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Can these 20+ Hi-End Mobile Phones be iPhone Killers?

iPhone is without a doubt one of the most advanced phone that has give rise to so many giant touch screen mobiles HTC Touch Diamond2 back front side-728-75phones so far. iPhone UI experience is quite amazing and others are yet to match it. However, there are quite a few mobile phones out there who are trying to match the iPhone performance and giving a good competition to iPhone. Features are quite amazing. Here we have 20+ graphic rich, touch screen 3G mobile phones that are trying to chase iPhone away.

BlackBerry Storm 2

BlackBerry Storm series are high capable touch screen phones, WiFi enabled, 3.2MP Camera, BlackBerry Organizer with rich multimedia support.

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HTC Magic

HTC Magic is Android based, a thinner variant of G1, has QWERTY keypad, WiFi, 3.2 MP Camera, GPS.

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HTC Hero

HTC Hero is an Android based 3G phone with WiFi, GPS, 5MP Camera and the other usual features. It has great looks with a giant touch screen.

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HTC Touch Pro 2

HTC Touch Pro 2 is based on Windows Mobile 6.1, with GPS, WiFi, 3.2MP Camera, 256MB RAM with 528MHz processor.

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HTC Touch Diamond 2

HTC Touch Diamond 2 is also a Windows Mobile 6.1 based phone with 5MP Camera, GPS, WiFi and other features. It has a 528MHz processor.

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HTC HD2

HTC HD2 is a Windows Mobile 6.1 based mobiles phone with an amazing 1GHz processor! It has 5MP Camera, GPS, WiFi etc.

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LG Renoir

LG Renoir has an 8MP camera and a competitor for Samsung Pixon. It has other features like WiFi, GPS, DivX support etc.

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LG Arena

LG Arena is a mid level touch phone with 5MP camera, WiFi, GPS, 3G  support and much more.

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LG Viewty Smart 2

LG Viewty Smart 2 is a 8MP, 3G, WiFi phone that comes with 1.5GB internal memory. It is expandable up to 32GB with microSD.

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LG Prada 2

LG Prada 2 has sliding QWERTY key pad, 5MP camera, WiFi, FM Radio etc. Unfortunately no GPS.

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LG Chocolate

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LG GT500/505

LG GT500/505 are two models with minor changes, they both have 5MP Camera, GPS, WiFi, Geo Tagging etc. GT505 doesn’t have FM radio and LED Flash. GT500 supports microSD upto 8GB, the other supports up to 16GB. GT500 is furnished with A Class Touch User Interface and Automatic Rotate Screen while GT505 doesn’t have.

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LG GM750

LG GM750 is Windows Mobile 6.5 based, with WiFi, GPS, 5MP Camera etc.

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LG Crystal

LG Crystal has transparent keypad, 3 inch touch screen,  multi touch, 8MP camera, 3G support, WiFi, DivX support, FM Radio and more. This model has no GPS.

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Motorola CLIQ

Motorola CLIQ is Android based, 5MP camera, WiFi, 3.1 inch touch screen with GPS.

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Motorola Droid

Motorola Droid is Android based mobile with advanced features like 3.7 inch touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, Google mobile services, 5MP camera and much more.

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 Nokia N97

Nokia N97 is Symbian S60 based 3G phone. Other features include 3.5-inch 640×360 pixels display, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3.5mm jack.

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Palm Pre

Palm Pre is based on Web OS, has a modest 3MP Camera, HSDPA/GSM, WiFi, GPS and much more. It has a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

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Samsung Omnia HD

Samsung Omnia HD is most advanced mobile phone with High Definition movie capturing capabilities and probably the first mobile to do so. It’s features are impressive with DivX support, 3.5mm Audio Jack, HDMI port, WiFi, GPS, 3G network support, 8MP camera. This phone is Symbian 9.4 based with a powerful ARM 600MHz processor, enough for the rich multimedia experience.

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Samsung Jet S8000

Samsung Jet comes with redesigned TouchWiz interface and has a Samsung 800MHz processor to power the rich features. Its other features are Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3.5mm jack, 5MP camera, 2 GB internal memory, a 3.1-inch display with WVGA resolution, incorporating the AMOLED technology. It is based on Samsung’s proprietary OS that includes its Dolphin Web browser.

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Samsung Pixon

Samsung Pixon is a rich multimedia phone with 3.2" touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera and support for DivX and XviD. It is a quad-band global phone but unfortunately no WiFi/GPS.

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Samsung Omnia 2

Samsung Omnia 2 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, Has TouchWiz 2.0 for better UI, WiFi, 3.7 inch Touch Screen, 5MP camera, GPA and much more.

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Toshiba TG01

Toshiba TG01 has a huge 4.1-inch WVGA 800 x 480 pixel resistive touchscreen. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, it has personalized interface that can also be controlled by shaking. Other features include 3G HSPA support, Wi-Fi, and A-GPS. It has powerful Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon chip. The TG01 will have a virtual track pad for web navigation and its Internet Explorer will come with Flash.

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We have not covered all the iPhone alternative phones here. If you have you any opinion, please feel free to add comments below.

Top Interactive Geek Shirts – T-Shirts that Geeks Should Not Miss To Wear :)

Hey you fellow geeks, here is something very interesting! 8 Must have Geekiest Interactive T-Shirts to flaunt!

