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The Samsung Glyde has a lot of potential, with a smooth sliding full-size QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8-inch touchscreen, as well as extras such as assisted GPS, Bluetooth, haptic feedback, and a 2-megapixel camera. It even looks like a smaller version of one of its main competitors, the LG Voyager, but it lacks the former mobile TV capability. Unfortunately, the Glyde’s main input method – the touch – is not good enough for us to recommend the phone. If Samsung solves this problem through a firmware update, we consider changing our tune.

Features and design

The bar-shaped 4.1-ounce Glyde measures 4 x 2 x 0.7 cm – thick, but still very compact – and has a midnight blue shell trimmed in chrome-colored plastic. A 2.8-inch touchscreen, a similar home button, and ear speaker answer the phone front, while the 2-megapixel camera lens and LED flash grace the back. A few speakers and a 2.5-mm headphone jack sit on top, with buttons for power / hold, volume, and camera / camcorder on the right. The charge / sync port is on the left, and the phone pinhole microphone is located on the bottom.

The phone’s thickness is due to the QWERTY keyboard that literally slides on the left side behind the front. We are impressed with the quality and smoothness of the spring-loaded sliding mechanism and the 3-row keyboard is excellent in terms of size and key feel. We found the space bar placement (between V and B) a little clumsy, and the top row, the pressure against the edge of the top half of the phone, but we’re glad the buttons are lit. The Glyde has a microSD slot, the last series of high-capacity cards support, but oddly enough Samsung chose to keep hidden behind the back. At least you do not get the battery to remove it, but cutting away a small portion of the cover for the slot have been exposed would be much smarter.

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Inside, the dual-band CDMA (800/1900MHz) Glyde packs stereo Bluetooth and assisted GPS, and 3G support and a rather competent browser. It has built-in 45MB flash memory for messages, applications, ringtones, media, and ringtones, although you can store up to 8 GB with a microSD card. The Glyde lacks WiFi, but it has very good onboard email client accounts such as AOL Mail, Gmail, Windows Live and Yahoo Mail supports.

Camera

The integrated 2-megapixel camera has an autofocus lens and a small LED flash and can capture video at up to 320 x 240 resolution. The photos that we are not too bad, as long as there is enough ambient light is present. Outside in the daylight, our pictures were pretty sharp with adequate detail and a slight tendency toward softness and overexposure. Indoors, our pictures were often vague and the autofocus seemed to have trouble locking on everything, and the flash is not much help. In addition to being very small, our test videos (except small) looked like the average cell phone video: blurred, drunk and slightly springy. In daylight, the camcorder fared okay, but in most indoor scenes, captured enough detail to give you the general idea, but not much more.

Multimedia

One thing we really miss the Glyde is sort of like Verizon’s MediaFLO mobile TV (supported by the LG Voyager). Instead, the Glyde is limited to your own videos or V Cast streaming video. You can buy music over the air from Verizon’s Music Store, or listen to your own files (MPEG-4, H.264 and Real Video). The screen looks good and downloads are about as fast as they were with the LG Voyager – about one minute of music tracks or a little more than that (low-res) videos.

Supported music files are MP3, AAC +, eAAC + and Real Audio. We tried in our own headphone jack via a RadioShack 2.5-mm adapter, but the pin connections to the Glyde’s do not match the adapter, so sound only from the right earphone to come unless we unplugged is halfway. Music is clearly not very loud from the phone built-in speaker, but we hope Samsung comes to his senses with its upcoming Instinct and has a good 3.5-mm jack.

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Battery Life

The Glyde Battery life is rated at just 3.5 hours talk time (10.4 days standby), which is about half hour shorter than that of the LG Voyager and less than half of the iPhone. We found ways to save on battery life with the Glyde, however, like switching off or reducing the haptic feedback and keeping brightness and volume settings low. There is no WiFi to drain the battery, but if you use EVDO, Bluetooth, and camera features a lot, you may want to pass on the Glyde.

Conclusion

We think the Glyde could be a solid phone if it had a more reliable touchscreen and a better browser (really, Verizon, it’s embarrassing), as it is, we give the borderline pass / fail grade. We look forward to Samsung Instinct, which includes hot features like Visual Voicemail, and we pray they did a better job with the touchscreen.

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Casio continues to one of the leading manufacturers of push-to-talk phones for Verizon Wireless with their Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 series, the Type-V and Type-S to Boulder, Rock, and Brigade, launched earlier this year. But unlike the Brigade, which includes a full QWERTY keyboard, the new Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 is a traditional flip phone that apparently replaces the Casio Rock, although most of the features have been retained as the good PTT quality and robust military design. Included in the retail package, the Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 phone, 1140mAh battery, charger with detachable microUSB cable and manuals. Unfortunately, the desktop charger is not included but can be purchased separately.

Design:

The Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 look and feel of the device, with a 1.35, AU LCD display on the front that stays on for easy viewing of the date, time, signal and battery level, although we AORE not crazy about the burnt orange-colored ring that it includes. Like its predecessors, the Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 built to MIL-STD-810G are resistant to the conditions of the water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, salt fog, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and high and low temperatures.

It, aos built from hardened plastic and rubber, creating a durable and robust feel to the device. All ports and openings also contain orange o-rings to help the water. Generally the Ravine is a little bigger than the Rock and feels more bulky, but not as big as the Brigade, but is still suitable for large hands. Along the sides are the volume rocker, voice command button, orange PTT, 2.5mm headphone jack and microUSB port.

