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Here it is! Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, Nokia's Touch Screen Phone, is this their iPhone killer? Well, first of all I really like Nokia, I've been using Nokia phones then up to now! Their very user friendly, their popular in Asia and I think in UK. And the best about their phone is, its "UNLOCKED"! Open to all! I've watched a couple of videos about the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, and its looks real nice. And I sure hope it has good performance! Here are the phones great specifications:

• Symbian S60 5th edition OS with touch input
• Accelerometer for auto screen rotation.
• 3.2 MP AF Carl Zeiss lens, dual LED flash and geo-tagging support
• GPS with A-GPS function
• 3.5mm headphone/video-out jack
• microSDHC card slot (up to 32 GB)
• 8GB microSDHC card included

• Front camera for video calls
• GSM, EGPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA
• Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR/A2DP), WLAN (802.11 b/g), Micro-USB 2.0
• AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones, WAV

Well! Now thats what I want from a phone! You can also use an on-screen QWERY keyboard either by landscape or portrait keyboard, also has a stylus to use. 3.5mm headphone jack used on most headphones, and video-out too! Great 128 internal memory and an 8 GB microSDHC included! Has front camera! WLAN! Now thats Nokia for you! Great Specs that you want! User Friendly! UNLOCKED!


Here are videos of the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music:












There are lots of iPhone like competitors out or will soon come out in the market, like the G1 Google Android phone from HTC for T-mobile, Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 (I know this is UNLOCKED too), and more.

Here's Videos of Samsung Omnia SGH-i900:

CNET at the launch of T-Mobile G1 Android Phone.



T-Mobile press conference, here are what some experts think:

The long-awaited HTC Dream, the first commercial handset running Google's Android operating system, will be coming to T-Mobile as the G1 for $179 on October 22nd. Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen, internet navigation buttons and a full QWERTY keypad, the smartphone market has finally broken free of Symbian, Windows Mobile and the sweet clutches of fruit companies. Read on for the details, and you can decide whether or not the competition is a good thing.

Features:

Date and Pricing
$179 on October 22nd. (That's with a two year contract.) Unlimited internet with "some messaging" will run $25/month. Unlimited internet and messaging is $35/month. Data plans will require voice plans.

Screen
The G1 sports a 3.17" 65K color touchscreen that runs in HVGA (480×320) resolution.

Battery Life
You can talk for 5 hours, or keep the phone in standby for 130 hours.

Camera
3.1MP, or right around 35mm 4x6 print quality.

Frequency Fun
GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi and UMTS/HSDPA
850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100Mhz

Dimensions
4.60 x 2.16 x 0.62; Weight: 5.6 ounces. And available in white, black and brown.

Storage
1GB MicroSD card preinstalled. Supports 8GB MicroSD.

GPS
Of course, what would Google Maps be without it?

Google Maps
As we've seen in a recent update, the G1's Maps application will integrate Street View so you can see where you are going. But in an industry first, a built-in compass orients the map to your position. North is always up!

Android Market
Similar to the iPhone's mobile App Store, the Android Market will allow downloading of various Android apps from the phone, to the phone.

Amazon MP3 Store
Amazon's MP3 store will be preloaded on every G1, allowing the download of 6 million DRM-free tracks with singles starting at 89 cents. Downloading music requires a Wi-Fi connection, previewing can be done over T-Mobile's network.

YouTube
Yup, it's on there.

Other Apps
ShopSavvy: designed to help people do comparative shopping
Ecorio: developed to help people keep track of their daily travels and view what their carbon footprint looks like
BreadCrumbz: enables people to create a step-by-step visual map using photos; customers can create their own routes, share them with friends or with the world

Courtesy: Gizmodo - T-Mobile G1 HTC Dream Android Phone

Here's also an Animated Demo of the phone:

There has been recent searches for the "Google Android Phone - HTC The Dream" and news of its release was this September, but recently changed to 10th of this November, that's why I'm posting this update. And because they've been saying it's the iPhone competitor. I don't mean to say anything bad about this new software, but the iPhone is really a High-End Phone where competitors I think are still struggling to compete with. They say the iPhone Technology is lightyears away from other competitors. Let's wait and see what the Google Android has to offer.

No complete announcement, reviews or news of this product has been really made on the news or on the web. But I have these two recent videos form CNET and G4 that shows interviews from Google Company about the Google Android Phone.

It's really not a phone actually, its kinda like an operating system for a phone like Windows Mobile or Symbian. And its not just one phone, its many phones. Which will be released on T-mobile service and will run on phones like Samsung, Motorola, HTC and LG.

It's more like a Google Software for mobile phones. Google is reaching out in almost every way possible. Like their popular Google Search, Google Docs, Google Maps/Earth and will soon release the Google Android Software. They even own YouTube, the popular online video website, for those who didn't know, they also own Blogger (which I love by the way!), and FeedBurner (they own? or teamed-up with? whichever, but I love this one too!) and I think Mozilla. Wow!

It's like they're everywhere, watching you, knows what your doing, and I mean to say it in a funny way ;). Like the videos I watched on Cnet TV with Molly Wood an Executive Editor there, where I think she says Google is everywhere or owns everything. I find her fun to watch on her videos about her opinions on everything from Google to Ipods to anything. I'll probably make a post about her, her videos and her fun opinions on different products.

Watch the videos to find out more.

