Day: July 5, 2006

NTT DoCoMo have announced a number of new Symbian powered handsets. Most notable among these is the Enterprise focused D702iBCL (manufactured by Mitsubishi). Unlike other FOMA MOAP the phone does not have a camera and is only available in one colour. The usual MOAP / FOMA features are present such as support for iChannels and FlashCast. Read on for more. The D702iBCL summary specifications are: 130 x 47 x 16.8 mm dimensions 97g QVGA screen resolution with 262,144 colours MOAP UI running on Symbian 8.1 FlashCast and iChannel support 3 hours talk time and 400-550 hours standby timeBCL stands for Business Camera Less.NTT DoCoMo also recently announced the SO902iWP (manufactured by Sony Ericsson). This is a variant of the S0902i. The WP stands for Water Proof and the phone can be immersed into upto 1 metre of water for 30 minutes.Ntt DoCoMo have also recently announced some addition to its 7 series lines. Likely Symbian phones (given their manufacturers history) are the D702iF (Mitsubishi), and the SH702iS (Sharp). The D702iF (for female) is targeted at women. It is available in a range of pastel colours (inlcuding pink) and rounded shape means it can be ‘opened withuot damaging your finger nails’. The SH702iS is the newest model in the SH702 range. It features a 2.4 inch QCGA screen (.4 inches bigger than the SH702iD) with a privacy button that reduce the angle of view to keep the screen from being seen by prying eyes.” via allaboutsymbian.com

“No one wants a good thing, nay a great thing, to end. So it is with the Palm OS Treo line. It never ends and instead constantly evolves. The Treo 600 was a hit in its day several years back and the venerable Treo 650 did better, defining the PDA phone and smartphone market. It had the ergonomics, great phone usability, strong PDA and Internet features that made it a killer device which nearly every major carrier jumped on and offered. So the Treo 700p builds on the 650’s strengths and improves on that device by adding EVDO, a much needed memory upgrade, a 1.3MP camera and bug fixes. Those of you who were hoping for an all-new feature set or redesign will be disappointed. But those looking for an upgrade for a tired Treo or simply one of the best PDA phones on the market will find the 700p most appealing.The Treo 700p runs Palm OS 5.4.9, has 128 megs of memory with 60 megs available and a 312MHz processor to keep things moving smoothly. It’s currently available only in a CDMA version and both Sprint and Verizon carry the phone. We received both for review, and they are 97% the same, with carrier software customizations and casing color being the only differentiators. We noted that the displays’ color casts were different on our Sprint and Verizon phones but Palm often uses more than one LCD supplier so we can’t say that the difference is related to the carrier rather than the LCD supplier for each piece. The 700p has a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth (with support for DUN) and a 320 x 320 pixel color touch screen. It’s compatible with most Treo 650 and Treo 700w accessories such as sync cables, chargers and headsets.” Read this very interesting review here:

“In this videoreview our reporter Sennur Yagmur takes a close4 look at the latest Windows Mobile Smartphone from HTC, the MTeoR. HTC just recentely changed their brandname Qtek to HTC. This is the first 3G Smartphone that HTC will be releasing. The phone has a built in 1.3 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 but unfortunately there is no WiFi on board. The processor is a 300Mhz Samsung CPU and the memmory consists of 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM. Check out the video to find out what our reporter thinks of this phone.” Check it here: