InsanityTech » Mobile Phones http://www.insanitytech.com Hardware, Software & Gadgets Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:24:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sprint HTC Arrive For $0.01 on Amazon http://www.insanitytech.com/sprint-htc-arrive/ http://www.insanitytech.com/sprint-htc-arrive/#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 12:07:13 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/sprint-htc-arrive/ buy

The price of the HTC Arrive from Sprint has dropped significantly on Amazon.com and you can now get this model for just $0.01, together with a new two year contract. The usual price of the phone is $199.99, so if you’re looking for a Windows Phone 7 model, you should jump on this offer. This is actually Sprint’s version of the HTC 7 Pro phone and it’s a model which combines a 3.6 inch touch screen with a physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

The processor is a 1GHz Snapdragon model and it also has 16GB of internal storage. The camera has 5MP and it records videos at HD quality. [Learn more]

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/sprint-htc-arrive/feed/ 0 FCC Gets HTC Wildfire S With 3G http://www.insanitytech.com/fcc-gets-htc-wildfire-s-with-3g/ http://www.insanitytech.com/fcc-gets-htc-wildfire-s-with-3g/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 12:20:03 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/fcc-gets-htc-wildfire-s-with-3g/ The HTC Wildfire S has reached the FCC and the model was approved to be used on II and IV WCDMA bands as well as GSM 850 and GSM 1900. The HTC Wildfire S is a mid-range model with a 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen, a processor at 600MHz, 512MB of RAM, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth 3.0 and WiFi. The OS on it will be Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the phone is expected to arrive by the end of the spring.

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/fcc-gets-htc-wildfire-s-with-3g/feed/ 0 LG Optimus Black Arriving At Orange UK http://www.insanitytech.com/lg-optimus-black-arriving-at-orange-uk/ http://www.insanitytech.com/lg-optimus-black-arriving-at-orange-uk/#comments Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:23:03 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/lg-optimus-black-arriving-at-orange-uk/ The LG Optimus Black mobile phone is going to be released soon in the UK by Orange. The Optimus comes with the 2.2 version of the Android OS, but you can upgrade it to 2.3 Gingerbread. The phone’s display is a 4 inch capacitive touch screen and it also comes with a 1GHz CPU, a 5MP camera which can record at 720p quality, a second 2MP camera in the front, GPS, 3G, HSPA, micro USB and WiFi.

The battery of the LG Optimus should offer you over 10 hours of talk time and up to 16 days of standby. [Orange]

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/lg-optimus-black-arriving-at-orange-uk/feed/ 0 HTC Merge Android Phone http://www.insanitytech.com/htc-merge-android-phone/ http://www.insanitytech.com/htc-merge-android-phone/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:47:23 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/htc-merge-android-phone/ HTC Merge The HTC Merge is a phone that is a combination of a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard which slides out and it will appear in the US by the end of the spring. The one thing I love about this phone is that it’s the first one from HTC that is a world phone, so it will work anywhere in the world. The touchscreen is a 3.8 inch and the HTC Merge also comes with a 5MP sensor camera. You can choose to record 720p videos if you want.

]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/htc-merge-android-phone/feed/ 0 Nokia Windows Phone 7 Concept http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-windows-phone-7-concept/ http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-windows-phone-7-concept/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:12:46 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-windows-phone-7-concept/ Thanks to Engadget, we get to see one of the first concepts to come out of the latest partnership between Nokia and Microsoft, which will see the Windows Phone 7 operating system used on all the smartphones from Nokia in the future. The design is somewhere between the C7 and the N8, so a Nokia fan can see that the lines will be kept.

To add my $0.02 to the mix, I’m not sure why the Nokia fans are so disappointed by the future use of Windows Phone 7 OS. From all the reviews I’ve seen online about the Windows Phone 7, this is a good OS for a mobile phone, that does a number of things quite well. More than that, I think Android needs a serious competitor on the mass market, so you have more than one choice if you’re not interested in getting an iPhone. Thanks to the huge number of phones that Nokia sells, Android will get a serious competitor and competition is always good for the consumer.

