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With scores of smartphones available, one obvious way for them to stand out is with size.
The new phone that takes to extreme is HP’s tiny Veer. It has the foundations of good smartphone, including great operating software and the ability to run on AT&T’s high-speed ” 4G” network. But the size presents some major weaknesses, too.
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Nokia unveiled two new dual-SIM phones at an event called “Twins Day Out” here in New Delhi. While Nokia C2-00 is targeted at customers who want to access internet on the move, Nokia X1-01 is a music phone. Nokia had brought together 60 twins for the event and held a parade before showing its new handsets.
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Officially recognized as the first dual core smartphone in the world, LG’s Optimus 2x needs to set the bar high.
It starts off on the right foot with an imposing presence, more-than-capable hardware, a large screen, matt surfaces and an overall pleasing form-factor and build quality.
The design does not break any conventions, with the standard large display and capacitive buttons layout becoming increasingly common on high-end Android smartphones.
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Samsung’s Droid Charge smartphone is all set to hit stores after a brief delay caused due to outage in the Verizon’s LTE network.
Originally scheduled for late April, the US-based telecom service provider shelved the launch of Droid Charge due to the network glitch. The Samsung Droid Charge is equipped with 4G LTE technology that supports download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps.
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Tablet space seems to be getting hotter by the day. Japanese electronic giant Toshiba is all set to launch its Android Honeycomb-powered tablet.
Dubbed Thrive, Toshiba unveiled the tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year.
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Featured with markerless and high-speed object recognition & tracking as well as
dynamic 3D space recognition & image rendering.
Sony has developed integrated ‘Augmented Reality (hereafter referred to as ‘AR’) technology’ called as “Smart AR.” When capturing visuals through a camera on a device such as a smartphone, the technology enables additional information to be displayed on the device’s screens such as virtual objects, or images and texts that cannot be identified by visual perception alone. The technology employs the markerless approach, forgoing any requirement for special markers such as 2D barcodes. The object captured by the camera is quickly recognized and can be tracked at high-speed along with the movement of the camera, as it is displayed over the actual 3D space.
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Verizon Wireless’s first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the HTC Trophy, will go on sale online May 26 for $149.99, after rebate.
The Trophy features a 1GHz processor, a 3.8-in touchscreen, and 16GB of onboard storage.
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Finnish handset maker Nokia plans to introduce a new feature on its mobile phones, “Search”, which will enable users to identify a particular locality at the click of a button.
The new feature helps customers to identify a place or a shopping mall or a food joint from their mobile phones, Nokia India Director — Operator Channel V Ramnath said.
Microsoft and some smaller software vendors still have a shot in the fast-changing smartphone race even though Google and Apple are pulling rapidly ahead, industry executives said.
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State-run telecom company is bullish on its enterprise segment and has set a target of Rs 3,202 crore from it during the current financial year.
“Our scheme launched for paramilitary jawans is part of Enterprise business division. We expect revenue of this segment to reach Rs 3202 crore in FY’12,” RK Upadhyay, chairman and managing director, of BSNL said.
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