Motorola Droid II Review
Sep 2nd
When the second generation product was presented, you expect significant improvements from the first model. Motorolatakes a different approach with the Droid 2, the follow-up to last year’s groundbreaking Droid, both of Verizon. Rather than a fanboy dream update, barely two Droid is a small shift. Given the fascination of the same name is cheap, but more feature-rich Droid X (although the reported problems with the implementation of the Android 2.2), it is even more surprising, the Droid 2 no longer a radical departure from the first droid. Not that there is a bad phone – Motorola has the possibility, the slide-out keyboard Droid missed to the next level.
Features and Design
Physically, the Droid 2 is almost identical to the original, a chrome frame is at the top of the phone, the easiest way to distinguish the two.
Operational Motorola has rearranged the four Android navigation buttons below the display (Back, Menu, Home, Search has become Menu, Home, Back, Search – oh, goody), the slide-out keyboard (not spring-loaded smooth as, say on the Samsung 4G Epic Sprint) now has some directional buttons instead of toggle a square that is expressed on each edge, and there are some insignificant differences in the nature of Android 2.2 is implemented (the original droid can now be updated) – various icons in the first place. Big Deal.
Performance-wise, not Droid step 2 up to a 1-GHz processor 550MHz chip in the original, so that the droid has two little faster. Even today, standard DLNA connectivity, a widescreen still photo set and an included Blockbuster App. You even get the same amount of RAM – 16GB, but arranged a little differently: the Droid has built two 8GB and one pre-installed 8GB microSD card, while the original had 256 MB of built but a 16GB card included. Otherwise, you are still the same dark horizontal slider with a three-row QWERTY keyboard (no dedicated numeric row), a 3.7-inch widescreen 854 x 480 LCD, 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 4x digital zoom, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1.
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A bit more frightening is how much you get to the Droid X at the same price as the Droid 2: a 4.3-inch screen, an 8-megapixel camera, 24GB memory contain a total of (built-in 8 GB and a pre-installed 16GB card) and HD video recording. The Droid is second only advantages are its slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a longer talk time.
In addition to a faster processor, the Droid 2, three other major upgrades covered by the Droid: 3G Mobile Hotspot capabilities for connecting up to five devices, more memory and built-third longer rated talk time (6.4 hours vs. 9.6 hours ) despite the same size battery.
Multimedia
The Droid 2 has the same sharp, colorful display as the original, and includes a blockbuster app, but none of Verizon’s video offerings or MobiTV. Its widescreen is perfect for viewing the page loaded films proportioned, but if you are interested in the Droid as a PMP, you should be looking at the Droid X with its 4.3-inch screen.
Either Motorola or the new Android 2.2 OS has not recall the original edition of the droid, what music you from here when going to and from other multimedia-app solved the left lane.
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Sound Quality
Calls are loud and clear from Droid 2, but listeners at the other end reported a bit of muddiness come by. Sound can be used for hands-free listening and multimedia, because the long, thin speaker is mounted on the back of the phone will be muted.
Camera
Motorola has an already impressive Droid camera by allowing a 5-megapixel wide-screen mode that allows you to cram much more into the frame image improved. Outdoor photos are sharp and colorful, but is not it – colors tend toward the blue end of the spectrum tend. Shots taken indoors, with or without flash, the focus remains surprising in comparison to other high-megapixel Cams cell, but also tend to granular.
The Droid’s two most surprising shortcoming is its WVGA, instead of HD video recording. Videos are pixel-free, but details are unclear, especially when blown up full screen on a standard PC monitor size.
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Battery Life
Even if the Droid 2 has the same size as the first battery Droid, Motorola must have done some low-power tap dancing, get almost 10 hours of talk time. Running in the real world use with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off, the Droid lasted almost two days two semi-regular phone call, web surfing, photography and share before we committed to recharge.
Verdict
Come the day after Labor Day, when the Droid X is again available, it must Droid drools between two $ 200 Droids: The Droid X with its 4.3-inch screen, 24 GB of memory and HD video recording, and , the Droid 2 decide, with its physical keyboard and long battery life. Unless you absolutely refuse, a touch-screen keyboard to use the Droid X, is by far the more advanced Droid.
Samsung Rugby II Review
Sep 1st
AT & T and Samsung released the Samsung Rugby 2, a push-to-talk device with a rugged, military-grade design that stood up to the harshest of elements. To communicate in a gray area there, rugged clamshell design, the Samsung Rugby 2 offers improved noise reduction and to facilitate an external speaker, regardless of the environment. The Rugby is also home to two military standard MIL-STD-810g certified to withstand dust, shock, vibration, rain, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and extreme temperatures.
Thanks to its ability aGPS, which offers two Samsung Rugby AT & T Navigator offers voice directions and visual turn-by-turn driving directions APS with automatic re-routing, full-color maps and traffic information in real-time alerts. The Navigator app and AT & T Family Card, the families put in a position of having a child site from a PC or mobile phone and request updates at any time pursue situation.
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The Rugby-2 also contains access to location-based services and applications such as Loopt, Trimble Outdoors, AllSport GPS (workout coach) and where. Finally, the productivity of the Samsung Rugby has two AT & T Mobile Resource Management applications, TeleNav Track GPS Time Track and Hora AT&T.
In addition to its robust design, the Samsung Rugby also two large external speaker that allows for ease of use with AT & T Push to Talk service ($ 5 per month). PTT gives users the option of an entire group into a wireless call from a PTT session to draw and interfere with the ability to own status to Available, not available, and much more.
