Moto Z9 launched on AT&T

Motorola's latest phone Z9 launched on AT&T. The new Moto Z9 slider phone features in-car GPS dubbed as AT&T navigator, which can give you turn-by-turn directions so that you can easily locate hotels, gas stations, cafes, etc.

Moto Z9 is equipped with 3G connectivity, which means you will always be online. This phone also comes with the Opera Mini 8 browser, which is better than any other mobile browser out now.

For the media lovers, its new Video Share feature let you send stream videos to your friend’s mobile straight from your mobile. This phone comes with Windows Media Player 11, which ensures no trouble playing your audio or video files.

The Moto Z9 comes up with the latest award winning Crystal Talk Technology, which promises you will be heard in the noisiest place. This mobile also equipped with a 2MP camera with flash, an expandable memory option by microSD card, and Motorola Synergy OS.

Moto Z9 is available on the AT&T network for $249.99 with two years service agreement.

Pioneer - AVIC F500BT

Pioneer, a well-known name in auto music systems, is now planning to get into auto navigation systems with AVIC F500BT, a hybrid system and advanced voice recognition for providing complete control of iPod and Bluetooth devices.

AVIC F500BT stores utility of many devices, it is a navigation system with mapping function, which provides overhead and movable 3D viewing. It has a 5.8-inch touch screen, and directions are texts to speech. The database includes maps of the United States, Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii. In addition, it has an auxiliary input audio for personal audio and communication devices, and has the capability to play mp3 or WMA file by a SD memory card or streamed from Bluetooth mobile phone.

This device also has the advantage of voice control, which allows its users to control their iPods or other Bluetooth devices easily. The voice controls for the music allows commands as “Play Bryan”, and if you want, you can choose a particular album too. Moreover, for making a phone call, you just have to say "call xxxxx", and device will confirm you to call home or mobile.

Pioneer AVIC F500BT is said be available in Spring of 2008, but there is no hint over its price, having a lot in one thing do not expect it to be cheap though.

Smartphone from Toshiba - Portego G810

Last month Toshiba just got officially into cellphones with their G710 and G910, but now they are planning to get one more smartphone in the market their Portego G810 at MWC. Like the earlier two phones, this one also comes with Windows Mobile 6, and it supports 3g HSDPA and HSUPA, built in GPS and AGPS, Wifi, and Bluetooth, 256MB internal memory. One can also expect a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen with a 3 megapixel camera with auto focus, micro SD card slot for expanding storage capacity and a FM radio.
There is no pricing declared, but it is quite clear that this phone will hit the European market very soon in a month or two.

Get a customized Cell Phone (including features)

This week two companies announced two different versions of customizable cell phone. Now, it is clear that its the starting of a new era, where you can custom your cell phone like we did to laptops and PC's.

Modu, a cell phone manufacturing company from Israel, announced a GSM handset that will be released this October. It will be a tiny phone which can be slide into a jacket, and jackets will be having extra functionality. For example, a user might use a jacket with a nice camera in it for personal use, and then replace that with a jacket to use a QWERTY keyboard for business use. You will also get software, which give instructions to phone about color schemes in addition to other features.

Another company is zzzPhone, which has announced build to order phones, and they claims that buying its phone will be like ordering a PC from Dell. Just use their website, and select the features you want to have and the company will build it. It's base model costs $149, and will provide a wide range of colors and features like 7 mega-pixel camera, TV tuner or DMB, or GPS, etc. all additional features will be charged extra.

Nokia and Microsoft talks for loading Windows Mobiles in Cell phones

Nokia, always supposedly loyal to the Symbian platform for it phones, is now talking with software giant Microsoft to put Windows Mobile platform on their handsets as said by John Starkweather one of the Microsoft's marketing director.
Nokia already using Microsoft’s ActiveSync and PlayReady. Microsoft is working “closely” with Nokia and wants to “go all the way.” It is still too early to determine whether you are going to be able to buy a Nokia phone with Windows Mobile on it, but Nokia will still be selling phones with Symbian platform on it. Therefore, no need to worries Symbian lovers.

Charge your phone using Solar Energy

These days in Japan it is a new gadget by Strap-Ya, which seems to catching attention, it is a back up battery, which can get recharge by itself in to the sun in about 8 to 10 hours and can give your cell phone some extra breath for about 30 minutes. Well this may not seems like a good thing to charge a solar battery for 8 hours and use it for just 30 minutes, but practically it is a good concept to utilize solar energy, as almost everyone aware of the environmental changes are taking place, and about the global warming. You can use it as a key chain and keep it in a strap, which may be the best way to keep it on charging. You can also recharge it by just plugging it into the AC wall socket for three hours. This gadget soon be available in Japan in a week.

Samsung introduced SGF-F490

Today at the end of CES 2008 Samsung surprised the crowd by introducing its latest Samsung SGF-F490. It has a 16:9 wide finger touch screen. Screen measures 3.2-inch with 262k colors; design seems similar to its Prada phone. The phone supports full screen browsing in landscape and portrait mode, it has a 5 Mega-pixel camera, 130Mb of internal storage facility with micro SD slot for storage expansion, also supports the standard 3.5mm audio jack, provides faster data connection on the road with the help of HSDPA network support. The camera can record over QVGA mode with 15fps, and can playback at VGA mode with 30fps video.
In addition, features integrated Google search, Samsung's Croix user interface, and A2DP for Bluetooth stereo support.

The Samsung SGH-F490 measures 115mm x 53.5mm x 11.8mm (4.5" x 2.1 x .5") in size and weighs 102g (3.6oz). It supports GSM/EDGE connections on the 900, 1800, and 1900MHz bands, and UMTS/HSDPA networks that use the 2100MHz band.

The phone will be available in selected European markets by the February this year, later will get available to the Asian and American markets, and price expected to be around at 530 Euro.

Zelco Outi - Now Plug Music on skin

The Zelco's Outi is not like any other phones in market, you don't have to plug it into your eardrums, they just clip onto your ears, cool isn't it, listening to song by skin and not through your ear drums. In this way you don't even have to worry about destroying your eardrums on loud volume. Its assumed that it works on some kind of vibrations which goes to skin and makes you hear ultimate music. The end result is supposed to be some serious sound that resonates throughout your entire body. The company says that it makes the listener part of the music that he or she is listening to, and yet it can do this without blocking out the conversation or impending danger. This device needs to get charge for about 90 minutes and after it you can use it for around 6 to 8 hours straight. Can be easily plugged into Ipod, music player, gaming stations, radio, cell phones or any other device using the standard 3.5mm audio jack. Currently its only available in white color.
Now lets just say wear the music.

Armani's Designer Phone for Samsung

After i saw this phone, only one thing that i said to me, how did i missed to know about Armani's Designer Phone for Samsung? Although it seems pretty like a chick phone but hey its still a cool gadget. So here it is what i found interesting about this one, infact my interest is always about a Phones features. I have also heard about Samsung and Armani planning to make a LCD TV as well.

Features:

Triband - 900/1800/1900
3.0 Megapixel camera.
2.6" 320x240 display QVGA Touch-screen with 262K Colours.
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP Support.
MicroSD Expansion Slot.
Video formats - Wma and Mpeg4.
Audio formats - H263, AAC+/MP3/WMA, MPEG4, AAC, e-AAC+
Full Internet Browser.
Dimensions - 87.5 x 54.5 x 10.5mm
Weight - 85 grams