Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 delayed for a year?
Is Sony Ericsson at it again?
I mean, will it be delaying their newly announced Xperia X1 handset beyond any reasonable amount of time?
SEMC Blog, which claims to have received the table with the release dates of the current Sony Ericsson phone line-up, thinks so.
According to the data in that table, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is [...]
Philips Xenium 9@9j now official
While not well known outside Asia and CIS countries, Philips Xenium phones are truly interesting mobile devices.
Their most distinguishing feature is amazing battery life. Even the first Philips Xenium 9@9 a/d/t phones could last more then a month on standby. With Xenium 9@9k , Philips was able to extend the standby time to two months.
Their [...]
Samsung i560 review
There are pretty few smartphones among the handsets made by Samsung, and even fewer of them are based on Symbian S60 OS/UI.
All rights to this User Interface software belong to Nokia, so it’s really hard for Samsung (and others) to come up with something their main rival hadn’t thought of yet.
Frankly speaking, until [...]
LG KF750, LG KF240 and LG KF300 "Fashion" phones in the works
Well, finally the mystery (at least for me) of the new LG mobile phone naming scheme with “KF” letters is resolved.
It appears that the “F” in the new names is reserved for the new stylish phones, that are deemed fit to be included into LG’s “fashion” phone line-up.
LG is preparing a new set of fashion [...]
Windows Mobile for Consumers. Part3
This is the third part of the interview with Todd Warren, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Mobile Communications Product group, responsible for the development of Windows Mobile OS.
The first part talked about Sony Experia, Windows mobile initiatives in consumer space, mobile handset software/hardware relation issues, usability and User Interface design in Windows Mobile.
The second part [...]
Samsung i550w Symbian GPS phone gets Wi-Fi
When it was announced, Samsung i550 GPS Symbian phone was one of the more interesting handsets in Samsung’s line-up.
It had a lot going for it - novel candybar shape, interesting trackball navigation, big 2.6″ display, GPS sensor and well implemented Symbian S60 OS.
Now Samsung i550 got even better. Samsung has recently started shipping a [...]
Windows Mobile for Consumers. Part 2
This is the second part of the interview with Todd Warren, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Mobile Communications Product group, responsible for the development of Windows Mobile OS.
The first part covered Sony Experia announcement, Windows mobile initiatives in consumer space, mobile handset software/hardware relation issues, usability and User Inteface design in Windows Mobile.
In this, Second [...]
Windows Mobile for Consumers. Interview with Todd Warren, Windows Mobile VP, MIcrosoft
During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona I was able to sit for a chat with Todd Warren, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Mobile Communications Product group, responsible for the development of Windows Mobile OS.
The topic of the interview was the new focus of Windows Mobile on a consumer market.
Due to YouTube 10 minute [...]
Asus ZX1 Lamborghini PDA phone due at CeBIT
It seems that Asus decided that it might get lost among a flood of new phone announcements during Mobile World Congress.
Although it had it’s new phones -Asus M930w communicator and Asus Galaxi Mini on display in Barcelona, to see them, you actually had to search and ask for them.
Looks like Asus postponed the launch of [...]
Nokia Morph phone concept
I guess that Greenpeace report, slamming Nokia for the sharp drop-off in environment friendly practices, is really bugging Nokia.
Within a week of the report release we get Nokia Evolve 3110, a somewhat updated version of 3110 classic, with a “green” angle.
Since then the leadership of green initiatives was taken up by Nokia research division.
First [...]