The Samsung Rugby 2 is equipped with a voice processor to improve the public voice and to suppress noise for clear communication everywhere. How the human ear, isolates the chip of your voice and filters out unwanted background noise for better mobile voice clarity in noisy environments.
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The Samsung Rugby also includes two AT & T Video Share, Mobile Video, AT & T Mobile Music and Mobile Web browser to keep users entertained and off the job. Additional features include a 2 rugby 2-megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity and a microSD slot for memory cards up to 32GB cards.
Palm Pixi Review
Aug 26th
The Palm Centro Europe is the second handset from that Palm “Run” is much talk of the Web OS. The whole focus of the web OS is a tight integration with online social networks and Web 2.0 services, which seems to be just one important focus of most mobile phone manufacturers in 2009. With the rise of the iPhone was clear that as a decent user interface, which people use data services and will use their mobile phones in order to move information on access. Mobile data has always been a goal of further development of networks and the demand in 2009 has finally been realized to an extent that the question is asked now be able to cope with the networks? But this is a matter to be considered on another day.
The Palm Web OS running on the Linux kernel, complemented with additional services at this from Palm. The entire layout of the graphical user interface designed to be used on devices with touch screens and the display on the Palm Pixi is a capacitive 2.6-inch TFT screen, supporting up to 256,000 colors at a resolution of 320 x 400 pixels. The Pixi has a rounded design, with a traditional keyboard below the screen layout. The keyboard in question is a full QWERTY keyboard, designed to improve all types of data entry on the device. The Pixi fits comfortably in your hand, but seems just a little bit too big to be used comfortably with one hand. Size wise the Pixi measures 111 x 55 x 11mm and weighs just 100g. The display has an automatic rotation option, and there is a proximity sensor, the touch screen if the phone is turned off in telephone use.
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Connectivity should be used for any device that will be announced on the road used as a central hub for all your needs Messaging Key. So it is a bit of a disappointment to determine that the Pixi not ship with wireless included. To compensate for the Pixi not include the full mobile broadband connectivity, with HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA for fast uploads of up to 5.76Mbps. The Pixi has tri-band HSDPA support, so you should be able to access high-speed data on all networks in which it is offered. A quad-band phone that Pixi easy access to all GSM networks around the world has, and if you are in a country where the action is not 3G enabled, the Pixi offers data transfer via GPRS and EDGE. Bluetooth is included offers for local connectivity, the latest version 2.1, the simple and convenient connection between other Bluetooth devices, and it is also A2DP for wireless stereo outputs.
The Pixi ships with a rather average 2.0-megapixel camera that offers an LED flash, plus has the device for recording video clips. There is no front facing camera which is not face to face video calls means. The internal memory on the device is set to 8GB, and there is no way to extend them because it included no memory card slot.
Palm has a long history in the mobile computing industry, and they have used their knowledge, offer a good collection of PIM applications on the Pixi, making it an easy way to connect and backup of important contact and calendar data. This may be saved to your PC, and in a position to back up your data online. The Palm Pixi offers support for threaded SMS, which is much easier to text conversations on the telephone, and including the prosecution makes a built-in e-mail client with support for multiple e-mail accounts.
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But in truth, with the Palm Centro Europe than with the Palm Pre, it is all over the web OS, which offers a strong range of flexible options for integration with social networks that make it easy to contact, on Twitter, Facebook and keep all the other usual suspects. Palm OS developed by a number of common technologies such as HTML 5, CSS and Java, it makes programmers to create applications, making the need to learn yet another programming language. There is an App Store available, applications can be downloaded and as with other established businesses, there is a strong selection of both free and paid applications.
The Palm Pixi works well and thus provides on quite what it promises. It was not so long ago that a handset offers the features of the Pixi long would created a much bigger stir in the industry have, but now with such a large selection of devices available, providing seamless web integration, it is difficult to see , which can offer Pixi that make it out from the crowd.
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Motorola DEVOUR A555 Review
Aug 25th
For social-networking addicts, there is no better mobile interface as Motoblur. Motorola’s Android overlay innovative aggregates all your social media accounts, and provides the latest news and information about updates, what looks like cartoon quote bubbles comfortably on the phone home screen spread. So far only on the Motorola Cliq from T-Mobile, Verizon Motoblur now comes to devour on the Motorola, a sleek-if-bulky new Android phone encased in luxurious aluminum. Motoblur, with a spacious four-line slide-out QWERTY keyboard makes customized, Devour probably the easiest way to stay in touch, without speaking, and offers an attractive package of comprehensive features and functions. But how does Devour match up with other Android Verizon phones that are similar and the Droid HTC Eris?
Features and Design
Like its cousins Android, Devour accesses Verizon 3G EV-DO network includes Wi-Fi connectivity, and is always welcome with the visual voicemail. The Droid is like the value thanks to its included pre-installed 16 GB SD card, compared to Devour (and Eris’) pre-installed 8 GB card. Tthe Devour is only equipped with a 3-megapixel imager that poor-bland, grainy and blurry photos lasts. The Devour includes Bluetooth 2.0 instead of the 2.1 specification on the Droid, and is a 3.1-inch LCD compared with superior 3.7-inch display Droid. The intertwining of the mass and weight are immediately noticeable, making it larger and heavier than the Droid. Its silver aluminum design with rubberized black highlights is Klingon-like and decidedly masculine.
