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So how do you draw the line between a smartphone and a non-smartphone? On the Samsung Jet, the line gets thinner as this non-smartphone powerhouse shows us how it can be as powerful as a smartphone too!
Link: Samsung Jet

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We talked about Windows Mobile in this week’s iteration of the month of SmartPhones; but don’t skip to that topic just yet; there are lots of goodies and nuggets in the Refresh segment.

In today’s economy, what’s the best thing a phone company can do? Come up with a budget phone with enough features to not make it appear like something that came out from the late 1990s of course. The C510 appears to target that market, with that same, if-it’s-not-broken-don’t-fix-it user interface that’s been around since 2005, [...]

On our tenth week at Gear65, we take a look at LG’s premium fashion phone. Does high cost = great technology and features? With Nokia’s Vertu and Motorola’s Aura, that certainly wasn’t the case, though LG sure is trying their best with this phone.
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Update (27 Feb 2009): Apparently the [...]

Last night, DK, Nicole, Hisham and I attended Samsung’s Mobile World Conference 2009 event in Singapore at their flagship store in Vivo City, where they showed us some of the phones that were launched at the Mobile World Conference 2009 in Barcelona. In total they showed off 7 phones, namely their entry-level C3050, their Ultra [...]

Behold the aura!

This was a photo collage I made with all the other pictures that I took of the Aura. Thanks Johahn from Fleishman-Hillard!

To start off the reviews on Tech65, we have the Samsung Innov8, reviewed by Nicole a few months back.

Samsung Innov8
Network: 3.5G (GSM, HSPDA 7.2Mbps)
OS: Symbian 9.2, Series 60 V3.2
Connectivity: Wifi +Bluetooth 2.0 + GPS
Camera: 8 Megapixel CMOS with AF and Dual Power LED

It's the first episode of our brand new show: Gear65! Every week, the crew comes together and shows off/talks about/rants about new gadgets in a completely unscripted, 65bits-style.
In this first episode, Daniel, Nicole and DK take a look at the so-expensive-if-you-had-to-ask-how-much-it-costs-you-probably-don't-wanna-know Motorola Aura, as well as Samsung's new Pixon, their latest addition to the 8-megapixel [...]