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-windows-phone-7-concept/feed/ 0 Nokia previews the N97 http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-previews-the-n97/ http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-previews-the-n97/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:02:38 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-previews-the-n97/ Like all the phones they have until now weren’t enough, Nokia just threw left and right with details about the new N97. Under the hood it rolls with a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard. But wait, there’s more. HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video are also on the list. And last but not least, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and "DVD quality" video capture at 30fps, complete what we know about the N97 until now.

If this is worth paying €550 or $693, that is for you to decide when it will come out next year.

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/nokia-previews-the-n97/feed/ 0 Verizon put out Samsung Omnia http://www.insanitytech.com/verizon-put-out-samsung-omnia/ http://www.insanitytech.com/verizon-put-out-samsung-omnia/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:39:54 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/verizon-put-out-samsung-omnia/ It’s time to get busy making the X-mass list. Who cares if you got one month until then, you can never be too prepared. And I know some of you out there want what’s the best in mobile phones, so we got for you Samsung Omnia. Packing a 3.2” touch screen display and Windows Mobile 6.1, from what birdies told me in different reviews, it seems we are in for one of the best phones out there.

Let’s see what else we got under the hood of this Samsung phone. Well to start, we got the TouchWiz, that allows us users to tune and customize the phone the way we want it with widgets. You get one-touch access to the applications you use most. The keyboard is an on-screen QWERTY.

If this isn’t enough for you to add this baby on the X-mass list, here is some more for y’all: Opera 9.5 Mobile Browser support, a 5 megapixel camera with digital zoom and LED flash, video recording capability, stereo Bluetooth connectivity and Wi-Fi support. The retail price is $249.99 and a $70 mail-in rebate and agreeing to a 2-year contract. Not sure about adding this to my shopping list, but on my wish list, I definitely will add.

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/verizon-put-out-samsung-omnia/feed/ 0 Asus has the fastest smartphone in the world… for a few weeks http://www.insanitytech.com/asus-has-the-fastest-smartphone-in-the-world-for-a-ew-weeks/ http://www.insanitytech.com/asus-has-the-fastest-smartphone-in-the-world-for-a-ew-weeks/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:02:31 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/asus-has-the-fastest-smartphone-in-the-world-for-a-ew-weeks/ Ever wondered what is the fastest smartphone in the world? I didn’t. But in case there are people who actually did, i have the answer: the Asus P565. Packing a 800MHz Marvell processor may blow you off your seat, but it lost my attention when i saw it has Windows Mobile 6.1. Other hardware include a 480×640 touchscreen to help you acces the features inside this gizmo -HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and 24fps video recording- and many others that are standard nowadays for a smartphone.
For me the Asus P565 doesn’t cut it, but there are people who buy phones twice a month or something like that just because they want to have the newest stuff. Compensating for something maybe?

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]]> http://www.insanitytech.com/asus-has-the-fastest-smartphone-in-the-world-for-a-ew-weeks/feed/ 0 Palm Treo 500v Unlocked In Europe In 2008 http://www.insanitytech.com/palm-treo-500v-unlocked-in-europe-in-2008/ http://www.insanitytech.com/palm-treo-500v-unlocked-in-europe-in-2008/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:00:24 +0000 admin http://www.insanitytech.com/palm-treo-500v-unlocked-in-europe-in-2008/ The latest news is that Palm has decided to offer the 500v model unlocked in Europe, starting from next month. Right now Vodafone has exclusivity to the phone, but this is the last month that they have it.

palm-treo-500v While the specs for this model haven’t been revealed yet, we can assume that they will be the same as the Palm Treo 500v model that is currently offered by Vodafone.

These specs are:

  • 320×240 display with 65,536 colours
  • Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
  • tri-band GSM/GPRS and 3G
  • 256MB of Flash memory
  • Micro SD slot for expansion

Since it will not be offered by Vodafone anymore, the 500v will lose the "v" letter and will probably be sold just as Treo 500.

The operating system will be Windows Mobile 6. The price is not known yet, but the current version is sold for £299.

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