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Tatung M1 – Budget Cingular Smartphone?
FCC approval just conferred on to the Tatung M1, it should be reaching our shores soon. Screenshots from the phone manual have shown Cingular’s name branded on to it, the M1 is set to be one of the carriers many releases. A quad-band GSM smartphone, it supports GPRS and Bluetooth but not EDGE or WAP. Still, it is said to be cheaper than the Cingular 2125 ($199.99 after rebate) so the loss is bearable. What isn’t acceptable is the poor 176*220 pixel resolution on its 2.2-inch TFT display. Running on Windows Mobile, its exact release date and price are yet unknown.
- Quad-band GSM phone with GPRS support
- Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphones OS
- Java MIDP2.0
- TI OMAP 730, 208MHz Processor;
- 128MB NAND Flash, 64MB SDRAM
- 176×220, 65k color 2.2” TFT display
- 1.3-megapixel CMOS camera with flash
- QVGA video capture
- Bluetooth v1.1, class 2
- USB v1.1
- miniSD expandable memory
- 1100 mAh battery providing up to 200 hours standby and 4 hours talk time
- Support of Windows Mobile applications – Internet Explorer, Media Player
It is quite a feeling to have a smartphone getting the latest operating system update up and running, that is for sure. After all, you can never quite tell just what kind of goodies that your handset would receive now, can you? Those who are rocking to a Windows Phone 8.1 device might be looking forward to spending Christmas with a Windows 10 Mobile update but it seems that such hopes will have to be shelved for the moment.
It seems that there will be no Windows 10 update arriving this month as originally speculated, and the time frame itself has been altered, being even more vague in nature – where it has been mentioned to be “early next year”, which could jolly well mean any time, even in April. Looks like patience needs to be had in boatloads here.
So, you are still rocking to the Xiaomi Mi 4 and are more than happy with the device, right? Well, how about enjoying an operating system upgrade when December 3rd rolls around? This is what will happen to the Xiaomi Mi 4, where it has been teased by Xiaomi’s Founder and President Lin Bin on Weibo, citing the December 3rd date. I suppose it is encouraging to take note that this bit arrives close to nine months after Microsoft and Xiaomi came to an agreement, where there would be support for the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Mi 4 handset.
Just in case you were wondering, there is another device from Xiaomi which will rock to the Windows 10 OS, and that would be the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet, with that particular device arriving in a 64GB memory configuration alongside an asking price of $205 thereabouts.
Trivia lovers, here is something that might just pique your interest. After all, don’t you wish you had all sorts of information at your fingertips? Windows Phone lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a leak concerning information about the Windows Phone Store, and such information can be said to be ‘ancient”, as it dates back all the way to October 2011 with the introduction of Windows Phone 7.5.
So far, the most popular downloaded app happens to be Facebook with more than 112 million installations – no surprise there at all, I suppose. WhatsApp is behind Facebook considerably at 92 million downloads, while OneDrive has 62.5 million downloads. Located close to the bottom of the food chain would be PayPal that picked up a mere 1.6 million downloads all this while, and 2.5 million for Telegraph.
Third party apps as well as games have had their fair share of hits, too, like Tube HD that handles the playback of YouTube videos with more than 13 million downloads. Of course, these figures would pale in comparison to what Android and iOS platforms have garnered all this while.