Zaven's Phone Updates: July 2007

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Google Adsense is coming to mobile sites

This is just a quick note to mention that Google has recently rolled out a Beta of a mobile version of Adsense, the popular ad serving program that generates revenue for site owners based on the number of clicks to ads hosted.

There doesn’t appear to be anything terribly different about the mobile version of Adsense. Essentially the program will allow people who run mobile browser specific web pages to host contextual advertising and hence generate some income based on traffic.

The Beta is confined to a few lucky invites at present but hopefully the finished service should be available soon. Good news for mobile web developers and a big step towards growing online mobile content.

[via: PocketPicks]

Spy Shot of the Nokia 7500!

Samsung S730i, Samsung SV60, Samsung Z170

Samsung S730i

The Samsung S730i is a stylish i-mode enabled slider with touch sensitive keypad. It features a 2 megapixel camera which can record video in CIF (352 x 288 pixels) resolution, as well as a microSD memory card slot which allows for extending the 80MB internal memory. The handset has a 262K color TFT display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels. Its Bluetooth capabilities include support for the A2DP profile which allows listening to music on stereo Bluetooth headphones.

The Samsung S730i is quite compact, standing at 100x50x14.8 mm and weighing only 83g. Overall, it's not that impressive specs wise, but it's a job well done for an i-mode enabled handset. Availability and pricing of the Samsung S730i remain unknown.

Samsung Sv60

The Samsung SV60 is a 3G clamshell with 91x46x18.3 mm and weighs 105g. It has two displays with the external being a 1" CSTN 65K color one with 96 x 96 resolution while the internal is 1,9" TFT 265K color one with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels. There is a 2 megapixel camera and a secondary VGA camera for video calls. The internal memory is 30 MB, but the SV60 comes with a microSD memory card slot. No word on availability and pricing.

Samsung Z170

Finally comes the bar-shaped Samsung Z170 which also sports 3G support and is the slimmest of the three standing only at 9.3 mm thickness and weighing 76g. The Z170 display is 1.8' 262K one with 176x220 pixels resolution. There is a primary camera with 1.3 megapixel CMOS sensor and secondary one (VGA) for handling the videocalls. Video recording is available in QCIF (176x144) resolution at 15 fps. Z170 can connect with other devices through its Bluetooth v.1.2 or via the USB port. It has 55MB of internal memory and features a MicroSD memory card slot. Availability and pricing are yet unkonwn.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Nokia 5700 Music Xpress Gets reviewed by Mobile-Review

Mobile-review.com has published a review of the Nokia 5700 Music Xpress. You can check it out here

Frozen Bubble for S60 3rd Edition

One of the games that I loved playing ever since I had my Nokia 3650 was Frozen Bubble. It immediately became addictive and it went with me on every device I carried afterwards.

At one point I thought that it would never be available for S60 3rd edition, but thanks to Elias Konstantinidis it is now available!

Frozen Bubble is a free download but is not scalable, so make sure that you download the version that's compatible with the screen size of your device. Currently, there isn't a version available for 320 x 240, but if you can overlook the black border then you should be fine.

You can download Frozen Bubble from: http://fb-s60.sourceforge.net/

[via: Darla's Blog]