Undoubtedly, the touch screen mobile phone is relatively new. It has come to take over the mainstream after the launch of Apple’s high profile touch-screen iPhone. Others followed the suit.

Presently, both the devices (keypad and touch screen) catch the attention of the users with their own features and specifications.  So, which is the best? Here goes the analysis. It is said that the touch screen obsession is recent phenomenon.

However, in the short span, the touch screen mobile gadgets have attracted a good number of customers. Now, the question arises, will the touch screen mobile phones overtake keypads? Let’s have a look at the keypad mobile phones.

The keypad mobile phones are the oldest form of mobile devices. Initially they had their launch in 1960s.  After that, typewriter inspired QWERTY keyboards took the place of keypads. The design was inspired by the computer keyboards.

Plus points of the Keypad phones are their user-friendliness as the users just have to press the button. But, they are inclined to damage due to liquid spills. The QWERTY keypads are featured with small and tiniest keys, which make it too hard for customers to reach a particular key without touching the neighboring keys.

Coming to the touch screens, they were firstly launched in the market in the 90s. Palm’s stylus-based PDA is a watershed in making touchscreen devices popular. After that came the Psion’s EPOC-powered palmtops.

For all practical reasons, Apple iPhone is the most popular. The superb  feature of iPhone is the large and high-def display. The touch screen devices come with their own problem.

For example, the touchscreen is the slow reply of the resistive touchscreen. Sometimes, the icons refute reacting to the finger taps.

There are other such plus points and minus points in both the devices, but still both types of devices have made niche in the market during their period.

If spirituality and technology both reside in one corner of your heart, then feel the tinge of spirituality with technology through the latest C91,  Buddha phone, which comes in glowing golden color. Though similar type of phone was also introduced in April 2008, I was not available to give my view at that time.

Following the same concept, the C91 Buddha phone has been offered innovatively, rather religiously. The C91Buddha phone is a grand gold-plated handset with a circular design. The design is inspired by Buddhism. The gold-plated handset doesn’t come with any such feature that could be called its USP (Unique selling point), except a 1.3 mp camera and 2-inch LCD display.

Besides, the C91 also boasts of being integrated with double SIM card slots alongside an included FM radio. Apart all these, the phone also comes additionally featured with video playback and microSD card support.

From the spiritual point of view, the spiritual phone comes included with a Buddistic music box.

So, if the Buddha phone has left you impressed with its design and features, it could be yours by paying just $123.

Not a big amount for a phone that boasts of spirituality with technology.

Sprinting on iPhone OS 3.0 mobile operating system, the cutting-edge Apple phone brags of several functional apps and features for the users, who are now able to download over 50,000 apps from Apple’s App Store.

The new iPhone boasts resound speed, to say twice than the prior iPhone 3G. The phone comes featured with OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for first-rate 3D graphics making graphic intense apps and mobile games striking than before.

The iPhone 3G S also boasts of long battery life. So, you don’t have to charge it often. The handheld device can also work with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA for smoother and faster net-working.

The iPhone 3G S brags of a 3 mp autofocus camera to fine-tune exposure, focus, color and contrast. The automatic macro focus function guarantees additional close ups shots and recording high-class video clips.  Plus, you are also allowed to edit the videos. You can share the video among your contacts or even strange persons at YouTube or Mobile-Me.

The newest Apple device also comes with superb voice control system, which achieves Voice Over functions to read text that gets to your mobile phone. The iPhone OS 3.0 operating system gives different functions like copy, cut and paste, spotlight search, MMS, landscape keyboard for mail, messages and notes. It also gives support to safari and parental controls for TV shows, movies and apps from the App Store.

The iPhone has latest iTunes for wirelessly downloading movies, TV and audio programs and iTunes U. The Apple iPhone comes featured with integrated with Nike + iPod support to keep track of the miles that they run or sync.

The Apple iPhone 3G S is slated to be put for sale at At&T from June 19. It could be yours for just $199  for the 16GB.

