Stone mocking iPhone 3G, nice one!
Should you really spend so much money for a color display? Just kiddin’ :)
Free BlackBerry Storm, aka Thunder
Most Beautiful Concept Phone Ever, by Fujitsu
In my opinion this is the coolest phone I would even hold in hand if it will go out of concept tag. You may think that there are 3 different phone from the same series, bu no, it’s all one phone. Consists of 2 parts, connected by magnets, you can do a flipphone, slider, or Tony Stark’s phone with it. First part with colored touchscreen display, camera and other stuff like accelerometer, second part is for connection, all the antennas in it and so on, probably is not colored, or colored in few colors wich you may configure. Damn this phone is very beautiful, but how you will feel then you will take only 1 part of the phone outta your pocket?
T-Mobile G1, First Android phone released today!
First of all, this is HTC Dream, with Android OS. This won’t be the only manufacturer who will provide phones with Android, I’d like to see Nokia, but they have plans on buying PalmOS and making it Open Source, which will make Android their competitor. Well enough chit-chat, lets see what’s inside this thingy.
In stores October 22nd, with a price tag of $179, I think they wanted to make it $199, but you know we already have a phone with this price that is even hippier than this one, so they made a little cut :)
The features of the software, muti-touch screen, Application Market, and other stuff, gives me the right to call it iPhone competitor, and other phones that are. So I will compare it with it.
Smaller screen of 3,17″ but bigger resolution 480×320. Screen runs in HVGA.
Battery life supports 5 hours of talk time and 130 hours of standby, well they all say the best results, but it’s just like iPhones. Camera is 3.1 MP, camera software looks better also.
Has Wi-Fi, GPS, EDGE. (No evidence of 3G to me, sorry)
Android is Google masterpiece, so it has everything Google is about. Maps software is very good, and unique, StreetView with compass feature, very impressive and interesting! Oh and YouTube.
“Great” music player, Mp3 purchases and downloads over Amazon’s MP3 store.
And it has full QWERTY keyboard. The screen slides to the side.
Well It may not be most beautiful phone out there, but it’s certainly very good, and in many points innovative device.
iPhone 3G to hit Best Buy today!
Today, Sept 7th, Sunday, iPhone 3G is available on Best Buy, for the same price as in AT&T and Apple Stores, $199 and $299. Not much to say about this, only that you should remember that Best Buy is first official independent retailer of iPhones in US.
Prada II Specs
Successor of highly anticipated gilr and metro-sexual phone is coming, you like it or not, and recently Boy Genious posted all-leaked specifications of this phone, here you go:
• Quad-band GSM/EDGE, dual-band HSDPA (850MHz/2100MHz)
• 950mAh battery
• 240×400 3.0-inch screen
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash and VGA recording
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Wi-Fi b,g
• Infineon MP-EH + M180 chipset
• Motion sensor
• FM Radio
• 104.5 x 54 x 16.8 mm
Specs are pretty much killer, for this phone, FM radio and motion sensor, as long as with ful qwerty keyboard will make it hell of phone, but it’s still PRADA…
Shiny Fruit on the back of your iPhone?
This video of modded rear-shell of iPhone is pretty convicting, russian modders made Apple Logo at the back of iPhone shine just like on MacBooks. It’s very interestin how this affects battery and is it made with leds or using phone’s own screen backlid. They are saying brightness is controllable in settings. Very nice, but it’s kinda passe considering alot of people are switching over to 3G version of the phone with plastic back.
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Personal Experience with iPhone 2.0 Firmware. Good
It’s been almost a month since I updated my iPhone to 2.0 firmware and jailbroken it. Broken with pwnage tool 2, the breaking process was quite easy, as I figured it out in the end. With default pwnage setting I got Cydia, it’s an Installer competitor. As I figured out Cydia is more user and developer (also hacker) friendly.
