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Nowadays, Slide Phones are becoming popular in the minds of the people. Therefore some of the mobile manufacturers concentrate in producing such phones. But, Nokia still remains at the top in producing top-notch slide phones in the recent years.

Nokia has recently unleashed a new slide phone — Nokia 6760, a Smart Phone that comes equipped with QWERTY keyboard. This keyboard offers the ability to enter data in an elegant and faster method, thereby comforting those users, who like to send lots of messages to their friends. This model sports a 2.4 inch TFT screen, which can display up to 16 million colors at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.

The phone comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera that functions at high resolution, thereby ensuring to provide good quality images and also offers the ability to record and playback video at QVGA quality. With the aid of Bluetooth, users can transfer any type of data to other compatible devices, wirelessly. Moreover, this Nokia device has an internal memory of 128 Mb, but can be extended up to 8 GB by utilizing the microSD card facility.

With the help of in-built HSDPA providing access, internet access is available with this phone. The Nokia 6760 Slide also supports navigational features with the help of the A-GPS function that uses Nokia Maps. This slide phone also sports a smart media player that supports various audio/ video formats. With many more features, this new Nokia Mobile phone has emerged into the market of highly competitive Slide phones world.

The long awaited Windows Phone 7 smartphone has rocked onto the scene. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reported that these great innovative smartphones will be “a different kind of phone.” In New York City, Microsoft introduced nine unique phones specializing in the new system, and promise an incredible and interactive cellular phone to project Microsoft to progress far ahead of the competitors in the mobile phone industry.

AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile have partnered with Microsoft Corporation with these new Windows Phone 7 Smartphones, and it appears that with great expectations an emergence of popularity will explode onto the mobile phone scene. Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung will be incorporating this new operating system into their mobile phones.

Ballmer expounded with determination that Microsoft designed and engineered phones which are “thoroughly modern, in the hardware, modern in its design principles” and to augment “what people do today with Internet services and the like.”

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega also visited the launch in New York and stated that the Windows Phone 7 Smartphone is actually a “breakthrough smartphone experience.” AT&T is intending on releasing a number of Windows devices in the near future. AT&T’s first Windows Phone 7 Smartphone device is the Samsung Focus, in which it is going to release at the beginning of November this year. The Focus includes a 4- inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen, an impressive 5-megapixel camera as well as 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor system.

T-Mobile happens to be planning advancements with its special Windows Phone 7 Smartphone. Americas No. four company is introducing a couple of the Windows units. One is the HTC HD7, boasting 4.3-inch capacitive screen with built-in kickstand and includes a Snapdragon processor. T-Mobile said that their Windows Smartphones will be pre-loaded with several entertainment applications, which will include Netflix and T-Mobile TV. These characteristics bring the end user a chance to access live and on-demand TV, and also gratis programming from ABC News NOW, FOX Sports, PBS Kids, Azteca America and many other applications and content material.

For the average Joe looking to get a SmartPhone the search can be confusing and frustrating. Understanding the basic decision factors to consider is key. Here ya go….

First off, the difference between BlackBerry and Treo – is push vs. pull technology. Push technology means every time you get an email in your inbox, you get it on your BlackBerry. With pull technology, every time you wish to review your emails, you ask the unit to grab them from the server. I prefer pull technology as I don’t wish to be constantly interrupted at my desk, let alone when I’m mobile!

Also, what environment/operating system do you prefer? A Windows Mobile environment works particularly well if you use Outlook and and Exchange Server – all Microsoft products. However, if you do not, then I suggest you look at the Palm devices. Palm comes with its own contact manager software – but also syncs with Outlook (attached to a USB port and push a button) and is a very stable OS (Operating System).

However, even before looking for the phones, what service provider are you considering? Tmobile has older technology; Sprint/Nextel has a good reputation, but Verizon’s Treo 700p gets mixed reviews particularly for their email function. Shop carefully. Not all provider phones are equal.

Next, you’ll want to make sure you get an unlimited data plan (and if you can make them throw in unlimited texting – all the better). Don’t forget the insurance, these devices are expensive. Pay the extra $7.00 or so per month for full insurance and peace of mind.

Of course, also get cases. The units will most likely be dropped at some point. A case can literally save you hours of phone/leg time as the unit doesn’t break!

There ya go. The facts, the facts, and nothing but the facts.

I don’t think that I was the only one who was very happy when the CECT T32 first came out.

As the smart phone market gets smoldering hot a Famous American company says that it appears that a Taiwanese company that manufactures smart phone handsets may have borrowed or closely copied some of their patents. The plaintiff denies it of course, and we shall see in the future if any of these claims of imitation stick. Nevertheless, both smart phone makers are in a significantly tough market for world-wide Smart Cell Phone sales. Yes, even here in the US.

These lawsuits are quite serious, well at least the charges by the American Company appear to be, and it’s interesting that this company chose the Taiwanese based company to go after, instead of the a US based firm which makes the software. If the American Company wins such a case this might cause the Taiwan manufacturer to no longer offer their top smart phone models that compete directly with the American Company, which really do look and feel like an the American high-tech smart phone handset to most of the personal tech reviewers (based on all the YouTube reviews), and Taiwan company has a number of new handsets which are about to be marketed in the USA. Does this mean the American Company is trying to preempt this introduction?

The question is does the Taiwan company’s touch sense like technology really violate the American Company’s patents? The American Firm thinks so, and it’s highly prolific spokesperson has gone out of his way to make light of it, demanding healthy competition to continue, but for companies to compete, using their own technology without stealing it from the American Firm. If all this sounds like a bunch of fighting words, well in a way they are, I suppose. If the Taiwan company’s newest products come to the US it will most likely be sold in conjunction with a certain carrier’s 3G wireless program. And there are nearly 102 new clone types on their way in the near future in 2010.

Some have speculated that a popular US based software for smart phones had trouble working with a certain Taiwan smart phone, and the software had trouble negotiating the registry. If so, did the Taiwanese firm borrow something from the American firms OS, or is the American firm angry that the Taiwan models at the upper end look, feel, operate the same (or very similarly) and thus, are basically clones? The battle lines in the smart phone space appear to be headed to court, the US International Patent Court for starters.

Some contend that the American Firm is suing the Taiwan company, because the clones, which are running another US Firms’s software and by filing against the Taiwan company it will prevent a clash of the titans between two of the largest market cap tech companies in the world. If the American Firm is successful this could help hold their latest handset technology’s price point, thus, helping yet, another US enterprise’s smart phone which sells for $199 as well. Nevertheless, the world is about to be flooded with smart phones in 2010, and not just from the Taiwan firm.

The American Company has noted extremely large share price increases, at a time when it is about to come out with its flat reader product, so, Wall Street Analysts are giving the American Firm the benefit of the doubt that it can keep this game running forward far into the future, indeed, their current stock prices have obliged thus far. This could be one of the largest patent challenges of all time between East and West, so we shall see.

Note: This article author did not use the actual names of any company in this article due to censorship strategies used by the article submission site, to protect themselves from liability as the are practicing “defensive” rules to prevent problems. But suffice it to say, with a little bit of searching of the news and all the other legitimate article sites, you will quickly figure out which companies are involved. You can easily find this information in any main-stream newspaper, or tech magazine such as;

The Wall Street Journal New York Times Washington Post CNET NBC ABC CNBC MSNBC Wired Fast Company Bloomberg Business Week Forbes

The other day, I had someone contact me on one of my blogs asking if I thought it would make sense to get the iPod touch just for web surfing.