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The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) is an international organization dedicated to providing consumers with all the necessary information regarding wireless products. Last March 2010, the CTIA conducted their annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada where Samsung unveiled their newest mobile phone, the Samsung Galaxy S. The mobile manufacturer is confident about their latest model. Their president, J.K. Shin even went as far as to branding the Galaxy S as a new class smartphone.

According to reports, Galaxy S will be distributed in the market later this year. But in the meantime let’s take a look at how the Galaxy S is different from other mobile phones and why the latest addition to Samsung smartphones is worthy of every mobile phone user’s attention.

It has Excellent Display
The Galaxy S comes with a 4.0 inch Super AMOLED touch screen. The Super AMOLED touch screen puts the sensor directly at the screen instead of placing the sensors in another panel. This results in a slimmer phone with no air gaps and with improved touch sensitivity and better screen quality. The screen is also 80% less reflective making it perfect for both indoor and outdoor use. And it also has wider viewing angles.

Samsung integrated the mobile Digital Natural Image engine to the Galaxy S. This is the same technology used in Samsung’s LCD and LED TV. The result is a screen that gives a sharper viewing experience for photos, e-books and videos. This is a plus since Samsung is reported to have partnered with Paramount Pictures to provide Galaxy S users with full-length movies. The company has also sought partnership with Skiff e-book reader provider.

It’s Slim and Sleek
The Galaxy S is one of the slimmest mobile phones of Samsung. The dimension of the phone is 122.4 by 64.2 by 9.9 millimeters. The whooping 9.9 millimeter thickness of Galaxy S is made possible through the Super AMOLED touch screen. The mobile phone is also remarkably light. It only weighs 118 grams. The mobile phone is sleek and classy since the casing comes in classic black and gray and it’s depicted by contours on the sides.

It’s the Fastest Android Phone
Samsung claims that the Galaxy S will be the fastest Android Phone to date. The Galaxy S is said to come with a 1GHz processor inside. Although, there are no exact details with regards to the chipsets that Samsung will use, Omar Khan of Samsung is reported to have said that Galaxy S will be able to process applications three times faster than leading smartphones today.

Apart from the mentioned features of Galaxy S, the phone also comes with 3G HSDPA and Wifi that provides internet connection through hotspots and WLAN connections. In addition, the phone comes with FM radio and 5-megapixel camera. The camera has autofocus and face and smile recognition features. Before the end of this year, the Galaxy S is expected to be one of the best selling smartphones in the market. It may rival the popularity of Iphones and HTC phones.

The first Android Smartphone from the world’s 4th largest mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has not lost its steam even after getting this late and with other Android phones hitting the markets lately. Admittedly, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 missed its launch dates, missed Christmas, missed the Chinese New Year and Valentine’s day but hopefully, its release won’t take any longer before the promised 1st quarter of 2010 is over.

The recent World Mobile Congress held in Barcelona showcased a number of Android smartphones using the latest 2.0/2.1 clair version mostly coming from HTC, Samsung and Motorola with a few for upstart mobile phone makers like Dell and Asus. What was more a curiosity has been a couple of X10 derivatives - the Mini and QWERTY sliding Mini Pro smartphones with a less powerful CPU and smaller screen sizes. It is plain that Sony has started a new line of Android smartphones with the Xperia X10.


It runs an older Android 1.6 Cupcake when it could have shifted to the 2.0/2.1 clair version that its rivals in the same class are now using. We figure Sony’s engineers may have an uphill battle porting the Rachel UI (renamed UX for User eXperience) to the newer version but no matter. The Android world is still eager to see what the UX-tweaked Android has to offer.

No doubt its imaging features remain unchallenged except for a few emerging handsets with 12 megapixel cameras and high definition 720o video recording. Otherwise, its 8-megapixel autofocus/touchfocus camera with LED flash, video light, image stabilization, face/smile detection, 8x digital zoom, WVGA video recording at 30fps, geo-tagging from its GPS receiver and red-eye reduction are everything a high end point-and-shoot camera should have.

