UK Mobile Phone Blog has a glowing three part review of Nokia’s latest N97. In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 the phone seems to really hit a note with the reviewer, however I cannot help but think that the blog will also sell you the phone and it would be in their best interest to hype the device up. There is no mention of the processor issue, seems illogical to leave it out…
O2 is set to follow up its success with the iPhone in the UK by grabbing an exclusive deal to stock the device that gadget fans reckon is the closest thing to a real competitor to the Apple device, the Palm Pre.
The UK’s largest mobile phone operator, with more than 20 million customers, is understood to have seen off fierce competition for the new handset from Vodafone and Orange, and it will be available in the UK in time for the crucial Christmas period.
For O2, who refused to comment, getting the Palm Pre will add another must-have gadget at a time when Apple is expected to open up the iPhone to other operators in the original four markets – the US, UK, France and Germany – where it initially opted for exclusive deals.
French carrier Bouygues Telecom have revealed that they will be offering the Samsung I7500 in early July, with a new name: the Samsung Galaxy. Still bearing the 3.2-inch AMOLED 320 x 480 touchscreen display that makes it so unique, the Galaxy will offer HSDPA 7.2Mbps/HSUPA 5.76Mbps (900/1700/2100MHz) and quadband GSM.
We reported a couple of days ago that there might be a shortage of Palm Pre units once it goes on retail next month. The exact figure of 200K units mentioned isn’t by any stretch official, but it’s enough to really get us worried over its availability in the first couple of months when it hits the market. With many anticipating the Palm Pre’s release next month, it would be a shame if both Palm and Sprint can’t cope up with the demand for this next-generation smartphone. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case with all these Palm Pre shortage rumours floating around.
Put your hand up if you would like to be in with a chance to win one of the latest handsets offered by HTC. There are just a few days remaining in our eXpansys Diamond2 competition so make sure you enter before it’s too late!
OK you can out your hand down now. Thanks to our friends over at eXpansys we can offer you that chance. Not content with giving away a Nokia E63 (competition winner to be announced), eXpansys have given us an HTC Touch Diamond 2 worth £484.99 to give away.
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is answer this question: What size screen does the Touch Diamond2 have?
Entries can only be entered via the eXpansys competition site so please don’t send us the answers or you may miss out on a chance of winning.
The closing date for entries is midnight on Sunday 31st May 2009 so get looking through our previous posts about this handset and you will find the answer.
Posted by: John
This app is rudimentary and annoyingly primitive, but it works! You can doodle stuff and tweet it immediately to Twitter (with doodles being uploaded to Twitpic service). It is however free so nobody should complain…
Here is how it looks like:
Sound quality, ease of use, capacity and size are all attributes that you would consider when buying an MP3 player. It seems from previous posts from my fellow reviewers that SanDisk’s Sansa range have been a hit and match up to these attributes.
The SanDisk Sansa ExpressThrough this review we will see if Sandisk have done it again and brought out yet another impressive MP3 player with the Sansa Express – or have they dropped their standards?
What’s in the Box:
For more info check out Matt’s unboxing video
SanDisk Sansa Express specification:
General:
Front – The four line OLEB display can bee seen in this picture. There is also the playback controls which act as a navigation D-pad when in the menus
SanDisk Sansa Express – front view
Bottom – the volume buttons are located here.
SanDisk Sansa Express – bottom view
Top – The power button and hold/lock switch can be seen here.
SanDisk Sansa Express – top view
Left – The USB connection is located on this side and it covered by the cap shown here. The lanyard attaches to the cap.
SanDisk Sansa Express – left view
Right – The microphone, 3.5mm headphone socket, space for MicroSD card (up to 8GB)
SanDisk Sansa Express – right view
Highlights:
Lowlights:
Review:
SanDisk’s Sansa Express is a very affordable MP3 player. Now, normally you can following the saying, “You get what you pay for”, but not in this case. The Sansa Express looks like it would be more expensive – a great looking gadget!
The OLED display is completely flush to front of the MP3 player which really adds to the look and the minimalist buttons make it quite stylish.
Matt mentioned on the unboxing video that the lanyard is made of wire (like earphone wire) and with the way it is packaged its all creased up. It’s actually not a problem though as although the player is very lightweight it is still heavy enough that the lanyard straightens out no problem. The earphones on the other hand. the wire on these don’t straighten out as easily. But I wasn’t bothered as I didn’t really use them that much. I’ll explain why later.
This model is only 1GB but it’s actually enough space to fit up to 250 songs (based on 4mb files). You can also expand the memory by using a MicroSD card. It will take up to an 8GB card which will give you loads of space.
The functions on the Sansa Express are pretty basic and you can’t expect fancy graphics such as album art as the OLED screen is only dual colour and has 4 lines for text. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The details on the display are clear and tell you what you need to know.
Transferring music from a pc to the Sansa Express is extremely easy and the menu on the player is simple to navigate through.
It offers an FM radio which you can actually record. I found this a really good idea and quite handy. You can also preset up to 20 stations. There is also an inbuilt microphone which you can use for voice recording. I played about with the FM recorder and voice recorder which worked nicely. The only thing is that you can only delete the files by connecting it to a pc.
You can create an on-the-go playlist so you can sort out the songs you really want to hear. You can create the playlist on the player itself or plug it into a pc and sort the files that way.
The Sansa Express offers a variety of EQ settings (normal, pop, rock, jazz, classical, and custom). The sound quality of the earphones sounded ok to me at first, but then I tried my own ones. This made me realise that the Sansa earphones’ quality actually wasn’t that great. It wasn’t terrible and I could live with them, but using higher quality earphones shows the high sound quality that the Sansa Express offers.
The battery life on this player is brilliant! This is probably due to the fact that the Sansa Express doesn’t offer a very fancy graphics heavy display to I guess it’s a nice compromise.
Conclusion:
This is a great MP3 player, and the price of it makes it that bit better. It’s stylish, lightweight, easy to use and you can have up to a total of 9GB of space (8GB MicroSD card + 1GB internal memory).
You may want to use your own set of earphones as the bundled ones don’t really do the player justice.
In general, the Sansa Express is another hit for SanDisk.
Reviewed by: Emma
We love guest reviews here at Mobile Tech Addicts, especially when they come as good as this one. If your in the market for an external battery power source that can handle just about every device you throw at it you must check out this review. Thanks Ian for sharing this:-
If you’re reading this, chances are you own at least one bit of kit that relies on battery power (and we’re not talking Duracells either!). Whether it’s your mobile phone, your MP3 player, digital camera, video camera, laptop or netbook, everything we use regularly needs the juice, and with devices like netbooks and the iPhone being used on an ever increasing basis, more and more of us are having to organise our daily routines with our technology over one thing: where can I get power?
We are traversing, every single day, the latest additions to app store so that you don’t have to. Some of the new apps are simply vomit inducing, some others are so trivial that one wonders why would anybody even consider doing something so primitive. One of the recently released apps that stands out in functionality is OffMaps. Since most travellers who own an iPhone clearly own one of the flat rate data plans (tariffs), so data connection fees are not an issue…. as long as you don’t travel abroad where huge international roaming fees are being incurred. Particularly in Europe where a flight across the continent costs less than a ride by taxi to another city district, this issue is important. And here comes the OffMaps to the rescue that allows you to download maps before travelling! What a brill idea, innit!?
The holy grail of mapping applications has arrived to iPhone! It’s cheap, it’s offline, it works.
Here is how this app looks like:
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