Here’s one of the first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series advertisements which showcases Microsoft’s latest mobile OS in action. If you didn’t know anything about Windows Phone 7 Series OS you’d quite easily think that this video was promoting some sort of new hologram phone technology. Just to clear any confusion, Windows Phone 7 Series does not project holograms from your device – these were simply used to enlarge what was happening on the screen. Wouldn’t be surprised if these mobile type holograms become commonplace in the future although I already foresee privacy issues getting in the way.
Back to the video. It’s about Anna and her family who just so happen to each have Windows Phone 7 Series devices – even the six or seven year old boy…in this short clip it shows them sending pictures to eachother, Facebooking and choosing movies together. Windows Phone 7 Series makes each of these tasks very easy and quick to do. I was a Windows Mobiles user for many years and it’s good to see Microsoft back in the game as a contender.
I’m sure we’ll see many more videos in the upcoming months especially as the first Windows Phone 7 Series devices eventually hit shelves.
With SBSH Calendar you can turn your Smartphone into a powerful time management system. Enjoy innovative and compelling tools far beyond the default S60 Smartphone tools that will help you manage your busy schedule. Advanced calendar views, dedicated tasks manager, filters, powerful recurring items engine, category coloring and icons and much more!
NEW RELEASE! – SBSH Calendar 1.5 is here! Among the new features with this new update you will find: overhauled design, new empowered engine that brings great speed improvement, filters engine, new category icons, optimized landscape monthly view, OS scrollbars and more!
Features of SBSH Calendar 1.5 for Nokia /Symbian:
Daily View
Today’s events all on your screen
Joint display for both appointments and tasks
Use Themed Layout Mode for a fully integrated display with your current theme
Optionally use single-line layout or multi-line layout for optimized display on landscape screens
View alarm, private, note and recurring status icons for each of your items
View category icons and leading rectangles for each item according to the selected categories
Customize text size, color based on item’s characters, item display layout and more!
List View
List style display offering seven day look ahead display with maximum details, icons and category colors
Joint display for both appointments and tasks
Showing single line of each item’s subject for more information display
Quickly scroll backward and forward between weeks by moving the joystick left and right. Scroll up and down to navigate between items in the list
See status icons, category icons and coloring for each of your agenda items
Easily create new appointments and tasks based the currently selected date in the List View
Grid View
Full week grid display with one line subjects. Fitting a full week worth of agenda in a single screen, giving a great preview for your week’s agenda
Joint display for both appointments and tasks
Daily header showing item counters and timeline for the currently highlighted day
Colors indicating items defined as special event categories and weekends
Configure smaller font size for more data display packed in one screen
Leading rectangles for each appointment based on the appointment category color
Scroll through days and weeks using your smartphone joy-pad
Create new appointments and tasks on the current selected date on the grid view
Monthly View
Full month worth of agenda displayed in one screen!
Optimized display that brings maximum information to your smartphone limited screen real estate
20 hour timelines with category colors showing your appointments for each day!
Category icons on each day rectangle on the monthly view
All day and anniversary indicator icons
Optionally include Quick View pane that shows the current day’s activities
Quick View pane is placed at the bottom of the screen when used in portrait screens or at the right side when used in landscape screens
Click any day to quickly load the selected day at the Daily view
Tasks View
Full task manager solution. Manager all of your tasks in one view using advanced tools designed especially for professional task management!
Group tasks by category, completion and more. Define up to two sort levels for your tasks display
Easily create new or complete/activate and edit your existing tasks from the Tasks view
View status icons, category icons and priority icons for each task in the list
Optionally include bottom preview pane displaying more details about the currently highlighted task when scrolling through your tasks list
Categories and Filters
Assign categories to your appointments and tasks. You can also assign multiple categories to each item
Define icons to each of your categories. These icons are then displayed across the different SBSH Calendar views to indicate the categories associated with each item
Similar to icons, you can associate a single color with each of your categories. Category colors are used across Calendar views to indicate items’ categories
SBSH Calendar provides a powerful filters engine. Create your own filters were each filter can include one or more categories. Select any of your custom filters to display only items associated with the same categories included in this specific filter
Rename filters to match your own needs, such as project names, personal life related filters and more!
