Upcoming Mobiles to Look Out For - My Christmas Wish List

30 Nov, 2009, 9:58 am IST | by Shayne Rana

Take a look at some of the handsets that we can look forward to in the next month and the new year.

Upcoming Mobiles to Look Out For - My Christmas Wish List

Christmas is coming and as usual, whether we’re good or bad is quite irrelevant as we’re all looking forward to something shiny and preferably with a screen under the tree or stuffed in our stockings. But for the tech community, especially us mobile maniacs we’re also, I’m sure, looking forward to what’s coming at the end of this year and the beginning of next, so here’s a quick look at what we can expect to see soon.

Android is doing quite well and there are quite a lot of devices that are coming up. Here are a few I’m waiting to get my hands on -

Motorola MILESTONE
The MILESTONE is the GSM version of the MOTO DROID handset. It’ll be running on an Android 2.0 OS or Éclair. The large display coupled with a slide out full QWERTY keypad should make for easy data entry. The handset’s display is also designed to support multi-touch. Could this be the N900 killer?


The MILESTONE will also feature -
  • 3.7-inch touchscreen with a 480 x 854 pixel resolution
  • 3G with HSDPA, EDGE/GPRS
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0
  • GPS with A-GPS and a digital compass, Geotagging
  • 5 megapixel AF camera with Dual LED flash
  • 3.5mm handsfree socket
  • microSD card support for up to 32GB
Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica
Samsung’s Spica or Galaxy Lite has just been officially announced globally but I am expecting Samsung to launch it here in India as well, I just don’t know when. I only hope that does better than the i7500 Galaxy though and I’m of the opinion that it just might, as Samsung has managed to incorporate quite a few of their proprietary features into it. To start off with the Spica will have Samsung’s DNSe for audio enhancement and DivX video codec support for video playback.


Other features include -
  • 3.2-inch touchscreen with a 320 x 480 pixel resolution
  • 3G with HSDPA, EDGE/GPRS
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0
  • GPS with A-GPS and a digital compass, Geotagging
  • 3 megapixel AF camera
  • 3.5mm handsfree socket
  • microSD card support for up to 32GB
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
One of the most anticipated handsets to be launched next year is Sony’s first Android powered handset the Xperia X10. Running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset it has potential to be a speedy handset and with UI support from Timescape and Mediascape we’re looking at a swanky new user interface as well.


Other features include -
  • 4 inch touchscreen with an 480 x 800 pixel resolution
  • 3G, EDGE/GPRS,
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB
  • GPS with A-GPS support and Geotagging
  • 8 megapixel camera with Smile Shutter, Face Detection, image stabilization and an LED Flash
  • Micro SDHC card support
  • 3.5mm handsfree socket

Tags: Android , Google , 8 Megapixel , 5 Megapixel , Windows Mobile 6.5 , BlackBerry , X Series

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