are more. You just have to chose the best smart phone for you, the one that suits you the best.

Having a mobile phone these days is a necessity. Even children of 7-8 years own one of the most advanced mobile phone. And if you need Internet access and always check your mail then you do need one of the last generation phones.

The Samsung Omnia is more suitable for the ones that just love taking photos and I mean good quality photos. Because of it’s 5 Mega Pixels camera with 2592 x 1944 pixels, an autofocus and LED flash you can become like a Chinese tourist. It’s camera has also Geo-tagging, image stabilization, face and smile detection and wide dynamic range.

The display of this phone has 256K colors (65K effective) and a size of 3.2 inches with 240 x 400 pixels. It has a stand-by time up to 500 hours on 2G network and 450 hours on 3G network and a talk time up o 5 hours and 50 minutes on 2G or 6 hours and 30 minutes on 3G.

If you want to compliment your Samsung Omnia you will buy some accessories to personalize it and even protect it from damage. If you care about your phone you should buy the original accessories. There is  site www.onlyomnia.com were you can find any accessories you wish. This online store is the only one dedicated to the Samsung Omnia. They have in there warehouse any accessories for your Omnia you could ever need or want. Even inexpensive accessories like sport cases, belt clips, cell phone covers or holsters to aluminum cases, high end custom leather cases, extended life batteries, Bluetooth stereo headphones and Bluetooth headsets.

If you are searching for Samsung Omnia accessories to help you protect your phone from damage by any elements OnlyOmnia has them to. But your Omnia is not any cell phone it is also a mobile computer so you might need data cables to keep your contacts synced with your personal computer whether is a laptop or a desktop.



Maybe you are driving a lot and to be safe and keep your hands on the wheel you will need Bluetooth wireless headsets. You also need your phone with power at all times and that’s why you will probable need  a car charger, travel chargers or even the OEM extended life batteries.

The most important is to think about your needs and find the particular item that fit to your needs.

Samsung SBH700 Sporty Stereo Bluetooth Headset is something you might need every morning while you are jogging and the sale price is $79.99. This SBH700 has a -behind the neck- headband wearing style and you can listen to your favorite music and control your calls also. The package also includes the Travel Adapter and User Manual.

Samsung Omnia Mirror Screen Protector is a really hot accessory. Not only protects your cell phone from scratches, dings or smudges but it will also improve handwriting recognition and reduce glare. This accessory will definitely turn your phone into something you will watch all day long because it allows you to check your makeup. The sale price for this accessory is $7.99 on www.onlyomnia.com .



Samsung Omnia Covers are accessories that can get you out of the monotony. Now you wont get bored with of your phone anymore and you can change the cover of your phone as you wish, you can put the same color as your clothes are. Your phone will be a fashion victim. You can chose from a great variety of covers or get them all and change them as you wish. There are blue, black, purple, green, rubberized black, hot pink, red, carbon fiber covers and even with different images like the Crystal Butterfly cover, Crystal Black Skull cover or the Zebra Cover that you can find in different colors. The prices for the covers vary between $7.99 and $9.99.

You can protect your phone also with Samsung Omnia Skins. You can fin them in a variety of colors like pink, blue, burgundy, black, green, orange, purple, clear, red, white, yellow, light purple, yellow Bryant, black Jordan, red Jordan and with different marks like laser pink-black zebra or laser blue Hawaii. The sale price for a skin case is $9.99 with 50% off.



If you don’t want to get caught with a low battery you should buy a Samsung Omnia Battery. You can increase your talk time with a full charged second battery. You could even need to replace your current battery and the price for the OEM Samsung Omnia i900 1440mAh Standard Battery is now $24.99. If you want the Samsung Omnia i900 Extended 3000mAh Battery with Battery Door you should know that the sale price is now $89.99 with 40% off on www.onlyomnia.com.

You can also expand the memory of your phone and buy a micro SD expandable Memory Card. Maybe you want to carry more pictures, music, video clips or documents. The SanDisk micro SD 1 GB Card WITH Adapter is $16.99 and the 8 GB one is $44.99 with a discount of 50%.



If you want to boost the signal potency and the reception to your mobile phone, the you need an antenna. This accessory will capture more of the signal that is accessible and deliver it to the internal antenna of your phone. You will see a difference right away. There are available different antennas such as glass, rooftop or magnetic ones. A simple Antenna Booster is $1.99 with a 90% discount at OnlyOmnia, the Rear Car Window Antenna is $18.99 and the Shark Mount Repeater is $18.99.

Stylus is also part of the Samsung Omnia accessories. With a accessory like this you can prevent smudges and increase accuracy while writing. The Stylus’ have a light weight design and different colors like purple, cool blue, red, black. There is also the OEM Samsung Omnia i910 Stylus with Strap which is on sale with the price $11.99.



Data Cables are also necessary if you want to connect your phone to your PC. You can connect via USB port and transfer files, music or pictures or even address book entries to your PC.

