Emporio Armani Night Effect Unveiled by Samsung  

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Giorgio Armani and Samsung Electronics today unveiled the Emporio Armani Samsung Mobile, Night Effect.
Designed by Giorgio Armani and made by Samsung, the Emporio Armani Night Effect is equipped with an AMOLED display and LED light effects. The 2.2-inch QVGA screen offers deeper, richer colors, providing for a vivid view. The side lights up in red, green or blue colors every time users are called or make calls. The illuminating LEDs came from Giorgio Armani's trips to Tokyo where the Armani/Ginza tower is lit-up with decorative lights in the shape of bamboo leaves. The sleek body is designed to provide for a rubber-like feel and a hair-lined keypad and reinforced glass display offer a simple, sturdy elegance. The Emporio Armani logo in metal is adorned on the back with a hidden external speaker. The graphical user interface (GUI) and audio user interface (AUI) includes special Emporio Armani compositions as ringtone. The Night Effect has an embedded 3.2-megapixel camera, music-control key, FM radio, standard 3.5mm audio jack, and support for microSD cards plus 120MB internal memory. Downloading large files, streaming videos, and holding video conversations are easier with HSDPA speeds as fast as 3.6 Mbps. With Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0, users can connect to peripherals including wireless headsets and mobile printing. The handset comes with a neck strap, earphone and a CD-like fabric package case. "Paris may be known as The City of Lights, but Tokyo is The City of Neon Lights by night-time," said Giorgio Armani. "For this young, cool, and social crowd, the Night Effect mobile is the perfect accessory." With black and white color options, the Night Effect will be available in major European countries from November. After being launched in Europe, the phone will come to South East Asia and Middle East Asia in this year.
Source: mobiledia.com

Sony Ericsson to Roll Out PlayNow Plus Music Service  

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Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said today, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.
Sony Ericsson's PlayNow Plus will be available solely through telecoms operators. Subscribers will be able to access to millions of songs and keep up to 300 songs after their 6-18 month contracts end. PlayNow Plus draws from Sony Ericsson's collaboration with Omnifone and licensing terms with music labels including EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music. "Expanding our PlayNow service portfolio by adding PlayNow Plus and by launching PlayNow arena in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and the UK during the fourth quarter, are key elements of the Sony Ericsson service strategy," said Rikko Sakaguchi, Senior Vice President at Sony Ericsson. "These steps and the addition of Universal's catalogue to the music offering in both services gives us every possibility to provide customers and consumers with what we feel is important and requested - an unparalleled user experience on Sony Ericsson devices." PlayNow Plus will launch with operator Telenor in Sweden in the fourth quarter of this year, with further roll-outs around the world beginning in early 2009. A special edition of the Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman phone will be the first product released with an integrated PlayNow Plus service.
Source: mobiledia.com

Apple Recalls iPhone 3G Power Adapters  

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Apple said it will replace power adapters sold with its popular iPhone 3G device due to a risk the prongs will snap and cause people to be jolted by electricity.


The part the Cupertino-based company is offering to replace is an "Ultracompact USB power adapter" reportedly included with iPhone 3G models sold in Japan, Canada, Mexico, the United States and a half dozen South American countries. "We have received reports of detached blades involving a very small percentage of the adapters sold, but no injuries have been reported," Apple said on a webpage. Apple advised iPhone 3G owners to charge their phones by plugging them into computers or with a standard-sized Apple power adapter until the potentially problematic part is replaced. "Customer safety is always Apple's top priority, and therefore we have voluntarily decided to exchange every Ultracompact power adapter for a new, redesigned adapter, free of charge," said Apple. Instructions for replacing Apple adapters were posted at www.apple.com/support/usbadapter/exchangeprogram/ .
Source: mobiledia.com

Verizon Wireless G'zOne Boulder Phone (Verizon Wireless)  

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Released for Verizon Wireless, the G'zOne Boulder is designed to withstand the harshest conditions - 810F standards for water, shock and dust resistance, immersion; vibration, salt fog, humidity, solar radiation, altitude, and low and high temperature storage. It comes with a built-in flashlight, electronic compass, and push-to-talk service on Verizon's high-speed Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) network. With VZ Navigator, it has audible maps, turn-by-turn directions and location information to over 14 million points of interest. Field Force Manager lets businesses locate, monitor and communicate with mobile field workers. VCAST Music with Rhapsody allows the handset to download music from a library of over 5 million songs. Music is stored on optional microSD cards up to 8GB in size (sold separately).

