HP Nokia N96

Nokia N96 is the newest Nokia smartphone in the Nseries range of products. It is the official successor to Nokia N95.

The handset was publicly announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2008, and started selling in September 2008. Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific are the first locations to provide the handset for consumers. The American and Chinese versions are expected shortly thereafter. October 1st is set as the U.K. release date for the N96, although London has a separate date of September 24th when the device will go on sale exclusively at Nokia's flagship stores on Regent Street and at Terminal 5 (Heathrow airport).
Features

The Nokia N96 features the following:

• Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Dual band UMTS / HSDPA: UMTS 900 / 2100 N96-1 (RM-247, Global), UMTS 850 / 1900 N96-3 (RM-247, Global), no UMTS N96 (RM-297, PR China)
• 3G and WLAN access (RM-297 variant (PR China only) does not have WCDMA, WLAN and DVB-H).
• Mobile TV (network-dependent feature).
• GPS Navigation, map data fetched over mobile datalink or downloaded over the Internet and transferred to the phone over USB.
• Access to Ovi
• Instant upload to Flickr, Vox, Yahoo! and Google.
• Full-HTML browser.
• Symbian OS v9.3 S60 3.2 Edition, user interface.
• 16 GB of internal flash memory.
• Memory expandable to up to 48 GB with 32 GB microSD/microSDHC cards (maximum available card storage capacity 16GB/32GB (once released in 2009) ).
• 2-way slide, as in Nokia N95.
• 5-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics.
• High quality VGA camera in front of the phone, for video calling and self-portrait use.
• Double LED flash for the camera.
• Pre-bundled with WaveSecure in India variant
• Plays music files, and lets you download easily via Nokia Web.
• Allows high-quality video calling using 3G
• A built-in motion sensor that can automatically rotate the screen when tilted as on the Nokia N82.

Major differences between N95 and N96

Positive

• 16GB of integrated memory (as opposed to 8GB for N95 8GB), plus further extensibility via microSD memory card
• 2.8 inch display with 16 million colours (same as N95 8GB, versus 2.6" display for original N95)
• Camera flash is a dual-LED in the N96 while it is only a single LED in the N95
• New audio DSP for improved audio quality and longer playback time
• New version of Nokia Video Centre
• Longer music playback time (14 hrs) and video playback time (5 hrs)
• Windows Media WMV9 video codec is added
• Hardware acceleration for video codecs for H.264 and WMV (as well as MPEG4 as before)
• Location tagging (geotagging) of pictures, using the integrated GPS
• Mobile TV DVB-H receiver is built into N96
• New release of Nokia Experience Software
  • Maps 2.0 with satellite images, upgrade to pedestrian mode and voice-guided car navigation
  • Internet Radio pre-installed
  • Home Media Solution (sync with DLNA / UPnP devices over WLAN)
  • Online sharing of pictures with plugins for Flickr, Ovi Share and other services (Can be added on N95 with newer version of Share Online Application)
• S60 3rd Edition is upgraded from Feature Pack 1 to Feature Pack 2
  • Symbian OS is upgraded from version 9.2 to 9.3
  • The Java ME engine is upgraded from MIDP 2.0 to MIDP 2.1
  • User data is preserved when upgrading firmware (This feature is also present on the N95-2 as v21 installs UDP base files)
• The FM radio is upgraded with RDS
• Limited graphics acceleration (only for internal apps)
• N96 is a dual-band HSDPA (900 and 2100 MHz) while N95 was a single band (2100)
• MicroSD memory card slot (as in original N95, while N95 8GB has no card slot)
• No need to open the slide for optimal GPS reception
• New design
  • Landscape-oriented design (landscape oriented speakers, connectors and buttons located optimally for landscape use)
  • Flip-out kickstand
  • Media keys available in all modes (even when slide is closed, for background control of music)
  • Media keys on short side can transform into gaming keys
  • Lockswitch (enables quick lock / unlock of keypad)
  • Thinner and lighter than N95 8GB
• N-Gage included. About 5 games preloaded and one free game coupon (varies by country).