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Devour is superior to almost one faculty is dedicated to the top line of numbers on their four-line QWERTY keyboard. The keys are also slightly more elevated and more reactive than the Droid is to promote faster typing. But Motorola is Motorola and taketh away. Devour’s Lone shift and function (symbol) buttons are on the right instead of left, an arrangement will benefit only left-handed typers slowed down, typing for righty rest of us. The Devour’s @ button, a dedicated button on the Droid is a function key unfavorable brought to the W, instead of two, as on standard QWERTYs. The Eris, of course, lacks a physical QWERTY.
Instead of the usual slide-off back door to access the battery and SD card cover, a rubber-coated cover slips slightly to the side, rather like a digital camera. The Devour’s top-mounted power button and camera-shutter button is almost flush with the surface of the phone, so that both are too heavy too fast through the feeling. During his show is not as sharp or bright as the Droid (but then, to be fair, only a few mobile phone screens), or Eris, Devour LCD’s is still colorful, if a little dark. YouTube videos play in a high quality, and most filled the screen.
Sound Quality
Even without Motorola Clear Talk Technology eat, like most Motorola phones, offers superior sound quality. The rear speakers pumping a surprising amount of volume for music, video, audio and hands-free conversation.
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The functionality of the phone
With a green phone icon is omnipresent on the bottom of the five home screen, the dialer Devour’s reach a little faster than the Droid is what only one other Android App icon. Of course, the biggest difference between swallowing and Droid Motoblur. Yes, you get all your messages and social networking updates and news updates without drilling even as far as Android’s pull-up menu. But Motoblur Update bubbles clutter your screen as papers for a desktop calendar blotter, to force you to pull up the menu “Applications” that can access almost all other frequently used functions.
Network
While above average biting, the charging time of 4-5 seconds swallow consistently behind both Droid and Eris delayed by one or two seconds. That’s fast enough, if not side-by-side comparison, but part of a pattern of comparative inferiority. And while Droid Eris and regularly invoked the more appropriate HTML versions of mobile sites such as The New York Times and Wikipedia, the less convenient access Devour full HTML versions.
Battery Life
Motorola Devour prices at 389 hours of talk time and 443 hours (18.45 days) standby, both more than either the or the Droid Eris, with almost twice as high as the standby time for the Droid. In practice, our test model, the battery mysteriously died after only one day is not charged. And even if the battery indicator showed almost 50 percent remain in power, joined our Devour less than an hour later.
Verdict
If you are constantly Facebooking, twittering, Instant Messaging and e-mailing, the pretty (and pretty difficult) Devour offers a superior social-networking experience. But, along with the fantasy of aluminum frame, you pay mostly for Motoblur and the dedicated QWERTY number line. Motoblur the value disappears when you consider how many non-Motoblur features and functionality you get with the Droid for only $ 50 more, and if you do not mind touch typing, the function is also half-superior Eris Devour a price . Both previous Android swallow Devour in the total.
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LG Rumor Touch Review
Aug 24th
The first two LG Rumor messaging phones were both big hits with Sprint customers thanks to the rising texting people that are very usable QWERTY keyboard and compact development, but enjoyable. Now the third generation of the LG Rumor Touch adding to the market comes the inevitable touch-screen and EV-DO 3G. The new touch-screen is beautiful, but LG added that to just go along with the touchscreen craze since the QWERTY is very capable at operating everything on the phone. The EV-DO 3G but adds a whole new world compared to the previous generation rumors that activates not have access to the Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV and other services of 3G. And the performance of the Sprint navigation and messaging has improved thanks to the faster transmission speeds.
While LG was busy adding 3G to the rumor online about the new Touch Rumor, changed the mobile landscape and Sprint lineup a bit. The LG Rumor Touch currently sells for $ 80 with a two-year contract in the introduction, and this is a fair price for a mid-tier feature phone that does a lot. But while Sprint was a big push to win smartphone users, in order to reduce their prices by phone. The Palm Centro Europe, which are HTC Snap and the BlackBerry Curve 8530, all cheaper than the LG Rumor and the HTC Touch and the Samsung Hero Android smartphones are now only $ 10 more. We know that not everyone wants a smartphone, but the prices are tempting, curious shoppers. For those who are at the intersection, remember: Sprint, like all U.S. airlines need to get the data packages that cost more than the basic voice and messaging plans when you buy a smartphone . That is the flexibility of the LG Rumor offers Touch: You can get the basic voice plan and unlimited messages plan for $ 50/month.
Design and Ergonomics
LG and Sprint, the power of 3G and the attractive features and services complemented by 3G enabled, they forgot to update the LG Rumor Touch styling. We want the young LG Rumor LG Rumor and the more recent updated 2 designs, and the popularity of the two phones are somewhat guilty, the playfulness and robustness, said to his young audience. The LG Rumor Touch not stand as his predecessors in a sea of QWERTY sliders. But that’s not to say better not to touch the rumor on the form. It has a large 3″ touch screen, a full 5-line QWERTY keyboard, which in turn makes the device larger and a 2-megapixel camera (an improvement of the LG Rumor 2′s 1.3-megapixel camera). The LG Rumor feels well built. The larger display feels more luxury and websites and videos on the larger screen well in comparison to the last two Rumor phones. The display has both audio and tactile feedback when you touch it, but it washed looks outside. If you have pictures in the outdoors on a sunny day, the display is not very easy to use as the viewfinder to see. The QWERTY keyboard feels very spacious and is very easy to type. It has a good journey and provides audio feedback when pressed. backlight is effective in the dark.
