Verizon to launch BlackBerry Torch 9850 on September $199.99

The lanching of the latest blackbery torch and with most of the feature

Verizon Wireless announced on Tuesday that it will offer the BlackBerry Torch 9850 on September 8th for $199.99 with a new two-year contract. The Torch 9850 offers a full 3.7-inch touchscreen display with an 800 x 480-pixel resolution, a 1.2GHz processor, support for global roaming in more than 200 countries, a 5-megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video and 16GB of storage. The Torch 9850 was first unveiled during a RIM event in Toronto on August 3rd where we published hands-on impressions of the phone. It is the best full-touchscreen smartphone RIM has sold and its browser is much improved, but the BlackBerry 7 operating still feels stale in comparison to Android, Windows Phone and iOS. Read on for the full press release from Verizon Wireless.

BlackBerry Torch 9850 to be Available on the Nation’s Most Reliable Network

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless today announced the new BlackBerry® Torch™ 9850 smartphone will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com on Sept. 8, and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Sept. 15.

Watch videos, play games and stay productive on the largest display and highest resolution on a BlackBerry smartphone to date.  Powered by the new BlackBerry® 7 operating system, customers can enjoy the next generation BlackBerry browser with optimized zooming, panning and HTML 5 performance.  BlackBerry® Balance is now integrated, allowing secure access to business information while preventing it from being copied into, sent from or used by personal applications.  Customers can stay connected to their personal and business lives while in or out of the office.

Key features:

·         3G coverage on the nation’s most reliable network

·         3.7-inch high-resolution touchscreen display (800 x 480) with trackpad navigation

·         1.2 GHz processor

·         Global Ready™ – Quad band with support for UMTS, HSPA, GSM, GPRS and EDGE allowing customers to enjoy wireless voice and data service in more than 200 countries, including more than 95 with 3G speeds

·         5-megapixel camera with flash and 720p HD video recording capabilities

·         Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1

·         16 GB microSD™ card pre-installed, with support for up to 32 GB microSD card

BlackBerry 7:

·         Liquid Graphics™ technology combines a dedicated high-performance graphics processor with a blazingly fast CPU and stunning high-resolution display to deliver a responsive touch interface with incredibly fast and smooth graphics.

·         Premium version of Documents To Go is now included at no additional cost, offering customers enhanced document editing features, as well as a native PDF document viewer.

·         The newest release of BBM™ (BlackBerry Messenger) now extends the real-time BBM experience together with a range of apps including gaming and social networking.

·         Updated Social Feeds app has been extended to capture updates from media, podcasts and more, all in one consolidated view.

·         Universal search capability now supports voice-activated search, allowing customers to simply say what they want to find on their device or the Web.

·         BlackBerry Balance administrator can remotely wipe business information from the device while leaving personal information intact.

Pricing and availability:

·         BlackBerry Torch 9850 smartphone will be available for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement.

·         Customers that purchase a BlackBerry Torch 9850 smartphone will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan beginning at $39.99 for monthly access and a smartphone data package starting at $30 monthly access for 2 GB of data.

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SAMSUNG IS COMING WITH 100$ Conquer 4G

Sprint is continuing its unique smartphone run with the Samsung Conquer 4G, a moderately priced new phone at $100 that features access to Sprint's WiMAX 4G network. While we'd like to see more capable smartphones step out at this price point, the Conquer still ends up feeling like a phone full of ill-judged compromises, though its performance is admirable given its price.

The Conquer, unlike most other smartphones today, feels light in hand at 4.2 ounces. This starts off feeling cheap, but I grew to like the weight as I used it longer. The phone's textured plastic back, on the other hand, felt cheap, though its crosshatched pattern made gripping the Conquer easy.

 A volume rocker sits on the right side of the phone and a dedicated camera button is on the bottom left, with a sleep button and headphone jack on top. The standard Android buttons along the bottom of the screen are clickable plastic, rather than the touch versions that have become popular. The Conquer 4G is also on the compact side for a smartphone, with a screen that measures 3.5 inches, and it's thin at 0.46 inches.

