The Sony Ericsson C905 is another example of the 8 megapixel camera phones that have arrived on the scene lately. We’ve already started reviewing a number 8MP camera phones and you’ll find several unboxing videos already on the site. As you can see from the photo below, we are looking at an Orange branded version of the C905 but you can also get it SIM-free and on other networks.
The Sony Ericsson C905
The C905 review will be along soon but until then we thought that you would enjoy the unboxing video.
Sony Ericsson C905 specification:
- Size
– 104 x 49 x 18 mm
– 4.1 x 1.9 x 0.7 inches - Weight
– 136 g
– 4.8 oz - Screen
– 262,144-colour TFT QVGA
– 240×320 pixel
– Auto-Rotate - Memory
– 160 MB Phone Memory
– Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support – 2GB card in the box - Networks
– EDGE – GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
– HSDPA – UMTS 850, UMTS 2100 - •Camera
– 8.1 megapixel camera
– Xenon flash
– Auto focus Face detection
– Smart contrast
– Image stabilizer
– Red-eye reduction - Music
– Album art
– Media Player
– Music tones
– PlayNow™
– TrackID™ - Internet
– RSS feeds
– NetFront™ Web browser - Connectivity
– Bluetooth™
– WiFi™ - Messaging
– Email
– Exchange ActiveSync®
– MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
– Predictive text input
– SMS long (Text Messaging)
– Sound recorder
Posted by: Matt
Yet another Motorola phone has been spotted out there before general release. Motorola is preparing its touchscreen MOTO Atila smartphone with features and parts including a Qualcomm 7201A chipset and 2.8-inch 240×320 touchscreen display.
Moto Atila
The picture below lists the specifications but it’s a little sketchy so to sum it up the Atila is rumoured to to support tri-band WCDMA 3G, HSDPA/HSUPA, quad-band GSM and have WiFi the MOTO Atila will run Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.
Moto Atila Specs
Posted By: John
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The guys over at Phonescoop have grabbed a look at the Nokia N97 and posted a video so we can all enjoy it. This new Nokia handset looks pretty nice and the specs also seem reasonably good too, take a look at the video after the break and see it in action, this may be a phone a lot of people will want to get their hands on.
HTC have released a bug fix for the Touch HD, apparently sometimes the screen stops responding for about 3 to 5 seconds when running an application that needs to use the stylus to click the screen repeatedly within a short time. For example, the windows built-in software like SMS, email, solitaire, etc. If you are experiencing this problem you should install the hotfix but only if your Rom version is less than 1.19. You can find all the information here.
OK So here is another phone by the Phone Giant that is Nokia. The “comes in 3 colours” handset should appeal to the teen to mid 20’s market and the retail price is currently unknown.
Today Nokia announced a bright new addition to their CDMA portfolio, the Nokia 2608. With its high-gloss exterior, racy stripe down the middle and three colourful options, the Nokia 2608 fold phone was designed for style enthusiasts and consumers who want convenient functionality when they’re on the go. Whether it’s fuchsia with pink stripe, silver with green stripe or black with blue stripe there are choices for expressing individuality. In addition to the eye-catching exterior, consumers can personalize their Nokia 2608 by using the pre-loaded ringtones and wallpapers or by downloading new ones.
When it comes to being practical the Nokia 2608 offers easy to use functions such as quick touch access to one’s PC, using the phone as a modem; a voice recorder for capturing those key thoughts and an integrated speakerphone for conference calls on the run. The practical Nokia 2608 is also the lowest priced browser offered in Nokia’s CDMA portfolio and features a quick-press flashlight, FM radio, LED indicator light that blinks when there is an incoming call or message waiting and an option to send a business card or calendar appointment via SMS.
The Nokia 2608 is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2009, in select CDMA markets outside the US.
Posted by: John
I bet you that when you read the title of this post you immediately thought of a Laptop. I’m afraid you were wrong in going down that route, I was infact talking about a mobile phone.
You may not know it but Lenovo do also make mobile phones and they sold their China-based cellphone business along with the brand to a company called Hony Capital who up to now have not been greatly successful.