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T-Qualizer Shirt

Flaunt the T-Qualizer T Shirt. Coolest part is T-Qualizer can dynamically change the glow with any ambient sound or music.

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Personal Soundtrack Shirt

This T-Shirt Gives a background music for your boring life!

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Electronic Drum Kit Shirt

This T-Shirt has real sounding Drums :)

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8 bit dynamic life shirt

Didn’t you get it? Check the second picture and drool!

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Brick Construction Shirt

Build your very own shirt design with the Brick Construction Shirt. Take your favorite construction blocks of choice (LEGO™, PixelBlocks, Mega Bloks, K’NEX Bricks™ are all compatible) then start building. You can write messages, incorporate minifigs, build 3-D structures with gears, add motors… the mind boggles. The only limit is your imagination and the amount of weight you can deal with on the front of your shirt.

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Wi Fi detector

Whoa! This T-Shirt shows the current Wi-Fi strength to your friends :)

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Electronic Rock Guitar T-Shirt

A wearable guitar :)

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Wi-Fi Cap

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If you are interested check out, ThinkGeek for more :)

Stop Listening and Start Feeling The Music via High Performance Head Phones

Though artists spend so much time and money in fine-tuning and mixing music to make sure the right kind of music is created for their fans, often fans don’t listen to the original music due to poor quality head phones that are not good at reproducing the original sound. Here is a cool device designed for all those who want to listen to the soundtrack of life with clarity and power. Lady Gaga has teamed up with monster and Dr. Dre and created a high-performance head phone called Heartbeats by Lady Gaga. This head phone is designed so it does not look like no other head phone out there.

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Features:

  • Multiple Eartips For the Perfect Fit
    To ensure perfect fit and seal, they come with multiple sizes and shapes of ear tips. This gives you max comfort and reduce outside noise.
  • Plush Travel Case
    They come with a plush travel case to keep you heartbeats safe and sound.
  • Exclusive Monster Cable
    To provide accurate signal, they come with an exclusive Monster Cable
  • Flat Cables by Monster: No Tangles
    The exclusive flat cables from Monster are designed for tangle-resistance.

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You can take a look and buy here . They are priced around $99.

Geek’s Laptop – Dual Screen Laptops for Multitasking!

Well, we have seen Multi Screen monitor computers and they are sort of cool! When ever we see such systems we just say Wow! But how about a Dual Screen Laptop!! Isn’t that cool? We would love that! We can have Windows Live Writer on one screen and on other we can just go on searching for better tools for you to play with :) hmm.. Hopefully, we get it someday! image

gScreen, Anchorage, Alaska based company is releasing this Spacebook (What a name! rightly said) and this will be released in few countries initially! This is a must have for every Geek around the world :)

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Specification:

  • 2 LED backlit display screens
  • Windows VISTA/ WIN XP PRO (optional)
  • Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26-GHz
  • 4 GB of RAM (2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM x 2)
  • 320GB 7200-rpm HD
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GT with 512MB dedicated memory (or) NVIDIA® Quadro FX 1700M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory
  • 9-cell battery
  • IEEE 1394 1 Graphics Card Output (15-pin, D-Sub) X 1, HDMI X 1
  • Mic-in X 1, Line-in x 1, Headphone X 1 PCI Express Card X 1 AC Power Adaptor Output: 19V DC, 90W Input: 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz universal Battery Pack Li-ion 9 cells

Via http://www.gscreencorp.com/ (Picture) and Source: Gizmodo

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The Barrier to Using The iPhone for Business Has Just Fallen

While Nokia is doing its research by prototyping Nokia Easy Meet, a web-based mobile collaboration service, Cisco has extended its SaaS and premises-based collaboration applications to the Apple iPhone 3G to deliver an unparalleled mobile collaboration experience. The Apple iPhone with Cisco’s WebEx technology capabilities makes a simple, but very powerful interface. With the introduction of Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for iPhone, the barrier to use the iPhone for business has just fallen.

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As you would see with any other iPhone app UI, it provides a powerful user interface on your iPhone to schedule, start and cancel a WebEx Meeting. You can stay connected with important meetings where ever you are and get a full meeting experience with native 3G or WiFi support for simultaneous data and audio. This puts an end to the days of just listening-in to a Web meeting.

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The main features include:

  • Attending Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Web Meeting with full screen view and integrated audio.
  • WebEx subscription not required!
  • Schedule, start and cancel WebEx meetings
  • Invite attendees either before or during the meeting
  • View contents shared from any computer: documents, applications or screen sharing with live annotations
  • See who is in your meeting and how they joined by icon represented differently for joining from mobile and computer
  • Start an individual or group chat with other meeting participants
  • Control the audio with mute and unmute capabilities
  • Check details of the meeting in progress

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Take advantage of a screen view optimized for iPhone in either vertical or horizontal and meet easily with other WebEx users with any platform Windows, Mac or Linux.

Well, the iPhone user interface is fare better that the user interface provided by Nokia Easy Meet, the two are not apple to apple comparison. Well, its Apple’s iPhone App comparison with Nokia Widget!

Nokia Easy Meet is more towards Friends and Family meetings whereas the Cisco WebEx is more for business purpose.

The iPhone app is free and can be downloaded at the App Store.

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