With its dimensions of 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, 88 cc and its weight of 150 g Nokia N97 was released in 2009, June with an announcement from 2008, November. This phone is perfect for those who surf the Internet or access social networking. The 3.5” touch display and the full Qwerty keyboard make from this phone almost something like a very small laptop when it comes to surfing the Internet.

It has a 5 MegaPixel’s camera with lens made by Carl Zeiss, autofocus, video light and also LED flash. This phone has a stand-by up to 430 hours and a talk time up to 9 hours and 50 minutes. The resolution of 360 x 640 pixels should make you the most satisfied mobile user. For the drivers is good to know that this phone has also a GPS, touch enable Maps from Nokia with a digital compass, and for auto screen rotation it has an accelerometer. For auto screen turn-off during calls it has a proximity sensor.

This phone can be used also for entertainment, and by just touching the screen news are available. Widgets of your favorite web services can be updated frequently personalizing you’re phone. The playback time is up to 1.5 days and it has support for other services like Share on Ovi over HSDPA AND WLAN.

Knowing the phone’s specifications we could really say that is a great phone, but know let’s talk about the prices. I’ve made a little research and found out some prices for you.

On www.fizi.com you can find this phone at the price of $569.19. They also have discount if you buy 5 or more Nokia N 97. On this site you can also find the mini Quadband 3G version of the Nokia N97 for the price of $580.38.

On www.welectronics.com Nokia N97 price-1 is $529.99. On this site you can also find The Nokia N97 US 3G for the price of $514.99 and is ranked second in the ranking of the best selling products.



For those who live in the UK, the Nokia N-97 is available for free, on paying monthly plans from £35. If you get online try www.shop.vodafone.co.uk and you can see price plans, and also choose one. For the free phone you can chose to pay £35 per month for 24 months and have 900 minutes and unlimited texts per month or £40 per month for 24 months and get 1200 minutes and unlimited texts per month. If you want to have the subscription for only 18 months you have to pay £5 extra per month.

On www.plemix.com the phone has different prices depending on the color that you want. The white one is $525.00, the black one is $539.00 and the black (US) is $579.00. All of them have English menu and if you pay $49.99 you can get 12 months Plemix Warranty. There is another service available on this site, you can engrave your name on the phone or on any other product you buy from them for $39.99. You can also find here all the accessories for this phone.



On www.timtechs.com the Nokia N97 the Next Step is $529.95 for both colors black or white. The N97-3 Black NAM Version is $619.95 and the N97-3 White NAM Version is $629.95. The order is processed within 24 hours.

On www.negrielectronics.com you can find the Nokia N97 Mini 3G (Unlocked) Black for the price of $539.50, and the white one for $729.50. Nokia

N97 32 GB is $627.50 for the white or black and the Nokia N97 32 GB NAM is $595.50 for one of the two variants- black or white.

On www.omio.com you can also find the Brown Nokia N97 Mini and the white and black are also available. The Brown one SIM Free is £429 but if you are from the UK you can see the deals they have and pay monthly.

On www.mobilecityonline.com you can find the Nokia N97 32 GB Multimedia Smartphone Black Unlocked US Version for $519.99 and the usually ships is in 24-48 hours. The white version of the same phone is $549.99.



On www.selectgsm.com Nokia N97 price is $539.98 and the shipping is within 24 hours.

www.acegsmcell.com is another site where you can find the new Nokia N97 Slide Qwerty GSM Cell phone white or grey at the price of $625 and with free US and worldwide shipping.

On www.ustronics.com your price is $599.95. Here you can find the Nokia Battery BP – 4L for $46.95.

Another phone which also costs about the same is the Apple iPhone 3G.  The talk time for this phone is 10 hours and the weight is 133g. But the Nokia N97 has FM radio and the iPhone doesn’t. For the iPhone the resolution is of the display is 320 x 480 pixels and the dimensions are 115 x 62 x 12 mm.

Blackberry 9530 Storm has a 3.2 Mega Pixels Camera Resolution and the dimensions 112 x 62 x 14 and the display resolution 480 x 360 pixels. But the Nokia N97 has the FM radio and MP3 Player and the Blackberry doesn’t. For the Blackberry the standby time is 360hours and the talk time is 5 hours and 50 minutes. The style is Candy Bar for the Blackberry while for the Nokia is slide. As for weight the blackberry is 5 grams “fatty” than the Nokia.



The HTC T8282 is another phone that costs about the same as a Nokia N97, and its dimensions are 115 x 63 x 12, the display resolution is 480 x 800 pixels and the weight is 146 grams. The HTC has also Pocket PC and Windows phone and the Nokia doesn’t. The Nokia has voice dialing and the HTC doesn’t.

So if you want to buy a new phone, do a small research and see what phone is the best for you as in specifications and prices also. As you have seen the prices are different and if you search a bit you could find the best deal.  Good luck!

