Since the social networking sites are hot at the moment, Samsung recently has come out another entry-level phone that is dedicated in messaging capability – the Samsung S3100. It is available in two colors the black and the pink. Samsung S3100 is a slider 2G phone. This Samsung mobile phone includes 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, phone book, organizer, microSD card, USB, FM-radio and Music player.

Features:

The Good:

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With the very sensible sized keys and a 4 way circular controller it is very easy to use. At this phone you can use your own message alert tone (which was not present in earlier versions) and also you can install your own java games). The battery life is also quite good and it uses a SDHC card as well. The other features in the phone are basic one. You will get a 1.3 Megapixel camera on the back that can capture up to 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution of image. For music, Samsung S3100 does offer a built in MP3 player and FM radio for you to listen to the music. The quality is mediocre, nothing much to say. And for video playback, there is a video player that able to play MP4/H.263/H.264 format file.

The design is quite attractive because of its sleek and stylish nature. The front has the 2.1 inches TFT screen that shows 256,000 colors with the revolution of 176 x 220 pixels. One of the unique features is its BT Messenger which enables free instant messaging with other Samsung BT-enabled phones. Other than that there is a Shortcut Toolbar which lets you customize up to 15 shortcuts on the idle menu for easy access to your favorite applications.

The Bad:

The bad thing about this mobile is that except for the new messenger and the design it has no exciting new feature which makes it unique among all the other handsets of this type.

Performance:

The performance of this new handset is quite good. The voice quality is loud and pretty much clear. The internal memory is not up to the mark and the video display is also blurring. With the 1.3 Mp camera the picture quality is not so good and the ability to zoom is just normal. In other words we can say that the performance of this new handset is normal and you can’t expect something very fantastic in it as many others cameras with such features are available in the market.

Specifications:

• Size and Weight:
  • Dimensions: 3.74 x 1.85 x 0.59 inches (95 x 47 x 14.9 mm)
  • Weight: 3.50 oz (99 g)

• Main screen:
  • Resolution: 176 x 220 Pixels
  • Type: 262 144 colors, TFT
  • Physical size: 2.10 inches

• Battery:
  • Talk Time (Standard): 530Min(8.8H)
  • Standby (Standard): 490H

• Network:
  • (2G)GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850

• Card slot:
  • Internal – 15 MB
  • microSD (TransFlash) up to 8GB

• Phonebook:
  • 1000 contacts,
  • Photo call

• Music & sound:
  • Ringtones: 64 Polyphonic Ringtones, MP3 Ringtones
  • Music Player: MP3/AMR/I-melody/XMF/MIDI/SP MIDI/ACC/WMA

The other main features are Bluetooth, FM Radio, Voice recorder and video recorder, SMS, MMS, Java games and many others.

Its new Moto W7 Active Edition has something that you wouldn’t find in a large number of available high-end handsets these days, as it has an accelerometer to sense the motion of your body, as well as hand gestures and orientation.

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With the help of this new accelerometer, you can get a button-free control of a 3G device, it allows you to flip the phone on the silence ringer for an incoming call, music and snooze the alarm clock.

You can find your desired app like music player just to shake it twice and you will find everything that you are looking for. In browsing photo album and music libraries, a flick on right or left of the phone and you will get the images and songs that you are looking for.

If are serious about gym these days, its built-in pedometer can help you find your daily runs and walks and it’s personal trainer application can help you a lot to assign workout, set goals and view summary reports.

The given motion sensor is quite handy for playing games and you can play “shake, jump and dance” with its pre-loaded games. It’s going to hit the shelves in South America and Asia during this summer.

Features

When it comes to features, the HTC Touch Diamond 2 includes:

• 5mp camera with autofocus capability
• Secondary camera for video recording and video calling
• GPS receiver and FM radio
• The given Music player supports MP3, AAC+, AAC and WMA formats
• SMS, MMS, EMS and Email are available for messaging
• FM Stereo radio
• MP3 ringtones, wallpaper and calculator
• HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE for Internet
• GSB Quadband with HSDPA/WCDMA
• 118g weight
• 108x53x14mm dimension
• 360-500hrs battery standby time

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The original HTC diamond was launched to cast a real robust impression in smartphone world, and now this upgraded version has emerged to surpass not only the previous version, but also many other big player of the today cell phone world. When it comes to design, you will find the Touch Diamond2 somewhat bigger than its forerunner, but this greatness in size really promises longer battery life, upgraded camera and higher resolution screen.