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On the back is the 3.2MP camera and LED flash, and the microSDHC memory card slot is hidden under the battery. On the back is the 3.2MP camera and LED flash. Unlike the Casio Rock that a push button on the hinge that flips open, and releases the telephone, the Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 has instead opened by hand. On the inside is a 2.2″ TFT display with 240×320 resolution, supporting up to 65K colors.

Besides being slightly larger than the 2.1″ display is used by the Rock, the images on the screen of the Ravine is a better look with more saturated colors and realistic. At the bottom is the standard d-pad to access the menus and the white backlit keyboard. The numeric keys are slightly hexagonal in shape, but are smaller than the keys on the Rock, and be located in an offset grid pattern, making it difficult to dial by touch alone, unless you are entitled to find them.

Interface unit and Features:

The Casio G’zOne Ravine, nothing really new to bring to the table in terms of bundled software, but we noticed the use of the software is faster than previous models. The main menu is typical for a Verizon phone with categories for media center, contacts, messages, recent calls, and settings & tools. There are four themes (white, wireframe, Trek, and conflict) and the ability to display them in a tab, list and grid view, where you can even replace and move menu items around on the grid. The external clock on the display can be reversed between black and white letters.

One thing we are happy to see the Ravine G’zGear the recording of the program, which is also contained in the Rock. It is located in the Tools menu, but can also be directly accessed by holding down the CLR button. Earth Compass shows a red line designating North and your current heading direction and extent (0-360), while the World Wildlife explains what Earth features in your direction, as the North Pole or Mount Everest. Walking Counter tracks your steps on a daily basis and displays them on a chart, including miles walked.

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The Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 comes with an HTML browser, but we found it to be quite limited. If you go to major sites such as PhoneArena.com, it breaks the site into smaller pages called optimized view, which for us is not true HTML. You can choose to play off the optimized, but with most major sites will not be fully loaded and it becomes difficult to navigate. Because of this browser limitations, we can only see occasional use, not on a daily basis.

The included 3.2MP fixed-focus camera on the Ravine is a better job than the 2 megapixel camera of the Rock, but it does the lack of auto focus that can be found on the Brigade. Pictures taken outside using the Ravine produced sufficient detail, but color accuracy is a little off, such as white balance. Bright regions have a tendency to be overexposed, but the purple fringing that we saw with previous models seems to have disappeared. For capturing images indoors, the picture quality is reasonable as long as there is much light, but in low light conditions it is difficult to capture the single LED flash and not much help. Video recording is limited to a resolution of 320×240 at 15fps, so this is really only good enough for playback on the phone, not a big PC monitor. We were also able to play an MP4 Fila at 320×240 pixels on the ravine.

Includes 235MB memory on the device, which 197MB is available to the user. You can also install a microSD memory card up to 32GB of space for storing music and photos to provide. Most other features remain the same as we’ve seen from other Verizon devices, such as the appointment calendar, text / photo / video messaging, MP3 music playback, video streaming VCAST, and VZ Navigator for GPS guided directions. Other messaging options include Mobile Email, which will allow you to send and receive email using your default POP or IMAP accounts, and Mobile IM for connecting people in your MSN, Windows Live and Yahoo buddy lists.

Performance:

Call quality through the earpiece speaker on the Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 was better than other models, including the Brigade and Rock. Voices were clear and natural, without sounding distant. There was no noticeable distortion even when turning the volume all the way up too high. This was also the case when using the speaker as it was loud and clear on our side. People calling, we also said we sounded clear and natural on their end. The reception was good because we did not drop any calls and had 4 bars and 3 bars of 3G 1X seen in high-coverage areas. The included 1140mAh battery is rated to provide up to 5 hours talk time or 3 days standby time on a full charge. During our tests we were able to up to 5 hours of continuous talk time or 4 hours of use PTT with a full battery.

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Conclusion:

General, the Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 is a nice upgrade to the Rock that came out last year. We are glad that the military retains specs for durability, and its robust design means it should hold up to almost anything you can by in. But most importantly, we are pleased that the PTT quality is very good, because that is one of the main functions of the Ravine’s, loud and clear voice on both ends. If you need a good quality PTT handset, the Casio G’zOne Ravine C751 is an excellent choice, but if you message a lot and require a QWERTY keyboard, we would still recommend the Casio Brigade.

These days it seems that smartphones are packed to the hilt with live feeds and social networking widgets, streaming news, and a seemingly endless surplus of instantaneous content. But only one widget or two was not enough for Samsung. Hence, the Samsung Continuum, the world’s first smartphone with a live ticker display that minute by minute updates in the social networking site, weather, news, sports and finance departments will. The rest of the Samsung Continuum is actually a  buoys (both Verizon phones), Android 2.1 with a 5-megapixel camera with flash and 720p video, super sexy and AMOLED screen technology. Is the ticker screen overkill? Marketing hype? An essential tool for digital submerged?

Design

The Samsung Continuum is rather odd-shaped it is long and narrow, with rounded corners, a kind of Humpty Dumpty on a diet. Like the Samsung fascinate the Samsung Super Continuum has an AMOLED capacitive touch screen, although we reduced to a 3.4-inch display on the Continuum. That’s to make room for the adjustable 1.8-inch AMOLED display, ticker Super, who lives at the bottom of the phone. Farewell to the Sea of AMOLED goodness is a thin strip of haptic feedback dressed buttons: Menu, Home, Back and Search. We found that it was easy to accidentally change the ticker display when attempting to access the strip of buttons being so close together, so it will take some fine magic to take to maneuver around that part of the phone.

