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Sanyo SCP-2700 and LG Lotus in red announced by Sprint
Author: +866.com3 Apr
Today, Sprint has unveiled two new messaging phones that will be launched later this spring: the Sanyo SCP-2700 and a dark red version of the already-available LG Lotus.
The first handset, Sanyo SCP-2700, is a candybar presented by the US carrier as being “stylish and easy-to-use”. It obviously has a full QWERTY keyboard, plus Sprint-exclusive stuff like Sprint Navigator, Sprint Mobile Email Work and Sprint Family Locator.
The phone will be available starting May 10, in two color versions: blue and pink.
The specs of Sanyo SCP-2700 include:
- 1xRTT connectivity
- 2.2 inch TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels and 65K colors
- Bluetooth
- Enhanced messaging features
- 1.3MP camera
- Talk-time: up to 4.8 hours
- 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches
- 3.4 ounces
So how much will this SCP-2700 cost? Only $29.99 – obviously with a two-year contract agreement and after the usual $50 mail-in rebate.
Available until now in purple and black, LG Lotus will be released in a third color version: the above-mentioned dark red one.
Sprint didn’t say when the new Lotus will hit the shelves, but it should happen pretty soon.
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Samsung Propel Pro, Impression and Magnet announced by AT
Author: +866.com30 Mar
Alongside Nokia E71x, today AT&T has also announced no less than three new Samsung handsets and two from LG (we’ll cover these a bit later).
The Samsung devices are: Samsung Propel Pro, Samsung Impression and Samsung Magnet.
As seen in some images leaked about two months ago, Samsung Propel Pro is a Wi-Fi enabled Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and it comes as an evolved version of the old Samsung Propel.
The Propel Pro will be available sometime in April, for as low as $149.99.
Samsung Impression is, in fact, that rumored Samsung A877 Jackfrost (Impression sounds better, doesn’t it?).
The handset comes with: “the nation’s first commercially available AMOLED screen” – a 3.2 inch one –, a full QWERTY keyboard, “full browser” and a 3MP camera.
Customers will be able to get the Samsung Impression staring April 7, for $199.99.
Lastly, Samsung Magnet is yet another QWERTY phone, but only a low-cost one. It comes as a candybar with features like “integrated camera” and “WAP browser”.
AT&T didn’t say when Samsung Magnet will be available and neither how much it costs.
Via Press release; some images via Engadget
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BlackBerry Gemini 8325 appears in a live image
Author: +866.com20 Mar
It looks like that BlackBerry Gemini we saw last month will not be officially called BlackBerry 9300, but BlackBerry 8325.
A live picture with the Gemini 8325 has just been spotted over at BGR.
Unfortunately, it’s not the best shot around (quality wise), so we can’t see the new smartphone in all its glory.
Anyway, the 8325 looks like a mix between the (now old) Curve 8300 and the new and sleek Curve 8900.
Besides the obvious presence of a full QWERTY keyboard, the rumored features of BlackBerry Gemini 8325 include:
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity
- QVGA display
- Wi-Fi
- BlackBerry OS 5.0
- 2.0 MP camera
No details yet on when RIM plans to officially announce this new handset, but let’s hope it won’t happen too late.
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Sprint 2009 roadmap leaked: HTC Rhodium, HTC Cedar, Samsung Dash, BlackBerry Niagara and 8 others
Author: +866.com20 Mar
If this newly-leaked Sprint roadmap is legit, the second largest North American CDMA carrier will have at least 10 new handsets to offer in the upcoming months.
First of all – as expected – it’s said the Palm Pre will be introduced in the second quarter of 2009, thus in April, May or June.
Unsurprisingly, the Pre is targeted at “high-end consumers and business users who need to stay connected to their office and who will benefit from fast EV-DO rev. A data speeds and a full functional device.”