The Lenovo P80 main display is a 2.8-inch TFT unit, but the device also has an ingeniously hidden 1-inch OLED one on the outside. The rest of the modest specs include a 3 megapixel snapper (CIF video @15fps), FM radio, Bluetooth and a microSD slot. There is dual-band GSM support and of course, but no 3G.
The target market for Lenovo P80 is logically China and it will be available in seven different colours. Unfortunately there is no info on pricing and availability yet.
Posted by: John
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We now have our first 8MP mobile phone but how will it compete with the others?
Introduction
Like Matt mentioned in his unboxing post the Innov8 was the first 8MP camera phone sent to us but what he didn’t mention was that this was the UK’s first 8MP camera phone. It was almost a dead set that the 8MP phones would be hitting shelves before the end of 2008 and with this review you can read exactly how it fares as a mobile and an 8MP camera.
What’s in the box?
Have at look at the unboxing video by Matt here
Samsung i8510 (Innov8) specification:
- Operation System – Symbian 9.3 / S60 v3.2
- Memory – User Memory 16GB microSD (up to 16 GB)
- Display – Internal Technology 16M colour TFT 2.8” QVGA
- GPRS, EDGE, 3G
- GSM&EDGE Band Quad Band
- Browser – WAP 12., WAP 2.0, JAVA
- Input Device Numeric Keypad
- Bluetooth
- USB 2.0
- PC Sync Application
- TV-output
- Wi-Fi
- 8 Megapixel Camera with ‘Professional Imaging Applications’
- LED Flash
- Video player DivX support, 3D Surround Sound System
- Video recording MPEG4
- FM RDS Radio
- FM Radio Recoding
- Document Viewer Doc/ Viewer (PPT, Word, Excel, PDF)
- Talk Time (Standard) 8.5hrs (2.5G), 5hrs (3G)
- Standby (Standard) 310hrs (2.5G), 330hrs (3G)
- Weight – 136g
- Dimensions – 106.5 x 53.9 x 17.2 mm
General
The Samsung i8510 looks a lot like the Nokia N95 8GB. It’s rather chunky, it’s black and it packs a whole lot of features but look closer and you start to see the trademark industrial styling that differentiates Samsung from the rest of the crowd. A tough-looking, relatively large phone the Innov8 feels reassuringly solid with a smooth slider mechanism brings it together.
Starting a the front of the phone with the slide closed we can see the 2.8” QVGA screen with printed 8GB text to the top left, an earpiece grill in the middle and the front facing 3G camera and flash to the right. Underneath the screen sits 2 hot keys (one left and the other right), an optical touchpad surrounded by a d pad and the call start / call end buttons.
Samsung Innov8 Closed Front View
With the slide open we see the numeric keypad with the cancel button in the middle and an M1 button to the left / M2 button to the right.
Samsung Innov8 Open Front View
While the mechanical keys underneath the screen are well laid-out, as is the i8510’s keypad, it’s easy to brush the small optical touchpad by mistake. It should also be noted that it’s cumbersome to use unless you’re browsing the Web, where it works very well for scrolling through pages.
Moving to the left hand side of the phone and starting from the top down you will find a lanyard / pendant hole, volume rocker switch, 3.5mm headphone socket and the generic Samsung charging port.
Samsung Innov8 left hand side View
The right hand side of the phone there is again top to bottom a 3 point camera function slider switch, MicoSD slot and a hotkey.
Samsung Innov8 right hand side View
The bottom of the phone is very uneventful and contains nothing except plastic.
Samsung Innov8 Bottom View
Moving swiftly on to the back of the the Innov8’s we see it’s star feature, the 8-megapixel camera which looks every bit like a real camera, with an automatic lens cover that opens when you activate the camera and shuts when you’re not using it. Disappointingly, there’s no xenon flash on the camera you and only get a dual LED photo light that works well at close range but doesn’t illuminate very much past a few metres. The only other thing on the back of the phone is the printed text and speaker holes.
Samsung Innov8 Back View
Highlights and Lowlights
+ 8MP Camera
+ Auto function lens cover
+ DivX Support
– Location of headphone jack
– Proprietary charger
– Lack of Xenon flash
– No optical zoom
REVIEW
A 3.5mm headphone jack is one of the small details that makes this one of Samsung’s most feature-packed phones but unfortunately, as with the Nokia N95’s headphone jack, it’s on the side rather than on the top. This means you may find that the headphone pin sticks out at an awkward angle in your pocket.
