Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Matt

The black version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is soon to be joined by a light, bright newcomer – the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is on its way. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB will be available in the UK in early February 2012 and is sure to be a smartphone to be seen with, gracing the hippest of hands and trendiest of trousers within days of its release. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was, on its release, the first device to feature Google’s newest Android 4.0 operating system, the sweetly named Ice Cream Sandwich, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is also graced with this state-of-the-art OS. Many specialists, basing their proclamation on the recent decision to upgrade Samsung’s 2010 Google Nexus S to Android 4.0, consider buying a Google device a great investment for the future.

On first glance, the two most striking things about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB are its screen and its sleek minimalist looks. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is only the second device in the world to come with a 4.65-inch capacitive Super AMOLED HD display with 1280×720 pixels (the first, in case you’re wondering, was the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7!). The Samsung Galaxy Nexus’s Super AMOLED HD display features a brand-new state-of-the-art touchscreen technology which makes the Samsung Galaxy Nexus’s touchscreen brighter, thinner, less reflective and more energy efficient. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB’s screen is concave, reducing reflections – this feature is a popular takeaway from a previous Samsung smartphone, the Nexus S. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB’s high-definition display and 720p-resolution video means that it lends itself beautifully to many uses, from gaming to browsing the internet, without scaling. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s HD OLED display gives dazzling colour accuracy and an auto-brightness setting means that brightness will adjust automatically depending on whether you’re in a dark room or sitting in the sun.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s minimalist looks are, in fact, facilitated by the screen. For the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White, Samsung have done away with buttons on the front of the device, relying solely on use of the on-screen icons for navigation. Despite the worry that this could mean losing some screen space that could be used for cool graphics or text, this doesn’t seem to be the case on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White – lots of apps can go full-screen and make full use of the HD display. A notification light is hidden beneath the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s screen and if you miss a message, call or email, it will flash to let you know. There is still a function for on-screen notifications, and they can now be cleared by dragging them off the screen with your finger – or act on them straight away by using the notification menu to access your phone settings. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White has a dedicated on-screen task manager button, which makes accessing your applications and swapping between them super-easy, and there’s a new way to install widgets using a new lab in the launcher menu. – all functions of the new Google Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. If you’re on a capped mobile-data plan there’s no need to worry – there are controls on mobile data usage.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White’s Ice Cream Sandwich operating system brings with it several space-age and often exclusive features. NFC (Near Field Communication) technology is a way of sharing information between devices and was embraced by Google some months ago. On the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White NFC technology has been taken to the next level – you can now use your Samsung Galaxy Nexus to pay for goods and services (rather like an Oyster card on London Underground). And NFC technology is used on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White in the new, Ice Cream Sandwich-exclusive feature Android Beam, which allows you to share information – such as contact details, websites, YouTube videos and maps – between two NFC-enabled devices simply by tapping them together. Another Ice Cream Sandwich-exclusive feature on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White is Face Unlock – a fun app which remembers what you look like so that you can use your face as your password. Just pick up your Samsung Galaxy Nexus White and point the front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera at your face to unlock your phone. Flip the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White over and there’s a 5 megapixel camera on the back – also capable of filming full HD video in both 720p 1080p.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB naturally comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiFi Direct, and inside the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is a 1.2GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 1GB RAM. There’s no microSD slot but, as the name Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB suggests, there’s an ample 16GB internal storage capacity, all of which is available for your personal use for apps, because the Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB shares your internal storage between media and apps.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus White 16GB is a stylish smartphone – it’s easy to use and packed with features, and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS has ample potential to keep you in fun apps for years to come. A wise investment.

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Huawei Vision

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Matt

The Huawei Vision is aptly named – it really is a vision. A good-looking and well-priced mid-range smartphone with a host of features, it runs on Google’s Android 2.3.4 interface (otherwise known as Gingerbread), and it’s landing on UK shelves in time to be in your Christmas stocking.

With a strong and sturdy unibody aluminium design, the Huawei Vision weighs about 135g, and is just 9.9mm at its thinnest, with a width and height of 59.3mm and 116.8mm. The back of the Huawei Vision is a classy anodised metal, topped at each end with a matte black plastic. The Huawei Vision’s glossy black front piece has a 3.7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and 256,000 colours. The Huawei Vision’s touchscreen has an accelerometer sensor, so it rotates automatically when you need it to, and a proximity sensor which locks the screen when it senses that you’re making a call. It’s the perfect size for a touchscreen, big enough to ensure accuracy when typing on the classic Android keyboard or on the Huawei’s default TouchPal keyboard, but not so big that smaller-handed people find it a stretch. This means that not only is the Huawei Vision’s touchscreen ideal for hands of all shapes and sizes, it’s the perfect size for all applications – typing text messages, tweets and Facebook posts, and also for playing the many games you can download from the Android Market. In fact, the Huawei Vision comes ready loaded with Angry Birds, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Order & Chaos Online and Guerrilla Bob HD, so the second you get your hands on a Huawei Vision, you can start gaming right away.