Like any other phone S Galaxy, Super AMOLED displays are brilliant with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio and bright, vivid colors. Samsung has also incorporated a grip sensor in the bottom of the continuum. By laying our hands on both sides of the phone next to the ticker screen, we could turn it on or off, even when the phone is locked for secret updates.

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The rest of the Samsung Continuum is fairly straightforward, save the external microSD card slot, on the side of the phone fitted with a protective cover. The phone has a camera button, 3.5mm audio jack, Power / LOCK button, volume control, USB port and naked. It is strange to a naked USB connection to see a Samsung, because the rest of the Galaxy and the Focus S phones have covered terminals. The 5-megapixel camera with LED flash live in the back, and a thin plastic back panel hides the rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

Software / Interface

As we have delved into Android 2.1 S with the provisional Galaxy fleet, the Samsung Continuum was all too familiar. Thus, most of our experience involving the addition of the ticker panel. The Continuum is a fast machine, sporting a 1GHz processor Hummingbird, and it is equipped with an 8GB microSD card out of the box. The Samsung Continuum also has a 6-axis sensor for 3D gaming, offers Wi-Fi Wireless-N connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS. When we first set the Continuum, it was slow and froze, forcing us to restart the phone a few times. However, the Continuum was polished silver after he shook the OS wobbles. However, the Continuum gets stunned with a lot of programs and applications running, so be prepared for occasional delays.

Now about that ticker panel. We can arrange Feeds Social Networking, RSS, and events, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, ESPN, Reuters, WeatherBug, and more range updates every 5 seconds. This means that the Samsung Continuum is a never-ending stream of live content, and is particularly suitable for stock junkies and Facebook devils. The ticker will even take calls, text messages, emails, instant messages, voicemails and missed, so it is more versatile than one would expect. The only problem we see with the ticker is that real life social experiences depersonalizes more like a live ticker is like a vortex, sucking a Continuum in his provocative vacuum.

With Android 2.1, the Samsung Continuum brings many useful features to the table, but it lacks Flash for Web browsing and lack the speed and capabilities of Android 2.2. Hopefully we will see a 2.2 upgrade on the near horizon, but until then, Android 2.1 is still a powerful platform. The Continuum includes the Friends Now widget social network feeds, and it also brings Twidroyd, which is a live Twitter feed widget that functions like the Facebook widget with live updates. Continuum has the Samsung Bing Bing Maps with voice search, and rather than Google, but it includes the Android Market, Google, YouTube, and Talk applications.

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The Samsung Continuum’s Applications menu reminds us of an iPhone with four primary applications in a solid bar at the bottom, while all other applications can be browsed in a page order at the top. The Continuum has 7 home screens with the ability to tap and hold the screen to add or delete content. For the most part, our navigation experience, just like one of the first generation Galaxy S phones, except the live ticker. We’re not sure if the ticker will be a standard for future phones, the Continuum lijkt a prototype for us-an experiment in a lab full of stockbrokers, sports addicts, and Facebook junkies.

Voice Quality / Battery Life

We experience the same sound quality with the Samsung Continuum as we did with all other phones Galaxy, and that’s a good thing. Clear, crisp call quality with suppressed background is what we stumbled on the info sync Labs, although battery life was mediocre. With two Super AMOLED displays, the Samsung device Continuum is a demanding when it comes to juice. Most phones we tested side-by-side with the Continuum, such as Motorola and Motorola Droid Pro Citrus, exhibited stronger battery performances, so check the ticker panel use will be essential.

Still image and video quality

We experience the same image on each high-end Samsung smartphone released this year, and falls in line with Continuum Samsung phones, including Captivate, captivate, and recently revised Focus. In bright light, the Samsung Continuum is fantastic, especially when it came to macro photography. However, there were times when the camera Continuum struggled with detail, and we think that has to do with the power of the camera at hand to shake suppress. Little light was not as sensitive as other phones we’ve tested, and the flash had a tendency to more exposed parts of the image. General, the Samsung Continuum cranked a better picture than most phones, but it was not enough for the iPhone or 4 latest BlackBerry phones to beat.

Now the Continuum also captures 720p HD video, which are good in bright light, but they record at slower frame rates vary depending on the shooting environment. The camera is not as sensitive in the dark, no video light, so the Samsung Continuum video quality is a few degrees above average-it is certainly not the best on the market. We also saw the same camera interface on the Continuum, including photo-effects such as Cartoon, Panorama (which works great), and Vintage. The Samsung Continuum The camera also offers touch focus, exposure compensation, three different metering modes, and additional Scene modes. It is certainly one of the more polished camera interfaces on the market, and it made shooting very intuitive.

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Conclusion

The Samsung Continuum is an odd duck. It is certainly nothing we could ever imagine hitting the smartphone market by force, and it almost seems like the addition of the ticker panel starts on the gimmicky side of the spectrum, rather than an essential upgrade. We really do not see the need for the ticker, unless you’re a mobile user who is glued to their phone every waking minute of the day. While the new Windows phones are striving to save us from our phones, the Samsung Continuum comes with its booming vortex of constant notifications, sucking us in our phones even further.

We’re not saying the Samsung Continuum is an unnecessary phone-its Android 2.1 platform and 1GHz processor Hummingbird work very well together, like any other phone Galalxy S. Can we connect the most popular social networking sites, sync our contacts, calendars and e-mail accounts, phone and fully adapt to the best of our ability. But is the ticker panel really necessary for the majority of the mobile population? Not particularly. It is more of an “Oh, that’s a kind of neat”, phenomenon rather than a “Whoa, video chatting on a phone!” Experience. To put it simply, without the ticker panel, the Samsung Continuum is as good as any other S Galaxy phone on the market, so let that be the deciding factor.

