British Airways launches global mobile check-in service in 11 languages
Feel the need to use a mobile check-in service for the next time you’re going abroad? If you’re flying British Airways, now you can. The British airliner has just launched a new mobile check-in service for customers to avail with any mobile device from any point in the world, and it’s available in 11 different [...]
SoftBank 930SH out in Japan with an 8MP CCD autofocus camera
Clamshells with 5 Megapixel cameras are so last year in Japan. 8MP flip phones are all the rage now, and the new SoftBank 930SH comes to sustain my affirmation.
Created by Sharp for SoftBank, the 930SH is truly unique among camera phones. That’s because its autofocus camera, instead of having a standard CMOS sensor, comes with [...]
Japanese iPhones get mobile TV through Softbank’s new 1-seg tuner
Though you can’t say mobile TV is one of the top missing features of the iPhone 3G, the good folks at Softbank in Japan have cooked up a new 1-seg tuner that enables the said feature anyway, and it all works via the magic of Wi-Fi.
Softbank’s new 1-seg tuner is actually a separate, wireless-enabled device [...]
Samsung Delve officially announced by Alltel, $199 on contract
Samsung Delve, the full-touch handset rumored to debut soon via U.S. Cellular, was officially announced today by Alltel, one of U.S. Cellular’s main competitors.
The Delve is among those TouchWiz handsets that Samsung said, earlier this month, to be ready for the US market. Many will probably compare Alltel’s new handset with Sprint’s Samsung Instinct, since [...]
Softbank’s Aquos Fulltouch 931SH comes with nearly netbook standard hi-res screen
I don’t know if I’ll put the new Aquos Fulltouch 931SH slider phone from Softbank as an overgrown iPhone, or as a Yanko Design concept brought to life. It features a 5.2 megapixel camera, 1-seg TV tuner, Bluetooth with A2DP, 3G reception, and above all, a 3.8-inch 1024 x 480 pixel resolution screen. Uh huh, [...]
LG Tribe launched exclusively on TIM Italy
Over in Italy, it appears as though operator TIM has scored an exclusive release of LG’s KS360 Messenger phone, which they have gleefully branded as the LG Tribe. As far as I know, “tribe” ain’t no Italian word I ever heard of, but this apparently is the case with this handset here.
Notice the striking resemblance [...]
Google launches mobile voting locator tool for the US elections
The 2008 US presidential elections are coming next week, on November 4, and Google thought it would be nice if a voting locator tool for mobile phones existed.
So, obviously, the big G has just launched such a tool, which is available online, at m.google.com/elections, or it can be sent directly to your phone if you [...]
In Japan, Samsung Omnia packs a 800 x 480 pixels display, built-in TV tuner and comes in red too
Samsung Omnia has been only today announced for Japan, several months after the handset went on sale in Europe.
However, Japanese mobile users seem to be a bit luckier than the European ones, as Omnia will be launched by SoftBank with some upgraded features.
The official name of the Japanese Omnia is SoftBank 930SC Omnia. [...]
Nokia N96 hits Best Buy, unlocked and yours for $900
Nokia N96, the smartphone that might be the best thing from the Nseries family (for the moment, at least), is now on sale in the US, via Best Buy’s website.
The handset is available unlocked, for a price that won’t please too many of you: $899.99 – that’s with $240 more than the Best Buy [...]
Nokia: Mobile gaming market not growing, touchscreen N-gage coming in 2009
The touch screen version of Nokia’s N-Gage gaming service is scheduled for a release in 2009. One such game to be part of the new version will be GameLoft’s Guitar Rock Tour for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
This, along with a lot of other news-worthy tidbits, were spilled out by Nokia’s head of gaming operations, Jaakko [...]