Archive for February, 2011

The dual sim mobile phone market may be very saturated with small producers like Micromax, Spice and other brands having fun with virtually complete domination of this market phase over the bigger, extra established names in the business like Nokia, Samsung and LG who all desire a slice of this lucrative phase which they ignored for a long time. Motorola quietly mounted an offensive on the twin sim mobile market segment a couple of months again when they introduced their EX-a hundred and fifteen, which is a QWERTY keypad based twin sim cellular and the EX-128, a contact screen phone with an intuitive Java based OS.

Telecommunications large, Motorola, is the grandfather of mobile phones. With many superb innovations and firsts to their credit together with their Six-Sigma for excellence which is a by-phrase in absolute excellence in a product or service. Nonetheless a few years again they fell manner behind the remainder of the Massive names and with Samsung and LG overtaking them globally in sales as well as buyer satisfaction the long run looked bleak. They packed up their operations in India and left (that’s what a lot of the mobile phone vendors inform clients and Motorola telephones because of this had zero resale worth). However they aim to make a strong comeback with these dual sim models in addition to their updated line up of primary as well as high end phones. Let’s see what the Motorola EX-115 has to offer.
The Motorola EX-115 comes in a small, compact box with the fundamental specs and the USP of the cellphone mentioned clearly. The box design is engaging and is sturdy sufficient to guard the telephone and its equipment in transit.
The contents of the field are as follows:-
930 mAH battery
Fingers-free kit
Consumer guide
Warranty Card
This can be a sparse bundle by any standards. I might’ve preferred an USB knowledge cable at least. No reminiscence card was bundled with the phone and I needed to evaluation the cellphone with a 2 Gb micro sd card. On the up side the person manual could be very complete and has colored pictures to assist the person to learn the functions of the phone.
The Motorola EX-one hundred fifteen has been code-named Starling. It has dimensions of 109 x 61 x 12.4 mm and weighs 102.2 gms. The construction of the telephone is a lot better than the Nokia C-3. It has a sturdy and a stable feel to it. The again panel is made of rubberized plastic and provides wonderful grip. The EX-a hundred and fifteen is smaller when compared to the Nokia C-3. The cellphone feels good when held within the hand.
The cellphone is slim on the sides and has a single port that on the left hand aspect which is used to attach the charger and the information cable.
The keypad is good and has responsive keys which make messaging a nice experience. The D-pad is used to navigate the menus and control the media player. There’s a devoted camera key as well.
The cellphone comes with the standard Java based consumer interface which has been so common in phones based on this OS nevertheless it has an upmarket and refined feel to it. It has quite a lot of options to offer. The navigation is simple using the D-pad. There isn’t a lag and every thing works smoothly. All the things is kind of detailed which makes the operation of the handset moderately easy. The menu animation and total appearance of the telephone will be changed by enjoying with varied themes.
The telephony in the Motorola EX-115 is decent. The signal reception on this phone was good. The in-call sound was crisp and clear. There were no name drops or reception points at all each within the single sim mode in addition to the twin sim mode. The loudspeaker is excellent and gives loud, crisp and clear sound. The cellphone has each SIMs energetic at all times. One can receive calls on each sim cards and may choose the sim card to make outgoing calls or outgoing messages. The sim choice may be completed within the settings menu.
When on a name from SIM1; SIM2 is just not reachable or switched off. But when your using SIM1 and get one other name concurrently on SIM1 it turns into a ready call automatically.
The messaging division is actually up to the task and is somewhat widespread with regards to the interface if in contrast with other Java based mostly QWERTY phones. The Motorola EX-115 is capable of dealing with all the common message varieties including SMS, MMS and audio messages and there’s straightforward electronic mail dealing with too.
Group Messaging is just not attainable on this phone.One can not ship bulk messages. Now we have to manually choose one contact after the other.Also one other lacking characteristic is that we can’t choose a number of contacts at one go to send the message to.
The Motorola EX-a hundred and fifteen has a hard and fast focus 3.2 MP digicam with digital zoom. I was anticipating the camera to be poor but it turned out to be fairly good. The daylight snaps were first rate with good color reproduction and the night time photographs were acceptable but not very good due to the lack of flash. The camera has loads of customization choices and one can anticipate decent snaps at all times. The video recording is of poor quality at 15FPS QCIF.
The image viewer application is first rate and the cellphone also comes with a bundled photo modifying software.
The FM radio performance is nice and the signal reception is good. There’s an inbuilt sound recorder as well. FM recording features are present as well.
The 930 mah Lithium-ion battery presents discuss time of almost a hundred and eighty minutes and a standby time of almost 240 hours. One can easily anticipate the cellphone to last for two-3 days with average to heavy utilization before charging it.