Whilst the Innov8 screen packs some punch it isn’t as sharp as I expected, particularly when watching videos.
It’s the i8510’s camera that packs the most punch. Boasting an 8-megapixel sensor, auto-focus and a range of options, the camera also features an incredible panorama mode, facial recognition and smile recognition, which immediately takes a picture when someone is smiling.
For panorama, all you have to do is put the camera in panorama mode and click the shutter button once, and the i8510 instructs you to move the camera in a certain direction following an orange box it then stitches a 180-degree picture together for you so you don’t even need to press a button.
Another trick up the i8510 camera’s sleeve is the ability to shoot slow-motion video at up to 120 frames per second, similar to the LG Viewty, which is great for shooting fast-paced action. We found the slow motion mode worked well even in low light, where the LG Viewty didn’t perform so well, according to many users’ complaints. It’s not all good, though, the i8510’s camera doesn’t have an optical zoom, which means that zoomed-in pictures come out fairly blurry, and as I mentioned before there’s no xenon flash. With only a dual LED photo light, shots taken in low light only come out well at close range.
Samsung has generously provided the i8510 with 16GB of on-board memory, and as if that wasn’t enough you can add memory via a microSDHC slot. That means you can carry around up to 32GB worth of data with you, giving you plenty of room to store pictures, videos or apps.
Given that the i8510 runs on Symbian, you can download a fair amount of software, including Opera Mini to browse the Web and mapping software such as Google Maps, which can be used in conjunction with the i8510’s built-in GPS. You can also use the GPS to geo-tag your pictures so you can see exactly where you took them.
If all that is not enough to wet your mobile appetite, HSDPA and Wi-Fi are also available on the i8510 an the ability to play DivX movies, particularly useful if you want to carry several films with you without needing sacrificing too much memory. Also, there’s an FM radio. Combine all of the above features and you get something very close to Nokia’s incoming N96, which I think makes for a battle of Godzilla-like proportions. But when the dust settles, we think the Samsung i8510 might just take it.
Audio quality during calls is good, with no noticeable distortion or muffling, and the loudspeaker is loud enough to hear even in a moving car. Picture quality from the 8-megapixel camera is fine, but not massively better than certain 5-megapixel camera phones such as the Nokia N95 8GB.
Battery life is quoted at 300 to 500 minutes talk time, depending on whether you’re using 3G or not, and around 330 hours standby time respectively. We found that we got a full day out of the i8510 with heavy usage, but if you cut down on battery-intensive apps such as browsing the Web and using GPS, you’ll find that it lasts for at least two days.
Conclusion
Having not properly reviewed the Nokia N96 just yet, I don’t want to speak too soon and say the Samsung i8510 definitely wins out, but what I can say is this is Samsung’s best phone yet. A solid design combined with more features than you can shake a moose at, the i8510 genuinely took me by surprise
Review by: Phillip Cooper
Moneysupermarket.com have asked over 2000 UK citizens about their mobile internet experiences and got a resounding thumbs down. Nearly three quarters of users have internet capabilities on their phones, less than a quarter actually use it. Cost and speed were big issues, with 70 percent saying they had no idea how much it would cost and 24 per cent reporting that mobile surfing was too slow. One in eight actually called mobile internet ‘pointless’.
There is no application as yet to allow you to watch any content from the BBC’s iPlayer website it is not a problem. If you actually visit the website within the iPhones Safari browser you can actually watch all the content without a problem. The videos on the iPlayer site, when selected, open up and play through the iPhones inbuilt Quicktime video player. It works really well and the quality is great too. You have to be in the UK though to enjoy it due to licensing. Video of it in action after the break.
As you are no doubt aware the iPhone cannot be used in landscape mode to compose emails which is another strange quirk that we are waiting for Apple to address. Until that time we have seen various applications that can help. One such application is Wide Email which gives you this functionality but more importantly also gives you short cuts for well used phrases or words. For example I can program the letters mta and the keyboard will automatically type Mobile Tech Addicts. Take a look at the video after the break to see how well this application works.
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