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closed with the keyboard slider, the LG Rumor Touch works as a touchscreen phone. It is a small home button below the display to the front flanked by a call send/answer button and the back button. The Rumor Touch has a standard list in the UI that you control with your finger. The LG has a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack. Other buttons and slots are volume buttons, camera button start, screen lock/power button, charging jack and a microSD card slot for easy access.
Phone Features
The LG Rumor Touch gets good signal strength: full bars in well-covered areas and 50% in spotty coverage areas. It has not dropped a call on us. Voice quality is good but not exceptional. The LG phone has a nice UI that four shortcut keys includes touch for quick access to the phonebook, recent history, keyboard, and a cute group interface. The Rumor Touch supports up to 99 speed dial numbers can hold in a phone book with 600 contacts. The Touch UI gives you quick access to actions such as Call, Send SMS, history and contact details if you touch a contact in your phonebook.
The LG comes with a full compliment of messaging tools and services, including threaded SMS, personalized photo-and video-mail and mobile e-mail, including AOL, Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. The Rumor Touch also applications for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Sprint Social Zone. The phone allows you to upload photos and videos on Photobucket YouTube.
Surfing the Web is faster on the LG Rumor Touch compared to previous generation Rumor phones. The Rumor Touch has the NetFront browser, the HTML pages in full screen can. The screen resolution is not very high at 240 by 400 pixels, and this means that you do not see much of a web page, but pages will be displayed in a readable font size. Sites with multiple columns in landscape mode can also look disproportioned. Apart from that, the browser does a good job keeping formats and images intact. want the phone does not have an accelerometer, but if you see web pages in landscape mode, slide open the keyboard.
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GPS navigation and Sprint
The LG Rumor Touch has a built-in GPS navigation and Sprint has a better performance and speed to touch the rumor as a rumor two by the new EV-DO support. The Rumor Touch quickly acquire a GPS fix and charge cards with good speed. Turn-by-turn directions and maps also load quickly, and above all accurate. The voice is clear and on target. The phone has a speaker for voice directions. Sprint Navigation (powered by TeleNav) offers 2D and 3D maps, POIs (Points of Interest) search, local services and much more. There is a monthly subscription service, although you can pass costs $ 9.99/Month days to try it, or if you only occasionally. Alternatively, if you go with a Sprint everything plan is the navigation at no additional cost included.
Multimedia
If you have a preference for mobile entertainment, such as mobile TV and music, the rumor Touch offers strong performance in both services. Sprint has some improvements to the Sprint TV performance of the LG Rumor and Touch done shows it is beautiful. In strong EV-DO coverage areas Sprint TV plays fine on the rumor Touch Landscape in full screen mode, with occasional out-of-sync audio. In marginal coverage areas, the videos still play mostly smooth with few frame drops that to interrupt the playback. Sprint TV and radio have free channels, with your data plan as the plans it all, come and offer premium channels for additional costs.
The LG Rumor Touch is to find music lovers with access to the Sprint Music Store over the air purchase and download music. The Sprint Music Store still sells songs for $ 0.99/track or less (when you purchase multiple titles) and navigation through the music store is fast and music download is fast. Audio quality through the integrated 3.5 mm jack sounds good and very loud, even though the rumor does not touch come with all headsets. The built-in speaker is very loud back fire, but a little tinny. If you do, the volume of the blown speakers max, if you do not need the volume high enough to switch for most applications such as music playback.
Camera
The LG Rumor Touch has upgraded the camera 2 megapixels from the Rumor 2′s 1.3 megapixel camera. For snapshots and sharing with your friends online, the 2-megapixel camera on the rumor Touch do the trick quite well. The pictures look clear enough good color balance and saturation. But with competing devices like the LG Env 3, the Samsung and the upcoming Rogue Reality Samsung Verizon Wireless are all with 3-megapixel camera or higher, losing the rumor Touch the race. The photos show the typical level of noise you expect from a camera phone bottom. The Rumor Touch also does not like low light conditions for photos and video. Speaking of video, takes the LG smooth video with sound in sync. You can take videos for MMS or storing on the memory card. The maximum resolution for VGA video.
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Battery Life
The LG Rumor has a touch beefy 1250 mAh battery (LGIP-401N), which can set the phone for over a week standby. The claimed talk time is 7 hours, and our tests showed that the talk time was closer to just over 6 hours. Playing Sprint TV and Sprint Navigation is drained the battery faster than music playback. The phone can take at least two hours at Sprint TV videos on 3G EV-DO.
Verdict
It is good to see LG and Sprint to add some 3G power to the rumor and the rumor Touch line offers competitive features such as a full QWERTY keyboard, a 3″ touchscreen, Sprint TV, GPS with Sprint Navigation and Sprint Music. The Rumor phone should please fans who are we to upgrade while maintaining their messaging needs, browsing and storage options unchanged. We wish that LG had some styling updates done for the rumored touch and give him a better camera.
LG Chocolate Touch VX-8575 Review
Aug 23rd
During the revolutionary LG Chocolate Black BL40 Series Touring is still the fashion circuit, has its annual Verizon LG Chocolate Update with the LG Chocolate Touch (LG VX8575). The LG Chocolate Touch for Verizon has a 3″ touchscreen with 400 x 240 resolution, a 3.2-megapixel camera, integrated GPS with VZ Navigator support, Bluetooth with A2DP, V CAST Music and video capabilities, V CAST, a microSD card slot and a 3.5mm stereo audio jack. From the hardware specifications and features perspective carries the LG Chocolate Touch more like the LG Dare, when the last third-generation LG Chocolate LG Chocolate 3 users an update is available and affordable touch screen, a slim music phone to update a camera and more audio with built-in Dolby Mobile technology into the LG Chocolate Touch. If you are on the LG Chocolate BL40 are joining Revolution, come back next year (maybe).