Negative

• CPU downgraded to ARM9 264MHz for N96 (N95 have Dual 332Mhz ARM11 based CPU)
• Same battery as original N95 (950 mAh), but the N96 reportedly has a much better battery life using the same battery (Nokia N95 8GB has 1200 mAh)
• No infra-red port on N96
• No Hardware 3D graphics accelerator for N96
• Built-in support for VoIP telephony (and thus cheap Internet Calling) removed from N96 (N95 has Nokia VoIP 2.1)
• Digital zoom is only x10 on N96, while it's x20 on N95 8GB
• Camera Lens in the N96 is 2.8/5.2, and in the N95 2.8/5.6 (N95 have more apperture)

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Sony Ericsson P990

Sony Ericsson P990 is a smartphone and the successor of Sony Ericsson P910. The Free Ponsel uses the UIQ 3 software platform, which is based upon Symbian OS 9.1. It was released in August 2006. The P990 has a numeric keypad that flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard below the display, on the phone itself. This is a change from P910 where the keyboard is on the flip. The flip itself can be attached or detached using the screw and screwdriver found in the box. The phone is a UMTS (3G) and tri-band GSM phone supporting video calls through its front VGA camera. The touchscreen displays 262,521 colours (18-bit colour depth) with a resolution of 240x320 pixels. It also comes with a 2.0 Megapixel camera featuring autofocus and an FM/RDS radio. The P990 runs the Nexperia PNX4008 ARM9 208 MHz processor from Philips.The screen despite a smaller length (2.8 inch) than its predecessors is actually larger in area because of the increased width. The phone also improves over the P910 by including support for Wi-Fi, allowing users to connect to 802.11b wireless networks. You can browse the Web using the built in Opera browser.

Connectivity has been an ongoing problem with the UIQ3 suite of phones from Sony Ericsson and the Mac OS X iSync utility that mac users use to synchronise the phone to the computer. As of February 2008 there are still widespread problems reported with these phones for Mac users.

P990 was the major smartphone device launched after P910. It had the latest UIQ user interface 3 which was completely incompatible with previous device applications. Like of P900 and P910 so new applications have to be written hence device did not have as many applications as older devices had. But the major issue was RAM which was much less (64MB) of which device used 48MB in start up (OS) and only 16MB was available for the user. This caused the phone to work slowly and crash frequently. Sony Ericsson later updated the firmware which made OS reduce its size up to 2MB and gave the user 17MB of memory to use. There were improvements seen in the phone after the software update.

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Sony Ericsson P1i

The Sony Ericsson P1 is the successor of the P990. It integrates many of the hardware features of the P990 in the form factor of the M600. It was announced on 8th May 2007.^[1] There is a Chinese version of P1 called P1c. Compare with P1/ P1i, P1c lacks of 3G, thereby using EDGE which is much slower but more available especially in the US and parts of Europe.

The phone uses the UIQ 3.0 software platform, which is based upon Symbian OS 9.1. It is slightly thicker than the M600 as a result of the new hardware features, but this is reportedly largely indiscernible. It is nonetheless considerably thinner than the P990 (25% smaller - as the official press review states).

Key Improvements

As a result of its increased RAM, the P1's multitasking performance is more stable than that of the first batch of UIQ 3 phones from Sony Ericsson (P990, M600 and W950). The boot speed, when compared to the P990, is also discernibly faster.

The P1 uses the form factor of the M600 and consequently shares its screen size of 2.6 inches, making it 0.2 inches smaller than its predecessor. However, due to the new transflective layer on its LCD display, legibility under direct sunlight has been improved on the P1. This addresses a common problem faced by owners of the P990.