The latest Samsung Zeal Verizon Wireless is a perfect messaging phone, which comes in a dual-hinge design and replaces Samsung Alias 2. Well, the new handset specs sheet has a transformative keyboard which have to extract features from two different keyboards, a quality that has gathered much interest in offering mobile buffs.

You can change the shape of the E Ink-based keyboard to your needs. If the phone vertically, the phone offers the features of alphanumeric or numeric keypad while the phone is held horizontally, it immediately turns into a QWERTY keyboard with alphabets, numbers, and symbols.

In addition, the budget-friendly Zeal Samsung also comes preloaded with a variety of social networking apps, its use can easily and comfortably get connected with your near and dear ones.

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Besides, with the addition of social networking applications, company focused on the social networking freaks. Zeal also has a Social Beat widget you can use many SNS sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter access. Using this app, you can also enjoy access to more than 50 entertainment, sports and news feeds.

In addition, the Samsung Zeal also supports Microsoft Office Exchange that you can use to synchronize your corporate contacts, calendars and e-mail.The Zeal, similar to any other mobile phone are being produced in today’s market, also supports prominent messaging options, such as multimedia messaging, mobile IM testing, voice messaging, mobile IM, mobile email and mobile Web email mail.

Other highlights of Samsung Zeal include a 2MP camera and camcorder with autofocus. The camera supports built-in night shots and Panorama. In addition, subscribers to Verizon Wireless also enjoy access to VCAST Music & Video services. With this, you can enjoy listening and watching the latest songs and videos on the display of the Samsung’s Zeal.

Zeal also offers Verizon’s VZ Navigator service, which is helpful for you to locate your POIs (points of interest). Plus you can also benefit with turn-by-turn voice navigation with VZ Navigator. The latest Samsung Zeal Verizon Wireless is a perfect messaging phone, which comes in a dual-hinge design and replaces Samsung Alias 2.

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Well, the new handset specs sheet has a transformative keyboard which have to extract features from two different keyboards, a quality that has gathered much interest in offering mobile buffs.That is: you can change the shape of the E Ink-based keyboard to your needs.

Such as: if the phone vertically, the phone offers the features of alphanumeric or numeric keypad while the phone is held horizontally, it immediately turns into a QWERTY keyboard with alphabets, numbers, and symbols.In addition, the budget-friendly Zeal Samsung also comes preloaded with a variety of social networking apps, its use can easily and comfortably get connected with your near and dear ones.

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The Zeal, similar to any other mobile phone are being produced in today’s market, also supports prominent messaging options, such as multimedia messaging, mobile IM testing, voice messaging, mobile IM, mobile email and mobile Web email mail.Other highlights of Samsung Zeal include a 2MP camera and camcorder with autofocus.

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The camera supports built-in night shots and Panorama. In addition, subscribers to Verizon Wireless also enjoy access to VCAST Music & Video services. With this, you can enjoy listening and watching the latest songs and videos on the display of the Samsung’s Zeal. Zeal also offers Verizon’s VZ Navigator service, which is helpful for you to locate your POIs (points of interest). Plus you can also benefit with turn-by-turn voice navigation with VZ Navigator.

Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile announced the Samsung Intensity II (model SCH-U460) is now available online and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in part from recycled plastic, the feature-rich intensity II offers a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a music player, one-touch access to social networking sites and a 1.3-megapixel camera with infrared night vision.

Samsung SCH-U460 Intensity II comes with the specifications and features: 2.2-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) screen, full pull-out horizontal QWERTY keyboard with external keypad, 1.3 megapixel camera with infrared night vision, Series and access shared shot modes and color effects, including normal, black and white, antique, negative, aqua and green, voice commands and advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth technology with support for headset, push hands free, stereo, phone book, Basic Imaging – Property for vCard and vCalendar and serial port, microSD card slot with support for up to 32 GB (card sold separately).

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Samsung SCH-Intensity II U460 is also equipped with integrated music player, one-touch contact list to frequently used contacts right away full suite of messaging options, including text, pictures and voice messaging access, Mobile IM, Mobile Chat, Mobile E-mail and Mobile Web, Social Beat application offers customers a single point for accessing social networking sites, including Facebook Twitter and MySpace e-mail, content feeds and instant messaging.

Z-Navigator receive functions for customers audible turn-by-directions to millions of points of interest and share directions with others, # Media Center provides access to downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services and more # Personal Organizer and tools with calendar, calculator with currency converter, alarm clock, world clock and stopwatch, Supports Verizon Wireless, including V CAST Music with Rhapsody (subscription, and PC-only download), V CAST Song ID, VZW Tones.

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With the proceeds from the donated cell phones, Verizon Wireless helps for wireless phones and airtime to victims of domestic violence, as well as funding and other contributions to nonprofit domestic violence protection and prevention programs across the country.

A few months ago, Motorola, a limited edition R2-D2 Droid 2 branded version of its smartphone. To promote the product, gave Verizon Wireless (the phone exclusive carrier) from eight of them on Twitter, and then Motorola gave away five. Also adopted a limited number of midnight launch parties city out in the phone memory 30 September premiere.

