CELLPHONES
N900: How to keep it stuffed with the best apps
by ruben17 on Nov.17, 2009, under Nokia
N900 explored in 30 seconds! This show you how to shoehorn the latest and greatest apps into the N900.
Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker
by ruben17 on Oct.08, 2009, under Blackberry, CELLPHONES, Wellnews
Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker helps you to make ringtones for BlackBerry with ease. The powerful BlackBerry ringtone maker can convert MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP and so on to BlackBerry ringtones MP3, and transfer ringtones to your BlackBerry smartphone directly after converting.
Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker can help you clip any music and video fragment you like as your unique BlackBerry ringtone. You can assign a specific BlackBerry ringtone to individual contacts in your BlackBerry smartphone.
Why will you love Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker
1. Express personality
* One of the first things many new cell phone owners want to do is change the ringtone. Making your own BlackBerry ringtones gives you the opportunity to make ringtones that nobody else has.
2. Save money
* If you don’t like any of the ringtones sold by your wireless carrier, or you just want to save some money, you could always choose to make your own BlackBerry ringtones.
3. Crank ringer volume up
* Are ringtones not loud enough for you on your BlackBerry? Not satisfied with the volume of your music? You can boost or lower the volume of any media to any desired level as you will.
4. Save time
* Preview tone before send to your BlackBerry smartphone by using the USB cable, it can save your time.
5. Create newest ringtone
* What happens when your favorite artist releases a great new song, but the song is not available as a ringtone? With Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker, you can make the new ringtone by yourself with ease and share it with your friends.
6. Easy to use
* Simply connect BlackBerry to computer using the USB cable, enable mass storage mode, add music file and press generate button, you are done. Your unique ringtone has been sent to your BlackBerry media card automatically now.
7. Special ringtone for special contact
* You can “attach” special and unique ring tone to your special contacts in BlackBerry address book.
Free download Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker, and hear your own BlackBerry ring tone now.
Virgin Media 6600i Slide, 6303 Classic And 6700 Classic Nokia Phones Announced
by ruben17 on Sep.27, 2009, under CELLPHONES, Nokia

“Mobile from Virgin Media”, previously known as Virgin Mobile, has announced three Nokia phones to its range of handsets – the 6600i Slide, 6303 Classic and 6700 Classic. The 3G Nokia 6600i Slide is a compact mobile with a steel cover and chrome centre key. With a 2.2-inch display, it offers a 5-megapixel camera and is available from free on a £15 monthly tariff.
The Nokia 6303 Classic gets a 2.2-inch screen, 3.2-megapixel camera, FM radio and comes with a 1GB memory card. It is available free on a £10 monthly tariff.
Samsung Omnia HD i8910
by ruben17 on Aug.24, 2009, under CELLPHONES, Samsung
A Symbian-injected followup to the so-so Windows Mobile Omnia, the HD i8910 is a specced-out slab of phone from Samsung, with a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, 8MP camera, HD video recording and a definite thing for multimedia.
The Price: TBD, at least as far as subsidized carrier deals go. You can grab it unlocked now for about $650, but 3G may not work on your carrier.
The Verdict: The Omnia HD does everything fine, and a few things extremely well. Video playback is top notch and widely compatible, the camera is among the best I’ve ever seen on a cellphone, and the video recording can actually hang with a lot of pocket cams, like the Flip or Kodak Zi series. On all other counts the phone never falls flat, but it never really shines, either.
The Hardware: Your first impression of the Omnia HD is that it’s big, but that’s not really fair: It’s a tall device, but it’s not meaningfully larger than any of the other popular touchscreen phones on the market today—it’s just proportioned differently (see the gallery below for comparison). And for all the hardware crammed inside, it’s reasonably thin. Speaking of guts: It’s got HSDPA (on European bands), GPS, 8-16GB of internal storage with microSD expansion, and 8MP, 720p-recording camera sensor, a built-in flash bulb, a forward-facing video camera, USB connector and a 3.5mm jack. The lack of HDMI-out is semi-replaced by DLNA network streaming, though it’s not really an even trade. At any rate, it’s a healthy phone, hardware-wise.
Samsung touts the AMOLED screen over pretty much everything else, and with some good reason. It’s vibrant and sharp, but side by side with an iPod Touch, it isn’t strikingly better. The benefits of the OLED, such as they are, seem to manifest themselves more in the phone’s long-ish battery life than anything else. In terms of touch, it’s a capacitive panel, and it’s extremely responsive. Any lag or difficulties with touch controls or soft keyboard are entirely down to the software.
Cellphone cameras are generally horrible, so the Omnia HD’s camera is a rare treat. Seriously: I even trusted it to shoot a headphone review last week, and it came through impressively well. It’ll match a low-end point-and-shoot in most situations, barring low-light—the sensor can’t really handle darker situations too well, and the flash is pretty wimpy—and fast-motion scenes. Video, on the other hand, is at least pocket-cam quality. In daylight it’s razor-sharp at 720p, while in low light it’s passable. Novel-but-not-terribly-useful slo-mo and high-speed modes are thrown in for good measure. The Omnia HD doesn’t quite match up to the best-of-the-bunch Kodak Zi8, for example, but it’s amazingly close, especially for a phone. A phone, with a decent camera! How did this happen?
The Software: This is where things fall apart a little. Wherever the Omnia HD’s hardware shines—along with the kickass camera, it can handle HD video playback in plenty of codecs—the software is fine. The camera interface and media playback interfaces, music and video, are never distracting and usually do what you expect. Everything else? That’s a different story.
Samsung’s thrown the old Omnia’s TouchWiz widget UI, originally designed for Windows Mobile, onto the Symbian-powered HD. This in itself is fine, since TouchWiz has always been a decent, finger-friendly homescreen, wherever it shows up. Outside of the three main TouchWiz panels, though, is a bizarre UI stew, some from Symbian, some from Samsung, and some from the deepest bowels of design hell. For example: Scrolling! Instead of throwing menus and selecting entries, the selection follows your finger. It’s hard to explain, but it’s a terrible way to have to trudge around a menu-heavy operating system. The onscreen keyboard seems to be a Samsung special too. It’s fine—it’s spacious and rarely lags—but it’s set on a perfect grid, doesn’t come with any autocorrect and generally feels like it was designed in about an hour.
Outside of the core multimedia and homescreen areas, the phone is a fairly raw take on Symbian’s S60 5th Edition shell, which means the UI is inconsistent and difficult to tackle with fingers. Not to mention S60′s needlessly inserted extra steps all over the place. Want to enter a URL? Press a button, type your address, press another button, and press another. It doesn’t make any sense. Samsung’s given Symbian something of a makeover, but most of Matt’s complaints about the N97 software carry over to the HD. Everything—even basic calling, contact management and OS navigation—is overcomplicated and disorganized, beyond the point of a “learning curve.”
Functionally, though, it holds up fine: The browser could be easier to navigate with, but renders with WebKit, supports Flash and generally does its job. Same goes for pretty much everything else: The experience could be smoother, but you’d be hard pressed to find a task that the HD explicitly can’t handle. And if you do find a gap, remember that this is full Symbian, so you can always go app hunting. As dumb as the UI can be, don’t be fooled into thinking this is a dumbphone: It can do pretty much anything an Android or Windows Mobile phone can, and sometimes even more—it’s just that sometimes, it’s painfully awkward.
BlackBerry Curve 8520 Review
by ruben17 on Jul.25, 2009, under Blackberry, CELLPHONES
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that comes in two attractive colors from T-Mobile – black and frost. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on pay as you go mobile broadband.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a world phone, and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled to arm customers with fast Web browsing and Wi-Fi calling. T-Mobile customers can continue to get great mobile coverage and unlimited nationwide Wi-Fi calling with T-Mobile’s Unlimited HotSpot Calling service as well as unlimited nationwide calling to five people with T-Mobile myFaves® service.*
In addition to providing the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It introduces an innovative touch-sensitive optical trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:
Full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone**
Access to BlackBerry App World™, featuring a broad and growing catalog of third-party mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news and weather, productivity and much more
BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting cards of up to 16 GB today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available; a 1GB card is included
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for T-Mobile Unlimited Hotspot Calling service
Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
