According to Cingular Wireless and Motorola’s CEO, the supposed next-big-thing, the Motorola ROKR, has failed. Miserably. How did the iTunes capable phone with a 100 songs limit riding on Apple’s song franchise flounder? Probably the small song capacity on the ROKR coupled with the lack of functionality for users to directly purchase songs from the phone led to its premature end. Rival phonemakers Samsung and Nokia offer anything between 3GB and 4GB of storage, making them attractive alternatives.
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Motorola RAZR V3 review
“The RAZR V3 measures a tiny 89 x 53 x 13.9 mm. Motorola has put design and aesthetics high on the list of priorities by creating the RAZR V3 completely from metal-alloy. Therefore, in addition to being remarkably thin, the RAZR V3 is not surprisingly lightweight as well, weighing a mere 95 grams. Functionally, due to its thinness, plastic would inherently be too fragile. Therefore, the anodized aluminum casing was needed for stability, durable enough to withstand everyday wear and tear in addition to the occasional bump or drop.”
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Those who are willing to sacrifice functionality for battery life, the Philips Xenium 9@98 is just the phone for you. It provides you with up to 10 hours’ worth of talk time and 720 hours of standby time. The 9@98 has already won a place in the Malaysian Book of Records for its now legendary battery life. It measures 107×45 x 19.2mm and weighs 88g. This $124 dual-band phone comes with a 4096 color CSTN LCD screen, polyphonic ringtones a FM tuner, and 12MB of built-in memory.
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Samsung D500 review
“D500 is the second GSM product camera by Samsung equipped with a megapixel. First the same camera appeared in Samsung P730 when the company decided to apply a CMOS-matrix. As different to a CCD-matrix the CMOS one is not so good and has much more noises in the majority of the modes. An acceptable quality of the photos may be achieved only in the street in a sunny day. Only Sharp and Sony Ericsson use CCD-matrixes in the European market. If looking at their products you’ll see the phones do not distinguish in a small size (Sharp GX30, Sony Ericsson S700). The reason is the size of a CCD-module, it is rather big and integrating it without changing a typical size of the phone is impossible. And taking into consideration their low price comparatively to CCD-modules we may all understand the choice of the majority of the manufacturers. In general the manufacturers do think the function is used seldom and optionally. That is why worse quality is not considered critical especially if the size remains the same.”
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