Camera Phones Plaza

Those who are always informed on each and every apparition in the mobile phone world must already know about the Sony Ericsson Idou, for example, but would probably have a huge question mark dancing in front of their eyes when hearing about the Sony Ericsson Satio.

But allow me to make things a little bit clearer than they already are. You must remember the Sony Ericsson Idou, a camera phone considered to be the flagship of the company that appeared in the spotlight at the beginning of this year, in February. Well, it seems that, after being released in Barcelona under the name of “Idou”, the phone is going to hit the market as Satio, after all.



The Satio comes with the following features: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS/HSDPA 850/900/2100 MHz networks, a 3.5 inch TFT touchscreen display with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels, a 12.1 megapixel camera with autofocus, Xenon flash, up to 12x digital zoom, image stabilizer, face and smile detection, geo-tagging, media player with PlayNow and TrackID, Bluetooth stereo A2DP, an on-screen QWERTY keyboard, email, Exchange ActiveSync and handwriting recognition, Wi-Fi, USB, assisted GPS, Google Maps, a microSD card slot and an 8GB card which is included.



“With Satio you can enjoy any form of entertainment anytime, anywhere. Whether its music or movies you will never be more than a tap away from your favorite tracks or shows”, said Fredrik Mansson, Market Business Manager at Sony Ericsson. “Just tap directly into your favorite videos and music with the unique full touch media menu, standby panels and music player. Snapping perfect pictures also just got so simple thanks to the 12.1 megapixel camera, intuitive touch focus and Xenon flash. Share them with your nearest and dearest via your social networking site, produce huge prints and you can even comment directly on your images”.



The phone measures no more than 112 x 55 x 13.3 millimeters and weighs 126 grams. As for the availability, you should know that the Satio will come in three color versions: black, bordeaux and silver, and sometime in the last quarter of this year (most probably in October), under a price that we don’t know yet.



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Its name is 6730. Nokia 6730. And it’s said to be the next Vodafone mobile phone to be launched by the provider sometime during this month. For the moment, we should be satisfied by the fact that it was officially announced by the Finnish company via a press release that tell us about the exclusivity Vodafone obtained in selling the phone worldwide.

The Nokia 6730 classic is expected to start selling in the next couple of weeks “across Vodafone’s global footprint”. This means that customers from several European countries, from African and Asian ones will soon be able to enjoy the benefits brought by this new phone.



All phones that are part of the classic range of devices designed by Nokia are candybars, so the Nokia 6730 is a candybar also. The cell phone is compatible with the Symbian S60 operating system and comes with GPS capabilities which are more advanced than those you can find on other similar devices.

Other features of this new Vodafone mobile phone include quad band GSM connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), dual band HSDPA (for 900/2100 MHz networks), a 2.2 inch QVGA display, a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, Bluetooth connectivity, Nokia Maps, both personal and business email, Mobile Internet, the Vodafone Music Client service and a 1GB microSD card included, for expandable memory.

The device measures 112 x 46 x 12.6 millimeters and weighs 83 grams.

“The Nokia 6730 is a great all-round handset – just as perfect for mobile internet users as for music fans who want to take their tracks with them. This product follows a successful line-up of Vodafone exclusive devices from Nokia and is another great example of our collaboration”, said Peter Becker-Pennrich, the Director of Terminals Marketing at Vodafone.

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LG made the perfect choice when it decided to present their GD900 Crystal phone at the Mobile World Congres, which was held back in January, where it rapidly became the main attraction of the event. It wasn’t hard for something like this happen, due to the innovative transparent keyboard.

At first, the phone was announced to start selling sometime during May (meaning the month that has just ended), but it’s obvious that you still do not have the chance to see it in the shop windows, just like you expected.



However, there’s a piece of good news waiting in line: it seems that the LG GD900 is going to become available, “very soon”, as a matter of fact, in an impressive number of countries from Asia, Europe and Latin America. 40 countries, to be more precise, which is pretty much.

The phone distinguish itself from other cell phones due to its transparent keypad, but there are other features that are to impress you as well: the 3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, an accelerometer, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, TV out and an internal memory of 1.5GB. All of these features are stuffed in a case that is 13.5 millimeters thick.

Unfortunately, we don’t have details about the price of the LG GD900, not for the moment, but rumors say the retail price will be 450 Euros (meaning $622). It won’t be the most affordable of them all, but it’s not a mid-end phone, right?

In addition, it seems that the LG GD900 will be available in two different colors: chrome and titanium.

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Well, to put it bluntly, these pictures you’re about to see are not official. What I want to say is that the Samsung S5050, a slider phone that you have probably heard by now, was unveiled for the first time back in February (at the beginning of this year), when there weren’t many details available.

The phone has just made its appearance through a number of press photos, even if it wasn’t officially presented by the South Korean company, a situation we have had the chance to often experience.



If you’re a big fan of Samsung cell phones, then you must have a very intuitive eye, able to perceive the similarities between new and older devices. This one, for example, has something of the touch of another Samsung phone, the S5200, which has just been given the official treatment in Russia.



The most important and visible difference consists of the fact that the S5050 comes with a QVGA AMOLED screen, while the S5200 is equipped with a TFT display.

But let’s go further with the specs of the S5050: quad band GSM/EDGE connectivity, a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, FM radio with RDS, an internal memory of 40MB and a microSDHC card slot for expandable memory of no more than 8GB.

The phone measures 105 x 49 x 14.6 millimeters and weighs approximately 102 grams, coming with an 800 mAh battery. As for the availability, the Samsung S5050 will start selling sometime this summer, for a retail price of $235 (with approximation, of course).

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The rumors about an Android cell phone designed by General Mobile first appeared at the beginning of this year, back in late January, early February, when I was telling you about their plans to bring in the spotlight a new device compatible with the Google platform. Back then, the company was very anxious about the release of the DSTL1 Imaginary, a device that was presented as the world’s first dual SIM cell phone, based on the Android operating system.

We haven’t heard anything about it until now and we’re happy to see that the guys over Google Mobile don’t have in mind a failure. This means they will move forward, to the next level, so they announced their intention to launch the phone sometime in the near future, in June, to be more precise.



Rumors coming from the Android Authority say that the first countries to enjoy the DSTL1 are the United States and Turkey, being followed by Germany and Russia.



The features it is equipped with include: 900/1800/1900 MHz connectivity, a 3 inch TFT resistive touch sensitive display with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels (the display was made by SHARP), a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash (this one has the Sony touch on it), Android 1.5 Cupcake, Bluetooth 2.0 with both EDR and A2DP, music player, video player, a Marvell PXA 310 CPU at 624 MHz and a microSDHC card of 4GB included in the package.

The phone measures 112 x 54 x 16 millimeters and weighs 135 grams, while the battery provides up to 240 minutes of talk hours and up to 150 hours of stand-by time.

As for the price, we’ve heard that it will range between $550 and $750.

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