For the people that want a new phone but don’t know how to choose, this is my little help to you. There 5 Things you have to think about before you make these big and somewhat costly expenses.

(Form Factor)- There many different form factors and that is a very important part of choosing a phone.

Sliding- The most recent Form factor is Sliding, and that is what is in my opinion the best, you get a full keyboard and if you want a touch screen.

Bar- This is also a very good Form factor for the people who don’t mind using a touch screen or just a regular phone like a Blackberry.

Flip- This has been slowly leaving the Market but there some left, for the people that don’t want to pocket dial

Swivel- This is somewhat a good looking form in the sense you just push and it twist opens. Like the Sidekick series(except the Slide) and other phone.

(Smart or Dumb)- Choosing this is as important as choosing the Form Factor of a phone.

Smartphone- You get a lot of features, Apps and other great things. Like the Iphone or Touch pro2, there many OS’s out there like Windows mobile, Mac Osx, Nokia S60, Google Android and another Nokia Meome 5 OS.

Dumbphone- If you want an easy to understand and not to much things too worry and a phone that won’t brick.

(Functions)- There a lot of function phones can do this days that you will have a hard choice from. Lets take my phone for example. I have Wifi, Gps, Bluetooth, Touchscreen, Qwarty keyboard and a great 3.2Mp camera. There are a lot of features out there and all you have to do is pick.

Here is My Recommendations

For a Dumb phone/Smartphone- Iphone 3GS

For a Full Dumb phone- Samsung Impression

For a Full Smartphone- The HTC Touch Pro2

For low Expense smartphone- The Iphone

For Low expense Dumb phone- the Iphone

All around Good phone- The upcoming HD2 or SE X3(Rachael)  

This is my short and Personal review for Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft has been making it a big hype out there like there is a lot to offer as an upgrade, so I think it needs a little review since I have 6.5 right now, let’s get to it.

Style

This is where Microsoft didn’t do much but still a little for it to matter. They changed the drop down start menu and put in a new and in my opinion better page start menu. They also added Kinetic scrolling so now more side bar locating and hoping that you’re hitting it right. They biggest changes the made to it is to make buttons more Fingers friendly and easy to press. Other than those I really don’t see any other changes to the Main OS for example the Media player is still ugly and sucks, the Contact and outlook still looks bad and the Dialer has changed. Microsoft has a lot to do till the release of WM7.0 and from the leaked images I think this might be something good that the didn’t release it now.

Under-The-Hood

This is the easiest on to review, there is no difference, it’s the same thing since 6.0, maybe since 5.0.

Usage

This Os even tho there isn’t much change there is better speed, but it comes with a cost of memory and Power, which if your me you have a lot.

New Apps

Funny I should say that with the unveiling of there brand spanking new app store. There has always been a lot of apps available to windows mobile from small Developers for free and now with the app store people can get a lot of apps for there phone. There isn’t up to 1000 apps there last I checked but that number will change soon, also there are more than 21,000 apps for windows mobile but not all made it to the store. This new app store is great and it will help with development on windows mobile turf

Overall

Positive

New Menu system

New Kinetic Scrolling

New Faster Os

New Start Up animation

Bigger Buttons

More Finger Friendly

Negative

Same under the Hood since WM5.0

Same Ugly Player

No Visual changes to the File explorer, outlook, Dialer, Sms and more, actually pretty much everything is the same

IE Mobile is still The Worst

Workingman’s Rating: 3.7/5

This news here is for the Storm owners out there that want a more up-to date phone. There has been a effort by the Blackberry developers and instead of people like other mobile phone company that has a new product and don’t update the still good but old phone. They have though about you guys and made a phone update for the first/original storm and I think this update is quite thoughtful and hope it comes with a lot of features but why hope when you can see a change log.

“BlackBerry Storm - MR3 (5.0) Software Release

OEM: RIM

Model: 9530

Software Version: 5.0.0 Release 508(OS 4.2.0.128 / Applications 5.0.0.328)

Approval Date: 10/22/09

Available through the following methods:

Over The Air Software Loading (OTASL): NOT AVAILABLE for this upgrade.

Desktop Manager Software Loading: Customers will have access any time after

10/25 10PM Eastern time.

Web Based Software Loading (WebSL): Customers will have access any time

after 10/25 10PM Eastern time.

