The best phone of the best phones » gadgets http://the-best-phone.com History of mobile phones news Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 BlackBerry Bold 9650 Gets Photo Taken With Bold Markings http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/10/blackberry_bold_9650_gets_photo_taken_with_bold_markings.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/10/blackberry_bold_9650_gets_photo_taken_with_bold_markings.html#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:39:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=15204 The BlackBerry Bold 9650 is one of those devices that’s seen some changes in its torrid history, well before it actually launches on any specific carrier. However, we’re hoping it’s all worth it. The last metre we heard about the Bold 9650, it was actually in the middle of a name change. It was dropping the Tour stigmatization, and picking up the Bold we are all now so familiar with. We tin can’t help but think this was the right field affair to do.

Though, the more we looking at at it, the more we’re inclined to think the twist does, indeed, looking at a draw like its Tour comrades. But, what do we know, right? Obviously there must be something about the earpiece that makes it jumping up to the Bold business of devices, and we honestly can’t waiting to uncovering out what that lineament whitethorn be. From what we can tell, there’s obviously the trademark QWERTY keyboard, along with the optical trackpad that the troupe has grown to love over the last class and a half.

We can also glean from the images, that the phone is destined for a CDMA-based carrier here in the States. So, what’s that mean value? Either Verizon Wireless or Sprint. No T-Mobile River USA or AT&T making love from this bad male child, it seems. At least, not right field away. And, if we had to put option our money down on a carrier, we’re going to assume that it’s Verizon Wireless. They’ve got a flyer going around internally expression new devices ar on the way, and this one is definitely I of the rumored handsets. As soon as we know more, we’ll qualifying it along.

[via CrackBerry]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/10/blackberry_bold_9650_gets_photo_taken_with_bold_markings.html/feed 0 Philips Xenium X312 Packs One Month Standby Battery Life http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/06/philips_xenium_x312_packs_one_month_standby_battery_life.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/06/philips_xenium_x312_packs_one_month_standby_battery_life.html#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:36:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=15027   Share

The deceptively simple Philips Xenium X312 will rich person a month of battery life, according to this render’s front blind. The few other spectacles to news leak out include a modest QVGA exhibit, Bluetooth, FM wireless, 2 megapixel photographic camera, and a microSD memory circuit board one-armed bandit. It’s likely to only rich person 2G, which probably contributes to its truly righteous battery life.

Although a month is impressive, this is about on par with Philips’ Xenium X810, X550 and X520, which could also last a month on understudy, only the latter ran on a abdominal aortic aneurysm battery. What’s hilarious is that the X630 goes even further and tin last 50 days in standby, or 12 hours of talking, and the 9@9 goes a solidness 2 months and 17 hours of talk. I really jab the strategy here: never head doing a wide raiment of moderately-successful features… Get the staple stuff down tap, then do unity thing really, really well (in this case, battery life).

As usual, this one likely North Korean won’t be advent to North America, and will stop floating around Asia and Russia, but it cadaver an interesting brand tom vigil, if only from afar.

[Mobile-Review via Unwired View]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/06/philips_xenium_x312_packs_one_month_standby_battery_life.html/feed 0 Sprint 4G Expansion Plans to Stretch Coast-to-Coast from Los Angeles to Miami http://the-best-phone.com/2010/03/23/sprint_4g_expansion_plans_to_stretch_coast_to_coast_from_los_angeles_to_miami.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/03/23/sprint_4g_expansion_plans_to_stretch_coast_to_coast_from_los_angeles_to_miami.html#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:22:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=13876 On a way to equip an expected 120 million Americans by remainder of the year with a mobile Net experience that is turbo-charged, Sprint today announced plans to bring 4G engineering to several additional markets, including Los Angeles and Miami. With 27 markets already equipped with 4G and more being planned for this class, Sprint is fulfilling its promise to light up major metropolitan areas with speeds that ar up to 10 times faster1 than 3G.

Newly announced markets that volition see 4G in 2010 are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. Earlier this year Sprint announced that it planned to launch 4G in Hub of the Universe, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New House of York, San Francisco and Capitol, D.C., in 2010.

