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Music phone lovers across the country can rejuvenate their senses with two new phones launched by Mercury. The phones “Maestro” and “Tabla” have been designed for music aficionados. While Maestro is equipped with an integrated Yamaha amplifier for excellent sound quality, Tabla seeks to give users the experience of 3D surround sound quality.Maestro comes with a 2.2″ bright LCD screen with a 1.3 mega-pixel camera along with FM and BlueTooth. Besides this, the mobile offers a 10 day standby coupled with dual sim support and MP3 player. The phone also comes with an expandable memory slot for additional data storage. On the other hand Mercury Tabla boasts of a 2.4″ TFT display, 1.3 mega-pixel camera, BlueTooth, FM among others. The phone also offers GPRS and WAP connectivity for web- browsing, chat and access to social networks.

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A precise notion for a BlackBerry phone called Empathy has been cooked up by designer Daniel Yoon, focusing on sharing our mood with friends. It’s a smidgen of a throwback to the early Live Journal and MySpace days, which were all about updating mood statuses, but there are some appealing twists on old ideas here. The concept embraces a high-tech mood ring which shares biometrics data with social networks. Not only can contacts see what kind of mood you’re in based information like blood pressure, body temperature, and heart rate, but message notifications on the Empathy would colour the entire facade of the handset philosophical of the mood of their sender. That same gadget surface colour idea would allocate the handset to go clear when idle and intense when active.

The social networking aspect reminds me of the BlackBerry Enterprise’s Server free/busy lookup– except as opposed to seeing if your contacts obtainable for a meeting, you can see if they’re in the right mood for a call. Some Android phones already do this by showing social network status updates on incoming calls from contacts, but the idea of that data being gathered submissively is very latest. There’s also a latest navigation mechanism based on a radial wheel surrounding contacts, and pinch-zooming to finding bundled people within certain subgroups, which you can see in action in the video below. A neat idea, so long as a more straightforward border was also obtainable. The handset looks like it has a screen on both sides (one with a stud-style keyboard), which would likely be a massive battery hog, but hey, we can skip logic for a cool idea.

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It is predicted that Apple will dictate the market of smartphones in 2011 by introducing a latest edition of iPhone which will run on the outstanding Verizon Wireless. Apple will throng produce the touch screen iPhones in the end of 2010 and release the iPhones in the start of 2011. These handsets will use Verizon Wireless technology.

ATT&T’s iPhone uwners complain many times about the poor service quality and dropped calls. Diverse studies expose that Verizon has a better network than ATT&T’s. By introducing the iPhone to Verizon punters, it is expected that it will give improvement to iPhone in its antagonism with Google Inc Android software.

Apple nearly sold 40 million iPhones in the world in this year. Android is giving a tough opposition to the Apple. Verizon gave a lot of promotion to Android Phones and they secured 27% of total US Phone market in the second quarter.

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The search engine in query says that people are losing curiosity in the iPhone. Mobile Phones carried out explore over a period of a month, monitoring which handsets were searched for on its site by UK customers; Wildfire, Desire and Desire HD all came out on top with the Samsung Galaxy S and Nokia N8 closely behind and the iPhone 4 only managing to secure sixth place. The top ten was rounded off by the Blackberry Curve 8520, Samsung Tocco Lite, BlackBerry Torch and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini.

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Smartphone copyrights and academic Property Rights Known in the US as the Droid 2 Global, the European successor to the Milestone has presented in the UK this week and it appears like the US is getting the better deal. The UK edition features a slower processor and isn’t Global like its counterpart on the other side of the Atlantic. Presently it is only accessible SIM free from a number of sellers and has yet to emerge on the websites of any carriers. The fact that it won’t work on CDMA networks may not bother many.

Apart from the fact the Milestone 2 won’t be CDMA friendly and will feature a 1GHz processor rather than a 1.2GHz chip the rest of the specs remain unchanged. There’s a 3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 8GB of internal storage flexible with a 32GB Micro SD card, a 5mp camera with 720p HD video capture and Android 2.2. Like the US edition it features the redesigned QWERTY keyboard which loses the trackpad in favour of more space for the other keys.

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The Nexus S is real and it’s being made by Samsung. This time, though, the Samsung logo doesn’t have an unsightly piece of tape over it. The spot where we’d expect the Google logo is covered up by XDA’s watermark, but we suppose it’s because there’s a QR code they don’t want anyone to see. The device has a camera on the back with flash and that same weird button layout where the Home button is placed on the far right. What’s more is that we get more shots of Gingerbread, validating even more details that we primarily reported last month. The keypad has gotten a style change, too. With the leak came some latest rumored stats to substantiate what we’ve heard before: a 4-inch AMOLED, WVGA resolution, and HD video recording. Open GL ES support confirms it’s a modern CPU, but we still don’t know which CPU will be in it unerringly. There are strong rumors that it’ll be Samsung’s 1GHz Orion CPU, which would mean we’ll be in dual-core heaven. They’ve also heard that it’ll have either 1 or 2 GB of internal storage, and either 512MB or 328MB of RAM.

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With a host of smartphones being launched by several companies, the number of available options for users have increased manifold over the years. Another option coming their way is from Finnish handsetmaker Nokia. The company has revealed its plan to soon launch its latest gadjet – Nokia X9. X9 boasts of value rich features and will use Symbian 4 OS platform.

The phone has a 3.5″ WVGA AMOLED touch-screen display, digital zoom and a FM Radio along with a 3.5 mm audio jack and two micro USB cable. It supports WAP 2.0 browser, 3G connectivity and the 12 mega-pixel camera equipped with Quad LED flash, lets you click sharp and clear pictures.  The phone also has 720p HD video recording facility and will be available in black and white colors. Nokia X9 will be released some time in coming December. However, Nokia is yet to reveal the cost of the handset.

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‘When it rains it pours,’ so the saying goes, but this is a scrupulous problem Finnish mobile giant Nokia could have done without. It has materialized this past week that the Nokia N8 has been suffering power problems that have rendered the gadget practically hopeless for a subset of its punters.

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Speaking to Reuters, Niklas Savander, who is Nokia’s sales chief, said the Nokia N8 power issue, where the phone would turn off by itself and not come back on, was experienced by ‘a limited number of N8 users’. A spokesperson later said the problem arose in production, and has since been fixed, so it is likely to affect early adopters only, with Savander reaffirming that ‘the total number of affected users was “a small number.”’

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The Nokia N8, which was supposed to mark the Finnish mobile phones giant’s comeback, has been distressed since initiation. Though it was scheduled to reach customers as far back as June, Nokia only began a staggered rollout in November. These problems were attributed to Symbian^3 development timelines slipping, only to later have the mobile OS slated for not being up to modern standards.

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Before appropriating unnecessary blame to Nokia for this manufacturing fault, one needs to be mindful that these types of issues accompany many high profile smartphones. Apple, for instance, has had various issues, as well as antennagate and glassgate, with its iPhone 4, as have a number of high profile Google Android handsets.

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90 percent of 18 to 27 years old sonsumers use their cell phone  browser more than a desktop browser on a PC when it comes to surfing the web, says Opera. The developer’s mobile browser, increased by 7.1 percent from September this year to 76.3 million. Thats a 92 percent rise on the number of consumers in the same month last year.

Additionally, over 41.6 billion pages were viewed on the browser in October 2010, which is 12.6 percent up on the page views in September 2010. Opera also said over 616 million MB of data has been downloaded via Opera Mini in October, an increase of 15.1 percent since the previous month.

Opera Mini features the developer’s Turbo function to creases data by up to 90 percent. If this data were uncompressed, Opera said the data downloaded in October would have totalled 5.7 petabytes.

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Today we look at the fourth Windows Phone 7 smartphone offered openly by a US carrier, the LG Quantum on ATT. The Quantum is the only hardware QWERTY Windows Phone. And that’s enough to set it apart in an bionetwork where all Windows phones remain to Microsoft’s minimum specs .

The Quantum feels good in hand thanks to a soft touch terminate and metal back. It’s thicker and heavier than the Samsung Focus, and analogous in size and weight to the HTC Surround that has a sound bar slider.

As with the rest of the Windows Phone 7 launch models, the Quantum has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 3G HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, a GPS and 16 gigs of storage. The slider phone shares the same 800 x 480 resolution as the other models but it’s a smaller LCD at 3.5″.

