Motorola has taken its original Milestone smartphone, ditched the slide out keyboard and some of the thickness and weight, and relaunched the feature-packed mobile as the Motorola Milestone XT720. Whilst there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the original Milestone, the market has moved on – keypads are out, and touchscreens are definitely in. So how does this new version of the Milestone compare with the other touchscreen smartphones?
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can’t have missed the launch of Apple’s new iPhone 4. With the promise of the kind of features that customers have been demanding, a new look, and better technology, Apple have made the familiar claim that this is the best iPhone yet. So how does the iPhone 4 stack up against your old iPhone, and the other smartphones out there?
With the wide variety of phones available, it was usually only business types that would actually choose to have a Blackberry, and this was mostly due to its success as a communication device rather than all singing, all dancing smartphone. Blackberry has been trying to extend the appeal of its phones, and the improvements to the new Blackberry Bold are designed to make it more consumer-friendly.
Unlike the many different Blackberrys before it, the Blackberry Curve isn’t meant to be the kind of smartphone you find at business meetings and conferences. After many years of building a reputation for providing sophisticated smartphones for the business user, the Blackberry Curve is part of the company’s plans to make their phones appealing to a much wider audience. The increase in demand for smartphones has presented Blackberry with an opportunity for its unique looking phones, but can the Curve make the most of it?
For a name that’s as synonymous with mobile phones as Nokia, it’s sometimes hard to understand why they have never really been able to crack the smartphone market, at least not in the same way Apple and HTC have, and some of the other manufacturers are starting to. All this could be about to change however, as the Finnish mobile giant tries to make up for lost time and opportunities, with the launch of the N8. But does Nokia even know what it takes to make a competitive smartphone anymore, and if so, is the Nokia N8 it?
With the Wave, Samsung created a vehicle for its Bada open mobile platform. It received positive reviews from critics and consumers bought it at a respectable rate. This prompted Samsung to penetrate growing markets and gain a foothold with the Bada OS. Including regions such as Russia, Samsung plans to release the Samsung Wave 2 into these areas in order to be first on the market with its technology.
One of the biggest advantages that Droid has over the iPhone is the wide range of phone models available. AT&T hasn’t exactly been at the head of the pack in its adoption of Droid, but it has lengthened its admittedly sparse. The Aria is not the most powerful Droid phone on the market, but it’s not supposed to be. The Aria is a little more portable than other smartphones, so if you’re looking for HTC Aria Cases, you’ll need a smallish one. It’s compact and lightweight; at only four ounces, it fits easily into a pocket. While other smartphones seem to be getting bigger and bigger, the Aria is only 4.1 inches by 2.3 inches, and and only a half inch thick to boot. The Aria forgoes HTC’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor in favor of a more streamlined 600MHz one, but it still performs admirably.
Nokia N8 is a cell phone that everyone has been looking forward to for the past two to three months. Nokia creates such as buzz around the cell phones that no one is willing to wait for such as long time. The wait is over finally as Nokia has decided to launch its latest cell phone called Nokia N8. What makes the celphone so powerful is its Symbian v3 OS. Its processor is ARM 11 680 MHz and it is accompanied by a fabulous 12 megapixel camera. What more can one ask for?
AT&T recently dived into the smart-phone race through its unveiling of the HTC Aria. The feature-rich phone, which easily contends for top spot of the AT&T Smartphone line, boasts the quick and responsive Android 2.1 platform, a favorite of the latest iPhone killers. Similar to the Droid, EVO, and Galaxy Series, the Aria packs loads of features such as GPS, Wi-Fi, and FM Radio, into its bright, crisp screen. However, unlike competing smart phones which have opted for bigger screens, the Aria stayed true to the smaller is better concept, making this tiny 4.1×2.3x.46 phone one of the smallest of the Android series.
Images of old cell phones from the 90s are a surefire way to spark laughter-they are big, cumbersome, and look ridiculously outdated compared to the small gizmos we have today. So it should be surprising to learn that the first conception of crude, mobile phones actually dates all the way back to 1947. Researchers tried to evolve the technology used in walkie talkies. They realized that by using small cells instead of relying on single frequencies they could reuse the same frequencies, and thereby dramatically increase the traffic capacity. In other words, the initial kernel of invention was present, but unfortunately its potential was halted.