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 got a [...]
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 their [...]
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 idea [...]
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 technologies, [...]
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, and [...]
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 and form [...]
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. Actually, [...]
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 end [...]
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 modern low [...]