My 1.1.4 firmware iPhone was broken with ziPhone, and I have to say to you, after I upgraded to 2.0, my battery life was twice better as it used to be before. Maybe it’s the ziPhone breakage sucks, or apple did so much optimization that OS now consumes less battery, I don’t know, but the end result is still very good, I have the same battery life as it was when I first got my iPhone. Impressive.
Favorite Apps so far:
- Trism - Very nice “puzzle” app, I played the demoon 1.1.4, so i decided to buy the full version now, pretty good game, with 3 different gaming modes it makes the game even better. Best game you can get on the iPhone, and only on iPhone, because it uses touchscreen and accelerometer. There is a luck factor in the game but still, for $4.99 it’s very good game, I would even pay twice as that for it!
- Cube Runner - A free game, navigate your “ship” through randomly placed cubes and labyrinths using accelerometer. Pretty good game, it’s a pity it’s free, but I’m sure developer must be putting an effort in the paid version. As it is free, the graphics are lousy and there are only 3 levels, but you can make your own if you know how to program them.
- GTS World Racing - Car racing game, pretty classic ones, good, not great graphics. I really like the control, you steer, accelerate and break by tilting the phone. 4 play modes, I’m still completing the Challenge Cup, since you can only play this game while sitting still, I like to play games while I’m in the process of lying on the bed. So, for $7.99, quite a time killer, but price should be a little lower in my opition, I still don’t regret.
- Light - a free light app that makes your screen completely white + maximum brightness. There are so many apps like that in App Store, I prefer this one because it’s free and is controllable through Setting, not itself. I don’t need this control but it’s better when you screen is solid white :)
- Remote - a remote controller of iTunes application on your Mac or PC with your iphone, very good, I bet you already heard of it. Free, published by Apple.
- Eventful - keep informed about events in your area, demand artists to your town, see your what events your friend are going to visit and more. It’s actually a client app for website www.eventful.com, I like it. There is also an alternative app by Yellow Pages, YPMobile app, Events tab. Eventful is Free.
- midomi - Song recognition application, works pretty well for me, now I’m out of songs I know that don’t have a name for me. Free
I’m looking forward to buy MobileFinder, Super Monkey Ball, BeatMaker and some more racing games, maybe also a puzzle game.
What I have to add is that App Store is a big success for Apple, bringing applications right to the user. Apple recently confirmed App Store brought them $30 million and 60 million apps downloaded. Knowing Apple gets 30% of an Application price, it’s $100 million paid for 60 million apps, as long as most apps are free, and other are more than $1,7 I’m not afraid to tell that free apps are most commenly used (who woulda thought? :)
Apple iPhone 3G Finally Here, Reviewed.
Guys at Gizmodo already reviewed new wonder-phone the iPhone 3G. Well, what can i say, there is an interesting 3G vs EDGE comparison graph. The tests say 3G is 4.8 times faster, but at the end, we all now the only that matters is how fast we will be able to open google.com and search results there. So on website lovelyplanet.com 3G hit 2.6 times faster, and nationalgeographic.com only 1.9 times faster, well, better anyways.
The new casing. Well, my opinion, while it looks and “feels” better than the previous aluminum one, you have to admin it, it is also cheaper, and gets warmer faster and keeps the warmth longer. What’s the deal you’ll say? The thing is that warm is the worst thing to the battery, thats why you shall never leave your phone or other battery-powered gadgets on the sun or in hot places.
Good part everybody already know, the headphone jack is not recessed. Camera is the same.
Motozine ZN5 Camera Phone Released.
Motorola has announced their new partner project with Kodak, Motozine ZN5. It’s a 5 megapixel camera phone. The phone is round-shaped and feels good in the hand. Pretty decent phone. Xenon flash. Will hit Chine in July, and the rest of the world by the end of 2008. And some specs:
- Storage: 400 Mb of user memory
- Screen: 2.4”, 240×320, 262K colors
- Connectivity: USB2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (A2DP supported), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g