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No, Samsung isn’t hurling any social networking site for fans. Wave is the newest name they have given to their first Super AMOLED handset, which is extensively speculated to be launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, today.
Precisely, it’s called S8500 Wave. And one of the revelation features is its support of USB 3.0 (& bluetooth 3.0), which is yet to go mainstream. The Super AMOLED here refers to the 800 X 480 resolution and is claimed to have better discernibility, when used out in the open (20% higher than competing handsets).

Here are some other specs :
1 GHz processor
5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash
720p video recording
2GB of internal memory (or microSD expansion)
802.11b/g/n WiFi and HSDPA data
DivX video support
USb 3.0 / Bluetooth 3.0
a 3.5-mm audio jack (in a device measuring 10.9-mm thick)

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With rumors of the Nokia C5 mingling the internet, we speculated if Nokia was scheduling a refresh of the naming structure for its mobile gadgets, and it gazes like we may have been correct. It could be the demise of names like Classic, and may lead to a much easier structure to get your head around.
The face of the Nokia C-series, with the Nokia C5 the first phone to be dotted, fits in fine with the E-series range that’s already on the market. The Nokia C5 appears like the re-creation of the Nokia 6700, but with a plastic body instead of a metal casing, so it had us speculating whether the C-series could become Nokia’s Classic range.
Though, French website Tom’s Guide entitlements that the whole Nokia line-up will get a novel naming structure, with all phones based around the following five ranges:
C: Voice-centric handsets.
X: Targeting youth and providing entertainment.
E: Business focused.
N: High-end
S: Limited editions.

If this turns out to be right, it’ll surely make picking from the tens of latest mobile phones. Nokia has planned a lot easier. Merely decide your needs, and what category you fall into, and pick a phone from that series.

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The Nexus One had the HTC codename Desire, which we exposed was the same hardware as the Bravo. So the Bravo, which also cartons a 3.7″ AMOLED screen, 1GHz Snapdragon processing power, and Android 2.1 will be revealed at Mobile World Congress this weekend, possibly at a much more cheaper than the Nexus One.
To make things poorer for the Nexus One, the Bravo also has a pair of traits that Google’s own handset doesn’t. Initially, HTC’s much-commended Sense UI has been updated to Android 2.1, and likely takes benefit of the visuals power of the Bravo gorgeously. Second, the tri-color scroll ball of the Nexus One has been swapped with newer technology: an optical scrolling sensor, as found on new Blackberry models, the Motorola Devour, and the upcoming HTC Legend. Extra slight developments comprise dual LED flash (vs. the single of the Nexus One), and hard buttons for handset functions.

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Samsung created an entire cluster of fuss at January’s customer electronics burlesque with its archetype notebook that showed gorgeous OLED images on a clear “see-though” screen. It all appeared a bit sci-fi-ish, but bangs are that the Korean marque will bring AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) gadgets to market in the next year.
As a teaser to the laptop, Samsung in the next few months will bid a movable audio/video player, the IceTouch, that integrates the technology, much in the way that Sony has immersed a toe into the OLED pool with its $2,500, 11-inch desktop TV and its Walkman X series. OLED screens have also found their way into mobile handsets, a benefit in that arena because they guzzle less battery power.
The 16-gigabyte Ice Touch, also on display at C.E.S., has a 2-inch screen
“We have a lab in Korea that is currently working on developing a laptop with partially-transparent screen,” Samsung Electronics America’s Reid Sullivan articulated PlusPlastic. “Soon, I imagine that all Samsung’s audio-visual products will feature this technology.

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With mobile calculating catching pace with the fast touching world, apps for BlackBerrys, iPhones, Droids and other devices have become vital software. App creators are henceforth getting an explosion of opportunities.
Lisa Allen, a Board Director of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic supposed, “Today’s mobile phones are as powerful as many desktop PCs, if you consider that they’re also location-aware and have a built-in billing and payment system.
The radical Apple Inc.’s iPad, a 10-inch touch-screen computer is possibly going to mount the “apps roar” further. There is a continuing hunt for app designers to create tenders for Amazon’s Kindle wireless electronic reader.
Apple proclaimed 3 billion apps downloaded from its App Store from among over 100,000 titles this month. Google’s Android Market has 20,000 and BlackBerry App World has 4,000 titles.

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This gargantuan smartphone isn’t a dream to carry around, but then you take a look at its dazzling and lavishly spacious 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen, and you might be eager to reassess. Then you take another gander at its size again and think otherwise. Well, HTC recognizes that dilemma and has heard your cries, thus resultant in the HTC HD Mini.

The HD Mini made its debut at Mobile World Congress 2010and we got a chance to check it out for a bit. Undoubtedly, the smartphone doesn’t fairly have that wow issue of the HD2 since it has a lesser 3.2-inch touch screen but then we started observing all the better details of the handset’s design and realized that the HD Mini’s has amply to bid. A bulk of the traits and functionality endure and the gadget runs Windows Mobile 6.5.3. However our time with the handset was brief, the HD Mini felt to be a pretty receptive stratagem.

The HTC HD Mini is presently likely to ship only in Europe and Asia starting in April, but like with many of HTC’s other global handsets, it wouldn’t be a enormous surprise if we saw some kind of disparity of the handset come to North America in the near future. Smash the gallery below for an earlier look and more of our hands-on imitations.

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Companies now have a novel instrument at their discarding to keep consumers coming back: MixMobi.
MixMobi allows businesses to generate graphical tickets and send them to their consumer’s mobile handsets, according to Mashable. Tickets can be communal via SMS text messages, Facebook or Twitter and users don’t have to install special software on their handsets to view the tickets or sign-up.

