LG Viewty KE990 dumbed down to 2.5G. Headed for T-Mobile and China?
When LG Viewty KU990 was shown off in September, it was one impressive camera phone. About the only things missing in it were Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS. So when I heard rumors that LG might be working on an update – LG Viewty KE990 phone, I thought that this might be it. I had some [...]
Three network connectivity on Motorola Ming 2 A1800? Dual Sims and CDMA option say so!
Probably everyone in this business knows that Boy Genius has some pretty impressive sources inside Motorola, and they are very good with advanced notices on the upcoming Motorola handsets. Sometimes they may be wrong, but that’s rare, and sometimes from them we can get live pictures of the new upcoming handset almost nine months before [...]
iPhone. Your Lifestyle Companion
Now that iPhone has almost become an open platform for third party software development, we can expect tons of new exciting applications that will make it into a much more useful thing, then a fancy phone and media player. But that does not mean that developers inside Apple are leaving all this to the third [...]
LG KF300 (Wine) details are finally out there.
The first info and pictures of upcoming LG KF750 and KF240 fashion phones has leaked so close to a Cebit 2008 trade show, that I was sure that these handsets will be announced in Germany. Obviously, that was not the case and now I think the announcement will be during or prior CTIA Wireless show [...]
Motorola MotoZine ZN5. A bit more info
The information about the upcoming Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 5 megapixel cameraphone continues to trickle out bit by bit. We already know the real name of this handset – MotoZINE ZN5, some info abut it’s camera features and have some blurry shots from leaked Moto Promo Video. Here’s some more news. First high quality side-shot has [...]
Asus P750 hacked to run at VGA resolution
A few days ago some enterprising Russian Asus fans discovered that instead of official QVGA 240×320 px screen, Asus P750 communicator actually has a full blown VGA display. Turns out that earlier this year, due to a rare quirk in a global supply chain, Asus got the shipment of 2.6″ VGA displays for P750 delivered, [...]
MotoMing 2 Motorola A1600 on sale in China already
The first information about the upcoming Motorola A1600 Motoming 2 Linux smartphone turned up on the Net already last year. Not much has been heard about this phone since then, though I thought that Ming2 might be one of the phones featured in the leaked Motorola promo video, and might be announced at CTIA in [...]
Cheap Samsung P240 DuoS coming. Samsung P720 DuoS Armani canceled. WM 6.1 DuoS Smartphone this year too
When Samsung introduced dual SIM D880 DuoS phone, it had targeted Eastern Europe market first. And Samsung was right – there were a lot of people that for various work and personal reasons were carrying several handsets with them all the time, and were glad to switch to a phone that allowed them to connect [...]
MotoZine ZN5 5 megapixel phone, Moto Q10 and Motoming 2 A1600 confirmed. Almost
When Motorola promo video has leaked to the net, there were quite a few new phone models displayed there. The trouble with some of them, like 5 megapixel Kodak phone, was getting the right model number. Especially with the leaks and mix-ups of the previous year, about the new Zine/Zoom phone line. Well, today Digitimes [...]
Mobile concepts from Tancher design competition
I never get tired looking at a good mobile phone concepts. And there were quite a few really good ones recently both from inside mobile vendors and independent designers. And when some design house announces the competition for a communication device of the future, you know that something interesting is bound to come out from [...]
World Moto Z9 with AGPS pits itself against Nokia 6500 and Samsung U700
The news about upcoming Motorola Z9 RAZR slider has leaked last July. Why it took Motorola almost a year since then to get Z9 launched, I have no idea. But now it’s looks like this handset is finally almost ready to ship. First it appeared in a Motorola Promo Video headed for CTIA, then Motorola [...]
iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3.0 or iPhone Nano – a clamshell/flip phone?
When talking about how Apple is gonna take over mobile phone industry, one of the things that is very rarely talked about, is iPhone form factor. There’s a reason we have mobile phones in tens of shapes and sizes, and a number of form factors. Some people prefer to have a clamshell or slider in [...]
The new kind of HTC Slider
HTC has long been partial to a smartphone slider form factor. It’s slide-out QWERTY keyboard Windows Mobile smartphones like HTC S730 or HTC TyTN II are among the most popular in a category. HTC was also first to expand the possibilities of it’s full touchscreen handset (Touch) with slider keypad in HTC Touch Dual, an [...]
LG Viewty now in pink
Since it’s introduction, the sales of LG Viewty KU990 phones were quite brisk. Only in the first five weeks LG has sold more then 300K pieces of it, probably even outselling iPhone before the Christmas season. And, despite a steep $700+ price tag, it managed to sell 130K of Korean version of Viewties (LG-SH210/KH2100/LH2100) in [...]
More about the leaked Motorola Video/phones
After yesterdays post about possible upcoming Motorola CTIA announcement and the leaked promo video, I got some suggestions that video might be fake, and also some tips about more interesting phones there. So I downloaded the video and took a more careful look at all the phones in the video clip. Of course, with current [...]
Samsung F490 review
Samsung F490 review. Introduction You don’t need to be a prophet to be able to tell that for most mobile phone vendors, this year will be the year that they are able to start really competing with the iPhone. Each one of them is reacting to the success of Apple in one way or another, [...]
Alltell/ LG Glimmer touchscreen slider now official
The news about upcoming Alltel LG Glimmer handset have been leaked on Howard Forums a few weeks ago. Today LG Glimmer phone for Alltel has been announced officially. At least by LG. LG Glimmer (LG-AX830) is an interesting development on a highly popular LG Black label series Shine phone platform. LG kept the cool looks [...]
Major Handset announcements from Motorola at CTIA: Kodak phone, MotoMing 2, Rokr E10 and Moto Q10?
Since officially announcing it’s new and very late Motorola Z10 flagship at CES, Motorola has been very quiet about it’s new rumored handset line-up. Although the leaks about the new, really cool Motorola handsets kept on coming, nothing was announced during a the biggest mobile show of the year – Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. [...]
LG KF310 and LG KF240 pics and specs leak
I really thought that the new LG KF750, KF310 and KF240 “Fashion” handsets will be launched during the CeBit trade show in Hanover this week. It looks like I was wrong, and their official roll-out has been delayed. Until CTIA Wireless, on April 1-3, I guess. But don’t worry, you already know how the high [...]
On cellphone features and functions. Nostalgia for Nokia 6310
Remember this handset? Yes, it is a legendary Nokia 6310. This is THE model, that in my mind is firmly associated with the idea of “business-phone” or “functional phone” (from the times since these two terms practically meant the same thing). Nokia 6310i specs look pretty funny nowadays and does not have anything that any [...]