The devices were reported to be in limited supply, but we did not score a giveaway by Motorola. This device is the first Star Wars-branded smartphone, and as such has a number of goodies that fans of the galaxy was far, far away to appreciate. As our team as a Senior Android smartphone nerd, I will be checking the phone’s exclusive Star Wars content pre-installed. So, this is the droid you are looking for? In my opinion, if you’re already a Star Wars fan on the Verizon network, it’s a pretty good choice.

Technically speaking, this is only a variant of the Motorola brand Droid second If you are interested in information about the phone’s battery life, call quality, camera resolution, and other non-Star Wars are things you can get this information from tech sites like Engadget. As I said, I will only discuss the phone’s special Star Wars features. The front and back of the phone have design changes from the standard second-Droid The front contains pattern on the top to resemble R2 circuits, while the design is on the back of much more extensive.

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When the phone is locked, you see two icons that you activate slide. Sliding the Rebel Alliance symbol unlock the phone, while sliding switch on the phone sounds Galactic Empire symbol on and off. The only Star Wars widget on your cell phone is a Clock of R2-D2 that can sit on one of the screens at home projects. There are no options to customize the widget, and since the current time is always displayed in the notification bar at the top of the screen, it’s pretty much just for show.

This is the only stand-alone Star Wars application on the phone, and it was to do some investigating authorities, nothing. When you start the app, you are moved by a Rebel Soldier’s macrobinoculars be looking at a pair of AT-ATs in the landscape Hoth. You can drag your finger up and down the green bar on the right to increase or decrease as you are using a telescope. And that’s where I’m ending the functionality – not just an interesting app. But when I turned around while the phone, I noticed that the landscape did to me.

The application used to set the phone’s compass, which you can see how the phone (and presumably themselves) to spin. If you tilt the phone, the view tilts accordingly so that you feel that you are actually there. Unfortunately, the extent of APP functionality.

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The AT-ATs to destroy a tower and the Rebel ion cannon fires, but to cut every so often, when you open the app last long enough. I would like to see more cool things that have app, as elements in the landscape, you can click to unlock other things. It would be nice if they had included other views macrobinocular – Luke measurement of the Sand People comes to mind.

This particular droid R2-D2 phone dock is pretty neat. It has the product branding on the front and the Star Wars logo on the top, although the logo is obscured when your phone into the dock. It charges your mobile phone, offering a special “multimedia station”, the fast connections to keep applications, but there are no special Star Wars docking functionality on the phone itself.

Overall, I enjoy the extra Star Wars goodies, even if they are not must-haves on a smartphone. Verizon customers that a new smartphone should definitely check this out, especially if they are already running Android would like to receive. The bonus material is minimal, but it is an admirable effort to reach out to Star Wars fans. If this type of cross-promotion is carried out again, I would like more specific Star Wars apps to see.

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GPS, compass and camera technology to offer a variety of options for cool bonus material, such as the binoculars showed App. While there are already Lightsaber applications, something fine and official Android would be among other great thing, perhaps with the ability to “duel” friends in the vicinity. What is an Android-optimized version of the StarWars.com sound boards (with the possibility of clips to use as ringtones)? These are good ideas that should not be wasted – maybe we will see them as part of the Droid 3-PO.

Android phones are like reality TV shows-they are everywhere, but far less annoying and really useful. So, it is inevitable that Android phones would be the way to the entry mid-level mobile phones to make circuit, and the Motorola Citrus is one of the soldiers a taste bring to the most popular platform for users on a tight budget. However, the Motorola Citrus alone.  One of the Vortex and Citrus have in common is the fact that they are not very fast, especially when compared to the high dollar giants like the Droids. But if you’re looking bust in Android country on the cheap, could be the right thing for the Motorola Citrus Verizon Wireless.

Design

The Motorola phone is a small Citrus-One can easily see accompanying Strawberry Shortcake lip on average between Justin Bieber crazy backpack shine. Architecturally, the Citrus rounded edges and Motorola BACKTRACK touch panel on the back of the phone is next to the 3-megapixel camera lens. BACKTRACK works like a touch-sensitive laptop mouse-pad, only it allows you, your friends from secretly scrolling astonishing in home screens with the “telepathy Application” when really all you do is have to say with the pad BACKTRACK without them .

The screen on the Motorola Citrus is really not much to brag about. The resolution is antiquated, and the screen is plastic instead of glass. Touch sensitivity is good, although it is the phone-slow speeds, really throw a stick in the spokes. For connectivity and external controls, the Motorola Citrus has a USB connector, 3.5 m audio jack, Power Lock, volume and camera buttons. The microSD card is located under the hatch and removed without removing, the rechargeable lithium-ion battery can be accessed.

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Finally, the Motorola Citrus is made of 25 percent post-consumer recycled plastic, is certified carbon free by an alliance with Carbonfund.org and is free of PVC and BFRs. The packaging is made of 80 percent recycled paper, and the user guide is made from 100 percent recycled paper and soy ink. Citrus for the Motorola wins many green points in our book.

Software and Interface

The old adage “you get what you pay” can be used as the Motorola Citrus proved to be one of the slowest phones we’ve tested in some time. It just did not manage the high-power processing courage, more applications, let alone one. Angry take birds, for example. We downloaded the most excellent game from the Android Market, and installed it without problems.

However, the game was so choppy and slow that we do not play properly. Some games would even play at all, after downloading them. Surfing the Internet was pretty frustrating as well. Although we could swipe, flick, and pinch-zoom to the Citrus just could not keep up with our orders at an accelerated pace.