It’s Friday night, you’ve got a blind date in an hour, and the last thing you want to do is make small talk with a stranger. You’d like nothing more to cancel, but there’s no easy to do it. Text messages and emails are out of the question - they’re too cold and impersonal, especially with so little notice. So you call, hoping with every ounce of your soul that the message will go to voicemail. Of course they pick up after one ring, and a hopelessly clumsy conversation ensues.

Slydial, a new service from MobileSphere, is looking to offer users a way to avoid this situation. The service allows users to call any mobile line and go directly to voicemail, without the awkward conversation. Their phone will actually display a missed call from your original number, but they won’t have a chance to answer it.

To use the service, dial 267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425), and enter your contact’s number (note: this isn’t a toll-free call). Slydial works with all US wireless carriers, and users can make the initial call from either landlines or mobile phones. And, if you really hate talking to people, you can make an account on the company’s website and use a contact list to leave voice messages from your computer.

Slydial seems like a service that is ripe for abuse, but it’s still great to have (I just saved it to my contacts list). Sure, it’s devious and impersonal, but at least it isn’t a text message. And voicemail is dead anyway, isn’t it?

Source: TechCrunch

I like mobile phones, we all do right? I bet each and everyone has their own cellphone by now, especially on this generation of technology, electronics, the web and all kinds of communications. Some people not only have one, but two phones. Like me, I use one for calling and texting, and I have another phone mainly for receiving text messages from the Philippines using a "Roaming" sim card and a Quad Band phone. It can also be used for texting, but I use my first phone for that. I bet most Filipinos in the United States and other countries abroad does that too. I also use the web for texting, you can access a website that offers free texting like the service Chikka based in the Philippines.


Back to the main topic. A Great Phone. There has been a lot of added features on some new phones out on the market, and more features to come I bet on High-end phones or Smartphones. A Great Phone would basically have the following Specs:

Wi-fi capabilities
Large Internal Memory
Expandable Memory (using Memory Cards)
High Megapixel Camera, for Photos and Videos (about 5 Megapixel is good enough)
Flash for Camera
Large Screen Display
Symbian OS or Windows Mobile Operating System
TV Out
TV capable (local TV reception is good enough)
3.5 mm stereo headphone plug (I think this is the general size for all headphone jacks)
Stereo Speker
Radio
Bluetooth
USB capable
Pre-Installed Maps
Web Browsing
Email & IM
Touch Screen (a big plus)
Qwerty keyboard (also a plus, should be spacious)


Well, I guess that's most of it. That's not too much is it? of'course not. Most of these features are already on some new phones that are in the market today. But probably not all in one phone.

The closest one I've wanted was the Nokia N82. Its almost the same as the Nokia N95 but in a bar shape. It has most of the specs I've wrote, I wanted to get that phone, but the downside is i think it has no WiFi! And a WiFi is a must! So I though to myself, I'll just have to wait for a phone like that with WiFi and probably more.

Nokia N82

I recently liked the Blackberry phone, specifically the Blackrberry Curve 8300. Mainly Because of its QWERTY designed keyboard. I never did like a qwerty phone, but its like every time you see and hear about it its like you begin to like it, i dunno. I always see it on television and on the news, like its really popular mostly used by business men or lawyers as they say, but also used by almost everybody. And I like to have one now because I would like to use it for easy typing, like on making a draft about blogs or make notes, and it now has WiFi capabilities.

Blackberry Curve 8300

But I usually like Nokia phones because they are very User Friendly. I think that's their slogan. I've been using Nokia phones from my first ever mobile phone, and I loved their phones since then.

Then there was the iPhone! The most popular high-technology phone that was ever made, so far. But I don't think nothing will surpass this phone, i mean based on its style on using it. It's like a futuristic phone, well it is. Plus its basically a smartphone where you can add and install other types of applications, programs, games and a lot more.

Apple iPhone

But I have some things that I don't like on th iPhone. I'll put it in bullets so everyone can see, especially makers of new phones:

No Flash for Camera and No Video
No Text Forwarding
No Bluetooth sharing for files like photos
On-screen keyboard much better on landscape
Headphone plug does not fit most headphones jack
And most of all its LOCKED for one carrier only!

(Update: there are new available Apps for iPhone like Video Capture and Copy-Paste for forwarding and/or texting, and probably more to come.)

And Now The Breaking News! There has been a report of a new phone called "The Dream" powered by Google's Android Software on HTC phone. Which reports that it will match many capabilities of the iPhone and all other phones, and perform computer like functions.

"The high-end phone is expected to match many of the
capabilities of Apple’s iPhone and other so-called smartphones that run software from Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and Nokia
to access the Internet and perform computerlike functions."

"The HTC phone, which many gadget sites are calling the “dream,” will have a touch screen, like the iPhone. But the screen also slides out to expose a full five-row keyboard. A video of the phone has been posted recently on YouTube. A person who has seen the HTC device said it matched the one in the video."

By: The New York Times

Here the video of HTC's "The Dream" powered by Googles Android Software on YouTube.

Well, is this the phone i've been waiting for? "The Dream", a great Phone? I hope so, and I hope it has everything I wanted in a phone, and I'll definite get one. But I know there will always be new and better phones that will be made, but this will probably be the closest one about "A Great Phone" (I think, because there are new upcoming phones based on the iPhone Technology).