A software update to help enhance the performance on your BlackBerry ®

StormTM smartphone is now available. From your computer go to

www.verizonwireless.com/storm, select "Software Download" and follow the

on-screen instructions. Thank you, Verizon Wireless

New software has been approved for the RIM Blackberry Storm (9530), and will

be available effective 10/25/2009 at 7 PM PST for customers. Communication

will be provided to customers via a "Pin Message" to their device stating:

Symptoms Resolved:

* Significant improvements in rotation detection and screen painting have been introduced in this software.

* Device displayed a white bar at the bottom of the screen after a rotation event.

* When setting a custom SMS tone for a single contact, this tone may playback unexpectedly for SMS' received from other contacts.

* When swiping down the virtual keyboard in an MMS message the send and save draft icons did not appear as expected.

* When viewing an SMS there was no simple way to call the current user. Now the user can select the number from the Callback Number field or from the message body and call that number from the pop up menu.

* The delete prior function has the unwanted side-effect of triggering the compose email screen.

* The user cannot configure their profile settings to increase the number of alerts when being notified of an event such as incoming SMS or email.

* Previous software versions did not allow the user to increase the count of notifications (i.e. Beep 5 times when when I get an email and beep 3 times when I get an sms). In this software, this is now allowed with counts from 1-10.

* When trying to set a home screen background of a certain resolution (more specifically a resolution matching either the width or the height of the native resolution of the LCD) it may have appeared as a black screen.

* When trying to edit/create a folder, the virtual keyboard did not render to allow the user to enter the names of said folders.

* Intermittently, when streaming a video while doing a handover to 2G on a 3G network the video would stop playing.

* If you paused a video recording and then resumed, the icon state may not have reflected the current recording state.

* After recoding a video of a certain size (7M) the saved video may be corrupted and unplayable.

* During manual network selection, the radio buttons associated with the networks did not render as expected.

* When moving out of coverage your device display for no coverage may have been inconsistent.

* During voice calls, your device may have reset on a rare occasion.

* After viewing and accepting the End User Licensing Agreement of the App World application the application doesn't startup (fixes introduced in the latest version of App World).

* On some rare occasions, the device may reset on its own during a voice call or while idle.

* During an MTP side load of 16GB of music, the device would leak memory and stop the transfer at ~75%.

* During device full boot-up, the progress bar skips from 0% complete to ~66% complete instead of showing a gradual progression (Note: from 66% to 100% it does show a gradual progression).”

That seems like a lot of great new features for us BB storm owner. The update should be out soon and you can get it for your phone. My only problem is I hope they are not like apple and relock my phone because I have t-mobile

Thanks engadgetmobile for the info

           There has been a new trend in the mobile OS market. There has been a wave of Linux based os’s these last few year for example Google’s very own Android OS and also Nokia’s Very own Meomo 5. These new Os wave is because of all the possibilities Linux has with it being an Open Os and not to mention, Free.

            Today a small company just announced there own Linux based Os which according to engadget is the phone of there dreams. This Os seems to be very Finger friendly, Useful, Detailed, Fast and other things. The creators say it is matched with  the Top brand Mp3 player(Ipod) and Top of the Line Gps(Garmin/Tom Tom) and all in a easy to use and very sexy Shell.

            The creators Emblaze Mobile and ACCESS haven’t had a track record of making Good Mobile Os’s. There previous Os wasn’t good, or better yet, was bad. So this might not be as good as it seems of a mobile Os, but we will know more a little in to the weekend and hopefully next week

Thanks Engadget for the Info

       When your a person like Me that Has Too Great phones in his hand you have to compare it. That is were i got the idea of comparing the Touch pro 2 to its somewhat Big, but older Brother The Touch HD. These phones might have the same insides but when you look at performance and other factors, they arent very similar. Well you will see for yourself in the video comparison

Here is a little Video review of the T-mobile Touch Pro 2 that i recently purchased. It is a great phone and i recommend it over anything else. 4.6 Out of 5

           Have you seen star wars when the have Fuel cell things, well now your Mobile phone can do that. Toshiba Just announced there latest project for mobile phone, The fuel cell Charger.

