The Nokia N8 hardware design is really spectacular. It just looks fantastic coming out of the box. It’s got an aluminum metal body with a 3.5″ capacitive glass OLED screen, 0.3Mp front facing camera, MicroSD memory expansion slot, and 16Gb internal storage. In terms of processor speed, it’s nothing terribly impressive at 680Mhz with 256Mb of RAM, however the 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and Xenon flash really is something to marvel at. …
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Samsung Vibrant Review
You’ve already seen the unlocked European version and the AT&T Captivate versions of Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone platform. The Galaxy S phones boast a speedy processor, a large Super AMOLED screen, and a lot of tweaks made to Android to make the device more interesting. Read on for our full review of the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant! BOX CONTENTS Here’s the unboxing for the Samsung Vibrant. The device even includes a 2Gb MicroSD card preinstalled and …
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The HTC Surround is one of the first few Windows Phone 7 devices to hit the market in the U.S. It will be available on AT&T, and in addition to featuring Windows Phone 7, it’s got a few other tricks up its sleeve. It’s not your average “black-slab” phone that everyone else keeps releasing. That’s right, it’s got a weird slide out Dolby Mobile speaker system, with a hidden kickstand. Is this rare form-factor worth …
Continue readingNokia N8 Unboxing (Video)
The Nokia N8 has been around for a while, but we heard it was pretty good, so we thought we should check it out. The N8 comes in a fairly large square blue box. There are reflective foil highlight outlines of the device embossed on the box cover and inner layer. Opening the flip-top box reveals the gorgeous Nokia N8 smartphone, and beneath a plastic molded holder are a bunch of extras. You’ve got an …
Continue readingBlackberry Bing Mobile Updated; Adds More Features Than WP7
The Bing Mobile app for Blackberry has just been updated. It adds some useful new features such as flight status search, as well as the fun homepage hotspots that offer little tidbits of information about the daily Bing image. You also get two features that have been in other versions of the Bing Mobile app, but still have not made it to the Windows Phone 7 version of Bing; Image search and “What’s nearby”. What’s …
Continue readingHTC Hub: Your WP7 Data Hog?
Windows MVP, Mike Halsey has discovered some more evidence that incriminates the HTC Hub as the phantom data hog that some people have been complaining about recently. Some of our readers have already guessed that the HTC Hub was the culprit a couple days ago and after seeing some of those posts, Mike decided to put the HTC Hub to the test and monitor its data usage using a real-time data monitoring app provided by …
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