Conclusion:-

The  Motorola EX-115 came across as somewhat of a surprise to me. I was anticipating this cellphone to be just like the Spice or Micromax telephones which have the flooded the market of late but it’s manner higher than any of them. It is a twin sim cellphone which looks very elegant. This can be very well made, properly completed and feels heavy in the event you maintain it. The performance of the phone is appropriate and the multimedia efficiency could be very good. The SAR scores are low as nicely for the extra health acutely aware users. Overall Motorola seems to have carried out a very good job with the EX-115.
The Motorola EX-115 cost me Rs.4800 inclusive of a knowledge cable and VAT. If one plans to spend Rs.4000-Rs.5000 on a decent QWERTY keypad based twin sim phone the Motorola EX-a hundred and fifteen should undoubtedly be considered.

We were very pleased with the performance of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system that we saw in Barcelona during MWC 2011. Thus it gives us great pleasures to inform you that the platform has finally reached smartphones, as the folks of Mobilissimo.ro recently discovered. We’re talking about a port right now, that brings Honeycomb to HTC Desire.

The OS has already been tested on a HTC Desire unit by Iancu Cosmin Cristian (@wackydj), the tipster of this information and the author of the images included in this article. Photo evidence isn’t enough these days, so let’s see what functions are available on this Honeycomb port done by XDA Developers.

Here’s a list of the functions that you’ll be using on HTC Desire, thanks to Honeycomb:

touchscreen
3D acceleration
wallpapers
mobile data connection
sending and receiving text messages
CM7 gallery
widgets

The source we mentioned before has managed to test Honeycomb on the HTC Desire and everything seems to work perfectly, although the port job is in its early stages. Now let’s see other compatible devices. Samsung smartphones maybe?

HTC Merge is the Taiwanese company’s first Android handset to go CDMA world phone and it’s coming to North America this spring, according to a recent statement. This is a sliding QWERTY handset with Android 2.2 on board and the HTC Sense experience available as well.

There’s a 3.8 inch touchscreen display on board, accompanied by a 5 megapixel camera at the back, with autofocus and flash. 3G connectivity, GPS and WiFi complete the specs list, as well as social networking via Flickr, Facebook and Twitter (through HTC FriendStream).

Multiple operators will launch this device in North America, so you might get the product renamed and with different prices and subsidies. The price is a mystery right now, but we’ll let you know once we find the info out.

If it’s February 25th, it’s a happy day for HTC Aria owners, since their device will get updated to Android 2.2 Froyo today. This initiative comes courtesy of AT&T, that made this announcement via their Facebook page. They recommend that you check back later to learn how to perform the download.

This means that it could not be an usual over the air update, but rather a manual download and install. For those who don’t own a HTC Aria, know that this handset comes with a 3.2 inch touchscreen, AGPS, 5MP camera, microSD slot, FM radio and a battery that provides 6 hours of talk time. Froyo should make it perfect for you!

HTC rocked the world during MWC 2011, in spite of their small incidents with the projector and speakers and the delay of the conference. Everything went smooth afterwards and 6 new appealing products were unveiled. We’re talking about the HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and HTC Wildfire S smartphones, plus the two Facebook Phones HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa and of course, the HTC Flyer tablet.

The Incredible S is the most powerful of the lineup and it finally brings the Incredible series to Europe, as the previous model wasn’t present on the other side of the Ocean. Desire S is the follow-up to the famous Nexus One twin, while the Wildfire S will most likely bring Android 2.3 to the masses. All of these models come with the new interface of HTC Sense.

HTC ChaCha and Salsa were all about their Facebook button and dedicated social networking feature, that was shown with the contribution of Mark Zuckerberg, who also hit the stage at some point. As far as HTC Flyer is concerned, this is a nifty first attempt at a tablet, but till it replaces Android 2.4 + Sense combo with Honeycomb, we’ll hold back from judgment.

Presentations were very good and Apple should feel jealous right now!