LG GM310 music slider shows up, together with LG GB250, GB220, GB130 and GB102
Back in November, we reported about LG’s plans to release about 125 new handsets during 2009. We don’t know if the South Korean company will manage to do so, but we do know that it already has more than 10 phones ready to hit the market. Some of them were covered during MWC 2009 (LG [...]
Steve Ballmer: Windows Mobile 7 will come in 2010
Although officially announced at MWC 2009, Windows Mobile 6.5 isn’t out yet, and the first handsets to come with it will be available only starting the fourth quarter of the year. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t working on Windows Mobile 7. In fact, the Redmond company already knows when WM 7 will be release, [...]
Secrets @ MWC09. Nokia Sparrow, Android 3.0, Luxury Android from Motorola and more
Eldar Murtazin from mobile-review.com is probably the best connected journalist covering the mobile industry, with amazing access inside almost any major cellphone maker. And he proved that again at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. When we all were busily running around reporting on all the new mobile products , Eldar was sneaking inside the closed demo [...]
Nokia’s Comes With Music to hit Australia on March 20; 5800 XpressMusic included
Shortly after unleashing the Comes With Music service in Singapore, Nokia now wants to conquer Australia with it as well. The Finnish company has just announced that the unlimited music download service is set to debut on March 20 in the Southern hemisphere country. Even more, Nokia will also launch its 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen handset, [...]
More Motorola Ruby VE1 and ZN300 pictures – how about something official?
Motorola Ruby VE1 and Motorola ZN300 are two phones that have not been officially announced by Moto, and yet they appeared several times on the Web, in various leaked shots. Now, even more pictures with the handsets have popped up, which could mean Motorola will finally announce them in the near future. Of course, the [...]
Mozilla Fennec to sync tabs between desktop and mobile browsers
It looks like the non-beta version of Fennec, aka Mozilla Firefox Mobile, will bring more than we’ve expected. For instance, Jono from Mozilla Labs says Fennec will come with Weave – a Mozilla application that is now capable of syncing open tabs between your desktop computer and your mobile device. Which means that every Firefox [...]
Gresso Skeleton Gold phone launched for $4400
Only two months after announcing the first handsets from its Avantgarde Skeleton Collection, Gresso has now unveiled the Skeleton Gold phone. Not too different from the Avantgarde Skeleton, the Gresso Skeleton Gold is, obviously, dressed in more gold. Its 23 functional keys are “executed of 18k gold”, while its QVGA screen is protected by hand-polished [...]
Toshiba TG01 video preview and pics
Toshiba’s first venture into the smartphone biz last year wasn’t too successful. And, to tell the truth, handsets like Toshiba G910 or G710 were nothing write home about. But things may be different for Toshiba this year. Their new Toshiba TG01 smartphone with a huge 4.1” 480 x 800 px touchscreen and 1GHz CPU was among [...]
Samsung Armani Windows Mobile smartphone in the works
The first full touchscreen Samsung Armani handset wasn’t a smashing success when it was released back in 2007. Samsung Armani Night Effect, while a bit more interesting, did not make any waves in the market either. But Samsung is nothing if not persistent and is determined to make it’s cooperation project with Armani successful, no [...]
Android apps over $200 not accepted by Google; I Am Richer app costs that much, does nothing
Last week, paid apps begin to be sold via Google’s Android Market, offering Android users a wider range of applications to choose from and bringing the Market closer to Apple’s App Store (where both free and paid apps are available since the beginning). Well, it didn’t take long for a really expensive app to appear. [...]
Samsung C5212 officially announced: under $200 dual-SIM phone
When we first saw the dual-SIM Samsung C5212, its price and release date were unknown, since the info about it was not outed by Samsung. Today, the C5212 was officially announced in Russia, and we know that the phone will be available for purchase at the end of February. Its Russian retail price will be [...]
Hands-off with Palm Pre GSM
After all the buzz Palm Pre got during CES and after that, Palm’s presence at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was a yawner. Yes, they had a working GSM version of Palm Pre, and they were showing off various WebOS features to the public. But that’s about it. No European launch announcement, no info about [...]
Spyker to launch four new phones
Spyker’s foray into the mobile industry seems to be more than just a seasonal business, as the Dutch sports car maker is getting ready to release no less than four new phones during 2009. We briefly saw two of them, at the beginning of February, but now we’ve got more details, as well as better pictures. Unfortunately, [...]
Samsung Delve to Come With Mission: Impossible
It’s annoying to buy a phone and discover that only a wall charger and user manual come included in the box. We love to see phones come with extra goodies. That’s why we’re glad to see Alltel offer a 2GB MicroSD card with the entire Mission: Impossible trilogy pre-installed with every Samsung Delve purchase. “When [...]
Verizon Wireless CDM8975 PTT phone launched
Verizon Wireless CDM8975 is the newest Push to Talk phone launched by the largest North American CDMA carrier and available only via business sales channels for the moment. Developed by PCD (Personal Communications Devices), the CDM8975 is a rather simple clamshell that comes to complete Verizon’s lineup of PTT phones (which includes the Motorola Adventure [...]
Concept: Phone That Never Goes Obsolete
Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to get a new phone every two years (or less)? When the current fads fade and new exciting breakthroughs come out in the phone industry, would you like to be able to just install it directly into the same phone? Our friends at Yanko Design have been wondering [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 and MyPhone video demo and pics
One of the bigger news from MWC 09 in Barcelona is that Microsoft was finally able to announce their finger touch optimized Windows Mobile 6.5 OS version, along with a couple of new services – Marketplace (for mobile apps) and MyPhone (for phone back-up). Not that they are ready to put WM 6.5 on any device yet. You will [...]
i-mate 810-f, Centurion and Legionnaire/ Warrior. An impressive comeback
Among all the fancy touchscreen, HD, high megapixel phones being announced right and left at MWC 09 in Barcelona, there was one small company which stood out from the crowd. And not because of the fancier touchscreen UI, HD video or higher megapixel count in the camera. It’s because they took a different approach in [...]
Motorola high-res touchscreen phone to come soon?
For unknown reasons, Motorola hasn’t released any touchscreen phones with a display resolution larger than QVGA. Even the 2.8 inch display of the brand new MotoSurf A3100 comes with only 240 x 320 pixels. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but you can’t say more pixels aren’t cool. Fortunately, it looks like Moto’s [...]
A Nokia N95 prototype can check your breath for diseases
Applied Nanodetectors Ltd (AND), a UK-based company specialized in nanotechnology, has collaborated with Nokia in order to develop a mobile phone that can check your breath for detecting various diseases. Said phone is actually a Nokia N95 prototype which comes with an integrated AND chip. Situated above the handset’s display (in the earpiece?), the chip [...]