The Nvidia ION-enabled Pulse is featured with Intel Core2, a 45nm processor, which boasts of 300W power supply and 80% efficiency. You can select the GeForce 9800 GT ECO, which has a 65W Core2 quad processor. This processor is claimed to be 40% more efficient than usual GeForce 9800 GT processors. The GeForce can be availed in both 512MB and 1GB configurations.

The chassis of the Pulse is measured up to 11-inches in height and 8×8 in footprint. Pulse also boasts of having enhanced power efficiency, which isn’t found in today’s computers market. It can give support to about 8GB RAM and brags of a 7.1 audio output.

The Pulse is additionally featured with 802.11b/g wireless connectivity and eSata support for max-to-max expandability and integrates a discretionary Blu-ray and TV Tuner.

The Maingear Pulse is perfect if you are on the lookout for a hardcore gaming device. The Pulse will be made available for $799.

The FinePix S2000HD camera can capture stills at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and movie at a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. It also has a cable and remote control.

With 15x optical zoom lens, the camera is capable of capturing interiors, landscapes, large group shots and also wildlife action and distant sports. Its dual stabilization mode, mech- anicallystabilized CCD sensor integrated with high ISO sensitivities boasts of reducing haziness because of subject movement photos and hand-shake.

The camera can also capture max-to-max 33 frames constantly (3MP mode). It is suitable to  click fast moving actions such as sports events, running kids or wildlife pictures.

With its Face Detection technology, it can also identify 10 faces in a frame and adjusts the exposure and focus accordingly. Plus its automatic red-eye removal attribute automatically correct the red-eye in an image at once. Plus, its Instant zoom feature allows wide viewing area around the frame to snap a far-off subject.

Measured 111.0mm (W) ×78.9mm (H) ×75.7mm (D), the FinePix S2000HD camera also has the Real Photo Technology, crafted from the ground up to take life-like photos.

The FinePix S2000HD comes with pre-programmed scene modes; about 55MB internal memory and programmed AE, Shutter Priority AE, Manual mode with focus options and infinite metering. It can also capture still movies in MPEG4, photos in JPEG, Monaural sound formats and audio in WAVE.

The FinePix S2000HD, with 5.7x digital zoom,  can also work at  1/4 sec to 1/1000sec (AUTO mode) or 4 sec to 1/1000 sec shutter speed.

Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD is priced at Rs. 13,999 with 3-years of warranty.

Built-in by Novatel using the most sophisticated technology, the WiFi device will ensure high speed connectivity over Verizon’s 3G Mobile Broadband network. With MiFi2200, you are able to get hooked up to five WiFi-based devices like notebooks, mobile phones, netbooks, MP3 players, etc. The MiFi2200 is a highly portable device.

Measured only 3.5” x 2.3” x 0.4” and weighed just 2.05 ounces. The WiFi device can be carried wherever you like. It gives support to CDMA, Wi-Fi antennas, advanced security and authentication technologies.

Talking about its battery life, the small gadget boasts 40 hrs of standby time and is cap-able of operating constantly for four hrs at one charge up. With the launch of MiFi 2200, more or less 86 mln customers in the USA will now able to enjoy fast connectivity service over Verizon’s 3G network.

Various reports have predicted that WiFi mobile service is a hot business. This market will record 30 percent growth in near feature. Customers will be thrilled to exploit various facets of WiFi mobile services.

In this context, the launch of MiFi will mark a new beginning in the field of WiFi mobile service. The MiFi will enable the users to smoothly transfer their Wi-Fi-enabled consumer electronics into Mobile Broadband devices.

The MiFi 2200 is a useful device for students, mobile workers and families, using which they can keep in touch with their contacts all the time. The MiFi2200 will hit the market sometime this month. Its price is around $99.99 after a mail-in rebate of $50 with a two-year customer agreement.

