The New Palm Treo Pro

Here's something new for smartphone fans. Palm has just officially announced a new model for its successful Treo line. Take a close look at the new Palm Treo Pro.

A few days a go, Palm released an official video of the Palm Treo Pro. The video confirmed the smart phone's existence and indicated that tit will offer a one-touch Wi-Fi button, GPS, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a high-resolution flush color touch screen. The official Palm Treo Pro video video appear in the maker's official multimedia library for the press. However, the video was not accompanied by a press release so information on the new Treo was limited.

Fortunately, Palm has come to its senses and released the official information on the phone. Here's a statement from Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer, Palm, Inc regarding this new device.

“Businesses want the control and savings that Windows Mobile affords, in an innovative and elegant package that keeps their users happy. That’s where Palm comes in. Everything about Treo Pro -- from the hardware design to the packaging and accessories – embodies the elegant and simplified end-to-end experience that our customers expect from Palm.”

Palm envisions the Treo Pro as a device that would serve business users who want to have simple IT infrastructures and lower costs. the Palm Treo Pro is also designed to assist users with the task of staying on top of their professional and personal lives.

The Palm Treo Pro offers features that allows users to respond to business and personal email in a short period of time. The device also provides access to the the web helping them stay on top of appointments and contacts. It also provides them with the ability to use Wi-Fi or GPS on the go to help them get to their intended destination in as little time as possible.

Let's enumerate the the business and personal features offered by the new Palm Treo Pro:

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE radios
• Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA
• 2 megapixel camera
• World phone
• Integrated GPS
• Microsoft Direct Push Technology
• Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• One-touch Wi-Fi button
• Today screen enhancements
• Ringer switch
• Screen saver
• New voicemail indicator
• Dedicated email and calendar buttons

There you have it. Those are the features of this new smartphone. Interested customers can get the Palm Treo Pro in the fall through the Palm online store and select Internet, retail and enterprise resellers for a suggested retail price of $549. The U.S. version of this smartphone will be offered unlocked and unsubsidized to give end users the flexibility. They don't have to sign any agreements and can simply insert their existing active SIM card and immediately start using their Treo Pro.

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The New T-Mobile Sidekick 2008

Here's a new mobile phone for those who love to personalize cool gadgets. T-Mobile has recently released this year's version of their popular Sidekick handsets. This new mobile phone offers some thing new for those who love cool handsets. Let's explore the info on this new cell phone.

The T-Mobile Side Kick 2008 was codenamed "Gekko" before it was released to the market. A lot of people expected it to keep that name but T-Mobile decided to name it as the Sidekick. So what makes this device different from other Sidekicks?

On the hardware side, it remains largely the same. It has the swivel-out screen, controls and track ball found on previous models but it does have smaller footprint than older versions. The Sidekick 2008's keyboard are smaller and seems like a combination of the keyboards on the Sidekick LX and the Sidekick 3.

T-Mobile also emphasizes the new Sidekick's interchangeable shells. T-Mobile customers can personalize their Sidekick by using the company's web site to design their own custom shells ($15) or select one from pre-designed shells. Some users humorously commented that this option reminded them of beyblade, a toy with interchangeable shells.

The newest Sidekick also offers some well designed and intuitive such as email, instant messaging, picture messaging and video messaging. As expected form the latest version, the T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 offers more features than older versions.

Folks who would like to have a camera on their handsets can also consider this device. Granted it offers a typical two-megapixel camera for photos or video. It doesn't have a built in flash but the images it takes are decent. The images and video taken from the T-Mobile Sidekick can be sent to friends and family via email or MMS.

T-Mobile is offering this handset for $149.99 with a two-year agreement. This means that it's cheaper than the Sidekick LX despite offering more features. To wrap this up here are the key features of the T-Mobile Sidekick:

• Video recording
• Spell check
• Quick find
• Improved browser
• Enhanced IM
• Bluetooth A2DP
• 2.0 megapixel camera
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE

The Rugged Motorola V750 Adventure

Here's another new handset for Verizon Wireless. It's not a music phone but it's sure to offer some thing for adventurous mobile phone fans. The Motorola V750 Adventure offers name and attributes that will impress any adventurer. Let's take a look at this new Verizon handset.

As its name suggests its a rugged handset that can function well in the most extreme conditions. Customers who are highly-mobile and active individuals will like the feature-rich yet durable V750. This new Verizon handsets has passed military specifications for extreme conditions. This means that it can withstand shock, vibration, dust, solar radiation, high-temperature storage, and altitude. It also means that it will work well in high and low temperature.

The MotorolaV750 Adventure is headed for Verizon's Push to Talk phones lineup. This new Verizon handset offers a durable and reliable solution for Verizon Wireless Push to Talk customers with the help of the high-speeds offer by Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) network.

