Motorola sets up 350-person team to work on Android
With all their time spent doing seemingly next to nothing for the past few months, it’s a mystery what exactly Motorola is up to. Are they still thinking about ripping off the RAZR? Trying to hang on to the “thin is in” catchphrase? It turns out, Motorola is intending to work on its own customized [...]
Apple files patent for method to automagically pair Bluetooth-enabled devices near each other
Currently, the method of pairing Bluetooth devices is ridiculously simple. You just activate Bluetooth, search for the other device you’d like to pair with, enter a PIN, and you’re all set! But the wizards at Apple think they can make it even simpler, eliminating the need for PINs or any of that year-2000 crap. In [...]
Nokia 5800 Tube available for pre-order… Sort of
Well before Nokia even officially announces the Nokia 5800 Tube, this said touchscreen handset is already available for pre-order at Mobile City Online. The estimated time of arrival is not specified, but sure enough there’s a Pre-order button waiting for potential customers. What’s more, it lists the retail price as being $799.99 and says their [...]
Sagem/ Porsche 9522 candybar coming soon
Somehow, after a flood of luxury car branded mobile phone announcements a while ago, there was nothing interesting to report on this front for several months now. Well, except of Asus canceling it’s own top end Lamborghini ZX1 phone, but that ain’t the good news we were looking for. Well today we have some good [...]
Samsung M8800 Pixon/ Bresson is here
Haven’t seen any official PR yet, but Russian site mobile.mail.ru says that 8 megapixel Samsung M8800 PIxon (codenamed Bresson) full touchscreen handset has been announced. They’ve already got time to play with it and have and interesting hands-on review to prove it. Samsung M8800 Bresson is a new 8 megapixel full touchscreen feature phone, that [...]
More details about China Mobile’s downgraded iPhone without Wi-Fi and 3G
China Mobile’s refusal to bow down to Apple’s domineering ways, as far as bringing the iPhone 3G to market in China is concerned, has been well documented. Well, it looks like the situation with China Mobile and Apple is about to change, but not in the way that everyone has expected. According a report from [...]
Gov. Ah-nuld officially terminates texting while driving in California with new bill
If you live in California and regularly text while driving, well, you can kiss that habit goodbye starting January 1st, 2009. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation on Wednesday that bans motorists from sending, writing, or even reading text messages on “electronic devices.” The legislation imposes a $20 fine for first-time offenders while any [...]
Sony Ericsson working on new 5MP K750 successor?
Who would forget the Sony Ericsson K750? Wait, you? OK, here’s a refresher. It was one of Sony Ericsson’s first Cyber-shot branded handsets, and featured a 2 megapixel camera with built-in LED flash. Now do you remember? Good. Now think about how Sony Ericsson would make its successor. According to recently leaked info on the [...]
Fully unlocked iPhone 3G now on sale directly from Apple in HK
Without any fanfare, at all, Apple has apparently made the iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong fully unlocked, directly from its online store. As you can imagine, the selling price of these fully unlocked units are higher than those of locked, carrier subsidized units, with the 8GB models selling for $5,400 HK ($692) and the [...]
Opera and Motorola powering KDDI’s high-tech au BOX for Japanese users
KDDI, Japan’s second largest mobile carrier, will soon introduce a new set-top box (aka STB) called “au BOX” and targeted at users who want to “enjoy music and video content downloaded via their TV sets on their au mobile phones”. Built by Motorola, KDDI’s new set-top box uses Opera Devices 9 SDK. Thus, in addition to [...]
Casio develops new LCD with 546 ppi and up to 16.77 million colors, definitely not for wristwatches
Using their original hyper-amorphous silicon TFT technology (HAST) for LCDs, Casio has successfully developed the most colorful and pixel-filled TFT LCD on the planet. Called the a-Si TFT (amorphous silicon TFT) LCD, it measures 2.0-inches and comes packed with 546 pixels per inch (ppi). Even the Apple iPhone, with its 160 ppi bright color display [...]
Google wants to disintermediate cellular market too
Ever since Google Android mobile OS was announced last year, everyone has been guessing what is the Google’s endgame here. Afterall, an operating system for mobile devices has very little to do with Internet search or advertising marketplace of Google AdWords and AdSense, which are the key elements of the power Google wields today. Well, [...]
First spy shots of Motorola Q11 – a BlackBerry Bold competitor?
Rumors about Motorola Q11 first appeared at the beginning of September, but at that time there were no images with the smartphone. Now the images issue is no longer an issue, as Moto Q11 has appeared in several spy shots, presenting itself as a really good-lookin’ smartphone. The Q11 takes the design of the Q9 [...]
Sony Ericsson is working on GreenHeart phones
Sony Ericsson is not concerned only about how to offer unlimited music downloads to mobile users, but also on being green. Not literally, of course. The company has just announced it is working on a concept that someday will materialize into GreenHeart phones. A GreenHeart phone should have a bio-plastic housing, a keypad made out [...]
LG Xenon for AT&T leaked
Perhaps in response to Google’s T-Mobile G1 (which is a T-Mobile exclusive), AT&T is getting ready to launch a new QWERTY phone too, built by LG and apparently named LG Xenon. Boy Genius Report has uncovered a handful of details regarding the upcoming LG Xenon, plus a picture with the phone. Picture that, as far [...]
Sony Ericsson introduces PlayNow plus, promises unlimited music downloads
Sony Ericsson and Nokia are the only handset manufacturers to offer a wide range of music-dedicated phones: the Walkman series and the XpressMusic series. Well, now the companies are also the only ones to have announced the upcoming availability of their own unlimited music downloads services. After Nokia’s unveiling of Comes With Music, Sony [...]
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Tube) press pic and specs
There’s not a lot of things we don’t know about the upcoming Nokia 5800 Xpress Music (Tube) full touch screen handset. All the specs of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic have been leaked eons ago, together with photoshop renderings and even live pics. So there’s not much to do now but to sit and wait until October [...]
LG KC780 8 megapixel slider in the works
It seems that LG has an interesting new plan in taking over high megapixel cameraphone market. Have one sleek high end and expensive highest megapixel cameraphone to dazzle the crowds and wet their appetite. Then produce another high megapixel handset. But make it more simple and affordable. It tried it with high end 5 megapixel [...]
Motorola announces USBw 100, world’s first WiMAX USB adaptor for laptops
Today, apparently, is a day of firsts. Just as the world’s first Android-powered handset, the T-Mobile G1, was announced, Motorola chimed in with a world first of their own. Only Motorola is targetting a different market altogether. Motorola’s new product, interestingly, isn’t a mobile phone, and as a matter of fact has nothing to do [...]
Motorola Extreme VA76r released in Canada, via Rogers
Well look what we have here: Rogers’ first ultra durable mobile phone, which is also 3G-enabled. The phone is Motorola Extreme VA76r, and, as its name suggest, it’s a device that can withstand harsh conditions. More exactly, Motorola Extreme VA76r meets the military standard 810F for drops, vibration, humidity, dust and extreme temperatures. In consequence, [...]