Next, Q2 2009 should also bring the following devices to Sprint:
- Samsung Dash, featuring a 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display, 5MP camera and EV-DO Rev. A connectivity. It’s presented as the ”second generation Instinct”
- HTC Cedar – a “low cost smart device” with WM 6.1, a QWERTY keyboard and EV-DO Rev. A connectivity
- Samsung Mini, which is obviously the Instinct Mini / Instinct S30. It should come for an affordable price
- Samsung Lucello (or Cello) – messaging phone with an alphanumeric keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard
- Sanyo 2700, a low-cost messaging device with a QWERTY keyboard
- LG LX-370 – a basic slider
In the third quarter of 2009, Sprint should release the following handsets:
- Samsung Chianti – QWERTY slider presented as a “green device” and targeted at “affluent female customers”
- Samsung Ace II – obviously replacing the first Samsung Ace. It has Windows Mobile 6.1, QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard, 3MP camera, EV-DO rev. A and GSM connectivity
- BlackBerry Niagara
- Kyocera-Sanyo 3810 – simple clamshell
There’s also the HTC Rhodium on Sprint’s roadmap. This is actually the HTC Touch Pro2 with EV-DO rev. A and HSDPA connectivity. It should be out in Q4 2009. What’s weird is that the Rhodium appears as running on “Windows 7.X”, although Windows Mobile 7 will only be launched in 2010.
Anyway, since for the moment we can’t confirm that all the above-mentioned devices will be indeed launched by Sprint, we can only wait for more official details to come up.
Source: Phone News via BGR
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LG Rumor2 officially announced by Sprint; priced at $50 on contract
Author: +866.com15 Mar
We knew the second-generation LG Rumor was coming to Sprint, and all we needed was an official announcement – which obviously came today.
The new phone is called LG Rumor2 and Sprint will sell it for $49.99, after a $50 mail-in rebate and the signing of a new 2-yr contract agreement.
Like the old Rumor, Rumor2 is a Sprint-exclusive device (in the US, at least).
The full QWERTY keyboard featured by Rumor2 has four key rows, thus it’s probably more user-friendly than the keyboard the original phone sports.
Here are the handset’s main specs:
- QVGA TFT display with 262K colors
- Sprint Navigation – for voice and on-screen, turn-by-turn driving directions
- Stereo Bluetooth
- MP3 player
- Sprint Mobile Email Work (including Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Notes)
- 1.3 MP camera
- MicroSD card support, up to16GB
- Additional removable backplate
- Talk-time: up to 5.5 hours
- 4.4 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches
- 4.23 ounces
Starting March 15, LG Rumor2 will be available online, in Black Titanium. A second color version, namely Vibrant Blue, will be introduced on March 29.
The Rumor2 will also be on sale via all Sprint retail channels, but only starting April 19.
Source: Press release
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Samsung Jackfrost A877 on AT
Author: +866.com11 Mar
Like the style of the AT&T Quickfire but don’t like your phones catching on fire? Of course. We all feel the same way. That’s why we’re happy to report new rumors out today that Samsung will be putting the A877 on AT&T shelves as early as March 29.
Is this the mysterious Samsung “Jackfrost” that’s been touted for release this month? Could be.
Essentially the A877 is the Eternity with a full QWERTY keyboard and AMOLED touchscreen. From the images we like what we see, so we hope this isn’t just a simple rumor from someone with good Photoshop skills.
Without further delay, here’s some eye candy and specs.
The A877 reportedly will feature:
- 3.2″ WQVGA AMOLED touchscreen
- Slide-out QWERTY
- 3 MP camera with geotagging
- GPS/AT&T Navigator
- Full HTML browser
- TouchWiz
- Quadband EDGE/GSM
- Dual band HSDPA (1900/850)
- Bluetooth, MP3 player
Nice specs. Nice pics. Certainly a nice rumor overall. March 29 isn’t too far away, so we won’t have to wait long to see if this rumor comes to fruition.
via PhoneDog
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Nokia 5730 XpressMusic QWERTY slider
Author: +866.com11 Mar
Looks like Nokia 5730, 5330 XpressMusic and 5030 XpressRadio press pack, leaked a few hours ago was legit.
Nokia has indeed announced all 3 handsets mentioned there.
And now, with the official info out there, we can get down to business in telling you all the details about them.
Let’s start with Nokia 5730 XpressMusic.
This handset is the biggest and most high end one of today’s announcement. Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is a full fledged smartphone running on Symbian S60 OS. And it’s built on the same template as Nokia E75 QWERTY slider.