The haptic feedback, or tiny vibrations following touchscreen presses, reverberates a little more than on most phones, but in a pleasing way. The buzzes feel more like a tennis volley with the phone than a tiny blip to let you know the button was pressed.

The 3.2-megapixel camera on the back of the Conquer is lacking—pictures with flash seem oversaturated, while pictures without the flash tended to be washed out. The level of detail was decent on still subjects, but color accuracy was a problem.

The Conquer ships with only 430MB of internal storage, as well as a pre-installed 2GB microSD card. If you want to store anything sizable on the Conquer (apps, photos, music, videos), tack on the cost of a real microSD card to the phone—8GB cards are $10-20, and 16GB are about $25-35.

The screen on the Conquer also leaves much to be desired: at 320x480 pixels, all but cartoonishly large text is jagged and difficult to read. The text rendering of most applications and mobile sites is fine because they blow the text up, but sites or apps that aren't optimized are still hard to read when zoomed in, and you have to flip the phone horizontally to get a readable block of text.

This is largely the fault of the way Android renders its text, but Samsung should come at their designs knowing this is a problem and compensate accordingly with a more detailed screen. Above, we compare the text rendering to the iPhone 3GS, which has the same screen resolution and size, and is half the price (though on other carriers, and has hardware that is otherwise much, much older).

When it comes to benchmarks, the Conquer performs admirably at Linpack, clocking 41MFLOPS in single-threaded processes on its 1GHz single-core processor and 512MB of RAM. But in Quadrant, it performs worse than many older phones, including the Nexus One and the one-year-old HTC Evo 4G, which is currently available for the same price on Sprint. According to IntoMobile benchmarks, the nine-month-old Samsung Nexus S clocks a score around 1,600 in Quadrant, and is currently available for $30 on Sprint

Benchmarks aside, the day-to-day performance of the phone, which is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, is respectable given its price. Games like Angry Birds and 3D Bowling play very smoothly, and moving around in the browser, e-mail, and other native apps isn't choppy or laggy, though apps do occasionally open slowly.

The Conquer comes equipped ready to access Sprint's 4G network, a feature that's hard to find in lower-end phones. While we're not huge fans of Sprint's network, particularly on 3G, the Conquer could provide access to better speeds for customers who are attached to the carrier.

As for the battery, the Conquer is rated at a paltry 6 hours of talk time and 230 hours of standby. Because the screen is not very demanding, the phone gets a little bit of a break, so it still can clock about five to five and a half hours of video playback on a full charge. In a standard use test with infrequent e-mailing, texting, and Web-surfing, the phone didn't get a full day's worth of use; I had to charge it in the early evening.

Overall, the Conquer is a solid entry at its price, particularly if you have access to Sprint's 4G network. Still, we wouldn't peg it as a good phone for non-casual users, particularly those who do a lot of Internet reading or picture-taking. Given that the phone carries a two-year commitment at this price, the Conquer's negatives would start to outweigh the positives in short order. We'd love to see $100 become the new price to beat for a great smartphone purchase, but not if it comes with this many tradeoffs.

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THE ORIGINAL APPLE TV HACKS THE FINAL THING

This week's top Apple news at Ars touched on the media's "responsibility" to discuss gay men and women in tech, some tricks you can apply to your old Apple TV, jailbreak developer "comex" scoring an internship at Apple, new details about iTunes Match, and more. If you need to catch up, we have all the best tidbits right here:

The deteal about run new media software in the apple tv

Many first-generation Apple TVs have been retired to the depths of the living room closet by now, but you can extend their life by "hacking" Apple TVs with third-party media software like Boxee or XBMC. Ars shows you how.

Apple reportedly setting up system for remote iPhone diagnostics:

implemented by Apple would allow support technicians to access some iPhone diagnostic information remotely via the Web.

Whether you're in the US getting ready to grill out on Labor Day or you're on the other side of the world, have a fun and relaxing weekend!

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HTC coming with tow windows phone with front camera for the video chat

The today one of the mobile leading company HTC is coming with the windows mobile .