            While most chargers use electricity from either they wall or your cars cigarette lighter. Those days are over, well it is if you have 220euro’s in you house and you feel like giving that up to be able to charger your phone anywhere in the universe with out being stuck to a wall.  This will be called the Dynario and it wont be sold with phone it will be sold as an extra for the people that would like it. This gets the title of the First publicly sold Fuel cell charger.

            This works in a very simple but complex manner. The way this works is when you take the provided 50ml of methanol, you put just enough inside the Fuel cell charger and in 20 Seconds it’s charged up and ready to charge your Phone. The 50ml container is good for 3 Goes then you need more. There will be a limit amount of 3000 Units available at release so if you want one, you better get on it, but if you need some time, don’t worry more will be available Soon.

Thanks Mobinaute.com for the info

Lately T-mobile has been on a role when it comes to both plans and more recently Phones. The United States 4^Th biggest phone company has been doing a lot of work to find ways the can keep there current members and get more, instead of losing them to AT&T and such. They have finally started to catch up with the other Big companies in the phone department and the have beaten them in the Service plan department; all that is left is the Coverage department.

T-mobile USA Recently Started the Project black that I reported about 2 days ago. That is just a peace of what is to seem like a big step T-mobile is taking to better improve them selves, the just received Fcc’s Approval for what is to seem a blackberry heading our way. That isn’t all they have also received a lot of new smartphones lately for example my newest phone the Touch pro2, My next phone the Cliq and others to come like the HTC HD2 which is rumored to be coming to American waters next year.   T-mobile is looking at a very successful next year, but there not stopping at phone.

There has been some talk that T-mobile’s #1 reason for loosing costumers is because of bad coverage. This is true, T-mobile USA  recently started there 3G rollout, and by recently I mean last year. The 3G coverage is By far the worst between the 4 Major companies, and T-mobile owners and Cfo noticed this and they have said before that they are trying to get a bigger 3G map, but so far there are only major cities that have the luxury of this great 3G coverage. A couple of weeks ago the Cfo mentioned that the are thinking about 4G wimax or Lte being there next plan for the USA and that is exciting to current and future T-mobile costumers, But I think they should worry about 1 Think before the other. They have Promised a nationwide HSPA+ rollout which will make it the first company in the USA to do so, but still not the fastest because sprint already has 4G, but no phones to go with it.

Thanks Engadgetmobile for the info

      Two of the Mobile phone heavy weights have had some recent news. The current champ, weighing in at 157grams is the HTC HD2, that is now up for pre-order on Amazon uk’s site for around $900, which is a lot for a phone that the have for $750 in other site, so if you want first go at this awesome phone you better get to your bank teller soon. This phone is going thru a lot and I bet HTC will be happy when it is released and everyone has one in there pocket (if it can fit).

     On the side is the super smart phone king running a version of Linux, weighing in at 181grams is the Worlds largest phone makers new play toy, the Nokia N900. This beast of a phone has been pushed back a couple of weeks to November. If you’re a person that likes a smartphone but don’t feel like putting up a new high powered computer for it, then I suggest this phone is a good phone, even this it doesn’t have the HD2’s massive screen it is only $650 on the Nokia site and I bet Amazon will have a crazy sale soon and sell it for around $499, but don’t get your hopes up. This phone comes with everything the HD has to offer except the screen size and the muli touch and Windows mobile. This phone does have a 3 row keyboard which the HD2 does and also a Linux based System called Meomo 5 and from the videos, it seems like its pretty good and it is also a live task manager based phone like the Palm pre, just not as flashy. So if you have an extra $650 laying around and you feel like having something new in your pocket to replace your wallet, I would go with this 

Thanks Engadgetmobile and Wmexparts for the info                                                                                                                                                                       

       Days before the Release of the release of VZW’s current bride and joy mobile phone “The Droid”, there is already a site out and ready with all the specs. It seems that either Moto or VZW is getting a little to excited and made a phone site for there resurrection phone.

            This site does have a heavy amount of details that make it worth while going to and reading. There are information like, they phone has an incredibly nice capacity—I hope—3.7 inch screen 5Mp camera,  16:9 ratio screen wvga display. This phone also comes with a lot of the usual tech, Bluetooth, wifi, 3G, Gps and more.

It seems that Motorola found out the info has gottin out and closed down the site, but its too late, we have all we need to know.

Thanks boygenius report for the info and pic