Cool Mobile Gadgets @ CommunicAsia 2009
CommunicAsia 2009 have recently ended and despite the gloomy world economy, things are looking perky for mobile phone geeks. Here’s some of the hippest gadgets presented.
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- Samsung Jet
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- LG-GD900 Crysta
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- Garmin – Asus M20
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- Nokia E72
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- Huawei U8230
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- Sony Ericsson Satio
Samsung Jet – The quad-band 3.5G phone packs a brilliant 480dpi 3.1-inch WVGA AMOLED display (800×480 pixels), a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera, built-in A-GPS and a MicroSD slot (up to 16GB) into a sleek black body slightly thicker than 1cm. Features include Samsung’s Dolfin Internet browser, 3D media gate UI, motion-response UI, smart unlock, a three-page main menu and a three-page widget screen. It also comes with 33 widgets and around 40 more that are downloadable online. The Jet also supports multi-window browsing and “one-finger zoom”.The features doesn’t end there.
You want a jet-like speed with your mobile phone application? The has an uber fast 800MHz application processor. It’s main targeted competitor is Iphone which sports a 600Mhz application processor. The Jet runs on a different platform on Samsung’s proprietary operating system with its latest TouchWiz 2.0 user interface (UI).
LG-GD900 Crystal – definitely a touchscreen beauty. The Crystal has a slide-down transparent alphanumeric keypad constructed of tempered glass and framed by a shock- and vibration-resistant composite alloy called Liquidmetal.
The keypad also functions as a trackpad – it reads handwriting, responds to multi-touch commands and lets you access specific applications based on what LG dubs Gesture Command.
The Crystal also makes use of the 3D S-Class cube-like user interface that made its debut on the Arena, which makes accessing applications a pleasure. With 8-megapixel auto-focus camera and a microSD card slot which will enable multimedia junkies hoard 32GB of content into the phone. The phone boasts WiFi and 7.2Mps HSDPA connectivity and will be available in mid-July.
Garmin-Asus – Navigation specialist Garmin has partnered ASUSTeK Computer to create the Garmin-Asus nuvifone series. A must have for those direction-challenged 
The tri-band 3G M20 is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with enterprise email.Available in yellow, red, blue and black, the M20 packs a 2.8-inch touchscreen, a 3-megapixel auto-focus camera, a choice of 4GB or 8GB memory and Garmin nuvi satellite navigation (sat-nav).
Available only in black, the quad-band 3.5G G60 runs on the Linux OS and has a 3.55-inch touchscreen, a 3-megapixel auto-focus camera, 4GB memory, a MicroSD slot and Garmin nuvi sat-nav.
Both phones provide localised maps with localised points of interests, as well as real-time traffic information with turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions. The M20 and G60 will be available in the second half of the year.
Nokia E72 – packed with Qwerty keyboard and a smartphone-grade operating system. An optical navigation key so you can zip through menus, emails and images that much faster. 5 megapixels camera and there’s also a cool 3.5mm audio jack so you can plug in your own earphones. Other niceties include built-in GPS, with a digital compass to boot.
On the software side, the 3.5G E72 includes Nokia Messaging that will let you chat on instant messaging platforms like Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger. Also capable of handling corporate email accounts based on Mail for Exchange and Lotus Notes.
Sony Ericsson Satio – 3.5G smartphone featuring an awesome 12-MP auto-focus CyberShot camera with Xenon flash. View your photos and watch HD movies on its 3.5-inch 16:9 ninth high-definition (nHD) display. You can also play nHD format games on this widescreen display.
Satio comes with Wifi, runs on the S60 5th edition Symbian OS with Exchange ActiveSync support, and incorporates A-GPS with turn-by-turn navigation.
Huawei U8230 – a smartphone fitted with a battery that has the highest capacity (1,500 mAH) among the Android-powered handsets available.The phone has 3.5G, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, along with a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 3.5-inch touchscreen.
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