T-Mobile Releases the Samsung SGH-t349

 

 

Interested with a slim mobile phone with a partial QWERTY keyboard?  You might want to check out the SGH-t349. Released through T-Mobile USA, the Samsung SGH-t349 sports a slim and compact form factor and a 20-key partial QWERTY keypad with predictive text and auto-word completion. Read more

T-Mobile Announces the Social Networking Phone - Sidekick LX

 

T-Mobile USA has just announced a new Sidekick phone dubbed Sidekick LX.  Sporting a sleek and trendy look, the Sidekick LX boasts of 3G connectivity and social networking features that supports direct access to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.  Yes, you read it right, the Sidekick LX has an integrated Twitter application.  You can imagine just how popular the Sidekick LX will be given the growing popularity of Twitter in the social networking industry.

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Five Mobile Phone Deals that Give You Free Phones

Who says you can’t own a phone during economic recession? Forget about the iPhone, Xperia X1, G1 or other high-end phones. You certainly don’t need to kinds  of deals. If you treat cellphones more as a necessity rather than a luxury, you’ll get by with these basic phones offered by top mobile carriers. Here are five of the best possible deals that you should consider from 5 of the top mobile carriers - T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Virgin Mobile. All phones are free, provided you sign a two year data plan depending on your need and capacity to pay.

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Samsung and T-Mobile Announce the 8-Megapixel Memoir Phone

Samsung and T-Mobile USA has just announced a new full touch-screen mobile phone called the Samsung Memoir. To be exclusively released by T-Mobile USA, the Samsung Memoir boasts of 8-Megapixel camera with Xenon Flash, 16x digital zoom and five shooting modes, enough to let you capture high-quality photos and videos, anytime, anywhere. Read more

T-Mobile Lets You Share Life’s Moment with the Shadow

T-Mobile has just made available the new T-Mobile Shadow all-in-one mobile device. The T-Mobile Shadow boasts of compact form factor and great features including support for T-Mobile Unlimited HotSpot Calling, fast processing power, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, and more. Available now under T-Mobile for $199.99 with 2-year service agreement, the T-Mobile Shadow will be available in White Mint and Black Burgundy. Read more

CES 2009 Mobile Phone Round Up: Nine New Phones Announced

The CES 2009 just ended and for the past couple of days we’ve seen many announcements regarding new gadget announcements coming up in 2009. Although most of the coverage that we’ve seen our mostly on new netbooks, notebooks and other electronic devices, there were also some big announcements for new mobile phones that we all should watch out for in the coming days. We’ve scoured through the various CES coverage from some of the most famous tech blogs and came out with this list of new cellphones that were announced during the just concluded CES 2009. Read more

Samsung Behold Arrives in T-Mobile USA

Samsung has started pushing its latest touch screen phone to US mobile users under T-Mobile USA - the Samsung Behold. The Samsung Behold is a slim touch screen mobile phone boasting of sleek design characterized by a brushed espressor or light rose finish. It provides high-speed connectivity and full HTML web browsing with support for direct uploading of images and videos while users are on the go.The Samsung Behold is a great mobile phone for mobile blogging, texting and chatting whereever you may be. It also supports microSD memory card for additional storage solution for your videos, images or music files. The Samsung Behold supports microSD card up to 16GB capacity. And why would you need extra storage expansion? For storing photos and videos that you will take and shoot using the Samsung Behold’s 5 megapixel camera/camcorder that even comes packed with a flash and auto-focus. These photos and videos display well on the phone’s 3-inch LCD color touch screen which also features haptic feedback mechanism.The Samsung Behold has tree dedicated keys for calling, ending a call and back to the main menu. For its touchscreen features, the Samsung Behold makes use of the TouchWiz user interface which offers simple drag and drop feature that lets users to have access to their favorite functions including clock, music player, instant messaging, photos and custom widget.The Samsung Behold is also a multimedia device that offers music and video player. It also has a built-in GPS, Bluetooth wireless technology, speakerphone and voice activated dialing. Other key features of the Samsung Behold include; advanced responsive touch screen, IM support for AOL, ICQ, Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger, virtual landscape QERTY touchpad. The Samsung Behold gives out 5 hours of talk time and up to 12 days of standby time. The Samsung Behold operates on 850MHz, 900Mhz, 1800MHz and 1900MHz frequency band. The phone is available now for $149.99 plus a two-year service agreement with T-Mobile.

