Only 2 days to before its release, iPhone 5 features a larger screen most likely 4 inches to 4.3 inches.  Its larger screen is likely to extend beyond the body casing and therefore most likely its size will be the same as earlier version iPhone 4.

Most likely iPhone 5 will feature a 8 megapixel camera an increase in resolution from 5 megapixels from the earlier version.

Carrier of the new iPhone will be sprint PCS unlike the other versions where the carriers were AT&T and Verizon. Another iPhone 5 feature that is different from earlier version is enhanced iOS 5 voice features. Apple now has a patented “Assistant”, a feature that make the phone have an easy-to-use speech to text and action system.

What Other iPhone 5 Features Make it Unique?

iPhone 5 will have a hyper-speed HSPA+ 21 Mbps modem making it 3 times faster than iPhone 4 in downloading files. This feature alone will help it attain a 4 G speed.

sWap Nova Keychain touch screen cell phone looks compact, stylish and elegant and it weighs 40.3 g (1.42 oz). It measures 68.5 x 38 x 16.2 mm and the phone has the speed of 2G a with the folks around the world  embracing it for its looks. You can either hang it round your neck or on the key fob, and is made by Dyal Trading Ltd; the people who make cell phones watches.

It is reported that sWap Nova Keychain touch screen cell phone supports 82 hours of standby time and 150 minutes of talk time and has three colors. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World’s Records as the world’s tiniest touch screen cell phone ever made.

You don’t need the 3D goggles to watch the movies on your iPhone instead; Spatial View has created a slide that slide fits your iPhone or iPod touch called 3DeeSlide.
The only drawback is that iPhone and iPod touch have such small screens that a movie won’t be as enjoyable as when you watch it on a normal 3D TV but iPad with a larger screen is a good substitution.

No one would ever suspect it for holding your valuables

Rather than selling Galaxy Tab directly to consumers, Samsang electronics will rely on companies that run Google’s Android Software.

Galaxy Tab features a seven-inch screen and will be launched initially in Italy and later move around the world including the US once Samsang close deals with wireless carriers.

Galaxy tab rival iPad sold over 3 million units and is controlling the minicomputer arena for the moment but the question is; Will Galaxy tab keep up with the competition? Ipad has all the advantages which include a larger screen (9.7-inch) and already built applications in the apps store among others.

Source; Yahoo News

iPhone 4G is equipped with a front facing camera opening the possibilities of mobile to mobile video chatting provided the correct apps are in the apps store such as from Skype.

It also comes with a 960 x 640 pixel screen a definition of higher resolution which is an improvement of the iPhone 3G.

The new iPhone 4G has a smaller sim card slot compared to three G version which has a standard sim card slot.

The new phone comes with metallic power and volume/mute buttons which make it easier to turn it on and off in a meeting.

IPhone 4G won’t support Adobe Flash Player which is used by many video sites but instead will support HTML 5. YouTube supports HTML 5 so it will be easy to use YouTube on the new iPhone 4G. All the other video websites will be forced to change their video format to HTML 5 if they want iPhone users to access their videos

Users downloading a hentai (pornographic anime genre) game from Japanese file-sharing site Winni have been infected by a Trojan virus that takes screengrabs of a user’s history and then publishes it to the Web.

The Trojan gains access to the user’s personal information after prompting them to enter personal information during an install screen.

According to the BBC, the site then sends the user an e-mail, asking for a payment of 1,500 yen in order to take the information offline.
The file is an illegally copied version of the game.

According to the site, it is asking for the money in order to “settle your violation of copyright law.”

Story originally from AppScout.

To many, recession has beaten their pockets and cannot afford cool phones because of their pricey nature but with the following free phones, you can match up with the rest of the world. Of course the carriers will require some sort of an agreement before you get the phone and some of them are refurbished.

Verizon Wireless

Samsung Intensity SCH-u450

A good phone for people who love texting at 3G speed in a 2G network provided by Verizon  and have the following features;

• 176-by-220, 2.1 inches 262K-color TFT LCD screen
• 1.2 MP camera
• QWERTY keyboard
• Bluetooth
• Good web browser

AT&T

Nokia E71x

For those who love smart phones Nokia E71x is a good choice to get free with a contract. However this phone is refurbished and it has some of the following features;

• 320×240, 16 million color, 2.4 inches TFT LCD screen
• 3.2 MP camera
• QWERTY keyboard
• Bluetooth
• Good web browser

Samsung Mythic SGH-a897

This phone is refurbished and comes with a two year contract with AT&T. The phone features include;

• Mobile TV
• 360-by-640, 262K-color TFT LCD resistive touch screen
• 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera
• Bluetooth
• And more

T-Mobile

Samsung Gravity SGH-T459

Great phone for those who love texting and has the following features;

• 176×220, 262k-color 2.1 inches TFT LCD screen
• 1.3 MP camera
• QWERTY keyboard
• Bluetooth
• Good web browser

Sprint

Samsung Reclaim

An eco friendly phone provided by sprint and has the following features;

• 320-by-240, 262K-color,2.6 inches TFT LCD screen
• 2 MP camera
• QWERTY keyboard
• Bluetooth
• Good web browser

Most of These phones are free and refurbished are for new customers or those who have already finished the contract.

Kin One

Social networking savvy youngsters have something to smile about; the new cell phones by Microsoft Corporation Kin One & Kin Two. Both phones will be manufactured by Sharp and will be the first to run Windows Phone 7 and will be integrated with Zune software.

“The loop” as Microsoft calls it, is the Phone Home screen where your friends status updates from sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace will show up and you can rank your friends in order of importance to give their updates priority. Both phones are designed for teens and up to 25 years of age on average and are touch screened.

Kin One has 4GB of storage, a 2.6-inch touch screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Also it has a 5.0 megapixel camera and a really bright LED for flash photography While Kin Two has 8GB of storage, 3.4-inch touch screen and the QWERTY key board.

None of the phones have memory slot, instead the phones will upload content such as photos and videos to a Kin online storage at Microsoft cloud. The phones have ‘Spot’ , a special area that acts as a clipboard, where you can drag and drop whatever links or media you want to share using the touch screen.

Kin Two

In the U.S. both phones will be distributed exclusively by Verizon Wireless and will be out from the beginning of May.  Kid One, Two will be available in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom during the fall season but no word has been heard concerning pricing.

The iPad’s superb visual quality makes it a natural for reading such diagnostic images as patient X-rays and MRIs, Its big, bright touch screen is a massive improvement over illegible paper charts or big desktop computers when it comes to recording and reviewing patient data.

Various medical institutions are considering using this device and it is believed that if the iPad becomes widely used in medical facilities, it could save billions of dollars. Federal government has allocated around $19 billion in stimulus money for digitizing medical records and this new device will play a big role in this area.

Apple’s iPad is what doctors have been dreaming of closest being the iPhone which most doctors are familiar with. Training to use the new device will be short since iPad and iPhone have similarities and they already have gone through half of it.

Low-end version of the iPad is going for under $500 and comes with Wi-Fi so you can load patient charts remotely in a nursing station and other operation. So this device will transform medical practice directly from paper.