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Samsung Highnote lets you enjoy life in two slides

Tired of carrying an mp3 player and a cell phone at the same time? is it too bulky in your purse or your super cool bag? Need not to worry anymore as Samsung has found a way so you can enjoy your party music and busy social life at the same time — enter Samsung Highnote — the new phone from Samsung that exhibits two ways to enjoy your life. First enjoyment comes when you slide the phone downwards as it reveals the speaker for mp3 playback and second enjoyment comes when you slide it upward as it reveals the keypad so you can either enjoy instant messaging or text messaging.

This new dual slider handset from Sprint has multimedia functions keys in  the front that has a hover scroll wheel that lets you access the sprint menu as well. It’s stereo has good sound quality as well and you can enjoy internet access and expand the memory up to 16Gb of memory and it comes in two colors as well: red and blue coming out this October from Sprint for $100 that goes with a two-year contract.

Tokyo , Japan–Japan is a country known for its sophisticated and supreme advancements in technology, from their cars, clothes, parking lot and gadgets. It is no longer a surprise if the Japanese come up with yet another phone for the future.

The Japanese are known for making concept phones real and useful in society. Most of their phones have been equipped with internet connections, mobile TV, music players, hi-resolution cameras, GPS, cameras that double as barcode scanners and wireless credits long before most of these technologies were even thought of or marketed to the western market. This time around the Japanese have developed a new kind of technology wherein mobile phones can unlock cars and start engines without using any key.

Yes folks, the Japanese have done it again.

This new mobile phone was made by Sharp Corporation. It utilizes and upgrades the “Intelligent Key” technology system. Intelligent Key technology was a project researched and developed by Nissan Motor Corporation which permits a keyless entry and ignition within cars installed with the system. This way, individuals can be free from the inconveniences of looking for their keys and removing them from their bags or pockets.

A car that has the Intelligent Key technology system installed recognizes if and when the corresponding car key is within the area of range and will then unlock the car door automatically. The Intelligent Key technology system starts up the car’s engine immediately once it senses that the key is already inside the car.

Nissan has claimed to have shipped around a million car units with the Intelligent Key technology since it was introduced back in 2002.

The upgrade on the Intelligent Key Technology system is that, keys are no longer utilized. Instead, the system is also loaded on a mobile telephone. Through the phone, without having any keys, the car will automatically unlock its doors and start its engines like a key itself.

NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest mobile operator is said to have bought the service rights for this technological innovation.

TOKYO - A new Japanese mobile phone will automatically unlock the doors of its owners’ cars and let drivers start their engines without using an ignition key.

The phone, built by Sharp Corp., uses a technology previously developed by Nissan Motor Co. called “Intelligent Key” that allows drivers enter and start their cars without removing their keys from their pockets or bags.

Cars equipped with the system sense when the correct key is nearby, automatically unlocking their car doors, and allow the engine to be started once the key is brought inside the car. Nissan said it has shipped about a million cars with the technology in Japan since 2002.

The new twist on this technology is that it is loaded in a phone. The service will work on the mobile network operated by NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest wireless mobile operator.

This innovative advancement in wireless mobile and automobile technology will be launched sometime this week at CEATEC, a major technology conference in Tokyo. Both Sharp Corporation and NTT DoCoMo Inc. are continuously developing and improving this technology in order to be able to bring this system to the consumer market in the 2^nd quarter of 2009.

Honestly, I’m not a fan of Sony Ericson’s mobile phones but I got a bit curious about this limited edition of the Sex and the City movie. I guess the sales was not that good so they had to release a special edition of this phone because it is a little late to coincide with the movie. It has still the same features with its non-limited edition counterparts which includes the integrated media player, external music controls, 1.3 megapixel camera, and a 1.9 inch display. What makes it different from its counterpart is that it has the content of the Sex and the City movie like the wallpapers from the movie, a video song, and the movie’s official soundtrack. Hmmm… Does it sound interesting to you? The feature is not that comparable to the latest mobile phones right now, but the external feature looks good with its ivory white finish. But I guess most of us are looking more on the internal features rather than the external.

I love using flip phones because they look so elegant for me. I’ve been using flip phones for two years now and I’ve never got sick and tired using this kind of phone. I think the The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 smartphone has what I’m looking for. I like its color which is black and the feature is fine with me. It measures 3.9 inches high by 1.9 inches wide by 0.6 inch deep and weighs 3.5 ounces. The features include a 65, 536 color, 128×160 pixel external display and front-facing 2 megapixel camera, while you get a 65, 536 color, 240×320 pixel TFT display on the on the inside. As part of the Pearl series, you get the SureType keyboard (groan) and trackball navigator. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 also comes equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack and an external microSD expansion slot. Althoug I’m looking for a camera that has a high resolution, I think this is still fine with me. What I’m not sure about if this phone is a 3g or not.