The Push to Talk service provides customers with fast two-way communication with one person or a group of people using EV-DO Rev. A technology. This Verizon service also provides national coast-to-coast coverage and customers do not have to worry about hidden charges or fees.

The rugged Motorola V750 Adventure also offers VZ Navigator(SM) and Field Force Manager. VZ Navigator provides audible maps, turn-by-turn directions and location information to more than 14 million points of interest. Field Force Manager is a resource management tool that provides businesses with the ability to locate, monitor and communicate with their mobile field workers.

The Adventure also offers a large 2.2-inch high-resolution internal display and 1.6-inch external display. This handset also offers access to entertainment services such as V CAST Music with Rhapsody. Customers can download music directly from the phone using this service. This service also provides access to a library of more than 5 million songs and purchase full-songs over-the-air.

Here's the rest of the features of Verizon's Motorola V750 Adventure:

• 2.0 megapixel camera
• 2.5 mm headset jack
• Stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology
• Mobile IM and chat capabilities
• Mobile Web
• Media Center
• V CAST Video
• Text, picture and video messaging

I'm sure that mobile phone sites and experts will get their hands on this phone soon. Look for new cell phone reviews to get hands on information on this device. Tune in to this blog for more new phones and news.

Verizon's Upcoming LG Chocolate 3 Music Phone

I picked up an interesting mobile phone rumor, as I was surfing some cell phone and gadgets websites. I found some rumors on the possible release date of the LG Chocolate 3. The rumors say that Verizon will release the music centered clamshell from LG on July 14th. Well see if the mobile phone carrier will release the LG chocolate 3 music phone about a week from now.

Verizon already have two different versions of the LG Chocolate in their mobile phone lineup. However, the LG Chocolate 1 (VX8500) and LG Chocolate (VX8550) 2 are slider handsets. The upcoming LG Chocolate 3 (VX8560) will be a clamshell. This new Verizon music phone will be initially available in Black and Light Blue variants.

Of course, the LG Chocolate 3 not only features a new form factor. It will also offer new features and other surprises. It will need to offer new to compete with the top mobile phones that will be launch in the same month. It will need to outdo the Instinct offered by Sprint and the 3G iPhone offered by AT&T.

The Chocolate 3 is a music centered handset so it needs to offer a great feature for music phone fans. It turns out that the LG Chocolate 3 will be the the first Verizon device to have an integrated FM Transmitter. These means that users can can listen to stored music on any near by FM Radio Receiver.

Here are the main features offered by the LG Chocolate 3 :

• 1.76" 176x220 pixel external display with navigation wheel

• 2.2" internal QVGA display
  

• 3.5mm headset jack
  

• 1GB of internal memory
  

• microSDHC support up to 8GB
  

• 2MP camera
  

• stereo speakers
  

• Bluetooth ver 2.1.
  

• VCAST Music

The LG Chocolate is expected to be offered at $129 after $50 rebate with a 2-year contact, $199 after $50 rebate with a 1-year contract, and $299 full retail. Tune in to this blog for more infos on upcoming cell phones and other news.

The new MOTOZINE ZN5 Mobile Phone from Motorola

Here's some good news for Motorola mobile phone fans. The company has just officially unveiled the MOTOZINE ZN5.

The newly announced Motorola Motozine ZN5 is a bar-style phone. When you look at it, you might notice that its similar in shape and appearance to the ROKR E8. The main seling point or the highlight of this new mobile phone is the Kodak-branded 5 megapixel camera.

But what makes this camera special? Well, the Motorola Motozine ZN5's has autofocus and can focus on images in less than a second. This capability will allow users to take pictures more quickly. This will come in handy when you take pictures of kids who can't stay put for a very long time.

The Kodak-branded 5 megapixel camera Motorola's Motozine ZN5 has a full flash, as well as Kodak-approved optics. And every one knows that Kodak is one of the est in the world when it comes to cameras. The ZN5 also carries Kodak's Easy Share software that supports a lot of editing features, panorama shooting mode, and easy sharing with social networking sites.

The 5 megapixel camera's user interface was jointly developed with Motorola and Kodak to make it easier to operate for mobile phone fans. As a result, all functions related to the camera are color-coded purple. This means that you can easily find them when you want to usse this special camera. Wen yopu shift the Motozin ZN5 into camera mode, it's keypad will morph to show camera-specific buttons.

Jeremy Dale, corporate vice president, mobile devices marketing, Motorola, Inc. made this comment on the launche of this new Motorola camera phone:

“Today’s creative consumers not only want to be the photographer, but also the retoucher, the exhibitor and the critic. The MOTOZINE ZN5 lets them be all the things they want to be.”

Here are the rest of the key features of the Motorola Motozine ZN5:

• MOTOMAGX platform
  

• quad-band GSM/EDGE radios
  

• stereo Bluetooth, FM radio
  

• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.
  

