Motorola MotoYuva W396

Motorola has launched its new entry-level mobile phone – MotoYuva W396 – in India. With a clamshell form factor, the new cell phone is stylish and sleek. It offers all the basic features required in a phone capable of playing MP3 music tracks and FM radio. With a VGA quality digital camera and enough memory to store images and music, the cell phone perfectly fits into the budget of middle-class Indian consumers, who look for functionality and style in a phone that they can easily afford as well. Motorola Motoyuva W396 comes fully loaded with a host of exciting features.

 Design

Motorola MotoYuva W396 is an entry-level clamshell, featuring a large 1.8-inch, 128 x 160 pixels color CSTN TFT display. It weighs 94g and is 95 mm long, 46 mm wide and 17 mm thick. Although the handset doesn’t have external display, the three bright LED-lit icons on the external casing let you know of missed calls, incoming messages and battery status. The keys located on the top of are especially dedicated for operating the inbuilt-MP3 player. These keys not only help you to adjust the volume for music, but also allow you to browse through the FM channels and MP3 music tracks, when the flap remains closed.

Features

The 1-MB internal memory of Motorola MotoYuva W396 allows to store as many as 750 sms messages and 1000 phone numbers. It also features a microSD memory card, with an expandable memory of up to 2 GB. The VGA resolution digital camera integrated within the mobile phone offers you a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. It comes with an auto-save and auto-timer picture capture facility and offers 4x Digital Zoom for images. JPEG format is used to capture and store the pictures in the W396.

The Crystal Talk technology of Motorola MotoYuva W396 reduces ambient noise, making your conversations loud and clear. The W396 mobile phone comes with GPRS Class 10 connection, which allows to access the Internet with a speed of 48-kbps. Apart from this, the cell phone features a WAP 2.0 browser with xHTML support. The USB v1.1 port connection allows wired connectivity to PC for transferring data. The standard Li-Ion 940 mAh (BQ50) battery of Motorola MOTOYUVA W396 can provide up to 9 hours of talk time and up to 400 hrs of stand-by time, when the battery is fully charged.

Google G1 Phone

Google is all set to give competition to the Apple iPhone, with the launch of its G1 mobile. The G1 phone has an amalgamation of some very high-tech features, which can make computers a thing of the past. The mobile runs on Android, an operating system that is designed in such a way that it brings the computing experience to the palm of a person. The mobile phone would allow the consumers to surf the net and carry out everyday tasks through their handset only. The touch phone also gives access to popular Google online services, like its email service – Gmail, the video-sharing website – YouTube, instant-messaging via Google Talk and even its maps service – Google Maps.
Design
Google G1 phone has a design that has been hugely inspired by its rival, the very-popular Apple iPhone. It has a 3.2 inch screen which covers almost the entire area of the front panel. The cell phone boasts of a dimension of about 117.7 mm x 55.7 mm x 17.1 mm and weighs approximately 158 grams. The sleek phone opens up with a side slide, to reveal a well equipped QWERTY keyboard with soft keys. In short, Google G1 mobile phone is all set to impress you with its features as well as looks.
Features



The most striking feature of the Google G1 phone is the in-built compass, which makes sure that you never ever get lost. In addition, it has been equipped with motion-sensing technology that allows the users to navigate using Google Maps just by rotating the phone in their hand. The mobile phone offers high-speed internet access, via the 3G phone network as well as via Wi-Fi. Google G1 comes with an inbuilt 2GB of memory that can be expanded up to 8GB, using an additional memory card.
Google G1 phone gives its users a one-touch access to Google mail and also assures that watching videos through the, Google-owned, YouTube is a pleasurable experience. The cell phone also promises instant messaging, using Google Talk chat service that could very well mean that death of text messaging. The users in the US will have an additional feature of one-click access to Amazon MP3, a music download service. The service will be added to the phones in UK by the year end.