G1 Phone Review Roundup

Next week will be the G1 week as the whole of the mobile phone community set their eyes on the release of the much anticipated G1 Android Phone comes into reality. It’s the first Google phone, so everybody is excited. Finally, an iPhone killer has arrived, and so some people say. But first things first, the G1 is not really a Google-manufactured phone, like the iPhone is a genuine Apple product. The first G1 mobile handset is actually an HTC mobile phone powered by Google’s Android mobile platform and will be released through T-Mobile network. But since Google is the more popular market brand, it is but fitting that people call the phone the Google Phone. The HTC-Google phone is just the first mobile phone which will have the Android as its OS. Who knows which other mobile phone manufacturers are going to join the bandwagon as soon as they’ve found out how successful or not the first Google Phone would be. The G1 is up for release on October 22. Words on the streets say that there were already 1.5 million pre-orders for the unit. If that figure is true, well the G1 might be on the road to success then.

While those who have pre-ordered the G1 awaits the shipment on October 22, some lucky tech geeks have already had their first taste of the G1 as early as last week. And the whole week, we’ve seen several of them writing out their initial impression of the Google phone. We’ve rounded some of these reviews of the Google Phone to help you gauge whether the Google phone is worthy of your money, is worthy of the monicker iPhone killer and is worthy of the attention that it is getting right now.

Om Malik  pointed out immediately that the G1 is certainly not an iPhone killer. The G1 lacks the sophistication of the iPhone touch screen features. But nonetheless he also pointed out that the G1 is certainly smartphone which fulfils what a mobile phone should do. Something which the iPhone failed to accomplis.

CrunchGear’s Peter Ha on the other hand was not very pleased with the Android as an OS and contends with the fact that the Android is still in beta stage. Hence, it is not yet a powerful and robust mobile phone OS. But he nonetheless pointed out that the G1’s hardware would have to be the one to pull off the success factor for the G1.

The Boy Genius Report wrote a very comprehensive review of the phone and pointed out that users will love the G1 for as long as they what it is. It is not a BlackBerry, nor a Sidekick but an adult Sidekick phone.

Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani also got her hands on the G1 and said that she will never trade her iPhone for the G1 for reasons such as; the device bulky form factor, T-Mobile’s 3G coverage in her area which renders the G1’s GPS utterly useless, the inability of the phone to handle multiple Google accounts. But she also praised the G1’s fast mobile web browser which is as robust as the iPhone’s Safari browser, the copy and paste functionality which we all missed on the iPhone and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Gizmodo also has a comprehensive review of the G1 and declared that it is not a finished product yet. He pointed out that there are only three working Google Apps so far – Gmail, Maps and Calendar. Bottomline is, according to Gizmodo, still depends on users’ preferences. The phone is definitely better than other smartphones available in the market today. Hopefully more Google apps will be ported as well as more third-party apps will be developed.

Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital thinks that the G1 is a very good first effort and a godsent for people who prefer physical keyboard. He also pointed out the inferiority of the G1’s user interface as copared to the iPhone, particularly the lack of ability to flick between multiple pictures and web pages or to zoom in and zoom out of a photo or web page.

Suzanne Choney of MSNBC immediately noticed the striking resemblance of the G1 with that of the iPhone particulary the black-slab form factor. But she pointed out that Google has done a good job of making the phone one of the easier-to-maneuver touchscreen smartphones, thanks to the Google Android platform. She thinks that the G1 is not as fluid and simple to use as the iPhone but it will be a popular alternative for those who don’t like the iPhone or AT&T as their wireless carrier.

