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 you really [...]
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While there are still some quite interesting and durable phones under Philips Xenium brand in Asia, Philips has withdrawn from European mobile market a long time ago.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 division [...]
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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 deal [...]
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 reliable [...]
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 [...]