Top 10 Phones of 2009
You can check out the Samsung (I8000) Omnia II here or on GSM Arena (photo credit), if you'd like.
You can check out the Nokia N900 here or on GSM Arena (photo credit), if you'd like.
As of right now, the inclusion of a 3.5mm headphone jack has not been mentioned yet, so I'll assume that it doesn't have one. This is a huge let down to most people out there. The touchscreen is supposedly resistive, but it's not confirmed yet. The Satio runs on S60 and it's not as touch-friendly as some of the other OS's out there. Like the LG BL40 - which didn't make my list - it has a small 1,000 mAh battery.
You can check out the Sony Ericsson Satio (Idou) here or on GSM Arena (photo credit), if you'd like.
There's not much to dislike about this handset, but it does have a couple of underwhelming features. The i8910 Omnia HD runs on Symbian S60 5th Edition and it's not as touch-friendly as the iPhone OS. The browser also doesn't have Flash support right now, but that's limited to a few handsets at this point.
You can check out the Samsung i8910 HD here or on GSM Arena (photo credit), if you'd like.
2. Google Nexus One - This handset hasn't been made officially official by Google themselves, but we know it's out there and the specs were just leaked out this morning (special thanks to Engadget). Unfortunately, I don't believe it was enough to eclipse the number one phone on my list (on paper at least). This handset is truly impressive, since we believe it's coming from Google themselves. It's the Nexus One (picture source: Engadget).
The Google Nexus One is packing a punch in the specification department with its: 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP AF camera (with an LED flash and 2x digital zoom), 512MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM, a microSD card slot (4GB in the box), WiFi a/b/g/n / Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR / aGPS support, a Qualcomm QSD 8250 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 1,400 mAh battery.
That's not all though. This handset will also feature a secondary microphone which will cancel out your background noise when you talk, this is a nice feature to have. Of course, it'll be running the Android OS and it'll be version 2.1. The Android app store is approaching 20,000 apps, so you have a ton of them to choose from (although it's nowhere near Apple's 100,000 apps and counting). Unfortunately, this handset is lacking a QWERTY keyboard, but that helps keep the phone at 11.5mm (the iPhone 3GS is 12.3mm). This handset will also be capable of running on T-Mobile's 3G network, but not AT&T's (it'll run on AT&T's EDGE network though). This means that it'll be capable of running on WIND Mobile's 3G network in Canada as well.
You can also check out the Google Nexus One here.
What also makes the XPERIA X10 interesting is that it's looking like it will be Sony Ericsson's first Android handset, since they haven't announced anything else yet. Somewhere down the line though, it looks like Android devices will have multitouch support. 4-inch capacitive touchscreen display + 1GHz Snapdragon CPU + sexy and customized Android build + an 8MP camera = Love.
The bad thing about this handset is that it won't be available until early 2010. If you were to pick the Google Nexus One or the HTC HD2 over this handset, I couldn't and wouldn't argue with you. They're all great handsets, but the fact that this runs Android, has a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, and packs a 4-inch OLED touchscreen display are the real punch-out factors for me.
You can check out the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 here or on GSM Arena (photo credit), if you'd like.
A bunch of notables - in no specific order: LG GW820 eXpo, HTC Touch Pro 2, Toshiba TG01, Nokia N97, LG Viewty Smart, HTC Touch Diamond 2, LG Chocolate BL40, Palm Pre, HTC Touch HD, , Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2, Acer (A1) Liquid, Acer (F1) neoTouch, HTC Hero, and the HTC Dragon / Passion / Bravo.
Yes, those are a lot of honourable mentions, but that's only because there are so many high-end phones that could be on this list. This list may not be perfect and I tried to do my best judging each phone by its spec sheet and other reviews that I have read. It's my first time making a list of the top phones on my blog and I understand that I can improve it. All-in-all I'm satisfied with my list - it just sucks that they're all expensive unlocked.
Of course, there are still phones to look forward to later this year. There has been talks of Samsung's WiMAX-capable handset running Android; it's rumoured to hit Sprint sometime in the future. Another phone to look forward to is a Samsung handset that will be running on the Nvidia Tegra chipset, check it out here. If this trend continues, Samsung will overtake Nokia.
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 8 Comments
Acer Aspire 532h Gets Leaked With Pine Trail; Another Standard Netbook
[Gizmodo]
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Motorola Shadow Rumours Start Up Right Before CES 2010; 4.3-Inch Display, 8MP, 1080p, and Android
[Slash Gear]
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Rogers Cuts the BB Bold 9700 To $200 On Contract
[Mobile Syrup]
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
SmartQ V5 MID Now Available For Around $160; Android, Ubuntu, and Windows CE Pre-Installed
[Pocketables, Engadget]
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Samsung BCH-i899 Headed To China With Android
[Samsung Hub]
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Asus Eee PC 1001P Netbook With Pine Trail Shipping On January 6th
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Spring Design To Unveil Alex E-Book Reader On January 7th, Android and All.
