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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Samsung phone with holographic 3D projection display
Patents, patents, patents… There’s so many of them. It seems that we are getting at least several new mobile phone designs patented every week. What it is about the mobile phone industry, that makes the R&D departments of cellphone vendors churn out patent applications, like no other electronics/gadget maker does? I have no idea. But [...]
Edge fashion phone concept
It’s been a while since I posted any interesting mobile phone concepts here. Well today I have a treat for you. A concept fashion phone called Edge. It was design by Cris Owens an is dubbed as: “A cell phone that uses touch and light technology for a fashion oriented design” And here’s how it [...]
Samsung Armani P520 review
A few years ago, in a competitive struggle among two Korean vendors, the rules usually were set by Samsung and LG was playing catch-up. But, during the past few years, the trend has changed and today more often then not, LG comes-up with a new phone model/idea, that makes Samsung take a closer look at [...]
LG SH150A gets AM OLED display with 26 million colors and HD support
Think 16 million color display on your newest mobile phone is the best you can get today? Think again. While 16M colors may be the top of the line for today’s TFT cellphone screens, the new generation of phone displays, called AM OLED is coming, and it takes them to a new, 26 million color [...]
Samsung gaming phone. Take two
In the past few years there has been a lot of chatter about the development of a dedicated gaming cellphone. But after N-Gage failure, no real gaming phone from any major vendor ever materialized. There were some efforts to position Nokia N81 as one, but it really is not a gaming handset. Most of other [...]
Neonode N2 touchscreen phone review. Really small and responsive
iPhone may have set a new standard in touchscreen responsiveness and usability, that everybody is still trying to catch up to a year later. And they have patented a lot of capacitive touch technologies that went into making one. But during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I found one really interesting device maker, that just [...]
Opera Mobile 9.5 Video Demo
In the beginning of this month Opera announced the new Opera Mobile 9.5 version of it’s mobile browser. I had a possibility to chat with Opera reps during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona about the new browser and the thinking that’s gone into developing it. It looks like the development of this version was heavily [...]
Nokia N96 review. Boring is good
When the specs of Nokia N96 were first leaked to the net, I thought it was a pretty boring phone. After all, more then a year has passed since the introduction of Nokia N95 handset, and the only improvement that N96 had to show – was some added memory and DVB-H tuner…. Duh During Mobile [...]
Some thoughts and Samsung U900 Soul review
Samsung U900 Soul handset is probably the most promoted mobile phone during Mobile World congress in Barcelona. There are huge, building sized posters all around the city and the number of handsets on display is incredible – you actually don’t have to wait in line to check one out. So what is the fuss all [...]
Samsung G810 Symbian Smartphone is for real
Although there is no official announcement yet, I can tell you now that Samsung G810 Symbian smartphone – Korean answer to Nokia N95, indeed exists. And the picture we showed you earlier was for real. Samsung G810 is displayed in Samsung’s booth at Mobile World Congress and is a really interesting handset. Samsung SGH-G810 comes [...]