Nokia expands XpressMusic line with two new devices: Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic
Never satisfied with its own success just like any other company who thrives on innovation, Nokia released two new models to complement its music line today, calling the new devices Nokia 5220 XpressMusic and Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. Both phones will have great features for convenience and portability with the user in mind, as always, with [...]
Nokia N82 team members get custom-colored phone covers
For the 200 people who worked on the Nokia N82, Nokia has prepared custom-colored back covers with specific numbers written on them. For example, this one has the word “Tokyo” followed by the number 164 on top of the Nokia Nseries logo. Nothing says instant gratification more than this one if you belonged to the [...]
iPhone might be coming to Italy soon with 3G and a whole lot more
As early as last year, we have been hearing rumors about the possibility of the world’s first 3G iPhone hitting Italy. We found out from those earlier reports that Vodafone might be the possible carrier of 3G iPhones in Italy, and that these new variants of the would be coming this year’s spring. But the [...]
Dancing With the Stars: Play on Your Mobile Phone
THQ has made Dancing With the Stars, one of the most popular television shows of our time, available for Windows PC, online download and mobile phones. There are also various other mini-games which have been released by THQ but this is sure to be one of their most popular to date, what with the grand [...]
Sony Ericsson beibei pics leaked
While details aren’t exactly forthcoming about this new Sony Ericsson device codenamed “beibei,” there are a few small tidbits that, as always, accompany unofficial leaks like these. From the looks of the pictures available, our friends over at the Chinese site Yesky have spent some quality time with it. Unlike the Paris we reported on [...]
Samsung SHG-u900 Soul Now Available
Samsung announced yesterday that the SHG-u900 Soul, the last of its Ultra series handsets, is now available for purchase. The 5 megapixel camera-equipped Soul will retail for about 400 Euro and be available in three different colors: sterling steel, Soul gray, and platinum silver. Mobileburn informed us that: The 12.9mm thick SGH-u900 Soul, a device [...]
Disposable Cell Phone Takes on European Market
Hop-on Inc. recently announced that its low end GSM cell phone would be released on the European market. After receiving over 150,000 orders for their disposable cell phone which was released only a few weeks ago, they will be hiring additional support to meet market demands as a result. As Peter Michaels, President of Hop-on [...]
IBM Launch of New Mobile Web Initiative
Reported a few hours ago by IBM at the 10th anniversary commemoration of IBM’s India Research Lab, there is a new initiative with the purpose of bringing even more features and functions to mobile devices. As MobileTech News informed us: The new IBM Research program will entail a number of efforts to bring simple, easy-to-use [...]
Blackberry Professional Software for Small Business Offered by AT&T
Just released today was the news that AT&T had made available the Blackberry Professional Software for their small business customers. This software is designed specifically for small to mid-size companies, to provide a wireless communications and collaboration solution with advanced security features. There are also numerous other respectable features offered from this software including access [...]
Unidentified HTC device comes afloat
As May 6th, the tentative launch date of HTC’s Android-powered Dream device looms, the rumors are coming in at a faster than usual rate, as expected. And while we’re waiting for any official announcements from HTC itself, things like this find time to snake around in the Interwebs, causing HTC fans, users, and haters confusion. [...]
Samsung files patent for cellphone sign language recognition
Samsung’s latest patent filing has us looking at the possible future of mobile phone input technology. This hasn’t exactly been unheard of before (with Sony Ericsson and Nokia both offering their own similar versions to it), but this is the real deal and before today something like this would be highly improbable. With Samsung’s knack [...]
Sony Ericsson K660 and W580 dished out in new colors
Sony Ericsson’s sneaking two new colors for two of its mid-market handsets, the W580 and the K660. If you recall, the Sony Ericsson K660 was released a while back with a touch of magenta on its navigational pad section. And now SE is rolling it out with two new paint jobs, one being Cyan on [...]
Sony Ericsson W890 review
Sony Ericsson W890 is a successor of the W880, which was the first slim Walkman phone from Sony. The two phones are almost identical in size; the W890 has a slightly bigger display (2” as compared to the 1.9” of W880), a better keypad with wider keys (seeing how not everyone liked the narrow ones [...]
iPhone likely to get price cut in France as well
Nothing about the 3G iPhone has really been official yet, even though its got a bucketload of rumors right behind it. The latest development, if you recall, was a price cut for the iPhone in the UK, which could very well mean that stocks have to be cleared in preparation for the second coming of [...]
Restructuring of Motorola Mobile Phone Division
Motorola has reorganized its mobile phone business, with the primary goal here being to improve their chances of enticing a CEO to an independent company. There are numerous changes that have taken place here, including with software teams for the future and multimedia phones. Both hardware and software teams are going to be working much [...]
Motorola phone roadmap for China leaks: ZN5, Motoming 2 A1600, A1800 confirmed, L800t and VE75 outed
Even though Motorola’s performance at CTIA wireless was a bit less disappointing then a previous one at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, none of the phones we’ve been waiting for had been announced there. Among these long awaited new handsets were 5 megapixel Motorola ZN5 feature phone and the upgrade to it’s Motoming A1200 Linux [...]
Samsung W599, a dual CDMA/GSM phone
Samsung have announced SCH-W599, a powerful and neat phone with a lot of interesting features, among which are support for both CDMA and GSM carrier networks and ability to use two GSM cards at once, allowing you to choose easily which one to use when calling or doing any other action really. tech.163.com already have [...]
NTT DoCoMo Unveil New Branding
In an effort to express their commitment to offering high-quality mobile services and technologies around the world, the dedicated team at NTT DoCoMo has just revealed their new corporate logo, which they have been working on for the past while. As stated in a press release published on the NTT DoCoMo website earlier today: The [...]
LG Phone Design Challenge
We mentioned before that LG was searching for the perfect touchscreen UI, for which they had a contest and the results are already in. They have now launched a new and just as exciting contest, asking you to design your own LG mobile phone. LG is challenging you to come up with the next great [...]
Jaxtr users allowed to send free SMS to 38 countries
Sometimes, even if it’s not really that hard to send an SMS message from my phone, I tend to avoid it because I can’t leave my PC. It’s not so much that I have to cut down on spending for texting, but just that I find switching from my PC to my mobile to be [...]