Touchscreen Smartphone Nokia 5530 XpressMusic

The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic has finally revealed its face and this music and entertainment device has a full touch interface and a new home screen and Contacts Bar – all in a sightly smaller and sleeker
package. This device not only brings the great media handling that one comes to expect from an XpressMusic phone, but the new Contacts bar brings your people to the forefront.

This phone has a large touch screen with tactile feedback and only a touchscreen (with no physical keys) display that is 2.9 inches wide capable of display at 640×360 pixels, a 3.2 megapixel camera with
autofocus and LED flash, a 3.5 mm headset jack, 70MB of internal memory which can be bumped up to 16GB via MicroSD (4GB card included with 27 hours of music playback), Bluetooth 2.0, and WiFi. It also
includes GPRS/EDGE network connectivity.With the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, you can define 4 shortcuts for the home screen (say, for Facebook or MySpace quick links). Also, is the new Contact Bar that lets you have up to 20 contacts, making it easy to quickly call or send a message, review conversation history, or follow the contact’s feed. It’s like a quick dashboard on your 20 most important people. What’s more, add a pic to those contacts and your peeps are front-and-center.

The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic should start shipping in the third quarter of 2009 at around €199, retail, before taxes and subsidies.

GW550A is the latest smartphone from LG smartphone available for business users in the U.S. It’s a middle range handset packed with pretty solid features, and it is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard edition . This candybar cell phone sports a small 2.4-inch QVGA display, (240×320 pixel) resolution display and a full QWERTY keyboard. Other features include 3Mpix camera; quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band
UMTS (850/1900/2100MHz) 3G connectivity with HSPA(INFO) support for high-speed data; 7.2Mbps HSDPA / 2Mbps HSUPA; Stereo speakers; 1300mAh battery for long talk time.
The company is yet to reveal its pricing and release date.

The Nokia 3710 Fold is a new cell phone that balances design with the latest in mobile functionality. It boasts extreme simplicity without compromising functionality. The Nokia 3710 cell phone menus are
visually simple and intuitive, and focus on the essential. The Nokia 3710 fold cell phone smoothly opens to reveal the bright screen 2.2-inch QVGA display which displays pictures and videos taken with the 3.2 megapixel camera. The new build-in photo gallery helps keep digital photos organized, create slide shows or photo albums, or attach photos to contacts and more, with just a few clicks. Together with the range of Ovi services on offer Nokia brings mobile Internet experiences to a growing number of consumers who want to share their memories, browse those of others, or explore new services and content.

Pioneering a renewed user interface, the Nokia 3710 fold mobile phone boasts extreme simplicity without compromising functionality. The Nokia 3710 cell phone menus are visually simple and intuitive, and
focus on the essential. A variety of new Nokia cell phones will support the renewed user interface in the future. Other features include stereo music player and FM radio, Bluetooth support for wireless connectivity with stereo headsets and other phones. It is expected to be in the market by the Q4 and at a price of 140 EUR (US$194) after taxes and subsidies.

The Samsung Jet is a flagship model recently unveiled by Samsung. Samsung Jet is not a simply another full touch mobile phone; it brings a brand new concept of mobile phone to today’s consumers. The phone
supports the latest smartphone features which include multi-task manager and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, bringing user-friendly menu navigations in a sleek and compact design.

With its eye-catching brilliant screen, Samsung’s latest TouchWiz 2.0 user interface gives an unrivaled user experience and includes iconic new features such as motion UI, smart unlock, customizable widget
screen, which are all perfect for managing your life at work and at play.

The Samsung Jet has a display which offers unrivaled quality and brilliance for its users. The 3.1″ Samsung WVGA AMOLED display is four times sharper than a WQVGA screen. Samsung Jet’s screen provides
stunning, super bright and vivid images in perfect natural colours, with the very best high resolution display for viewing multimedia on the go. Samsung Jet’s ultra brilliant display has a 180° viewing
angle, gives a super fast touch response and is also very efficient in its power consumption.

Samsung Jet also has an A-GPS application, to provide navigation services in life-like 3D, to convey real places, information and directions in real-time. This incorporates 3D Map Navigation, GPS on Google maps and location-Based Services. The GPS system features Geo-tagging, enabled through a Geo- magnetic sensor to send location information and updates on traffic conditions by SMS, link location
information to navigation, and a compass.

