Consumers will ultimately want to investigate this nifty little gadget; the Samsung Soul. This mobile phone is equipped with many key features that will make you be glad to be the proud owner. You will notice and become impressed with the physique of this high class slim slider made up of black plastic while the battery lid is composed of metal. The size is just right at 4.2 x 1.9 x 0.5 inches, weighing in at only 4.0 oz (112 g)!
Upon purchasing this classy looking mobile phone; you will find it comes with two small CD’s, a manual, headphones, data cable, advertising brochure and a charger. This phone has a small display (approximately 2/3 of the top part of the phone); supporting resolutions of 240 x 320, 16 million colors. The user of this phone will receive many detailed images.
The Samsung Mobile phone also comes equipped with Google Search and mobile blogging! Google Search allows for quick research while traveling to and from business meetings. For those who must blog on the go; this is indeed the perfect phone for you. You may be surprised to learn it has an RSS Reader as well! Needless to say there is so much that can be accomplished with this phone!
This camera ready mobile phone is equipped with five mega pixels possessing auto focus, face detection and auto focus; giving modern digital cameras a run for their money. If you are a true camera person; you’ll be impressed with what this feature can do and how clear the picture quality is.
This phone is a one stop shop entertainer as well! Carry around your complete music collection since this music ready mobile phone comes equipped with FM stereo radio, RDS and music library applications; allowing you to organize your latest and greatest music collection. Music lovers enjoy the ease of being able to store 1000 songs in this little gadget and let us not forget the Bang & Olusen ICEpower digital amplifier produces quality output of music. The Samsung Mobile Phone supports formats such as AAC, MP3, WAV, MIDI and WMA, not to mention a caller ID, Bluetooth 2.0 and HSDPA with 7.2 megabytes.
You will be amazed to find The Samsung Soul has DaCP; directional pad icons which change depending upon the function. For example, when you switch to camera mode, DaCP switches over to the zoom feature; giving users instant access to certain features and changes. The display is touch sensitive, ultimately replacing the D-pad. This mobile phone is equipped with features for everyone. It possesses great sensibility feature which can be adjusted according to the user’s specific needs. In addition to all of this; when touch it can vibrate; icon color and effects are customizable.
The Samsung Soul is data read; allowing users to download files at a rapid pace; accessing the internet and email at high broadband speed thanks to the HSDPA support at 7.2 Mbps. Pictures and video can be transferred instantly because of 3G support this mobile phone possesses.

With the introduction of fast Internet connections for the majority of new mobile phones (either through 3G networks or wireless LANs) application providers such as Google are working hard to develop mobile versions of their current online offerings.
Google Mail has recently been released to allow users to connect and read their email wherever and whenever. Many people already have a Google user account set up which not only allows you to access email on the Internet but will allow you access to applications such as Adwords, Analytics, Webmaster Tools and much more. This Google user account can now be used to log in to you email through your mobile phone.
As usual Google keeps it simple. There is a single fast application download which will install Google Mail on your mobile phone and adds a launch icon to a relevant location within your mobile phone menu. As soon as you launch the application you are taken instantly to your email Inbox which displays all your latest emails. By clicking on one of the emails in the list you open the email in your mobile window which you can then read by using the scroll button. There is a menu which gives you all your options such as reply, delete, archive and everything you would expect from an email client. You can also use this menu to navigate to other folders such as starred or sent items. The compose window is again simple and clear. You are offered a ‘To’ text box which allows you to enter a recipient or search through your contacts. All you have to do then is add a subject title, write your email in the area provided and then use the actions menu to send. Links within emails are preserved and this allows you to click through to websites and view them in you mobile phones web browser.
One thing that the mobile version of Google Mail does currently not allow you to do is create your own folders for storing emails, though it does display the starred folder and folders you may have created within the original online version. Images are stripped out of the emails to allow them to fit within your mobile phone window and a general problem with mobile phone emailing and web browsing is that it is still a lot slower typing using a mobile keyboard compared to a normal PC.
All in all it looks like Google have done it again. They have taken something that everyone else tries to overcomplicate by adding all fancy features and have kept it simple. The interface takes what is necessary and presents the email client in a clinical user friendly manner. Web mail has become a lot more popular in recent times with the introduction of unlimited server space, the development of this and other mobile email clients will only further enhance the usability and popularity of these applications. Rivals Yahoo! should take a leaf out of Googles book and stop trying to pack everything into a single application. What’s relevant to one person is not always relevant to another, not everyone wants news, maps or to search the Internet via their mobile. Yahoo! packs all these into their mobile phone email application and overcomplicates the user interface slowing down email access time.
Google mail gets a big thumbs up and we highly (if you have not already) creating a Google user account and downloading this application for your mobile phone so that you too can access your email on the move.

