Smart phones are selling like crazy. It seems almost every week a new smartphone is announced. With the proliferation of the smart phone market in the last two years since the original iPhone launch, and several new phones featuring better processors like the Snapdragon and NVIDIA Tegra, smartphones are becoming more like mobile do-it-all computers than the cell phones of yesterday.
You have the Blackberry, iPhone, HTC G1, Nokia E71x and of course, the Palm Pre. The phones and plans associated with them do vary greatly and it would be beneficial for your to do your research before you make that two year commitment in purchasing a very costly service. For some of you, the need for owning one is easily convinced, for others it may take more time. For some like me, this may be the only phone you now own and did away with your land line years ago.
A great article was written by PC World examining the costs associated with the cost of ownership for a smartphone. Hit the link to read.
Boy Genius received an early review unit of the new Motorola CLIQ running MOTOBLUR. BG has always been a Blackberry fan and he has good reason to do so. But after spending some time with the new CLIQ at the Mobilize 09, I would have to disagree with several of his points.
First point is the keyboard. BG stated “The buttons are hard, cheap plastic, and while there is some tactile feedback when you press a single key, it doesn’t “bounce” back up and it’s a little unsettling.” This is simply not true. Compared to the Blackberry Bold, the keys feel much more solid and tactile feedback is superb.
Second part that bothered me was this comment: “It seems decently solid, albeit a little cheap.” This is just not true. Several bloggers standing around one of the units we got to play with said that the handset was one of the more solid built devices we have held.
Once we receive our review unit, we plan on doing a complete walk-through of the day to day apps that most people use and give you our opinions of the device.
Nokia unveils the Nokia N82, the latest multimedia computer optimized for photography, navigation and internet connectivity. Nokia N82 also features Xenon Flash which is a very popular, rare and amazing feature and is the first for Nokia mobiles ever. Cell phones have recently become more personal with the introduction of mobile phone themes, which work great on the Nokia N82. These themes allow you to customize your phone with a variety of designs from fun to professional wallpapers.
Nokia N82 Titanium Silver is a 5 megapixel camera, powerful Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics, the Nokia N82 delivers remarkably vivid photographs, even in low-light conditions. Featuring A-GPS, 5 megapixel camera, Xenon flash, Carl Zeiss optics and internet connectivity, the Nokia N82 also incorporates all the multimedia computer features common to Nokia Nseries. Like its predecessor the Nokia N82 is the latest epitome of a truly converged device that is not one thing but is many.
The Nokia N82 comes with the new content driven 3D multimedia menu and includes a convenient orientation sensor that rotates the user interface automatically between horizontal and portrait mode.
Fast camera activation, auto focus with a dedicated auto focus assist lamp, fast reloading between shots and DVD-like quality video capture make it a truly convenient and credible tool for capturing and telling your life stories. With the tools to discover the places and moments worth capturing, and the capabilities to capture and share them instantaneously, the Nokia N82 offers photography enthusiasts an enhanced camera experience.
The Nokia N82 gives the best ever camera and navigation experience in one stylish premium device. The 2GB microSD card in the standard Nokia N82 sales package, you can store up to 900 high-resolution photos or up to 84 minutes of high quality video on the device.
You can impress your friends with multimedia slideshows complete with music and effects on the high resolution display or on a compatible TV. With high speed WiFi connectivity and one-click upload to online communities, the Nokia N82 makes sharing your experiences and discoveries easy. When viewing a picture or video, simply one press of a button starts uploading it while you carry on using the device for other purposes.
For quick and easy access to entertainment content, the Nokia N82 also supports the Ovi family of Nokia internet services, including Nokia Music Store, N-Gage games and Nokia Maps. Easy to apply, you can enjoy the look of a brand new phone with dozens of finely designed themes. For more details http://www.luckywirelessusa.com
Product Description Motorola 89239N Headset, H15MOTOPURE H15 has the best background noise cancellation, based on independent testing of the top-selling dual-microphone Bluetooth; headsets. Take calls from the stadium, crowded restaurant or windy streets. Enjoy pure sound quality on both ends of the conversation with CrystalTalk. The flip design is easy to use – open to talk and close to save battery.Motorola 89239N Headset, H15 Features:; CrystalTalk; delivers background noise and echo cancellation using dual microphones and Motorola’s exclusive audio solution. ; RapidConnect; Flip microphone – Open to talk and close to save battery. ; Quick charge – The included desk stand delivers one hour of talk time in less than fifteen minutes of charging. ; Multipoint – Connect with two compatible Bluetooth; enabled phones simultaneously. No need to reconnect.; TrueComfort; design – Multiple ear cushions, a molded speaker and a discreet flexible ear hook provide a superb personal fit. ; Simple Start – Exclusive EasyPair technology helps simplify how you connect with your compatible Bluetooth; enabled devices. ; Universal Compatibility – Tested to work with phones from over 15 brands. Power to talk – A convenient three-color display allows for instant battery level check. (Green, Yellow, Red)
Customer Reviews “Motorola H15 Review”
I have been using my Moto HS805 for several years now.