Other features are a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash which can shoot pictures and can record DVD-quality video. Users can save up to 2GB of multimedia to internal memory or more to external
microSD cards, and a 1100mAh battery for long talk-time. Although, no service provided has yet been linked to the Samsung Jet, Samsung revealed its intention to make the Jet available to US customers soon during which details about pricing would be made available.

Research In Motion (RIM) announced the new BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone would be available for Sprint and Verizon Wireless.The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 is a 3G-enabled world phone that supports EV-DO Rev as well. As far as design, the BlackBerry Tour is a blend of the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the RIM BlackBerry Bold. The device measures 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and weighs 4.5 ounces.

There’s a 35-key QWERTY keyboard for easy typing and a 2.44-inch, 480×360-pixel resolution display.
As a dual-mode world phone, the BlackBerry Tour runs on the carrier’s respective EV-DO Rev. A 3G networks domestically and offers 3G UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; GPRS/EDGE) support, so you can get voice and data coverage while traveling outside of North America.

The smartphone also offers Bluetooth 2.0 (including stereo Bluetooth and tethering) as well as assisted and
autonomous GPS, but unfortunately, there is no Wi-Fi. Other highlights of the phone include a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording, a music and video player, a 3.5-millimeter headphone
jack, an HTML Web browser, 256MB RAM with up to 16GB expandable memory, and a user-replaceable 1400mAh lithium ion battery with a rated talk time of 5 hours and up to 14 days of standby time.
While specific availability dates were not released by the carriers, Sprint did reveal that it will offer the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after rebates and said the smartphone will come preloaded with the Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV, Sprint NFL Mobile Live, and Nascar Sprint Cup Mobile. Details of Verizon’s pricing or offerings are not yet available.

Motorola has announced a new Bluetooth headset called the Endeavor HX1 that promises to allow the user to talk and be heard in even the most extreme environment. This device comes with stealth mode and uses bone conduction technology to eliminate background noise and amplify the user’s voice.

Motorola uses its CrystalTalk noise cancellation technology in the headset along with a stealth mode that activates bone conduction technology. The bone conduction tech picks up your voice by sensing the vibrations in your bones rather than using a mic. It measures 47mm x 18mm x 12mm (1.9in x 0.7in x .5in) and only weighs 13g (.5oz). Motorola claims to be leveraging military-style technology for the Endeavor HX1: when the unit’s “stealth mode” is activated, the unit uses an ear sensor to block off outside noise and
convert vocal vibrations directly into speech audio. The result—in theory anyway—is that listeners only hear the caller’s voice, not what’s going on around them. The Endeavor HX1 also includes Motorola’s CrystalTalk noise cancellation technology to deal with everyday noise when the unit’s stealth mode is overkill.

Motorola plans to market the HX1 in Asia beginning next month. No word yet on pricing, or when/if Motorola plans to bring the unit to North
American markets.

The T-Mobile Shadow offers a fresh take on Windows Mobile smartphones, with a sleek slider design and interface. This new Smartphone strikes a unique balance of design and functionality so you can easily share life’s fun moments with those who matter most. It sports dimensions of 4 inches tall by 2 inches wide by 0.6 inch deep and 5.3 ounces, but the smartphone now sports curved edges, a shinier face, and a new paint job that gives it a fresh look. The Shadow has the typical 201MHz Texas Instruments OMAP processor with a better than average 256 megs of flash memory and 128 megs of RAM.
It runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition (the new name for the smartphone version of the OS, which lacks a touch screen and features more phone-like ergonomics). It features a bright portrait orientation QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi 802.11b/g, a 2 megapixel camera and slider that conceals the SureType keyboard, Spin navigation wheel and slide-out QWERTY-like keypad with predictive text for quick and easy messaging.
Like most high end feature phones, smartphones and PDA phones, the Shadow can double as your portable MP3 player. The customized home screen has basic controls to stop and start music playback, and for full control over playlists and library updates you’ll use Windows Media Player Mobile. While Media Player’s features can’t compete with the desktop version or a dedicated MP3 player, it does get the job done. The Shadow’s microSD card slot supports SDHC for high capacity cards.
For the young professionals who have outgrown their cell phone but aren’t quite ready for a business-centric device, the T-Mobile Shadow offers a nice compromise, as the entry-level smartphone brings the capabilities of a Windows Mobile smartphone into a fresh and affordable package.

