Vodafone UK Launches Exclusive BlackBerry Storm

UK : The highly anticipated Blackberry® Storm 9500, the first ever touch-screen BlackBerry smartphone, purpose built exclusively for Vodafone, will be available to buy from 14th November. Available on a range of high value price-plans, the device offers consumers and business customers easy access to voice and email, a range of social media applications, multimedia content, satellite navigation and many other services on the move.

Customers who want to be the first in the UK to have a BlackBerry Storm can pre-order in Vodafone stores, online at www.vodafone.co.uk/storm and telesales, and account managers for our business customers from November 14. It will also be available for sale through Vodafone’s retail partner Phones 4U in store and online.

“We know customers are excited about the Storm and the early pre-orders really emphasise this. We continue to take orders and are excited that customers are responding so enthusiastically,” commented Ian Shepherd, consumer director, Vodafone UK. “Our customers told us that they wanted a single phone that would give them the most secure, reliable email and messaging experience possible combined with all the desirable smartphone features, and at a price that’s affordable. The BlackBerry Storm has delivered all of this and more and will give our customers incredible power in their hands to make the most of now.”

BlackBerry Storm features:

Coming in a sleek and elegant black design, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone brings together messaging services including email, SMS and MMS in a single in-box and alerts from social networks. It also offers superb sound quality and a 3.2 MP camera with video capabilities that exploit the screen’s stunning clarity to deliver advanced multi-media performance coupled with Vodafone’s fast and reliable mobile broadband network.

The BlackBerry Storm smartphone, comes with an enhanced high performance browser which delivers users a high speed web browsing experience, with desktop-style depiction in either portrait or landscape view. The new user interface combines the familiar dedicated "menu" and "escape" keys common to BlackBerry smartphones and adds support for multi-touches, taps and slides allowing the user to easily highlight, scroll, pan and zoom, making navigation fast, easy and intuitive.

The uniquely tactile 3.25” screen gives users a variety of different sense experiences. Despite its flat surface, users feel the sensation of actually pressing down on virtual keys which also light up when touched. This makes it quick and easy to type texts and emails as well as navigate through the phone’s functions. Customers will also have the choice of using a full QWERTY, SureType® or multi-tap keyboard.

By excluding the traditional physical keyboard, more space has been dedicated to the high resolution colour screen, allowing customers to display multi-media content and comfortably view attachments as well as read and edit documents.

The ground-breaking screen with its 480 x 360 pixel resolution display switches from portrait mode to landscape mode as the handset is rotated, while automatically changing the format of the keyboard from multi-tap or RIM’s SureType® to full QWERTY*. A wide range of songs and full length videos can be downloaded and enjoyed with the stunning clarity of the smartphone’s screen and its incredible, high quality audio.

The BlackBerry Storm retains the full functionality and security features of the BlackBerry platform but is also ideal for avid Facebook, MySpace and YouTube users, while Flickr fans will love the ease and speed of directly uploading their pictures seconds after taking them.

Customers can access all Vodafone’s entertainment and information services including Vodafone Music, Google Maps and Find&Go navigation, and the Vodafone live! portal, whilst also benefiting from a removable battery with excellent talk and standby time, and up to 16GB of exchangeable memory.

The BlackBerry Storm will be available from next month through Vodafone stores as well as independent outlets and online. Full pricing details will be available in the coming weeks.

* Virtual keyboards are also available in AZERTY, QWERTZ and other configurations to support different language groups.

EISA rewarded Samsung SGH G810

Samsung Electronics’Co1 Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, is proud to announce that the SGH-G810, the

almighty smart phone with superb camera quality, has been awarded the 'European Photo Phone 2008-2009’ by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA).

The Convergence Panel of EISA laid it voted for Samsung’s 0810 because of the superior image quality. They added, “Is it a phone. or is it a camera? Only a few years ago the SGH-G810’s features would have been unimaginable on anything but a high-spec camera.” In addition to the technical capabilities, the judges also commented that, “Best of all, it manages to look, at once, both elegant and robust."

