Phone Reviews

Android Market has overcome two important milestone. First, this online store has already been made a billion downloads, and secondly, now it has more than 100,000 applications. This sharp increase occurred in that year. For example, in June this year in the Android Market has been added more than 15,000 applications, while over the same period of the past – only in 1669, wrote Fonehome.

Company Fly, a known fact that the recent findings on the Russian market only dvuhsimochnye phones, introduced a touch monoblock Fly E170. Features new items do not make it outstanding, but it looks quite presentable vehicle.

The model is equipped with a 2.8-inch touchscreen display that can display 262 thousand colors, trehmegapikselnoy camera (I wonder if it still panics when shooting high-contrast frames?), MicroSDHC slot, and 3.5 mm audio jack. The latter should come in handy, because the model is positioned as a multimedia, is equipped with FM-tuner, and the player is able to work for 30 hours without a break.

Supporting two SIM-cards, of course, as is, where without it. Sales start in late July, the estimated price – 5590 rubles.

Performance characteristics of Fly E170
Network GSM / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Size 110h56.5h12 mm
Weight 119 g
Battery 1000 mAh, Li-Ion, 5 h in dir. talk, 300 hours in dir. wait 30 hours in dir. audio
Touchscreen, 2.8 “TFT 400h240, 262000 colors
Camera 3 mpix
MP3/MIDI/AMR/WAV/AAC (audio), MPEG4/H.263/H.264/AVI (video), FM-radio
microSDHS
Bluetooth 2.0 + A2DP

The operator MTS introduced a novelty under its own brand, radically different from the earlier budget prostozvonilok presence of QWERTY-keyboard.

The phone has a 2.4 display with 320×240 resolution, 2-megapixel camera, slot microSD, Bluetooth 2.0 module and supports all spetsservisy: “Mobile Email», RedBox, J-Drive, «second memory”, “MTS-Info», Omlet.ru .

The device is inexpensive: a connection to any tariff MTS – 3490 rubles, without connection (ie, for use in the network of any operator) – 3990 rubles.

Performance characteristics of MTS Qwerty
Network GSM / GPRS 900/1800/1900 MHz
Size 112h60h11.5 mm
Weight 105 g
Battery for 6 h in dir. talk, 760 hours in dir. wait 30 hours in dir. audio
Display 2.4 “TFT 320×240, 262000 colors
Camera 2 mpix
MP3, FM-radio
microSD (up to 16 GB)
Bluetooth 2.0

According Unwiredview, the operator AT & T introduced the new product manufactured by Sharp, painfully reminiscent of the apparatus Sidekick, once and produced it as for T-Mobile.

Sharp FX has a touchscreen, is equipped with a QWERTY-keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, supports Bluetooth 2.1 and has a HTML-browser. Price – $ 99.99 with a contract for 2 years and subject to refund 50 Dolar under the terms of “mail-in rebate”.

Company Fly, a known fact that the recent findings on the Russian market only dvuhsimochnye phones, introduced a touch monoblock Fly E170. Features new items do not make it outstanding, but it looks quite presentable vehicle.

The model is equipped with a 2.8-inch touchscreen display that can display 262 thousand colors, trehmegapikselnoy camera (I wonder if it still panics when shooting high-contrast frames?), MicroSDHC slot, and 3.5 mm audio jack. The latter should come in handy, because the model is positioned as a multimedia, is equipped with FM-tuner, and the player is able to work for 30 hours without a break.

Supporting two SIM-cards, of course, as is, where without it. Sales start in late July, the estimated price – 5590 rubles.

Performance characteristics of Fly E170
Network GSM / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Size 110h56.5h12 mm
Weight 119 g
Battery 1000 mAh, Li-Ion, 5 h in dir. talk, 300 hours in dir. wait 30 hours in dir. audio
Touchscreen, 2.8 “TFT 400h240, 262000 colors
Camera 3 mpix
MP3/MIDI/AMR/WAV/AAC (audio), MPEG4/H.263/H.264/AVI (video), FM-radio
microSDHS
Bluetooth 2.0 + A2DP

The operator MTS introduced a novelty under its own brand, radically different from the earlier budget prostozvonilok presence of QWERTY-keyboard.

