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Here are some shots of the N900 with some current high end phones. In Alphabetical Order: Apple iPhone BlackBerry Bold/Storm 2, Nokia N97 Mini/N86/5800/E71, Palm Pre, Samsung i8910/Omnia II, Sony Ericsson Satio/Aino and Toshiba TG01 Initially the intention was to give a jist of the size of the N900. But since I was snapping away in phone retail stores, I didn’t get appropriate angle shots so you can see how easy it is to be deceived by comparison photos unless you see them flat, centre and horizontal with comparisons of [layered] length, width and thickness. www.sizeasy.com/ helps if you want to compare phone sizes and you’ve got their dimension.

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Nokia N900 with the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Bold/Storm 2, Nokia N97 Mini/N86/5800/E71, Palm Pre, Samsung i8910/Omnia II, Sony Ericsson Satio/Aino and…

A new member of the 5530 series of handsets, the Nokia 5530 Mobile TV Edition is more than just a rehash of the original 5530 Xpress Music. Where the 5530 Xpress Music phone was designed more in keeping with a device like the 5800, the 5530 Mobile TV Edition is a non-touchscreen, slide style device. When closed, the device measures in at 101 x 48 x 14mm, which is a good size for a phone, and the handset weighs in at just 113g. There does seem to be a lot of wasted space on the front of the device as the navigation keys do take up more space than is necessary, when the 5530 could have offered a larger display. The display itself is standard Nokia fare, a 2.4 inch 16 million colour QVGA TFT screen, so whilst it looks good, it is rather small for a Mobile TV device.

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Nokia 5530 Mobile TV Edition

This morning WOMWorld kindly sent over the Nokia N900! Much excitement aside, I won’t be writing much in this post; I’ll leave the video and photos to speak for themselves. Hopefully you’ll be on a broadband connection as there’s tons of live pics of the N900, the box contents as well as an unboxing video shot in HD. P.S. All photos captured by the Nokia N82 (Digicam way too memory hungry and it’s so much more  convenient to bluetooth pics over to my pc).

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Unboxing Extravaganza of The Nokia N900 – HD Video unboxing and huge unboxing gallery of Live Pics. Warning! Extremely image heavy.

…The Nokia N900 has arrived at my house. Well maybe. I haven’t opened the DHL bag yet and won’t open it until I get home after lectures. I want the first time the N900 box is opened to be on film, ha. It may possibly be that there’s just a box inside, maybe even a mixup and it’s not an N900, heaven forbid! I literally have seconds to go before I have to leave for “Muscle Development in Drosophila melanogaster 2″

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Nokia N900 has arrived! Longest 2 hour wait to open a DHL package ever…

Received this email half an hour ago. It didn’t actually sink in till I was halfway through cooking a shepherds pie [from scratch, not microwave] and I was like “um, an N900 is coming tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” email from WOMWorld ^_^ Happy Days ^_^ Let’s just hope I don’t miss this DHL delivery this time . I’ve got lectures/meetings during their normal delivery times again :’( If (IF!) I get it tomorrow, expect an unboxing video from youtube.com/mynokiablog and a bunch of N900 photos soon

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Your Nokia N900 Device is on its way to you.

Carphone Warehouse have once again suspended sales of a high end Symbian Smartphone – a few months ago, Nokia’s flagship N97 (well at least with O2, Orange and Vodafone still sell the N97 via CPW), now Sony Ericsson’s Satio. Why? Both from complaints about buggy software leading to inexorably high levels of returns that CPW (and now Phones4U with the Satio) would rather stop selling faulty phones than have to deal with repairs

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Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U Snubs Sony Ericsson’s Satio.

For some of you, this might be the last time you read BBGeeks before heading out for the holiday (well, maybe you’ll catch our feature on Seesmic later today). Thursday is Thanksgiving, and after that starts the mad dash holiday shopping season. Unless you’re an astute online shopper, that means dealing with crowds at every store. Your BlackBerry can help you organize that shopping, but that’s at a basic level. As we know, there are applications like StudentDocket that take that basic functionality to a more advanced level

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SplashShopper can help manage your holiday shopping list

At the onedotzero event, I remember trying to get the N900 to crash with low memory errors or slow down. I couldn’t. MySymbian proves this in the video below where the N900 is pushed to multitask all available apps. Where most others would have frozen, crashed or killed other applications to open a new one, the N900 juggles one new app after another without breaking into a sweat. Whilst on the move, being able to handle several tasks simultaneously and quickly switch to the application at hand should be part definition of Smartphone.