Five Touchscreen Alternatives to the iPhone

Looking for a touchscreen mobile handset that you can match up to your friend’s iPhone 3G? Apple’s marketing strategy not your cup of tea and you don’t see yourself getting an iPhone? Here are five alternatives that you may want to get instead of the iPhone 3G. All mobile handsets touts touchscreen UI which could or could not match up the iPhone’s seamless and fluid touchscreen features. Bottomline still is, choose the handset that best suits your need, aside from the fact that you so wanted to own a touchscreen mobile phone by now.

Nokia 5800 - Nokia’s entry into the touchscreen mobile arena is by way of a music phone - the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The 5800 is the first among Nokia’s mobile handset to run on the S60 software which makes the touch screen interface of the phone possible. Although not as 100% touchscreen as the iPhone, Nokia puts the touchscreen feature on where it matters especially for a music phone such as the 5800. The phone’s Contacts Bar, Media Bar and other shortcuts were all made accessible through a single tap of the user’s finger. The Nokia 5800’s features include; a 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 3.2-inch widescree display with a 16 by 9 aspect ratio, VGA video capture and playback, support for 60 languages and more.

LG Renoir - LG’s recently announced Renoir or what was previously known as the LG-KC910 supports full touchscreen interface. This 8MP multimedia phone is a slim yet feature-rich mobile phone. Although, LG is not marketing the Renoir as a direct competitor of the iPhone, still it’s inevitable that this two mobile phones will be compared. For one, the LG Renoir features full touchscreen menu control complemented by Wi-Fi connectivity, Dolby Surround Sound, A-GPS and a unique one-touch camera feature. The Renoir offers users two input interfaces when using the text messaging features of the Renoir, that is either through an onscreen QWERTY keypad or the standard mobile phone keypad.

Samsung Pixon - Samsung’s soon to be released Pixon mobile phone may not be actually attacking the iPhone but the LG Renoir instead. Like the Renoir, the Samsung Pixon also features a powerful 8MP camera aside from a 3.2-inch full-touch screen and an integrated Photo Browser. The Samsung Pixon is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE Quad Band mobile phone that works on 850/900/1800/1900 MHz. It runs on 3G or HSDPA 7.2mpbs. The phone’s 8MP camera also features a dual LED flash, advance shake reduction, wide dynamic range plus more standard digital camera features. It also features video recording and playback function a 30fps., face detection, face link, geotagging photos, microSD support and a surround sound system.

Sony Ericsson Xperia – If it’s from Sony, it must be good. And I can personally attest to that having used various Sony Ericsson mobile phone before. The Xperia could perhaps be among the highly anticipated mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. The latest we hear is that the Xperia was just given with a seal of approval by the FCC regulators. The X1 features a full QWERTY keyboard, runs on Windows Mobile 6 operating systems, a 3-inch wide VGA (800×480) touchscreen display, a 3.2-megapixel camera with photo light, A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, Wi-Fi, and microSD support, internal 400MB memory. The Xperia X1 is a quad-band GSM/EDGE, and 900/1700/1900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (or 850/1700/1900/2100MHz phone. Navigation is accomplished via touch, arc-sliding QWERTY, 4-way key and optical joystick.

Google G1 Phone – Aside from the Xperia, another highly anticipated mobile phone to arrive in the market is of course none other than the Google Phone or the G1. Although this phone is not really manufactured by Google per se, but is actually an HTC phone, the fact that it bears the Google seal makes it an exciting phone to watch out for. When it was officially announced last Sept. 23, and a pre-order site was put up by T-Mobile, its official mobile carrier, T-Mobile got tons of pre-orders that the projected units almost run out even before its release. So, what makes the G1 so hot-selling even on its pre-selling stage? The G1 features a 3.17-inch 65K color touchscreen with HVGA (480×320) resolution, it gives out 5 hours talk time and 130 hours of standby time, a 3.1 megapixel camera, comes with with a 1GB microSD card and can support up to 16GB, expectedly GPS via Google Maps. And that pretty much sums up the G1 major features. It’s a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi and UMTS/HSDPA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz phone that would have a similar application store called the Android market as well as the Amazon MP3 store for music downloading functionality.

