Cell Phone News from November 2009

It usually so happens that when we a certain charger of ours doesn’t work we settle for a charger that is not up the Company’s criteria. This usually happens because we get the charger from an unauthorized dealer, not from the company’s authorized manufacturers. To compensate for this Nokia has started a program where these old defective chargers will be exchanged for new ones. These can either be sold separately or in a box.

iPhone is one of the very fortunate phones who are wanted by everyone, due to which every shop usually has them on it . But the icing on the cake would definitely be RadioShack which is due to be offering the iPhone 3G and 3GS to a limited number of mobile shops initially. This will possibly be done by the end of this month. Now as far as their press release/announcement is concerned only the New York metropolitan area and Dallas-Fort Worth Radio shack stores are going to be blessed with the iPhone, stores in the rest of the world are going to have it somewhere around 2010.

HTC is out with their HTC HD2 recently and the good news is that the hugely anticipated set runs on snapdragon. HTC has tried to do the thing that not many have been able to achieve, that is they have tried to fit in a 4.3-inch screen in a phone that is way smaller than the Toshiba TG01, the very first Snapdragon-based device ever to be released. So let’s find out what this awesome handset is all about; let’s find out about the key features.

Well LG finally came out with their awesome set, LG GH620 recently. This set has officially been released for and in Canada and has come out under the name, LG Eve; peculiar but that is what it is. There are people who are of the view that this is going to be a universal name for the set; then there are rumours according to which Eve is just a regional name and nothing more than that. The thing that LG GW620 is the first Android-powered phone by LG also amounts to a lot.

Nokia’s second wave of touch phones and the first wave of the Xseries have been long awaited for by everyone who has ever fallen in love with the stuff that this Finnish company comes up with. Now it’s going to be available in the near future, if rumours are anything to go by. The Nokia X6 is now easily available for all and sundry from the 12th of November. Of course you will have to preorder if you don’t want to miss it for the world. This set is special because it comes with music!

Samsung has done some real business this year and the good luck continues into the third quarter as well. According to the report published by the company, Samsung has achieved around 35.86 trillion Korean won (about 31 billion US dollars) revenue, which is a real huge thing. The same goes for the consolidated operating profit which is 4.23 trillion Korean won (3.6 billion dollars), which indicates that that the company has been doing extra well for the past three months or so.

Fabio Dabori has recently come up with a brand new designer mobile called HOOK? Wow! This is the first time we have seen anything like this, quite impressive to say but the least. This hook mobile is actually going to change the way we lock and unlock our keypads. The mechanism will change completely and this could be one of the first mobiles to be introducing new smaller but more compact handsets.

Acer is new to the world of mobiles but is adamant on having the spotlight on it when it enters the market. Acer neoTouch runs on the 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU and boasts a lot of other things that really can say a lot about the mobile like complete connectivity options, spacious high-res screen and something becoming fairly typical for Smartphone’s these days - a 5 megapixel snapper. Now these days handset manufacturers are customizing the OS with their own proprietary interface, for example TouchFLO by HTC, Samsung's TouchWiz and the LG S-Class.

Aino is a very capable phone but will constantly be compared with the Satio and X10 and that is not that good a feeling as these two are doing very well. When you take a first look at it, it seems like a regular touchscreen but a closer look at it and you will understand that it is actually sliding with an extraordinary big screen. Since it is also equipped with a Remote Play, you can easily pair it up with Sony's PlayStation 3.

Tethering on Motorola Droid is not own at the moment but the company does promise that this is going to be provided anytime in the beginning of next year. Now in essence this carrier will be allowing this Android Smartphone to function as a wireless modem for other devices. They are going to be taking an extra monthly charge of $15, and this is limited to 5 GB of data transfers each month. Consumers can do it on their own as well instead of waiting for the official Verizon support.

It has only recently been announced by Samsung that the Windows Mobile 6.5 update for the Samsung Jack Smartphone for AT&T is now freely available for downloading on its website. The Samsung Jack will no doubt become more functional after the new Windows is downloaded. These newfound functionalities will include Windows Marketplace application store, and the new Internet Explorer Mobile 6 web browser, with Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support.

