The Nokia 5800 Xpress Music: the phone to have

February 10, 2011  //  Posted by: cooldude  //  Category: Cell Phones

Look around you. You will see almost all your peers carrying the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. The 5800 Xpress Music launched by Nokia in 2008 has been in the news for all the right reasons. So, if you are planning to buy the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music here are some things that you need to know.

The first thing is make sure that you get all the stuffs that you are paying for. Along with the handset you will get two styluses, a protective case, BL-5J battery, and Nokia official charger. You will also get micro USB cable, 3.5mm headphones, 3.5 mm TV Out cable, a plectrum that you can use instead on the styluses, a foldable stand and a mini DVD for the computer.

The Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is a Symbian S60 fifth edition Smartphone that is also known as the S60v5. Some features of the phone have been taken from the previous S60 version but quite a few new features have been added as well.

Must have mobile applications

November 05, 2010  //  Posted by: cooldude  //  Category: Cell Phones

Today living without a mobile is something we can almost not imagine. It plays an important part in our lives. Networking, work, personal work-everything is within our palm today. With the help of advancement of science and technology, today, mobile applications have become so efficient that we can totally use this for fulfilling all our needs. Web applications help us in quick mailing, networking, chatting, etc. Multi- tasking with the help of web applications is so easy and efficient that everyone can handle it.

Businessmen have been benefited a lot with the help of these technologies.  Mobiles have helped in increasing the flexibility in communication and interaction. Smart phones have these applications which are user friendly too. Smart phones have thus become very popular. People in the field of business, construction, or anything, everyone have been the benefactor with the help of mobile applications.

Also the entertainment options are a lot. Music, games, etc are some of the main features which everyone looks for in a phone.

Net 10 Phone

September 13, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Cell Phones, Phone Cards

Net 10 offers a range of high quality handsets with their prepaid phone plans at an affordable price minus the hassle of contracts.

As per their name Net 10, offers talk time at 10 cents per minute and message a mere 5 cents per message nationwide. After choosing a handset and one of their plans, Net 10 efficiently informs you how much you have spent per call right on the screen. It also carries minutes left over from one month onto the next so you use every single minute you have paid for. Net 10 is cheaper than other mobile phone service providers in the country.

They offer handsets from Samsung, Motorola, LG and Kyocera along with accessories that are optional. Adding or buying air time, transferring numbers, connecting long distance, fixing long or short term plans are some of the key features provided by Net 10.

AT&T Smartphone

September 13, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Cell Phones

The AT&T 8525 is a phone for the road with effective Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. A heavy sturdy handset in charcoal grey with a battery life of four hours of talk and eight hours of standby time and a memory of 68MB SDRAM and128MB ROM.

It has a QWERTY keyboard, push email facilities, 2-megapixel camera, a 2.8-inch touch screen of 320×240 pixels, quick launch keys for easy email and Internet access, a handy scroll for one handed use and for volume control while on a call.
The phone supports UMTS/HSDPA and a host of business applications that allow speedier streaming video and broad band Internet access. AT&T smartphone has a 400MHZ Samsung processor and it operates on Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition. It has ClearVue PDF viewer and other organizational and multimedia features from Windows making it the perfect office on the go.

IPhone 3g

September 12, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Cell Phones

The unique find-yourself-feature on the iphone 3g helps identify locations through map, hybrid or satellite view giving you a fair idea of traffic flow in any area with advanced GPS and Wi-Fi.

The advanced touch screen feature allows you to touch your music on the built in iPod, photos, keypad, email, and other applications. The search engine will search anything across the web, applications or server. The intelligent keypad makes suggestions as you type.

Two 5-megapixel strategically placed cameras allow video calls and let you take beautiful photos that can be stored face or place-wise. Retina display gives you sharper images that can be zoomed to the smallest detail. Contact numbers can be searched in name, number or map mode. Text messaging and emailing is just a tap too. Safari on iphone gives faster internet.

IPhone features VoiceOver, mono-audio, ibooks among other applications and wireless Braille displays.

