New PowerVR chip could make way for HD iPhone in the future
The PowerVR SGX543 is a new PowerVR graphics chip made intentionally for mobile phones by Imagination Technologies, and it was quietly let out of the bag during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There was no mention of Apple having anything to do with it, but a report from AppleInsider has it that [...]
LG GT500 and GT810H in the works?
All major handset manufacturers now have their own, but LG seems hell-bent on beating out everyone else in sheer number of models available. What am I talking about? Touchscreen phones. And while LG hasn’t announced anything mobile-related at CES except perhaps the LG GD910 wristwatch phone, two new touchscreen-equipped LG phones have been spotted, and [...]
CES 2009: LG Renoir Unveiled
It looks as though Sony is not the only company coming out with 8 MP phones. At CES 2009 LG has brought out quite a few nice toys to play with. One of these toys is the LG Renoir, aka the KC910. We broke the news about this particular beauty back in October (see link [...]
CES 2009: Sony Cybershot C905
During my long walk through the convention center for CES, I found myself in the Sony Ericsson room. And much to my delight, I found a Cybershot C905 among the phones on display. We have seen and heard all about the C905, but this was my opportunity to see one up close and personal. And [...]
CES 2009: SDXC Cards on Display
This week the SD Association has announced the next level of high-capacity storage capacity in the SDXC format, aka “SD eXtended Capacity”. These new cards will be able to store from 50 GB up to 2 TB of data in the same size of chip, theoretically. I doubt we will be seeing much in the [...]
CES 2009 Live Coverage
It’s time to start CES and I am incredibly excited for what lies ahead of me today (except for walking 5-10 miles). I hope you will check back with us here at UV to keep up to date. I will be here for the entire weekend, posting all of my neat findings. There’s a lot [...]
$2.41 million iPhone 3G Kings Button is the epitome of luxury
iPhone 3G Kings Button – this is the name of Peter Aloisson’s latest blinged iPhone that’s on sale for a whopping $2.41 million. Darn, it’s like the world has never heard of the term “financial crisis”, isn’t it? I’m not sure why this is called Kings Button and not King’s Button, but that’s not really [...]
Broadcom demoes 10X faster Bluetooth
Broadcom, the Californian manufacturer of semiconductors, announced that it has developed a new technology that provides Bluetooth transfers with a speed of up to 10 times faster than the speed allowed by current Bluetooth standards. Thanks to “alternative MAC and PHY (AMP) technology”, Broadcom’s Bluetooth chips will be able to offer data rates of up [...]
Microsoft to limit number of Windows Mobile devices on the way to announcing something major at MWC 2009
In an effort to keep up with the “fierce competition” in the mobile phone market, Microsoft is said to be working on retooling and beefing up the Windows Mobile operating system which runs on many popular devices such as the Samsung Omnia. According to Todd Peters, the vice president of marketing for the Windows Mobile [...]
Skype for Android and Java now available
If you use Skype a lot, here’s a piece of news that should be of interest to you: a lite version of Skype has just been launched, especially for Android and Java phones. The new mobile Skype can be used worldwide and it doesn’t require your phone to be connected via Wi-Fi. However, in order to [...]
RIM getting maybe $50 million or more of free advertising from US pres Barack Obama
Getting a world-famous person to endorse your product to millions of people worldwide isn’t hard. After all, product endorsers, no matter how popular, have their price which companies are more than willing to pay. But can you imagine having the world’s most powerful man endorse your product? And for free, at that? That is exactly [...]
Nokia 5710 XpressMusic appears on Nokia’s US website
Nokia 5700 XpressMusic is more than one year old, so the Finnish company thought it’s time for a successor. Which is, apparently, the Nokia 5710 XpressMusic. Previously appeared on a Chinese website, the 5710 is now confirmed by Nokia itself. The new handset was spotted on Nokia’s US portal, although it seems that it can’t [...]
Palm Pre coming to Europe in early H2 for $500-550. $399 on Sprint
Palm had one impressive device announced yesterday with their WebOS based Palm Pre. But for us here in Europe, there was a touch of unease. Current Palm Pre is CDMA phone and is going exclusively to Sprint in U.S. Should we have to wait for more then a year for the next gen device , [...]
Google Maps for mobile updated: find businesses easier
Google Maps for mobile just got a nice update that comes in help of those who want to find businesses while on the go. Reportedly, users can now get directions to stores, restaurants and various other points of interest (POIs), just by entering the desired names in the start or end point. Previously, when you [...]
Palm announces the webOS platform and the good-looking Palm Pre smartphone
That rumored Palm Nova OS is actually the Palm webOS, a brand new mobile platform that was just announced by the company behind all the Treos in the world. webOS is a multi-touch platform and, as its name indicates, it’s also a Web-centric one. It uses “industry-standard technologies, including web technologies such as CSS, XHTML [...]
Nokia E63 and Nokia 1006 for the US
Apart from T-Mobile’s 7510 clamshell, Nokia has two other new phones for the US: Nokia E63 and Nokia 1006. The E63 is already available in Europe, and now Nokia is bringing it to the US too, obviously with North American 3G connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz). The Eseries Symbian S60 smartphone will be sold unlocked, [...]
BlueAnt Q1 Bluetooth headset launched at CES
(CES 2009) BlueAnt has just launched a new Bluetooth headset at CES 2009 called the BlueAnt Q1, which it plans to make available by the second quarter of this year. It’s going to have some useful new features and will sell for quite an affordable price at that. The BlueAnt Q1 of course offers Bluetooth [...]
T-Mobile USA’s Nokia 7510 officially announced
Nokia announced today that its 7510 clamshell is ready to be launched by T-Mobile USA, albeit without the Supernova naming. Rumors about the arrival of Nokia 7510 in the US have been around since December, and now it’s all confirmed: the handset will be available in T-Mobile’s stores starting this month. Like its European Supernova edition, the clamshell runs on [...]
iriver’s WAVE Wi-Fi phone now official
South Korean consumer electronics product maker iriver has just officialized its long-awaited Wi-Fi enabled touchscreen WAVE phone, announcing it alongside a new PMP and MID. The iriver WAVE Wi-Fi phone‘s official specs look to be just the same as what we had earlier learned, as a 3″ LCD touch screen display is present, along with [...]
Sony Ericsson W715, a Vodafone exclusive
After announcing the C510 and W508, Sony Ericsson has also unveiled a new phone exclusively made for Vodafone: Sony Ericsson W715. Well, maybe “new phone” isn’t well said, since the handset is actually an updated version of the W705, which was announced in November 2008. Unlike the W705, Vodafone’s Sony Ericsson W715 features GPS, thus [...]