Powerful Calendar Tool
Behind the great design and colored icons, SBSH Calendar offers the most powerful personal information manager up-to-date for the professional user
Powerful recurrence engine that helps you manage and create recurring appointments of any type!
Google Categories support when syncing with Google Calendar
Full robust task manager built-in as part of the same solution!
SBSH Calendar is designed to fulfill all time management needs of the busy professional!
Tailored for S60 devices
Full-Screen mode that brings more information to your device screen
Support all available S60 3rd edition devices resolutions and orientation screens
Optimized views display for use in both portrait and landscape screens
When we were at LG Headquarters in January, the product managers hinted at a LG Windows Phone 7 Series coming out soon in the next couple of months. I really didn’t expect LG to be showing one off only a couple of weeks later, but I see the benefit in announcing the prototype ahead of the pack – look at the buzz it’s already generated on the web.
Their inviting international tech bloggers for the LG GW620 / Eve Bloggers Forum in Seoul and now giving the world a sneak preview of the what’s to come on one of the world’s most read gadget sites, shows that LG recognises the importance of harnessing the power of social media. I’m hoping other vendors adapt a similar mantra as that will mean more international junkets for me!
Back to the LG Windows Phone 7 Series – it looks like they’ve kept it to a similar form factor as the LG GW620. It’s smaller than the iPhone, has a QWERTY keyboard and only slighter thicker than the iPhone (which is great given the inbuilt keyboard). According to Engadget the most obvious differences (without having the final version to review properly) are the 5 Megapixel camera and additional phone buttons on the front-face. I’m confident that LG will do us proud when they finally announce the final version.
So it looks like Sony Ericsson still have some fight in them. This time it looks like they’re letting loose with their supposedly beefed up Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 which is targeted for release around the U.S. and Europe in April this year. Despite it’s impressive specifications, Gunnar from Prylkoll.se shows in the video below, that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 isn’t as snappy as a device should be with a 1Ghz Snapdragon chip.
I blame the outdated clunky OS.
Other main features of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 are:
Just a quick post to let you know that we now have the Mr.Gadget HTC HD2 Desktop Cradle Charger in stock. This gadget is perfect for HTC HD2 owners who want to be able to view what’s happening on their HTC HD2 while it’s charging – let’s face it, it also looks uber cool too.
Features of the Mr.Gadget HTC HD2 Cradle Charger:
Use your HTC HD2 while charging
Synchronises and Charges HTC HD2
LED light which indicates power
Uses USB power
Conveniently small in size which means that it’s highly portable
HTC didn’t let fans down this year at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. They let loose a couple of ubercool new models into the market and one of those that has been talked about for many months is of course the HTC Legend.
Main Features of the HTC Legend
The main features of the HTC Legend are its suave brushed aluminium case, 3.2 inch HVGA AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 5 Megapixel camera, Google Android 2.1 (Eclair) and it’s better than HTC Hero 5 MegaPixel Camera. For the full specifications check out the HTC Legend Specs page.
I don’t know about you but I still prefer the higher specced HTC Desire over the 600Mhz HTC Legend.
HTC Legend Video Overview
HTC Legend Press Release
HTC LegendTM and HTC DesireTM take Android 2.1 to a new level with HTC Sense
BARCELONA, Mobile World Congress – February 16, 2010 – HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today introduced an enhanced HTC Sense experience that will be available on two new smartphones that take Android to the next level, the HTC Legend and HTC Desire.
“At its essence, the mobile phone is the most personal item you have in your possession. HTC Sense was created to magnify your ability to create and define your own unique mobile experience,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer of HTC Corporation. “HTC Legend and HTC Desire take Android to another level in both substance, with HTC Sense, and style, with HTC Legend’s revolutionary crafted aluminum unibody design.”
HTC Sense
HTC Sense is a user experience focused on putting people at the centre by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. This experience revolves around three fundamental principles that were developed by observing and listening to how people live and communicate. These core tenets of Make It Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected continue to be the key to the new HTC Sense experience.
