T-Mobile Releases BlackBerry Curve 8900

T-Mobile will release the BlackBerry Curve 8900 that we mentioned in December last year. The mobile phone will retail for $199.99 on a 2-year deal and after sending in a $100 mail-in rebate. As a reminder, the 8900 is also known as the Javelin. It supports full QWERTY keyboard, a 2.44 inch HVGA+ display, Quad-band GSM connectivity, Wi-Fi/ Bluetooth support, 512MHz processor and a 3.2MP camera. Sadly, it lacks of 3G connectivity.

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Juice Pack Air. Super Slim iPhone Battery

When the first candy-colored iMac came out, the "i" supposedly meant "internet", as in "easy to connect to the". Within a time span so short that it made the Big Bang look as slow as LA traffic, every other electronic device had added the letter i to the beginning of its name.

Now, we have "Air" which means "impossibly thin and light". The Mophie Juice Pack Air is an impossibly thin and light battery pack for the iPhone 3G, a slimline plastic case which manages to wrap a 1200mAh battery around the iPhone's svelte curves.

The pack claims to power the the phone for an additional 270 hours of standby time, and extra 4.5 hours of 3G chatting and a whopping nine hours of regular old fashioned 2G talktime.

The advantage of these packs is that they can stay on the phone at all times, even as you charge and sync. The Juice Pack Air also has a standby mode of its own, letting you run the iPhone normally and then switching in the extra power at the last minute. According to Mophie, this actually uses less juice than leaving the iPhone on a constant charge.

If I could be bothered, I'd buy one of these for Boing Boing Gadget's blond bombshell boss, Joel Johnson. At the CES show in Vegas this year he was constantly talking into his iPhone and regularly swapping out backup battery dongles. This would be neater -- if he needed it. I discovered later that Joel has some insecurity issues and was simply pretending to talk into his phone to appear more popular. Poor boy. He just wants to be loved. Available Spring for $80.

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Samsung F480: Valentine Special

The Samsung F480 is a fashionable & slim 3G HSDPA mobile phone which comes with a high quality 5 megapixel camera complete with a built in flash & auto focus & the large 2.8 Inch screen makes a great viewing screen. It has a built in radio feature & a music player complete with fun music features. The F480 has a beautiful & smooth casing with subtle chrome trim & a smooth black coloured finish.

Here is the popular Samsung’s F480 La Fleur mobile phone, which is perfect for the Valentine’s Day gift. “La Fleur” means “the flower” in French. The handset will be available in Russia and possibly other European countries. Unfortunately, there is no word on pricing so far.

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GSM Watch Phone M885

GSM Watch Phone M885 - GSM 850/ 900 / 1800/1900 MHz

• Description

• GSM Watch Phone M885 - 1.4 Inch touch screen with full screen handwriting input, bluetooth, 1.3MP camera, vibration when coming call.
  

SKU : GSM-Watch-Phone-M885

• Features

• Screen : 1.5 inch touch-screen supports full-screen handwriting input
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 1.3 MP Camera
• FM radio.
  
• Vibration when coming call
• Ringtone : 64 chord; Ringtone format: mp3, midi
• Music: support equalizer; four loudspeakers with stereo output, larger volume and good sound quality
• Video: 3GP,MP4,support to play in full screen, speed and pause
• Rom: 505K, support to extend memory card
• Data Transfer: data wire/U disc/ Bluetooth (voice, stereo)
• E-Book reader
• Standby Photo: jpg, gif
• Telephone directories : 250 groups of contacts of carte de visit, support incoming call with big head sticker, grouping ring
• Messages & Multimedia messaging: support SMS, MMS
• Schedule power on/off: support auto start/close, can set user-defined photo of starting/closing
• Alarm clock : 5 groups; can set from Monday to Sunday at random
• More information : MP3, MP4, Hands free, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Handwritten input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, quad-bands watch phone, vibrating when call's coming, camera, memory card expansion, IP dialing, calendar, health management, calculator, unit conversion, rates exchange, memorandum, world time, notepad
• Language : Chinese, English, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, German.

• Specifications

• Network : GSM850 / 900 / 1800/1900mHz
• Size : 61(L) x 45(W) x 17.5(H) mm
  
• Battery : Lithium Batteries 500mA
• Standby time : About 100-120Hours
• Talking time : About 2-3Hours
• Color : Black+Silver, Black+Gold
  

• Accessories

• Battery(500mAh) x 2
• Charger
• USB cable
• Bluetooth
• 512M TF card

Thnx to Blog

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Toshiba TG01, World’s First 1GHz Snapdragon CPU Powered WiMo Phone

Yesterday the Japanese Web magazine Nikkei announced a future Toshiba iPhone killer, and guess what… Toshiba Europe dropped the bomb several hours later with this announcement… nothing yet from Toshiba Japan.

If you think the HTC Touch HD was the only cool device on the market, you should consider Toshiba’s new TG01.

What’s special? Aside from the disappointing news regarding the OS version, yep no WiMo 6.5, just plain old 6.1… This new pocket PC is the first device to be powered by a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU, features a nice 4.1” WVGA screen, HSDPA and HSUPA, WiFi, GPS… And not only it supports H.264 files is also DviX friendly.

Well done Toshiba, like a phoenix you are back in the pocket PC world, and this time with a pretty impressive piece of hardware. It’s a pity that it doesn’t come with 6.5.
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