Android 2.1 is the platform for the Motorola Citrus, so we treated to one of the basic Android experience. There are 7 home screens, each with the ability to add, Motorola and Android widgets, we get Bing and Maps and Facebook, MySpace and YouTube widgets. There are no major social networking applications, or widgets, even if we can sign and access contacts or e-mail from Google, Facebook, MySpace, Skype, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, and more. There Quickoffice for Word documents, Gmail, Google Talk, and Verizon V CAST services like ringtones and video.

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The Motorola Citrus suited best for SMS messaging, the phone supports landscape orientation and Swype keyboard for faster text input. There’s also Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi and GPS. For features, is the Motorola Citrus a great little way to break into the world of Android, but it lacks the hardware to a positive experience possible. We always felt we were trapped in molasses swamp of Candy Land, when it comes to our efforts, we came to the Motorola Citrus, when it came to surfing the Internet and gaming.

Call Quality/ Battery Life

The Motorola Citrus issued call quality, which was very similar to the LG Vortex. We experienced a slight hissing crackling blanket of white noise in certain calls, but it was not a major dilemma. Battery life is better because the Motorola does not Citrus High-power processor, screen fantasy, or any other advanced hardware, there is a decent piece of juice at the end of a day’s worth left to use.

Camera

The Motorola Citrus is also very underpowered when it comes to digital imaging. The phone has a 3-megapixel camera without flash, and there is no picture controls. We could only switch zoom, resolution, GPS settings, or turn trigger animation. That’s all, folks. The image quality in large lighting is good, we were really impressed, even with contrast.

However, any questionable low-light environment will destroy any hope for digital quality, especially without a flash. The Motorola Citrus can only record videos at a maximum resolution of 352×288 (CIF), the rather ridiculous, when the average phone compared to those days. The video quality is almost useless, unless it’s an emergency.

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In Android phones with a keyboard, is the undisputed king of the Droid. The LG Ally, and Verizon, do not change, but it makes the purchase of a Droid harder to digest.

The LG Ally is an odd listeners, spec’d through the roof in many respects to its 800×480 screen and excellent keyboard, with Android 2.1-while sorely lacking in other-be pokey 600MHz processor and spotted 3.2 megapixel camera, in particular .In a way, it is obviously better than the Droid. In more ways, but it can not compete.

Unspectacular Hardware

I’ve been using this phone for a while, and I still struggle to write about his design from memory, even if the memory is only seconds old. It is remarkably unremarkable, a harmless rounded piece of metal, glass, with a hint of rubber. It carries a typical LG-ish rounded series of buttons on the front, with its black frame, black body, black, black keyboard and black back plate mixture.

The Ally’s hard, but for its size, a bit thicker and not as close as the Droid-it does not feel too tight. I would try to call it masculine, but next to the droid and HTC Incredible, earning his conservative lines are not really exciting descriptors as “clumsy” or “da.”

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There are a few outstanding features. I mentioned the screen, which is a wonderfully dense 800×480 unit, somehow squeezed all the pixels in 3.2-inch diagonal inches, which makes this one of the high-resolution displays that I’ve ever seen on a mobile phone. Font rendering is noticeably spotless, and you can zoomed out text on the desktop web site for all to read in portrait mode. It is as if the display is not made of pixels.

Surprisingly, not in daily use of the image quality is so important-reading text is a bit more pleasant than it be on a SVGA phone like the iPhone or HTC Hero, but it’s not always easier. The hardware features go, this is an advantage. The ad does not seem to be much of a burden on the battery, which saw me through an average day, slightly useful, and until the next morning.

But even in brilliant luminosity of the display, the Ally’s outstanding feature is by far his keyboard, a well-laid out, deceptively compact model with enough distance, well angled rear buttons and feedback. It is a joy compared to the irritating flat QWERTY Droid, and it is the only feature that I could see, lure away users of a droid if used side-by-side, how many will be in Verizon stores. But on its own, it is not enough.

Vulnerabilities

The Ally’s 600MHz MSM7627 Qualcomm CPU is not the task of driving an Android 2.1 phone, even though I could have told you before I even used this handset, since the same processor is used in another, much less ambitious piece of hardware that the Palm Pixi: was panned for its inertia. (The Droid processor runs at a similar rate, but the architecture is not really comparable, and in each case the performance is much better.) App starts up fast enough and not really hang the device, per se, but it is not responsive. It is 2010. Our phones should not be surprised if we act to touch them.

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The camera measures of light fairly well, and make usable shots the most part. It seems to rely a lot on the image processing, however, and when the shot is not good natural light, you can use the telltale blur of aggressive noise reduction software.

The software

Again, the Ally is a frustrating trial. On the one hand, there is an almost vanilla from Android 2.1, it can run any application on the App Market, unlike some phones like the Motorola skinned swallow that often build an Android version or three behind is how their makers struggle to modernize its customs skins to keep pace with Google’s release schedule. But that does not mean that LG does not interfere a bit.

LG’s has here is a device issue, have seen above, and a handful of applications, including a social media aggregator, you probably do not need, so as Android’s Twitter and Facebook integration and applications touch only good, better. The changes are subtle, but they are still changes.

Android is best when it is pure, and if anything between the scaffolds, which pisses Google software update always an interesting few months and your cell phone. Any carrier or manufacturer add-on is additional delay in upgrades. And then, how little the OS mods here do not care what’s the point? (Lousy Branding. branding, I would say.) Otherwise, the Ally is Android 2.1, warts and all. And in case you were wondering, this handset ships with multi-touch.

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Building on the success of the first Droid Verizon Wireless’ phone, the company launched the Droid 2 of 11 August. Well, the carrier has an improved model of the Droid 2 designed for business travelers released. Protecting the Global Droid 2 includes enhanced security to confidential corporate data, quad-band GSM support and enhanced processor.

