By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

By which I mean that the people in the Advertising/Marketing industries don’t really understand what they are supposed to be doing.

And to illustrate my point I will take a statement made recently in association with the launch of the Apple 1Phone. This little gem of absolute marketing nonsense was culled from the publicity surrounding the launch of the iPhone.

This from, Marc Gobě of marketing expert Desgrippes Gobě, New York.

He said “Apple was capable of generating this sort of hype because it had succeeded in turning its products into ‘celebrities’. Apple had largely achieved this by offering beautiful and innovative products rather than spending huge sums on advertising, advertising is dead, design is the new advertising.”

Hey I know that I can be accused of being unduly harsh on advertising but don’t you think that this takes the cake?

He obviously knows nothing about the process of communication, even less in fact that the practitioners of advertising itself!

So let’s review advertising in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with Desgrippes Gobě read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.

All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behaviour after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.

The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimise this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.

Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

There is now an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form.

But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalise their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.

When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.

And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.

Back to Apple/iPhone launch, despite the communication illiteracy evidenced by Gobě, some wisdom stills prevails, despite all the hype there are many who have a sound critical faculty. It is not a given that everyone will want a phone with all those bells and whistles, no matter how beautifully they are packaged.

Surveys show that most people just want a phone that just makes calls. Only 3% of American consumers expressed an interest in purchasing the iPhone. Most of them don’t use the full functionality of their mobiles, and most of them, a whopping 86%, don’t want advertising on their ‘phones!

The recent launch of the iPhone has raised the stakes in the increasingly popular music phone market. This has put pressure on the more established manufacturers to step up their game. The original Nokia N95 was never designed just for music functions they were just one of many strings to its bow, though its poor battery life did let it down in this aspect.

With the launch of an updated version with 8GB of internal memory, Nokia are surely looking to capitalise on the iPhone’s lacklustre phone features and compete for the title of premier music phone.

With a 0.2” extension to the screen and more streamlined front controls to accommodate this, the N95 8GB certainly looks much different to its previous incarnation. The new all-black styling, on a handset of this size, is going to look much better and it definitely suits the N95 8GB.

Aside from the shrinking of the front controls, there have also been some other space-saving measures employed as well. The camera lens cover has been removed and so has the memory card slot. Those who own(ed) the original N95 may miss having this, but in reality it isn’t that much of an issue. This is partly because a lens cover is not that common on other cameraphones and also because there is a slight recess on the camera lens to offer some kind of protection from marks or scratches. Still, when the camera is this good, it is a little disappointing that the lens is that much more vulnerable.

Though it comes with 8GB of built in memory, the removal of the memory card slot does have some obvious drawbacks, mainly that you are limited to a set amount of memory with no way to upgrade this (unless your handy with a screwdriver, soldering iron and mini-flash drives.) Even if 8GB is a lot of memory, to truly compete with the iPhone an SD slot upgradeable up to 4GB would have stretched the possible memory to 12 GB, which would have been a great selling point. Instead it’s left as a slight missed opportunity.

One of the main gripes of the original N95 was the insufficient capacity of the battery, which thankfully has now been resolved with a larger capacity battery being supplied now with the 8GB N95 and there have been some software tweaks that also make the most of the increased battery capacity.

For those who didn’t take up the tantalising offer of the N95 originally, the addition of the extra memory as well as the solution to known problems should make it a better prospect. Whether owners of the original N95 would be prepared to pay the extra money for a brief upgrade remains to be seen, but personally, the jury is still out.

The N95 8GB is available on Vodafone & O2

Blackberry has unveiled a new phone for Verizon Wireless. Verizon is selling this phone with their different packages to its customer. Last Friday on November 21 2008 Verizon has began to sell this phone at the price of $199.99 for two years commitment. It is expected that this phone may be a hot product and lucrative cellular phone for Verizon which will help to grow its subscriber rapidly. The second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, reported long lines and sellouts for the new price of Black Berry Storm smart phone. Price is little bit higher than Google phone. Some East Coast stores drew lines of as many as 150 people, with customers showing up as early as 5:30 a.m., spokeswoman said. More stores may sell out in other time zones as the day goes on, she said. Customers who don’t get a phone Friday can place an order and receive it in four to five days. The device, designed to compete with Apple’s bestselling iPhone, has a media playerThe RIM Black Berry Storm features an innovative touch screen that provides tactile feedback to confirm your selection. The Storm offers dual-mode functionality for world-roaming capabilities as well as EV-DO Rev and UMTS/HSDPA support. Other highlights include GPS and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Like the iPhone and the G1, the Storm contains an accelerometer which is meant to rotate the screen between portrait and landscape mode depending on how one is holding the device. The Storm also supports texting and MMS, and comes with AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, and BlackBerry Messenger.

