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How a Tom Tom will improve your life

How a Tom Tom will improve your life

Until a few weeks ago, I’d never heard of Tom Toms. I’ve recently moved, and a visiting friend told me she’d got there by following the directions from her new Tom Tom. I asked whether she’d taken up drumming and the drums had started talking to her. However, she looked at me incredulously at my lack of knowledge, and told me they were the most popular form of Sat. Nav.

Sat. Nav. is not something that’s ever appealed to me. Whenever I want to go anywhere, I look it up on the map. Recently, I’ve started using journey planners, but I still look at the map. Sat. Navs seem lazy to me, another unnecessary reliance on technology.

However, like any good advertising campaign, the name stuck with me, and a few days later I ended up looking it up. Browsing online shopping sites, I realised that not only do Tom Toms work in cars, but you can get them for motorbikes, PDAs and mobile phones.

However, none of this information has answered the question that’s been really bugging me ever since I first heard the word ? why are they called Tom Toms? After trawling through online shopping sites, I came across the official website, and I’ve discovered there is some link with my initial reaction ? drumming. There is the tenuous link that only advertisers can imagine of a computer system being linked to signaling and communication (the original form of this kind of drumming).

I’ve always had a slight paranoia about what I know know are called TomTom Rider. The idea of having a device that constantly tracks my location in my car freaks me out. However, I know this is exactly what I have with my mobile phone. And I guess, the same way I can leave my phone at home, I could leave my Tom Tom at home. For some bizarre reason, it is easy to forget these devices are not attached to us like some weird symbiont.

I also think I like the element of adventure involved in finding my way to new and exotic locations. Well, the exotic might be a bit far fetched, as the last two long distance places I’ve tried to find are friend’s houses in suburban Cardiff and London. However, even today, dropping off a form to a friend, I enjoyed finding the right road, and the right green gate without technological assistance.

Having said this, it is not always that easy, and invariably I get lost and end up pulling my hair out in desperation as I’ve made yet another wrong turning. I’ve also discovered, since perusing the web, that Tom Toms can tell you where speed cameras are located. Given I’m one speeding offence off losing my license, this might be a godsend.

So, next time I’m pulling up every five minutes to read the map, shouting and swearing, and getting hot and bothered, could someone remind me that maybe having a device in the car telling me where to go might be a really good idea.

Sarah Maple uses Shopping.com to find great TomTom Rider prices and find new and exciting products

How a Tom Tom will improve your life / Author: MarkeD

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Motorola Announce a Quintet of Handsets

Motorola Announce a Quintet of Handsets

Let’s take a sneaky peek at five new mobile phones that are soon to be released by Motorola. I will give you the lowdown on the five new handsets: the A810, ZN200, VU20, V9x and a mystery handset that is so far unnamed!

We will start with the A810 which was originally announced in April. It is a mid range touch screen GSM phone featuring a pretty basic 2 mega pixel camera, microSD expandable memory, and Bluetooth. It will be available in black and white colour schemes, and is thought to be aimed at the Chinese market rather than the rest of the world. Unfortunately a full spec has not yet been released, so we will have to wait in anticipation for more details of the A810.

Secondly we will look at the ZN200. This looks like a fairly basic GSM slider handset that will appeal to the budget and pre-pay market. It features a 176 x 220 pixel display, 2 mega pixel camera, microSD expandable memory, FM radio and Bluetooth. The ZN200 doesn’t fill you with excitement and enthusiasm but if you are watching your pennies it may be a good option.

Next we move onto the VU20 which looks very similar to the PEBL U6 and U9. It looks like the VU20 is going to be a PEBL style version of the RAZR2 V9. We know that it is a UMTS/HSDPA 2100 tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 handset but unfortunately that is all the information that has been released so far!

