Recently at the 3GSM show in Barcelona, Spain there was a show of marvelous technological advancements in the cellular phone interfaces. Now, I know that "Harker" blocked a certain fairly popular online video viewing website, and this video appears on that website. So it might be slightly hard to watch this video at school, but you all should be doing academic things only. As you see, this splendid phone with splendid graphics you may be wondering when it will be released and who makes it. Conviently enough, I have one of the anwsers. It's produced by O2 and I don't know when it will be coming out.
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This is the new MotoKrzr K3 (Krzr K3 for short). This has been leeked to Engadget so we do not have very much concrete information about it, but it seems to have a camera that faces the person when looking at the phone, or in other words a front facing camera. This usually means that this will have 3G capabilities to make use fo the front facing camera for high quality video conferencing. This would be the first phone with video conferencing introduced into the US if and when it is introduced into the US.Hopefully it come here soon. On another topic the phone also has a 2MP camera on the back side for normal photo and video takingg jsut as in any other phone.
Origional at Engadget.
According to Gizmodo, an analyst has said that the Iphone will soon get dished out a backlash from the people that were praising it before. This is all according to him. He says that people will realize the faults that the Iphone has such as its locked down OS and its limited storage to act as an Ipod. The OS takes u[ about 750MB out of the 4GB or 8GB that you bought. He also outlines the fact that the Iphone will have no tactile feedback, or hard buttons, to give anyone the feedback that they need to know if they pressed the button or not. It is also much easier to type on a real tactile keyboard rather than a touchscreen. In the smartphone category it is failing in that respect. He also points out the fact that it lacks 3G, Games, and no GPS functionality. He finds this as a definite turn off for many users. We will find out who is right when it comes down to the wire in June and the consumers take a test run.
This is it. Its finally here but is it worthy of your hard earned cash. We’re here to tell you. Whether you believe us or not is your choice. Anyways on to the big announcement. Yesterday at Macworld San Francisco Apple announced the Iphone, a hybrid phone - ipod. Now the first thing you notice about this is that it has no visible keyboard or any kind of input. That is because this phone is going for pure touch input. there is nothing other than that little circle button that takes you to the menu. It also has an accelerometer so that it knows when it is horizontal or vertical and it also knows when it is on your ear so that you don’t start pushing buttons while you talk. It runs at only .46 inches thick which is very thin for a device of its caliber. The second thing you notice is the OS it runs. You’re right if you guessed that it runs OSX. This runs a scaled down version of OSX, which is a good thing in some respects and a bad thing in others. It gives a full fledged Safari we browser which is way better than any other phone web browser. It also has a decent mail client so that you can completely and totally ditch all you other electronic devices. So Apple wants you to do. It has widgets that view all the common things such as stocks and weather. The other thing it has built in is Google Maps. Its got a decent camera at 2MP for taking some pretty decent shots occasionally. It communicates via 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, or on Cingular’s EDGE network. The text input is via a keyboard that come up on the screen when in applications that use it. Apple has this device locked down so there wont be adding any software that is not provided by Apple. Battery life is pretty good, at least what they say the battery life is, at 5 hours of talk, video, browsing and 16 hours of audio playback. That seems like a stretch. This also plays videos in widescreen mode from the Itunes Store. The only problem, the biggest capacity is 8GB. That is not very many movies or songs for that matter. This is to be released in June so that may change in the next few months. The only thing really holding this phone back is the storage capacity due, most likely, to the fact that they had to squeeze OSX on to the hard drive and we don’t know how much space the drive has on its own. Well as I said it comes out in June and at the price of a whopping $600 with a two year contract at Cingular. There is a 4GB model that runs at $500 with the same two year contract. Hopefully Apple allows it to move to other carriers but that is highly unlikely. I’ve told you the facts and a little but of my opinion now you decide. Is it worth that $600 (or $500) to you?
The new LG 9400 has been stuck into the CES press briefing for LG. It should come with a Verizon service because they are due to release their new MediaFLO network. For those of you who don’t know MediaFLO is one of the three ways of getting live TV to your cellphone. It looks like it has a really cool form factor with it looking like a candy bar style phone at first, then turning into a swiveling phone next. The screen swivels to make it a widescreen for viewing live tv. For some reason though LG made no mention of this at the their Press conference so maybe it has not been released.
Full Article at Engadget.