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Creating skins for cell phones has become ever so popular these days and with the CTIA 2010, there are a lot of firm taking interests in creating skins for mobile phones. However, iaPeel has come out with a unique idea that they term as “the only consumer printable skin system”.

The basic idea of this system requires the user to download some special software using which they can put in their own images or other such personal pictures on their phone skins. It is as easy as taking a printout from your deskjet printer and applying it as a skin.

The technology is available to suit skins for almost all cellular phones available in market and with a built-in precision alignment system; the skins created will fit your mobile phone to a tee. The skins are built from durable material and the software allows it to mix accurately with your phone’s wallpapers. At $29.95, you can get a case of 4 boxes with each box including 12 retail packages.

Lemon mobile company ensures quality manufacturing as they have collaborated with world’s top manufacturers to device original equipment manufacturing for quality cellular devices.

The company works on direct sourcing of chipsets that reduces the overall cost and hence the phones manufactured by them are available at a reasonable lower market price. But make no mistake about the quality as the strict quality assurance policy followed by the company ensures that users have the best phones power packed with a lot of features such as slim and stylish QWERTY phones, camera phones, phones with a longer battery life, GSM and CDMA phones as well.

The company offers over 150 service centres across India and thus excelling in customer satisfaction. Some of its prominent phones by Lemon are as follows:

• ­       Lemon iT 717
• ­       Lemon iQ 707
• ­       Lemon Duo 339
• ­       Lemon Duo 404
• ­       Lemon Twin 220

For more details on the company and its products, visit their website at http://www.lemonmobile.com/

Few new brands make really promising phones, one such brand is Palm Pixi and the latest in addition to their models is Palm Pixi Plus. The new 3G smart phone has been announced in March, 2010 and is expected to hit the market at the fall of autumn. This is a 2.6 inches TFT touchscreen phone that comes equipped with functional QWERTY keypad.

The phone also features – proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer sensor for UI auto rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, 8 GB internal storage with no external port for card slot. This is perhaps one demerit that you would find in the phone; however 8 GB is enough memory in the phone. The phone also comes equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB port, and GPRS as well as EDGE technology.

Palm Pixi Plus has a 2 MP camera with LED flash. This is basically a business phone and has features to make official tasks quite fast like Palm webOS, fast web access, Email, Push Email, & IM. It also features GPS navigation along with AT&T Navigator and also has mini pocket MS office that enables you view word, excel and other such features.

Something from Dell always creates interest and mobile phone from the company is no exception. A new phone from Dell called Dell Aero is expected to be released in 2010 may be by mid of this year. A smart 3G phone stacked with amazing features that would take your mobile experience to the next step.

Dell Aero is equipped with 3.5 inches TFT touch-screen, 256K colors and is equipped with accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate. It also has multi-touch input method, proximity sensor for auto-turn off, card slot for microSD card to extend memory up to 32 GB.

The primary camera of the phone is 5 MP Lens that comes with auto-focus, but no LED flash and no secondary camera for video conferencing. The operating system features Android OS and comes equipped with features like IM, MMS, Email, HTML, A-GPS navigation, document viewer, voice memo, already installed Google Talk, YouTube and alike features. The battery back up and stand by time are not available. These features are skeptical and may be subjected to change during the time of launch. And when it will hit Indian market is still uncertain.

As the storage capacity of phones are increasing day by day, the need for storage medium too considerably increases. Those who use mobile phones with extensible 32GB microSD card slot used to complain the non availability of such mass storage card in the market. But now from next month April, 2010 the new harvest of SanDisk microSD cards will be getting unbelievable storage capacities. Now you can switch from 16 GB microSD cards to 32 GB microSD cards.

The SanDisk 32 GB microSD cards would be available from next month in town and this would the world’s first 32 GB microSD card which would cost one around 200 USD and nearly 150 Euro. The mounting price of the card can limit its sale but those who are in need nevertheless would go for it. Virtually you would be carrying such massive storage that once upon a time computers used to have.

When the cards would start shipping to India is not confirmed. Indian being a booming market won’t have to wait too long for this card to hit the market.

G-Fone G588 is the latest handset unveiled by G-Fone which resembles very much like Blackberry handsets and especially the Curve 8900 model with a d-pad instead of trackball.