The phone has 256MB of ROM; twice as much as its predecessor. The P1 also has 160MB of built in storage, which can be expanded by up to 8GB using its Memory Stick Micro slot

Main Features

• 3.15MP camera with autofocus, Video - QVGA 320x240 15fps, LED Flash, 3X Digital Zoom, Business Card Scanning and Picture Blogging
• Rocker QWERTY Keyboard with two letters sharing on one key
• Video Telephony (uses both front and back cameras)
• 256MB Flash, 160MB user free memory
• 128MB RAM (79MB free on startup)
• Symbian OS v9.1 UIQ 3.0
• 512 MB Memory Stick Micro (M2) bundled on package
• OptiMobile VoIP client (not included)
• FM Radio with RDS support, Gracenote TrackID service
• Enhanced standby screen - can have up to 15 applications shortcuts 15 now, instead of 5 (on P990,M600 and W950 respectively)
• "Record Conversation" is not available
• QuickOffice Document reader and editor, pdf+ reader

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LG KU990 Viewty Red: that offers high-quality performance

LG, one of the fastest growing mobile manufacturers, is well-known for introducing the touch sensitive screen mobile phones with unique features and fascinating looks. To grab the attention of the fashion-conscious mobile users, it has introduced its latest mobile phones with stylish looks and world class functionalities.

One of the fashionable and sleek mobile phones from LG is the LG KU990 Viewty Redmobile phone that has been provided in the market with mind blowing features and is also available in Black, Dark Silver, Purple and Pink colours in the present day market.

This GSM-enabled mobile phone from LG has a powerful camera of a 5.0 mega pixels that offers a high resolution of 2592 X 1944 pixels and comes along with autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), QVGA up to 120fps), strobe flash and a secondary VGA videocall camera for making video calls. This camera allows its users to capture the most precious moments of their near and dear ones as well as they can take videos continuously for a long time, even while they are on the move. All the options and modes of this digital camera help the users to snap clear and perfect images. This elegant gadget comes with a 3.0 inches TFT touchscreen display with 256K colours that offers an exceptional resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and comes with Flash UI and downloadable wallpapers. This bright and colourful touchscreen allows the users to access the functions of the without any hassles.

When it comes to high-speed data transmission features, this LG KU990 Viewty Red mobile phone comes preloaded with some of the world's most wanted features like class 10 GPRS, class 10 EDGE, 3G-HSDPA, Bluetooth with A2DP connectivity and USB support. To share text and picture messages with your beloved ones, this gadget offers messaging options like SMS, EMS, MMS and Email. The MMS features of this phone allows the users to send images and video clips to other devices, which are compatible with MMS (multimedia messaging service). The users of this amazing phone can browse all the websites over the Internet with high-speed as it is embedded with browsing options like WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML browsers.

To fascinate the music lovers, this KU990 Viewty Red mobile phone is equipped with a music player that supports the play back of music format files like MP3, MPEG4, WMV, AAC and DivX. Besides this music player the users can enjoy by listening music continuously with the help of its FM radio with RDS applications. This slim mobile phone has dimensions of 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm and comes with a weight of 112 grams which allow the users to take away with them with ease wherever they go. To save large amount of data in the form of messages, contacts and images as well as to download favourite music and games, this LG KU990 Viewty Red handset is embedded with 100 MB of shared memory and has a microSD (TransFlash) card slot to expand the external memory of this gadget up to 4 GB. It has a standard battery of Li-Ion 1000 mAh that offers an approximate standby and talk time of 430 and 4 hours, respectively, on a single charge. The users can watch the windows format files like Word, Excel, Power Point and PDF with its document viewer. To view the video clips and images on the TV screen, this tantalising phone comes with a TV-output connectivity feature.

If you are looking for a fashionable phone with latest technology features, this LG KU990 Viewty Purple mobile phone is a perfect choice to satisfy your needs and priorities of using a mobile phone. Surely, this device offers great delight to its users with its functionality and durability. Every kind of mobile user can get this mobile phone in his pocket as it available at an affordable price in the present day mobile phone market.