Specs

Against this Smartphone is the business continued Droid Verizon flagship smartphone, as you would expect it would is full of goodies. The first of a five-megapixel camera, autofocus, dual LED flash, face detection and panorama mode contains. The camera also supports DVD-quality video capture with the ability to slow motion and time lapse video capture. In view of the original droid was required with a five-megapixel camera, the sequel to this one could be brought to a minimum. Examples of photos at the bottom to the phone.

The Droid 2 Global features represent a 3.7″ touch screen sports a 854 x 480 WVGA resolution can be up to 16 million colors. It includes a pull-out QWERTY keyboard, which is a redesign of the original Droid smartphone. Users can expect battery life of up to 500 minutes usage time or up to 230 hours standby time. For main and memory The phone has 8GB of internal memory plus an additional 8 GB through a preloaded microSD card expandable, which is 32 GB.

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One of the biggest differences in specs between this phone and the Droid 2 is in the processor. While the Droid 2 a 1 GHz processor offers a graphics processor, the Droid 2 Global has a 1.2 GHz processor is the business-class phone more power under the hood. Like any business smartphone of Droid 2 Global for the business traveler as it is represented in his name. Voice service in over 220 countries supported, while the data is supported in over 200 countries. Bands and modes are supported:

Android 2.2 (Enhanced Security, Corporate E-mail support, mobile)

As the Droid Droid 2  is the Global through the Android 2.2 mobile operating system that the Webkit5 HTML browser with Flash Player 10 includes driven. It also means more security and better corporate e-mail integration. The operating system supports the ability for an Exchange administrator to remotely wipe as well as the ability to enforce a password policy now that a numerical or alpha-numeric PIN password can be used to unlock the device. Exchange administrators appreciated the automatic detection, which allows a user to an Exchange mailbox setup on the device with just their user name and password. Improved Exchange integration includes support for Exchange calendar in the Calendar application and the ability to look up global address lists in the e-mail application.

Another nice feature for business-Droid 2 Global thanks to its OS is its ability to provide a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot in a position sharing a wireless data connection with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to be. There is no such thing as a free lunch though.

Music and video support

Just because the Droid 2 Global is designed for business that does not mean the phone does not have your fun side. The smartphone offers the ability to play music files, including AMR, MIDI, MP3, WAV, AAC, AAC +, Enhanced AAC +, WMA9 and WMA10. Video playback includes support for H.263, H.264, MPEG4, WMV9 and WMV10.

Probably the coolest media provided him with the Droid 2 Global is the support of DLNA. DLNA enables wireless sharing of photos, videos and music with other DLNA devices. This means you can download videos, music and photos from your mobile phone to your TV wirelessly as long as your TV is connected to a DLNA-supported device is playing.

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Voice Quality

The Droid 2 Global has its speaker is located on the back of the unit. The speaker in the phone is a little bit, so that no sound is muffled when it is set flat and set as a speakerphone. Call quality for the phone is good but there is a noticeable quality in soft language when a conversation that is remarkable, as the smartphone with noise reduction, which I used as a missed opportunity by Motorola. That quality does not quite come when the speakerphone is indeed used.

GUI and total consumption

The Droid 2 Global for those who prefer a physical keyboard, instead of a virtual done. If you are looking to take a virtual keyboard Droid 2 Global bridge device is a nice move for you made possible primarily because the text contains Swype the continuous movement of the fingers on a virtual keyboard. As far as the physical keyboard is, it is a redesign of the original Droid keyboard.

The physical keyboard has keys raised and a rubbery feel, it makes it really easy to give, receive help in the due to the larger dimensions of the most frequently used letters. One thing that I still do not like, which seems to be a transfer from the Droid, the sliding mechanism to expose the physical keyboard. As the Droid and Droid 2 I do not like is the resistance of the phone slipping out of the keyboard. I think Motorola can improve the mechanics behind it to make it a more fluid movement.

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Menu, Home, Back and Search buttons provide users with subtle feedback so you know they have been pressed. In my Opinon is the feedback a bit too subtle though I probably biased due to the fact that my day to day phone provides a higher level of feedback. As for the GUI, it is very appealing by combining the 1.2 GHz processor and Android 2.2. Menus and options pop on the screen with little effort and games as simple as Angry as graphically intensive as birds and Need For Speed is no problem for the hardware.

Conclusion

If an IT department was anxious to allow for something other than a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile smart phone in their company, the Droid 2 Global will change the Android phone to their opinion. It’s expanded security and support of Exhange environments make it difficult for an IT department to come up with reasons why your phone can not be supported. In addition to support the improved Exchange support for the phone’s ability to voice and data in over 200 countries, it is for executives who travel internationally must be perfect.

When we think of a business smartphone, which is the first company that comes to mind? RIM, of course. BlackBerrys have dominated the business smartphone landscape for a number of years to manage the company on their phones and use BIS (BlackBerry Internet Server) to push information to workers on the go. But drifting along the Google business cloud which cuts the middle man for messaging, scheduling and productivity. The Droid Pro is available now from Verizon Wireless, which on the business market with surgical precision. With the ability in 220 countries, QWERTY keyboard, 3G Mobile Hotspot-enabled, Android 2.2, Flash Player 10.1 and a fast 1GHz processor, the Motorola Droid Pro the way to access paving to Google’s business cloud to communicate on the go. RIM and Microsoft should be worried? From what we saw with the Droid Pro, it will become a hell of a fight, you break your cuff links and loosen your tie-it’s showtime.