With the Samsung Jack i637 released by AT&T, you sure can have your own personal assistant. This slim, ergonomically designed device will assist you in every aspect of your life – personal and professional. The Jack gives you a full, thumb-friendly QWERTY keyboard with Turbo Scroll, so you can scroll line-by-line or page-by-page. Either way, you’ll be in complete control.
The Jack is the next generation Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone. Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile on the Jack keeps enterprise and small business customers connected with synchronization of schedules and contacts, Internet Explorer Mobile provides improved quick and easy Web browsing and Office Mobile enhances productivity with the ability to manage Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The Jack will also be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5.
Additional key features of the Jack include 256 MB RAM, a 3.2 megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) to connect with home or office networks, and built-in aGPS for use with AT&T Navigator, AT&T Navigator Global Edition and other GPS-based applications for personal and business use.AT&T Announces Samsung Jack i637
With the Samsung Jack i637 released by AT&T, you sure can have your own personal assistant. This slim, ergonomically designed device will assist you in every aspect of your life – personal and professional. The Jack gives you a full, thumb-friendly QWERTY keyboard with Turbo Scroll, so you can scroll line-by-line or page-by-page. Either way, you’ll be in complete control.
The Jack is the next generation Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone. Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile on the Jack keeps enterprise and small business customers connected with synchronization of schedules and contacts, Internet Explorer Mobile provides improved quick and easy Web browsing and Office Mobile enhances productivity with the ability to manage Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The Jack will also be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5.
Additional key features of the Jack include 256 MB RAM, a 3.2 megapixel camera with video-capture capabilities, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) to connect with home or office networks, and built-in aGPS for use with AT&T Navigator, AT&T
Navigator Global Edition and other GPS-based applications for personal and business use.

Released for AT&T, the LG Xenon is a sleek, tactile phone with easy access to the latest wireless features. It has an attractive touch-screen display, a great slide out QWERTY keyboard through which users can quickly send text messages and emails. Measuring 4.16 inches long by 2.11 inches wide by 0.62 inch thick, the Xenon has smooth, sleek lines all around, with a touch of chrome around the border. It’s a little smaller than the LG Vu and a little thicker as well.

The Xenon is fairly lightweight at 3.81 ounces, and it’s slim enough to fit in a front pocket. Also, it has a large 2.8-inch touch-screen display and it supports 262,000 colors and 240×400 pixels, which result in great-looking graphics and colorful images. The LG Xenon also has a drop-down shortcuts menu it calls the “Annunciator.” Simply tap the top part of any screen, and a list of shortcuts will appear. You can go directly to the music player, toggle the Bluetooth connection on and off, set your ring and vibration profile, send a new text message, send a new mobile e-mail, check your voice mail, start the instant messenger for either Yahoo, AOL, or Windows Live, set your alarm clock, or view the calendar.

The phone comes with an 80 MB internal memory, which is expandable via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). The internal phonebook can store up to 500 contacts, with each entry providing space for up to five phone numbers, two email addresses, and a picture ID. The phone also includes nine speed dial options (eight entries plus one voicemail) and support for caller groups as well as designating a specific ringtone to a contact.

It is available in AT&T stores and online in blue or red, AT&T customers can get two of the new touch screen 3G quick messaging phone for $99.99 after mail-in rebate with a two-year service agreement.

The Samsung Alias 2 (U750) released for Verizon Wireless is an inventive update to Samsung’s previous. The
new Samsung Alias 2 U750 is larger and slightly heavier than the original, but that is a good thing. Where the original Alias felt cheap and flimsy, the Alias 2 feels sturdy and durable. The color is also a more attractive gunmetal gray, which gives it a more professional appearance.

Located on the front is the slightly larger 1.3” 128×128 pixel display, 2MP camera, and music control buttons. Along the left side is the 2.5mm headset jack, charging port, volume rocker and voice command button, with the power button, hold/lock button, and microSDHC card slot on the right, which supports up to 16GB memory cards.

The most fascinating feature of the device is the E-ink keyboard, which Verizon calls “Magic Key”. The technology has been around for several years, but until recently hasn’t found it’s way to the cell phone market. With E-ink, the keyboard buttons can be mapped dynamically, which means they could be used for any function. The Alias 2 has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging, too, with support for sending and receiving text, picture, and video messages as well as mobile instant messaging (IM). There’s also a complete e-mail client on the device for POP- and IMAP-based accounts. And of course, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a snap to type your messages.

This phone also offers compatibility with the RemoSync service–a corporate email contacts and calendar solution that provides secure and easy access to your company’s Microsoft Exchange Server, with enterprise-class security and IT remote administration features. You’ll be able to read, compose and send email, as well as access and manage Outlook contacts, your corporate directory and calendar.