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The Apollo has an LCD screen of 240X400 resolution instead of AMOLED display and runs Android 2.1.

Snaps from the 3 megapixel camera are average for a phone but the lack of a flash dooms low-light shot.

Video can only be captured at 320X240, which is barely good enough for posting to YouTube.

Battery life is good, although it’s highly dependent on your use of WiFi, 3G data and GPS. Apollo I5801 supports up to 7.2 hours of talk-time.
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Motorola’s range of Android phones has included some bold designs. Its unique feature is a hinge at the corner that lets you swivel the screen around by 90º to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard. The hinge is spring-loaded, and the flipping action is smooth, which helps to dispel doubts about build quality or longevity. A solid metal plate behind the screen means there’s no flex there.

Although small, the keyboard is surprisingly good, with a dedicated row for number keys. There’s even a four-way cursor control. The small touchscreen’s capacitive interface also proved responsive. Image quality isn’t brilliant, however, with only a 320×240 resolution. As with most LCD screens, viewing angles are optimized for the screen’s usual orientation. Read the rest of this entry »

The HTC Tattoo is an Android phone that’s available free on a contract for £20 per month. Despite its budget price, it has all the features you’d expect on a smartphone, including GPS, an FM radio, Bluetooth and WiFi.

It may not be as sleek as HTC’s other Android phones, but the curved chin and large, round central button give it character. The controls are located on the phone’s chin, with only a volume controller on the side, A 3,5mm headphone socket is located on the top edge, while a mini-USB port, for charging and data transfer, is on the bottom. Read the rest of this entry »

While previous revisions of the iPhone have been small updates to the existing design, the iPhone 4 feels like a new phone. For a start, it’s the thinnest model yet, and the slender new case makes the old ones feel a bit podgy.

One of the main new features is a front-facing camera, primarily for FaceTime video calls. However, these can currently only be made over a WiFi connection. The quality of the video is surprisingly good, and it’s quick to switch between front and rear cameras. Read the rest of this entry »

The Desire is essentially HTC’s version of the Nexus One, which it also manufacturers. As we mentioned in the previous review, the main specifications of the two handsets are pretty much identical. However, unlike Google’s smartphone, it doesn’t support US 3G bands.

With a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 576MB of RAM, the Desire speeds through anything Android can throw at it. HTC’s Sense interface is a great improvement on the standard Android interface. The People app brings together all your contacts, across multiple services such as Google, Exchange, Facebook and Flickr, and automatically searches for duplicates and lets you merge them. Read the rest of this entry »

MSI launched two Tablets in its new Wind Pad range at Computex in Taipei, and they couldn’t be further apart if the company had tried. Both are lOin devices with capacitive touchscreens, but that’s just about where the similarities end.
The Wind Pad 100 runs Windows 7 Starter and has an ultra-low powered 1,66GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor at its heart. Combined with 2GB of memory and Intel’s GMA 3150 graphics chipset, this means Windows 7 runs very slowly. After using the 100 and watching MSI’s PR team demonstrate it, we can’t say we were that impressed.

The most cringe-worthy aspect of the demonstration involved MSI’s Easy Face log-on system, wherein the poor PR representative spent 45 seconds trying to contort her face into the frontward-facing camera so the machine could recognize her. The lOin display has the same 1,024×600 resolution as most netbooks, but MSI’s Wind Ul touch interface makes more efficient use of the space when compared with standard Windows 7. Read the rest of this entry »

At last year’s NAB, JVC officially entered the solid-state market. This year the company will showcase its compact, handheld GY HM100U camcorder, which joins the company’s full HD recording (selectable 1920×1080 or 1280x720p) camcorders with data rates up to 35Mb/s in native .

The HM100U camcorder records to dual SDHC memory cards, and sports three 1⁄4″ CCDs and an integrated 10x Fujinon lens with optical stabilization. JVC plans to demo several new monitor entries, including its Vérité “G” Series of professional LCD monitors. They feature 3G and Dual Llink HD/SD SDI inputs. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone announced a new thin slab of smartphone: iPhone 4.0 with an amazingly sharp screen.

What’s new? Is there any new iPhone features? Yes,there are: new design, a front-facing camera, new integrated antenna, a second mic for noise cancellation, microSIM.

iPhone 4 runs on iPhone OS 4 OS. Powered by the A4 processor iPhone 4 features a new camera with a backside illuminated sensor which supports 5x digital zoom, LED flash, GPS and records a full 720p at 30fps HD video.

The new battery supports 10 hours of video recording, 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, up to 40 hours of music, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 300 hours of standby.

In the US iPhone 4 will be available on June 24 at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model.

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LG Viewty’s the latest  range of touchscreen phones is LG Viewty Smile GT400 which offers some great features.

This latest handset is packed with a 5.0 megapixel camera (with Flash and Face Detection) which offers photo slideshows and a photo editor for adjusting pictures before sharing them with friends. The device supports 3G which provides fast internet downloads and fast access to social websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Orkut and Twitter.

The new LG Viewty Smile GT400 is equipped with a 3-inch touchscreen TFT display (WQVGA) with resolution of 240×400 pixels, 100 MB of internal memory and plus a microSD card slot with capacity up to 16GB, Bluetooth 2.1, FM tuner, audio and video players, Document viewer.

LG Viewty Smile GT400 is now available in the market.

Recently HTC introduced the world’s first 4G phone which will likely enter the market in summer.

The HTC EVO 4G will support streaming voice calls and data with blazing speeds. So let’s compare: 600Kbps (HTC 3G) vs 6Mbps (HTC 4G). Can you imagine the difference?

Besides 4G technology feature HTC Evo is also unique for its 8MP (instead of a 5MP) camera and HTC’s capacitive multi-touch with Sense UI.

HTC EVO 4G goes to the next generation with the Android OS, but just imagine a phone with Android and a 4G technology.

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