Looks like our friends at MoDaCo beat us to the post with this one but the Orange version of the HTC Excalibur, the Orange SPV E600, has just appeared on the Orange Business Site.
At the moment the E600 is only available to business customers but I suspect that it wont be long before it’s available to all.
Benefit from the svelte and compact design, with a full QWERTY keyboard and a large screen, composing emails and viewing attachments is almost as easy as if you were in the office. And when you’re out of the country, even continent, thanks to quad band technology it’s not problem – so that’s one less thing to worry about.
One thing I did notice is that the blurb (see above) says the E600 is quad-band yet the details specification, also on the Orange site, clearly states tri-band. Maybe Orange isn’t sure!?
I’ve been using an HTC S620 (basically the same device) for some time now and it’s one of my favourite devices and definitely my favourite smartphone. It will be interesting to see what the Orange customisation does to the SPV E600. Get your sugar cubes ready!
Orange SPV E600 Specification:
Check out the Orange E600 page HERE.
Oh and the SPV E600 is quad-band by the way!
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Orange SPV E600, HTC, HTC Excalibur]
Nikon announces the arrival of the D40x, its smallest camera to date that packs a punch with a host of innovative features. Featuring a 10.2 megapixel CCD the D40x is loaded with everything a photographer needs, despite its miniature size. Within the stylish and compact casing of the D40x, Nikon has packed in a number of exciting features to ensure that the user is able to achieve optimum results.
With 10.2 megapixels image quality is excellent and the D40x comes with Nikon’s exclusive 3D Colour Matrix Metering II and auto white balance which enables the user to produce quality shots that capture the vivid detail and true colour of the subject matter.
The D40x is equipped with a compact lightweight 55-200mm Zoom-Nikkor telephoto lens. This lens – the R708 – is fitted with an ED glass element, making it easier to achieve images with higher resolution and high contrast. The Silent Wave Motor offers quiet and smooth autofocussing.
For those taking pictures in a hurry the D40x is fast, despite its petite design. It has near instant power-up (0.18 seconds) whilst a continuous shooting mode enables the keen photographer to capture 100jpegs of images as fast as three frames per second. And with autofocus built-in even shots taken in a hurry are crisp and clear. Nikon’s innovative i-TTL flash control evaluates ideal flash exposure so the image light is always correct, whatever the conditions.
An ample 2.5-inch LCD screen means the budding photographer can view, manipulate and navigate their images at ease. Unique Nikon innovations make it possible to manipulate the images in-camera, enabling amateurs to achieve results that a professional would be pleased with. Nikon’s unique D-Lighting function improves underexposed images or shots taken with too much back light by creating a copy of an image with added light and detail wherever necessary, leaving well-exposed areas untouched. Photographers can even fix red eye at the touch of a button or use the D40x’d monochrome effect to make an image black and white. Nikon’s exclusive PictureProject software also makes it easy to edit, organise, transfer and share the high quality images.
For the creative photographer the fast and simple vari-program modes (the D40x has eight of them) also enable the enthusiast to be adapt the photographs at will, with the flick of a rotating mode dial.
The Q560 is world’s lightest D-SLR with interchangeable lens using 10-effective-megapixel-class APS-C size CCD, without battery, memory card or body cap, as of March 6th, according to Nikon a survey.
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Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Nikon, Nikon D40x, Windows Mobile Blog]
We know that a lot of you have been following the progress of the XDA Zinc eagerly awaiting its launch here in the UK which is said to be later this month. Well to give you a quick Zinc fix the people over at Kaitech.hk have a review of the device for your reading pleasure.
Just before you head off to the review I should warn you that it’s not all rosy and that the device appears to be somewhat buggy:
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone, Pocket PC, Tracy & Matt, XDA Zinc, O2, ASUSTek, Mars 2, SPV]
I’ve just been given a Kaiser to play with and I’m having some difficulty with it!
Whilst I like how thin and light the device is I’m finding the touchscreen a bit small and although I have managed to key in a phone number I cant work out how to make the call.
Anyone have any ideas?
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, HTC Advantage, HTC Kaiser, HTC P4550, Tracy & Matt]
The people over at MGCMAG.net have managed to get their hands on an HTC Advantage and have posted a video review. Visit the site to watch over 12 minutes of video putting the Advantage through its paces.
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, T-Mobile, Ameo, HTC Advantage, HTC Athena, Tracy & Matt]
The HTC S730 was rumoured quite some time ago but details of the device have recently emerged the S730 is once again thought to be another one of the HTC Smartphones set for release later this year.
The HTC S730 (aka HTC Wings) supersedes the S710 (which has only just been released) and has a very similar design.
HTC S730 Specification:
Note the integrated GPS and 400mhz CPU which is unusualy fast for a smartphone!
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, HTC Wings, HTC S730, Tracy & Matt]
We need your help!
If you are an iPod Nano 2nd generation owner I would love to hear from you. We currently have some products that need reviewing and we do not have a 2nd gen Nano.
So if you have a 2nd Gen iPod Nano and think you are up to writing a review for us then please drop me a line. You’ll get to keep the items you review too!
EDIT: We’ve got a few people lined up for doing a review for us. Many thanks for all the offers!
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Windows Mobile Blog]
Yes it’s yet another new device from HTC, this time it’s the HTC P6500. The P6500 rather differnt to the devices that we have come to expect from HTC. The d-pad looks rather unusual.
The HTC P6500 (aka HTC Sirius) has an anticipated release date of August 2007. With the 3.5″ Screen the overall size is expected to be about the same as the HTC BlueAngel.
HTC P6500 Specification:
Note the larger than average screen size is still only QVGA and the seeming lack of 3G/HSDPA. There are also rumours that the P6500 includes a biometric fingerprint reader!
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, HTC Advantage, HTC Sirius, HTC P6500, Tracy & Matt]
Another new device from HTC, this time it’s the HTC P4550 (aka HTC Kaiser). The P4550 is another device believed to be part of the 2007 line-up.
The HTC P4550, an HTC Kaiser based device, supersedes the HTC TyTN and is expected to arrive in Q2 2007.
HTC Kaiser (P4550) specification:
Note the beefed up 2.8 Megapixel autofocus camera and built in GPS inside the 18mm thick chasis!
Latest pre-order information can be found HERE.
Matt
[Post tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Windows Mobile blog, HTC Advantage, HTC Kaiser, HTC P4550, Tracy & Matt]
Edit: Our Orange SPV M700 review is now online!
Tracy and I have been playing around with a couple of Orange SPV M700’s for a few days now and we had a bit of a problem with the GPS on one of them. I gave Orange a call to see if we could find out what the problem was. Initially customer services thought that I was reporting an issue with GPRS despite me stating several times that I really DID mean GPS. After that Orange insisted that the M700 didn’t have GPS and that I would have to purchase one at extra cost.
This wasn’t just one person getting their facts wrong, I spoke to three differnt CS representatives!
For those of you that are thinking about buying an M700 let me point out that the M700 really, honestly, defintely does have built in GPS!! My problem ended up being a simple problem that we easily resolved (ourselves) and the GPS works perfectly well now.
Secondly, we had a couple of messages from Alan. Alan has been trying to buy an Orange SPV M700 in black but Orange insist that it’s only available in white. Strange that I have two M700’s then, one black, one white…
….come on Orange, your customer service staff can do better than this cant they?
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): smartphone blog, Pocket PC blog, Tracy & Matt, Orange, M700, HTC Trinity, HTC P3600, SPV, Orange SPV M700]
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