The New BlackBerry Bold 9900
RIM has launched a new addition in the Bold series of Smartphones. The Smartphone was unveiled during this year’s BlackBerry World conference in Florida. RIM officially announced the released of the phone called BlackBerry Bold 9900 and referred it as the “thinnest and most powerful BlackBerry smartphone yet”. A CDMA version of the phone has also been released which is named as the BlackBerry Bold 9930.
The Bold 9900 comes with the famous BlackBerry QWERTY keypad with optical trackpad, and runs on the new BB 7 OS. The Smartphone debuts the new BB OS 7 that provides a more user-friendly experience, with an enhanced web browser, voice-activated searches. It comes with a new technology called the BlackBerry Balance that allows keeping your personal content and corporate data separate and additional apps for work and entertainment.
It is powered by a powerful 1.2GHz processor and supports NFC technology. It also features inbuilt compass for augmented reality. This new BlackBerry Smartphone comes equipped with a 2.8 inches wide Liquid Graphics touch-screen that delivers a 60 frames-per-second performance with “instant UI action/response”.
The handset looks very impressive in a 10.5mm-deep, brushed stainless steel frame and includes a 5 megapixel digital camera with 720p HD video recording and playback capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »
List of 4G Phones – Here Come the 4G Smartphones
Here they come.
While Sprint was the first, all of the major phone carriers in the United States are turning their 4G networks on and some rather fancy smarthpones are coming along in tow.
I thought this wold be a good time to cover what 4G phones are currently available or will be released in the next few months since the majority of phones released by each phone provider is most definitely not 4G. One thing you’ll notice is that every phone on this list is powered by Google’s Android operating system.
Sprint 4G Phones
HTC EVO 4G – This was the very first 4G phone launched. It still competes well with all the new smartphones just released – the only real complaint is that the battery life is a bit short.
HTC EVO Shift 4G – The cheapest 4G phone available at $149.99 with 2 year contract. It is one of two phones (the other being the Epic 4G) to feature a slide out keyboard.
Samsung Epic 4G – This phone is part of the Galaxy S series of phones by Samsung. It’s also starting to age a bit but still packs plenty of horsepower with it’s 1GHZ processor under the hood. Read the rest of this entry »