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People thinking that Skyfire was glad making some million on its iPhone app,will be wrong because the mobile browser producer has just presented Skyfire 3.0 Facebook version for Android phones.

Dubbing it the “world’s first social browser,” the Skyfire Facebook browser gives you one-click access to the world’s biggest social network. Another chilly thing is that the Skyfire Facebook browser allows you to “like” any site or send Internet content to one of their friends.

When you search with the latest browser, you’ll be able to prefer if the query goes through Google, Digg, Facebook and other sites through a particular navigation metaphor. There’s also a Fireplace Feed Reader which integrates your social network feeds in one place.

Obviously, the app can’t still bring you Flash videos to your contrivance.

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The Samsung (Google) Nexus S / Two keeps getting confirmed, shorn of, rumored and leaked persistently, but those of you that decided to wait for it to lastly disembark as a substitute of buying one of the presently hot Android phones selling in stores, should be aware of another super smartphone supposed to arrive at some point next year, the Motorola Olympus, also known as the Droid Terminator.

We talked about the Droid Terminator/ Olympus before, but today it’s the first time we get to see pictures of it in the wild. Unsurprisingly these are somewhat hazy, unconfirmed images of this Android handset, so take it all with a grain of salt.

The Olympus – that appears to be what we’re going to call it – is the successor of the Droid X, only a lot better. The handset is said to have a hefty touchscreen display, probably a 4.3-inch one, a Tegra 2 chipset, a front-facing camera, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread under the lid to spice things up. Logically this brute sounds like one of the Android phones to buy early next year, and, together with the Samsung Nexus S and/or Galaxy 2, the iPhone adversaries that have the probable to somewhat crush the iPhone, at least until the iPhone 5 will be launched.

What’s more appealing about this gadget is that it won’t be a Verizon exclusive. Actually the Olympus appears to have AT&T written allover it; well that’s not accessible in the picture here but AT&T is said to carry it at some point next year, along with other worldwide mobile operators.

The AT&T Olympus could be to the Verizon iPhone 4 what the Verizon Droid X is to the AT&T iPhone 4, the (almost) perfect rival. But, again, these are all finishes drawn from bits and pieces of rumors and leaks, so another gigantic lump of salt is required to take this Android whispers in. We’ll be back with more details for you immediately Motorola and/or its carrier partners will start spilling the beans on this baby.

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Micromax X228 Dual SIM Mobile phone is a very cheap device. Micromax X228 has features like DUAL SIM GSM+GSM, 65K QVGA (128*160 Pixels)1.77 inches Display, Multi Format Music Player, Yamaha Audio Amplifier- Built In, Dual LED Torch, FM Radio, Expandable Memory upto 2GB. Micromax X228 is worth to buy Dual SIM Phone.

- Standby Time: Up to 10 days *

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BuzzCity says these localised ‘white box’ manufacturers account for 20 per cent of overall downloads from its free mobile games portal, Djuzz. Last month, the figure was eight per cent. Djuzz is designed to deliver games built on Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, Flash and BlackBerry as well as trait handsets at the lower end of the souk. The portal recognizes and delivers games for more than 1,800 phones.The stats support Gartner figures, which declare that global sales of phones rose 35 per cent in the third quarter of 2010 to 417million units, and that a third of the devices sold were made by companies that were not among the top five players. BuzzCity delivered in excess of 6.5 million games in October, a 12 per cent increase on September.

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The greatest phone maker Nokia of the world has declared their latest mobile device, a no trappings QWERTY phone aimed as punters looking for an economical gadjet with an prominence on SMS text messaging. Nokia’s original handset features a 2.4-inch QVGA screen display and contains a VGA camera, support for quadband EDGE/GSM, Bluetooth 2.1_EDR and a 3.5mm headphone jack. If you believe that these features are moderately basic, you are possibly right and Nokia recognizes this, keeping the price tag of an unsubsidized handset at a rational price of $110.

The handset is expected to run on S40 when it launches this quarter and if you’re a bit confused by the naming convention of this handset, Nokia’s blog does offer amplification that the X in X2 refers to the X series of phones that they sell which place a superior emphasis on music and are aimed at the youth market.

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