The 2009 GSMA World Mobile Congress have set its curtain down last Thursday, after 3 days of exhibitions, starting from Feb 16 in Barcelona, Spain. There are lots of new mobile products, with cutting edge technology and design, have been exhibited during that time. Here are some of the great mobile phones that have been unveiled there.
HTC Magic: Vodafone UK have unveiled the new Google’s Android phone, the HTC Magic, successor of the Google G1 (HTC Dream). Unlike the G1, the HTC Magic lacks the slide out keyboard and depends entirely a responsive multi-touchscreen. It’s lots smaller thann the G1 and got a ‘nicer’ look too; with 3.2-inch screen, curved edges and shiny, elegant finish. It is a quad band phone (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/ HSDPA/WCDMA) so it can be used all around the globe. It have a built in GPS antenna, Bluetooth 2.0 and WiFi. The bad things about this phone is that it got no 3.5mm headphones jack and the 3.2MP camera got no flash. And before I forget, this phone only available in UK for this time.
HTC Touch Pro2: The HTC Touch Pro got a nice update in the look department. Just like its predecessor, it got a slide out keyboard, but angled at some degree like the Nokia N97. The screen is a bit larger compare to the Diamond2, at 3.6-inch WVGA. HTC equipped the Touch Pro2 with what they call the aforementioned zoom bar for easier zooming of the webpage and emails. One cools thing about this phone is that it will automatically switch our call to speakerphone if the phone is flipped over and place on flat surface, what HTC called it, the Straight Talk technology. Among other the phone is equipped with WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, dual cameras (3.2MP & VGA) and it runs on Window Mobile 6.1.
HTC Touch Diamond2: This phone runs on Window Mobile 6.1 but it is upgradable to the new Window Mobile 6.5 (Q3-4 2009). It features a brilliant 3.2-inch (480 X 800 WVGA) touchscreen, main 5 mpx and front VGA cameras, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, accelerometer and FM radio, among others. Like the HTC Magic, it lacks the 3.5 mm headphones jack but HTC provide an adaptor, HTC ExtUSB™, for the solution. The phone operates on quad band that useable in Asia and Europe only (for now).
Acer Tempo M900: This is the first time that Acer get involved in smartphones business after failed to thrived in MP3 player industry. the M900 runs on Window Mobile 6.1 and equipped with 3.8-inch touchscreen WVGA. Messaging and emailing made easier with the slide-out keyboards. Users don't have to worried about security with this phone as it equipped with a fingerprint reader for password! Other features of this phone includes GPS, WiFi, 5MP camera, HSDPA. 3G. The M900 is targeted more for a business user. Acer also unveils three other new Tempo’s smartphone collections.
Samsung OmniaHD: Samsung unveils new and improved to its ever popular Omnia at the GSMA. The one great update of the new OmniaHD is its screen, up from 3.2-inch TFT-LCD to a stunning 3.7-inch AMOLED 16 million color. And get this, this phone can play and record 729p HD videos! This phone is also equipped with dual cameras, the main 8MP auto-focus camera and the front VGA for 3G calling. It got 8GB or 16GB options of internal memory and an additional microSD slot, supported up to 16GB. Other ‘boring’ features includes Symbian S60 OS, 3G, GPS, WiFi, FM radio, accelerometer, and proximity sensor.
Samsung Blue Earth: Samsung with its slogan ‘Eco-living with Samsung mobile’ announced the eco-friendly Blue Earth phone. Everything about this phone is green , or should i said blue. It’s made of recycled plastics of water bottles. The phone is the first full touchscreen phone that is solar-powered. The design is strikingly elegant and at the back is where the solar panel is placed. According to Samsung the phone is free of harmful substances such as Brominated Flame Retardant, Beryllium and Phthalate. Blue Earth features a pedometer that tells you how much CO2 emission you’ve save by walking instead of driving. Its charger is qualified for 5 star energy efficient which uses standby power lower than 0.03W. Unfortunately, other technical specs are not yet revealed by Samsung.
Nokia N86: Nokia officially reveal its first 8MP camera phone, the N86. Similar to the N96 & N85, the N86 features 2-way slider design; down for numpad, up for media control. This is yet another OLED screen phone, with 2.6-inch scratch-resistant hardened glass. It got 8GB of internal memory and expendable to 32GB with 16GB micsoSD card. The phone can play music up to 25 hours on one charge. Other features includes 3.5mm jack, stereo Bluetooth, A-GPS, FM radio & TV out jack.
Sony Ericsson Idou: The world first 12.1MP camera phone is here. An yes you heard me right, 12.1mp! Sony Ericsson said they want to combine the CyberShot and the Walkman together and walla the Idou get born. It got a brilliant 3.5-inch 16:9 16.7 million color touchscreen with intuitive 3D user interface. The camera functions much like a stand alone camera; touch focus capability, cropping & slideshows. There are not much know about this phone other than that. After all, Idou is only a concept name for now and SE said the phone will be out on second half of 2009.
Garmin-Asus nuvifone: As Sony Ericsson combining the camera into the phone, the Garmin Asus join venture starts to integrating GPS device into the phone. Garmin-Asus unveils two version of nuvifone; M20 and G60 during this year WMC. The phones support quad band GSM and tri band 3G network. Unlike other phone, G60 is a Linux-based phone (M20 runs on Windows). Both phones are equipped with 3MP camera, touchscreen, turn-by-turn voice-giuded GPS, geotagging, WiFi and microSD hot swappable slot. G60 3.55-inch TFT, 4GB; M20 2.8-inch TFT, 4 or 8GB.
NVIDIA Tegra 600: NVIDIA have announced that it will working with mobile phone company to integrate its Tegra processor into Windows Mobile and Android OS phones. Tegra platform lets the device plays full HD video up to 1080p with ease. Tegra enables rich and fluid 3D and advance multimedia functionality to provide intuitive user interface. It consume low power and charging is required after days of use. NVIDIA aims to ship out the Tegra in mid 2009.
Windows Mobile 6.5: Steve Ballmer have announced the new Windows Mobile 6.5 during his keynote speech. The new OS brings lots of improvements and enhancements including a new apps store, backup and restore capabilities and improved web experience. My Phone function lets the user to backup and restore the phone via a password protected web service. Windows Marketplace for Mobile lets users to download apps over the air to their phone. The new mobile IE will support Flash and Java application plus better zooming capabilities. The new 6.5 version is designed to be more user friendly and people centric. The start menu will features honeycomb format that allow more spacing for touch interface.
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