Big Screen Camera Phone

It used to be that Cameraphones were phones with useless little cams attached to attract consumers, mainly to allow people to send cute pictures by SMS or to support video conferencing, which is still by and large a vapofeature in most phones.

Over the last year or so, the cameras attached to phones have become better and better, until in some models, the phone part is almost an afterthought. “What other feature can we put in our new 9 Megapixel camera, Sir?"" I know, let’s make it a phone too!”

I have a feeling just such a discussion was held when Sharp was designing the 923SH. A new phone coming to Softbank in Japan, the 923SH looks like a camera with a little telephony included. The screen is massive, capable of VGA resolution and can spin to landscape mode for viewing (no word yet if can also change into a large, fighting robot). If you need to take or display a lot of photos or videos with a mobile device, then this may be the ideal phone for you.

Motorola Blaze ZN4

Motorola Blaze ZN4 resembles the MING series in its look, with semi-transparent cover and a large touchscreen below. It is EV-DO Rev. A device with Bluetooth, 2-megapixel camera, Mobile TV and probably full HTML browser. This is the first entry of a touchscreen by verizon’s, and is supposed to do well once it is out in the market.



Motorola Blaze in looks is much like the A1600 and A1800 Ming handsets. While it is closed, the Moto Blaze has simplistic design but when you flip it open it seems to have a pretty large touchscreen display.

The features of Blaze are likely to include built-in GPS, EV-DO Rev A. connectivity for fast data transfer speeds, a 2 Megapixel camera with video recording, mobile TV and Bluetooth. It is also highly likely, that this clamshell will almost surely feature Verizon applications like V CAST Music and V CAST Video.

Agile instant messenger for iPhone

Apple iPhone now has another IM client to help its users stay connected with their friends every time and anytime. Agilemobile announced the launch of its Agile messenger which is a multi-protocol messaging client. The company claims that it’s the most user-friendly and feature rich iPhone messenger yet, it has got enough meat to prove his point too.

Agile messenger lets users to communicate on ICQ, AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and XMPP networks simultaneously.

Its multimedia prowess lets you send images, video and voice messages from mobile to mobile and mobile to PC. And the best feature has to be the “copy and paste” which lets you to copy a certain block of text and then paste it in the message field.

The online status can be changed with a simple tap on the top of screen while it has a run-in-th-background capability which lets you know the incoming messages with a soiund.

This is perfectly suitable application if you are looking for IM on iPhone it even has easy one-tap icons for setting your online status and messages. Its interface is sleek and easy to work, highly usable.

Agile messenger works on previous version of iPhone which lacked 3G as well as ipod Touch. It’s also compatible with Symbian 60, 80 , 90 and Symbian UIQ alongwith Windows platform.

Touch Cruise latest HTC device to fall to Android

With all these HTC models getting their brains rearranged to run Android, we're starting to wonder: just how necessary is the Dream? Don't get us wrong, we're pretty amped to see what kind of amazing hardware HTC's crafting to officially debut the consumer-ready cut of Android to the world, but there are plenty of very capable handsets already in the field -- and the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro should both be more than willing to donate their bodies in the name of science when the time comes, too. The latest model to get an Android port is the Polaris, also known as the Touch Cruise in production trim. At this point, the ports are still pretty raw and the level of functionality or spit and polish probably isn't what you're used to with the native WinMo installation, but they're getting there -- and considering that Android itself still has plenty of work remaining, it's an impressive feat and a promising sign of things to come for owners of older devices. Let us know how it goes if you're brave enough to give it a shot, y'hear?

Verizon XV6900 hands-on

Anyone remotely familiar with the HTC or Sprint Touch will feel right at home with Verizon's version, the XV6900. The XV6900 isn't content to just fall in line and play "me too," though -- Big Red decided to go with a blindingly glossy white finish, bucking the soft-touch black used as a staple of the Touch line, and that could be a boon or a bust depending on who you are and how you intend to use the device.

The tenets of HTC's TouchFLO interface are totally preserved from the other Touches we know and love, and thankfully, Verizon went easy with the application of bright red to the UI elements. Physically, the XV6900 is just ever-so-slightly larger than its GSM cousin -- not enough for the average person to ever notice in the course of regular use -- and the addition of 3G data is more than enough to make up for that slight difference as far as we're concerned. One thing that struck us was how much better the XV6900's display was over the original's; the overwhelming improvement in contrast is pretty striking, although to be fair, we would've never noticed had we not had them side by side. Check out the full gallery below.

Gallery: Verizon XV6900 hands-on