But there are lots of things that are quite similar to the original Touch Diamond, and it uses the same TouchFLO 3D as we have already seen in the original Touch Diamond and again there is Mobile 6.1 Professional. So, there are many things that you have already seen in the Original Touch Diamond. But some improvements have also been made, but at the cost of extra size and weight. It quite easier now to use its touchscreen UI with a large screen and it is quite exceptional to view videos and photos.

One thing is certain that the Touch Diamond2 has all the stuff that people love to see in their cell phones these days and it serves, as the best choice for those tech-heads who always like to tweak and customize their devices to make them perfect.

It’s photography that has always been reckoned a week thing for HTC, while you will find great improvement this time, as new Diamond’s 5mp camera allows you to have print quality photos in better lighting.

When it comes to Music, you would find enormous space to store videos and music, as it has a 288MB RAM as well as support of MicroSD memory card. For connectivity, you will find Bluetooth, WiFi and USB and with its large touchscreen and HSDPA 7.2Mbps capability, it is quite fast to download data instantly.

You will definitely find it a great device and with lots of improvement than the original Touch Diamond2 device.

Unique Selling Point

• Spacious and friendly touchscreen
• Big improvement in Camera
• A nice pick for tech-heads

Before reviewing the tiny gadget, let us have a look at its specifications:

• 1.8 x 0.7 x 0.3 inches (45.2 x 17.5 x 7.8 mm)
• 0.38 ounce (10.7 grams)
• 4 GB storage true volume 0.26 cu inches (4,326 cu mm)
• Stores about 1000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format
• Skip free playback
• Built-in rechargeable lithium polymer battery
• Battery lives up to 10 hours of music playback when fully charged
• About 3 hours charging time
• Charging via USB to computer or power adapter (sold separately)
• VoiceOver
• 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack
• 1 USB port
• AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, and AIFF
• Earphones with remote and USB cable included
• Highly recyclable aluminum enclosure

Now, this looks interesting. iPod shuffle exemplifies Apple’s ongoing ecological development. Let us analyze its features step by step:

Compactness:

This new music playing device is immensely minuscule in its form. With a height of 1.8 inches and a width 0.3 inches, Apple iPod Shuffle is certainly world’s smallest music player. It is not uselessly small; but is rather handy.

Easy Controls:

At the right side wall of iPod shuffle are located its controls. It is an easy to access control pane which is in your thumb’s reach, and you don’t even have to get your eyes off whatever you are doing.

Huge Storage:

With a huge storage of 4GB, you no more will have to suffer from the classic “not enough memory” phenomenon. A rough estimate is that about 1000 audio songs can be stored into an iPod Shuffle (4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding). It also gives the option of several play lists of your very own choice and classification.

“VoiceOver”:

A brilliant new feature; it is committed to catch you by surprise. It tells you what song you are listening to, whether it is an English song, French, Spanish or Chinese. This feature even tells you about your play lists, and thus enables you to experience listening to music in a whole new way.

When you sync iPod with iTunes in your computer, iTunes read the information of all the songs, and the new VoiceOver kit creates voice information about the song and play lists details.

Multi lingual Music Player:

It comes with a multi language support for 14 different languages. Another astoundingly pleasant feature is the intelligence it possesses. The system of iPod Shuffle can recognize a song’s language and tell one language apart from the other.

Shuffle:

On top of the iPod Shuffle is its shuffle control with three positions for three different functions. When the switch is in the middle; songs are played according to their listing. Tracks shuffle when the button is pushed towards extreme left, and iPod switches off when the switch is moved on the right side.

Accessories:

Apple provides few accessories which can be bought separately to enjoy a better music experience. These include USB power adapter to charge your iPod; Apple iPod Shuffle USB cable to sync your iPod with computer; Earphones with remote and mic; and In-ear Headphones with remote and mic to offer the minutest detail of the music you are listening to. Apple earphones and USB cable are included in iPod Shuffle packing.

