Colorware for your iPhone- Splurge Even More!!
As if buying the darned thing wasn’t enough, you can now spend more money on your fancy new gadget by getting it painted by Colorware. There are 29 different ways to waste your money, and you can either send in your own iPhone for $149, or buy a new one. The 4GB Colorware iPhone will run you $649, and the 8GB version will cost $740. So what are you waiting for? Choose your colours at colorwarepc.com- you can even get a matching dock and headphones. Lovely.
Zune 2 for the Holidays!
Artist’s rendition of Zune 2 via Zune Groove.
It looks like Microsoft is planning to update the Zune line in time for the holidays. After going to a Microsoft conference, Whiz Byte reports that a rep stated “That said, Zune follows the cycle of the consumer electronics cycle so you can expect an update later this year prior to the holiday season.” Three ways that Microsoft is planning to improve the Zune are through “device family” improvement (new mp3 players, styles, and prices), new features (podcasting, etc), and geographic marketing (expand internationally). So, keep your eyes peeled for the every popular Zune to be upgraded this Christmas. And no, that wasn’t sarcastic. Afterall, the Zune has sold over 1 million devices now, which is respectable for the mp3 player, so we can only expect the Zune 2 to do just as well.
Sony Ericsson P1 Reviewed
Sony Ericcson’s P1 is a smartphone with a 3.2 megapixel camera with 3x zoom and autofocus, a QWERTY keyboard, a 2.6 inch LCD touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, 164 mb of internal memory, a Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot, and H.264 video playback. It runs the Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0.
PhoneArena reviewed the Sony Ericsson P1 and wrote: “We like the P1! Compared to the M600, the new P-series smartphone offers the desired high-quality camera and Wireless LAN (WiFi) which is a must in such style device. When put next to the P990, the P1 reduces the size, removes the dual-type keyboard and with the hybrid QWERTY allows for even faster text typing. P1 is not only successor of the M600, it is the successor of the P990 and it is a good one.
Its main drawback is the tri-band GSM and single-band UMTS, but if you are in the supported frequencies, P1 will give you all the bells and whistles of a UIQ phone plus very good multimedia including music and video player, FM Radio and good 3MP auto-focus camera. Alternatives are Windows Mobile Professional phones, which also have stylus-based OS and offer an environment, closer to the one on a personal computer with Windows, which has both positive and negative sides.”
GSMArena also wrote: “Summing it up, the Sony Ericsson P1 offers more than every other Sony Ericsson smartphone before. Positive changes are noticeable both in system performance and in the hardware equipment. In terms of software, the handset is identical to the previous UIQ 3 handsets and when compared to Nokia S60 smartphones it does lose only on Internet calls capabilities, which are much more developed in the latest S60 mobiles. Apart from that, the Sony Ericsson P1 could have put up a very good fight with every competing messenger device currently on the market if it were not for the inconvenient keyboard solution.”
Samsung SCH-B750 Phone
Samsung launched the B750 phone in Korea. The B750 has unique video editing capabilities- you can edit your clip, add text or music to the background, and then send the edited video clip to a website like Korea’s www.pandora.tv. The Samsung B750 also twists into a camcorder position for easier video shooting. Video resolution is 320×240 and recording is MPEG4. The phone is available in black, red, or white for a price of 600,000 won (approx. 650 USD).
Samsung’s G600 Available in Europe
The Samsung G600 is a 5 megapixel camera phone with an FM radio, a microSD slot, Bluetooth 2.0, USB port, audio / video player, and is only 14.9mm thick. Samsung will release the G600 in Europe soon; the price and exact launch date are unknown. We also don’t know if Samsung will launch the G600 Slider in the US too.