HTC on Thursday showed off its first two phones running the new Mango release of

Windows Phone 7, both sporting front-facing cameras and slated for release next month in Europe and Asia, with a global launch to follow.

They targeting the latest 3G costurmers for the video calling is the main thing

One phone is the 4.7-inch Titan — the largest-screen Windows Phone device yet — while the Radar is a 3.8-inch device crafted from a single piece of aluminum.

The Radar has a 1 gigahertz Qualcomm processor and a 5 megapixel rear camera, while the Titan sports a 1.5GHz chip and an 8 megapixel rear camera.

With the announcement, Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore said he can now confirm that Mango supports the additional front-facing camera, something about which Microsoft had been cagey.

“A lot of you have asked us whether Mango will support front-facing cameras — and now that these HTC phones have been formally announced, I can confirm officially that Mango does support these,” Belfiore wrote in a blog post. The post mentions video chat as among the features, but doesn’t specifically mention Skype, which Microsoft is in the process of acquiring.

Fujitsu-Toshiba has already launched a waterproof Windows Phone Mango device in Japan, while Nokia is also basing its first Windows Phone on the Mango software release.

Among the features being added with the update are improved browsing, better multitasking and integrated Twitter support. Microsoft finalized the software update in July.

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INTEL START TO BEAT APPLE Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan

Intel is going to release the latest ultra slim laptop to beat the apple slim laptop

My desktop isn't the only and computer I plan to replace in the next few months. I need a new laptop too, and my goal is simple: to find a 13" MacBook Air that isn't made by Apple.

It turns out that I'm not the only one way wanting this mythical non-Apple MacBook Air. Intel wants them too—it calls them Ultrabooks. The chip company has been kicking the Ultrabook idea around for a few months now, and it has grand ambitions: by the end of the next year, it wants 40 percent of PC laptops to be Ultrabooks.

Ultrabooks are ultralight PCs, like the MacBook Air, no more than 0.8" thick, like the MacBook Air, with Intel processors, like the MacBook Air, metal cases for superior heat dissipation, like the MacBook Air, SSD storage, like the MacBook Air, long battery life and even longer standby time, like the MacBook Air, and affordable, like the MacBook Air. Oh, and they should boot in 7 seconds or less (which at a pinch, the MacBook Air can probably pull off, too). Is the MacBook Air actually an Ultrabook? Intel told us that that's up to Apple—the MacBook Air is an Ultrabook in all but name.

Intel, keen to stimulate demand for PCs (rather than for ARM-powered tablets) is clearly so annoyed by the inability for PC OEMs to meet this specification that it recently announced the creation of a $300m "Ultrabook Fund" to invest in companies that are working to build this kind of hardware. That's a damning indictment of the PC industry.

What Intel is asking for is readily attainable. We know that because Apple's selling millions of Airs. And yet the world's five biggest PC manufacturers—HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asustek—have so far been unable to come up with something equivalent. And apparently they're not close to managing it, either, because Intel thinks it must invest pots of cash to close the gap.

This isn't an ideal approach; it would be better if the OEMs could produce these machines on their own. Still, the impetus is now there. Problem solved? Probably not

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THE SAMSUNG SMARTPHONS ARE UNLOCKED

AT LAST SMASUNG WITH BIG SMART SECURITY PHON UNLOCKED BY THE COLLAGE STUDENTS IT IS PHON IS UNLOCKED THE LAST DAY THE DAY THEY UNLOCKED THE SMASUNG THREE PHONS

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iPHON 5 RUMER IN EVERY WHERE

The upcoming model of the apple i phon rumer is round every where we wait for the official announcement of the next iPhone, we only can guess about what we're going to see. Apple, after all, always generates a ton of gossip in the absence of real details about upcoming devices. Some of the rumors about the new handset contradict each other--one camp suggests a minor update with an iPhone 4S, while another predicts a big update with an iPhone 5--but disagreement, after all, is often what the rumor mill is all about.
Since all that conflicting information can be hard to track, we offer this handy timeline of iPhone 5 rumors so far in 2011. We'll add to it as we go along, and please let us know if we've left any juicy tidbits out.

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