Posts Tagged ‘Samsung’
Phriday Phone News: Casio G’zOne Rock Comes to Verizon, and Maybe Samsung Omnia II, Too
The rugged, GPS-enabled Casio G’zOne (pronounced geez won … *sigh*) Rock is perhaps a more annoyingly spelled product name than anything Garmin has ever come up with (even without any umlauts). But it is not without merit; designed for peeps that like to play outside, the handset features six operating modes, including Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, and Sunrise Sunset and Tides. Netflix and the couch more your speed? Verizon is also getting the new gee-whiz Samsung Omnia II, according to the Intertubes.
Samsung Gets its Android On: Galaxy Spica Debuts in Europe, Behold II to Go on Sale in the US
Samsung has announced a successor to its Galaxy (the i7500 model) phone, the Galaxy Spica (the i5700) — think Greater Magellanic Cloud vs. Lesser Magellanic Cloud. Yes, I’m a nerd; if you didn’t get that joke, you are not. Anyway, the Spica/i5700 is your “basic” smartphone; where it differs from its predecessor is a 3 megapixel camera instead of the Galaxy’s 5 megapixel one, as well as an LCD display instead of an AMOLED — in non acronym terms, the display is night quite as gee-whiz in appearance. But it does have a faster processor (800 MHz vs. 528 Mhz) and will utilize the Google’s Androids OS, albeit version 1.5, as opposed to the newly debuted Android 2.0.
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Save the World or Look Good? Either Way, Samsung Says it Has You Covered
So, what’s more important to you: fashion sense or social conscience? Does your personal outlook tend to lean more toward Paris Hilton or Rachel Carson (or do you even know who Rachel Carson is, for that matter)? Would you rather don your hemp pullover to take aluminum cans and plastic bottles down to the recycling center or the latest Dolce and Gabbana creation for a night of clubbing? Spiked heals or lugged Vibram soles? Either way, Samsung says it has a phone for you: the solar-powered Blue Earth or the latest Georgia Armani Samsung.
Android and Win Mo 6.5 Are the Apparent Stars at CTIA as HTC, Samsung Handsets Debut
Good grief, more phone news than you can shake a stick at this week. It’s getting so a GPS gizmo blogger can’t even get out and get a little testing and geocaching done, but such is life when a CTIA tradeshow is going on. This isn’t the wireless juggernaut CTIA show — that’s in March — but a related tradeshow that prompts all sorts of mobile phone industry news as the U.S.-based wireless PR machines kick into high gear. New GPS-enabled phones are on the way from HTC and Samsung for Sprint, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mo and notably, all are either Android- or Windows Mobile-based. Win Mo 6.5 just rolled out, incidentally, and there’s even a Win Mo app store now — but Android seems to keep gaining traction, if these announcements are any indication.
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