Lifestyle features:

• Earth Compass – functions as a standard compass; GPS shows the distance from and directions to over 40 domestic and worldwide locations
• Walking Counter – measures steps, time, distance, speed and energy consumption Thermometer – shows current temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Astro Calendar – provides the moon’s age and days until a full or new moon
• Sunrise Sunset – shows the current time and position of the sun and times for sunrise and sunset for current, past and future dates; allows you to view times for select major cities; shows the ratio of day and night in numbers and graphs
• Tides – shows the tidal graph for the day; shows the time of ebb and flood tides; shows the time of sunrise and sunset; shows past and future sea tide levels; shows tidal graphs for 100 locations made available by Surfline’s webcams, and GPS will show the nearest location; shows the current tide and the best time for fishing

With Windows Mobile 6.5, the new nüvifone M20 boasts interface improvements, such as large touch-optimized icons and a streamlined Home screen, and comes preloaded with Facebook. In addition, users will be able to take advantage of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile to easily download and install additional applications to their M20.

The Garmin-Asus nüvifone M20 will soon to be launched with Windows Mobile 6.5 in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech, Turkey and other markets by the end of 2009.

M20 Specifications:

• Tri-band GSM / GPRS / Edge 900/1800/1900
• 900/2100 HSPA 7.2 Mbps
• 802.11 b/g WLAN, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, HFP, HSP, A2DP, AVRCP, mini USB 2.0
• 3MP camera with auto-focus and geo-tagging
• 95.3 x 52.5 x 12.8 mm
• 2.8″, 65K, TFT with touch lens

Top 10 benefits of Office Mobile 2010

1 Experience an intuitive, touch-friendly user interface.Office Mobile 2010 integrates with Windows Mobile 6.5 to offer an intuitive and simple experience. Use innovative gestures to touch through menus, pinch to zoom in and out of Office documents, and easily flick your way through a file to quickly navigate.

2 Stay connected from anywhere with SharePoint Workspace Mobile.Take your SharePoint files offline on your phone with SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010, a new application in Office Mobile 2010. Browse document libraries and other lists right from your smartphone. Open documents directly from Microsoft SharePoint Server for viewing or editing in Word Mobile 2010, Excel Mobile 2010, and PowerPoint Mobile 2010, and save them directly back to the server. Best of all, you can sync documents on your smartphone with a single touch so you never miss a beat—when a document is modified on the server, the copy on your smartphone will be synced automatically.

3 Use PowerPoint Mobile as a presentation aid.When delivering a presentation, your notes are just as important as your presentation itself. Many times you don’t have the luxury of using multiple monitors—one for showing your presentation and another for viewing your notes. With PowerPoint Mobile 2010, a second monitor is always readily available. You can now connect your Windows smartphone to your PC via Bluetooth and easily view your presentation notes—your phone can even be used to advance your slides!

4 View and edit your documents with confidence.A frequent concern when working with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files created using a desktop application on a mobile device is that the content may not look the same or data could be lost during editing. But with Office Mobile 2010, you can open Office documents created on a desktop application and view them on your smartphone with high fidelity, using Office Mobile’s exclusive Text Reflow technology. And, when you edit or add comments and save your file, rich formatting, such as tables, charts and SmartArt® graphics will be preserved. With Office Mobile 2010, you’ll get the best viewing experience adapted to your device and you can take confidence knowing your content will not be compromised.

5 Search to easily find what you’re looking for.There’s no need to take documents from your smartphone back to your computer in order to e-mail them to others. With Office Mobile, you can send documents via e-mail or save them directly back to SharePoint Server 2010 using SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010.

6 Forget the learning curve.Enjoy a familiar formatting experience when creating or editing on your smartphone. The Office Mobile applications have many of the same formatting tools you already know and use in Office. With Office Mobile 2010, you have the richest editing experience found on any mobile device.
Essential authoring capabilities:Use bullets, numbering, and font styles in Word Mobile 2010 and OneNote Mobile 2010. And find cell formatting options in Excel Mobile 2010, such as borders, shading, and font styles—even use custom number formats.

Built-in support for images: View rich graphics across your Office Mobile documents. And, in PowerPoint Mobile 2010, SmartArt graphics are now supported.

7 Update your Excel data on the fly.Whether you’re working on your budget or updating your travel expenses, you can quickly update and instantly recalculate your Excel workbooks. And now, within Excel Mobile 2010, you can take advantage of more than 140 formulas—several previously only found on the desktop.

8 Stay organized and in sync with OneNote.Review or take notes on your phone with ease—insert voice clips, pictures, or make a quick list. It’s up to you! You can even synchronize your notes—or your entire notebook—with Microsoft OneNote 2010 on your PC using the new Windows phone device sync application, available on your PC.

