31st July, 2010 - Posted by joanne - Leave A Comment
My touch 3G phones in the United States are actually known as the HTC Magic. These basically fall under the category of smartphones and have been designed by the HTC. The unveiling of the T-Mobile my Touch 3G was done by Vodafone in February 2009. In the US, orders for this smartphone started coming in June 2009. The announcement by T-Mobile regarding the Android phone called as My Touch 3G simply created a massive buzz in the market for mobile phones.
The phone is available in a smaller form and the synchronization of the phone can be done with Microsoft Outlook. The users of such smartphones can personalize the wallpapers, icons and even the menu of the phone. There is existence of a program called Sherpa in the phone which enables the user for determining the location of favorites and recommendations. Google can be accessed almost instantly from the My Touch 3G phone. T-Mobile My Touch 3G Android phones is bestowed with excellent features like a 3.2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth, HSDPA and memory cards ranging between 512 MB to 16 GB. The phone possesses a touch screen making it extremely user-friendly.
For music lovers, the My Touch 3G phones are the best recommendations. There exists a 3.5 mm headphone jack enabling charging of the phone and listening to music with extreme clarity both at the same time. There is newly invented software, called as the DoubleTwist™, which makes transferring of music tracks and videos and pictures between the personal computer / laptop and the My Touch 3G very easy. Swype is basically a touch screen technology enabling the typing speed to increase by leaps and bounds in the smartphones as about 30 words per minute can be typed. Generally the newly launched package of the T-Mobile My Touch 3G phones come along with accessories like headphones, in-built microphone, USB cable, Screen Protector, leather pouch for carrying the phone and the reading manual for users.
A 4GB SanDisk Class 2 microSD Card is in-built in the phone. The main features of the T-Mobile My Touch 3G phones are the ‘Faves Gallery’ which enables the users to put 20 contacts in their list of favorites and enabling the illumination of a LED light when these contacts call in order to give them priority status.
Basically these My Touch 3G phones are user-friendly along with a Qwerty keyboard; however, some people admit that they have just found it awful. The pricing of these smartphones have been kept in the range of $190 – $200 in order to attract the consumers to these new technology phones. On the whole, the companies are really banking on the success of these phones.
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23rd July, 2010 - Posted by joanne - Leave A Comment
Ever wondered what bit of your phone actually connects to your network, stores all your numbers and details and allows you internet access? It’s actually one of the smallest components, and it’s called a SIM (security identity module) card. The reason why you may not know what one looks like is that for the most part, contract phones come all set up and ready to go, with a 3G SIM already installed which never needs to be changed or replaced.
These small cards hold all the data about your number, which network you’re accessing, your data usage and dozens of other bits of information. It is becoming easier to buy a SIM card and a handset separately to avoid the high tariff contracts charged by most phone companies. Buying a 3G SIM card is incredibly simple and very cheap, so the main difficulty is knowing what offers are out there, and what represents good value for you.
An important task before setting out to buy a SIM card is to work out how many minutes you use currently, how many text messages you send and how much internet data you use, as these are the most common numbers that companies will wage price war with. Once you’ve worked those out, it’s time to go shopping. Each of the major phone companies (AT&T, Cingular, Verizon) offer one of two offers when it comes to SIM cards; a free SIM with a short term cheap contract, or you buy a pre-paid SIM, which has a certain amount of minutes and data attached, and then you top it up with more money once that initial lot has run out. Both can represent good value, depending on how you like to pay, and on what offers on minutes and data you can get.
Average prices from the big 3 companies mentioned about come in at around $20 a month for the first kind, which gives you 300 minutes and 250MB of internet data. It is possible to spend less, but the chances of over-running your credit means that you’ll probably end up paying more in excess data and minutes.
For the pre-paid SIM, you shouldn’t be paying more than $10, but these will only get you 100 minutes and 100MB of data, both of which run out fairly quickly. The pre-pay SIMs are better value for people who want a phone just for an emergency, or to get their children started. The contract SIMs represent better value to the average cell user.
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