The solar-powered Puma Phone

Saturday, February 20, 2010 0 Comments


Puma, the brand name that is mostly heard associated with sport wears and gears, is now into mobile phone business. Puma has teamed up with Sagem Wireless to have created and announced the Puma Phone at Mobile World Congress.

The Puma Phone looks pretty similar to the Palm Pre but without the slider. It comes equipped with a solar panel that makes it great to be rechargeable anywhere as long as sunlight is available. The phone allows 2 hours of music playback or sending of 30 messages after it’s got charged under “medium sunlight” for an hour. A full charge will give you 5 hours of talk time, 350 hours of standby and 24 hours of music playback.

The Puma Phone features a 2.8 inch screen which is rather small but Puma claims the UI is “thumbable” that ensures a single-handed operation. The phone also includes a 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS with tracking and Geo-tagging capabilities, Blueotooth, Pedometer, 3D Accelerometer, stopwatch and cycle tracker. Apparently it’s a phone aimed for geeks with intensive outdoor sports activities.

The Puma Phone also comes with built-in FM radio, which can pull live sports feed from Puma World and mCommerce. It’s also loaded with an app that allows the users to customize and order new gears and things from Puma online shop. The music player on this Puma Phone also adds little fun, showing a software vinyl player when the music plays, allowing the users to Virtual Scratch the tunes. It’s due in April and should be priced around the £250 (about $394 USD) mark.

via mightygadget


Samsung Wave is the latest Samsung smart phone that comes equipped with a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED display which has full touchscreen capability and boasts WVGA (800 x480 p) resolution. The Samsung Wave also supports WiFi (wireless N) and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.

Besides the mentioned, the Samsung Wave also comes equipped with many distinguished features such as it’s powered by a 1GHz processor, backed by smooth 3D and memory-intenstive graphics and video performance. The Wave supports various codecs including DivX, Xvid, MP4 and WMV. It also supports the virtual 5.1 surround sound.





The Samsung Wave is the world’s first smartphone that is equipped with a Super AMOLED display. The Super AMOLED display offers much brighter, clearer, and less reflective AMOLED OnCell display. And it boasts the WVGA (800 x 480 ) resolution, backed by the mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) technology – the same technology that has been applied on Samsung’s LCD and LED TV lines. The Samsung Wave also offers free viewing angle and super fast response, allowing the display of this smart phone to deliver best quality of image and video.

The Samsung Wave is also a social hub, which it’s been loaded with applications that allow you to connect to all major portal’s emails, IM and SNS services. With the TouchWiz 3.0 UI, you’ll be able to access to social media sites (Facebook, Twitter) with ease, which you can easily customize the phone’s homepage by widgets for easy access.

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The upcoming Verizon HTC Incredible smart phone has got some photos and video leaked. The HTC Incredible is said to run Android 2.1 with HTC Sense. It’s powered by Snapdragon processor which was claimed to be “really fast”.


Other goodies to be found on the Incredible are 256MB RAM, a 3.5 to 3.7-inch WVGA screen (could be an AMOLED display), an optical mouse pointer towards the bottom of the phone. On the back, dual LED flashes were spotted. A clip is included below.

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It’s another smartphone with some pictures leaked, although they’re blurry. The LG Arena Max LU9400 has attracted some attentions with its leaked pictures over the Internet but LG is still quiet about it.

From how it looks in the leaked picture, the LG Arena Max LU9400 has been emphasized with cute design elements that make it a charmer. It would come with a 5-megapixel camera, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and sport WiFi, GPS capabilities and powered by the 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

No other further details yet about the specs and the image isn’t clear enough to show what OS it runs. No word on where and when it’ll be launched. The phone shows Cyon logo – LG’s Korean phone brand, which might hint it’d be launched in Korea only.

via devicemag



LG has launched the LG GT350, which comes with interface well integrated with popular social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook as well as some other social media sites. LG has also stressed pretty much the capability of this phone to work with social sites, with the comment “let you social network like a pro”.

On the screen of the LG GT350, you get easy viewing of your friends’ social updates and you’ll be able to update your social status right away from the phone’s interface and notify your network of friends.

On the phone itself, you get a 3-inch full touchscreen, side-slide QWERTY keyboard, a web browser and email service. The GT350 is expected to hit the Europe in April with other markets to follow thereafter. The price is unknown. But it offers quite a number of color selection, which are light silver, aqua blue, plain purple and black.

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Blackberry seems to be finally experimenting with fashion in their latest device. The BlackBerry Bold in white, with a white leather back (pictured), will be out October 18th on AT&T, and costs $200.

Gizmodo calls it tacky, but we see a higher purpose in its design - the phone is sleek and fashionable, and kind of reminds us of a delicate Louis Vuitton wallet or tiny coin purse.

We like the color and texture, but we have one big complaint: Couldn't BBerry have chosen a more "animal friendly" faux-leather alternative?

Right now this puppy will be available only in Phoenix and here in Los Angeles.

[Photo via Gizmodo]



Samsung's got a new phone for divas everywhere. S5150 Olivia and the S7070. The Olivia has a 3 megapixel camera and a 2.2-inch LED screen, while the S7070 has a pretty outer covering that resembles the old comforter on your bed, and a diamond at the bottom of its faceplate. Cute! But would probably get dirty quickly. I would definitely go with this guy if it also came in black or darker colors.