Put Armani and Samsung together and you get this…

Samsung M7500

Slim sexy white (or black) Emporio Armani phone with flashing luminous light that’s great for clubs and the dance floor. The side with the branding is where the lights illuminate. There’s green, blue and red.

Not quite the type of phone I would use. But well, I’m sure there are a market for such fashionable and head-turning phone. Especially with this sexy logo of GA at the back!

The soft-to-the-touch, rubber-like feel and texture which was supposed to give it a more senses touch, to my bf, it made it feel almost like a toy. (What an expensive and branded toy!)

If you’re into the looks, branding and touch of phones, than this Emporio Armani phone is for you. The keypad is flat but feels silky when touched. Perhaps the best feature of this phone imo is the touch of the center button. Don’t ask me why, but I just can’t stop feeling it! *hmmm*

What’s an entertainment phone with no multimedia control buttons? These aren’t missing from this slim phone. On the right side of the phone, you can find these…

The Music Hotkeys

More information about the phone from the official website…

Specially designed with unique EA logo and fonts, the deep black graphic user interface employs premium 2.2-inch 256K advance AMOLED display technology to offer pure visual delight. Go beyond conventional LCD-based GUI, for blacks that are blacker, whites that are whiter and razor-sharp contrasts that are absolutely stunning.

One feature to highlight is the music recognition (which I also witnessed similar feature on the HTC Dream phone at the Android launch)

Advanced music recognition feature lets you instantly identify any song, anywhere. Simply hit record for a few seconds, send your recorded clip to the SHAZAM server and voila! Within seconds you’re provided with the artist and title of the song, and a link that connects you directly to an online music store.

This phone comes in very nice packaging of course!

This phone can be found at Samsung.

Click here to view photos taken with Nikon D40

Its been long long ago since I did a ezine for Claud talks Gadgets. Running an ezine on a personal blog is really not easy! If you’re doing it too, I’m sure you know the pain. I really must salute to Sheylara for her weekly Gamer Girl Friday!

This year, with a big shift of my responsibilities and involvement in social media, I think I would have to make a big shift too for my blogging habits. Perhaps I should find another person name Claud to take over this column here. Anyone willing to do it? The only requirement is to be able to take photos, write and review gadgets like the original Claud if not better than Claud! If you think you can, write to me now! Till I find this person, I’ll have to do it on my own.

So for my first issue of CtG in 2009, I’m going to touch on three (latest and not so new) products that are here in Singapore.

In this issue…

1. Review of the Samsung Pixon phone
2. The sleek and sexy PC that fits into your pocket!
3. DRM-free music from Sony Playnow

It has been centuries since I held a Palm in my hands. My first was a M500, my very first digital organiser. After a few months with it, I sold it away as I was still a student and didn’t see the need for that than. (Ya! Claudia is a strange creature, she buys thing to try it out and sell it off when she doesn’t like it.) A Palm mobile phone has never really crossed my mind when I’m considering for new phones. I’ve never tried one with Palm OS before, but got a chance to try a window mobile Palm for awhile.

Since the phone is running on Window Mobile, there’s nothing much I want to share about the interface. Unlike the Xperia X1, there’s no special panel nor interface that reminds me of a Palm. So let’s talk about the design of the phone than…

The first look at the phone when it arrived, I was shocked by the amount of dust stuck between the keypads and fingerprints left on the back cover. (Reminder to agencies, before you send anything out for review, make sure you’ve checked that the product is at least clean and presentable. First impression is very important (to me).) After I got the phone cleaned, it doesn’t look as bad, almost like an iPhone twin brother.

Look at the glossy back cover! Almost an iPhone isn’t it?

The size of the Palm fits nicely on my palm. And there were couple of buttons around the sides that made some task very easily accessible.

There’s a wireless connection switch on the right which allows you to connect to Wi-Fi without having to scroll through the menu. Didn’t really come in handy for me since I was on mobile broadband connection all the time.

Than on the top, there’s the ringer switch to for easy silencing of the Palm. And also the Power on/off button, which didn’t really turn off the phone literally, the unit remains on all the time. Only the phone connection is turned off. But it doesn’t really matter right? Who even turn off their phone these days? Unless your phone is hanged and you had to reboot.

You are able to navigate using the navigation button in the center and there’s the Qwerty keyboard that’s too small for my liking.

Besides the buttons, the Palm Treo Pro has got a touchscreen too. Its nice to have the keyboard and touchscreen function in the phone, but that also gives a limited touchable area.

The other phone I used before that is the most similar with the Palm Treo Pro will be the motoQ9h. Comparing the two…

• I prefer the keyboard on the motoQ9h but likes the touchscreen feature on the Palm Treo Pro.
• I prefer the feel and texture of the motoQ9h than the “fingerprint magnet” of the Palm Treo Pro.
• Palm Treo Pro runs the window mobile faster than the motoQ9h.
• The camera on the Palm Treo Pro is much better than the motoQ9h but is far from the one on my Innov8. (But the camera is not the main purpose for using a Palm.)

Overall my experience with the Palm Treo Pro is not bad, but I will not consider nor recommend getting this for a phone. Unless you are a big fan of Palm. But if you’re a big fan of Palm, would you rather get one with the Palm OS or Window Mobile?

For more information about the Palm Treo Pro, please check out the following:
Palm Treo Pro smartphone
Review by Cnet
review by tech65
the palm boys by pat law

Click here to view photos taken with Nikon D40

I’m not going to be talking about gadgets today. But I’m here to give away 5 pairs of tickets to Juice Anniversary party at Zouk this Thursday from 9pm till late!

Featuring The Whitest Boy Alive

and your first drink is complimentary! AND! For you only! You’ll get a Limited Edition CD complimentary from Samsung mobile.

Getting the above is simple!

Be the first 5 9 to email me at contest (at) claudia.sg with answers to the following questions and you’ll win the tickets!

Questions…

• Name ONE Samsung phone which I’d reviewed before in Claud talks Gadgets series. [Clue here]
• What is your name?
• What is your mobile number?
• If you blog, what is the url?
• How old are you? (only those above legal clubbing age allowed. I think its 21?)

Quick send in your answers now!

Collection of tickets at the door on Thursday at 9pm. Winners will be contacted via SMS.

I think I’ve finally found the mobile phone I want! After trying out few other to-consider-getting phones, finally I found one that meets my needs!

The Samsung Innov8 (GT-i8510)!

When I was writing CtG1, I was told something exciting was coming soon from Canon’s DSLR range. And in CtG 2, there was the announcement of Sony Alpha 900. And now, I’m excited to share that Canon has launched their new DIGIC 4 processor and its powering the new EOS 5D Mark II!

Also in this issue, review of Samsung Omnia and I share 2 exciting events that’s coming very soon…

The google phone is out!!

The T-Mobile G1 with Google is the first commercially available phone to run on the ‘Android’ operating system, which empowers developers with tools to create and offer consumers applications that add value to their lives. This is one of many initiatives T-Mobile is working on to lead the industry in bringing real innovation to wireless customers.