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Video: Nokia N900 multitasks all installed apps and still hungry for more!

After an initially positive view of the N900 over at the Telegraph , Claudine and some guy (Alan Carr?) as supposed “Gadget Inspectors” take a look at the Nokia N900. To see the video, you’ll want to head over to the Telegraph. Some interesting points: Whilst Claudine isn’t a fan of the physical QWERTY keyboard + touch screen hybrid, the guy (what is his name? I’ll refer to him as ‘the guy’) likes them.

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The Telegraph’s Gadget Inspectors take a look at the Nokia N900

BlackBerry themes have been a prominent topic this week. It started on Wednesday when, as we do every other week, we reviewed three premium BlackBerry themes . Two of these were created using BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0, so yesterday we went over how to create your own BlackBerry theme . I kiddingly urged someone to make me a custom theme, but I think I’ve found something to keep me occupied for a bit. Via BBCool , I found out that Bplay has launched a series of themes for cities around the world.

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A BlackBerry theme for every city

About a month ago, through a series of clues, some bloggers found out about maemoproject . You most likely have already seen the video below: Today I received an A2 poster from WOMWorld which is a screenshot of a scene in the video: 10:15:52:08. It would have gotten here 2 days ago except there were some delivery hitches (mostly my fault as I wasn’t home to pick it up) It’s not your bog-standard paper poster – it’s all plastic, laminated and quite thick.

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Project Maemo: Maemo Project poster arrived

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the next generation BlackBerry Pearl (code-named Stratus and/or Striker). But today today two different sites leaked details on this hot un-released device! Both CrackBerry and Salomondrin got hands-on time with the new Pearl2. Basically this device will feature an optical trackpad (like most new BlackBerry devices), of course Suretype QWERTY keyboard, along with a more BlackBerry Bold2/Storm2 kind of style. It’s going to be really small, and really thin, and it almost makes me want to use a Pearl again

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First hands-on with BlackBerry Pearl2 9100 (Code-Name Stricker)

Like or loathe their redesign, but Engadget did a great job on getting good reviews on the road in the past. Their latest victim is the Pixi – can it stack up? Most important of all, it looks like Palm finally managed to get its keyboards back to the quality level seen on earlier Treos: … Admittedly, we weren’t expecting fireworks when we first laid eyes on this tiny QWERTY, but the experience of using it day to day has been nothing short of a revelation. You would think that the tight spacing and tiny keys would make typing a difficult task, but Palm has cleverly given the Pixi keyboard snappy tactile feedback and a substantial height boost, making tapping away a serious pleasure … Their final verdict stated that the Pixi – while not a bad device on its own – has issues especially with its larger (and similarly-priced) predecessor: … But the fact is that these phones are closely matched in both features and design — save for those items we just mentioned — and the Pre doesn’t lose out in a single category (unless you consider “smallest” to be a major factor, and even then you don’t have a lot ground to stand on).

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Palm Pixi reviewed by Engadget

As mentioned in yesterday’s theme review post , RIM recently released BlackBerry Theme Studio, an application which allows anyone to create new BlackBerry themes. While we’ll always appreciate the work of the professional designers who create vibrant premium themes, we also know that many people have an idea for the perfect theme in their heads. I know I do. There have been a few themes that have come close to that, but none have been the perfect Joe Theme

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Create your own themes with BlackBerry Theme Studio

