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Nokia 7500 Prism

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Tuesday 7th, August 2007

Nokia unveiled the Prism collection, its latest range of mobile phones aimed at style-conscious consumers. The Prism collection consists the Nokia 7500 Prism, a handset which combines individual style and state-of-the-art technology. The Nokia Prism collection is highlighted by cutting-edge colors, materials and graphics. The Nokia 7500 Prism is the Nokia 7900 Prism's quirky sibling. The Nokia 7500 Prism's slick black exterior is spliced with bright, interchangeable color accents. The Nokia 7500 Prism camera phone has a 2 Mpx camera and it can record high quality movies. The Nokia 7500 Prism mobile phone can play music for nine hours and hold up to 1500 songs on an optional 2 GB microSD card.

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Casio W53CA

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Tuesday 7th, August 2007

Digital camera enthusiasts are all familiar with the Exilim series Casio offers, but we still have to see the first Exilim mobile phone to reach the market outside Asia. Casio Korea is proud to introduce their high resolution mobile camera phone; the Casio Exilim W53CA. Unfortunately, for now, we will not be able to get a sample in our hands because the Casio W53CA is for the Asian (Japan) market only. Casio is one of the pioneers of the digital camera market and is already active for more than a decade. The stunning designed Exilim cameras are famous all over the world and often copied by the competition.

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Apple iPhone widgets service

Posted by: Nic Rossmüller Monday 6th, August 2007

Plusmo announced the availability of its free and customizable mobile widgets service to users of Apple's new iPhone. A custom interface gives Apple iPhone users access to more than 20,000 Plusmo widgets - most of them created by users. Plusmo enables people to extend social networking through mobile devices. Content providers, media houses and bloggers can now extend their services to the Apple iPhone through Plusmo widgets for free within minutes. Plusmo also enables users to create personalized widgets out of useful web services, XML/RSS based sources including news feeds as well as professional media, and user generated content such as blogs, photos and videos, and other Web 2.0 content.

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Samsung SGH-U600 review

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Sunday 5th, August 2007

LetsGoMobile reviewed the Samsung U600 mobile phone. At the start of this year Samsung introduced a new mobile in their Ultra Edition line at the 3GSM in Barcelona. One of the phones introduced was the Samsung SGH-U600, also known as the Samsun Ultra Edition 10.9. The Samsung U600 is a mobile phone that appears at first glance to fulfil all the wishes of the average mobile phone user. Approximately 8% of the profits return to R&D so that Samsung can continually put new, innovative phones on the market. The Samsung U600 is a slider phone equipped with a 3.2 Megapixel autofocus digital camera with flash, an MP3 player and a microSD card with extendable memory and some touch sensitive keys.

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Samsung G600

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Monday 30th, July 2007

Samsung Mobile has announced a sleek new camera phone, the Samsung G600, at an exclusive global launch event today. Housed in a fashionable black two-toned slider shell and equipped with a 5 mega-pixel camera, the Samsung G600 is a fusion of design, photography and the ultimate in phone functionality. A design icon and high performance camera in one, the Samsung G600 mobile camera phone is the latest member of Samsung’s range of handsets and is made to capture quality pictures of priceless moments. At work or at play, consumers can now get creative with various modes such as panorama or mosaic settings and enjoy the quality of built-in Power LED flash.

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Nokia 5300 XpressMusic

Posted by: Nic Rossmüller Wednesday 27th, September 2006

Amid the excitement of the hottest DJ's and live performances from chart-topping artists, Nokia launched an exciting new range of music phones during an exclusive event at Nokia Theatre in New York's Times Square. Headlined by the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic, which features a stylish slide design and holds up to 1,500 tracks, these music phones make it easier than ever to carry a single device by combining the best of mobile communication and mobile music. With today's announcement, Nokia broadens its portfolio of music-driven mobile products, giving consumers an unparalleled array of choice. The new products announced today will begin shipments in select markets within weeks.

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Nokia N95 Live from the Showfloor

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Tuesday 26th, September 2006

While hopping over from one Hall to the other Hall we ran into a new Nokia; the Nokia N95 camera phone. The Nokia N95 is stylish, but more or less a basic shaped mobile phone with a high resolution camera module inside. Capturing 5 Megapixels while talking to your best friend is just a matter of pushing the right button. Mobile Imaging is catching on… what is next?

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Nokia N95

Posted by: Nic Rossmüller Tuesday 26th, September 2006

Nokia introduced the Nokia N95, an all-in-one multimedia computer with a pioneering 2-way slide concept, integrated GPS functionality, a 5 megapixel camera and support for high-speed networks, making it easier to watch and record videos, listen to songs, take high-quality photos, browse the internet, or catch up on email while on the move. "The Nokia N95 brings a range of multimedia ingredients together, such as a fantastic display, outstanding photo and video capability and high-speed connectivity, making it the ultimate multimedia computer," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Multimedia, Nokia. "This single device, which fits easily in your pocket, can replace stand-alone devices that you no longer need.”

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Mobile imaging is hot, but the way the imaging industry looks at mobile imaging products has changed. Whereas some once thought that we needed digital cameras with phones built-in, or imagined doom scenarios where compact cameras disappeared entirely and mobile camera phones take over, the same people have now come to the conclusion that mobile imaging has increased the imaging market and is for most users just another way of taking a snapshot. Today's mobile camera phone has increased in resolution and offers features that were at earlier times only found in digital cameras. We may even see the first 12 Megapixel camera phones at the end of this year, or the beginning of 2009. One thing is for sure, the strength of a multimedia phone is an ultra compact and light weight design so that you can carry it with you, always, whilst also offering a perfect integration of a lot of multimedia features like a digital camera, video capture, GPS, Internet, etc.

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