The Huawei Vision’s super-responsive touchscreen is slightly curved, adding a real sense of quality and luxury, as well as reducing those pesky reflections. And with 252dpi (dots/pixels per inch) you get crisp, clear images – ideal for showing off the pictures you’ll be taking with the 5-megapixel camera with single-LED flash and fast-responding autofocus that’s housed on the back of the Huawei Vision. You can use the Huawei Vision for movies, too – budding film-makers will love using the Huawei Vision to record in 720p video.

The Huawei Vision’s user interfaces will blow your mind – they are simple and intuitive to use yet fun, and they look very impressive indeed. In fact, the Huawei Vision gives you a choice of two experiences. Traditionally minded Huawei Vision owners can choose the classic Android launcher, which brings up the Google interface that Android fans know and love. If you fancy something a bit more fun, the Huawei Vision has the 3D Carousel interface, a 3D-style carousel that will allow you to view all your home screens at once in an interactive ring, even spinning them at high speed if you wish – a fun feature which looks great and makes accessing your Huawei Vision home screens more interesting. Adding and removing panels is a snap too – you can just drag and drop them in the 3D interface.

The Huawei Vision’s specifications are enough to rival any other smartphone. Running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, the OS designed by Google especially for smartphones, it has a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and an inbuilt 2GB (ROM) internal memory, with 1GB of storage for your pictures, videos and so on. If that’s not enough for you, the Huawei Vision’s microSD card slot can take memory cards of up to a whopping 32GB.

Online access on the Huawei Vision is easy – not surprisingly for a phone with an operating system built by Google. Connecting with WiFi and 3G (plus Bluetooth), it comes with the stock Android browser which supports multiple windows, bookmarks, sharing options, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash – cleverly, internet on your Huawei Vision looks a lot like what you might see on your laptop. The Huawei Vision features a host of apps to make life easier and more enjoyable. You can search Google, use Gmail and chat with your friends on Google Talk, and use the inbuilt GPS system with Google Maps to find your way around. Access your documents and work wherever you are with Documents To Go, or browse, download (for free!) and read thousands of books with your Aldiko book reader app. Plus the Android Market has thousands of apps for any purpose you could think of, accessible at a moments notice and often free of charge.

A smartphone that truly allows you to make the most of the internet wherever you are, the Huawei Vision is a mid-range phone that will tick all your boxes.

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BlackBerry Curve 9380

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Matt

An exciting development in the much-loved BlackBerry Curve range, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the first in the series to replace the traditional QWERTY keypad with a touchscreen. It’s a ground-breaking move for BlackBerry in a device that’s expected to hit the UK market by the end of 2011 – just in time for Santa’s little elves.

From the back, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 looks comparable to its older sister, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 – only true BlackBerry experts would notice that the microUSB port on the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is on the left, a little lower than on the BlackBerry Curve 9360. But turn the BlackBerry Curve 9380 over and you’ll get a big surprise, because it’s not like any BlackBerry Curve you’ve seen before.

The QWERTY keypad is gone, replaced by a bright HVGA touchscreen with a crystal-clear screen resolution of 480mm by 360mm and 188ppi (pixels per inch). At 3.2” (81.28mm), the touchscreen covers almost the whole of the face of the BlackBerry Curve 9380, leaving space at the bottom for the five necessary push buttons: call, terminate, menu, back and optical track pad, all backlit – a nice touch. As the BlackBerry Curve 9380 runs on the reliable and speedy BlackBerry 7 operating system, the touchscreen, like the rest of the phone, responds swiftly to your requests. Its shape and size fit comfortably in the palm and makes navigating the screen, even with one hand, a snap – the drop-down notifications menus can be activated with a swipe without needing to readjust the phone’s position in your hand.

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is a handsome device, with its glossy black finish coming as a refreshing change to the matte finish seen on many smartphones such as the BlackBerry Bold 7970. With dimensions of 109mm by 60mm by 11.2mm, it’s thin, and its sturdy and strong body is hardy enough not to need further protection from a sleeve. Weighing just 98g, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 is a very pocketable smartphone.

Of course, a smartphone isn’t smart without a camera, and the BlackBerry Curve 9380 has an excellent built-in 5-megapixel camera with a bright LED flash, x4 zoom capabilities and a handy dedicated button – perfect for quick snaps. It’s a VGA video camera too. Save your pictures on the 512MB built-in memory, or augment the memory capability using the microSD slot – the BlackBerry Curve 9380 can support memory cards of up to 32GB.

And the BlackBerry Curve 9380 camera supports the amazing Augmented Reality technology. What’s that? Well, imagine you’re standing in front of a famous building. Using the Wikitude app, you can point your camera at the building, and the app will tell you all about it. Augmented Reality technology even links in with BlackBerry favourite BBM – hold it up in a crowd and it will recognise the faces of your BBM friends.