Design

If you have set your goal to look degradation BlackBerry, why not like a BlackBerry? The Droid Pro is very similar to a bold style, only with a bigger screen. We get a reduced QWERTY thumb keyboard that emulate from the bottom of the phone with the keys to a BlackBerry lives. As we usually say with any BlackBerry thumb keyboard when you’re an elf, you’ll have no problem typing. But is the Motorola Droid Pro QWERTY a bit on the petite side, so it really took some getting used to. There is also a virtual screen keyboard, but that is only available when the phone turned to landscape.

The Droid Pro 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen HVGA is smooth and very sensitive, with friendly tactile feedback accompanied all important tap selection. Like every Android phone, the Droid Pro has a thin strip of touch sensitive buttons, the Menu, Home, Back and search are included. We have the standard volume rocker, power lock button, 3.5mm audio jack, rubberized USB port and a customizable side key key no camera, for all companies. The highlight of the Droid Pro QWERTY thumb keyboard is that each key in the alphabet, a customized task can be assigned to the side button that 27 Instant-applications or programs.

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On the back of the Motorola Droid emblazoned Pro’s 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, and when we welcomed the shiny plastic pop back Luke away, we are in a SIM card and 2GB MicroSD card, next to the phone’s 2GB internal NAND flash memory. The Droid Pro is a solid device and worth a few style points. However, we prefer BlackBerry construction, such as RIM devices are a bit more compact and more durable than the Droid Pro.

Software and Interface

As a business user, you’re constantly in all versions, so you need a phone that can get to work quickly, without delay dragged. The Droid was one of the fastest Pro phones we’ve tested, courtesy of a 1-GHz processor and Android 2.2 platform. The Droid Pro also has a 3G antenna diversity for enhanced data rates and range. Yes, Android 2.2 Flash 10.1 brings browsing the web, so we were able to watch YouTube videos directly from our InfoSync homepage. The Droid Pro 7 offers home screens with the ability to instantly add or remove widgets or applications, like any other Android device. Connectivity Highlights include Wi-Fi, DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 and 3G mobile hotspots with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices.

But is the Motorola Pro Droid bread and butter, the company e-mail, calendar, and Google needs text & tables integration, signing up for Google Apps for companies in order to get Google’s corporate treatment. In this way, users can create, change, store and update documents directly from the Google Droid Pro and sync events with the unified calendar. For e-mail, the Motorola Pro Droid Exchange support and Gmail. Also you will find a VPN client application, the multi-member AuthenTec IPSec VPN (Virtual Private Network) integration and managed, enabling secure remote management. Let’s also add the device and SD card encryption (early next year), quick office mobile suite with cloud support, corporate directory browsing, strong password support and remote device SD card on the table to wipe.

Now as far as surfing the Internet, the Droid Pro supports pinch to zoom and double-tap to zoom with text wrap. Action is very fast, and the Droid Pro comes together a number of social networking widgets that tie Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Photobucket and Google. There is also a universal inbox for messaging, which combines all the social networking news with text messages to a further increase in dismay. The Droid Pro includes the Android Market, and supports 3D games for downtime between presentations, and search YouTube, Google Maps and Google Voice Search. The Droid Pro is about as packed as you can get, and has the backbone for a powerful business phone.

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Call Quality /Battery Life

The BlackBerry parallels continue, as the Droid Pro has nothing to complain about us in the voice quality department. Minimal or no background static, clean conversation, and suppresses background noise seemed to delight our ears, and we were reminded of the quality of our discussions on BlackBerry Bold 9780 and BlackBerry-style. Battery life was not too shabby, and a period of days in standby mode. First, we heavily on the games and surfing the Internet, the battery started to show all the tribes of fatigue, and the BlackBerry won the race. However, Motorola was the Droid Pro battery life a relief recently after reviewing the Super AMOLED battery life sucking and Samsung Focus Continuum.

Image/ Video Quality

This was the first to actually satisfy our appetite Droid image quality. The Motorola surpassed Droid Pro in bright light detail, and it actually gave us one of the better low light performance we’ve seen on a cell phone goes so far as sensitivity. For video, the Droid Pro only has VGA (640×480) ability, but the quality was not too shabby at all, even in low light. At times, the shutter delay would be a little bit when we shot with a digital filter, and dance in high-contrast areas, exposure and forth, but the Droid Pro is the first phone in its class, we would recommend in addition to the BlackBerry Bold 9780 BlackBerry and style when it comes to image quality.

The phone’s camera interface is all too familiar and has a few scene modes like sports, night, and macro. We also have several digital filters, including negatives, solarization, sepia, and to choose and customize the Droid Pro had the option of the exposure. Outside of this the Droid Pro camera interface was really not that complicated, especially after just reviewed the Samsung Continuum, the ISO control and touch-focus offered.

Conclusion

The Droid Pro managed to give the BlackBerry Bold a run for their money in a variety of dimensions. It has to build a similar QWERTY thumb keyboard, but full touch screen functionality. There is a comparable camera that has similar sound quality and battery life, and is ready for action business with lots of cloud services and networking capabilities hot. Search The Droid Pro also makes a neat little device, most of Google’s applications make use of tasty and can be treated like any other gaming 3D-enabled mobile phone. Is this the beginning of the end for RIM and Microsoft Business Solutions smartphone? Certainly not, but the Droid Pro is definitely a worthy prelude to Google as a player in the business smartphone market.

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