9 Outlook Mobile makes managing your e-mail a snap.Outlook Mobile 2010 brings powerful and familiar concepts from Outlook 2010 on the PC straight to your Windows Mobilebased smartphone. Conversation View allows you to save time by combining related messages so they can be moved, categorized, or deleted in just a few clicks. Or, when connected to Microsoft Exchange, find people in your organization from your smartphone by searching your global address list. With Outlook Mobile, get online access to your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks from anywhere, anytime.

10 Seamlessly copy and paste across applications.Content for an Office document or an e-mail can be pulled from a variety of sources—a table may be added from a document, a chart from a workbook, a graphic from a presentation, along with information from your notes or an e-mail. With the improved clipboard on your Windows smartphone, copying and pasting to and from any other application on your smartphone is simple and intuitive.

The Nokia N900 is available in a black finish and will retail for USD 649 through Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago, nokiausa.com and various independent retailers and e-tailers including Amazon.com.

[via slashgear]

Opera maintains its powerful arsenal of features in this beta, including Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, a password manager and its super, server-side compressor, Opera Turbo.

“We are unifying our products, so that users get the same experience, no matter the device or which particular Opera browser they are using,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “With Opera Mobile 10, we are raising the expectations of how a a mobile browser should perform. Today, users require a browser as powerful as the Web, one that can handle their daily tasks as well as their computers. That’s Opera.”

The LG Shine II is enabled for AT&T Navigator, which provides up-to-date traffic information with turn by turn directions and traffic monitoring. It also features a 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and video recording, plus an image editor that allows users to resize, crop, rotate, color adjust photos, insert fun frames and produce mirror effects.

LG Shine II will be available at AT&T retail stores nationwide and online at www.wireless.att.com on November 22, 2009 for $119.99 after mail-in rebate. (Pay $169.99 after two year agreement and receive a $50 AT&T Promotion Card.)

A range of OEM-ready Zii Powered devices will be showcased – powered by ZiiLABS ZMS-05 and ZMS-08 media-rich application processors. The line-up of devices on display include: a Touch Tablet PC, a Netbook, a Web-Box, a 360o Multi-View Camera System, ultra high-performance Speakers, a Piano Keyboard for the PC, and a Portable e-Book Reader. But the highlight of our devices line-up is our Mobile Phone platform. ZiiLABS ushers in a new era of explosive high definition 3D with the Zii Optimized Android Phone platform. The Zii Optimized Android Phone platform gives developers the chance to use the familiar Android OS, but with a difference. Harnessing StemCell Computing Technology found on the ZMS-05 Media Rich Processor, Android is now super-charged with seamless 3D graphics and High Definition video playback performance.

* Phone with Fully featured Android Platform
* OpenGL ES 3D graphics
* 1080p HD video output
* Accelerated video, graphic and imaging
* Full integration with SurfaceFlinger
* High Quality Audio
* Enhanced User Interfaces
* Image Processing
* Accelerated Web Browsing

Unlike other DVB-H phones that has an extendable antenna, the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition use the headset as an antenna. The battery gives you up to six hours of long DVB-H usage till you need a recharge. The Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition will retail for 155 Euros before taxes and subsidies.

Nokia 5330 Specifications

• Network: WCDMA 850/1900/2100,WCDMA 900/1700/2100, EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
• User Interface: Series 40
• Dimensions: 101 x 48 x 14 mm (L x W x T)
• Weight: 113 g
• Display: 2.4 inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
• Battery: Nokia Battery BL-4U,1000 mAh Lion
• Memory: up to 70 MB internal memory, support for up to 16GB microSD memory card
• Talk time: Up to 7,7 hours
• Standby time: Up to 350 hours
• Music playback: Upto 26hours
• 3.2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and flash
• GSM GPRS/EGPRS multislot class 32
• WCDMA max download/upload 384 kbps
• MicroUSB, 3.5 mm AV connector
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.1 with A2DP & AVRCP
• FM stereo radio withRDS

Nokia N97 mini and Nokia E72

For the first time you can set up instant messaging (IM) directly from the homescreen, accessing communities such as Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat.

The Nokia E72 can also accommodate multiple work and personal email accounts and, with separate profiles for work and play, allows people to be flexible when it comes to choosing how, when, where and who to respond to.

See an unboxing video below

[via slashgear]

Equipped with DNSe 2.0 for better sound quality and 3.5 mm ear jack, the Galaxy Spica offers the fully comprehensive multimedia feature set. Moreover, a long enough battery life (1500mAh) allows its users to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts its slim and compact design with mere 13.2 mm thickness.

The Samsung Galaxy Spica supports the full suite of Google services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Talk, letting users enjoy the familiar desktop computer experience while on the move.

[via mobileburn]