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Today Microsoft released one of its most ambitious projects: Windows Phone 7 Series. The company is introducing new mobile operating system at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, and if the press is something that is believed this is only the beginning.

The face of Windows Phone 7 is not a rectangular grid of thumbnail-sized glossy-looking icons, arranged in a pattern of 4×4 or something, like basically every other phone. a set of bright large Superflat squares fill the screen. The pop of the primary colors and exaggerated plain produces a kind of cutting-edge cool to sit at the same time incredibly modern and playful. Text is large and beautiful. The result is a feat that no phone has ever done before: make the iPhone interface feel seriously.

The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobile efforts from Microsoft, from the look and feel down to the underlying code, everything is new. 7 Series has rebuilt Windows Mobile from the ground up, with a splash screen and completely altered the experience of user interface, robust integration Xbox LIVE and Zune, and very new and enhanced social networking tools.

The operating system is also heavily focused on social networks, providing integrated contact pages that display status updates from multiple services and allow quick jumps to richer content of clouds. The aspect of the operating system also has been radically upended, reflecting the Zune HD experience closely, full of large text, an icon for menus and slide transitions beautifully to a user content entry and exit points of view different.

Windows Phone 7 is connected in the same sense as Palm’s webOS and Android, with live, real-time data seamlessly integrated, though it’s even smoother and more natural. Pictures live in the home screen, you can fully customize are dynamically updated with fresh content, such as climate, or if a person has pinned to the home screen, their latest status updates and photos.

DROID ERIS by HTC combines the popular Android platform with HTC Sense, the user experience by HTC, which makes it easier for clients to be near each other and create a unique mobile experience tailored specifically to their needs. This phone offers users the ability to customize the seven-panel widescreen with a wide range of widgets designed to make the most important information on the surface.

The Verizon Droid Eris sports a black shell with a slightly more rounded bottom curve. The Home, menu, back and search buttons are now in a single line. Touch-sensitive, which were built in the same casing as the screen. Only the physical buttons on the touch screen calls and hang up buttons scroll wheel found in MyTouch 3G and G1 phone. The camera lens looks backward rather much like the view that most camera phones took the back, probably because, as Stark, the rest of the phone.

Running Google’s Android 1.5 OS, the Droid Eris is the second phone from Verizon, Motorola Droid is another. Like the Sprint HTC Hero, HTC has once again adopted the Android operating system as a starting point, and put their own special sheen on the operating system. Called the Sense UI it basically gives you a more graphical look of Android OS on a more adult experience.

The screen remains at 3.2-inches, the same as the Sprint model. Compared to other smartphones on the market, is slightly larger than the Palm Pre’s 3.1-inch screen and little less than the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen. In any case, less hyptic screen phone has enabled more compact, which does not take up more real estate in your pocket, but it is still widely used.

It also includes the innovative “Scenes” feature, which allows users to create multiple home screens, each with various widgets and shortcuts to transform DROID ERIS HTC with the “work” the phone to play with the phone only with your finger. It also organizes the interaction of the person that allows access to text messages, emails, telephone calls and even updates from Flickr and Facebook, the flow of a contact card.

Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, and is known for its good network coverage. At the same time, Verizon’s top-end consumer smartphones have been represented by its aging collection of Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices. The Apple iPhone was AT & T, Sprint Palm Pre, and the first generation of Android devices that T-Mobile. But Verizon has finally struck back, taking the first device Android 2.0 release with a bit of Apple as the hype.

DROID by Motorola has a solid exterior, intelligent interior and is one of the thinnest full-QWERTY slider phones available. It is a reliable, high technology, location-aware, voice recognition, over-the-air upgrade, multi-functional machine. Equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and a high-resolution touch screen capacitive DROID is the first phone to be issued and Google Android 2.0 Turn-by-Turn Navigation app.

At first glance, no one would think Motorola’s design quantities, the droid much. Its construction is rather boring and outcome of acute angles in a square aspect. But this is a smartphone with plenty of surprises, as the eldest of the WVGA screen positively magnificent. 3.7 inch, surpassing even the iPhone and is firmly within the limits of what we consider acceptable size for a touchscreen.

