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Nokia E71 is a new multimedia handset announced in June and released this month in US, preparing to be available in Europe in a few days.
The smartphone features a full QWERTY keyboard and 5-key scrolling for fast navigation, coming in White Steel and Grey Steel, with support for Microsoft Exchange, an advanced corporate email solution destined to business professionals offering the employees access to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a variety of clients and devices. It reduces costs for maintaining separate systems, by providing a single inbox for voice mail, fax, and e-mail, as well ass built-in security.

The starting price is of £330, and it includes support for email accounts from more than a thousand internet service providers, switching between personal and work home screens, enhanced calendar, customizable home screen modes, Ovi support with maps, music and media sharing, high-speed 3.6Mbps transfer speeds via HSDPA, wireless LAN, 3G, and A-GPS for picture tagging.



"With mobile email penetration and access to wireless applications growing at a rapid rate, Nokia is well positioned with its extensive lineup of market leading handsets to address the needs of consumers, high-end users and mobile professionals alike," said Andrew Brown, Director, Wireless Enterprise Strategies Global Wireless Practice, Strategy Analytics.

Sporting a stainless steel case with metallic finish, Nokia E71 is a durable yet stylish handset with an interesting design, not characteristic to Nokia smartphones, and measures 114 x 57 x 10 mm at 127 grams. It supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 bands, showing a 2.36-inch TFT display of 16 million colors, and featuring MP3 player, True Tones, unlimited phone book entries, microSD card slot for up to 8GB storage, hot swap, 110MB internal memory, 128MB SDRAM, an ARM 11 369 MHz processor, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, infrared port, microUSB 2.0, Symbian OS 9.2 with the Series 60 v3.1 UI, Instant Messaging, HTML, Java, a built-in 3.15MP camera with autofocus, 15 fps video recording capability, flash, secondary videocall camera, GPS, office applications, FM radio, voice commands, and printing.



It is powered by a Li-Po 1500 mAh battery that needs recharging after 10 hours and 30 minutes of talk time, and 410 hours of standby.

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We were a bit sad 3 days ago when we had to talk about iPhone 3G’s sales that broke records, without having enough details from Sprint, to make a fair comparison with the Instinct. Fortunately, Derek Pruett from M80 send us a detailed price comparison fact sheet about Sprint’s Everything plans and AT&T’s Nation plans.
Let’s see what each of these provide!

The Simply Everything Plan costs $99.99 and packages unlimited talking, texting, emailing, web browsing, GPS navigation, picture messaging, video messaging, push-to-talk, NFL Mobile, NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile, Sprint TV, 150 radio stations and channels, and access to Sprint Music Store. All these with unlimited access, as i specified. The deal is that you won’t have to add additional costs for extras, but to reduce it if you don’ need all of those service. In other words, this plan allows you to make economies and pay only what you need to use. For example, when you go lower, at $89.99, you get 900 Anytime Minutes and unlimited access to messaging, Direct Connect and Group Connect, and Mobile Internet via Sprint’s EV-DO Rev A high-speed mobile broadband connectivity. According to Sprint, its EVDO Rev A network offers five times more mobile broadband coverage than the AT&T 3G network, based on square miles.

At $69.99 you have 450 minutes and access to all the other three services. You can do another smart thing if you like, to go for $89.99 choosing Unlimited Domestic Voice, messaging and Connect services, but give up to the Internet, or, if it’s in your advantage, at $69.99 you can also get the package containing 900 Anytime Minutes, unlimited messaging and Connect. For $49.99 you can opt for 450 minutes, messaging and Connect, with no Internet access.



All plans from Sprint Everything include Nationwide Long Distance, no Domestic Roaming Charges, unlimited nights and weekend minutes with nights starting at 7PM, and unlimited Mobile to Mobile.
The two cell phone plan comparisons show that the $99 Sprint plan provides unlimited voice, data and messaging, while AT&T’s plan costs $129.99 and includes only voice and data services.
You can send text messages on Samsung Instinct as many as you want, but if you have an iPhone subscribed as an individual, it will cost you $20 extra, and in case you have a family plan you can add $10 more.
Instinct comes with unlimited night & weekend minutes after 7PM which is annoying, but the iPhone will make you nervous and unpatient 2 hours more, until 9PM.

One last thing before showing you the chart received from Sprint:
The Sprint Samsung Instinct includes Blackberry Internet Service, Sprint Music Premier (50 commercial-free streaming music channels, 100 local stations), Sprint TV Premier (25+ channels of live TV, on-demand clips and full-length episodes), NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. Guess what? -AT&T does not include Blackberry Internet Service, streaming music channels, on-demand full-length TV episodes, NFL Mobile or NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. More money for less entertainment? Kinda sad.

And let’s not forget that iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB costs $199 and $299. They are cheap but requiring a 2-year contract. If not, you’d find them at $599 and $699, respectively.
On the other side, its competitor can be purchased at $129.99 with the 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate, or at $449.99 with no contract.