• slot for a microSD card (supporting cards up to 4GB)
  

• 3.5mm headset jack (supporting TV out)
  

• a full HTML browser

The Motorola Motozine ZN5 will first be launched in China first (lucky for the Chinese) and will hit US stores be fore the year ends. The announcement from Motorola did not mention a carrier for the phone so tune in for more updates.

OMNIA: Samsung's Flagship Smartphone

Here's some good news for smartphone users and Samsung fans.

Samsung recently introduced the Omnia a high-end smartphone that combines Windows Mobile 6.1 with the mobile phone maker's TouchWiz finger-touch interface. Now, some sources say that this device may the smartphone that Samsung has ever built. Well, it certainly has the potential to be a good one. Let's go over the details of this device.

This device was first known as the SGH-i900 when it first appeared in leaked info and images on the web. It was named OMNIA which translate as ‘wish’ in Arabic and ‘everything’ in Latin. The name attempts to convince the consumers that this device offers everything that they can possibly wish for on a Windows Mobile 6.1 smart phone. Well, only time well tell.

The Samsung OMNIA is a phone that attempts to bring high performance business content, high-end design mixed and a full bag of dynamic multimedia rich experience to all smartphone users. Like the coveted high-end phones today, the OMNIA offers a touchscreen interface. However, users will find it easier to navigate the features of the device because it includes an optical mouse. The optical mouse for the Samsung OMNIA is similar to the device used on find on laptops.

The OMNIA is a touch-based that offers Samsung's patented TouchWiz user interface. In fact, it is the first ever Samsung Windows Mobile smart phone to feature TouchWiz. This impressive interface allows users to personalize their home window with unique widgets. With the use of intuitive tap, the high-resolution touch-sensitive screen allows users to sweep, drag and drop operations. Calling and texting becomes easy with a dedicated dome key for controlling communications.

This flagship smartphone also offers a 5-megapixel CMOS camera with auto-focus (AF), face and smile detection and auto-panorama shot. It's a powerful that will allow users to take the best quality pictures of their best moments. Customers can choose between the 8 and 16GB memory configuration depending on their needs. The Samsung OMNIA also offers an extendable slot for additional storage. GPS, including navigation and geo-tagging capabilities are also included in this great smartphone.

The Samsung OMNIA can also compete with today's fahion phones. It's ultra-slim measuring 12.5mm and has a platinum look finish. Samsung added details such as elegant hairline patterns on the back of the phone to bring the “perfection in style.” This smartphone can add style to any user.

Well that's about it. I'll leave it to you to do more research if you are interested on this device. Tune in to this blog for more mobile phone info and news.

Two Sleek and Gorgeous Nokia Phones for the Ladies

Here's some interesting mobile phone scoop. According to UnwiredView, Nokia may be preparing to release two new mobile phones that target women customers. These are S40 devices and the info on these device followed the official release of the Nokia 7310 Supernova, another cell phone for women.


The Story:

OK, here's how the handset spies form UnwiredView acquired the info on these new Nokia mobile phones. Apparently, the webmaster from Nokia's Polish site inadvertently released the information on this two mobile phones for women. The image above was taken from the site.

Perhaps it was a honest mistake from the Polish Nokia webmasters part. Maybe it was a planned info leak to gain more attention for the handsets (these aren't Nseries devices) and make the mobile phone atmosphere more exciting. The Polish Nokia site has already taken down the page devoted to this mobile phones.

These cell phones for women were names Nokia 7510 and 7610 Supernova. However, experts say that the second phone named 7610 may be another mistake because Nokia already has a discontinued device bearing that name. The mobile phone maker has been known to revamp the old models and release them as new. However, since this mobile phone is completely new phone, in a new form factor, it's highly unlikely that it will bear a the same serial number that was bestowed to another device.


The Specs:

Nokia 7510 Supernova

• Weight: 124 g
• Dimensions: 92 x 46 x 17 mm
• Display: QVGA 16m colors, external monochrome 128×160 display
• Network: Quad-band GSM / EDGE
• Memory: 27 MB internal, microSD support
• Operating System: S40 (with active themes)
• Camera: 2 megapixel with LED flash and 4x digital zoom; QCIF video recording at 15 FPS
• Talktime: 3 days standby and 300 hours of talktime
• Internet: OSS internet browser
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0
• FM radio with RDS
• 2.5 mm jack

Nokia 7610 Supernova?

• Weight: 99 g
• Dimensions: 98×48×15 mm
• Display: QVGA 16m color display
• Network: Quad-band GSM/EDGE
• Talktime: 5.4 days standby and 300 hours talktime
• Storage: 64 MB internal, microSD support
• Operating System: S40
• Camera: 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and 8x digital zoom; VGA 30 FPS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• FM radio with RDS

Release dates and pricing on these devices are unavailable. Perhaps another Nokia webmaster will make another mistake. Tune in to this blog for more mobile phone scoop and info.