Spice Mobiles, Indias’s mobile company, introduced new X-1 Gaming phone which is dedicated mobile gaming fans. The X-1 is equipped with a gaming console for comfortable playing games, a large 2.4″ 262K TFT display with 240×320 pixels, a 2 megapixel camera with 6x zoom & Multi-shot, FM radio, music & video player, and pre-installed Opera Mini browser.
The handset measures 112 x 50.5 x 15.3 mm and weighs 109 g. The X-1 is made for GSM 900/1800/1900 networks and with 1050 mAh Li-ion battery provides up to 3.5 hours of talk time and about 130 hours of standby time. If you like the phone you can get it for estimated price around 200$.
Spice X-1
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O2 customers in Germany will get new handsets with pre-installed and over-the-air (OTA) version of Opera Mini, the popular mobile browser. Users will be able to browse weather, e-commerce, news feeds, and social networking web sites. The browser will first be available on Samsung U900 Soul, Samsung U800 Soulb, Sony Ericsson C902, Sony Ericsson C702 and Sony Ericsson W760i. The OTA version will be available on Sony Ericsson K800i, Sony Ericsson K850i, Sony Ericsson W880i, Sony Ericsson W890i, Sony Ericsson W910i, Nokia 6233, Nokia 6280, Nokia 6500 classic, Nokia 6500 slide, Samsung U700, Samsung U900 Soul and Samsung Z400.
We have seen records of RIM growth in America and the recent stats by IDC says that RIM’s dominant U.S. market share has hit 44.5 percent last quarter, but the other side of coin is pretty dull. In the Asia-Pacific region, Windows Mobile devices hold stronger market penetration, at an estimated 6 million devices shipped last year – while RIM’s was under 1 million, according to Springboard Research.
Besides the cost of the BlackBerry server, its service costs are higher than Windows Mobile’s push mail service, resulting in a higher total cost of ownership (TCO). Bryan Wang, research director of connectivity at Springboard, told ZDNet Asia in an e-mail interview that BlackBerry’s uptake in the region is slower than that in the U.S. partly because of Windows Mobile’s dominance, and also due to the associated service costs associated with BlackBerry’s push mail function. An that is not all RIM soon will have to face increased competition at Sprint stores because of Samsung’s Instinct smartphone, this estimate to roughly 9% of RIM’s revenue.
source BusinessWeek
