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Sonim was at CES 2010, too, and it declared the Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro, presented by the interact as “the toughest good acquirable with an IP67 rating.”

The infant clifflike good is apparently dustproof and tight (dishwasher safe, too?), and it comes with a irritate and blast nonabsorptive Gorilla Glass Lens that protect its display. It’s also MIL-810G certificated for position to shock, humidity, add and salt.

Sonim XP3.2 features GPS, push-to-talk, FM radio, Opera Mini, SonimMail, Bluetooth, Java applications, MicroSD bill interval (up to 2GB), 2MP camera, flashlight, and a shelling that crapper remuneration up to 18 hours of talk-time.

The Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro starts instrumentation in the US “immediately”. It’s harmonical with AT&T and T-Mobile and crapper be bought via T-Mobile activity reciprocation income channels, Amazon, BestBuy, and individual agricultural carriers (like Centennial Wireless and municipality Bell). The good is unlocked, costs $499 and has a 3-yr “unconditional” guarantee.

Via Press release

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Nokia’s play to attain a practice discover of announcing some infant inexpensive phones at the aforementioned time.

The Suomi colossus has foregather undraped fivesome infant models that module be acquirable around the concern soon: Nokia 1280, Nokia 1616, Nokia 1800, Nokia 2220 motion and Nokia 2690.

Nokia 1280 is the company’s cheapest good to date, as it module retail at exclusive €20 (about $30).

The 1280 looks more aforementioned a behave than a actual phone, and features S30 UI, a 96 x 68 pixels colored display, GSM-only connectivity, flashlight, alarm, calendar, MP3 ringtones, FM broadcasting and – interestingly – a 3.5mm headset diddley (although there’s no headset included in the box). The good is detritus and irritate resistant, and has astatic activity covers. Its shelling should tangency up to 8.5 hours in talk-time mode, or 22 chronicle in stand-by mode.

The Nokia 1280 also supports Nokia Life Tools, the assist that’s already acquirable in Bharat and module be launched in land in Dec 2009.

The incoming digit phones, Nokia 1616 and Nokia 1800, countenance kindred and feature 128 x 160 pixels activity displays, flashlight, FM broadcasting and hold for Nokia Life Tools.

The Nokia 1616 and 1800 module outlay €24 and €26 respectively.

Next we effect the Nokia 2220 slide, a person that we’ve seen before in individual leaked photos.

The Nokia 2220 motion features Ovi Mail, GSM/GPRS connectivity, a 128 x 160 pixels activity display, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, MP3 player, MMS, FM radio, Nokia Life Tools support, VGA equal camera, and 32MB of interior memory. The good module outlay €45.

Finally, the Nokia 2690 is a candybar that looks pretty gratifying and has most of the features the 2220 has, nonnegative EDGE and MicroSD bill hold (up to 8GB).

Nokia 2690 module be acquirable for €54.

Via Press release

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By fear Liszewski

Wow, analyse discover what Etsy vender 123smile is today selling! We’ve awninged their LEGO shine drive creations before, but these infant Minifig USB drives are a must-have. They’re acquirable in 2GB ($59.95), 4GB ($69.95) and what looks aforementioned 4GB high-speed ($79.95) capacities and become in a difference of characters including Star Wars figures which I’m trusty module be their best seller. Now I’m not locution LEGO should multiple what 123smile is doing, but become on! When you gaming things aforementioned this you effect to astonishment ground the interact can’t conceive of anything more fictive than added flashlight?

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Telus and Fido effect foregather free digit infant phones in Canada: Motorola Rival a455 and Nokia 1661, respectively.

Already acquirable in the US via Verizon, Motorola Rival a455 is a messaging good that features a flooded QWERTY keyboard, a 2.2 advancement designate with 176 x 220 pixels, Telus Navigator, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, Music player, 2MP camera, 130MB of interior noesis and MicroSD bill support.

Telus sells the Motorola Rival for as baritone as $99.99 with a alter accolade for 3 years. The individual offers buyers the “chance to get a mark with Universal Recording creator Shiloh”, nonnegative trinity Shiloh songs (for a limited time).

Fido’s infant phone, the Nokia 1661, is a base candybar that features a 1.8 advancement TFT designate with 128 x 160 pixels, FM broadcasting and flashlight. The good is acquirable online – for free with a 2-yr contract, or for $55 on prepay.

T-Mobile army also plans to move the Nokia 1661, but it’s not belongings still when this module happen.

Via Motorola, Mobile Syrup

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By Evan Ackerman

You don’t generally expect much from a cell phone that costs less than sixty bucks, and with the Samsung E1107, you don’t get much. It’s got a 128 x 128 display, an FM radio, and a built-in flashlight. The reason that you’d buy it is the solar panel the takes up the entire back of the phone, promising up to 10 minutes of call time per hour in the sun. While not the most efficient way of charging your phone, it’s a million times better than an iPhone 3GS at out of power performance, and at least gives you an option for mobile charging.

The other reason to get this phone is that it’s good for the Earth: it helps reduce global warming. Not in the way you’re thinking, that would be too obvious. No, I’m talking about how having a solar panel out in the sun absorbs photons, preventing them from imparting their horrible energy into the ground and making everything just a little bit cooler. If everybody was using solar powered cell phones, not only would we be saving energy charging them, but charging them would actually cool the planet by some fraction of a degree that I’m just going to go ahead and call significant and important! Yay solar power!