And unlike “concepts” and “lab tests” from other radio companies, Sprint is the first base subject radio carrier to actually trial, launching and marketplace 4G technology. The potency of Sprint 4G lies in its all-IP backbone, common computer architecture and 4G spectrum depth, which spring the company considerable tractability to ensure that customers rich person a top mobile experience and the most advanced 4G services available well into the future tense.

With Sprint 4G, the mobile Internet potential is virtually limitless, especially for those using a Sprint 4G-powered product, such as Overdrive™ 3G/4G Mobile River Hotspot and Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U301 by Franklin. This year, Sprint plans to introduce several 4G devices, including a unity-mode 4G data circuit board, embedded laptops and a 4G phone. Customers can leverage existing Sprint 4G products and plans at select Sprint retail stores, select C. H. Best Buy stores and local retailers, through business gross sales, via Sprint Telesales at 1-800-Sprint-1 or online at www.dash.com/4G.

Sprint is harnessing the might of 4G as the bulk shareholder of Clearwire, the independent company that is building the WiMAX network.

1”Up to 10x faster” based on download speeding comparing of 3G’s 600 kbps vs. 4G’s 6 Mbps. Industry published 3G avg. speeds (600 kbps-1.7 Mbps); 4G avg. speeds (3-6 Mbps). Actual speeds may vary. Sprint 4G is available in more than 25 markets and count, and on select devices. See www.sprint.com/4G for details.

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/03/23/sprint_4g_expansion_plans_to_stretch_coast_to_coast_from_los_angeles_to_miami.html/feed 1 T-Mobile to preload Swype keyboard on touchscreen smartphones http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/11/t_mobile_to_preload_swype_keyboard_on_touchscreen_smartphones.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/11/t_mobile_to_preload_swype_keyboard_on_touchscreen_smartphones.html#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:41:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=10907 With the launching of the updated T-Mobile River (NYSE: DT) myTouch3G (myTouch 3G 1.2, for those of you retention mark at home), T-Mobile has kicked off a partnership with Swype to include the Swype keyboard on many of its touchscreen handsets. The Swype keyboard is the first truly innovative virtual keyboard to strike the scene in some meter, and offers a familiar spirit QWERTY layout that eschews the old-school method of tapping keyboard keys in favor of a missive-trace method that has the drug user dragging their digit across keys to form a word. Gone are the years of inefficiently trying to avoid typos as you pat out actor’s line – it’s all about swiping your digit to “type” your emails.

The T-Mobile myTouch3G might be the first base T-Mobile River French telephone to be blessed with the more accurate and clumsy-digit-friendly Swype keyboard, but it North Korean won’t be the last. We’re told to expect to see Swype doing its matter on the upcoming HTC HD2 as wellspring as a handful of other Android- and Windows Mobile River-powered smartphones in the coming months.

If you oasis’t had a probability to checkout out Swype, take a look at the demo video below. And, if you’re exploitation a Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT) Droid, you tin install Swype by pursuit our tutorial here.

Swype

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Jitterbug J, the super simpleton-to-use headphone, has been launched in red in documentation of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Go Red For Women movement. In that sense, the device volition ship with health and wellness services and applications including “Daily Health Tips”, which sends heart-healthy tips from the AHA, as wellspring as the LiveNurse service that connects customers to 24-minute registered nurses. In summation, Jitterbug and Samsung will documentation the Go Red For Women motion with a donation up to $500,000 based on handset sales.

Specs wise, the redness version of Jitterbug J is identical to the master device, featuring a large keypad, easy to understand fare and UI, Bluetooth, dual screens (internal and external), and so on…

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/11/samsung_launches_jitterbug_j_in_red.html/feed 0 HTC HD2’s Windows Mobile River 7 rise gets ‘unconfirmed’ http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/01/htc_hd2_8217_s_windows_mobile_river_7_rise_gets_8216_unconfirmed_8217_.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/01/htc_hd2_8217_s_windows_mobile_river_7_rise_gets_8216_unconfirmed_8217_.html#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:56:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=8552

Only in a worldly concern where Twitter is a legitimate breakage newsworthiness source can a company “unconfirm” a previously confirmed rumour. Just the other day, HTC Soviet Union got HTC HD2 owners and would-be owners all worked up with a tweet that seemd to confirm that a Windows Mobile 7 upgrade would be made available to the HD2 and the HD2 only. The master tweet was promptly deleted. The HTC Soviet Union Twitter history followed up with another tweet in which they say that the WM7 rise verification was “posted in error and is unconfirmed at this time” (emphasis ours).