Sometime in the 4^th Quarter of 2008, Nokia will make the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone available to the fickle and demanding, multimedia-savvy public.

Nokia is joining the touch screen mobile bandwagon race. Technically, the 5800 really isn’t the first touch screen device they’ve launched into the market (there is actually an interesting line of touch screen predecessors that must’ve flopped and the public must’ve forgotten; especially with the fact that they release numerous phone models each quarter) such as Nokia 7700, 7710, 6708 and 770 to name them. However, the 5800 XpressMusic phone is the first touch screen phone Nokia is launching with under a touch screen ready market. The 5800 XpressMusic is thus considered as the first generation touch screen phone.

So what doe the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic have? A lot of features. A lot of new features indeed.

First of, the operating system has been upgraded; presumably this means faster processing and better functionality.

The most noticeable thing about this phone is probably the rather large screen. This widescreen panel with a 640 x 360 pixel resolution is sized up with 3.2″, with a touch screen technology cum tactile feedback features. Touch screen technology ok, but Tactile feedback features—what’s that? Think along the lines of Haptic technology by Samsung.

The great thing about the touch screen of Nokia 5800 is that it can be used with or without a stylus. Yes, your fingers can manage navigation perfectly well, thanks. It also has handwriting recognition so the phone can very much be personalized and “owner-only friendly” in that perspective. Like most wide-screened, touch screen phones available in the market these days, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s display automatically flips to either landscape or portrait—depending on how you hold it thanks to the wonders of a built in accelerometer.

One thing I absolutely love about great features of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is that it’s a quad-band GSM phone, not to mention a dual-band UMTS 900/2100 support. It also has a UMTS 850/1900 version for South America. You can literally bring this phone anywhere in the world and not worry about having to change handsets! The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is also a nifty 3G device with HSDPA high speed data and WiFi connectivity. It also has Bluetooth 2.0 as well as USB 2.0, so the connectivity options and preferences are complete and all up to you.

Nokia has been having a blast with integrating GPS into the phone system; expect that this phone model has the GPS system too only with a better, more high-tech version of the Nokia Maps application thanks to the “touch” controls and technology. With the high-resolution screen of the 5800, this Nokia Maps application will be such a lovely thing to use and look at in this phone. Clearly, you can see that the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is not only for the spec-geek but also for the navigator and explorer in all of us. But of course the whole map in mobiles technology is fairly recent and we’ve yet to see a system in wireless mobile communications that’s completely usable and awesome in this feature. But then again, this phone may be it—who knows!

So you’ve got the business part covered, the spec-geek is also in check, the navigator and explorer part is also given importance, what about the fun and layman functional side of the phone?

Well it ain’t called XpressMusic for nothing. The Nokia 5800 is definitely a multimedia device. It plays MP3, AAC, WMA, Real Player, MPEG4 and WMV media files. It also has a radio, and a sound recorder to boot. Whoopee! You can listen to your multimedia files with a standard headphone too, thanks to the standard 3.5mm audio socket.

Does it come with a camera? Yes, sure it does as most current multimedia phones. However it’s a bit disappointing to not that the camera is only into the 3.2 megapixel resolution, when most multimedia phone frontrunners are now boasting of 5-8 megapixel resolutions. However the Nokia 5800’s camera feature utilizes Carl Zeiss optics, so that’s something to be happy about. It also has dual LED flash and autofocus. And yes, you may also take videos with it. The maximum video capture resolution is 640 x 480 pixels at 30 frames per second.

Battery life of the Nokia 5800 is quite notable and powerful: Talk time lasts for 5 hours using 3G and 8 hours using GSM. Standby time is listed at an awesome 16 days. Gaming time is tabulated at 5.6 hours and an astounding 35 hours of music playback. It’s pocket friendly at 111 x 52 x 16 mm and weighs only 109 grams.

What you get when you buy the Nokia 5800 are the following

• Set of styluses
• Music headset
• Video out cable
• USB cable
• Carry case
• 8GB micro SD card as standard

Color combinations that the Nokia 5800 will be sporting are red, blue and black.

This sounds so good doesn’t it?

And so you ask, “How much?”

The price tag for the Nokia 5800 without tax is estimated to be at $380.