Color support is generous (16 million hues) and the resolution (440×854 pixels) is some of the richest we’ve seen. We’re not kidding when we say that this screen is bright and shiny with vibrant colors and sharp graphics. It also lends itself well to the Android 2.0 host interface changes (more on that later). The Droid has a range of ca 6.4 hours of talk time and 11.25 days standby time. According to the evidence of radiation from the FCC, the Motorola droid has a digital SAR rating of 1.49 watts per kilogram.

Palm Pre-Plus, of course, most exciting of the two devices. It includes the design of accessories, such as upgrading the keyboard, which improves the overall appearance. Palm also strengthened the internal memory and RAM, the effectiveness of smart phones to increase the speed and advanced features. If Sprint Pre owners weren’t jealous enough, Verizon customers will also be able to use the Pre Plus, as well as the Pixi Plus, as a 3G mobile hot spot.

The new Palm Pre Plus phone gives you double the memory in a refined design. And since the original Palm Previously, helps you navigate your life bright touch, full keyboard and intuitive Palm WebOS platform, running multiple applications simultaneously. Viewing Web pages and watch video in widescreen. Slide out the keyboard to fire off a text or email. Bring work and personal events or contacts together in one simple view. All in an elegant design that fits perfectly in your hand and your life.

The Pre Plus is exclusive to Verizon and in addition to the noted hardware updates, the pre-Plus will also have an innovative and Crazy Cool-piece of software available for it called “Mobile Point”, which is prior to a wireless router as well WiFi. Pre Palm Plus, arrived January 25, Verizon, exclusively, for $ 149.99 after a discount of nearly two years and $ 100 Pre-contract.The shares plus the same pebblelike form and design of the regulator and has a superb screen 3.1 inch Multitouch HVGA. However, Palm made slight changes in the design of the phone, which really improves the overall product appearance.

The Palm Pre Plus’s user-replaceable battery has a rated talk time of 5.5 hours and up to 14.5 days of standby time. The smartphone provided 5.5 hours of continous talk time in our battery drain tests. With moderate use of the Web, music player, and games, the Pre Plus’s battery lasted a little more than a day. According to the radiation test of the FCC, in addition to pre-digital SAR rating of 0.919 watts per kilogram.

It was a year after the original RIM BlackBerry Bold’s debut, and while it remains a very solid device, it’s about time that a flashier, faster model took over the reigns. The BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold 9000, was, at its time, a significant and sexy update to the old 8800 lineup. This is not just T-Mobile’s 3G BlackBerry first, but its design is more elegant and productivity make him a valuable addition to the list of the company. The phone offers top-of-the-line performance, functionality and capabilities to support for 3G HSDPA networks around the world, a next-generation (624 MHz) processor, 256 MB Flash memory, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, a 3.2MP camera and a sharp, dazzling display.

The Bold also offers UMA support for Wi-Fi calls, a faster processor, and an updated OS. The only major downside of the smartphone, and one that plagues all BlackBerry devices, unfortunately, is the Web browser. It is simply not competitive in terms of ease of use and functionality.

Cutting edge engineering and premium finishes extend to the exterior of the handset as well, with a smoothly integrated touch-sensitive trackpad and a highly tactile, distinctive, fretted keyboard. Dark chrome frame and leather back Add to elegant and stylish appearance of the new smartphone, and a narrow profile, balanced weight and soft touch lets you feel very comfortable in.

With BlackBerry Internet Service, you can also access up to 10 personal business and POP3 or IMAP4 email accounts. There are also viewing attachments to open Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, PDF, JPEG, GIF, and more. There are also preinstalled IM clients for AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo, Windows Live, Messenger, and blackberries.

Finally, the Bold 9700 brings an upgraded camera, going from 2 megapixels to 3.2 megapixels. It offers variable zoom, auto focus, flash and video recording capability. Editing options are pretty standard with various size and quality choices, white-balance controls, and color effects. You can also use the phone’s GPS to geotag photos. The image quality was impressive. Objects that are clearly visible in the images and the colors were washed, even in bright sunlight.