The V9x is an upgrade to the original RAZR2 V9. It is rumoured to come with GPS satellite navigation. It should also have the original features of the V9 which are a 2 mega pixel camera, HSDPA (3.5G), dual QVGA displays with haptic feedback, microSD expandable memory and Bluetooth. We await a full spec to be announced soon.

This and many other articles on mobile phones and the latest mobile phone deals was written by John Gray.

John Gray’s writing can often be found at http://www.onecompare.com.

Motorola Announce a Quintet of Handsets / Author: JGray

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The Samsung Armani and Samsung U900 Soul Handsets with useful features and smart looks

The Samsung Armani and Samsung U900 Soul – Handsets with useful features and smart looks

The Samsung Armani mobile phone is the ideal handset for those people who wants to have a stylish phone with an accurate finish and world-class features. The handset comes with super smart looks and elegant design. The handset is weighted only 85 grams and has dimensions of 87.5 x 54.5 x 10.5 mm. Its 2.6 inches TFT display is the class feature of the mobile which supports 256K colours and comes with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.

You can save 1000 numbers of phonebook entry into the phone which is also enabled with Photo call feature. The handset is capable to record 30 numbers of dialled, received and missed call details. You will also be able to set ringtones in 64 channels polyphonic and MP3 formats. The model comes with messaging option of SMS test messaging, MMS multimedia messaging and Email messaging. You can surf the Internet smoothly for its WAP 2.0/xHTML enabled Internet browser and Class 10 GPRS and EDGE technology. The phone offers you document viewing software for view your office documents in a ease and sophisticated way. You can see your PDF, DOC, PPT and XLS formatted files into the handset.

If you are a photography lover, then the handset will fulfil all your photography needs. It comes with a 3.15 mega pixels camera which can capture video as well and able to capture photo at a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. You will definitely be thrill by its amazing sound quality and will be able play your favourite music files in its built-in MP3, ACC and ACC+ player. Don’t worry about saving your music, video and picture files into the handset as it provides you 60 MB embedded memory. You will also get the option to expand the memory by microSD (TransFlash) card.

The Samsung Amani offers you the technology by which you can easily transfer your files to other devices. You will get the latest version of Bluetooth and USB port which will help you to a better connectivity. The sophisticated handset comes with additional features like Java MIDP 2.0, Organiser and Voice memo.

On the other hand, the Samsung U900 Soul is not a bit less powerful and attractive than Samsung Armani. The 3G HSDPA 2100 network enabled phone comes with a very sophisticated dual sliding opening design. Its attractive finishing and colours will definitely induce fashion conscious people to buy it. The handset has a weight of only 112 grams and dimensions of 105 x 49.5 x 12.9 mm. Like the Smasung Armani you can save 1000 numbers of phonebook entry and the phone is enable to record 30 numbers of dialled, received and missed call details.

You will get various messaging options from the handset like SMS, EMS, MMS and Email. The elegant phone offers you a good quality Internet browser which is WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML enabled. Its Class 10 GPRS and EDGE technology also made it faster. The mobile handset also comes with superior quality connectivity option like A2DP enabled Bluetooth v2.0 and USB v2.0.

The Samsung U900 Soul provides you a powerful camera by which you can capture high quality photo. Its 5 mega pixels camera is enabled to capture photo at a resolution of 2592 Ñ… 1944 pixels. The camera feature is enhanced with Picture editing software, autofocus technology, image stabiliser feature and flash. The mobile phone comes with lots of additional features like Java MIDP 2.0, MP3/AAC/eACC+/WMA player, FM radio with RDS, T9, Organiser and Built-in handsfree.

To be summarise, it is no doubt that the both Samsung Armani and Samsung U900 Soul is a highly fashionable handset with world-class and very useful features. If you are searching for a user friendly and stylish handset then you should go for either of these two Samsung phones.

Jack Daniel is an expert author and the webmaster of contract phones. The website having details of 3 mobile phones.

The Samsung Armani and Samsung U900 Soul – Handsets with useful features and smart looks / Author: Besanto

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