Sony Ericsson Hazel Mobile Phone
January 18, 2010
Here we have Sony Ericsson Hazel to ’smile for a while’! As Elm, this is another recently launched green mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. More or less similar to Elm, Hazel comes with a dimension of 102 X 49.5 X 16mm and weighs around 120 grams. This quad band GSM mobile phone uses EDGE and GPRS for data services. It is equipped with a 240 X 320 pixels display that supports 16K colours.
Sony Ericsson Hazel GSM Mobile Phone has a 5 mega pixels camera with auto focus and digital zoom facility. Some settings such as face detection, smile detection and photo fix will enable the user to capture good quality pictures. Videos can be also captured with it. Other features such as geo-tagging and photo feeds are available in Hazel. You can take direct print of the images or transfer the videos easily to your PC, using Hazel’s PictBridge and USB support.
There is a smart media player in Sony Ericsson Hazel 5MP Camera Mobile Phone. It can play back music files in several formats. Music recognition features including Track ID, SensMe, Play Now and more are featured in it, to grant the user with the ultimate music experience. For surfing purpose, Hazel comes with Access NetFront Web browser. There is Google search enabled in it. You can easily access web feeds or social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. 3D games, FM radio with RDS facility, video streaming, Walk Mate and You Tube are the other entertainment facilities available in Sony Ericsson Hazel Phone.
Furthermore, there is an assisted GPS function in Hazel Green mobile phone. The location based services enable you to find the way to his destination easily. This mobile phone supports e-mail, multimedia, instant and text messaging services. The predictive t9 input of the text helps the user to enter the messages faster and accurate. There is bluetooth and speaker phone for handsfree calling. The organizer feature of the phone with alarm clock, calculator, currency converter, stop watch, notes and so on will allow you to manage your mundane things efficiently.
Over to this GPS Phone’s memory, there is 280MB on-board and a microSD card slot for further expansion. You can expand this up to 16GB using memory card. The battery time depends on the network and settings you use. But to say, on GSM network, the battery of Hazel will grant you a 10 hours talk time and 430 stand by time, which is quite longer when compared to similar phones in the market. If you are a person who consider living greener, you can definitely grab one soon!
Sony Ericsson Elm Mobile Phone
January 17, 2010
Sony Ericsson announced a few green phones last December and one among them is Sony Ericsson Elm Mobile Phone. The company claims this mobile phone to benefit the environment through recycled plastics, low power consumptions, green calculator, water borne paint, walk mate eco-applications and hazardous-free chemicals. With this Elm mobile phone, Sony Ericsson has taken a huge leap towards its mission to make its accessories 100% GreenHeart compliant by 2011.
Sony Ericsson Elm Green Mobile Phone comes with a dimension of 110mm X 45mm X 14mm and a weight of 90 grams. Its sleek design with a curve at the back side, makes it handy. This mobile handset has a 2.2 inches display of 240 X 320 pixels resolution. The support for 262K colours enables it to offer you a decent picture, video and text display. This Sony Ericsson mobile phone operates at quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS HSPA 900/2100 networks. It supports EDGE and GPRS for data services.
Sony Ericsson Elm GSM Mobile Phone has a 5 mega pixels camera, with auto focus and 4X digital zoom. Some technologies and settings are incorporated into this camera mobile phone to obtain an optimum image result. Notably, it has a face detection technology, by which this GSM phone automatically sets its focus on the faces in the subject. Another feature is the photo fix, which adjusts the light balance and contrast of the captured pictures. There is an in-built flash for this mobile handset that enables you to take good quality pictures in low light conditions. Besides, geo-tagging, smile detection technology, video recording, direct to web and photo feeds are available as well.
There is an assisted-GPS in Sony Ericsson Elm 5MP Camera Mobile Phone, so that you can find your destination easily using its location based services such as Wisepilots and Google Maps. The widget manager of the phone allows you to toggle between the different application widgets easily. With Facebook integration, Sony Ericsson Elm makes it easily to stay in touch with your friends. Any updates can be done directly from the phone itself. Furthermore, there is Google search enabled in it.
Sony Ericsson Elm has some integrated entertainment features in it. There is a media player with features such as TrackID, album art, sense me and Play Now, an FM radio with RDS application, 3D games, Java, Tracker, Walk mate, You tube and video streaming in it.
