Review: Nokia N8 Symbian Smartphone

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia's N8 smartphone is the long awaited, much talked about pinnacle product for the current Symbian OS. Riding on a refined touchscreen form factor, sporting an industry leading 12 Megapixel camera with Zeiss optics and the first implementation of HDMI-out we've seen on a smartphone, the N8 is an engineering marvel and a multimedia marvel but is it enticing enough to turn heads in today's crowded smartphone market.

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Review: BlackBerry Torch

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

During a recent visit to New York, we were surprised to find tons of posters and ads for RIM's BlackBerry Torch. It quickly became apparent that the company is proud of what it has achieved with its newest smartphone which debuted a whole new form factor as well as the next version of RIM’s smartphone OS.

It also became obvious that expectations for this device and its platform are very high. The BlackBerry Torch ($199 on 3-year contract from Rogers) comes at a time when RIM needs to be innovative, regain market share and establish its relevance in the global market.

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Nokia launches N8 imaging smartphone on Rogers

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia unveiled its highly anticipated N8 Symbian smartphone during a packed event at downtown Toronto's Bang and Olufsen store. Movie magic and imaging were the themes of the night with a film screening and demos of the new device's multimedia capabilities and 12Megapixel camera.

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Samsung Announces the Focus Windows Phone on Rogers

Samsung Electronics Canada, announced the release of the Samsung Focus, offering consumers leading edge design and hardware features, combined with completely new operating system from Microsoft - Windows Phone 7.

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