Everything You Need to Know About the G1 – Google Phone

September 23 was G1 day. The much awaited and highly anticipated Google-Powered Phone, Google Phone, Google Android Phone or whatever you may want to call it was finally announced by Google, T-Mobile and HTC. It made three major companies to make it happen, T-Mobile, HTC and Google joined forces to bring what people are calling the iPhone killer. But does it really match up to Apple’s very popular and widely used iPhone 3G? For those who are planning to take the G1 plunge, here is possibly everything that you need to know about the G1.
Feature Highlights – Of course, if you are looking into an iPhone killer, first feature that you will have to look into is whether the phone supports touchscreen. Well, the G1 certainly does. The G1 offers instant access to key information with the mere touch of a finger. Just tap the screen and you’re good to go. Next up, mobile browsing capability. The Google Phone offers quick and easy access to the Internet with rich web content. Then we have the camera features, in this department the G1 beats the iPhone 3G with its 3MP camera as compared to the iPhone’s 2MP. Even sweeter is the built-in auto-focus feature of its camera. The G1 also boasts of customizable home screen where you can drag and drop any of your favorite applications, photos, or folders onto your home screen for quick access to your frequently used applications. Want more features? The G1 seems won’t run out of good features to boasts of. It also has a full QWERTY keyboard, one feature which the iPhone certainly doesn’t have. The G1’s keyboard is well placed in a hinged screen slides which you can just slide close to avoid accidental dialling. Then of course, this is a Google Phone, so it must have full access to various Google applications. And it does, in fact users can easily access this Google applications through one-touch h control. These applications include Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, one-click Google Search and Video Playback support. Other features of the G1 include; IM/Text/Email feature, Music player, 3G network and WiFi access.

The Android Market – The next important feature of the G1 which would certainly match up to the iPhone is of course the Android Market or the G1’s iTunes, where users can have access to third party applications developed specifically for the G1. The G1 Android Market offers one touch access, customize and personalization of the device with software applications such as games, social networking and on-the-go shopping. Of course the G1 comes preloaded with free applications to although these applications are nothing to brag about. We still have to wait and see if third party applications for the G1 would be as useful or not as useful as the iPhone applications.
The T-Mobile Deal – As the G1 is exclusively distributed by T-Mobile, the phone carrier is offering the G1 for $179 with a two-year service contract. T-Mobile is making the G1 available on October 22 with $25 dollar data option for 400messages/web, 35 dollar option for unlimited web/messaging.

Full Specs and Details:

• Qualcomm MSM7201A™, 528 MHz Processor
• Android OS
• 192MB RAM
• 158 grams
• 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution
• HSDPA/WCDMA Network – Europe 2100 MHz, US 1700/2100 MHz, Up to 7.2mbps down-link (HSDPA) and 2 mbps up-link (HSUPA) speeds;
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Trackball with Enter button device control
• Slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard
• GPS navigation capability with built-in GPS receiver and map software
• Bluetooth2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
• 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus
• Built-in microphone and speaker
• Ring tone formats: AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, MIDI, MP3, WMA, WMV, 40 polyphonic and standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI
• Up to 350 minutes talk time for WCDMA,406 minutes talk time for GSM; Standby time up to 402 hours for WCDMA and up to 319 hours for GSM
• MicroSD memory card support;
• Digital Compass and motion sensor as special features.

T-Mobile has already started accepting pre-orders for the G1 phone, although as of press date, virtually the projected stocks are already depleted even before the G1 phone is released. That only goes to show how highly anticipated the G1 phone is.

The success of the G1 phone still remains to be seen though. If third party developers would enter into the Android market, then the iTunes apps store might be in trouble. And there is also news of other mobile manufacturers who might come up with their own Google Android power mobile handset in the future. Hence Apple is up with not just the HTC-branded G1 phone but soon, other mobile handsets from other mobile phone manufacturers ahead.

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