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BlackBerry® Torch™ 9850/9860

January 1st, 2012

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Multimedia

Powered by the new BlackBerry® 7 OS and Liquid Graphics™, your photos, videos, games and apps come to life in incredible detail on the large screen.

Picture perfect

Capture life’s little surprises with 720p HD video so you can relive them over and over again. Or use the 5MP camera to pull off amazing photos with face detection, 4X zoom and image stabilization.abilization.

All-touch, refined

A spectacular 3.7″ touch screen is the largest on a BlackBerry® smartphone yet. It boasts millions of colors for a stunning viewing experience, and provides a smooth, accurate and fast typing experience.

Next-generation software

BlackBerry® 7is a smoother and faster BlackBerry OS, with breakthrough technologies and new apps and experiences. And with Liquid Graphics, you’ll enjoy truly stunning multimedia and gaming.

BlackBerry browser

The new BlackBerry browser offers incredibly fast page load times, better web-based gaming, HTML5 video support and seamless scrolling and zooming.

Voice-activated universal search

The most powerful on-device search has gone hands-free. With speech-to-text translation, you can now look for files, email, contacts and music—and even search the web—all without typing a thing.

Augmented reality

Make life more fun with augmented reality apps like the WikiTude World Browser to learn about your surroundings in real-time.

The power to perform

A 1.2GHz processor powers BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860 smartphones, seamlessly integrating with BlackBerry 7 OS. So you can game, surf, socialize or watch videos with smoother multitasking and navigation.

Get to know your smartphone

Getting started

Learn how to make the most of your new BlackBerry Torch smartphone, beginning with a simple setup.

Work-life balance

BlackBerry® Balance™ keeps your work life and private life separate. Enjoy the fullest BlackBerry experience on just one device.

Your social universe

With social feeds and apps, and the new BBM™ 6 on your BlackBerry Torch smartphone, it’s fast and simple to stay in touch and up-to-date.

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Samsung Galaxy Prevail (Boost Mobile)

June 15th, 2011

Don’t let the name fool you: the Samsung Galaxy Prevail ($179.99) is not a high-end Samsung Galaxy S cell phone. It is, however, a wonderfully functional, inexpensive Android device for everyone who wants a budget smartphone. Just how inexpensive, you ask? Boost is charging $50 per month for unlimited talk, text, and data on Sprint’s nationwide 3G network. That price shrinks by $5 every 6 months you pay your bill on time, until you reach $35. It’s not like this is breaking news, but it’s a lot more relevant now that Boost finally has a device capable of taking full advantage of those rates. Sure, it may not have the same high-end specs as the latest and greatest Android gadgets, but it’s an excellent choice for anyone looking to get in on the Android action on the cheap. That makes it our Editors’ Choice for smartphones on Boost. It also makes the cut for our list of The Best Android Phones.

Design, Call Quality, and Pricing
The Samsung Galaxy Prevail measures 4.4 by 2.3 by .5 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.8 ounces. And while the phone is surprisingly light, it feels solid. It looks a bit like T-Mobile‘s Samsung Galaxy S 4G ($199.99, 4 stars), with curved edges and a silver border that runs along the outside of the phone’s face. The back is made of a soft-touch black plastic, which gives it a comfortable, luxurious feel in the hand. The 3.2-inch glass capacitive touch screen LCD has 320-by-480-pixel resolution, which is common on midrange Android phones. The display itself is a bit on the small side, but it was nicely bright and vibrant, and suitably responsive to touch. Typing on the on-screen keyboard felt predictably cramped, but still entirely doable. Four function keys sit below the screen on the face of the phone, and light up whenever the screen is touched.

he Prevail is a dual band EV-DO Rev. A (800/1900 MHz) device, with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. It connected to my WPA2-encrypted Wi-Fi network quickly and easily. Reception was average, and voice quality was good overall. Calls sounded bright and clear in the earpiece, if a bit thin. On the other end, calls made with the phone sounded fine, though voices were a touch muffled and fuzzy. The phone didn’t completely block out the sound of a passing city bus while I was making a call, but I was still able to hear my voice above it just fine. Calls were clear through an Aliph Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headset ($99, 4 stars), and voice dialing worked well. The speakerphone was also clear, but I couldn’t hear it outside on a slightly noisy city street. Battery life was good at 6 hours and 33 minutes of talk time.

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1.5GHz Dual Core Snapdragon processor

June 5th, 2011

Qualcomm has recently announced in an interview that they will release several new versions of their Snapdragon processor in late 2010/early 2011. These will be smaller and faster than current models, and some will even have 2 cores!

The first in the pipeline is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8X50A which is a 45nm version of the current chip, but with a 1.3GHz clockspeed and longer battery life.

The second is the dual-core Snapdragon (8X72) sporting a pair of Scorpion cores at 1.5Ghz. This blazing fast chip will enable flawless 1080p video playback in both smartphones and netbooks. This chip is expected out late 2010, but probably won’t be offered in devices until mid 2011. Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.

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Motorola Xoom

May 24th, 2011

The Motorola Xoom tablet is easily the best competition Apple’s iPad has ever seen. Sporting a 10.1-inch screen, front and rear cameras, HDMI output, a dual-core processor, and Google’s tablet-optimized version of Android, the Xoom is entering the tablet wars with guns blazing.

Priced at $800 off-contract or $600 with a two-year commitment from Verizon, the Xoom isn’t out to win frugal customers. Instead, Motorola is taking the approach used with its successful line of Droid smartphones: emphasizing the device’s horsepower and the many capabilities not found on its Apple counterpart.

To this end, the Xoom’s spec sheet is an all-star cast of dual-core processors, multimegapixel cameras, expansion slots, and maxed-out RAM. Combine the hardware with Motorola’s exclusive access to Google’s long-awaited Android Honeycomb operating system, and you have one of the most talked-about tablets of 2011.

Does the reality of the Xoom match up with the hype? Let’s dive in and see what’s working and what could be better.

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Intel smartphones are on the way

April 11th, 2011

Intel smartphonesIntel is getting ready to make a long-belated entry into the smartphone market with a new-and-improved chip. But the usual questions linger.

The most obvious ones are: Will it appear in a phone that is groundbreaking enough to entice buyers? And will this finally usher the world’s largest chipmaker into one of the world’s largest chip markets?

The answers are hard to come by–Intel is saying little about the chip, due later this year, or about customers at this point–though the trends are clear. Market researcher IDC said in February that vendors shipped about 101 million smartphones during the fourth quarter of 2010, surpassing, for the first time, the 92 million PCs shipped during the same period.

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3D Smartphones for Sharp

January 7th, 2011

3D Smartphones for Sharp

3D Smartphones for Sharp

Sharp is unveiling 2 new Android phones with 3D capable screens. The screens don’t require glasses of any kind to get the 3D experience, but if you get the phone too far or too close then the image will appear blurry instead of 3D.

The 2 new phones are named the Galapagos 003SH and 005SH and feature Android 2.2 Froyo, 1GHz Snapdragon processors, 3.8-inch displays as well as the usual Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities.

The cameras are impressive as well with the 003SH sporting a 9.6 megapixel camera that films in 720p. The 005SH will have a slightly less impressive 8MP camera but will also have a slide out qwerty keyboard. Both phones will have microSD slots that hold up to 32GB of extra storage.

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Motorola Devour (Verizon Wireless)

November 15th, 2010
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Motorola Devour (Verizon Wireless)

Motorola rightfully got a lot of mileage when it introduced its Droid smartphone late last year. With a loaded feature set and a satisfying performance, Verizon’s first Google Android device was a quality phone in many regards. So can Moto repeat its success with the Motorola Devour, Big Red’s third Android handset and the carrier’s first with MotoBlur? Well…just about.

Indeed, there’s much to admire about the Devour. We love its sturdy casing, the feature set is functional, and the performance is agreeable. We also dig the quirky thumbpad next to the bright, though somewhat small, display. On the downside, we’re wondering why we only got Android 1.6–I still say that this fragmentation is one of Android’s biggest flaws–and the user controls need work, but the Devour remains a solid addition to the Android family. It does make for a less-complicated alternative to the Droid, particularly if you need a full keyboard, but it won’t save you much cash. At $149 with service and a mail-in rebate, it’s only $50 cheaper than its predecessor. Keep in mind that you’ll need to purchase a Verizon data plan.

