Articles about phones

Sony Ericsson on Tuesday show the C905 is the handset maker’s first Cyber-shot slider and shoots at 8.1 megapixels — an unprecedented resolution for any of the company’s cellphones. The sensor is backed up by a xenon flash as well as digital autofocusing that supports face detection and image stabilization. The device also incorporates real GPS and uses the positioning feature both for mapping and to geotag shots. The handset further serves as a small-scale media hub with Wi-Fi that lets it share photos or other media to any other device on the local network that supports DLNA media streaming, including the PS3 and some HDTVs.
Sony Ericsson bundles the C905 with a 2GB Memory Stick Micro and will ship the phone in the fall; a North American version, the C905a, will support HSDPA-based 3G Internet access on AT&T in the US and Rogers in Canada, while the C905i and C905c will target data support internationally and in China respectively.
The S302 Snapshot is aimed at entry-level users who still care about photo quality with a 2-megapixel camera and a camera-like menu that also includes minor on-camera editing. The S302 also supports Memory Stick Micro and is due at the same time as the C905; it will also work in North America but is capped at EDGE for data.

Research In Motion rolled out the new BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone for the North America market. The Tour 9630 supports both 3G EV-DO Rev. A networks in the N.America as well as quad-band GMS/EDGE and 3G UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) networks.BlackBerry Tour features a 2.44-inch 480×360 color display, a 3.2 Megapixel auto focus camera with flash, image stabilization, and video recording. It has a full QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth support, advanced media player, built-in GPS with geotagging and a 3.5mm stereo jack.
The BlackBerry Tour 9630 will be released by Verizon and Sprint soon at about $199.99 with contract and after $150 mail-in rebate.

Nokia has just announced the availability of Qt 4.6, the newest version of its cross-platform application and UI framework.
Qt 4.6 comes with many new features, support for more platforms: Symbian (4.6 is the first version of Qt to support Symbian), Windows 7, Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard and the yet-to-come Maemo 6.
Qt 4.6 also adds support for multi-touch and gestures, and offers new graphical capabilities (including a new Animation Framework and graphics effects like opacity, glow, filtering and drop shadows).
There are also performance improvements, thanks to a re-written Qt GraphicsView rendering algorithm, 2D vector graphic support, a new OpenGL paint engine and new DirectFB support.

Motorola Droid X is a top-of-the-line Android OS laden device and despite all the Android competition, it has managed to find it’s own admirers. The Droid X got lucky with the Android Froyo 2.2 update not a long while back and the Froyo goodness did help the Droid X a lot, but a good set of problems also arose with the Froyo update. The most nagging one is the SMS Bug where instead of displaying the messages from the top down in order of latest sent and received, reflects a static screen where the messages are in the position where they first appear on the list. Gladly, Motorola has confirmed through its official forum that a bug fix is already in the works and it should be rolled out to the Droid X users sometime in the near future.