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Nokia Develops Self-Charging Cellphone and Nokia Latest Mobile Phones
Experts have come up with a cellphone that can recharge its own battery by harvesting energy from the owner’s motion.
The self-charging handset by Nokia, who has already filed for a US patent, was predicted to work with heavier components, such as the radio transmitter circuit and battery, supported on a sturdy frame.
The frame apparently could shift along two sets of rails, allowing it travel up and down and side to side, New Scientist reported.
Each rail apparently hosted strips of piezoelectric crystals at its end, capable of generating a current when compressed by the frame such that motion, by the user or the movement of the phone, generates electricity.
That in turn charged a capacitor and subsequently the battery, boosting the charge.
Nokia Announces 6303i classic
Nokia’s announced the 6303i classic, that follows in the footprints of the Series 40 6303 classic.
The Nokia 6303i classic features a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 2.2 inch screen and email and instant messaging through Nokia Messaging. It has 50 MB internal memory, micro SD supprt, stainless steel covers and carries a retail price of EUR 105, before taxes and subsidies.
The Nokia 6303i classic will start shipping in select markets in the first quarter of 2010.
Sony Ericsson Launches Two New Walkman Mobile Phone Handsets
Sony Ericsson has just added two more handsets to their popular Walkman range of music handsets. The new handsets – W205 and W395 are both of the slider variety which seems to be SE’s forte.
At the launch of the new phones, Sudhin Mathur, General Manager, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications India said, “Being the pioneer in the music phone category, our ‘Walkman’ phone range has universally been lauded for the quality music experience offered. The basic premise behind the launch of the affordable Sony Ericsson W205 and W305 Walkman phones is to further extend this experience to those who love portable music but have never had the Walkman phone experience.”
The W205 will enable users to share the handset with family and friends and still maintain a certain privacy level with its multiple phonebook feature that lets up to four users create personalized contact lists that are kept separate. The lower end W205 Walkman phone also features:
- a 1.8-inch display sporting a 128 x 160 resolution and 65K colors
- GPRS/EDGE
- 1.3 megapixel camera
- FM radio with recording
- TrackID
- Bluetooth
- M2 card support
The second handset the W395 Walkman is slightly more higher ended than the W205 with features like:
- a 2 inch TFT LCD with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels and 256K colors
- support for GPRS/EDGE
- Bluetooth with A2DP
- built-in stereo speakers
- Motion gaming support
- FM radio
- TrackID and PlayNow
- A 2 Megapixel camera
- M2 card support
The W205 comes with HPM-64 Bass Reflex headphones and the W395 has the HPM-62 stereo headset and are priced at Rs. 5,795 and Rs. 8,395 (MRP) respectively. Both handsets are also bundled with 1GB memory cards.
HTC Boasts Its Outpacing Other Smartphone Makers in US Market
HTC is proud of their accomplishments lately – most notably HTC CEO Peter Chou, who told the Wall Street Journal that the company is growing in the U.S. market “faster than others.”
According to the Journal, HTC shipped 5.5 million to 6 million smartphones to the United States in 2009, and Chou claims those estimates will grow in 2010, but he doesn’t provide any specifics.
One of HTC’s main hurdles, however, is brand recognition. That has been overturned somewhat by help from partnerships with Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. They’ve also gained a lot of attention thanks to the partnership with Google on creating the Nexus One, but Google seems to reap the PR benefits from that more than HTC does.
The WSJ notes that HTC’s preference for the Google Android system in general could be prove to be a problem following the Goog’s recent withdrawal from China. One possible remedy, Chou says, is the use of an alternative search engine on smartphones but still retaining the Android OS.
There’s no arguing that HTC has grown significantly in the last year, in both sales numbers and brand name recognition around the world. But Chou doesn’t offer any statistics on the growth (or lack thereof) on other companies to see just how impressive HTC’s numbers are or not.
Nonetheless, with several new smartphone models on the way this year, there should be plenty of HTC-related news in the coming months, and they definitely could beat last year’s sales numbers if they keep the pace up.