Author: Tarandeep Kaur

Nokia is rolling out 5800 XpressMusic in the US with 3G support. Of course, the support for the US bands is there. Now, here is the odd thing. Where is the carrier logo? May be Nokia has plans to make them available unlocked. So those folks who wish to pick one up, be very prepared for a huge price tag. But, then look at the brighter side, that will be one time payment and you will be free to choose the carrier you want to be on.

The best part about it is the 3.2″ 640 x 360 resolution display. This is not up to the par of one of those new Windows Mobile devices like the new HTC TOUCH HD and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, but it is not shabby too. Nokia is even bundling 8GB micro-SD card to make the whole package even attractive.

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SeeqPod is a notorious application for Windows Mobile, which was so far available for the Desktop PC only. What this application does is that it finds the music from all over the Internet and streams it in a very sleek and user-friendly interface. Does it works? Yeah!

Installation

You have two ways to download it:

• point your IE mobile web browser on your device to http://seeqpod.com and you will be taken to the download page. Note that you must be using the default browser string in order for the seeqpod website to know that you are on a mobile browser.
• get the installation link via email

When you start the application, it gives you a nice list of songs from all genres. I selected “2008 singles of the year” and it loaded them to the playlist. It also comes with a nifty search function. This is the most powerful function of this software. I searched for my all time favorite “Rev Theory” and I was impressed with the results. You can learn more about the artist/music group as it also enlists the related wikipedia article. The article opens in IE mobile and loads the respective wikipedia webpage.

Note that all the screenshots are done in VGA. You may click on them to view the full resolution screenshot.

It also comes with a very finger friendly music player. The player is skinnable and colors are also changeable. Continue reading “SeeqPod for Windows Mobile released and reviewed!”

Christmas is just few days away and Nokia has released the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 in the US. Now, you have more reasons to shell-out even more “bucks”.

The bright OLED screen on the Nokia N85 is an ideal backdrop to view those holiday pictures. Get snap-happy with the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 – both have 5 megapixel cameras with Carl Zeiss optics, so you can enjoy high quality images in richly defined colors, taken with a bright dual LED flash, or video clips at 30 frames per second. Images can be geotagged to record the capture location and shared online on sites like Share on Ovi or Flickr. You can also play the lates N-Gage games on them to entertain yourself.

Both the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 are compatible with high-speed 3G HSDPA networks in the US (850 and 1900 MHz). The Nokia N85 also supports European 3G networks (2100 MHz) – perfect for a holiday break abroad. The Nokia N85 is available for an estimated retail price of $539 and the Nokia N79 for $439.

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Don’t be in shock and this is not an old news! T-Mobile Sidekick has made a return.  The Sidekick Slide has a full QWERTY keyboard and a 1.3mp camera. Plus, it features always-on, one-touch instant messaging. It comes with a standard two-year agreement. Unfortunately, it is not bargain-priced. However, if you buy it only you get a discount of $200 bringing down the $299 price to  affordable $99.99

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Not now, but by second quarter of next year(2009). Samsung will be introducing an Android phone in the US market. Last year was the year for iPhone. Now, it looks like the coming year 2009 will be an Android year. Samsung seems to be very serious with this as it has employed nearly 80 developers to work upon their Android phone, which includes many Java and Linux developers.

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Paul at Modaco has made a custom ROM in which he has integrated IE mobile 6. Though Microsoft said that the IE mobile 6 won’t be available as separate download for the current devices, ROM cookers have found ways of streamlining it inside the ROM itself.

And since this is a ROM upgrade, it will wipe out all of your current data. So, make sure that you do a backup before doing the upgrade.

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Go to this modaco thread for download details

Read IE mobile 6 review (on a HTC TOUCH DIAMOND)

Toshiba becomes the first country to introduce the first Industry’s 512GB solid state drive. This NAND based flash storage is a standard 2.5″ drive based on 43nm MLC. It supports excellent read speeds of 240MBps and write speeds of 200MBps! The drives comes with AES encryption, which improves data protection. Toshiba also plans to introduce 64GB, 128GB and 256GB SSD versions.

Wow! Time is changing at a speedy rate. Who knew that we would see the news of 512GB SSD so soon considering the fact I’m still running 4GB SSD in my 8month old EEE 701.

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