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This is the new Palm Treo phone model launched at Sprint, running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, and optimized for the business sector. Palm presents it as is most business-friendly phone featuring high-speed transfers via Sprint’s Mobile Broadband Network based on the EV-DO Rev. A technology, Wi-Fi module and GPS with maps, turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation, and point-of-interest searches for public places. To find specific restaurants or stores in the near proximity you’d have to access the Today Screen, which also includes data like call, text, email, and contact’s maps.

Microsoft Exchange Server is a useful service for business applications, increasing work productivity on the go with professional email, contacts, calendars and others. Users can browse the web on Internet Explorer Mobile and send email attachments like PowerPoint or PDFs at up to 3.1 Mbps speeds. In addition, the smartphone provides access to the secure Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 to connect to the corporate network via mobile VPN.
The new Palm Treo 800w bar cell phone has a QWERTY keyboard, a 65K-color TFT transflective display with touch-sensitivity and a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels, 5-way navigation, and one-touch buttons for direct access to the main applications such as Wi-Fi.



“Palm is adding a unique stamp to the Windows Mobile experience with the Treo 800w,” said Stephane Maes, vice president, product marketing, Palm. “It’s an easy-to-use feature-packed smartphone that will keep users happy, empowered and productive.”

Other features include voice mail and preset status settings, the latter being used to set messages like “I’m in a meeting” and let your colleagues know when you will be back and available for calls.

“Sprint recognizes that businesses must stay productive and competitive with quick, always-accessible information and assistance for their own customers,” said Michael Hahn, vice president of device operations for Sprint. “With instant access to email, messaging services and the web on the nation’s largest Mobile Broadband Network, Sprint provides its customers the mobile tools they need to increase productivity and improve competitiveness now.”

Sprint also provides live TV, video-on-demand, 50 live channels, 3D moving navigation maps, Pocket Express access for updates about the latest news, sports, weather, money and movie information, and Sprint IM with access to Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM and MSN Messenger.
Inside, the new Palm Treo phone model integrates 170MB memory for the user and 128MB for applications, the Qualcomm MSM6800A chipset, A-GPS, built-in 2MP camera with 2x digital zoom and video recording, support for up to 8GB storage capacity, microUSB, and Bluetooth 2.0 with the following profiles: General Access Profile, General Object Exchange Profile, Serial Port Profile, Hands Free Profile, ActiveSync, Phonebook Access Profile, Basic Printing Profile, and stereo audio streaming via A2DP, GAVDP and AVRCP.
It powers from a 1150 mAh Li-Ion battery to offer up to 4.5 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby.
The handset measures 2.28 x 4.41 x 0.73 inches at 5 ounces.



Palm Treo 800w will be available at a price of $250 with a Sprint 2-year contract or $600 if you get it directly from Palm.

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We are happy to hear from Sprint that the award-winning Smartphone, Samsung Instinct, has become the fastest-selling EVDO handset in the first week of availability! The phone, as you already know, was released on June 20 and broke all the records.

"We had high expectations going into the launch so our initial order to Samsung was the largest for any Sprint EVDO handset to date," said John Garcia, President of Sprint's Wireless Division. "The strong early response tells us that wireless customers recognize Instinct as a highly-innovative and convenient touch-screen device combined with the fast speeds available on the largest national mobile broadband network. In the first few days of availability, many Instinct devices were purchased by existing customers upgrading their wireless device - we thank our customers for their endorsement of this device, our Simply Everything pricing plan and our company."

After attending the Sprint’s live presentation of the Smartphone we can say that we’re not surprised of its success, but we are sad to hear that this led to temporary shortages of the device at some locations across the United States. We are also sure that Sprint will bring more for you.

"We know we have a winner in Instinct, especially since Sprint's EVDO Rev A network offers five times more mobile broadband coverage than the AT&T 3G network based on square miles," added Garcia. "We appreciate the support from our customers and we are committed to working with Samsung to ensure that every customer who wants an Instinct can get one."



From what we read while browsing through customer’s reviews, we know now that old customers love Samsung Instinct, new customers consider it to be an all-in-one entertainment device for travelling, while others were anxious to get it after reading our reviews on Techpin and CameraPhonesPlaza, and become addicted to the idea of owning a one of the coolest mobile phones.
We have to mention again its low price of just $129.99 including a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.

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GelaSkins Inc. is a provider of protective covers for the iPhone, iPod, laptop and RAZR, at almost 2 mm thin, using advanced 3M vinyl and adhesive technologies, which have patented micro channels for bubble free application. All these covers are scratch resistant and use 3M’s adhesive technology adopted in other industries such as airplanes, automobiles and medical dressings.
Here is a collection consisting of their coolest cell phone skins, iPod skins and laptop skins: