Mobile Phones

Looks like the Folks over at All About Symbian have a bit of a crush, and it happens to be on the new Nokia N95 8GB, it improves on the regular N95 with increased Battery life, increased ram built in, and of course 8GB included (at the loss of the MicroSD card). As a previous owner of an N95 the increase in battery life is extremely welcome, with marginal use, a couple hours of Mp3s a day, minimal texting and a couple calls, I was getting less than a day of use.

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Seems that the folks at samsung have something new up their sleeves, and it will include built in GPS! The i550 is based on Symbian OS S60, has a 2.6" display which should help when using the Phone in the car. The i550 will reportadly nclude quick access keys, microUSB connectivity, a microSD memory card slot, 128MB RAM, HSDPA (no word on what bands ) and a 3.2 megapixel camera. No word on pricing or availability yet. One interesting thing I noticed from the pic is that it appears that the phone has a roller ball similar to the "pearl" in recent Blackberries...

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Nokia has released their GPS mapping program, Smart2go, for Symbian S60 devices for free on their website. As it happens I have just purchased an S60 device, the N73, and I am installing this software as I type.

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Samsung has one sexy phone in the new F700, it is a slider with a qwerty keyboard, and features 7.2 Mbps HSDPA for crazy high speed downloads. The F700 has a Flash based interface, so you know it will be great to play around with. It also has a great tactile feature that vibrates when you touch a button on the screen, providing that missing link with touchscreen devices, feedback.

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ACCESS have released some more details of their upcoming software platform for mobile phones at the recent 3gsm conference. The platform promises open source software galore, along with reported better battery life.

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Some more info on the upcoming updates to the Motorola Q have come to light, the new models apear to have updated asthetics, as well as a camera.

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Not sure I like the idea of more moving parts in a mobile phone, but the Motorola RIZR Z8 is a slider that bends in the middle when extended. The K8 also starts Motorola's foray into the Symbian phones, I wish they would just stick to one OS.

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Samsung released a bunch of new headsets at the 3GSM conference last week, they all feature very thin profiles, and great looking features. Follow the link for more details.

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It's official, the Blackberry 8800 from RIM has been officially announced. The headset has been bounced around for a while, it is basically an updated 8700, the first thing they did was get rid of the scroll wheel (yahoo!) and replaced it with a trackball like on the one on the pearl (8100).

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