Sony Ericsson Elm comes with bluetooth, USB, Wi-Fi and PictBridge connectivity. You can have video calls using its camera and its in-built speakerphone. The support for text, multimedia, e-mail and instant messaging services make Elm a good messaging phone as well. The predictive T9 dictionary allows you for an accurate and fast input of messages. With its organizer, you can easily manage your mundane things.
The battery of Sony Ericsson Elm offers an attractive 10 hours GSM talk time and 430 hours GSM stand by time. But under 3G, it can stand only for 4 hours of talk time and 446 hours of stand by time. Regarding its memory, Elm has 280MB on-board memory. This can be expanded to 16GB using a microSD card.
Palm Pre Plus Smartphone
January 16, 2010
Palm Pre was one of the hottest selling mobile phones of 2009. Many of the mobile phone enthusiasts reviewed it as a bold competitor for Apple iPhone. Now Palm is once again in the arena with Palm Pre’s modified edition, Palm Pre Plus. It was showcased at the latest CES 2010. This advanced version scores with double the memory of its original. Its numerous applications that run on Palm’s WebOS operating system can definitely offer the user with the simplest, yet functional performance.
Palm Pre Plus has not changed much from its predecessor in terms of design and it employs the same 3.1 inches multi-touch screen display of 320 X 480 pixels. It measures 59.5mm wide, 100.5mm high, 16.95mm thick and weighs around 138.5 grams. The slide-out touch QWERTY keyboard aids you to enter the texts easily. And of more interest, Palm Pre Plus is Touchstone charging compatible. The touchstone technology not only aids you to charge the mobile phone, but you can also watch videos or make hands-free calls, while docked on the touchstone. This requires a touchstone back cover and a charging dock (both are sold separately).
The focal point in Palm Pre Plus Touch Screen Mobile Phone is its operating system, Palm WebOS. Grouping multiple applications together at one place is the main asset of this operating system. It gathers contacts and calendar information from places such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and so on, and display them together. It synchronizes the contacts of the same person from various accounts. Besides, search, updates or notifications can be handled easily with this operating system.
Palm Pre Plus comes equipped with a 3 mega pixels camera with LED flash. The extended depth-of-field offered allows the user to capture pictures with good wide angle view. Moreover, geo-tagging is possible in it. This lets the user to mark the location of the still photograph, from where it has taken. Palm Pre Plus has a media player capable to play back files in MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, AMR, eAAC+ and QCELP formats. It can play back videos in MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 formats as well. The 3.5mm stereo headphone jack provides a crisp and clear audio quality. There is a built-in GPS in Palm Pre Plus to guide you to the destination.
Palm Pre Plus 3MP Camera Mobile Phone has a good user memory of 16GB available for storage. You can extend this further using a memory card. Regarding the connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi, bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB. The battery life of Palm Pre Plus stands for a talk-time of 5.5 hours or for a stand by time of 350 hours. Currently, Palm Pre Plus works on CDMA network and ready for its launch on January 25th on Verizon Wireless network. But for sure, it will head to UK soon.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android Smartphone
January 13, 2010
With Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson too has branched out into the android territory. Xperia X10 has a few superior features, ample to make it a potential player in the android battle field. Sony Ericsson’s First Google android phone has a huge 4 inches display, a powerful Snapdragon processor, an 8.1MP camera, and a plenty to offer for social networking maniacs. Let us have a closer look to this ’smart’-phone.
You will be pleased with the overall size of Xperia X10. It has a dimension of 119mm X 63mm X 13mm and weighs around 135 grams. This size makes it compact and light-weight to carry. Besides, the design is clean and simple in its look. The screen is the initial highlight of this Google android 1.6 mobile phone. The 4 inches display has an amazing resolution of 480 X 854 pixels, which is larger than Apple iPhone, but equal to Motorola Droid.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 4 inches Display Smartphone works on Snapdragon Processor that assures you with zero lag, while running the applications. It supports quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS HSPA 1900/2100 networks, with an extended support for GPRS and EDGE for data services. This HSPA compatibility provides you with broadband-like speed on your mobile phone, and allows you to download large files and e-mail at a snap.