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 comes pre-loaded with apps to make browsing the internet and keeping up to date with your mates easier than ever. Of course, there’s BBM – and lots of new BBM-connected applications which will let you chat to friends while you play a game or listen to BBM Music. Now the BlackBerry Curve 9380 also comes with the nifty Social Feeds application – a one-stop shop for all your social media needs, it allows you to update all your social media feeds at once, and see messages from your friends the second they arrive. And of course, you can browse the internet with ease on the BlackBerry Curve 9380 with the updated and improved web browser – it has a new state-of-the-art JavaScript compiler to improve the load time speed of web pages for a significantly faster, more fluid web browsing experience. Page loads are 40% quicker than on the Blackberry 6.0 OS. 3G connectivity and WiFi are standard on the BlackBerry Curve 9380, for internet on the move, and the new optimised HTML5 adds a new dimension to gaming and video. And if you really need information on the go, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 has a smart new update to BlackBerry’s popular Universal Search feature – just say your search terms out loud and its voice-activated search will find whatever you’re looking for.

Packed with space-age features, fast and good looking, the BlackBerry Curve 9380 truly is a super-smart smartphone that you’re sure to love.

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BlackBerry Bold 9790 Black Sim Free

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Matt

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The BlackBerry Bold 9790 looks set to be on many a Christmas present list this year, but hopeful BlackBerry devotees may have to accept an IOU, since manufacturers RIM, having already announced the Indonesian launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9790 towards the end of November 2011, are aiming to have it on the UK market some time in early 2012.

When the BlackBerry Bold 9790 does hit the UK, BlackBerry fans are in for a treat – and something of a shock, since it’s very different from the current generation of BlackBerry devices. Of course, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 runs the BlackBerry 7 operating system, just like the current generation of BlackBerrys, but according to Chris Velazco from Techcrunch, “that’s about where the similarities stop”.

The BlackBerry Bold 9790 has a curvier design that its forerunners, with a layered effect similar to the one seen in the BlackBerry Curve 9360. In terms of build quality, it’s impressive, with a solid feel in the hand.

The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is the latest in RIM’s 9700 series of diminutive devices, measuring just 110mm by 60mm by 11.4mm with a pocket-friendly weight of approximately 107g. The BlackBerry Bold 9790’s display screen takes the ideal of “small is beautiful” seriously, measuring just 61.97mm (or 2.44 inches) with 360×480 pixels and 256dpi resolution. It’s a small touchscreen, of course, but it doesn’t suffer for its size – the BlackBerry Bold 9790’s LCD clarity can hold its own against any other display, and it’s as perfectly responsive and fluid as that of any other BlackBerry device, registering your scrolls and swipes swiftly.

RIM and BlackBerry are known for the quality and usability of their keypads, and the BlackBerry Bold 9790 continues this tradition, with a fret-style QWERTY keypad with angled keys with raised notches which act as a handy guide to help you find your way around and which are pleasingly chunky to the thumb during use. Plus, of course, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 has the optical trackpad common to all BlackBerrys.

Turn the BlackBerry Bold 9790 over and you’ll see a powerful and easy-to-use 5 megapixel camera, which features flash and continuous autofocus. With its small size and quick response time the BlackBerry Bold 9790 is perfect for whipping out and snapping memories on the spur of the moment. If stills aren’t quite enough for you, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 has VGA video recording capabilities, enabling you to capture your antics in great quality film. You can keep up with friends by sending them your pictures and videos via BBM.

There’s plenty of room to save all your photos and films on the BlackBerry Bold 9790’s 8GB internal storage memory, and this is further expandable via the microSD memory card slot which supports cards up to 32GB in size. The BlackBerry Bold 9790 has a powerful 1GHz MG1 Marvel Tavor CPU – an update on its predecessor – coupled with 768MB RAM.

The BlackBerry Bold 9790 is packed with features to make your life just that little bit easier. For example, 3.5G connectivity comes as standard, as does WiFi, so you’ll be able to harness everything the internet has to offer, wherever you are. And if you don’t know where you are, use the BlackBerry Bold 9790’s built-in GPS to find yourself again.

Browsing the internet with the BlackBerry Bold 9790 is better than ever before, with an enhanced web browser featuring a new state-of-the-art JavaScript compiler to improve the load time speed of web pages. Plus it has optimised HTML5 performance, bringing a new edge to gaming and video. Need info on the move? As you’d expect, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 features BlackBerry’s popular Universal Search feature, but it now comes with voice-activated search – just speak out to tell your BlackBerry Bold 9790 what you’re looking for, whether you’re searching the web or inside your BlackBerry, and it’ll find it for you. And if you use its Documents to Go feature, you’ll be able to access your work wherever you are.

With all these features, we can see why BlackBerry themselves have described the BlackBerry Bold 9790 as “the ultimate productivity tool for both professional and personal use”.

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