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Blackberry 9500 AKA Backberry Storm – A Touch Screen & Email Device

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

People busy with work and schedules always go in for a business phone rather than a normal one. Blackberry has well understood the needs of such people and has introduced wide range of phone to meet the specifications of the users. The latest introduction by them is the Blackberry Storm 9500 which is a touch screen phone. The phone is a perfect blend of style and technology.

Offering Perfect Style

The Blackberry Storm is a 3G phone with good looks. The phone is 14 mm deep, 62.2 mm wide and 112.5 mm tall. The weight of the phone is 155gm. The black colored casing of the phone makes it look even more stunning. The display of the phone is quite impressive with 3.25 inches of touch screen. The pixel count of 360 X 480 along with 65 thousand colors gives vibrant look to the screen and helps the user to have clear and bright view. The phone has 2 types of keypads. In the normal position when phone is held upright a Sure Type of keypad is appeared. Whereas if the phone is rotated in landscape position a full QWERTY keyboard appears that facilitates easy and fast writing of mails, SMS and other text. The accelerometer feature of the phone helps in fully automatic rotation of the screen.

Office Features

Being a Blackberry phone 9500 has loads of office features that help in your work. The phone has multiple options of messaging with email, SMS, MMS and instant messenger that facilitates chatting. It has advance options for email with BlackBerry Enterprise Server which works well with Lotus Domino, Microsoft enterprise and Novell GroupWise. The DataViz Documents To Go feature helps in viewing and editing of documents. The calendar and the address book of the phone can be easily synced to the PC using the BlackBerry Desktop Software. So now you will never miss an important meeting and appointment with calendar and organizer available in the phone.

Multimedia Features

Besides having good office features the phone is no where lacking in multimedia features. It has 3.2 MP of the camera which along with auto focus and flash feature gives clear and bright pictures. It can also shoot video besides taking still images. The captured images and video can be uploaded on You Tube and Flickr with a click of a button.

The phone has a decent music player which supports variety of formats like MP3, WMA and AAC. The built in speaker’s gives rich audio quality and the 3.5 mm of jack can also be used to connect your headphones. The applications for social networking site are well integrated in the phone for the people who are fond of it. Movie viewing on the wide screen of 3.25 inches will be an interesting experience. With Blackberry Storm 9500 you can store all your favorite pieces of music, image and video as it has huge memory of 1GB that can be further extended using a Micro SD card.

Connectivity Features

The phone has good connectivity features with 3G HSDPA technology that facilitates high speed internet connections along with multitasking and fast data transfers. The quad band gives the freedom to use the phone globally. The phone also facilitates GPRS and EDGE technology along with Bluetooth and USB connection. The GPS in the phone will always keep track of your locations and directions and you will never get lost.

Thus getting a Blackberry Storm 9500 is a wise decision as the phone has high end features and functions.

Samsung M8800 Pixon Review

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Samsung M8800 Pixon – I love shiny things, specially when it’s black, has touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera, autofocus, led flash. Come to think of it… I love making a review on a touchscreen camera phone. Now what’s growing inside my heart is the new Samsung M8800 Pixon. A new contender from Samsung in the 8 megapixel camera phone arena.

Samsung M8800 Pixon gets its kick from touchscreen and imaging and hopes to be the definitive cameraphone. The inspired TouchWiz interface and massive screen are the right gateway to getting the 8 megapixel camera and real high-end video unleashed. The Pixon obviously plays second fiddle to the INNOV8 in the Samsung portfolio but dares to challenge it in the imaging department. This review is getting nowhere unless I gave you the…

Key features:

* 3.23 256K-color TFT LCD touchscreen display of WQVGA resolution

* 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and lens protection

* Camera geo-tagging, auto-panorama shot, face, smile and blink detection, digital image stabilization

* WVGA video recording at 30fps

* Slimmest 8MP phone

* 3G with HSDPA support

* Quad-band GSM support

* GPS receiver

* microSD card slot

* DivX, XviD and MP4 video player

* SRS (Surround Sound System) Virtual 5.1CH

* TV out functionality

* FM radio with RDS

* Bluetooth and USB v2.0

* 200 MB internal memory

* Landscape on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard

* Accelerometer sensor

* Multitasking

* Office document viewer

* ShoZu integration (direct image and video uploads)

The Samsung M8800 Pixon gives out magnificent photos on it’s 8 megapixel camera that gives us another reason to leave your digital camera at home. I hope you enjoyed this review. Don’t hesitate to comment if you want to ask more about the Samsung M8800 Pixon.