There is a Timescape feature employed in Xperia X10. This brings all your communications including Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, photos and text messages gathered at one place. So the need to open different applications for each never arise. Another feature is the Mediascape, with which all your music, photos and videos are stored in one place. With its A-GPS function, you can find your way. The location based functions such as Google maps, Wisepilots and even geo-tagging, by which you can tag your photos to location can help you in this. The ActiveSync feature of Xperia X10 allows you to sync your mobile handset with e-mail set-ups, Microsoft Exchange etcetera.
The camera employed in Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has a resolution of 8.1 mega pixels. There is an auto focus, a 16X digital zoom and a flash, for the precise capture of shots. Additional features such as face recognition, image stabilization and smile detection technology are available as well. As we said earlier, the captured shots can be tagged with the information on where it has taken. Moreover, you can send the pictures straight on to the websites or the blogs. The video recording enables you to shoot videos.
There is an impressive list of entertainment facilities incorporated into Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 8.1MP Camera Mobile Phone. You have media player with PlayNow and TrackID, 3D games, video streaming, You Tube and many more. Over to the messaging features of Xperia X10; it supports text, MMS and e-mail. The predictive text input aids you in fast text entry. Even though there is no physical QWERTY keyboard, there is a virtual one.
Furthermore, you have bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, organiser, album art, music tone and many more. You can customize the phone with app from android market. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 handset that comes in black or white colour has an on-board memory of 1GB, which can be expanded to 16GB using a microSD memory card. An 8GB card is included in its sales package. The battery life is said to vary according to the network and the phone usage. Let us wait for its release to see its performance further. But with these many specifications, its future is found to be luminous.
Google Nexus One-the Best Android Phone Yet
January 9, 2010
Google Nexus One has finally launched! Being the first mobile phone from the search engine giant, the avidity it created was not small. The tech-world was chasing it like a cheetah ruthlessly all through its race into the world of communication, and ultimately Google themselves surrendered Nexus One before a press event at its California headquarters on January 5th 2010. Google introduced its flagship mobile phone as a “superphone” and “the place where web meets phone”. Since Google Nexus One has entered the battle field to quash the established smartphones of the market, let us glance through the features that make Google Nexus One a powerful warrior.
The greatest triumph of Google Nexus One is its dynamic Snapdragon Qualcomm QSD 8230 1GHz processor. This facilitates the fast loading of all applications and no lag is met during your navigation through the phone. Perhaps, it will not be an exaggeration, if you call Google Nexus One as the fastest Android phone ever launched. The operating system employed in it is Android 2.1 and it provides you with five home screens, Google Maps navigation, Facebook integration, Google Earth (not available now, but will be added), voice-enabled text messages, new 3D networks and many more. There are some novelties in the menu system such as rolling effects of icons, grid design instead of the usual menu tab, dots on the sides of the touch control and so on.
Google Nexus One Android Smartphone comes in a candybar design with a stunning AMOLED display of size 3.7 inches. With a resolution of 800 X 480 pixels, the graphics, images and texts are displayed gorgeously. It has a dimension of 119mm X 59.8mm X 11.5mm and weighs around 130 grams with battery. The contacts can be stored with multiple information about the person including address, e-mail, designation and so on. These will get automatically synchronized with the G-mail account. There is an internal memory of 512MB and an external memory of 4GB that could be expanded to 32GB using card. Support for popular e-mail accounts, automatic calendar synchronization and the voice commands are the other assets with Nexus One. The voice commands allows you to perform a variety of function including dialling, updating face book page, composing text message and searching. The speaker of Nexus One is impressive.
Furthermore, Google Nexus One has a 5 mega pixels camera with auto focus and LED flash. It can capture videos as well, at a rate of 20fps. The users can include location of photos from AGPS receiver. Regarding its network, it is quad-band GSM with EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA support. There is Wi-Fi and bluetooth connectivity as well. The battery of Google Nexus One offers a whopping talk time of 10 hours on 2G and 7 hours on 3G. It provides an internet usage time of up to 5 hours on 3G and 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi. The stand by time is around 290 hours on 2G and 250 hours on 3G.
Overall, Google Nexus One comes not only with the best features, but also with the best performance. Undoubtedly, it is one of the best Android phone yet.