Official Nokia 5730 specs include:
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/1900/2100, 3.6 Mbps HSDPA connectivity
- Symbian S60 3d edition, FP2 OS
- 2.4” QVGA (240×320 px) 16M color display
- 3.2 megapixel camera with flash
- secondary VGA camera
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Wi-Fi b/g
- A-GPS
- FM stereo radio
- 128 MB SDRAM/256 NAND memory (up to 100MB internal user memory)
- microSDHC memory card slot (up 16GB), with 8GB card in a box
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- Bluetooth version 2.0 (A2DP & AVRCP)
- Dimensions: 112×51×15.4mm
- Weight: 135g
- 1000 mAh battery with 5 hrs talk, 300hrs stand-by and 25hrs music playback time
Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is tightly integrated with Ovi contacts which allows to see your friends online and check out what music they are listening too.
The handset comes with easy access to other Ovi services, Nokia Music store, N-Gage and also has a good Facebook integration. All these apps/services can be reached directly through the optimized Xpress Music Homescreen.
Nokia 5730 looks like a really interesting device, with one exception. Camera. I can not understand why Nokia insists on putting the old 3.2 megapixel cameras that can only take relatively low res pictures and shoot crappy videos into their music/media phones? What’s so wrong about making a cool media device with good 5 megapixel camera?
But I digress.
Nokia 5730 XpressMusic will start shipping in Q3 2009 at a price of 280 EUR.
Here’s a hands-on video of the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic handset:
And also the official press shots:
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S101 HandyPC To Be Android Powered
Author: +866.com6 Mar
Road has been showing off the latest version of its S101 HandyPC, which is a clamshell smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and 640 x 240 internal touchscreen. It actually looks like a distant cousin to Nokia’s communicator series. While the device was originally supposed to run a Linux OS with Trolltech Qtopia, it seems like the phone will be launched with Android in it instead. There are still a few kinks that need to be worked out with the phone, but we’re fairly sure that Road will be able to iron them out in time. Hopefully we’ll be able to see this phone available soon.
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Alcatel OT-707 and OT-800 – cheap touchscreen and QWERTY phones
Author: +866.com6 Mar
Alcatel mobile phones are usually entry-level, affordable ones, and the new OT-707 and OT-800 are no exceptions.
However, these two devices are definitely interesting: Alcatel OT-707 is the company’s first touchscreen handset, while Alcatel OT-800 is its first to have a full QWERTY keyboard.
The OT-707 is quite small and thin (95 x 53 x 13 mm), coming with a rounded case that brings in mind Motorola’s A3100 Surf.
Feature-wise, it doesn’t have too much to offer, but it looks nice and it seems to be a good choice for those who want a really cheap touchscreen phone.
The specs of OT-707 include:
- 2.3 inch TFT touchscreen display with 240 x 320 pixels and 262K colors
- Dual band GSM/GPRS connectivity (900/1800 MHz)
- Bluetooth with A2DP
- Music player
- FM radio
- 1.3 MP camera
- 10MB of internal memory
- MicroSD card support, up to 2GB
- Talk-time: up to 8 hours
- Stand-by time: up to 350 hours
The retail price of Alcatel OT-707 is said to be below 100 Euros ($126), but details about its availability are currently missing.
Alcatel OT-800 comes, as I already said, with a full QWERTY keyboard.
Its features include:
- Tri band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity (900/1800/1900 MHz)
- 320 x 240 pixels display with 262K colors
- Opera Mini
- FM radio with RDS
- 2MP camera
- 111 x 58 x 14 mm
No word yet about when the OT-800 will be launched, but its retail price should be of around 95 Euros ($120).
Via Mobil.cz
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Sprint Palm Treo Pro finally coming on March 15 for $199
Author: +866.com6 Mar
Sprint has finally decided on a release date for the Palm Treo Pro, and that’s March 15.
The smartphone’s price will actually be lower than the one previously known: instead of $249, the Treo Pro will be sold for $199 – needless to say, that’s only together with a 2-yr contract agreement.
Of course, many customers probably wonder why would Sprint still launch the Treo Pro, when the Palm Pre is just around the corner.
Well, the answer is actually not that hard to guess: some users simply need a Windows Mobile handset. And I’m sure you already know that Treo Pro runs on WM 6.1, while the Pre will come with webOS on board.
Plus, the Treo Pro is far from being a device that you can overlook, since it comes with about anything you need from a smartphone, including a full QWERTY keyboard, GPS and Wi-Fi.
Now let’s hope Sprint will actually release the Pro on March 15, like it said it would.
Source: Sprint via the Official Palm Blog