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HP Sony Ericsson W910i

The Sony Ericsson W910i is a slider model music phone. The W910i was announced on June 14, 2007 as a branded "Walkman phone" and uses version 3 of the 'Walkman Player'. The phone also features an shake control found on W580 and W710 models that enables music track switching by means of a shaking the phone and also for Java J2ME based video games and applications using the Java Platform 8.

The phone, alongside the K850 Cybershot and the more expensive W960 Walkman will be the first phones from the company to use the Sony Ericsson Media Manager which replaces the now-defunct File Manager seen on older models. The Walkman music software also uses the 'SenseMe' feature which designates the mood depending on the genre and the speed of the track the user is playing. The phone has had its camera interface revamped and resembles the one seen on K850; however the BestPic feature has been replaced by Burst Mode.

The W910i was available in four different colors which have been advertised as "Hearty Red", "Noble Black", "Havana Gold" and "Silky White". Included in certain retail configurations are a 1GB or 2GB capacity memory card. As well as the Walkman digital music player, the W910i can also play FM radio with features using RDS and GraceNote TrackID service.

On February 14th, 2008, the W910 was given the GSM Association's "Best Handset 2008" award

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HP Nokia 6630

The Nokia 6630 is a 3G smartphone made by Nokia, using the Series 60 platform with the Symbian operating system, released in November 2004. It is an evolution of the 6600 and 6620 smartphones, supporting tri-band GSM (900, 1800, 1900 MHz) and W-CDMA (2100 MHz) mobile networks (Nokia's third W-CDMA phone after the prototype Nokia 6650 and the test type Nokia 7600). It also supports EDGE packet data connections. It is also an evolution of the 7610 and 6670 which run on lower operating systems, when 6630 was released it made these phones look like cheap cousins and evidently reduced the demand for both models.

The Nokia 6630 is the first phone ever that allows truly global roaming; previously GSM phones have had near-global coverage except in Japan where 2G phone standards were different. The 6630 automatically uses the W-CDMA network in Japan. 6650 and 7600 were also able to function in Japan, but they did not support GSM1900, often needed in the United States (the Nokia 6651 has the GSM 1900).

During its development, the 6630 was nicknamed Charlie.

Features

Pre-installed software includes an e-mail client, a rudimentary web browser and Microsoft Office file viewer. It also includes support for MP3 and AAC playback at full quality (44.1 kHz, 16 bits, stereo), and the retail package includes stereo headphones with hands-free functionality.

As opposed to the 6600 and 6620's VGA resolution digital camera (640×480), the 6630 has a 1.3-megapixel camera (1280×960). It can record video clips at the resolution of 176×144, using H.263 video compression. Like the 6600 and 6620, the 6630 has Bluetooth capabilities and has a 176×208 pixel 65,000-color TFT LCD. It comes with a hotswappable DV-RS-MMC card, capacity 32 or 64 MB depending on the region where the phone is sold. It is noteworthy that normal RS-MMC cards do not work with the 6630, it requires dual-voltage (1.8 V and 3.0 V) RS-MMC cards. Currently it has been known to support up to 2 GB from a DV-RS-MMC but may support more.

The 6630 is capable of video calling using the main handset camera, however a separate forward facing camera is not featured. Nokia released a video call stand (PT-8) exclusively for the 6630 featuring a separate camera to enable face-to-face video calling. The video call stand requires a connection to mains power using a Nokia wall charger, which unfortunately restricts it to indoor 'desk based' use. The 6630 was primarily marketed for its 3G data capabilities rather than video calling functionality. The succeeding Nokia 6680 featured a separate forward facing camera for face-to-face video calling.

The main CPU in this smartphone is an ARM compatible chip (OMAP 1710 (ARMv5 architecture, Arm9 core)) running at 220 MHz, an unprecedented speed for a smartphone at its release. For comparison, the 6600 and N-Gage only run at 104 MHz.

It weighs 127 grams and measures at 110 mm × 60 mm × 21 mm.

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