HTC Touch2 is quad-band compatible and it supports 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequency bands, and also HSDPA 900 / 2100. For a wireless Internet connection, HTC Touch2 offers both GPRS and EDGE, and of course HSDPA. In our tests, in the EDGE network, the device has reached a transfer rate of 184 Kbit / s for download and 83 Kbit / s for upload, while in the 3G network, the device has reached speeds up to 1836 Kbit / s for download and 307 Kbit / s for upload. The Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g can also be used in the available hotspots to have a higher browsing speed and to reduce costs.

For wireless data transfer between mobile phones, HTC Touch2 uses Bluetooth 2.1, whereas for data synchronization with the PC, the device offers USB 2.0. This HTC smartphone includes a built-in GPS receiver, which surprisingly works with the Google Maps application. To take advantage of voice guidance, users will have to install Copilot navigation software, for which you will need to download the necessary maps. The localization works without problems, and the pin-pointing link is very fast, even if you are inside.

HTC Touch2 is compatible with all the protocols and the e-mail clients (POP3, IMAP) and can be synchronized with your PC. The device is also compatible with SMS, EMS and MMS. The instant messaging includes Windows Live Messenger, but other IMs can also be installed. The interface is quite simple and easy to use.

The sound quality during a call is above average but could be better. The GSM signal is also good, as long as you do not keep the device set to the 3G band, where the reception is only mediocre.

HTC Touch2 includes a Qualcomm MSM7225 processor from the ARM11 family, which runs at speeds up to 528 Mhz. In general, we experienced no restraint or lag. Since the phone does not have animations or transitions, you will not have any problems when browsing the menus or when you run more applications.

The HTC smartphone includes 256MB of RAM memory and 512 MB of ROM memory. The storage space can be expanded up to 16GB via the microSD slot, which is hot-swappable.



The Internet applications include Streaming Media, which does exactly what its name suggests and is designed to be easily used with the fingers, Live Messenger and Windows Live Search, Internet Explorer for Web browsing, MSN Money, Market, and Microsoft MyPhone. The last two services are new and have been highlighted even at the officially announcement of the operating system - version 6.5. The Market service, as its name suggests, is where you can download applications compatible with Windows Mobile. The MyPhone service allows you to synchronize and save the Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Messages, photos, videos, music and documents with your MyPhone account on the PC. Basically, you get everything mentioned above, from the PC and you can add new contacts, events, and then you will be able to synchronize with your Pocket PC.

On the multimedia part, HTC Touch2 offers Windows Media Player for audio and video playback, and Pictures & Video to navigate through photos and videos and to modify the images.



Regarding the communications, the device includes Internet Sharing, which allows this HTC smartphone to be used as a modem, Communications Manager for enabling / disabling and changing settings for data connections, Bluetooth Explorer for managing the Bluetooth connection.
Then, there is a File Manager, a search tool, a Zip utility, a tool to encrypt files on the memory card, a function to reset the device and to come back to the factory settings, an application for GPS connection setup, JBlend Java emulator and a very useful Task Manager, which can be used to switch between applications and change the behavior of the "x" button to close the applications from the memory.



In general, the Pocket PCs do not receive an extra attention to the multimedia functions, but HTC Touch2 makes an exception, or at least it tries. First, HTC Touch2 includes, now, a 3.5 mm jack port, which says something. Second, the standard application used for playing audio and video is much more advanced compared to the older HTC devices, and that is because it has a sound equalizer and a very interesting interface. The music player supports files in MP3, WAV, eAAC + and WMA format files.
The sound of the music is very good, especially since you have access to a wide range of equalizer modes, but you can also make your own settings. Windows Media Player version 10 supports MP4, WMV, H.263, and H.264 video files.

The smarpthone also includes an FM radio, which can auto-scan and store up to 20 stations. The radio can be run in background or heard through the loudspeaker. There is also a YouTube customer included, which enables you watching movies on this website. In general, I had a good multimedia experience, and I think that the gap between smartphones and music phones is slowly equilibrating.



HTC Touch2 is powered by a Li-Ion 1100 mAh, which, according to the official specifications, the device offers an autonomy of up to 5 hours and 30 minutes in talk mode (6 hours and 10 minutes for 3G) and 500 hours in standby mode (370 hours for 3G).

In our tests, the battery power is exhausted after 4 hours and 43 minutes of standard use, with the backlight set to maximum. While it is far from official numbers, I would say that the battery life is satisfactory.

I was pleasantly surprised by the new HTC smartphone for medium budgets, especially as regards the design, but also a little disappointed with the new version of the operating system. While visually there are some changes, I still believe that Windows Mobile is far from the Android and iPhone in terms of performance, functionality and graphic interface. However, HTC Touch2 is a good smartphone, but only if it will sell at a lower price, otherwise I think people will look for more advanced solutions, and Android is much better at this time.

The package contains

HTC Touch2;
Li-Ion 1100 mAh battery;
Stylus;
User Guide;
Charger;
MiniUSB data cable.