Ha, take that iPhone fans — the Storm actually allows you to copy and paste text.

In the US, the Storm operates on Verizon’s CDMA-based network, but it also contains radios that will function internationally, supporting quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks and single-band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks. It also includes GPS and Bluetooth functionality. The Storm’s 480×360 screen is perfectly nice, and video playback was more than acceptable. The Storm will also work with Verizon’s V CAST Music with Rhapsody subscription service, which for $14.95 a month provides access to a five-million song library. Initially, you’ll need to connect your Storm to a PC in order to sync your music, but expect over-the-air downloads down the line.

The Storm includes all of the basic calling features, as well as voice-activated dialing, and, best of all, visual voicemail.

The Storm has 1GB of on-board memory, and another 128MB of Flash memory. The phone also ships with an external 8GB microSDHC card.

The storm’s standby battery life is 15 days, talktime is 5.5hours.

Verizon’s has many plans with this phone but you have to pay extra for those services. Some of those services such as Email and web services charge is $29.99 per month, data only plan $49.99, Nationwide email and for remotely access for data sharing fee is $99.99, Corporate email and voice plans $49.99, Global data plan $20, Global data and voice plan $64.99, pay as you go data use $20.48/MB.

At a glance we can see the major characteristics of storm: * Size (L x W x D): 112.5mm x 62.2 mm x 13.95 mm * Weight (battery included): 155g * Ringtones: 32 polyphonic – MIDI, MP3 * Video Format Support: MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile, H.264 (encoding and decoding 30fps), WMV * Audio Format Support: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus * Bluetooth: Bluetooth v2.0; Mono/Stereo Headset, Handsfree, Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP), and Serial Port Profile Supported. Bluetooth Stereo Audio (A2DP/AVCRP), DUN * Headset: 3.5mm stereo headset capable * USB Port: Enables charging and high-speed data synchronization via USB “A” to micro-USB “B” cable * Power Adapter: +5V DC/500 mA AC power adapter, with interchangeable, location-specific plugs * Network Support: Dual-Band: 800/1900 MHz CDMA/EV-DO Rev A networks; Quad-Band: 850 / 900 / 1800 /1900MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks; Single-Band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks EV-DO Rev A networks. * Camera: 3.2 megapixel camera * Battery: Li-on, standby 15 days, talktime 5.5 hrs * Internet and web browsing: Yes * Roaming facility: Available * memory: 1Giga byte,128MB Flash memory * Display: 480×360 * Keyboard: Sure Type and QUERTY Keyboard * GPS: Available

Disadvantages: The Storm’s SurePress touch screen takes some acclimation, and the onscreen keyboard is a bit cramped. The smartphone can be sluggish, particularly the accelerometer and multimedia applications. Speakerphone quality was a bit chopp.Unfortunately, the one thing it’s missing is a big one — WiFi capability. To know more you may visit the author’s site at presented below

A988+, another cell phone from china, comes with a durable, user-friendly design and a decent feature set. It has the name “TV Mobile” printed on it’s top, but it’s not a TV cell phone, people should read the features first to avoid misunderstanding. A988+ has only the TV output function, to connect to the TV for playing videos or viewing pictures. It doesn’t come with the TV function itself. The Good :-    Quad Band Cell phone supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 HZ, which you can use it everywhere around the world.-    Carrier free, phone is unlocked. You can use it with all carriers you like, not limited to T-mobile or AT&T.-    Comes with the TV output function.-    Supports WAP 2.0 and GPRS Class.-    Long Standby time:180-240 hours.-    3D Surround sound with 4 speakers.The Bad-    The phone has the “TV Mobile” printed on the, somehow will cause misunderstanding when buyer didn’t read the instructions.-    Lack of stereo Bluetooth and 3G compatibility.-    TF memory card supports only up to 2GB.The A988+ combines the standard features of the traditional Chinese cell phones in the market. But it has the unique style, as nobody will call it a “Iphone Clone”. Unlike the other popular Chinese Cell phones such as Hiphone, 599 and P168, they are all iphone clones, people will always compare those models to Iphone, while A988+ is the unique cell phone that we are long waiting for.Here is the features for A988+Connectivity and Data Transfer*Bluetooth 2.0*USB*GPRS class 10*WAP 2.0Voice Features*Integrated hands free speaker*3D Stereo surround sound*Voice record and playbackMedia Consumption*Polyphonic (MIDI) tones w/up to 64 voices; plus MP3 ring tones*Video recording and streaming*Digital music player*Melody composer*Playback, mp3, AAC, mp4, GP3Battery, Talk and Standby Time Battery*Long Talk time: 180-300 mins*Long Standby time:180-240 hours *Battery 3.7V 1100 mAh Li-IonTV OUTPUT -connecting to the TV to watch movie.