Nokia C2

Nokia C2-01

• Priced to sell at just €70 before tax and carrier subsidy, the C2-01 easily breaks the magic €100 barrier for 3G phones. But at this sort of price, don't expect anything too fancy.. the specifications of the C2-01 are pretty modest compared to high end devices. It features a relatively small 2" 240 x 320 pixel display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD expandable memory, Bluetooth, a media player and a 3.5mm audio socket.
• The screen is a bit small for meaningful web surfing, but Nokia have added some social networking support in addition to the basic browser. Although this is only a Series 40 phone rather than a Symbian smartphone, there are a decent number of a applications available from the Ovi Store for this platform.
• Nokia C2-01 Nokia's 3.2 megapixel cameras are usually good enough for most purposes, but video capture is pretty miserable at just 176 x 144 pixels and 15 frames per second. Video playback is much better though, but remember that the screen size is pretty limited.
• The Nokia C2-01 supports tri-band 3G connectivity, but not 3.5G.. and there's certainly no WiFi or GPS. But you wouldn't expect those sort of things from an inexpensive little 3G device like this either. Inside is a 1020 mAh BL-5C battery that is quoting as giving up to 4.5 hours talktime on 3G and over 8 hours on GSM. Standby time is about 18 days, and the whole package weighs just 89 grams and measures 110 x 47 x 15mm.
• So what is the catch? Well, the Nokia C2-01 is very much like 3G phones used to be 5 years ago, in fact it is very close in specification to the old Nokia 6233. They were really fairly limited in their usefulness and 3G took a long time to take off. So it's hard to see just who will be excited about reliving 2005 again with the new C2-01, except they will be doing for less than one quarter of the price that it would have been back then.

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The Apple ipod

latest Apple ipod

Tablet computers have been around for quite a while. They are a very specific niche market. The Apple iPad did not exactly break ground with the concept. However, they did break ground by having a massive array of applications readymade to utilize a tablet computer. As well as this, it was also able to handle 3G connections for roaming Internet virtually anywhere you can get a 3G signal (in later models). While it may be cheaper for someone to just buy a notebook – and give you some greater functionality – 

it may not be as user friendly or accessible for some people.

The Apple iPad has a very specific niche market. You are not required to be technologically savvy in order to use it. In fact, if you have an Apple iPhone or use a similar touch screen enabled phone then the learning curve in learning to use the Apple iPhone will be non-existent. The Apple iPad is a device that is better suited to people who need or want to use mobile computing as well as have the opportunity to use the Internet anywhere without hassle. A good example of how the Apple iPad can be a great mobile computing device is for people who have limited space to carry a notebook while traveling and still want to be connected to their email, various entertainment options and a machine in which they can use to work.

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