Mio to take on Garmin with own 3.5G GPS-enabled touchscreen handset
Mio Technology, which hails itself as “one of the leading players in the mobile GPS industry,” is said to be working on a new Windows Mobile-powered handset for release in the first quarter of 2009. One of its biggest selling points will no doubt be its GPS capabilities, but much more will be shoehorned into [...]
Skinny phone concept could make for a nice T-Mobile G1 2.0
Don’t you just love the design of the T-Mobile G1? Don’t you? No? I didn’t think so.
Let’s face it, the T-Mobile G1 might be a landmark device, considering it’s the very first Android-powered smartphone ever produced, but its design could use a little more sexing up.
So while those handsome folks from HTC are lazily letting [...]
QiGi i6 officially supports both Android and Windows Mobile 6.1
When it comes to mobile phones, China is perhaps best known for its copycat handsets. You know them – looking like the originals but offering fewer features and a built quality that makes them un-recommendable.
However, QiGi i6, one of the latest smartphones to come from China, is nothing like that. It’s a quite nicely-designed [...]
BlackBerry Curve 8900 quietly launched by Rogers?
It looks like Canada is getting the BlackBerry Curve 8900 before the US, thanks to Rogers Wireless. The largest Canadian carrier is said to already have units of the new Curve 8900 in stock, ready for the official release.
Of course, there’s no word yet on when the official release will happen. However, we do know [...]
Quake III Arena now runs on S60 3rd Edition smartphones
Quake III Arena, one of the most popular multiplayer first-person shooter games ever, can now be played on Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Not on all of them, unfortunately, but only on those that have a TI OMAP 2420 processor: Nokia E90, Nokia N82 and Nokia N95 8GB.
The regular N95 is not included because, [...]
Nokia N85 NAM ships next week
If the North American version of Nokia N96 is too expensive for you, worry not, because Nokia will bring the N85 to the US too. And we all know the N85 is a bit more affordable than the N96.
According to Amazon, Nokia N85 NAM will be in stock starting December 6, hence next week. [...]
Motorola RAZR3/Ruby canceled
Back in September we told you that Motorola has been working on a successor to their RAZR line – RAZR3 phone codenamed Ruby.
Well, today I have some bad news for anyone who has been waiting to upgrade their current RAZR2s. Do not wait anymore, just look for some other phone instead. Motorola RAZR3/Ruby has been [...]
Motorola Alexander and Motorola Attila live pics
We’ve known since early August that Motorola Atila and Alexander touchscreen phones are in the works.
And we’ve even some live pics of a working Motorola Attila phone recently.
Well, today we have some more live pics for you, courtesy of Chinese site IT168.com:
Well, apart from the live pics, there’s no additional info about the new handsets. [...]
iPhone 2.2 Review
As an avid iPhone user, I anxiously await each and every new firmware update Apple offers for it. It does sound quite geeky to say that, but Apple always throws in a bunch of goodies with each update that make the iPhone either easier to use or more fun. Sometimes both.
By no means are these [...]
MTV 3.4 ‘Non-Stop MTV’ phone launched by ModeLabs
ModeLabs Group, the French manufacturer of tailor-made phones (like the Christian Dior and the Hummer HT1 ones) has announced the availability of MTV 3.4 “Non-Stop MTV” – a new handset designed for youngsters.
Coming after the MTV 3.3 phone, which was released in May this year, MTV 3.4 “Non-Stop MTV” obviously offers a set of features that will bring [...]