With Kindle DX, you are able to store a minimum of 3,500 books. The portable device claims to give support to a 3.3 GB of memory capacity. The Kindle DX also allows you to view graphic-rich content comprising of the professional and personal documents, newspapers, magazines and textbooks. The portable device has been crafted beautifully making use of the latest technology so that you could take pleasure in reading without giving pain to your eyes. The Amazon Kindle DX also boasts of supporting contents from Cookbooks, computer books, and textbooks and other formats.

Sporting an in-built PDF reader, the portable device guarantees resounding e-reading experiences. You need not pan, zoom or scroll or re-flow the document.  All you need is emailing of your favored documents to the Kindle mail account or download the content to the portal device via an USB.

The Kindle DX also comes featured with an Auto-rotate option which lets the readers see augmented landscape views of pictures, graphs, maps, tables and web pages. You are ensured to flip the e-book reader to use the device in any of your hand.

Kindle DX also supports 3G wireless connections. Hence, you don’t require to sit before a PC or look for WiFi hotspots to exploit Amazon’s Whispernet to access to digital contents.
With Kindle DX, you can read some of the popular newspapers like The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the Washington Post. You need to open an account to access these newspapers.

Kindle DX possesses all the important features, which we have found in its earlier version Kindle. The upgraded e-book reader offers a 250,000-word Oxford American dictionary. It also provides bookmarking option, notes and six different text sizes to make your reading experience more interesting.

Kindle DX will hit the market this summer. Its price is something around $489.

According to the grapevine, the handset primarily concentrates on social networking web sites and Google searches. The list of options of the mobile phone is supposed to provide immediate access to sites such as; MySpace, Facebook and more. The phone is also exp-ected to give support to EVDO Rev 0 telecommunication standards.

This dual-keypad handset comes featured with both numeric and QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The phone has with 2 MP camera in conjunction with Bluetooth connectivity. The phone is also likely to sport in a 2.6-inch QVGA display with 240 x 320 resolutions. The device is also speculated to give support to various multimedia formats like MPEG4, MP3, AAC+ and WAV.

The phone will come hued in blue and pink versions through Sprint. The availability and pricing of this distinctive piece is still behind the curtain.

Apparently, this decision by the university was chiefly aimed at assisting their students to comprise the price of their hi-tech gadgets in the federally subsidized loans. These loans can be paid after graduation.

The university says the products will help the students record and review lectures. Even after taking into account the bonafide intents of the university, the fact that is even now not clear like why only the Apple’s products have been listed on the list. Why have other products not been included, which do the same work and cost less? There are many such questions, which still remain unanswered.

This has also caused to start a group protest on Facebook. Though the university claims that it’s not essential to buy the devices, the explanation again takes us back to where we had set out- why has the device in fact been listed on the ‘required’ list of the college.

Sporting 10 mega pixel optical zoom, the camcorders are capable of trashing out blurry images by using the Hyper Image Stabilization technology. The Samsung camcorders also come with a 230,000-dot 2.7 inch LCD display screen and Active Angle Lens. Hence, you can carry the camcorders comfortably because the devices does not put much pressure on the wrist or elbow. If you want to view the character you are captureing, the display screen does not stop you to do so.

The SMX-C14 possesses massive 16GB flash memory. You can also further expand the memory by using a SD/SDHC memory card slot. The H.264 compression enhances the recording time if you use camera in standard definition mode. This feature enables customers to record six hours of video.

Coming to the SMX-C10, the camcorder does not have internal memory. So, you are required to use SD/SDHC media. The video recording capacity is also comparatively low than the Samsung SMX-C14. With SMX-C10, you can record two hours and forty minutes of video.

Another striking feature of Samsung SMX camcorder is Samsung intelli-studio. This feature enables photographers upload their video footages into a computer using a USB to edit the footages. You don’t need any additional software to install the intelli-studio.

With Samsung SMX camcorders, you can directly upload your videos to Google’s most popular video sharing site, YouTube and can share your favorite videos with your friends, families and relatives.

The SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 camcorders will likely to hit the market in July this year. The company has not disclosed the price of the devices.