The LG Chocolate Touch is a digital CDMA phone with EVDO Rev. supports 0th It is exclusive to Verizon in the U.S.. The phone comes with two back covers, one black and one in purple.
Design
The LG Chocolate Touch is a very slim phone at 4.30 x 2.20 x 0.47 inches. It feels strong in the hand and looks well built. The 3-inch screen dominates the front with the call send and end hardware buttons and the Cancel/Voice Recorder button below the screen. We do not dig the plastic cover plate, which frames the display, because they do not match the shiny chrome and edges, this stylish, modern abstract chrome and black or purple soft-touch back. The 3″ resistive touch screen is not very rosy, and the phone does not offer brightness levels. The display looks decent washed indoors with good color saturation, but looking outside. The touch screen has haptic feedback, and both audio feedback for touch screen, and it feels appropriate responses for touch controls. The phone has an accelerometer, and his on-screen keyboard works in both portrait (T9-style) and landscape (QWERTY-style) modes. The LG Chocolate Touch has a proximity sensor that responds quickly to the phone’s position relative to your face.
There are plenty of side buttons like volume control, launcher camera, music key, speakerphone, and thank God a screen lock. The LG Chocolate Touch has a 3.5 mm audio jack on the top and a microSD card slot under the battery cover. The phone is ringing does not require you remove the battery to access the memory card.
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Phone, Web and Messaging
The LG Chocolate gets good signal strength in well-covered areas and the voice is loud and fairly clear. The phone loses signal and drop calls in spotty coverage areas, especially in large buildings. The touch screen has a simple on-screen dialer that use the number keys are touch keys for voice dialing, recent calls and contacts. Voice control works well for voice dialing and the speakerphone is loud during the talks. The Contacts database can store 1000 entries and additional tools include Calculator, EZ Tip calculator, calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, notepad and drawing pad. Verizon offers ringtones, games and other media downloads for the LG Chocolate Touch.
The LG Chocolate Touch has a touch interface that five shortcut buttons at the bottom of the screen and side effects Bookmark Touch-buttons to include music and customizable home page splash screens. You can add applications and content on two screens at home, good size icons for finger control. The LG also comes with the full HTML Web browser v6.2 Polaris, is adapted for the screen. Web pages load in an acceptable speed, even though it has EVDO Rev. 0 and the Web browser supports the accelerometer and landscape on-screen QWERTY keyboard. Mobile e-mail and mobile messaging are integrated on board, and social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter in the messaging application. You can update your Social Network pages (including uploading pictures to add), check POP e-mail and SMS and MMS messaging all in one application.
Music and Video
Like the previous LG Chocolate phone, the LG Chocolate Touch is a good music phone, though it does not stand out as the best music phone in Verizon’s feature phone line. The LG Chocolate Touch works with Verizon’s V CAST Music Store, you buy and download songs over the air allows PC via Rhapsody. The phone has a gig of internal storage space for music and a microSD card slot that supports cards with high capacity. It comes with a USB sync cable to sync music from a PC. The phone can be a music player, MP3 playback, WMA and unprotected AAC and AAC + music files. If you have music ripped in iTunes or Windows Media Player, you can play tunes on the LG Chocolate Touch.
The LG Chocolate has touch Dolby Mobile Technology with an EQ tool for music playback. The audio quality through the built speaker is relatively loud and full. The Samsung with Bang Trance u0026 Olufsen ICEpower’s still sounds fuller than the LG Chocolate Touch. Audio sounds better than the 3.5 mm stereo-out jack on the phone compared to speakers. We tested several wired headsets with the LG Chocolate Touch, and found the powerful bass and loud volume, but the sound lacked clarity. If you play mostly rock songs, the powerful bass you like. But if you play classical or acoustic tracks instrumentals, the lack of clarity is disappointing. We also tested the LG Chocolate Touch with Bluetooth stereo headsets, and the results were similar to our experience with wired headsets.
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The LG Chocolate Touch also works with V CAST Video, Verizon’s on-demand video streaming service. The LG Chocolate Touch can play videos in portrait or landscape mode when in portrait mode the video window is very small. is when playing full screen in landscape mode is also available in many block artifacts also shows full-length TV episodes, even in areas with 3-4 (full) bars EVDO.
GPS
The LG Chocolate Touch has a built-in GPS receiver that works with Verizon’s VZ Navigator. The phone gets GPS fix quickly and locations are mostly accurate. The navigation is also for the rapid re-routing with real-time and accurate traffic information. The phone displays maps in landscape mode and the audio guide for the turn-by-turn directions aloud through the speakers of the phone. VZ Navigator is not free, but it offers additional services, including search points of interest, places, sharing and more.
Camera
The LG Chocolate Touch has a 3.2 megapixel camera with fixed focus lens that takes good pictures. The camera phone can still take pictures in five resolutions and features white balance, color effects and an image editing program. The LG also has a self timer and various shooting modes. Still images look quite sharp with good exposure and color balance. The LG Chocolate Touch can also videos with sound in either QVGA or 176 x 144 resolution. The phone lets you record short videos for MMS or long videos to save to memory, and boasts balance and light settings, and zoom. Videos taken with the phone to look decent, if you have good lighting, and video with synchronized audio. The camera has no flash.