Final Words:

To make your iPod exclusive, Apple gives you the option of engraving whatever you like to be present on your fashion statement gadget. This is positively a wonderful device made by Apple, with an easy to access controls and a brilliant feature like VioceOver. As small as it is, iPod Shuffle is a must get.

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Features:

•    Value for price: In such a low price it has all nice features available like photo upload, video, Audible,  music support, FM radio, voice recorder, SD card expansion slot; Wi-Fi capability, X-Fi sound enhancement technology.

•    Sound quality: Because of the X-Fi sound enhancement technology introduced in the player, its sound quality has become superb. It also has an upgraded EP-830 earphone which has a noise isolation capability. You can also able to set the audio effects to enhance your overall music listening experience. It has 8 EQ presets to choose from or you can customize your own EQ and then enhance it all with bass boost and smart volume controls.

•    Design: Creative Zen X-Fi is a pocket-sized player which is very light in weight about 2½ ounces. It has a very good and attractive finish. It has a brilliant 2.5″ TFT screen with 16.7 million colors to watch movies and to view your pictures with excellent clarity.

•    Speakers: It consists of a very powerful built-in speaker so that even you can share your music aloud in a party place.

•    Voice-recorder: It can record your important meetings or personal audio memos with the integrated voice recorder.

•    FM Radio: Listen to the latest music hits with the integrated FM radio and 32 station presets will let you switch on the stations with great ease. You can also listen to your music in multiple supported formats such as MP3, WMA and AAC. You could also able to listen from the non-protected .m4a files from iTunes Plus.

Specifications:

Size: 3.3″ x 2.2″ x 0.5
Weight: 2.4 ounces
Flash memory installed: 16 GB
Digital player supported digital audio standards: WMA, WAV, ADPCM, Audible, MP3, and AAC
Battery backup:
Up to 36 hours of continuous audio playback
Up to 13 hours of continuous audio playback with speaker
Up to 20 hours of continuous FM radio playback
Up to 5 hours of continuous video playback
Up to 4 hours of continuous video playback with speaker

Software included: Zen Centrale

Unique selling points:

16GB space
X-Fi sound enhancement technology
Upgraded EP-830 earphones with noise cancellation capability
Low price with great features
Wi-Fi capability

Accessories supplied:

Installation CD
Quick start guide
Wireless function quick guide
EP-830 noise isolating in-ear earphones
USB 2.0 cable

Features:

•    Touch controls: Microsoft’s touch sensitive control for its Zune 120GB MP3 player with its clickable D-pad controller is superb for scrolling in all four directions for music, pictures, and videos.

•    Sharing: Wireless Zune to Zune sharing for your favorite songs, playlists, pictures and audio podcasts are available. You will be able to listen to full track songs for up to three times. You can also able to pass songs to your nearby friends who have Zune. You can add the songs you receive in your wish list and later you will able to buy it from your PC the next time log on.

•    Movies and TV shows: You can download and own more than 600 popular TV shows from the Zune market place. The TV shows or movies you have recorded with Windows Media Center in Windows Vista can be imported and sync in to your device.

•    FM radio: It has built in FM radio.  On some select frequencies you can even able to see the name of songs it is playing.

•    Games: You can plug your Zune to your Xbox 360 and can customize the soundtrack for your games.

•    Browsing: When you are in a Wi-Fi hotspot or home wireless network, you can browse and buy tracks from the Zune Marketplace online store directly from your device. You have to be a Zune Pass subscriber though.

•    Audio books: Listen to your favorite books on Zune. Sync your favorite books from audible.com or overdrive.com.

Specifications:

Design: Glossy black front and black metal back

Size: 61.1 mm x 108.2 mm x 12.9 mm (w x h x d)

Weight: 4.5 ounces (128 grams)

Ports: Connector port, Headphone jack / AV output

Battery backup:

Music: up to 30 hours (wireless off)

Video: up to 4 hours
Accessories included:

Headphones

Zune Sync Cable

Three pairs of foam earpiece covers

Unique Selling Point:

120 GB storage
Hold up to 30,000 songs
25,000 pictures
375 hours of video
Colorful widescreen display of 3.2 inches

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