So far, the E1107 is available pretty much everywhere except the US. Why must they taunt us so?

[ Newswire ] VIA [ Samsung Hub ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Yes, I know that this thing is most likely not real, especially since it’s from a company called “Naivetek.” The idea is you stick D batteries in one side, and it charges up AA or AAAs on the other. It sounds silly, kind of like the solar powered flashlight, but it actually could end up being something useful.

Disposable D batteries have a typical capacity of 12,000 mAh, whereas rechargeable AA batteries normally have capacities of 2,500 mAh or less. It looks like this thing can hold maybe 4 D batteries on one side, and 2 AAs on the other. So hypothetically, that gives you 48,000 mAh capacity with which you could recharge your AA batteries 9 or 10 times. Say you’re off camping for a week and need to keep your camera running… Would you rather carry 10 sets of AAs, or 1 set of AAs, 4 Ds, and this charger?

[ Flickr ] VIA [ TechEBlog ]

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If it’s beautiful phones you’re looking for, AT&T’s new Samsung a657 will probably not be of interest to you.

And that’s because the a657 is a rugged and tough handset “built to withstand the harshest conditions and most demanding users.”

Like AT&T’s previously released rugged phone from Samsung (Rugby a837), the a657 has Push to Talk (PTT) capabilities.

Unlike the Rugby, though, the new phone is a candybar:

Its specs and features include:

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Dual band UMTS/HSDPA connectivity (850/1900 MHz)
• 176 x 220 pixels display with 262K colors
• AT&T Navigator (with a dedicated GPS key)
• Built-in flashlight
• Email, Instant Messaging
• Bluetooth 2.0
• USB 2.0
• 100 MB of internal memory
• microSDHC card support, up to 16GB
• Talk time: up to 3 hours
• Standby time: up to 10.5 days
• 4.53 x 2.05 x 0.77 inches
• 4.34 ounces

For the moment, Samsung a657 doesn’t seem to be available for purchase, but you can see it on AT&T’s Business webpage.

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By Evan Ackerman

Every night, farmer Bob tried to chase down those stupid little gray aliens with the big black eyes who were stealing his cows. And every day, farmer Bob’s friends would call him crazy. Until, that is, they saw the footage from his video recording flashlight with infrared LEDs. Knowing that aliens have deceptively poor eyesight, farmer Bob was able to sneak up to within 13 feet of them and use the 17 infrared LEDs on the flashlight to covertly illuminate the scene. Then, the integrated video camera captured the cownapping shenanigans in 640×480 video at 30 fps onto the 128 mb of internal memory, supplemented by a microSD card slot. Of course, it was easy for farmer Bob to find his way home later when he turned on the bright 3 watt white LED, and he could always look at the flashlight’s LCD screen to check on how much power was left in the 3 C batteries as well as the status of his recordings. All in all, farmer Bob was proud of his $399.95 investment, and it served him well, until one night, farmer Bob never came back.

So, let this be a lesson to you: if you go out stalking cow stealing aliens with a $400 infrared video recording flashlight, and your friends call you crazy, listen to them, ’cause man, you’re crazy.

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We hope Samsung’s got a big enough booth at next week’s MWC to cover all the phones that will be shown off there.  The I7410 and W7900 will be Samsung’s first to offer a DLP pico projector.

The new phones are, in fact, one model that will be sold under different names in different markets. The pico projector will enable the user to view various image sizes, up to as much as 50 inches depending on ambient light conditions.

Happily, the pico projector’s not the only redeeming quality of the I7410/W7900.

The Samsung I7410 will also be sporting:

• OLED high-resolution color touchscreen
• 5 MP camera
• View Powerpoint Presentations
• Email Attachments
• Flashlight
• Flick navigation to view presentations

These are the major features so far revealed. Needless to say, we’re glad that Samsung decided to throw in other much-desired features in the phone in addition to the projector.

We can expect the W7900 to be on sale sometime this month in Korea, while the I7410 will be in Europe sometime soon.

The picture doesn’t make the phone look very thin, but i4u.com reports it will have a sleek and lightweight design — so we’re hopeful that it won’t be terribly bulky.

Here at Unwired View we can’t wait for MWC to show up next week!

via i4u

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After a wave of leaked, unofficial Samsung phones, it was about time for at least some of them to become official. 

In consequence, the South Korean manufacturer has just announced, in Russia, the following handsets: Samsung E2100, Samsung E1125, Samsung E1070 and Samsung E1100.

All four phones are entry-level models that support dual-band GSM frequencies (900 / 1800 MHz) and have two features in common: Mobile Tracking and SOS Messaging. Thus, they’re probably targeted for Eastern Europe and emerging Asian markets – like China and India.

Samsung E2100 seems to be the most interesting among the new handsets, coming with Bluetooth 2.0, a 128 x 160 pixels display, a VGA camera, FM radio and an overall nice design:

Samsung E1125 loses the camera but keeps the FM radio. Its appearance is similar to the one of  E2100, although it looks somewhat cheaper:

Samsung E1100 and Samsung E1070 are really on the low-end side, the sole notable feature being the integrated flashlight (which is only present in the E1100). 

(Samsung E1100)

(Samsung E1070) 

Pricing details are currently missing, but none of the new phones should cost too much. 

Via Samsung Russia

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