Battery
The LG Chocolate Touch is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 1000 mAh capacity’s. Battery life is very good at talking about the LG to over four hours, including mixed use, navigation by GPS, downloading and playing music and surfing the Web and control news. Standby time is also good, and can last 1.5 to 2 weeks with little or light use.
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Verdict
Although not cool and innovative as the LG Chocolate, the LG Chocolate Touch BL40 some updates to the Chocolate music phone line yet. The 1 GB of internal memory for music is handy if you have lots of melodies, downloaded over the air or PC sync music is simple, and the 3.5 mm stereo audio has a good audio quality. The LG also has an FM tuner for radio addicts and supports most of Verizon’s services including V CAST Music and Video, VZ Navigator, Mobile Email, Mobile IM, Social Networking, Visual Voice and application and ringtone downloads . We want clarity was better and that’s V CAST video is less choppy. But the touch screen and a better camera with other functions could be just enough for those with older phones Chocolate updated.
LG eXpo GW820 Review
Aug 20th
After a long time, LG and AT&T have a mobile phone on the market that run Windows Mobile OS – LG GW820 eXpo brought. The phone measures 114 x 56 x 15 mm and weighs 147g and the phone is so slim that you will be surprised to know that there is a QWERTY keyboard houses. The phone seems very durable and the chrome aperture outlines makes the phone look perfect.
It has 3.2 inch TFT resistive touch screen, measures and has a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and supports 16 million colors. If the indicator on the highest brightness, you will, to see it clearly in direct sunlight. The proximity sensor automatically adjusts the brightness and helps save the battery. A secondary video call camera is located above the display. To unlock the display there is a Smart Sensor Fingerprint recognition feature.
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The LG eXpo lacks a 3.5mm audio headset and the phone with micro USB Adapter 3.5 mm Audio, which you can connect your own headphones are supplied. Slide use the display horizontally to the right on the 4-row QWERTY keyboard. The bright backlight makes the keyboard is actually usable in all lighting conditions. The phone runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional operating system and is equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon QSD8250 driven 1 GHz processor. The internal memory of the phone is 86MB. You can expand the external microSD memory cards up to 16GB. LG S-class user interface, you can do more from the WinMo OS. It brings home three screens, namely LG contacts, multimedia Favorite and the main screen.
The quality of the images by 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash is locked in fairly decent. You can record video with 640 x 480 resolution. Video formats such as MP4, WMV, H.264, and H.263 can be played on the LG eXpo GW820. The phone is ringing does not play DivX and Xvid files. The S-Class has personalized the World Cup’s player and plays audio formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, eAAC files have and equalizer function. And now we’re talking about the USP of the phone, the pico-projector. You can put the Pico-Projector at the back of the phone and electricity consumed by the battery of the phone. It’s cool, a feature for viewing presentations directly from your mobile phone. It may take up to 40 inches tall.
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You can use the web by Internet Explorer, navigate to the LG eXpo at 3G speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps over HSDPA and you can also access the Web via Wi-Fi connection. You can use the data via a Bluetooth and micro USB transfer. The other functions of the phone include GPS and Pocket Office for viewing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note, and supports PDF files. The standard 1500 mAh Li-Po battery offers a talk time of 4 hours and 400 hours standby time.
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TECHNICAL DATA
- Carrier – AT&T
- Form Factor – Slide
- Camera -5.0 MP AF camera with built-in flash
- Music Player – Windows Media Player
- QwertyFull, Compact QWERTY Keyboard for Fast Messaging
- Touch Screen
- Bluetooth – Version: 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
- Internet Explorer Mobile Technology
- GPRS/EDGE quad-band frequency
- Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), UMTS/HSDPA Tri-band (850/1900/2100 MHz)
- Dimensions – 4.45″ (H) x 2.24″ (W) x 0.648″ (D)
- Battery – 1500mAh Li-Polymer
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Review
Aug 19th
If you have a product that have been successful for several years, but has fallen somewhat behind the times, it can be difficult to figure out what to change and what to leave alone. With the new BlackBerry 9800 Smartphone Torch, RIM seems this line to navigate successfully. While it is unlikely that the torch for the consumer away from their iPhone and Google Android devices are characterized at least BlackBerry users are not left completely in the dust.
The new BlackBerry smartphone features a 3.2in, 480×360 resolution touch display. While there is clear and quite sharp, the BlackBerry 9800 Torch is not really comparable to the display with the leading consumer smart phones – for example, offers the iPhone is 3.5 inches 4 shows a 960×640 resolution, while the Google Android-running Motorola Droid X has an even larger 4.3-in display with a resolution of 854×480.
On the other side is worth the BlackBerry 9800 Torch 162g, about the same weight as the Droid X, and is 61x14x112mm at about the same size as the iPhone 4th We found it very comfortable to handle and use, and it is small enough to drop in a shirt pocket without a second thought.
The phone features a vertical slide-out keyboard – it makes for a length of 147mm when opened – that still has the rounded look and small but well-developed key characteristic of BlackBerry devices. We found the BlackBerry 9800 Torch the buttons a bit too small for comfort, but is typical for BlackBerry, we were able to “thumb-type” short messages with relative ease. Current BlackBerry users should be pleased.
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The BlackBerry 9800 Torch includes four hard keys, including one start and one to a call – we have often wished end. Other features include a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with 3G broadband, a 4 GB microSD flash card, 512MB RAM and 4GB of built-in memory.