Sprint has really improved upon the quality of phones and increased their portfolio as well to a large extent but their third quarter report is suggesting things otherwise as they are still showing loss. A report says that their rivals AT&T and Verizon, are attracting most of their customers. Some reports suggest that the Overland Park, Kan.-based company has already lost almost $478 million in the quarter, compared to a $326 million loss in the same period of 2008.

HTC doesn’t do affordable; as they are Smart phones experts and they are known to be expensive as are all good things in life. But having said that HTC had to come up with something for the regular people as well. HTC has come out with Touch2 lately which is a small step towards becoming more accessible to the common man. This mobile is being touted as a new landmark, but the people who have used the first HTC device will still try and compare it with the original thing.

Nokia is finally out with four brand new handsets, which were being awaited for so long now. Nokia 1616, Nokia 1800, Nokia 2220 slide and Nokia 2690 are really quite simple sets, nothing fancy about them and they mainly cater to the lower class. Let’s just say that it is a good deal for any person who cannot afford much but wants to get a phone for himself. For example the Nokia 2690 has a VGA camera, built-in stereo FM radio with RDS and a 3.5mm standard audio jack. Local connectivity options include Bluetooth and microUSB.

This is basically for all of those people who think that Nokia always churns up sets which are highly priced but do not promise a lot. But the company, keeping true to its previous reputation keeps coming out with cheap but extremely dignified sets which can be worn almost everywhere. The Nokia 1280 has basically been designed while keeping the developing countries, their issues and their per capita income. We don’t want to burden our customers with unnecessary details.

It does not matter whether the phone that you own is a Smartphone or a feature one, you will find a good web browser in Opera Mobile 10 beta! Opera have recently announced that they have reached the beta stage of version 10 which is now easily available to the Symbian S60 devices – which includes both 3rd and 5th edition, making it easier for all Symbian mobile holders to easily download it from the site.

This beautiful set, Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE is one of those sets, which are bent upon making Windows Mobile a well respected not to mention convenient name among the masses. The thing that makes this set unique is the introduction of WinMo 6.5, the updated version. This little full-touch handset, Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE, has all the basic essentials that make these sets what they actually are but much to our amazement have added some extras as well.

This is one set that has made Sony Ericsson rise again, as the going was not getting very smooth for them. This beauty is supposed to be the first ever Android phone by the company, as has been mentioned before too. XPERIA X10 or Rachael, or X3, the various names that it has been given, is more like a device that has paid off all the hard work, or more appropriately, will soon do so. Sony Ericsson does not in any way plan to stop at this. They are planning more fully blown Android devices soon.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is a mobile that many people have their eyes set upon. They all are craving any sort of introduction on how the set looks like. So in order to satisfy the needs of these prospective buyers, Sony Ericsson have just recently launched a teaser video of their upcoming Android uber smartphone. Now if you check out the official Sony Ericsson site, you will come to know that there is a promo page that appears out of nowhere announcing something coming up on the November 3.

Motorola has finally come out with their financial results for the Q3 of the running year. There is nothing wrong with the overall company’s results, though our interest, the mobile division has suffered a loss of 183 million US dollars. The total mobile phone sales of Motorola were almost 1.7 billion US dollars, which is 46 percent down compared to the same quarter a year ago. The total loss of the company regarding the mobile phone sales is a bit better than the same quarter last year that is 183 million US dollars as compared to the 840 million last year.

This new Windows XP powered, ITG xpPhone, is pretty much a tablet but also a phone, much similar to the Nokia N900 ; the only difference being the fact that this one completely run on Windows XP and acts like a mini pc. Now since XP was not originally intended for mobile phones, to make it more user-friendly, Dial-up interface has been introduced which makes use of a more traditional tabbed menu and is touted to be more finger friendly.

The up gradation of Android to 2.0 is now not news, it is something that many people, at least people with some insight in the mobile world have come to know of. Also known as Éclair, this version of Android promises a lot of improvements, which were very desperately needed. The camera, browser as well as the Bluetooth are some of the things which really got improved; it is being said that the OS has also been revamped to a great extent.