The new HTC Sense experience continues to focus on improving your interactions with your most important people. This begins with a new HTC application and widget called HTC Friend Stream that seamlessly aggregates all of your social communication including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised flow of updates. This simple aggregation makes it easier than ever to focus on what friends are doing as well as to view the images and links that they share. In addition to Friend Stream, people can be organised into specific social circles, such as groups of friends, colleagues or any other way that makes sense.
The new HTC Sense experience also introduces broad improvements to applications including the browser, email client and others. In addition, the new version of HTC Sense includes a new newsreader application and widget, as well as a new seven-screen ‘Leap’ thumbnail view for quick and easy access to specific screens.
HTC Legend
Built around a newly enhanced HTC Sense, the HTC Legend boasts a unique design with a smooth, continuous surface, machined from a single aluminum block into a seamless compact frame. To complement its looks, the HTC Legend includes a stunning 3.2 inch, AMOLED HVGA display. The traditional trackball has also been replaced with an optical joystick, surrounded by a narrow button to improve usability without interrupting its unique design.
HTC Desire HTC Desire is the richest way to visually experience news, friends, photos, favourite places and whatever else is important on a mobile phone. With one of the most advanced displays available on a phone today, HTC Desire is designed with a large 3.7 inch AMOLED WVGA display to enhance and maximise content, whether it is pictures and videos, browsing the Web or checking on friends’ status updates. HTC Desire is powered by a one gigahertz Snapdragon processor and is Adobe Flash 10.1 ready. As with the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire also includes an optical joystick.
Patrick Chomet, Group Director of Terminals for Vodafone said, “HTC is a valued partner for Vodafone and has made a strong contribution to the growth of the mass market appeal of smartphones. Vodafone endeavours to offer our customers the widest and most compelling choice of smartphones and to that end the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire and the HTC HD mini will be ranged in selected Vodafone markets across our footprint. I’m particularly pleased that through our collaboration with HTC, Vodafone customers will experience a differentiated experience on the HTC Legend which will come customised for them with pre-loaded Vodafone 360 Internet services.”
Availability The new HTC Legend will be available in Europe through Vodafone and in the direct channel beginning in April. It will roll out to other parts of the world including Asia in early Q2. HTC Desire will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets in early Q2. The HTC Desire will be exclusively available in Australia through Telstra. The enhanced HTC Sense experience will also be offered as a free upgrade on the HTC Hero in Europe and Asia.
About HTC
HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry. By putting people at the centre of everything it does, HTC creates innovative smartphones that better serve the lives and needs of individuals. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen the Nokia E72 accessories sell really well on our website.
For those of you who own one, I think you’d be interested to see what are the best sellers.
Interesting to see that theNokia E72 Aluminium Case (black) is the best selling Nokia E72 accessory in our gadget store, which shows the value many Nokia E72 owners place on getting a rugged case for their devices..
I’m slightly late by a couple of days (blame other work) but Microsoft officially launched Windows Mobile 7 this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In a summary, the new mobile OS features better social media integration, tiled UI, cloud synching and Zune-like music / multimedia player capabilities. Can’t wait to play with it…
Here’s a video below to show you the main features of Windows Mobile 7:
As mentioned two wees ago, I received a Blueant Q1 Bluetooth Headset to review. Yesterday evening, I pulled out the trusty video cam and did a review/ unboxing clip for it (I even included Bloopers at the end!). I must say that it is an impressive bluetooth device that with voice commands that worked flawlessly with my iPhone 3GS.
Guess what?
I’m now giving a chance for one of my beloved readers (that’s you) to own the Blueant Q1 Bluetooth Headset review unit!!
Blueant Q1 Bluetooth Headset Giveaway Details
All you need to do is rate the video below on Youtube and leave a comment on what you thought of the Blueant Q1 Bluetooth Headset. We will choose a winner at the end of this month (February). All the best.
Good news! We have a batch of Piel Frama Blackberry Bold 9700 Leather Cases landing in Australia in the next couple of days. I can confidently say that these are amongst the best cases that you can get for the Blackberry Bold 9700.
Why is the Piel Frama Blackberry Bold 9700 Leather Case the Best?