Following CNET’s initial hands on of the Booklet 3G [$299 + 2year AT&T contract - Windows 7 Starter; 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 215MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 500; 120GB Toshiba 4,200rpm] is a set of performance tests in comparison with Asus Eee PC 1101HA $380 Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 256MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 500; 160GB Hitachi 5,400rpm Dell Inspiron Mini 10 $480 – 640 Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 256MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 950; 160GB Western Digital 5,400rpm HP Mini 311 $400 – 520 Windows XP Home SP3; 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280; 1024MB DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz; 512MB (Shared) Nvidia Ion LE; 160GB Seagate 5,400rpm Sony Vaio VPCX115KX/N – $1500 Windows 7 Home Premium; 2.0GHz Intel ATOM Processor Z550; 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 762MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 500; 128GB Samsung SSD Sony Vaio W $500 Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 128MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 950; 160GB Toshiba 5,400rpm It’s not surprising that the highest spec’d, and most expensive ($1500) Vaio VPXX115 tops every single performance aspect (except battery life). Check out CNET’s review of the booklet 3G

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CNET’s Nokia Booklet 3G performance tests

It was barely a month ago that we re-reviewed TwitterBerry . We originally reviewed it in early 2008, but the company behind it, Orangatame, brought it up to date, adding many features that users demanded. Unfortunately, TwitterBerry is no more. Orangatame has changed the name to OpenBeak in hopes that it “allows the app to grow beyond both the Twitter platform and BlackBerry smartphones.” With the name change comes a few new features, including two that I had complained about in the TwitterBerry review.

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TwitterBerry changes name to OpenBeak

One thing I noticed after getting my BlackBerry Tour is that there are three keys which you cannot assign a speed dial. Holding down the “A” key locks the system, holding down “W” goes to voice mail, and holding down “Q” puts you into quiet mode (vibrate only). These can be convenient, but for someone who had older operating systems and were used to having these keys available, it can be a slight nuisance

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Change your “A” , “W”, and “Q” speed dials

What at one point appeared to be another frustrating BlackBerry weekend turned into a pleasant surprise. After upgrading the BlackBerry WordPress app , I rebooted my Curve, as required. The next time I checked it, it was frozen. I rebooted again, but soon found myself in the same situation as a few weeks ago, when my Curve died . This time I took it to the Verizon store, knowing that even if I fixed it again, I’d get the same problem again eventually.

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Making the font smaller on your BlackBerry Tour

HTC HD2 Mega HTC HD2 Review by 4winmobile.com ( this review will tell you every thing you need to know about the device ) HTC HD2 vs iPhonne 3GS : Various features tested like Camera and video recording, OS, Display, etc Read the full article via ibtimes.co.in See the HD2 Hardware and Unboxing video © . Saijo for 1800PocketPC.com , 2009. | No comment | Add to del.icio.us See more Freewares from : Handset Review , News

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More HTC HD2 review and Impressions , vs iPhone 3GS

The Genio range of handsets from Samsung, starting with the S3650 which is also being sold under the Genio Touch product name, is proving to be very popular. And the main thing customers are talking about is the fashion jackets, the changeable back covers on the device that allow you to change the colour of the phone. These jackets are available in a wide range of colours, some patterned, some plain, and it goes to show that a mobile device is not all about the features, style conscious customers like the option to personalise their phones, too. As well as looking to attract the fashion conscious young mobile user, Samsung are also aiming the Genio range at people who want to be able to keep in touch with more than just calls, and to aid with the messaging the B5310 offers a full, side slide QWERTY keyboard, with the ideal that the Genio Pro adapts to match the lifestyle of the user. The keyboard on the Genio Pro is perfectly usable, with a finger friendly layout that will appeal to people who see messaging as an integral part of their daily communication needs

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What Samsung do well is produce multiple handsets across all spectrums of the mobile industry, from cheap, low level entry devices that are ideal for granny to use in an emergency, to low cost first time devices that are ideal for emerging markets, right up to the top of the range devices, the type of handset that is usually on ever early adopters shopping list. Whilst it is the Smartphone that usually grabs the headlines, it is the bread and butter devices that capture market share, and Nokia have been using this strategy for years. Where Samsung are a threat, is that they are now producing low cost devices, that have innovative designs, and offer some real choice to the more budget conscious user. The Samsung B3210 Genio QWERTY is such a device

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Samsung B3210 Genio QWERTY Review