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Pantech Laser

November 2nd, 2010

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Pantech LaserIf there happens to be one handset manufacturer that places a lot of emphasis on producing solid quick messaging devices for AT&T, it has to be none other than Pantech. It was only recently that we began to see them to craft touchscreen devices, with the Pantech Pursuit being their first, but now we might be witnessing the culmination of all their hard work leading up to their latest device – the Pantech Laser P9050. Although it might not resonate widely in the face of some endearing smartphones, the Laser is being dubbed as the thinnest handset in the world to pack a QWERTY keyboard – so it’ll be interesting how it excels in the lucrative quick messaging category.

The package contains:

  • Pantech Laser
  • Travel charger
  • Interactive Tutorial CD
  • Quick Start Guide

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Sanyo Zio

October 18th, 2010

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For years there had been rumors on Sprint forums about a Sanyo smartphone; at first it was going to kill the Treo, then the BlackBerry.  These were back in Sanyo’s heydays when the manufacturer was winning customer satisfaction awards left and right.  That mythical smartphone never appeared, and Sanyo has fallen into the ranks of also-rans since then.  Sure, there have been some decent phones, but they have yet to venture out of the featurephone market, often content to stick with entry-level devices.  But now we have the Zio, the first smartphone from Sanyo to run Google’s Android platform.  The Sanyo Zio is a bit of a mixed bag, offering at the same time higher-end features such as a WVGA display and low end elements like a bit of a cheap feeling.  Like we said, it’s a mixed bag.  Included with the Zio you’ll find a 2GB microSD card, microUSB cable and AC adapter.

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The Sanyo Zio is a black slab device, except that it’s got some significant silver on it.  The 3.5” 480×800 capacitive display dominates the phone and is quite a nice screen.  With 262K colors the TFT panel looks very good, especially with a high resolution and smaller screen size (the 4” Epic 4G and 4.3” EVO 4G also have WVGA resolutions) the pixel density is very good. The colors, however, are a bit off and in sunlight the display was washed out almost entirely.  When placed next to the Samsung Transform and HTC EVO 4G you could tell that the colors were over saturated, and in the same lighting conditions we could still use the Transform whereas the Zio needed to be shaded to be used.  The display also has responsiveness issues.  We often found ourselves having to select something multiple times before our input was registered, much like you would have to do on resistive touchscreens.  Another drawback is that it does not support multitouch, a feature we have grown accustomed to even in entry level smartphones.

At just 3.7 oz the Sanyo Zio feels incredibly light in the hand.  This is nice because the device easily slips into your pocket without being noticed, but at the same time makes it feel cheap.  The lightness is likely due to the heavy use of plastic- in fact the total use of plastics.  It is nearly an ounce lighter than Sprint’s HTC Hero, a similarly sized device with a smaller display.

The Sanyo Zio feels incredibly light in the hand


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Samsung Wave S8500

October 15th, 2010

Introduction:

Samsung’s first bada phone – the Samsung Wave S8500 – is finally here. A few months ago we reviewed a prototype unit, which left us with rather high expectations for the final product. Now that it’s here, we are ready to see what Samsung’s latest and greatest creation has to offer. Being a full-featured mobile platform however, bada will inevitably face some pretty strong competition in the form of BlackBerry, webOS, Android and iPhone OS. Or will it? According to Samsung, bada is the easy to use type of OS, which will combine the greatness of having rich 3rd-party apps with a user-friendly interface that would appeal to every average Joe out there. So bada is not that much of an opponent to BlackBerry and Windows Phone, than it is to the iPhone, webOS and Android. Congrats, Samsung, you just painted some really tough future for yourself.

The manufacturer’s vision is well-represented by its slogan “smartphone for everyone”. Well, a bada smartphone for everyone is no doubt what every Samsung executive envisions, but as of now this is surely more of a dream than it is a reality. The question is if, eventually, some day, the bada-based smartphones would really become a part of the general customer’s life, similarly to the iPhone now.

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Design:

In terms of design, the Samsung Wave S8500 is a great achievement of technology (and of Samsung’s design team). It is definitely a good looker, sports a pretty solid metal chassis and is really thin at just 0.43 inches (10.9mm). The in-hand feel of the smartphone is top-notch, thanks to the high-quality materials used and its significant weight.

The Samsung Wave S8500 sports a pretty solid metal chassis and is really thin
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