G-Fone G588 is a dual SIM handset which can be used on GSM as well as CDMA networks. For all those users who are looking for a dual SIM smartphone, this latest mobile from G-Fone proves to be a good option.

Other impressive features of this handset include full QWERTY keypad, 2.2 inches of QVGA display, social network integration provided by Nimbuzz, MP3 Player, Bluetooth connectivity, 1.3 MP camera, expandable memory up to 8GB, FM Radio, WAP, GPRS, Video Player, Opera Mini for surfing the web and others.

There is an Indian calendar in the phone as well that provides guiding force for practicing various Hindu festivals and rituals. In India G-Fone G588 is available through Bright telecom with a price tag of Rs.4799.

AT&T, the popular wireless carrier has unveiled their first intrinsically safe certified smartphone called Airo Wireless A25is. As per the company this is the first rugged device on their network which will be capable of supporting its suite of business mobile applications.

This handset is powered by the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 OS and it will target the potentially explosive environments like petroleum industry sites,   chemical manufacturing sites and military applications. Airo Wireless A25is meets up with MIL-SPEC 810 F/G standards and it boats wide array of other additional features as well.

The cell phone has 2.8 inches of touchscreen display, Bluetooth, QWERTY keypad, GPS, push to talk support and others. Above all, these exciting features of the phone are crammed into a chassis which is less than 1 inches thin.

Airo Wireless A25is is considered to be a rugged device as it can survive about 26 drop from 50 inches and it is shock proof for transport of 1000 miles of bumpy terrain. As per the company this phone can also be submerged up to 5 feet in water for about 30 minutes and it can also withstand 95% humidity for 48 hours 

Very few business phones have the rugged attitude as they mostly tend to be stylish, sleek and glossy. However i-Mate has a different take on business phones and brings in a rugged, raw and rigid business phone, the i-Mate 810-F. This is an excellent business phone that comes with almost all the features that you find in Nokia E series phones and Blackberry phones of lower range. The phone has been designed to withstand high temperature exposure, has sturdy body to protect the phone due to fall and comes complete ergonomically designed. The manufacturer also claims it to be water resistant and it is Tamper proof too in critical conditions.

The phone is little heavy 150g and is a Windows mobile phone based with QWERTY keypad. The 2.4 inches QVGA TFT touch-screen phone is loaded with all those features that you would need to carry your official and business work smoothly – GPS navigation, Wi-Fi Connectivity, 3G HSDPA speed, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS along with Internet Explorer Mobile 6, 128MB RAM, 2MP fixed focus camera, and SMS, Push Mail, thread view, instant messaging and Pocket Office that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and PDF viewer.

Aircel has introduced a new handset called Peek which is targeted towards all those users who needs to be in touch with their mails 24X7. This new handset from the company can also be known as an Email phone as this is the only function provided by it. One cannot make calls or perform any other functions besides checking mails in Aircel Peek.

The company has taken a bold move by introducing phone with such concept. Aircel Peek allows you to mange 3 email accounts and has a QWERTY keyboard as well. Aircel also claims that Peel is the thinnest device ever created. In this phone, the users can read their email attachments in Excel, PDF, Word and image formats and they can also send as well receive the attachments having 10MB size. Facility of Microsoft Exchange is also provided in the phone.

Other features of this phone include 2.5 inches QVGA resistive screen, multifunctional clickable scroll wheel and security lock. Aircel Peek is available in Red and Black colors with a price tag of Rs.2999 and Rs.300 needs to be paid every month for checking mails.Now it has to seen whether the users are ready to accept a phone that can be used only for emails when various other options are available for the same.

Toshiba TG01 had to wait really long to get the upgrade version of Windows Mobile version 6.5. Those who are using the old version of OS can now download this software directly from the official webpage of Toshiba and can enjoy plethora of features that would be upgraded in the phone. It was expected for long that the phone would get the version of WM but it came nearly after 6 months. Well it is now available and better late than never, what do you say?

The refreshed Windows Mobile Service is perfect interface to help you visit Toshiba’s support portal in the web. Gets the WinMo 6.5 version from the site waiting for you! Download it and enjoy the new features it brings to your phone.

However critics are not too happy with the version 6.5 of the Microsoft OS compared to the WinMo 6.1 but they are happy that it enables the users to have an access to My Phone services and Microsoft Marketplace to get new software and updates. The other good thing about this OS is that you would be able to revamp your home screen.