Nokia N78 Review and Price

Nokia N78 is official out, this is another amazing A-GPS integrated mobile phone that includes a 3.2MP camera featured with Carl Zeiss optics. Nokia N78 will be available starting today at select electronics and wireless retailers, online retailers and at the Nokia Flagship Stores in Chicago and New York. Nokia N78 is expected to be priced at $560.

Nokia N78 will include free three month trial navigation license for the Nokia Maps service, which enables users to calculate routing information, provides details on up to 15 million different points of interest, and gives audible and visual turn-by-turn directions from point A to point B. With the integrated A-GPS, users can ‘geotag’ images they take on their Nokia N78 with local information.


With this information images can be uploaded to Share on Ovi or other selected image sharing sites, one can also include not only when the picture was taken but also where the picture was taken, even displaying that information visually present on the map.

For people who want to be handy with their music, the Nokia N78 has two amazing includes - a digital music player and an integrated FM transmitter which ensures a complete audio experience. With storage for up to 8GB of music on an optional MicroSD memory card, a music collection can be easily shared and enjoyed in the home or car by playing it wirelessly through the FM radio.

HTC Touch Pro Review

The new HTC Touch Pro aka Raphael is essentially similar to an HTC Touch Diamond but with a new 5 row, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It includes a 2.8″ VGA touchscreen display, HSDPA/HSUPA high-speed data, and a 3.2 megapixel AF-capable camera.

Just like the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro has the HTC’s shiny new TouchFLO 3D user interface screen. TouchFLO 3D provides users with a high-gloss 3D animated user experience which makes HTC Touch Pro all the more a fingers friend.



The Touch Pro runs on a version 6.1 of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Professional operating system, and comes equipped with over 256MB of application RAM and hold upto decent 512MB internal flash storage space.

HTC Touch Pro comes with a SD 2.0 compatible microSD card slot which can enable more storage capacity with 8GB upto the 16GB microSD cards. Touch Pro also includes GPS and WiFi which makes this device more desirable.

The Touch Pro’s 1350mAh battery can provide approx 8 hours of talk time or 2 weeks of standby time when used on GSM networks. HTC says that the Touch Pro will be available across Europe, Asia, and the Middle Eastin summer itself. However, the users in North America and South America have to wait longer.

Battle of the Keyboards: XPERIA X1 vs. HTC Touch Pro

MobileBurn scored an early look at the Touch Pro -- which won't be available at retail for a month or three yet -- and came away impressed with the all-important keyboard, saying that it was "much more" usable than the QWERTY found on Sony Ericsson's rival superphone. Closed, it's said to be virtually indistinguishable from the Touch Diamond (which we'd say is a good thing) other than being a bit thicker to accomodate they keyboard and picking up a matte-finish rear cover.



Two top-notch devices: the HTC Touch Pro and the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. Both have specs that would make any geek weak at the knees, but when it comes to the keyboard, word on the street is that there's simply no contest - the Touch Pro comes out on top. Check out what MobileBurn has to say, and do take a look at the pics. Engadget has plenty of X1 pics for your perusal, too.

Motorola's touchscreen Blaze for Verizon in the wild

Remember that touchscreen Motorola Blaze we'd mentioned a while back that was on the hook to get Verizon's visual voicemail service? It may not be in Verizon stores yet, but it's all up in Boy Genius Report's labs with a dark red body, MING attitude, and almost limitless mediocrity on board. The touchscreen apparently requires ridiculous amounts of effort to actuate, and that problem is compounded by a lame on-screen keyboard that makes texting tricky at best. EV-DO Rev. A is cool and all -- and the visual voicemail support should be a pretty popular add-on feature -- but that giant Motorola logo up front with the red ring and three pounds of chrome leaves the Blaze with a face only a mother could love. Let's hope Verizon's positioning this one as its low-end touchscreen offering, because we're not seeing it cha-chinging many registers otherwise.

HTC Touch Diamond soft reset

Seems that many think that the Diamond doesn't have a soft reset button and that the only way to reset a hung device is to pop the battery out and put it back in.

However, this isn't the case. The Diamond does indeed have a reset button that you can press with your stylus, it's just in a slightly unusual place. Don't go poking your stylus in the two holes on the bottom of the device, neither of these are the reset button. The square hole is where you attach a lanyard or phone charm and the round one next to the USB connector is the MIC. Don't go forcing your stylus in the MIC hole - we've heard that some people have already damaged their phones because of this.

In actual fact that reset button is located just under the bit where the stylus slides in. If you remove the stylus you'll see a little red button and the word reset. You can in fact press this button if you poke it with the stylus at an angle but it's a little easier to get to if you pop the back cover open a bit.