Announced on May 18, 2006, couple of new W850 and W710 extend the Walkman® Line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Most interesting , from developers point of view , will be support Sony Ericsson’s Java Platform 7 ( new version of JP-6 with the addition of AMS(JSR 234) Advanced Multimedia Supplements for enhanced camera and image handling.

The W850 is the first slider Walkman phone and is a UMTS and tri-band GPRS . The W710 is a quad-band EDGE/GPRS clamshell with applications and accessories targeting an active and sporty lifestyle.

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After successful start of the first phone featuring “Plug & Play Files-to-go” (SGH-i300 ) at March 11th, 2005, Samsung Electronics announced first 8 GB HDD embedded music phone. New Samsung SGH-i310 model is successor of the SGH-i300.
“Plug & Play Files-to-go” technology allows the handset to be used as a removable hard disk drive, that means an opportunity to store and transfer files in any format .

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The W950i Walkman® is a new Sony Ericsson 3G phone.
The W950i Walkman® is an elegant device with an advanced digital music features and a wide touchscreen. It is very easy to use. The keyboard of the Sony Ericsson W950i is very functional and it does not stand out of the surface.
The special keys of the multimedia player control panel are activated by only one touch - it is new “one-press-to-open” technology.
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Samsung SPH-V8200 - 8 Megapixel WCDMA camera phone

Cellular phone with camera or camera with cellular phone?

This question I has wondered after presentation of new Samsung SPH-V8200 camera phone.

Samsung have surprised us earlier with the 5-megapixel camera phone (Samsung SCH-S250) and the 7-megapixel camera phone (Samsung SCH-V770) . These phones some months are on sale in the Korean market.

But phone, which was demonstrated by Samsung president Lee Ki-tae, forces to think about the future of mobile phones.
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Overview of SERIES 60 platform 3rd edition

Introduction to Series 60 3rd Edition

Nokia Series 60 ,built on Symbian OS, is the most widespread platform used in mobile devices. The first smartphone based on Series60 has been created in 2002 - it was Nokia 7650. Since then the platform was improved, updated and even, not so long ago, Nokia rebranded its Series 60 trade mark as simply S60.

To understand a difference between versions of the Symbian OS and versions of Nokia S60 platform, it is necessary to describe their interrelation:

• S60 1st Edition - Symbian OS v6.1
  Devices : Nokia 7650, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage QD, Sendo X and RoverPC Sendo X1, Siemens SX1
• S60 2nd Edition - Symbian OS v7.0s
     - S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 - Symbian OS v7.0s
       Devices : Nokia 6600, Nokia 7610, Nokia 6260, Nokia 3230, Nokia 6670, Panasonic X700, Panasonic X800, Samsung D720, Samsung D730
     - S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 - Symbian OS v8.0a
       Devices : Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Lenovo P930
     - S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3 - Symbian OS v8.1a
       Devices : Nokia N70, Nokia N90
• S60 3rd Edition - Symbian OS v9.1
     - S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 - Symbian OS v9.1
     Devices : Nokia 3250, Nokia N71, Nokia N80, Nokia N91, Nokia N92, Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E70

So, S60 has versions (Edition) and packages of additions (Feature Pack). One generation S60 includes different versions Symbian OS.

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