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Intex has flung two newest phones – a Dual SIM and a Triple SIM phone.

The Intex IN 5030 marks the debut of the brand in the Triple SIM (GSM + GSM + CDMA) mobile section.

Though getting/creating a call on one of the GSM connections, the CDMA connection ruins active (and vice versa), permitting the consumer to naturally make a shift between the two numbers. The Java allowed phone comes with two batteries (in nos) each providing a talk time and stand-by of up to four and 120 hrs correspondingly.

The Intex IN 4420 Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) has as its chief USP a currency checker that lets consumers distinguish between a counterfeit and real Indian currency note.

The handset can also recognize and show the name of the circle/area while making/receiving a call (the facility is network-specific). The phone also has a Dual LED torch light, Wireless FM radio and an Indian calendar with all the particulars of festivals. Intex sustains that the handset will provide 3.5 hours of talk time and 270 hrs of stand-by.

Both phones feature FM radio, audio and video player, pre-set audio equalizers, Bluetooth, PC synchronization/Modem/Webcam/PC Suite, GPRS and WAP, mobile tracker, auto call recorder, currency converter and expandable memory up to 4GB.

The Intex IN 5030 transmits an MOP of Rs. 4,700 and the IN 4220 carries an MOP of Rs. 3300.

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Google must not be permitted to dominate and block currency from flowing more widely through the mobile telecoms scheme or else the network operators will not be able to invest to manage with the increasing demand for data traffic, Vodafone said on Tuesday.
The remarks added to the impression at the yearly congregation that whereas phone makers, chipmakers and service providers are all flourishing from the rapid growth of smart phones such as Apple’s iPhone, operators are being left to anxiety about how they are going to profit when they must also fund the allied progresses wanted in network capabilities.
Motion Ltd. said it was well conscious of the problem, saying that smart phone builders must start developing less bandwidth-guzzling products or risk clogging already overfilled airwaves.
As consumers abandon traditional cellphones for netbooks, wireless modems and feature-rich smart phones, like Apple’s iPhone, wireless data traffic has exploded and is menacing to drench network capacity, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis told Reuters in Vancouver before setting off for the trade fair in Barcelona.
“Manufacturers had better start building more efficient applications and more efficient services. There is no real way to get around this,” Lazaridis said.
“If we don’t start conserving that bandwidth, in the next few years we are going to run into a capacity crunch. You are already experiencing the capacity crunch in the United States.”

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Opera is hurling an edition of its Mini mobile browser intended for use on the iPhone, the Norwegian browser business proclaimed today. The novel browser will be produced at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Opera speaks. But when the Mini browser might be obtainable on the iPhone is a big query, as the business has not yet succumbed it to Apple for enclosure in the App Store.
Opera claims its Mini browser is the “world’s most popular mobile browser.” It’s intended to bid a quicker browsing experience, as much of the Web content is trampled for quicker supply. Opera Mini is accessible as a free download from m.opera.com on your mobile handset; Opera utters that the browser works on best mobile gadgets.
However the iPhone, obviously, is not like utmost mobile handsets, as Apple has endeavored to maintain tight control above which apps can — and can’t — run on the gadget. The corporation agrees all apps that seem in the App Store, and has come below fire for its rejection to accept apps (like Google Voice) that replica the functionality of software already found on the iPhone. Opera Mini would surely fall into that camp, as it would contend directly with Apple’s Safari browser.

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LG has revealed its latest effort in the handset arena — the GD880. If you find that name a tiny fiddly to cloak your tongue around, you’ll be enchanted to learn it also goes by the Mini moniker.
When it’s free to European marketplaces in March, the Mini will be rocking a definitely diminutive, 81mm (3.2-inch) touchscreen.
This minuscule screen will be packed into a petite housing, which, arbitrating by the press photos, will be perfectly suave, save for a rare buttons round the verges.  There will be nota single button on Mini’s face. That does ample for the handset’s appearances, but might hamper usability.
Facets-wise, the Mini will be sporting a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, and — joy of joys — social-media incorporation. LG has also pledged push email and quick Web browsing, though how easy it will be to surf the Net on the little screen remains to be seen.
Hmm. We haven’t precisely been overwhelmed with grievances about bulky smart phones, but we’re enthusiastic to see how the Mini’s numerous traits will look on the small screen, and whether, if the value is right, LG’s newest proposing could become the toast of the budget-smart-phone town.

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There was constantly the mistrust that an anti-climax was on the cards. The hype for the next big object from Apple had been building since the launch of the iPhone but the seeds had been sown much earlier. Now, after a million words in academic articles, blogs and tweets, the iPad is among us.
Jobs hopped straight in: “Everyone uses a notebook  and/or a smartphone. The question has arisen lately: is there room for a third category device in the middle?”
Seemingly there is and the iPad is Apple’s first stab to fill it – you can see the device in action inour photo story here.
The first response to the iPad was amazement that there wasn’t more to the device. I followed a number of live feeds from inside the occasion multipart and all were expecting a big finish. But it never really arrived.

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Samsung has just emerge with another smartphone based on Google’s progressively popular Android dais. The latest phone is called the Galaxy Portal and sports a variety of software from both Google and Samsung.
The Galaxy Portal will have access to all of the customary Google services that are comprised with Android, comprising GMail and YouTube, beside with social networking support for both Facebook and Myspace.
On the technical side of things, the Galaxy Portal has a 3.2-inch touchscreen over and above a 3.2 megapixel camera. Built-in Wi-Fi connectivity is too comprised, laterally with standards for example Bluetooth.
T-Mobile has elite rights to sell the handset in the UK mobile market for the first three months of its obtainability, with added workers predictable to plunge in after this original period.

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