Geesung Choi, President of Samsung Telecommunication Business, said he was delighted to receive this award from EISA, an opinion leader in the European imaging and multimedia industry.

"This is important recognition of the progress that we have made in the multimdedia phones that have become very popular with European consumers, " Mr.Choi said, "With the SGH-G810, Samsung will continue to deliver the best possible multimedia features in the most attractive design to satisfy mobile phone users in Europe."

Having globally launched the first 5-megapixel camera-phone in 2004, 7-megapixel camera-phone in 2005, and the groundbreaking 10-megapixel SCH-B600 in the Korean market in 2006, the SGH-G810, awarded leadership in camera-phone market.

The Samsung G810 offers 5 megapixel camera equipped with 3x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom and Xenon flash. Moreover, the G810 boasts its advanced photo quality with the latest digital camera features including face detection, image stabilizer, high ISO (up to 800), macro shot, panorama shot and mosaic & multi shot.

Supporting Symbian v9.2 S60 3rd edition, the G810 also includes Wi-Fi connectivity for seamless communication and GPS with geo tagging to satisfy mobile phone users.

EISA is an association of 50 magazines with a special interest in multimedia from across 19 European countries including the newest country, Serbia It is known internationally for the European EISA Awards and in June each year, the editors from all magazines meet to decide which of the consumer products covered in their publications that year, will receive an EISA award. There are six categories: Audio, Video, Home Theatre, Photography, Mobile Electronics and Convergence. All winners may carry the EISA mark for the following months reinforcing both their quality and technology leadership.

Intelligent war will upgrade Samsung i910 exposure of 5 million pixels

With fashion ornate shape configuration and powerful features, Samsung SGH-i900 (licensed version of Model SGH-i908) since been released since the world’s attention. As the flagship of Samsung models, SGH-i900 by Samsung placed high expectations, different network environment in order to allow the user to use the SGH-i900, a few days ago, a CDMA-based network of SGH-i910 official U.S. Federal appearance Communications Commission (FCC) site, and is related to accept the FCC’s audit and inspection.

Map of the new exposure Samsung SGH-i910

Debut of the Samsung SGH-i910 can be called the SGH-i900 CDMA version. Based on the CDMA network of SGH-i910 shape the design and functionality of the allocation and the SGH-i900 basically the same, the only difference lies in the use of the SGH-i910 is a CDMA network technology, and the SGH-i910 is not set up SIM card slot.

Map has been listed on the Samsung SGH-i900

As the FCC Web site only exposed the Samsung SGH-i910 test version of the design, for the aircraft many of the details of the problem is still unclear. But it is certain that, SGH-i910 will be U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless in the form of customization available, and the carrier AT & T and Samsung will also launch cooperation customized version of CDMA SGH-i900, but changed its name to model aspects of SGH-i907.

Sony Ericsson smart luxury flagship X1 at the end of September

We have not forgotten February this year, Sony Ericsson released Xperia X1 (picture Reping) shock. XPERIA X1 as a heavyweight Sony Ericsson’s products, but also XPERIA of a series of jungle, and the influence of the attention naturally need not say more. Can not wait for new models like to have the users, below this news certainly will let you excited: Sony Ericsson has finalized XPERIA X1 at the end of September officially go on sale!

Map: Sony Ericsson mobile phone X1

Xperia X1 Sony Ericsson is the first Windows Mobile smart phones, but have small size QWERTY keyboard, high-speed CPU and the memory, using Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528MHz processor, 800 x 480 resolution screen, 3.5G
HSPDA / HSUPA, built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (support A2DP), A-GPS, with a 320-megapixel camera. How can such a luxury not a mouth-watering hungry! But unfortunately, this major market for Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom and other regions, as for other parts of the sale may be postponed to the end. But, at least, have to worry about this Xperia X1 willmortality, quietly looking forward to it.