The wireless phone has evolved and continues to do so as technology constantly moves to mobilise our lives. Below is an excerpt of an article from the from the Wall Street Journal on the potential benefits of the rumoured Google Phone, as well as the significant challenges it will likely face:

Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say. The Web giant’s ambitious goal: to make applications and services as accessible on cell phones as they are on the Internet.

In a move likely to kick off an intense debate about the future shape of the cell phone industry, Google wants to make it easier for cell phone customers to get a variety of extra services on their phones — from maps to social-networking features to video-sharing. To get its way, however, the search giant will have to overcome resistance from wireless carriers and deal with potentially thorny security and privacy issues.

Google is trying to loosen the grip wireless carriers have over the software and services consumers can access on cell phones. Carriers have considerable clout, especially in the U.S., where they control distribution of phones to consumers through their retail stores.

The wireless phone is a device that comes with such features as a Duplex speakerphone and voice recognition system allowing users to go hands free anytime they want. Some palmtop computers have even morphed into an all in one device that includes a wireless phone.

If you are to research the phone you will find numerous new features breaking the market place on any given day.

N.B. Canadian wireless incumbent phone companies, facing the prospect of increasing competition from new entrants, could benefit from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s ruling against Globalive Communications Corp.

Globalive is one of a number of companies planning to launch competitive wireless phone and data services in the coming months to challenge incumbent carriers BCE Inc. (BCE), Telus Corp. (TU) and Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI). Many investors believe Globalive would be the strongest of the new entrants because of the financial heft of its backer Egyptian telecom company Orascom, a major mobile phone operator servicing a total or around 70 million subscribers in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

However, the CRTC ruled that Globalive doesn’t meet the Canadian ownership requirements to operate in Canada.

In a statement, the CRTC said it “found it particularly important that Orascom owns 65.1% of the equity, has entered into a strategic technical arrangement with Globalive, controls and holds the ???Wind??? brand under which Globalive will operate, and holds the overwhelming majority of the outstanding debt.”

The decision could cause controversy since the Federal government’s Industry Canada approved Globalive’s plan.

“This is a bad day for Canadian consumers. Canadians deserve competition in wireless and this decision represents a major step backwards,??? Anthony Lacavera, Globalive’s chairman, said in a statement.

Globalive said it had plannned to launch its services in the coming weeks, but is now evaluating its options on how to proceed.

Investors in BCE, Telus and Rogers have worried that the phone companies’ lucrative wireless operations could suffer as Globalive and the other entrants planned to win share by offering aggressive prices.

Indeed, the recent introduction by Rogers and Telus of new wireless rate plans that don’t include system access fees or carrier 911 fees were seen by market observers as a preemptive move against the anticipated competition.

Finally, The most talked about phone in the market today. Google G1 mobile phone first-ever Android phone is here with number of unique and awesome features. In the following years, mobile phones were developed from the zero generation or 0G to the digital second generation which then evolved to 3G or third generation phone.G1’s unique operating system supports numerous hardware and software functions. This includes the first ever Android system platform, SMS and MMS messaging, email, web browsing, an advanced media support, GSM/EDGE, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi connectivity, video and still camera, as well as a large storage memory. Apart from this, the Google phone also features an Open Source system that allows the user to change and even add new and different functions.The G1 mobile phone is now available in the market. It was recently released last October 2008. In the US, it is currently being sold in various T-Mobile stores and dealers. Price tag costs around $180 which includes a two-year service warranty and a mail-in rebate. Other services such as messaging plans will cost $35; while an unlimited web messaging will go at around $25.The G1 mobile phonies also slated for release in Europe and It is expected to hit the shelves starting this early November up to 2009. You can also check the availability of this phone online.You can log on to the T-Mobile G1 official site and browse the nearest store in your area. For more information about G1 Mobile Phone visit the website, http://g1mobilestore.com

I have an O2 Blue headset. The sound output from the PC works fine and can be heard on the headset. However, the microphone of the headset is not sending any signal back to the PC.
Anyone have any experience of using a mobile phone bluetooth earpiece with their PC, specifically the microphone of the headset as an input device to the PC for dictation software?
Thanks