BlackBerry 8830

September 12, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Cell Phones

The Black Berry 8830 is a thing of beauty and is available in silver. Blackberry 8830 has a QWERTY keyboard and an LCD display. It has track ball navigation unlike the 8800 series that used a side scroller. It has an internal antenna, a powerful battery that allows 3.7hours talk time and 216 hours standby in normal mode and 5 hours talk time and 384 hours standby in GSM mode. The 8830 provides 64 MB memory, while the phonebook is on shared memory. It carries all of the features typically provided in a smartphone such as Bluetooth connectivity, push email button, organizers, PC synchronization, WAP/Web Browser software that supports HTML, Memory Card Slot that supports up to 4GB, instant messaging options, voice dialing. Blackberry 8830 also has some exciting additional features like media player, custom graphics, ringtones, games, Java, real music ringers that support MP3, AAC and WMA.

Yet the unique selling point of this smartphone is that it allows globe trotters to switch between CDMA and GSM networks with least difficulty.

Creating a Photo album on an iPhone

September 11, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Applications, Cell Phones

It is totally cool to have a photo album for storing and viewing images on the iPhone. It may seem like a complicated technology but it definitely works. You can work the phone by using your fingers. The iPhone is a state-of-art gadget that includes everything from iPod (music and videos), e-mail, phone, internet access and photos. Now here are the easy steps for creating photo album on your iPhone:
1. Click the “Add” button (The button appears like a plus and is located in bottom left corner in the iphoto window.

2. Select the album from the menu that pops up.

3. Type in a name for the album (use names that associate with the content of the album) -> “Create” -> the album is visible in source list.

4. Click “Library”. Just drag the photos of your choice from here to the new album of yours.

Changing the ringtone of an iPhone

September 11, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Applications, Cell Phones

IPhones are available with different pre-installed ringtones which alert you for incoming calls, SMS’s and alarms. However it is possible for an iPhone user to buy and download different ringtones from other sellers. Here is how you set default ringtones for incoming calls and messages:

1. Click “Settings” -> “Sounds” -> “Ringtone”. A list of pre-installed ringtones appears in alphabetical order. You can pre-hear the ringtone by clicking the title. Choose the ringtone for incoming calls by clicking on it and confirm that the right title is selected.

2. Now click on “Sounds” for returning to sound settings.

3. Choose “New Text Message” for viewing the list of available ringtones for the text messages. Click on the desired ringtone for assigning it to the incoming text messages.

Similarly you can also assign different ringtones for each of your contacts.
Be aware of the third party ringtones as a monthly fee is charged and it is difficult to remove.

Transferring videos and music to the iPhone

September 10, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Cell Phones, Music Gadgets

Here is how to do it:

1. Set the iPhone to not sync automatically to iTunes and vice versa. For this, connect to your pc, in iTunes click “Summary”. Now uncheck “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected”. Now iTunes will not come up when you connect the iPhone. Sync can be started manually.

2. Now for setting iTunes, go to iTunes -> Preferences (for Mac) Edit -> Preferences (for pc). Uncheck “Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones.”

3. Click “Summary”-> Sync or Apply if you have changed the sync settings.

4. Go to “Music”. Here collect all or a favorite playlist. All the audios will load here.

5. Go to “Video”. Now, same as above.
6. You can also transfer photos. Just go to “Photo” pane and bring them over. You might be required to format them however. If they are already formatted, just have them in a folder and move them over.

Unlocking a Vodafone 830i mobile phone

August 31, 2010  //  Posted by: nureview  //  Category: Cell Phones

A common problem faced for the Vodafone 830i users is to unlock the cell phone. So the problem is to unlock your Vodafone 830i and make it work on any sim card. There are a number of solutions available for this issue. For more information and solution for the problem you can go through any of the GSM unlock guides available on the internet.
The solution also depends on the network you’re using. For some of the networks and the Vodafone 830i, unlocking codes are available which also happens to be the easiest way of unlocking the Vodafone 830i. For other issues the best way is to visit the shop with your phone. Remember there is no free of cost way of unlocking the Vodafone 830i. Be careful of the websites offering cheap unlocking codes as scams are pretty common. They only offer information on how to unlock rather than the actual unlocking codes.