Review Sunday - XV6800 smart phone

Welcome to the first edition of Review Sunday. Today I am reviewing XV6800 smart phone, a pretty nice invention from the Verizon Wireless team.

This device is mainly designed for business professionals that can keep their business going. The XV6800 from Verizon comes with powerful capabilities which can help professionals work while traveling or even in remote areas. The device is based on the HTC Titan platform.

This smartphone mainly operates on the latest version of Windows Mobile operating system. The smartphone gives the users access to complete Microsoft Office suite with the options to create, edit and view Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PDF applications.

Moving on, this device has a slide-out keyboard and a touch LCD screen. The keyboard is a powerful one that makes typing and browsing the internet easy. The memory card is expandable that can go up to 8 GB. This smartphone operates on the Verizon Wireless third generation cellular network, the EVDO which can deliver download rates of up to 2.4 Mbps, which is quiet nice. This can also be used as a modem when using laptops. For this purpose you can use the BroadbandAcccess Connect which is Verizon service. The device also has an inbuilt Wi-Fi technology which makes more convenient to access the web.

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January 6, 2008 | Filed Under Review Sunday | 2 Comments

How to extend your cell phone battery life?

Have you ever thought of saving your cell battery life? Or wondered why people have problems with their phone due to battery? Here are some quick tips on how to save your cell phone battery life and keep the conversation going.

Screen brightness can be a major factor for reducing the battery life. Best option is to keep the screen brightness to around 50% or less. Initially you will find difference, but it can be a great way to save its life.

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December 13, 2007 | Filed Under Featured, Phones, Tips n Tricks | 3 Comments

World’s slimmest mobile phone?

The unique Smart Surface Mounting Technology from Samsung squeezes features within a slim form. The U600 phone from Samsung comes with a thinness of 10.9 mm, with a 3.3 mega-pixel camera for ultra sharp images. The U600 mobile phone from Samsung is the replacement for Samsung D900 and is the first of second generation Ultra phones to hit the market, thereby also making it the slimmest phone available.

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November 24, 2007 | Filed Under Phones, Wireless | Leave a Comment

Google plans to bid for wireless network

Preparations are underway as Google plans to bid for wireless range in an auction to be held in U.S in January, but it needs a carrier partner who could help in building a network to use it, analysts said on Friday.

The spectrum called as 700 MHZ band is currently in use for TV broadcasts. It will be freed for other uses such as operating mobile telecommunications network, by 2009.The U.S Federal communications commission is planning to use that spectrum on Jan 24, and bidders must participate by Dec 3.

The company plans to finance the bid alone, without any partners according to the reports in The Wall street Journal.

Google said it would obligate US$4.6 billion to bid for a license, if the FCC set certain conditions. The conditions may include granting people the freedom to choose what network they want to use on phones they buy, and also granting freedom to service providers to connect with those networks.

Google does not intend to make money from operating the network, though: its goal is to get its applications into more and more mobile phone users. It has taken necessary steps, offering some versions of its web applications to iPhone, and to promote its Android it has launched the Open Handset Alliance.

Analysts say that it is too much for Google to build a wireless network alone. But analysts are cynical of Google doing it alone. Guess, the company should look for partners as it does have in the handset market.

Bill Ho, the senior analyst at current analysis said that a carrier partner was essential in building and running a network. He said that the core issue was the operation and maintenance of the new network.

Some analysts suggest that if Google could partner, it could choose Sprint, as the two have already agreed to partner on Wimax services.

Partnering with Google could be a great deal for an experienced operator not yet present in the U.S to enter the market, suggested Dawson, vice president at market analyst Ovum Ltd. “Anything other than search at the minute seems like a move in the wrong direction,” said Dawson.

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November 17, 2007 | Filed Under Tech News, Wireless | Leave a Comment

iPhone unlikely to hit Chinese markets soon

Apple’s iphone looks like it won’t hit the Chinese markets soon because of technical reasons, reports came in on Wednesday, just after a day the shares in the U.S company went up with the hopes of a deal.

The chief executive of China Mobile Ltd said that his firm was involved in talks of a possible tie up after shares in Apple went up more than 10 percent on Tuesday. China Mobile stocks also saw a jump of 9 percent on Wednesday.

The iphones which are considered to be the hottest gadgets of the year after their roaring success in the U.S and European markets look to be mismatched with the Chinese telecommunication market mainly because of locked SIM cards- I mean to say that the device would not be able to associate with other operator’s network.

The executive said that the SIM cards were not locked, and mentioned that the Chinese business model did not demand revenue sharing with terminal producers and they don’t share revenue. He said that the firm welcomed their approach.

China Unicom, one of the country’s wireless carriers said it had no plans for now to bring the Apple iPhone to China but the idea was open.

“Right now we don’t have plans to introduce Apple’s iPhones in China,” The executive director of China Unicom told the reporters on Wednesday. He also said that they were always ready to discuss about a business opportunity if Apple had presented itself.

The director said that he was unable to judge whether Apple’s iPhone would gain eventually, said that it would need to support text messages in Chinese language to be accepted.

As long as there was a good product they were always ready to talk to find a common platform, the director said. One of the analysts held an opinion saying that it was hasty to start factoring in the launch of iPhone for China, not because of the price the device would demand, but because China mobile would resist setting off from age old practices. The analyst said that it was a niche product for niche users and would be for high-end users.

The analyst added that, unlike in US where Apple operates the iTunes song-download service, in China users might be deprived of content initially.

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November 14, 2007 | Filed Under Phones | 2 Comments