The new BlackBerry OS 6 is elegant and simple to use and understand. All of your applications on a “tray” that can be raised or lowered are on your home screen. Their main applications are represented by icons on the home screen (you can also icons for individual contacts, and bookmarks). Swipe left and right you will see on other screens, including the favorites and the newest (most recently used applications).
One of the new OS features is the universal search. Just start, and the BlackBerry 9800 Torch is for applications and information on and off the phone that one could look to fit. For example, we have tried typing “weather” and got an application icons for “weather” and links to weather sites. We started typing the name “Michael” and by the third letter, we saw relevant news and contacts.
Another feature that really work well in our tests, the BlackBerry 9800 Torch the universal inbox. All e-mail, social network messages, etc. are displayed on a screen – touch on a particular message, and it opens in the application relevant to this message. Hit the Back button, and you are back in the Inbox. Sideways swipe, and you have access to your RSS feeds.
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According to RIM, the BlackBerry 9800 Torch has full multi-tasking, so that for example, can download music into the background while you are working on the browser or other parts of the OS.
No decent smartphone today would dare show their face without any kind of business apps. In the case of the BlackBerry Torch 9800, additional apps get with BlackBerry App World, which is accessible may be an icon on your screen at home. The phone comes with a number of applications, including the Weather Channel, CNN, Bloomberg, Web and Video Search Slacker Radio Plus pre-installed.
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Sony Ericsson Equinox Review
Aug 18th
Sony Ericsson has unleashed its first Sony Ericsson Equinox for T-Mobile. This mobile phone is a flip phone, which in thin design and it has a same set of 3G networks, which is offered for all T-Mobile. The Equinox is also called TM717 and has a price of $0.01 with a plan and still has Plus plan with prizes.
Design
Although the design of this phone is good, its not aesthetically designed to impress not or draws the people. The phone is only attractive to use with the presence of beautiful, in just a keyboard and the peripheral display. The dimensions of this handset is 3.7 x 2.0 x 0.6 inches, which seems very slim and compact. The chassis is made from black glossy plastic, the magnet for fingerprints, and even if it reflects the light fell on this cover made. At the front, the front circle pattern. Since this phone is a clamshell type, it has a stable and robust touch with resilient material on the back lane hinge.
The display, the internal measures approximately 2.25inch which is a plus. The display supports 262, 144colors and the native resolution of the screen is 320 x 240pixels. The screen is vivid and intensely brilliant with sharp graphics and sounds. It can be an intuitive and simple user interface of menus and MyFaves display the standby screen to be added. Brightness of the display may be adjusted by adjusting the size of the Clock. Do you want to know that an incoming call, then a light can be turned on, the cover on the front lights up when there is an incoming call.
The display, the peripheral is very small and weak to use. Signal strength, time, caller ID and numeric battery life on the external display. Date and Photo Caller ID can not be seen and not to work as a viewfinder for the camera. The display can not be seen when the backlight is turned off and the clutch is that the backlight timing can not be changed. Control of this phone are very cruel. The backlit keyboard layout and navigation switches are red and slippery. Errors happen very often, while text messaging and dialing.
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For example, the keyboard is not as much experience eye-catching or comfortable. With the feeling that is difficult. In the navigation arrangement there is a central OK toggle with two softkeys End/Power button and talk button, a camera shutter and a clear control. If the phone is in standby mode, the keyboard shortcuts for 4 can be assigned. Towards the left of the phone is the volume rocker button that raised a bit, but tiny, that it should be original, but it provides support to the design of the Equinox. There is a single interface for charger and headset.
It is intended, Memory Stick Micro card instead of the microSD card slot. In order for this device from the old man to him with microSD card slots has stood still. This is a new improvement. Transferring files can be in bulk from mobile phone to do mobile computer or other mobile SE. This is very complicated, ie the transfer of files between the same sets and others do not!
Features
There are some important features that are discussed in detail sbout this phone has. 1000 contacts in the phone book, can be done in the seven other phone messages with company name, enter, e-mail address, two street addresses, birth date, URL and notes. Also SIM card can store up to 250 contacts. Callers can be stored in groups and can be paired with a photo, video, lighting effect, and one of the 23 mp4 ringtones. Even traces of music can be used to identify different callers.
Some of the key features include a speakerphone, stopwatch, multimedia and text messaging, task list, timer, notepad, alarm clock, calculator and a calendar. PC synchronization, file-Wi-Fi, voice recorder, USB mass storage, code memo for storing very insightful information, managers and instant messaging are some of the advanced features. Incoming calls and silent alarms made with the help of gestures can be controlled only by swinging his hands back and forth, the lens of the camera. This is a very lengthy process. It is a 3.2MP camera that can take snapshots in two quality settings, and four sizes.
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A night mode, 3colors effects, adjustments of brightness, white balance, self timer, 14 frames, four shutter sounds plus a silent option, and are multishot and panorama modes editing options included here. 3.2x digital zoom is available for use only on the lowest resolution. The quality of the photos is decent, but sometimes the noise is found. Hues are vibrant and vivid and are razor sharp. There is no flash for camera. The memory is expandable to 16 GB. Certain editing options are available with the camcorder. With the VideoDJ and PhotoDJ app, finished the work can be manipulated.
