Phones

Palm, Inc. and Cingular Wireless today announced the first Palm Treo smart device running on Cingular’s 3G/UMTS network, providing mobile professionals with an exceptional phone experience and blazing-fast download speeds in U.S. markets and in dozens of countries around the world. The highly anticipated Treo 750 five-band world phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology offers Palm’s exclusive usability improvements with powerful business features, including email, security, and web access on the go.

The Treo 750 combines the Palm experience of a multifunction mobile phone with email, messaging, web browsing, organization software and a robust application portfolio with Cingular’s next-generation 3G network. Its new compact design features an internal antenna, soft-touch finish, and contoured edges to make it comfortable in the hand. The Treo 750 also has a full QWERTY keyboard for easy messaging, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a bright 240×240 touch screen and support for Bluetooth(R) stereo headsets. The built-in 60MB of user-available storage can be enhanced by using the miniSD slot to add memory cards of up to 2GB, which are great for storing data, photos, music and video.

Matt

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Another day, another set of Eten device variants!

A couple of days ago Pharos announced their Eten X500 based ‘GPS Phone’ device and today we have just heard that the little known, San Diego-based izenMobile is introducing its 2007 phones at CES: the KRMA (Eten X500) and the KSMT (Eten M700).

Press Release:

izenMobile(TM), a San Diego-based converged device company, is introducing its 2007 phones at CES: the KRMA(TM) and the KSMT(TM). The brand is positioned to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) with specific Microsoft(R) Windows Mobile(TM) wireless devices that create a simplified digital experience through value-added services.

“We are introducing two devices that, when combined with izenMobile’s service and support, will make digital life easier and more effective for this underserved market,” says Jon Driscoll, president and CEO.

The KRMA and KSMT handsets will be unique in the marketplace. The KRMA combines pocket pc functionality with a smart phone form factor. The KSMT features a slide out QRTY keyboard with 39 keys. Both devices include:

Matt

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Those people at Clove have done it again!

Currently you can buy a 2GB SD Card for just £15. We’re fairly confident that’s the lowest price you are going to find right now.

Not only that, but if you need a higher spec, faster card then 150x 2GB SD Cards are also on offer for £24.

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Virtual Earth Mobile is a funny beast. Microsoft doesn’t appear to push it, support it, or beta test it. Instead one guy, Jason Fuller, takes it upon himself to not only release and occasionally update, but to provide the source Visual Studio product.

The product itself is really good, and definitely a program to show off the capabilities of your device.

Rather like Windows Live Local, VEM is a small application which allows access to the Virtual Earth servers, with mapping and decent quality aerial imagery too. The original release of the program wasn’t terrible, but suffered some annoying bugs, and in my experience struggled to maintain a connection to the servers.

The new version is very much improved. A brief overview of the updates are listed below (taken from Jason’s blog)

Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69 can be downloaded from the Windows Mobile Team Blog.

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Following a successful promotion with our friends from Clove Technology, we have a new Eten Glofiish X500 offer!

To take advantage of this brilliant offer all you have to do is type TM2JAN07 into the voucher box on the order form once you have selected to buy the Eten X500 and £20 will be deducted at the checkout stage. Visit the Eten X500 on the Clove Technology site.

This another excellent offer and we are still confident that this is the cheapest X500 in the UK and we are offering you £20 off to boot!!

This offer is for our readers only and is valid until the end of January 2007.

Matt

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Our friends at Clove Technology have extended the discount offer for the Eten M700 – You can still save £25 when you purchase an Eten Glofiish M700 from Clove using the voucher code below.

The ETEN Glofiish M700 is now available on the Clove website.

To take advantage of this brilliant offer all you have to do is type TM25PNOV07 into the voucher box on the order form once you have selected to buy the Eten M700 and £25 will be deducted at the checkout stage. Take a look at the Eten M700 on the Clove Technology site.

This really is a good offer and we are confident that this is still the cheapest Glofiish M700 in the UK and we are offering you £25 off to boot!!

This offer is just for our readers and is now valid until the end of January 2007.

Overview
Compose and send e-mails, SMS message or create and edit documents on the move with the Eten Glofiish M700. The Glofiish M700 is a compact Windows Mobile 5 device featuring an integrated sliding keyboard, Quad-band GSM/GPRS with support for EDGE, SiRFStar III GPS Receiver, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi 802.11b/g and 2.0 mega pixels camera. With all these features you only ever need to carry one device, to stay in contact by phone, accessing the Internet, managing documents, appointments and contacts, and taking quality pictures.

GPS navigation is also possible with the Eten Glofiish M700, due to the integrated SiRFStar III GPS receiver, ensuring that this is truly an all in one device.

Matt

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The Canadian company, Pharos are planning to release their own version of the Eten X500 and have imaginatively named it the “GPS Phone”.

The “GPS Phone” comes bundled with Pharos’ own navigation software.

Pharos “GPS Phone” Specification

See the Pharos website for more info.

Matt

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The ultra slim Samsung SGH-i320 has just appeared on the Vodafone UK business website.

The i320 is very similar in spec and design to the Samsung i600 but is a little smaller and excludes WiFi and 3g connectivity. The lack of quad-band may also put frequent travellers off this device but as the i600 is looking less and less likely for a UK release it maybe this only option if you want a Samsung device.

Samsung SGH-i320 Specification

It also features some nice touches, such as the ability to use the device in mass storage mode.

Matt

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The Vodafone variant of the HTC Herald has just appeared for sale on the Vodafone site in Germany.

The device is called the VPA Compact IV and compliments the existing VPA (Vodafone Personal Assistant) range of devices.

VPA Compact IV is priced at just 240€ when coupled with the Vodafone Business Classic tariff.

VPA compact IV Specification

See the full spec on the HTC product page.

Matt

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VITO Technology releases new version of VITO Voice2Go – FINALIST of the Best Software Awards. VITO Voice2Go enables voice management of your Pocket PC.

VITO Voice2Go is a voice recognition application for Pocket PC that allows managing your Pocket PC with your own voice: starting and quitting applications, calling your contacts and hanging up the phone, modifying system settings, pressing any onscreen buttons and macro recording.

New in VITO Voice2Go:

VITO Technology ltd. is known for its high-tech products in the field of Windows Mobile and Symbian software, GPS navigation and custom projects. Introduced in the present article VITO Voice2Go is a voice recognition application for Pocket PC that allows managing your Pocket PC with your own voice.

Matt

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