I loved being able to use a AAA battery but hated the size.
I bought the H15 and I love it!
The sound is clearer than the HS805.
When I’m driving with my windows down, I don’t hear that
tell-tale hiss; neither do the people I am speaking to.
It’s so light, I sometimes forget I’m wearing it.
I did buy the H12 from Costco a few months back;
Hated It!
I would recommend this headset to anyone using Bluetooth;
especially in California where it is now LAW to use a
Bluetooth headset while driving!!!
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I broke my heart this week. Bought a cell phone other than a Motorola. For 25 years, in good times and bad, I always bought Motorola. As I reminded my son, the Motorola phones put him through college etc.
But there was nothing to buy at either Verizon or AT&T. A sad state of affairs for the company and people who really helped make it happen. I remember in 1984, walking around with a portable. While I thought people would be amazed, for the most part they were ambivalent. Didn’t see why anyone would want a portable cell phone.
Anyhow, it’s a different world now. I need to move on. But, it’s a sad world when “What you never thought possible” is gone.
Movistar, la operadora encargada de distribuir el Motorola DEXT con MOTOBLUR en España monto un evento para presentar el equipo en Madrid, el regalón de Motorola, por ser su primer smartphone que utiliza Android como sistema operativo.
El Motorola DEXT, en otros lados conocido como Motorola CLIQ sera distribuido exclusivamente a través de Telefónica por un tiempo no especificado. El gran punto decadente de la presentación, fueron los precios del equipo. Aunque se anuncio que desde el próximo 6 de noviembre se podrá adquirir el DEXT.
El encargado de presentar el equipo en el evento fue Nacho Vigalondo (cineasta). También tuvieron presencia los máximos responsables de Motorola en España, Óscar Rodríguez y Luis Ezcurra.
Aunque para Motorola este es su primer equipo en vender con Android, para Movistar seria el segundo, ya que su primero fue el HTC Dream, el cual todavía se encuentra a la venta y es una dura competencia para este mismo equipo. El HTC Dream ya es conocido por la gente, lleva bastante tiempo disponible en España, además de también contar con una pantalla táctil y teclado QWERTY.
Link: Motorola Dext llega a España con Movistar en noviembre (Celularis)
I really appreciate cell phone manufacturers and carriers starting to pick up on the green trend. We are starting to see many phones today which are being made out recycled materials. Even product packaging is being made from recycled materials and are using soy based inks. Some carriers, like T-Mobile, are even enticing their customers to conserve resources by charging for paper print outs of their monthly bills. In hopes that customers will choose to have their bills delivered by email. Effectively cutting back on waste. Now a days though, there really are few reasons to continue to have your bill printed out. Most phones will allow you to access your account and make payments to it.
Some of the latest phones leading the green trend are the Motorola Renew, Samsung Blue Earth and the Reclaim. Both are really good looking phones packed with great features. The Blue Earth has touch screen with a customizable home screen. This phone still does not have US carrier. And there is no word on price or availability. I personally am really looking forward to this release.
The Samsung Blue Earth will have a built in solar cell on the back side. It will take about a total of 14 hours of sunlight for about 4 hours of use. The phone however, will still use a standard charger. The phone itself is made up mostly of recycled water bottles. And it’s components are for the most part recyclable. The phone has an energy saving mode that allows you to easily adjust the screen brightness. This mode also maintains bluetooth power usage down to a minimum.
The new Samsung Reclaim is the latest eco-friendly phone. It’s available thru Sprint and is only $49.99 with contract. This is a slider phone with a full querty keyboard. Available in green and blue. It is also made from recycled plastics and Samsung along with Sprint, promise that $2 from each the sale of each phone will go to The Nature Conservancy.
These phones are packed with most of the same capabilities as most other phones. So why not go for the eco-friendly option?
Motorola has come in for a lot of stick over recent years: some justified, some not. Some of it seemingly because they had a handset which endured well, if inexplicably.
But after several shaky and quiet months which even included whispers that they might be going under altogether, Motorola have struck back, opened up, and begun to hold hands with important people. Were they ever really that concerned? Who knows?
Aided by an internal reshuffle, the last few weeks have witnessed a range of announcements showing them to be far from dead and buried, not stuck in the past, eyes wide open.
Wide open to the consumer market through an interesting new open source Android powered device, the Dext, which arguably marks a small departure from the hardware design obsession. At least in that market. Should we get over the fact that the vast majority of handsets will look essentially similar for the foreseeable future?
Over simplistic perhaps, (I’m no fashionista) but how much further can we expect to go without a truly radical departure? It’s what on the inside that counts now, and how easy it is to drive.
