Nokia Android Handset - Outright Denial

Source: ZDNet

Nokia has strongly denied working on an Android-based handset, following a report early on Monday that it's planning to do so.

The report, carried in The Guardian, took a cue from "industry insiders" to predict the launch of a touch-screen Android device at Nokia World in September. When contacted by ZDNet UK later Monday morning, a Nokia representative issued an "outright denial" of the piece.

"There is no truth to this story whatsoever," a statement from the company read. "It is a well-known fact that Symbian is our platform of choice for smartphones."

Going for Android would certainly have been a surprising move for Nokia, given the time and money it has put into opening up Symbian. Nokia's operating system (since it bought out Symbian's other stakeholders last year) is likely to reappear in its new, open-source guise next year.

Nokia also has another open-source mobile platform in Maemo, which it is actively promoting as part of its Intel partnership.

Meanwhile, fairly realistic-looking images have been leaked of Sony Ericsson's Android phone, currently code-named "Rachael." The device appears to be part of SE's high-end Xperia line and is said to run on Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

David Meyer of ZDNet UK reported from London.

Here comes the iPhone 3G S - iPhone 3G S launches today

iPhone 3G S arrives with a flattering launching event across the U.S. All the Apple stores will open the door for iPhone 3G S, which is the fastest ever iPhone.

The iPhone 3.0 OS already launched early this week. The advance booking for iPhone 3G S are already increasing and it will be tough for Apple to cop up with the demand. The way iPhone has got the media and internet coverage, it seems to be most awaited iPhone ever.

Apple will be looking forward to take as much adavantage it can with hipe created over iPhone.

If you are an iPhone fan, go right now to your nearest Apple store. iPhone 3G S is coming with AT&T services which was again a controversy over the rates which AT & T had announced.

The queue to grab iPhone 3G S have already started growing and you can see crowds across all the Apple store....!!!!

Samsung's Jet has taken off - The smartphone with 800MHz processor

Samsung unveiled the new Jet Smartphone at an event in Manhattan on this Monday, which features a fast 800MHz processor and Samsung's proprietary OS that includes its Dolphin Web browser.

However, Jet won't be flying into the U.S. in the near future. It will be available for the rest of the world later this year.

All in all, the look and feel of the Jet was appealing. It's smaller than the iPhone and is more on par with the size of the Palm Pre. However, we're just not sure how appealing a proprietary OS is at this point when you have an open OS like Android sitting out there.
Jet's specifications:

• Network: EDGE/GPRS Class 12 (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz); HSDPA 3.6Mbps (900, 2100MHz)
• 3.1-inch 16M WVGA AMOLED display
• 5.0-megapixel AF camera with face detection, Smile Shot, panorama shot, blink detection, geo-tagging, and photo editor
• 30fps video recording with video editor
• Supports playback of MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, XviD
• Music player with DNSe and SRS WOW Sound Effect
• FM radio/recording
• Supports audio playback of MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI, SP-MIDI,i-melody, WAV, MMF, XMF, OMA DRM v2.1, WMDRM
• In-house-developed Dolfin browser
• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
• Share Pix & Mobile Widget
• A-GPS, on-board navigation (3D map)
• TouchWiz 2.0 interface with Motion UI, Media Gate 3D, Multi-tasking Manager
• Bluetooth v2.1
• Wi-Fi
• Memory: 2GB or 8GB, plus External MicroSD slot (up to 16GB)
• Talk time: 2G/492 minutes, 3G/300 minutes
• Standby time: 2G/422 hours, 3G/406 hours
• Dimensions: 4.3 inches by 2.1 inches by .47 inches (HWD)

iPhone 3GS Vs Palm Pre - The choice is yours

Apple's iPhone 3GS is hitting market on 19th June. Apple reveled the launch date of iPhone 3G S in WWDC. With iPhone 3G S hitting market, the speculations are heating up on the comparison over its all-time competitor Palm Pre.

There is nothing different in iPhone 3G S if you are looking at the outside. However, Apple has brought many more in its 3rd Generation Smart Phone and has to offer many more features.

To compare both, here are few things to consider:

First and foremost, surprisingly Apple has broken its Price barrier and have introduced this new Smartphone Baby of the 8GB model merely at the cost of $99!!!!!!!! You can now get a 16GB iPhone 3G at a price of 8GB Palm Pre..:)

Just add 100 bucks more in Palm Pre and you can bring home an iPhone 3G S 32GB of storage.

However, the Palm Pre has also got some better deal to offer. AT&T has not reduced its iPhone tariffs; the Palm Pre on Sprint still offers more for the buck when it comes to data, voice and text plans.

iPhone has got 3 Megapixel camera with autofocus, 30fps VGA video recording with audio, auto white balance and auto exposure features. On the other hand Palm Pre gives an LED flsh but no autofocus, video recording or editing capabilities, and yes you also cannot adjust white balance or exposure.

iPhone 3G S has now got copy and paste, MMS, tethering (coming later this year), A2DP Bluetooth capability, geotagging (photo and video) and turn-by-turn navigations.

One of the biggest advantage iPhone 3G S has over the Palm Pre -is the App Store. Apple packs over 50,000 apps in its store while Palm's App Catalog is still in beta stage with many less apps.

Ultimately, the choice is yours...:)