Cell Phone Beat

The Veritable Mobile Convergence has arrived with the launch of the long awaited Zer01 mobile debut and whether it is here to stay or not, what we like is what it offers. Unlimited voice and data over the Smartphone for a $79.99 per month that gets you unlimited VoIP, sounds a good deal and add to that data and messaging over AT&T networks-there isn’t anything more you can ask for. And more so, add to that the commitment of paying $10 extra, you open up international calls to 40 countries across the globe-this shit could make you go crazy. Apparently, Zer01 is looking for partners to resell the service. To get the service running on your handset (Windows mobile only), Zer01 will install its proprietary software or else you can buy a Zer01 handset directly. You surely need to assess your communication needs before shelling more than $500 annually or else you will find even the ‘Zer01′ dubbing, hounding.

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Last month ending, we left you with a scoop that the TG01 was heading to Orange UK but it now seems baseless as there hasn’t been any development confirming the rumour. However, there is a ray of hope that something might happen on the 9th of July when Toshiba officially launches the TG01. Credited with tag of being the slimmest Windows Mobile Phone, the TG01 will even have its own User Interface along with supporting the WM6.1 and 6.5. The 4.01-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen will be complimented with Wi-Fi, GPS, Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon chipset and 3G UMTS/HSPA connectivity. Just a week more and we will feel satiated to know at least the carrier. Hopeful! Check Video after the jump.

Hush was the word when HTC was inquired about the release of the android based Hero in North America but all that has changed pretty soon. Hero has now got the FCC approval and the Smartphone is ready for a release in US and Canada. With the information now confirmed, we suspect that it would be AT&T that would serve as a carrier for this phone as the FCC approval qualifies it for 3G, 850/1900 MHz bands-all of these being AT&T compatible. If HTC readies a GSM version promptly, the ticker will then point at Sprint. Wherever the Android based Smartphone is heading, it will surely be an exciting announcement and we promise to keep you updated.

Via: Unwiredview

There aren’t many places in the world where they still prefer the High Screen phones but since we talk about rarity, it has to be Russia. And guess what! The High Screen PP5420 despite being an old bloke from the design aspect embraces the Android Platform and that is what I call the Russian Mix. This phone comes from Vobis and it will be dubbed the Mobinova Ice (a fitting name given the country where it will be launched in a week’s time). The best part from where I see it is the dual OLED screen, one that serves as 3” WQVGA TFT LCD touchscreen display and the other as a navigation pad. Inside the phone is a Qualcomm MSM7201ATM 528MHz processor with the Google Android Operating system ofcourse.

We know that the iPhone 3GS is the hottest selling gadget in the world and guess that heat has had the better of the phone and the company as well. Come on people, the whole world knows that the 3G S has a heating problem, which initially began with reports of the white coloured 3G S and slowly the entire lineage was clouded with heating issues. In the midst of all this, where users were expecting a recall or at least an acknowledgement, what they eventually get is blamed. Apple has bluntly (the worst strategy Apple ever came out with) put the blame on users with an overheating story and has thereby issued an overheating advisory on the support pages.

Did we say tactile feedback for supposed future Windows mobile yesterday? Yes we did, and the same could now be applicable to the next generation iPhones. It is not confirmed as yet but, at lest, the Apple patent application which has three very interesting clauses waiting to be approved, does give us a lot of hope. The first clause wants tactile feedback to be a part of the touchscreen offered on the iPhone. This will help do away with the limitations of the current touchscreen format employed by Apple and the company does acknowledge those limitations-probably why tactile feedback or haptic response was thought of. A special grid of piezoelectronic actuators will be combined to fully form a tactile touchscreen. Different combinations of these actuators (upon vibration) will be used to facilitate different frequencies providing a variety of responses.

You would say it is old news doing the rounds on the web for three days now and that is exactly what kept us away from covering it for a while. But, when I read that the sales of the Palm Pre is the only chance of the company to get it self back from the dump, I felt like making all of you aware of the same. With the sales hitting the 300,000 mark and still rising, it is being hoped that the magic figure of 1 million could be touched by the end of this quarter and Palm has our best wishes. Things are looking definitely better before the UK launch as the company is manufacturing 15,000 units per day after the out-of-stock issues faced in the first week of release.

Via: Pocket-lint

The soakers, no matter how hard they try, can seldom stay away from their flask. Considering their love for flasks, we might have a found a way to keep them close to it but away from the booze. The name is Cheers Cellphone Concept people, but the aim is not what we thought. Indeed, it just replicates the alcohol flask in design but is a complete touch phone with a continuous touch display. Ironically or intentionally (we are not sure for that only the designer Tryi Yeh can tell you) it works on the basis of alcohol fuel cell. The cork serves a number of purposes, including that of keeping the battery inside, working as a button and a navigation wheel. Could be nice inspiration for the next iPhone design! No. At least, the soakers would love it.

Are haptic keyboards the future of Windows mobile phones? If we go by what the designers from the Velocity Mobile (a Seattle based mobile & consumer electronics design company) has created, the answer is definitely yes. Indeed, the perfect definition would be a cellphone with an integrated haptic keyboard. The advantage will be the ease with which those SMS and e-mails could be typed giving a feel of the virtual world creations. Other than the keypad, the rest of the design for the Velocity Mobile cannot be undermined as the responsibility was taken by the ever so famous David Turpin. More images after the jump.

Where would they click the best camera phone pictures at night? The answer ‘sadly’ would be Korea people for Samsung has chosen the Korean market to introduce the first infrared camera night vision phone. Dubbed the SCH-W760, the 3MP camera of this phone would feel proud to be clubbed with that night vision infrared. The regularities will include a 2.8-inch WQVGA AMOLED screen. To store all your data, you will get 8G space on the internal memory. And guess what! DMB TV also surfaces here.

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