There’s a couple possibilities here. Either the HTC HD2 isn’t slated for a WinMo 7 rise, and the person behind HTC Russia’s Twitter profile made a huge error. Or, the HTC HD2 is getting a WM7 rise, and the person behind the HTC Soviet Union Twitter visibility made a huge error by letting the proverbial true cat out of the cup of tea. We’re thought it’s the latter. It’s hard to stuff cats back in bags, once they’ve been net ball loose.

Of course of action, any WM7 upgrade would be detail on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) actually meeting their launching goal for late 2010.

Just remember, in Soviet Soviet Union, Windows Mobile River 7 leaks YOU!

[Via: WMExperts]

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All kidding parenthesis, the new engineering promises to bring “paintable” batteries to life. The fibrous newspaper acts as a substratum that carbon nanotubes in the “paint” can readily clingstone to. When dipped in a solvent containing Li ions and an electrolyte, the carbon copy nanotubes go wilderness and generate electrical current. That stream is stored on the paper.

The newspaper batteries could single twenty-four hours might future mobile phones with smaller, lighter weight batteries. These batteries would be capable of quick firing. And, best of all, the properties of paper have been studied for centuries, devising it easy to employment with.

Next stop? Fabric-based batteries!

[Via: BBC]

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Featuring, as was to be expected, a Carl Zeiss lens, the N86 is the first (and currently only) photographic camera phone to lineament variable quantity aperture values and a 28mm wide slant lens. The Aperture on a digital photographic camera determines the measure of light let in to smash the detector. So in low light source, switching to a lower aperture value and the N86 volition compensate for the deficiency of light by letting more in. This alone puts the N86 in the same conference as stand alone point and shoot digital cameras. The N86 also features a third base generation dual light-emitting diode flash which, Nokia claim, should crack effective light source at distances of up to 3.5m. While no sample shots from the N86 camera rich person yet been released, hopes are high gear that Nokia volition be able to post a late title for the 8.0 Megapixel photographic camera crown.

To looking at, the earphone takes the best bits of the N85 and N96 with a design that is definitely more development than revolution. The N86 features a dual slide design with the music/multimedia system buttons pickings on a larger, raised shape gene devising them much easier to manipulation. The keypad benefits from a similar overhaul; each button is a separate physical section rather than 1 apartment panel (as seen on the N96) which makes texting and seafaring error free. In price of size, the dimensions of the N86 8MP are nearly identical to that of the N85 (though the N86 comes in slightly chunkier at 149g to the N85’s 128g) which makes for one of the most pocketable 8.0 Megapixel phones out there. Best of all, the excellent kickstand found on the N96 (and the upcoming Sony Ericsson W995) makes a welcome return.

Aside from the designing, it’s pretty much business as usual as for any high gear end Nseries phone; HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity offer high speed internet and downloads, GPS with Nokia Maps offers the perfect SatNav answer and 8GB of internal computer memory volition give you somewhere to memory all your files. The N86 also features an MP3 actor, 3.5mm audio frequency jack, video actor, TV out and full N-Gage documentation turning the earphone into a powerful portable multimedia earphone. And the lineament I’m most excited about (apart from the camera of course of action)? Well, the N86 8MP marks the reappearance of the FM Transmitter substance you tin swordplay music from your phone through an FM radio. The feather in the Nokia N78’s capital, it’s great to see the feature resurrected in this latest summation to the Nseries.

The Nokia N86 8MP is expected to launch in May 2009, mouse click here to keep updated on Nokia’s first entrant into the 8.0 Megapixel photographic camera earphone worldly concern.

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