Cell Phone Beat

Sling Media is all set to introduce its most up-to-date application till date for iPhone. Dubbed as SlingPlayer Mobile, the application will allow you watch Cable TV from anywhere, provided you’ve a high-speed internet connection at your disposal. It’s definitely switchable from your home basic cable, which enables you enjoy QVGA resolution at 30 frames per second. I think it will lend mobility to your cable-viewing experience for sure. Well, this time it’s not just for the iPhones; Mac HD is soon going to be a part of it. Running this application on to your iPhone becomes exceptionally expedient owing to insightful menus and handy shortcuts. So, if you’re an iPhone user you need to wait for some time, while others may download it electronically here for $29.99 only.

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Via: Techcrunch

Think of a situation where you forgot your garage keys and the porter fails to respond to your honking and open the garage door. So what do you do? Bang your head on the steering? Well, no more! Thanks to Unify4Life for thinking up the Garage/Shadow application in collaboration with BlackBerry. BlackBerry users can now open their garage doors with their phones. Isn’t it so cool? And the best part? It’s all set to make its appearance on April 6, hopefully at CES ‘09.

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If CES is THE craze, then I am most willing to fall prey to it. It’s a tough competition out there and the outcome is classy electronic gadgets at your disposal. Revving up the competition is Pharos Traveler 137 – a GPS Smartphone – stuffed with Velocity Mobile Design.

Technical Specifications: A 3.5” flush touch-screen WVGA display, 7.2Mb/s download and 2Mb/s upload speeds, two on-board cameras, a 3 MP digital camera for recording pictures and video, a 0.3 MP camera for video conferencing, Microsoft Live Search, and other common features like calculator, game, voice recorder, MSN messenger and a media player 10. Such an array of features do not slow it down; you get up to 4 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby.

Pricing & Availability: The anticipated pricing for the Traveler 137 is $599.95. No word on availability as yet.

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Via: Electronista

The CES suffuses a vigorous antagonism among all the top mobile companies. For that reason, the fall outs encompass superior gadgets, improved mechanics and finally, spirited promotions. It’s but natural that T-Mobile, following the suit, has joined hands with Nokia and is confident of 7510 Supernova’s release at the same event. What better occasion than the CES?

Technical Specifications: Quadband, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, 2.2” QVGA display with 320 x 240 pixel resolution, organic desktop, up to 26 MB of free internal user data memory and 512 MB on the external microSD card, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity with stereo audio profiles, 2.5 mm AV connector, Java and Symbian applications, and much more... Not to miss, it’s available in three variants i.e. aquamarine, brown and red.

Pricing & Availability: There’s no word on pricing and availability as yet.

Via: Phonesreview

If cloning is a nuisance, how could iPhone escape that? This spurious iPhone Air and its would-be original have identical features; even the exteriors are the same. What’s evermore interesting is the presence of the iPhone logo over the bogus (original not yet official) entrant! So, what would you call it? Forged creativity or inspiration?

Technical Specifications: You need not worry about features if it’s the iPhone. The Clamshell has dual SIM card support, a built-in camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, and a music player.

Finally, the wait is over! Well, I am not saying that Garmin has affirmed the launch of Nuvifone, but its the next best thing - a sneak peek! So, in a way, this much awaited navigator does exhibit some of its features just before an anticipated CES release. Needless to say, it isn’t that fair to call it just a navigational device, it could easily live up to the standards of an iPhone.

Technical Specifications: QWERTY keypad, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, navigation application, Google Local, web browser, calendar, E-Mail, Call, Search and View Map, and a multimedia player.

With CES just round the bend and mobile phone companies doing everything to steal the show, Palm is all geared up to give all a good chase. Catching hold of the iPhone syndrome, Palm plans to launch an iPhone like, Nova Smartphone. Well, I think this Smartphone trend is spreading like fire. So, it’s perfectly right to be a part of the iPhone era that best describes the present time.

Technical Specifications: This phone has a full QWERTY keyboard, a portrait-oriented touchscreen, media playback functions along with standard Palm calendar, email and contact functionality.

Pricing & Availability: As of now, there’s no word on pricing. Anyhow, it could be launched at the CES this Thursday.

Via: T3

Australia is fast developing into an iPhone afflicted country. May be, ‘afflicted’ isn’t the best term to describe a defunct iPhone, but iPhone doctor may not seem to be that bizarre. Don’t you think so? Ray Jacobs has earned himself a great reputation, owing to his expertise to fix the iPhones not working properly. His small, Chatswood office has already been visited 670 times; people standing in anticipation for the doctor to attend to his patients. Accordingly, Ray Jacobs makes a substantial income out of this iPhone syndrome. So, now whenever my iPhone desires that much-needed revamp, I know which way to turn.

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After the huge success of K770, Sony Ericsson hands out yet another handset with some real, hot features. Dubbed as Sony Ericsson C510 Kate, this mobile boasts of cool exteriors and gracious looks. I do appreciate its maiden images. Hope you’ll love them too!

Technical Specifications: A 3.2 MP AF camera, LED, face detection, Cyber-shot UI 2.0, 3.2 MP AF camera, 2.2” QVGA display, 160 MB in-built memory, print service Snapfish, and smile shutter.

Affirmation, offer, deliberation, recant, and finally, contemplation is all Orange had been doing over Blackberry Bold’s release. And this time, it’s the same story again. This hi-tech, feature-rich handset might not see the clear light of the day in the European arena. Though one could never be sure, still recent progress clearly indicates Orange’s sidelining of Bold due to some “technical issues”. Anyway, what we can do is, just wait and see!

Technical Specifications: It includes a crisp, clear display, wi fi connectivity, GPS, supports tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks, has newly designed full-QWERTY keyboard, half-VGA (480×320 resolution) color LCD, Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD) and Bluetooth 2.0.

Pricing & Availability: Despite the fact that Orange had arrested sales of Bold once before, this year might not see its vending. And as of now, there’s no word on pricing and availability.

Via: Boygeniusreport