The clips and photos you can this mobile will be transferred in several ways. Without any software, the computer recognizes the phone when connected via USB cable. A digital music player when using this phone that is offered similar to the Walkman series phones. Repeat and Shuffle modes, features are included, playlists and equalizer is also available for bass. Music can also be transmitted via Bluetooth, USB cable and a memory card. The interface of the player is just the album cover support and also have many utilities.
Airline mode is also available and can be sent to the music player in the background while using other phone options. FM radio is also integrated into this phone. GPS options are there with Google Maps and TeleNav support is offered. Local maps, search for locations in the vicinity, transport and support voice directions are offered by the latter option. Snaps, which can take from this phone will be provided with the geotagging information. Certain applications for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.
Comic bars can be created with the unique feature Comeks be in mobile phone camera. There are two games available with this phone. They are Real Football 2 and Bubble Town. Other games may have to be with the T-Zone T-Mobile service in the presence of WAP browser. Personalization of this phone can use a variety of display themes, wallpaper, screen saver warning tones are carried out and.
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Performance & Outline
This phone is a quad-band GSM type 850/900/1800/1900. The quality of the call is acceptable, with natural sounding voices, and no degradation of the static cast. The quality of the speakers is average. It is not loud, and voices heard when the speakers are very disturbing in the preamble, calls on the headset are pretty ok. The battery life is designed to 10h of talk time with 3G-4h of talk time and standby time is 16 days for both modes. So this is a pretty average mobile and people will go for a basic handset pack, can use this mobile for her.
LG Remarq Review
Aug 17th
A lot of mobile phone manufacturing companies are offering environmentally friendly products these days and attract customers environmentally friendly with their phones, the latest to join this revolution is LG with the LG Remarq. We first came on the slider Messenger handset in the CTIA 2010, and were happy to see that 19 percent of mobile phones is made of recycled plastic. The remaining 87 percent of the phone can also be recycled once you get the listener to get rid of. The phone has in fact very low level of the two brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride. It was impressive to see that LG took his time, to make the ecological packaging and carton. Even the charger from LG is Remarq energy efficient with an Energy Star certification.
Besides being environmentally conscious features of the Remarq is on a whole decent messaging device. Although you are not a high-speed EV-DO in the phone, but yes, it offers a 1.3 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, a music player, instant access to social networks like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook and has a speakerphone. The square and the QWERTY keyboard of the phone, and decent feel. Priced at $ 50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract with Sprint, the LG is a steal Remarq entirely.
Design
The LG Remarq has a short and thick design most other slider phones, we in the market before it had seen the flash Verizon Wireless and Samsung Reclaim. Some users might not like the style of Remarq, but somehow we liked the cute and chubby form factor of the phone. The phone measures 2.5 inches wide and 3.5 inches long and 0.6 inches thick and has curved sides, rounded corners and is completely compact. The phone comes wrapped in shiny hard plastic and weighs approximately 3.8 ounces. It feels surprisingly sturdy and stable when held in hand, despite the recycled parts of the phone.
Hardware
The LG has a catchy Remarq 2.2-inch display with most of its front real estate. The display here has native resolution of 220 x 176 pixels and offers support for two, 62000 colors, making the images and texts appear rich and crisp. The brightness can be adjusted to the phone, and so is the case with the appearance of the Clock, the backlight time, greeting, calendar, screen saver, and font size. The phone also supports animated wallpapers. Positioned below the display is the navigation array, consisting of two soft keys, a four-way toggle square with a mean OK/Menu button, a Back button, an out-and-out speakerphone button, the Power/End button and a conversation key. The switch also works shortcuts to the browser Inbox My Photos album and My Stuff folder.
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Positioned on the left spine of the phone is a 2.5 mm headset jack, a microSD card slot and a volume rocker, while the right spine of the phone is connected to a camera button and the charger. The external speaker of the phone is positioned at the rear end of the phone.
Sliding the display shows the full four-row QWERTY keyboard of the phone, and given the small size of the camera its pretty spacious. The keys are sufficiently far apart, and here are a few rise above the surface, to facilitate easy entry. The keyboard has a normal function, and symbol keys, and we estimate that the space bar and enter keys are relatively larger than the rest of the keyboard.
Software
The LG Remarq’s mobile phone stores up to 600 entries with each entry with space for three e-mail addresses, six numbers, a Web URL, a memo, an address, an instant messaging handle, a professional title, a company name and a birthday . You can also use it with a picture for caller ID to assign, or share it in a caller group or can they assign pre-installed with one of the 23 ringtones ringtones and four types of vibration.
Some other basic functions of the phone includes a speakerphone, a vibrate mode, a calendar, an alarm clock, a unit converter, a calculator, a notepad, a tip calculator, a stopwatch and a world clock. The Remarq comes with a GPS locator in Family Services and Sprint Navigation, Voice Command functions, USB mass storage, stereo Bluetooth and a mobile Web browser. Apart from that there are many other applications and features as well that you get to the phone so access to all essential requirements.
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Performance
The call quality of the LG Remarq in our performance test with Sprint network was pretty decent, but certainly was not the best we had. Our interlocutors were clearly audible to us without any problems. Although there were occasional blip static, but on a whole cast were quite natural.
But unfortunately, facing our callers a little hiccup on their end, and although we had heard, but she complained of a weak but constant background activity. The activity was much clearer when we turned on the speakerphone. But still we were able to take our conversation easily and therefore we do not think it was a deal breaker.
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Battery
The LG has a battery life rated Remarq of 5.5 hours (talk time).
Verdict
The LG Remarq is an affordable and adorable environmental messaging device.