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Apple Holding January 26th Event, Hopefully For the Tablet.
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
HTC Working On Dual-Screen Android Handset?
Thursday, December 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Motorola Set To Unveil 2 Android Phones At CES 2010
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nexus One Being Sold Exclusively By Google On January 5th For $530 Unlocked; $180 On T-Mobile Plan
• If you want it subsidized, you’ll have to sign up for a 2 year mandatory contract
• There’s only one rate plan: $39.99 Even More + Text + Web for $79.99 total
• Existing customers cannot keep their plan if they want a subsidized phone; they have to change to the one plan, and this only applies to accounts with one single line
• If that doesn’t fly with you, you have to buy the $530 unlocked version—this actually might save you money over two years if you already have a cheap plan
• Family plans, Flexpay, SmartAccess and KidConnect subscribers must buy the phone unlocked and unsubsidized for $530
• You can only buy five Nexus One phones per Google account
• There is language in the agreement of shipping outside the US
• Google will sell it at google.com/phone, which explains what they were doing with that page a few weeks ago
• Google will still call it the Nexus One apparently, and not the Google Phone
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Verizon Palm Pre Gets a WiFi Certificate; Stocking Up On 600,000 Palm Pixis As Well
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Samsung I6330C and I8180C Hitting China Mobile Soon With WinMo 6.5
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Pantech P9020 Passes the FCC, Headed To AT&T
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Philips Shows Off Their 720p-Capable SA075 PMP In Beijing
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Samsung N220 Netbook Spotted In France With Pine Trail Atom CPU
[Netbooked]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | 1 Comments
Cancelled Touchscreen BlackBerry Gets Shown Off
[Phone Arena]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
Philips D908 Handset Coming To China Telecom Soon With 1GB of RAM
[Unwired View]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Notion Ink Smartpad Gearing Up Towards June 2010 Launch
[Crunch Gear]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Lenovo Already Cooking Up Their Own E-Book Reader
[Engadget]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nokia Confirms Dual-SIM S40 Handset For Next Year; Also QWERTY and Touch UI
[Slash Gear]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
LG LS680 Spotted In Sprint's Systems, It's Running Android
[Boy Genius]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
5 HP Notebooks Slip Out; Envy 14 and 17 On the Way
The other set of notebooks that have been leaked out is the successor to the Elitebook 2730p tablet notebook, the 2530p tablet notebook, and the 17-inch 8730w notebook. They're on their way.
[Engadget]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Google Nexus One Bluetooth Dock Passes FCC; Ugly Car Clip Spotted In the Wild Too
Spotted at the FCC this morning is a new Bluetooth dock for the Google Nexus One. At this point, I don't know why the dock has Bluetooth, since the Nexus One itself has Bluetooth, but we'll have to wait and see when this all goes down early next year. Check out the FCC filing here.
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
Google Chrome OS Netbook Specs Leak Out; Multitouch and SSD
These specs won't stay the same in every single Chrome OS netbook, but for the most part that should be a standard one. We'll likely see slightly higher and slightly lower configurations on more expensive and less expensive netbooks, respectively.
[Engadget]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
11.6-Inch Gateway EC18T Notebook Tablet Passes the FCC
[Engadget]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
HTC Espresso's (HTC Hero Successor) Sense UI Gets Demoed On Video
[Engadget]
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
AT&T LG eXpo Just $50 On Amazon, Phone Projector Still Extra
[WMPowerUser]
Saturday, December 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
Bell Mobility Releases the BlackBerry Curve 8530 For $50
[Mobile Syrup]
Saturday, December 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
Samsung Corby POP (C3510) Spotted On Their Mobile Website
[Samsung Hub]
Thursday, December 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
MSI Unveiling An All-In-One PC and Two Nettops For CES 2010, All Running Pine Trail
[Netbooked]
Thursday, December 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
Motorola Unveiling "What's Next" At CES 2010
[Mobile Crunch]
Thursday, December 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
Sony Ericsson U5i Symbian Handset Passes the FCC
[Engadget Mobile]
Thursday, December 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
Apple Holding Event For Their Tablet On January 26th?
It looks like the latest rumour has it that Apple be holding an event for the tablet on or around the January 26th (2010) date. We've already heard that Steve Jobs is extremely satisfied by the way the tablet works and an employee has mentioned that we will be "surprised" at how we interact with this tablet. Well, I can't wait, so let's hope Apple doesn't disappoint.
[Electronista]
Thursday, December 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
LG Unveiling Prada 3 At CES 2010? Launching On Sprint With Android In 2010?
[Slash Gear]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
7-Inch Apple Tablet To Be Unveiled In January 2010
[Slash Gear, Mashable]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 | 0 Comments