My friend whose office doesn’t allow a camera mobile phone into their premise, showed me this petite slider – Samsung B520. For a price of Rs. 3,200/- (64$), i was pretty surprised amazed with its features.
- Measuring 96 x 47 x 17.g mm and weighing 94grams and dressed in a gun metal grey plastic its quite sophisticated looking for budget range phone
- The phone’s display is a quite ok one with 128 x 160 pixel measuring 1.77 inches.
- The phone’s user interface is typical samsung with a 3 x 3 icon system and is quite user friendly
- The basic phone functionality like making and receiving calls is good. And coupled with a 1000 no. address book and sms feature makes it a good basic cellphone
- What gives this phone is its “Value” feature is a mp3 playback capability with a microsd slot and a FM radio making it a handy portable audio player
- Other features like Bluetooth, GPRS, E-Mail client and Java support makes it a good value for money phone.
So people who want a “cameraless” mobile with some pretty basic features can surely consider this…..
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: Mobile Phone, Samsung
Here are two interesting java apps for your mobile phones,
Qeep : Supposed to be a mobile social networking community with free membership, software and ability to chat, blog, play games with fellow members- FPC Bench : Its more for the Java techies interested in developing j2me softwares for mobile as this is a benchmarking tool.
In other interesting news, MyPhoneExplorer’s latest version has support for Sony Ericsson’s UIQ phones like G700,G900,P1i etc . But I tried connecting it with a G900, the problem is it also needs the SE PC Suite with m-router to be installed and the m-router identifies the phone at its own will so connecting it becomes a great hassle.
P.S: As you might have noted I got time to play with a SE G900, so upcoming posts will have my thoughts on it.
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: Java softwares, Mobile Goodies, Mobile Phone
At a time when the “iPhone” fever has been hitting fever pitch (seeing the cost , some people’s fever might have cooled down) ..I came across a LG Viewty (i.e KU990R) …supposed to be one of the “iPhone Killers” in the mobilephone market.
From the time I saw the box , a black one which slides out and dimensions reminding vaguely of a “iPhone box”, i thought may be its supposed to be a iPhone killer, but from now on in the remaining part of these posts I will forward the features and some comparisons to “what many people crave for around this world at this moment” …(sorry I am not one of them)
- Phone Wise : At a dimension of 103.5 x 54.4 x 14.8 mm and weighing 113g its somewhat chunky but the metal finish gave it a solid look. With only three buttons at the front its 3″ 256K TFT screen 240 x 400 pixel screen with its flash based touch UI is the main focal point of this phone. The flash based UI with haptic feedback was nice but it takes a time to get used to and in some areas the UI is slightly laggy.Network reception and sound quality was good. Battery life was the only thing i couldn’t test out and from what i’ve read on the web it could be a sore point of this phone.
- Multimedia Wise : Fitted with a 5 Mpx camera and Xenon flash it made some ok shots indoors but outdoors and lighted conditions should turn out some pretty decent photos. Another major selling point of this phone is its VGA video recording @ 30 fps and QVGA @ 120 fps. It also had a decent mp3 playback with good sound and also a FM radio with RDS. Another “ace” up its sleeve is the divx movie playback, Watching on the 3″ screen was nice but it wasn’t as vivid and bright as a iPhone (But in the above mentioned areas Viewty holds all the aces).It seems it can only accept upto 2 GB micro SD card. It also had a muvee editor and picture editor.It can play Java games and one nifty feature is that all standard 240 x 320 Java games play full screen with the remaining 240 x 80 screen displaying a virtual d-pad.
- Business Wise : Address book with 500 contacts, Organizer and Document viewers are some tools which can be useful tools for your business. On the connectivity front it has GPRS, EDGE, 3G (HSDPA) with front facing camera, Bluetooth with A2DP and USB. I didn’t test out the browser, but there was options like GMail, Blogger and YouTube pre-installed in the phone. EMail account can also be configured but I am not sure whether this has any sync support.
So at a competitive price of 18,000/- bucks (405$), its a nice touch screen multimedia phone.
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: LG, Mobile Phone, Viewty
I don’t know how far statistically Indians do online shopping and whether they get any fantastic deals to back them up, but still there are plenty of online stores to compare prices and see whether any offers are available,
- MobileNxt : This is the newest site I’ve come across, some interesting deals
- Univercell : Maybe the biggest franchise in south India, updated prices so can be on the money on price drops.
- WaveTel Mobiles : A Chennai based retailer with various brands of mobilephones and some mp3 players, laptops too.
- SriVasavi Mobiles: Another chennai based retailer with some good deals.
- Indiaplaza : A large online retailer with some good deals for mobile phones
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: Mobile Phone
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