Mobile Phone Haven

Watch this demonstration from Cnet TV on how to make calls on your iPod Touch.

Apple has announced the next iPhone, the iPhone 3GS. The S supposedly stands for speed. The look of the new iPhone is basically the same as the old one. Key upgrades are found in performance. Apple says it will be able to perform many of its functions “up to” two times faster, the key words being “up to.”

Some new features of the iPhone 3GS is its 3-megapixel camera w/ auto-focus and improved low-light sensitivity. It now has a special macro mode, along with automatic white balance and exposure. It’s also able to capture video at 640 x 480 at 30 frames per second. If you want to edit video, there’s a new video editing app included, allowing you to edit clips using multi-touch control.

Another long awaited improvement is extended battery life. Apple says the iPhone 3GS will last nine hours using WiFi, compared to six hours before, will play video for 10 hours, up from seven hours with the iPhone 3G. You’ll get 30 hours of audio playback is opposed to 24, and 12 hours of talk time on 2G instead of 10 hours, but 3G talk time is the same at five hours.

iPhones will be offered in three different memory sizes: a 32GB model selling for $299, a 16GB for $199, and an 8GB iPhone 3G for $99. All will be for sale starting June 19.

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Do you want the power of a PC in the palm of your hand? Well consider the Toshiba TG01 cellphone as just that. It powers 3-D games, plays high-definition movies, and smoothly runs many programs at once, something few other phones can offer. The Toshiba TG01 can do all this yet it’s less than four tenths of an inch thick. To whom do we owe thanks you ask? Qualcomm! Qualcomm’s Snapdragon system packs several previously separate chips into one case the size of a dime.
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The BlackBerry 8220, which comes in black or red, measures 3.9-inches high by 1.9-inches wide by 0.6-inch deep and weighs 3.5 ounces. It features a 65,536-color, 128×160 pixel external display and front-facing 2-megapixel camera, while you get a 65,536-color, 240×320-pixel TFT display on the inside. As part of the Pearl series, you get the SureType keyboard (groan) and trackball navigator. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 also comes equipped with an external microSD expansion slot.

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The Palm Pre Smartphone, aka by me ‘pow chica pow wow’, was a show stopper at the CES convention in Las Vegas. The Pre, coming soon on the Sprint network, was a surprise crowd pleaser: 1st because Palm isn’t known for stealing the show, 2nd because Sprint isn’t known for stealing the show either.

Palm Pre uses the Palm Synergy feature to bring your Outlook, Google, and Facebook calendars together for one logical view of your day. And if you have the same contacts in different places, Pre can link them together, making it easy to find the information you need. Read more below…

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The LG Incite is and exclusive AT&T touch screen smartphone. With the Incite you get both simultaneous voice and data access on the a fast 3G network. It comes with integrated GPS for AT&T Navigator and Wi-Fi capabilities to access thousands of AT&T hotspots nationwide. Windows Mobile® 6.1, gives you a full multi-tasking operating system and access to your Microsoft Outlook and other mailbox contacts, calendars, and tasks.
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Boost is finally moving their Pre-paid unlimited service from their CDMA to their iDEN system. The official launch date is Jan. 22, 2009. It will be a $50 flat rate fee with no taxes, convenience fees, roaming fees or long distance charges. Included will be unlimited calling, text, walkie-talkie, nationwide coverage (that’s over 15,000 cities), web, voicemail, long distance and free roaming. Now that’s a plan I can get down with. Rumor has it Boost will be releasing the Motorola Cabo and a Palm Treo style phone soon after the launch date. Watch out Metro PCS, there’s a new kid in town and he’s looking to kick some mobile ass!

Seth Porges over at Popular Mechanics wrote an interesting article discussing Google’s G1 and Apple’s iPhone. It discusses the pros and cons of each device.

If Google wants to dominate the mobile market, it will have to prove that it can out-do Apple’s iPhone, the market leader when it comes to function, style and usability. While many of the G1’s features are direct responses to iPhone shortcomings, there are still many aspects in which the iPhone will remain dominant. Here are five ways the G1 beats the iPhone, and five ways it doesn’t… yet.

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