Palm Pre - The Palm's "Back With a Bang"

Congratulations loyal Palm fans, the Palm Pre has officially restored Palm as the industry leader in mobile connectivity. As the first ever device running Palm WebOS, the revolutionary new Palm Operating System, all the dreams and hopes of the Plam fans have been answered. Palm made the announcement of the Palm Pre and Palm WebOS at CES 2009.

The Palm Pre is one fine mobile specimen and to illustrate the innards of its beauty and grace, we present to you the specifications of the Palm Pre. Enjoy them thoroughly, we will. The Pre is a mere 59.5mm wide, 100.5mm long, 16.95 mm thick and weighs just 135 grams.

The Palm Pre is based upon the Palm® webOS™ Operating system. As far as networking is concerned, the Pre speaks a good word. It support 3G EVDO Rev A networking mode. It is provided with a Microsoft Outlook® email with Microsoft® Direct Push Technology and a POP3 / IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc.), Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS facility. It also has a Built-in GPS tracker.

It houses a 3.1-inch touch screen 24-bit 320x480 HVGA display, physical QWERTY keyboard. It has an Ambient light sensor, an accelerometer and a proximity sensor. Its media player suppports MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP and WAV audio formats and MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 video formats. The image formats frequently encountered are GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP .

If camera be the point of the talk, its a real iPhone killer. It has got a 3 megapixel camera containing an LED flash with an extended depth of field.

This feature will tell you hat the phone is equally competent to Nokia N96. It has an 8GB internal mass memory (~7.4GB user available) with USB mass storage support. It also supports phone as laptop modem through bluetooth tethering. It holds a micro USB connector with high speed USB 2.0 compatibility.

Hope you like the phone...............Well you of course like it! :-)

Nokia N85 - Gaming Now Made By Hands

Welcome back to the world of the 2-way sliders with the successor of Nokia N96- The Nokia N85 Multimedia Phone. An absolute mobile phone of its own class weighing just 128 grams and occupying just 103 x 50 x 16 mm. It houses a Two-way slider with spring assistance mechanism.

It has a 2.6" 320 x 240 pixels QVGA active matrix OLED display with up to 16.7 million colors. It also possesses a brightness control, an orientation sensor and an ambient light detector.

Speaking of the key controls, it contains numeric keys under the lower slider, dedicated multimedia keys under the upper slider. It also holds short slide keys for media control, zoom and gaming, a Navi™wheel at the center for navigation and selection. It also possesses dedicated camera and volume keys except for the Voice commands. Intelligent key illumination system further saves energy.

The device is High-Speed USB 2.0 compatible with a Micro-USB connector with mass storage class support. It also houses a 3.5 mm uiversal AV connector for direct media playback through a compatible external device. As far as the memory is concerned, it has a hot swappable microSD card slot with a maximum of 8 GB memory support. Other than that, it houses a 74 MB internal dynamic memory and 78 MB internal NAND flash memory.

The assembly is supported by a power supply backup through BL-5K 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery that supports a maximum talk time of 6.9 hours for GSM services, 4.5 hours for WCDMA services and an amazing 9 hours for VoIP Services. It also has a standby time of 363 hours for GSM and WCDMA services and 172 hours for WLAN service. It also is capable of the following:

Browsing time with packet data (maximum): 5 h 42 min
Video playback time (maximum): 7 h
Video recording time (maximum): 2 h 54 min
Video call time (maximum): 2 h 42 min
Music playback time (maximum): 30 h
Gaming time (maximum): 7 h

The phone is capable of web browsing with HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS support. It is HTTP v1.1, TCP/IP and WAP compatible as well. It holds a Nokia Web Browser with a Mini Map and a Nokia Mobile Search feature.
Speaking of GPS and navigation, the Giant has an integrated and separate GPS. The company provides the Nokia Maps 2.0 application especially for Navigation purposes.

Photography? Speechless! Being a successor of the 5 megapixel family, it will amaze you with its 2584 x 1938 pixel images captured in JPEG and EXIF formats. The camera has a Tessar™ lens designed by Carl Zeiss optics. Its CMOS sensor is par excellence for its high quality photography. It has a 20x digital zoom (worth only for specifically focusing something). The autofocus with assist light and two stage capture key features allow you to capture crystal clear images even below the focal length of the lens. The focal length of the lens is 5.45 mm, with a focus range from 10 cm to infinity. Same as N96, it also bags a dual LED flash with an operating range of 3 meters.

The main camera is capable of video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) and up to 30fps
and p to 8x digital video zoom in .mp4, .3gp formats. The front camera can record video at up to 352 x 288 pixels (CIF) and up to 15 fps with up to 2x digital video zoom.
With the accessories you get a TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) for direct TV or other external device compatibility. The phone even has an integrated streaming frature for direct video uploads and blog supports for publishing online.