New Blackberry Devices Coming Soon

Research In Motion, the company behind Blackberry, is expanding its product line and releasing 4 completely different phones for different types of users. All 4 will be released by the end of the year, and all of them sound pretty sweet in their own right. Here’s a brief rundown…

The first, coming within the next couple weeks, is the Blackberry Bold, or 9000. Rumors of a release date have the Bold coming out on July 25th, but seeing as that refers to tomorrow, I couldn’t really say for sure. Other sources point to the following week on the 29th, which seems more reasonable. Anyway, the Bold is a continuation of the classic Blackberry Curve, highlighted with more power, a better, brighter, quality screen, GPS, and a new OS. It still has the full QWERTY keyboard and all the tested software that Blackberry provides, and is targeted toward the business oriented person.


The next, which is also in the upper price range, is the Blackberry Thunder, or 9500, which is expected to come out sometime in November or December. As I’m sure you know, the Thuder is defined by its touchscreen interface, and has been coined by many to be the ‘iPhone killer’. In actuality, this device was built more to say “we can do it too” than to try and dominate the iPhone– Blackberry will still rely mostly on its Pearl, Curve, and Bold sales over those of the Thunder. At any rate, the screen is supposed to have better quality than the iPhone’s, but for right now, most of the talk is just rumor.

The third on our list is the newly unveiled KickStart, which is the first flip phone that Blackberry has ever put into production. It will be more of a mid range phone in terms of pricing, and is tentatively scheduled to release in September. Again, most of the Blackberry features will be included, and the keyboard will be the same as that already featured on the Blackberry Pearl.

The final Blackberry product to come is the basic, inexpensive Javelin, which will release around the same time as the Thunder in November or December. It is, to be short, a simplified version of the Blackberry Curve that will have all the same capability, with slower speeds and not quite as amazing quality parts. Again, most of the talk about the Javelin is still just rumor, but it is definite that the phone will release sometime in the next months.

Microsoft’s new Phone 7

Windows Smart phone seven is dead from the start since it does not aid on-device components encryption. Most Home windows Call seven proprietors will not be competent to gain access to business knowledge due to the fact a large amount of service policies necessitate equipment encryption so that you can hook up with Alternate ActiveSync. That is correct, no business e-mail.

“True, not just about every Trade server is configured to deny a connection to unencrypted units, but on this day and age, you’d be hard-pressed to locate an enterprise-class Change server that permitted it,” writes Eric Knorr, editor-in-chief at sister web-site InfoWorld, in his weblog, including, “No perform e-mail? Fuggedaboutit.”

Wait a minute, iPhone versions prior to your iPhone 3GS failed to have equipment encryption however have been capable to find organisation e-mail just fine—that is, right up until iOS three.one. came out and enforced the encryption rule. Even today’s Android telephones, which absence components encryption, can admission company e-mail.

So what provides? The past iOS three.0 working on iPhones lacking equipment encryption (free iPhone 3GS was the very first to possess it) merely failed to handle the safety coverage selections of Change. For shortage of a greater phrase, the iPhones lied into the Change server to discover records. My guess is always that Android mobile phones do a thing comparable. But Microsoft Home windows Mobile phone seven cannot surely trick Microsoft Trade server. Which is like lying to oneself.

The ridiculous matter about windows Mobile 7—apart from the game-killing inability to entry company e-mail—is that it lacks standard capabilities of this iPhone, this kind of as cut-and-paste, multitasking, and HTML five assist. These benefits have previously confirmed themselves out there, so Microsoft will need to have just taken them. With no need of these functions on a free ipod, Glass windows Business phone seven appears woefully behind the instances.

Though Microsoft windows Cell phones seven includes a elegant, snappy consumer interface that rivals the iPhone’s interface, sadly, Microsoft adopted many of the iPhone’s worst traits. Microsoft windows Mobile phone seven has AT&T exclusivity and does not aid Adobe Flash Player. (Read InfoWorld’s Mobile Deathmatch: Home windows Mobile phone seven vs. Apple iPhone 4.)

