Motorola is dumping Mobile phone division
Motorola has just issued a press release that it’s: “…exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its Mobile Devices business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value. The company’s alternatives may include the separation of Mobile Devices from its other businesses in order to permit each business [...]
Sony Ericsson phone with detachable display
Except for the full touchscreen handsets, most mobile phones have two distinct areas – data input UI and display. All the electronics making the phone work go into a phone casing underneath. In most cases, these two areas are in some way connected to form a handset, and can not be used separately. But, when [...]
Philips 192 Candybar. Getting back to Europe?
Do you remember the last time you saw Philips mobile phone selling officially in western part of Europe? No? Me too. While there are still some quite interesting and durable phones under Philips Xenium brand in Asia, Philips has withdrawn from European mobile market a long time ago. They’ve even sold off their mobile phone [...]
KDDI Hitachi W61H comes with e-ink display
Remember when you used to search for that cool Xpress-On covers to make your Nokia mobile phone cool and different? Samsung actually presented the changeable color covers on it’s SBH-660 clamshell as a cool innovation just last year. But soon a piece of color plastic to make your phone look different may seem so last [...]
Iron Man to talk on LG VX9400 to Pepper with LG KS20
Last year was a breakthrough year for LG mobile division. The focus on handset branding and design has paid of handsomely, with Chocolates and Shines selling like hotcakes in mid range phone category, and LG Prada KE850 with LG Viewty making their mark among luxury/feature touchscreen handsets. But, with the fortunes improving rapidly, it’s no [...]
Foldable/ rollable phone from Motorola
The design of the mobile phones is always a fight between two opposite objectives – portability and usability. The more small and portable the device becomes, the less usable the user interface can be. You can make the phone screen only that small, until the information displayed on it becomes unreadable. The same goes for [...]
Samsung i900 5 mpx WM 6.1 smartphone confirmed (sort of). Available in September 2008
When we posted the news about the upcoming Samsung i900 5 megapixel WM 6.1 full touchscreen smartphone last week, we had our doubts whether it was real. The image of Samsung SGH-i900 was so watermarked, that you could barely seen the phone on it, and the user interface on the picture looked nothing like the [...]
Nokia’s virtual keyboard idea
As the capabilities of mobile devices are getting closer and closer to that of portable computers, the only thing limiting their use as such is their size. It is simply impossible to replicate the possibilities of good sized QWERTY keyboard for data entry in a small mobile device. Various workarounds has been thought up to [...]
Nokia 1209 and Nokia 2600 Classic. Two really cheap phones for emerging markets
Making high end, expensive and feature rich smartphones, like Nokia NSeries multimedia computers is all well and good. But they are not the only reason Nokia holds the top spot among mobile vendors and more then a third of world market in mobile phones. It’s Nokia’s ability to to churn out cheap, good looking and [...]
First pics of 5 mpx, GPS equipped Sony Ericsson Cybershot. Kt780i, K830i or K870i?
As cellphone vendors are finalizing their line-ups for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, more and more info about the new devices leaks out. We already had premature website poster for E-Ten V900 Glofiish TV phone, somewhat dubious leak of Samsung i900 5 mpx, WM6.1 smartphone, the news about upcoming Nokia’s E66 and E71 business and [...]
More E-Ten Glofiish V900 Pics& Specs
Now, that first pictures of E-Ten Glofiish V900 TV Communicator has been accidentally posted on the Net by the vendor itself, it did not take long for the better pics and even some specs to leak too. The details about the tech specs for E-Ten V900 are still scarce, but Russian site E-ten Club claims [...]
Toshiba Portege G450 USB modem/phone
In addition to Toshiba Portege G910 and Toshiba G710 handsets, there was another mobile device from Japanese vendor presented during the press event in Milan, Italy. It’s HSDPA capable, Toshiba Portege G450 USB modem. Of course, we already new about Portege G450 from a Russian 2008 Toshiba mobile products roadmap. But the live pictures and [...]
Pics and specs of Toshiba G910 Portege revealed in Italy
The information about Toshiba Portege G910 and G920 Communicators was first revealed by FCC late last year. Since they were approved at almost the same time, and looked pretty similar in the available pictures, I thought that they may be the same device, headed to the different regions of the world. Toshiba mobile product roadmap, [...]
Toshiba Portege G710 GPS PDA phone presented in Italy
Well, CES Las Vegas has come and gone, but, contrary to our predictions there were no new Toshiba mobile phones or PDAs announced there. Nevertheless we continue to insist that Toshiba Portege G710 GPS/PDA phone is real, just like the other devices from the Russian Toshiba mobile products roadmap, and will be announced very soon [...]
Samsung i900 5 mpx Windows Mobile touchscreen phone surfaces
The line-up of the new phones, that Samsung is prepping for the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is starting to take shape. We already know about the new Samsung F490 full touchscreen and Samsung P720 DuoS handsets. Now Italian mobile magazine Cellularmania got the goods and a picture of the new high end Samsung [...]
Two Inventec UMPCs – 7-A and 5-D get IF Design Award
While Inventec has been known to be working on a UMPC/MID devices, not much info has been available about them. Some Inventec UMPC/MIDs appeared in Intel Menlow platform presentation slides, there were also some pictures of Inventec Mobile Internet Device from this year CES. Well, now I can confirm that Inventec indeed has two UMPCs/MIDs [...]
Mio Digiwalker Lovebird GPS/PDA phone wins IF Design Award 2008
I’ve been hearing about Mio Digiwalker Lovebird GPS PDA phone since it scooped If Design China award. But except for a nice name, category (GPS/PDA) and pretty skimpy description of “simple geometric contours, unique chrome bezel, battery cover made from aluminum with fine hairline texture”, not much was known about Mio Digiwalker Lovebird. No specs, [...]
HTC Shift with EVDO and GSM/HSDPA approved by FCC
The information about HTC Clio 200 and HTC Clio 100 UMPC appeared on FCC site at the end of November. There wasn’t much details about these Clio devices at the time, but people in the know quickly concluded that these are HTC Shift UMPCs, headed for the U.S. They were right. Today the external photos [...]
LG KF600 InteractPad phone announced worldwide
I knew they wouldn’t keep LG KF600 dual display/touchpad handset just for China. Afterall LG already got similar Venus phone in United States. Maybe under another model name, maybe some tweaked specs, like support for 3G networks, but the new dual display/interactive touchpad (InteractPad) interface was coming to Europe as well. And soon. I was [...]
LG Prada Silver KE850 ads on-screen QWERTY keyboard
With LG Viewty flying off the shelves across Europe, one would think that LG will retire it’s predecessor KE850 Prada for good. Not so fast. Not everyone cares about 5 mpx cameras in their phones. Others prefer better looks, and a big luxury fashion brand name on their handset. With 700 000 units shipped, LG [...]