Samsung INNOV8 with 8 MP Camera

Samsung officially announced the Samsung i8510 INNOV8 today - a multimedia monster, which packs top-of-the-range cameraphone capabilities along with Symbian S60 smartphone functionality. And probably the best thing about it is that it will be available in Europe in a few weeks (read August 2008).

The Samsung i8510 INNOV8 is a smartphone based on Symbian OS 9.3 with S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 and features quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA 7.2Mbps (900/2100 MHz) support. It also has a large 2.8-inch 16M color QVGA display - it serves the Nokia N95 8GB excellently, so we don't think it would have benefitted by a higher resolution. Screen auto rotation is also available thanks to the built-in accelerometer.

The amount of RAM is 128 MB and there will be a dedicated 3D graphics accelerator. Unfortunately there is no information regarding the CPU used in this multimedia monster.

The Samsung i8510 also packs with some massive storage memory - a 8GB and a 16GB version will be available - much like the Samsung Omnia (you didn't hear us say Apple iPhone, did you?). That storage is further expandable via a microSD card slot.

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BlackBerry Gets New Look and Feel with Thunder

Seems that we have new images floating around about the not-yet-released Research in Motion touchscreen BlackBerry 9500, also known as the “Thunder”.  Running OS 4.7, this features a glass 360×480 touch display and has the ability to go into portrait view and play music from the media player,  watch movies or videos. The “Thunder” will have a carrier music store similar to the iPhone’s iTunes that allows users to purchase songs from their device. 

The BlackBerry Thunder 9500 will run on a new Blackberry OS that's fully touch-centric and will sport a 2.5" 65K color touchscreen TFT display with 360 x 480 pixels resolution. Most importantly it will be a hybrid device, working in GSM and EV-DO networks supporting EDGE/HSDPA and built-in GPS.

The Thunder will have a built-in camera - no word of how many mega pixels or release date.

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iPhone Killer by SamSung i900 Omni

Samsung has officially announced its real iPhone killin' device. Instinct is just not smart enough to compete with Apple's handset, but the 12.5mm-thick i900 certainly is. Specs of this Beauty are:

Network: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE + HSDPA 7.2Mbps 

Wireless: stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), WiFi 

Display: 3.2-inch WQVGA (240×400 pixels) touchscreen 

Camera: 5 megapixels with auto-focus, featuring face and smile detection as well as auto-panorama shots 

OS/UI: Windows Mobile 6.1 with Samsung's widget-friendly TouchWiz user interface running on top of it 

CPU: Marvell 624MHz (*update*) 

Other: built-in GPS, accelerometer for auto-rotation, optical mouse.

Two models will be sold: 8GB and 16GB, that can further be expanded with microSD memory cards 

Availability: from June 2008, Europe - July 2008 

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Smart Touch by Gigabyte

Gigabyte presented a new batch of Windows Mobile Pro devices at the Computex 2008. The new devices include the GSmart MS802 and MS820. The company also showcased the existing devices GSmart MS800 and GSmart MS808, which were announced in February at the MWC 2008.

The GSmart MS802 is the successor of the existing MS800 and updates the feature set with a 3 megapixel camera (as opposed to the 2 megapixel one in MS800). The MS802 still offers a 2.8-inch QVGA display, fast Intel 520MHz CPU, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and a SiRF Star III GPS receiver.

 

Gigabyte GSmart MS802

The other new handset, the Gigabyte GSmart MS820 is the first Windows Mobile device with a built-in 5 megapixel autofocus camera. But besides that, the GSmart MS820 is a capable device in all respects as it also flaunts a VGA display, a fast Intel 520MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and GPS, Bluetooth plus a microSD card slot. The MS820 also manages to impress with the fact that it has packed that feature load within a waistline of only 14.1 mm.

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3G iPhone at 42mbps HSPA

Sure, it's great and all that the next-generation iPhone will launch with the 3G bits to finally get jiggy with 3G networks the world over. But, even the 7.2Mbps HSPA data connection that's expected to be in the cards for the 3G iPhone would only make the faster, second-generation iPhone as fast as other high-end handset offerings on market - a bit of a joy-kill, but it's true.

A Telstra Wireless exec is purported to have told Australia's ChannelNews that the next-generation iPhone is expected to be capable of super-fast 3G speeds upwards of 42Mbps. "We know what is coming, we have seen the new device and it will be available on our network as soon as it is launched in the USA," said the telecom exec. "By Xmas this phone will be capable of 42mbs which will make it faster than a lot of broadband offerings and the fastest iPhone on any network in the world."

Not only would Evolved HSPA make the 3G iPhone the fastest iPhone in the world, it would be the fastest handset (in terms of data speeds) on the planet. And, considering that we'd be hard-pressed to find anyone out there rocking a broadband data connection faster than around 11Mbps for residential service, Evolved HSPA is faster than almost all broadband connections, not just "a lot" of them. Of course, bigger businesses use broadband connections with faster speeds than any residential hookup could ever deliver, so that could be what the exec was referencing.

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Diamond from HTC

HTC has unveiled yet another addition to their Touch range of Windows Mobile handsets and are calling it the Touch Diamond. Apart from making it look elegant HTC has, of course incorporated their TouchFLO technology into the Diamond as well, but with one slight adjustment – The Diamond’s TouchFLO interface comes with a 3D effect.

The new TouchFLO 3D provides animated access to messaging, email, photos, music, weather and other features. In addition, HTC is introducing a new innovative touch-sensitive control for interacting with Touch Diamond. The Diamond also incorporates HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity and has a new customized mobile Web browser with features for zooming and panning sites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view. The Diamond also has a YouTube application and Google Maps.

It has a 2.8 inch VGA touch screen display, a 3.2 megapixel camera with an optical auto-focus lens and advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, comes with 4 GB of internal storage with 256 MB flash and 192 MB RAM and runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7201A , 528MHz chipset. Other features include Bluetooth with EDR, minUSB, integrated GPS and Wi-Fi. 

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Apple iPhone India launch likely in Sept.

Indians will no longer need to illegally buy, unlock and then use the most-desired item on gadget lovers’ lists — the Apple iPhone. Its much-awaited and delayed India launch is expected with telecom operator Vodafone in the first week of September.  

  

The Cupertino, California-based company, according to Apple retail sources, said initially the 8 GB version of the much-hyped touchscreen device — which combines Wi-Fi capabilities with a powerful email client, TV feeds, online music store and map-based location guide — will be launched at a price ranging between Rs 27,200 and Rs 28,000.  

  

Based on buyer response, the launch of the 16 GB version will be staggered to the middle of 2009.  

  

Apple sources in Singapore, when contacted last month, had maintained that the India launch would happen in 2008, but were tight-lipped on the exact date.  

  

Apple reportedly claims to have shipped four million iPhones this January since its US launch on June 29 last year, and its chief Steve Jobs has targeted sales of 10 million units by December 2008.  

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