So I’m at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco listening to Microsoft say that Glass windows Mobile phone seven is aimed largely at consumers after a free ipad. In a breakout session that followed, surprised mobile enterprise app developers lamented the news and even held out hope that Microsoft will change course. “Unlike Apple, Microsoft knows the enterprise and can build service quickly,” one developer said.

But the bottom line is, if you’re still building separate telephones for consumers and the enterprise, you haven’t been paying attention. Apple has demonstrated on each and every earnings call that people want their deliver the results and personal worlds to collide on a single unit. It’s arguably the biggest lesson Apple has taught the tech industry over the last three years, and Microsoft wasn’t listening. So.. when does the iPhone 5 come out?

Crystal Glass Windows Phone

Window Phone - concept phone On one hand, clear conceptual phones already, so this is not just the first, but on the other, the so-called Window Phone has one impressive feature - its transparent housing varies depending on the weather! Thus, in the sunny days, the screen will be completely transparent, on a rainy day it will appear «virtual» drop, but it is covered with frost frost. Ie translucent screen will look like as well as present a window into a variety of weather. I do not know how it will be practical, but at least, very original!

Back to the future: Philco PC concept designed in Steampunk etiquettes

It is becoming a common practice with designers to flip back into time and take leads for their designs from the good old contraptions. Newest in league is the Philco PC concept which draws inspiration from the Philco Predicta television set of the 1950’s. Designed by SchultzeWORKS the desktop concept merges well the Steampunk etiquettes with modern ingenuity for this state-of-the-art Windows 7 PC, that’s designed with a typewriter style keyboard and a stylish metal mouse. So, do you love the mystical combo? Demo video after the jump.

LG R510 Montevina Notebook

LG has launched three new Montevina-based XNote notebooks. One of these is the LG R510 equipped with Intel’s next-generation Centrino 2. However, the release is only for the Korean market, so those who wants to try this notebook would have to wait for it to be released worldwide.

The LG R510 runs on Intel Core 2 Duo T9400(2.53GHz, 6MB, FSB 1066MHz) processor and adopts a 15.4-inch LCD screen with LED backlight, 3GB DDR3 memory, 2GB of Turbo Memory, and nVidia GeForce 9600M GT. Other features included a Smart Recovery function, HDMI and e-SATA ports.

Meizu Mini Player M6

Ask, and ye shall receive. When we mentioned that we'd like to spend some time with Meizu's M6 Mini Player a few months back, we were pretty sure that like most foreign gadgets we feature, this one would always remain just out of reach -- so imagine our surprise when we learned that pre-ordering has already begun to bring the M6 stateside. You'll probably recall that this model, which has the nano squarely in its sights (promotional materials even warn the iPod to "step aside"), comes in either 1GB ($139), 2GB ($159), or 4GB ($220) capacities, and besides supporting the usual assortment of MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG audio files, does the AVI playback thing on its 2.4-inch QVGA screen as well. Also included are an FM tuner, voice recorder, calendar, stopwatch, USB On The Go support, and a couple of games, which is a lot more features than the nano offers, so it looks like Apple has reason to be mighty worried come July or early August when the first shipments of these arrive. Keep reading for a few more comparison shots that show just how mini this Mini really is...

New PSP2 details surface

Some interesting new details for the Sony PSP2 have been revealed thanks to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, as translated by Andriasang. The big news is that the PSP2 will feature 3G support which will enable users to play online games, download software and movies, but it will not have phoning capabilities as was previously rumoured.


As expected the PSP2 will feature wireless LAN, it uses a organic light emitting diode (OLED) touch screen and a new processor Sony developed to handle high resolution visuals.

The PSP2 is also said to have touch controls on the reverse of the unit and enough processing power to reproduce visuals on par with those seen in early PlayStation 3 games.

Release should be this year.