And the new handset is promising that, with the open Android platform propping the door open for ideas to collide and merge. This has led to the Dext (or CLIQ, in North America) enjoying clever new “Motoblur” software, which synchronises content from apps and third parties.
A cultural openness means Motorola also critically appreciate enterprise solutions and mobile software providers, that less glamorous counterpart to sizzling consumer devices, applications and all that shouty hype.
Motorola’s MC9500 rugged mobile computer has been launched in Europe today to predictable fanfare claims that it IS the future: new capabilities such as modular 3.5G WAN, superior performance, state-of-the-art-design, a revolutionary backroom management system, and much MUCH more (reuters link). (Ok, a bit of shouty hype there too then).
Motorola MC9500 - sings, dances, looks funny
But by producing such transparently developed hardware, as well as embracing and partnering independent software vendors, Motorola demonstrate an open and deep commitment to innovative, multi-pronged progression.
Men in fleet vans across Britain who proffer clunky looking smart devices which record your meters, accept your signatures, take your money to cashpoints, track locations and transmit data back in forth: we may pass them by and crinkle our noses at their weirdly shaped, cumbersome looking bricks – but their blocks of technology can pack in much more than ours, and have significantly more value to their employers.
Motorola and a select few other device manufacturers realise this. That’s why they’re steadily creating formal partnerships with the specialist software vendors who create the bespoke programmes which sit on the hardware.
Just as operators have realised the power of the independent app developer in the consumer space, so device makers have become sensitive to those ostensibly tricky to decipher software houses which make unique mobility programs for industry.
Your handset makers and your operators want as much software and as many applications as possible. It all means data, GPRS, GPS, 3G, whichever: which means money.
Collaborating to innovate has never been as much of a necessity, or as transparently prioritised by the big name hitters as it is today. Motorola are back, speading their wings widely to make serious ground across different channels. For successful development and meaningful innovative progress, they just need everybody to hold hands with everybody else.
Motorola, Inc. today unveiled its first Android powered device in the UK, the Motorola DEXT with MOTOBLUR™, which will be ranged exclusively on the Orange network.
Motorola DEXT is the first phone with MOTOBLUR, the only solution to automatically organise and deliver your messages, your contacts and your favourite content – regardless of source – directly to your home screen in easy to manage streams.
Well yesterday Motorola took a giant, conceptual at least, grab at pulling themselves out of the grave the industry has dug for them.
Welcome the Motorola Cliq (known about the blogosphere as the Morrison).
First the specs:
T-Mobile USA will release it here in the states “this fall”
In fact it looks as if the phone will retail for $399 off contract, or FREE on a 2yr contract.
Full Touchscreen with FULL QWERTY side slider
3.2″ capcitive, GLASS, 320 x 480 pixel screen
Android 1.5 (Cupcake) with the MOTO Blur custom UI
5MP camera with auto-focus
3.5mm headset jack
MicroSD up to 32GB support
1420 mAh battery
Syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more—from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail™, work and personal e-mail, and LastFM
Five homescreen widgets to keep you always in-the-know: Happenings, Messages, Social Status, News Feeds, Calendar
MOTO Blur account allows you to back up your contacts/data, find a lost phone and easily integrate your existing contact info for friends/family/business
T-Mobile already has a promotional website up for the phone. On it you’ll find information and an interactive demo of the MOTOBlur UI. Click here for the fun.
Blur is Motorola’s custom UI, similar to HTC’s Sense UI, but it is also a service that allows users to pull all their social networking sites into one account. Blur features five home screens (please take note of this Google and include this in Donut or Eclair) and custom Motorola widgets. As noted, Blur is a system to take all your contacts from social sites and the phone book and keep them in one place, similar to WebOS’s “Synergy” system but then to take that social information from inside various, different apps and place it all out on the homescreens. The ideas, in concept, are great but the execution, as always, will be key here.
Also related, engadget.com has a nice comparison of all the Android devices on the market right now, check the link for the full story. However, the guts of the story is this; there is not a lot of difference between the phones in terms of hardware. In fact they all run the same processor. The minor differences are in the RAM (with the exception of the G1 they all have the same ROM), camera resolution and the headset jack. The differences really come down to the software and keyboard solutions.
Now some videos, courtesy of phonedog.com
I will say that T-Mobile has really gone for the kill shot in terms of Android. They are pushing three android phones, two of which are viable and exciting. I peronally like the myTouch. I’m hoping that Donut and Eclair will be bringing a lot of the features popping up in sens and Blur to the stock version of android. I do really wish T-Mobile had invested in the 288MB RAM version of the Magic/myTouch. All the new phones are sporting 256MB and it really shows. The 192MB on the myTouch isn’t a death blow by any means but why start out behind the curve.
The Cliq is shaping up to be a very nice device. This is what the G1 should have been, at least in terms of form factor, and we’ll see how well it sells. But if T-Mobile really offers the device for free on a new contract they may finally have a true and relevant iPhone competitor.