Verizon Wireless G'zOne Boulder Features

  • Rugged design that meets military specifications
  • With VZ Navigator, users get audible maps, turn-by-turn directions and location information to more than 14 million points of interest
  • Field Force Manager resource management tool providess businesses with the ability to locate, monitor and communicate with their mobile field workers
  • Music player for MP3, WMA, unprotected AAC and AAC+ formats
  • Advanced speech recognition with dedicated voice dial key
  • Preinstalled applications such as alarm clock, calculator, calendar, stop watch, countdown, timer, world clock and electronic compass

Source: mobiledia.com

T-Mobile Uncaps Data Plan for Google Phone  

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In advance of the new Google phone, T-Mobile has lifted the cap on its monthly data plan.
The amendment was made a day after T-Mobile announced the G1, the first smartphone to use Google's Android mobile software platform. The T-Mobile G1 combines touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with popular Google products such as Google Maps Street View, Gmail and YouTube. T-Mobile stated it reserves the right to slow down traffic for a "a small fraction of our customers who have excessive or disproportionate usage that interferes with our network performance." The details of the plan were not final, since the G1 doesn't go on sale until Oct. 22.
Source: mobiledia.com

Samsung Rugby (A837) Phone (AT&T)  

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Released for AT&T, the Samsung Rugby (SGH-A837) is designed for on-site field services. Built to withstand harsh conditions, it is certified to Military Standard MI-SID-810F, withstanding dust, shock vibrations, rain, humidity, solar radiation and altitude and temperature extremes. The Rugby runs on AT&T's high-speed HSDPA 3G network. Bluetooth 2.0 technology provides wireless short-range data transfer. Assisted-GPS technology (A-GPS) offers AT&T Navigator for turn-by-turn, voice-guided driving directions, 3D moving maps, real-time traffic alerts and access to over 16 million points of interest. The Rugby integrates a 2.0-inch LCD, 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, AT&T Music and Mobile TV service for multimedia, and access to email, instant messaging and Internet services.

Samsung Rugby (A837) Features

  • Rugged design is certified to Military Standard MI-SID-810F, withstanding dust, shock vibrations, rain, humidity, solar radiation and altitude and temperature extremes
  • Push-to-Talk lets users know in an instant whether their family, friends and co-workers are available to talk before the call
  • With GPS directions through AT&T Navigator, travelers can find the fastest route to where they are going-get driving directions, maps, traffic updates and moreBluetooth technology goes wireless and discreet with friends and co-workers, and connects the handset to a computer and printer without cables
  • Supports Mobile Email from service providers such as Yahoo, AOL, AIM, Windows Live, Hotmail, AT&T, Yahoo, Bellsouth, so users can send and receive emails wherever on the road

Technical Specifications
  • Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / UMTS 850 / 1900
  • Form Factor: Clamshell
  • Dimensions: 100 x 52 x 23 mm
  • Weight: 132 g
  • Antenna: Internal
  • Navigation: 5-Way Keypad
  • Battery Type: 1000 Li-Ion
  • Talk Time: 5.00
  • Standby Time: 250
  • Memory: 128.0 MB
  • Expandable Memory: microSD / TransFlash

Imaging

  • Main Screen: 262000 colors (TFT)176 x 220 px
  • External Screen:
  • Camera: 1.3 MP / 4X Zoom / Muti-Shot / Self-Timer / Video Recorder / Video Share
    Audio
  • MP3 Player: AT&T Music
  • FM Radio: nO
  • Speakerphone: Yes
  • Push-To-Talk: Yes
    Multimedia
  • Wallpapers: 176 x 220 px
  • Screen Savers: 176 x 220 px
  • Ring Tones: 64 chord / MP3
  • Themes: Yes
  • Games: J2ME
  • Streaming Multimedia: AT&T Mobile TV
    Messaging
  • SMS: Yes
  • EMS: Yes
  • MMS: Yes
  • Email: POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP
  • Chat: AOL / Windows Live / Yahoo!
  • Predictive Text: T9
    Applications
  • Phonebook Capacity:
  • Calendar: Yes
  • To-Do List:Yes
  • WAP: 2.0
  • Voice Commands: Yes
  • Calculator: Yes
    Connectivity
  • Bluetooth: 2.0 (A2DP / AVRC / DUN / FTP / HFP / HSP / OPP)
  • Infrared Port:
  • High-Speed Data: HSDPA
  • Wi-Fi: GPS: AT&T Navigation
  • PC Sync: Yes

Source: mobiledia.com

Visa Develops Payment Software for Google Phone  

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Visa said it is developing a mobile payment service for the new cell phone powered by Google's Android system.
San Francisco-based company said Android users will be able to receive near real-time alerts about transactions via their mobile devices. Customers will also be able to use location-based mapping technology to find ATM machines and nearby stores. The announcement came two days after T-Mobile unveiled its G1 phone, the first handset to feature Google's technology. The T-Mobile G1 is schedule to arrive in U.S. stores Oct. 22. "By developing these mobile services for the Android platform, Visa has taken a major step toward achieving our goal of combining two of the world's most powerful and ubiquitous consumer innovations, electronic payments and mobile technology," said Elizabeth Buse, Global Head of Product at Visa. "U.S. consumers will, for the first time, be able to download Visa mobile service applications directly to their handsets." The software will be available to U.S. consumers by the end of the year, starting with Chase Visa cardholders. Visa is also developing payment software to let consumers make mobile payments in stores.
Source: mobiledia.com

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