The phone has a 2.4 display with 320×240 resolution, 2-megapixel camera, slot microSD, Bluetooth 2.0 module and supports all spetsservisy: “Mobile Email», RedBox, J-Drive, «second memory”, “MTS-Info», Omlet.ru .

The device is inexpensive: a connection to any tariff MTS – 3490 rubles, without connection (ie, for use in the network of any operator) – 3990 rubles.

Performance characteristics of MTS Qwerty
Network GSM / GPRS 900/1800/1900 MHz
Size 112h60h11.5 mm
Weight 105 g
Battery for 6 h in dir. talk, 760 hours in dir. wait 30 hours in dir. audio
Display 2.4 “TFT 320×240, 262000 colors
Camera 2 mpix
MP3, FM-radio
microSD (up to 16 GB)
Bluetooth 2.0

The Ukrainian State Centre of Radio Frequencies cautioned Ukrainians from buying smartphones Apple, which will soon be “transformed into an expensive toy.” «IPhone to date we have not been certified, and therefore, by law, can not be imported into the territory of Ukraine and realized through the trading network”, – reported in the organization.

Representatives UGTSR say that when you connect your smartphone to Apple network operator will make it into a “gray list” and eventually cease to serve. “Vendors black market once again trying to foist the Ukrainians illegally commodity which in a few months may be unnecessary to you” – added to the center.

To function will only iPhone, that citizens have imported into the country for their own needs and registered in the generalized database codes ІМЕІ.

South Korean company Pantech announced its new smartphone based on Android operating system under the name SKY Vega (index model – IM-A650S).

This model has a version of Android 2.1, equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1 GHz, 3.7-inch AMOLED display and a three-dimensional user menu.

Home sales SKY Vega, who will have four color design Corps, is scheduled for this month at a local Korean operator SKT.

Brief specifications SKY Vega (IM-A650S):

* Dimensions: 115,95 x59, 4×10, 95 mm
* Weight: 114.3 gr.
* Display: Large 3.7-inch touchscreen, AMOLED, VGA resolution
* Camera: 5 megapixel with auto focus, large-format HD-video (720p)
* Availability of 3D menus and support for volume widget
* Built-in digital TV tuner (T-DMB), 3.5 mm audio jack
* Memory: 500 MB of built-in, expandable through microSD memory cards

We have already mentioned in the news slider BlackBerry 9800. According to rumors, a device with 3.2-inch touch screen and a retractable down QWERTY-keyboard. It is equipped with 5-megapixel camera, supports cellular 3G, wireless networks Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, is equipped with a GPS receiver, 4 GB internal flash memory and a slot for microSD. It is assumed that the U.S. BlackBerry 9800 will come from the operator AT & T, although not yet reported an exact release date and price of this new product.

And we now know that in Canada the exclusive provider of BlackBerry 9800 will be the operator Rogers. That is, neither Bell, or Telus to sell the device can not. According to the source, they “fell out of favor, because they have already have in their portfolio of BlackBerry smartphones with a touchscreen – it is Storm and Storm 2. Previously, the company Rogers and RIM released a number of exclusive devices, so it is quite possible that they plan to continue this tradition and the new BlackBerry 9800. Most likely, he will be released shortly.

Manufacturer of luxury (not in the sense – great, just expensive) phones Bellperre announced a new product, whose audience described as “somewhat broader than the one that can afford luxury-tube at the moment,” wrote Unwiredview. Telephone represents something of an ultrathin, concluded on the user’s choice in the steel, silver, yellow 24-carat or 18 carat pink gold case with leather inserts (leather offered are different, the options much as 125).

Other features expressionless: support for four GSM bands and three – HSDPA (900/1900/2100 MHz), 2.2 “QVGA-screen with 16 million colors, protected with a sapphire crystal, accelerometer, GPS-navigator, Stereo Bluetooth, FM-radio function noise reduction, support for Email, Browser, Sync Outlook, pyatimegapikselnaya camera with flash and the size 111h45h11.2mm.