You get 3G/HSDPA, WiFi 82.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP. You get a generous 1GB internal memory with microSD support for up to 16 GB, A-GPS with Wisepilot navigation with Google Maps for it’s a-GPS, a digital compass with its magnetometer and the industry standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

Despite having one the lowest market share among smartphone models with a cumbersome OS that has seen various iterations since 2004 and on a steady decline year on year, Windows has now come up with another new update to its Windows Mobile 6.5. This time, with a dot-dot iteration, the WinMo 6.5.3 carries the features it should have had when it first came out. But, as they say, better late than never.

You now have Sony Ericsson announcing to the world that it has the first smartphone to use the WinMo 6.5.3. Consistent with its multi-platform strategy that started with its first Windows handset in the overpriced but underwhelming XPERIA X1, the new Sony Ericsson Aspen carries the same promise of a business smartphone but with less stellar attributes its precursor had. There’s no large widescreen display and no full-QWERTY slider. It’s just your QWERTY monoblock candybar design. It’s interesting to note that this model initially had the appropriate moniker Sony Ericsson Faith. It’s probably asking its customers to have more faith in the WinMo platform than it really deserves.

Competitive Features at a Glance
The new Aspen is also the latest handset in Sony’s GreenHeart stable of eco-friendly handsets made from recycled materials. On the hardware front, this is your basic quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) on 2G and a dual band UMTS (900/2100) on 3G with HSDPA/HSUPA for high speed internet access.

It is housed on a QWERTY candybar measuring 117 x 60 x 12.5mm with a weight of 130g making it better suited on a holster than in your pocket. It has a smallish 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen display with a mere QVGA resolution and the usual WinMo-limited 65k color support.
You get the same local data connectivity with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, microUSB 2.0 and 3.5mm jack. There’s a rudimentary 3.2-megapixel fixed focus camera with video recording that is quite commonly found in low-end smartphones.

Software-wise, Sony pitches the Aspen as social networking handset with tightly integrated access to Windows Live Messenger and Facebook. Its A-GPS receiver is supported with a bundled Google Maps while its multimedia feature is capped with excellent media browsers that support music, photos and videos.
It also gets bundled with PlayNow apps for games and new music. Downloadable apps should be available online but don’t expect them to be anywhere near those in the Apple app store on in Nokia’s Ovi store.

Conclusion
The Sony Ericsson Aspen is a fairly capable smartphone with nothing to make it stand-out among even mid-priced feature phones, let alone the better smartphones out there. We wonder what compulsion Sony has in coming out with a mediocre handset that is easily trumped by most well-designed feature phones, other than to get bragging rights about being the first handset in the world to use a remarkably underwhelming OS on its third iteration.

It is expedited to reach its markets within the second quarter of the year and will come in a choice of Iconic Black or White Silver body colors. Price information is not yet available but if the major carriers can take this free of charge on a ‘15/month 12-month contract, it should be worth the trouble.

All of us know about the fashionable Samsung B5310 Corby PRO which comes with an amazing set of lineaments and beautiful appearance. Now the Corby has come with its new handset namely ‘œSamsung B3210 CorbyTXT’ with the surprising look and QWERTY keyboard. New Corby is now available in solid bar form and its overall size is 112 x 59.6 x 12.9 mm. The total weight of the phone is 94 grams so you can keep it into your pocket.

Samsung B3210 CorbyTXT is not a touchscreen device like its previous version, this latest device is much more user friendly in terms of lineaments. The base color of this widget is black with a dash of vibrant yellow on the mid-portion keys in the phone.
In terms of music features, the users can gain music player that supports good music formats as well as the fantastic FM radio with RDS feature is there to keep you connect with the latest broadcasts.

In today’s fast moving lifestyle people have become compelled to use the technologies such as Internet service so accordingly the phone has loaded with WAP 2.0, XHTML and HTML to help the users.
You can play Java downloadable games from the Internet on the move. Additionally, the document viewer and changeable covers are also included.