Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Blackberry Storm2 9520

Introduction

Blackberry Storm2 9520 is one of the current top mobile phone in the world market. Blackberry is claimed to be the best partner for businessman and slowly gained popularity in the market in these few years

Blackberry is a smart phone device which was introduced by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1996. The blackberry function would be the personal digital assistant which compatible with calendar, to-do–list and address book. It is primarily known for its ability to send and receive the internet email within the internet coverage area or through Wi-Fi connection. Blackberry claimed to be the messaging phone with the large array of messaging features. Auto-text, auto-correct, text prediction, support for multi languages, keyboard shortcuts, emoticons, push mail, push facebook and myspace notification, instant messaging, and others. It also support the music and video playback where could let the users enjoy the entertainment facilities.

The most significant features of the blackberry would be the built-in QWERTY keyboard which optimized for the thumbing. However, for the storm series, the physical QWERTY keyboard is not available for the model. But there is Sure Type keypad is included for Storm 1 and 2 for typing, well the less would be the virtual keyboard.

Blackberry Storm2 9520 has 3.15 mega pixels camera with the auto focus function and LED flash. It has 3.25 inches touch screen with high resolution 480X360 screen and more than 65,000 colors. The music player of the Storm 2 would be basic just like the other music players or models.

Review

In my first momentary look, Blackberry Storm has a difference with other smart phone collection which is no QWERTY keyboard where applied the touch screen technology. Sure Type and SurePress are used in the storm series where using two fingers to select multiple items such as texting, email and surfing. It has learned the users’ habits which prefer thumbing. When you are using the blackberry storm2 9520 in landscape mode, the keyboard will be appeared. While in portrait view, switching is available to let you have more choices in between the full keyboard, SureType keyboard, and multi-tap keyboard. While the SureType and multi-tap keyboard is showing more than one letter on each key. You can choose your keyboard type based on your preference.

Without the physical keyboard, the design would become just simple and nice. It has 3.25 inches touch screen with high resolution 480X360 screen and more than 65,000 colors. It provides a high quality and high solution image to the users. Below the screen, there are 4 regular buttons or control keys, call, menu, return and terminate where all touch sensitive. The Blackberry Storm2 9520 is in a rounded design which is comfortable to hold in hand.

It has 3.15 mega pixels camera with the auto focus function and LED flash. In addition, it also has geo tagging function which enables you to have the location details of your picture. The music player of the Storm 2 would be basic just like the other music players or models. It allows you to sort tracks according to artist, album, genre and others. MP3, WMA, and AAC files are supported by this Blackberry model. While playing the music or track, there are only play, stop, song list, previous and the next keys on the screen. There is a nice features on music player where you can done a quick search on a particular artist songs by pressing and hold on the artist name. For the video aspect, it is also simple and basic as others where supporting MP4, 3pg.h.264 and WMV video files. While with the high quality of display, it produces the good quality of video.

This model runs on the Blackberry OS 5 platform. Compared with the previous models, Blackberry OS 5 is responsive experienced and usability and visual enhancement such as spin box. It has refined the typing accuracy and selection. While the browser of the blackberry Storm2 9520 was improved with faster JAVA and CSS processing. It also includes the number of useful additions, which one of these is the cut and paste function. For example, if you want to cut text from mail, you just have to call up the menu and choose select. Then, you can mark the area of the text you want to cut.

The other features of Blackberry Storm2 9520 would include the rechargeable and removable 1400mAhr battery which provides around 6 hours for talk time and up to 280 hours for standby time. Besides, the GPS navigation service is also included in this model which makes your tour and travel simpler and much easier.

If you think this model suits you, the go and get a Blackberry Storm2 9520 from your nearest retailer shop.

Friday, December 3, 2010

HP SLATE 500 – A Review


The Slate 500 from the Hewlett Packard is a multi touch tablet PC slate that runs on Windows 7. The HP Slate 500 was actually released on 22nd OCT 10. The original intention of HP was to build the Slate as just an E-Reader, but was further refined by them to produce a device that has better User Interface, browsing capability, and Audio (Music) and Video entertainment. The HP Slate is a device that is low priced, low power consuming, Windows 7 Operating tablet PC.

The HP Slate 500 sports an 8.9 inches multi touch capacitive display having resolutions of 1024 x 600 pixels with pen and digitizer supportability, and features a 3 MP camera at the back and a VGA camera on its front. The Intel Atom Z540 1.86 GHz processor and 2 GB DDR2 RAM powering the working of the Slate, contains 64 GB flash memory and a USB 2.0 port standard support. The Integrated Graphics accelerator from Intel GMA 500, together with HD media Accelerator card from Broadcom Crystal provides the support for video playback at 1080p. The Slate 500 has got Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi capability and 3G supports from HP Wireless Broadband. All of these working on a two-cell 30 WHr Li-Ion battery that gives 5 hrs of working time. The HP Slate 500 comes with a digitizer/stylus pen that lets you do free hand drawing and writing on screen.

The Slate 500 works on Windows 7 Operating System that gives additional performance impact. The HP and Adobe Systems provide the Slate 500 with a complete web feel that lets you play Adobe contents and AIR apps. At first, the price of the HP Slate 500 was USD 799. But now, HP has decreased the price, due to competition from its competitors and is sold at USD 549. The latest news from HP is that the HP Slate 500 is sold out till Christmas and so additional demands will have to wait till the Christmas gets over.