#MWC09: Garmin Asus Nuvifone G60 hands-on review and video
After more than a year of promises and plastic mock-ups, Garmin was finally able to come up with a working model of its Nuvifone G60 mobile handset. But they had to take a partner on, to finally get the darn thing working. So from now own this LBS centric mobile phone will be known as [...]
Verizon, AT&T Reveal More LTE Details
The two major US carriers that have made plans to roll out LTE in the next few years are slowly but surely starting to bring forth more details on deployment, and it appears that MWC was determined to be a good time to make some announcements. Verizon gave out the most detailed plans. The company [...]
i-mate Legionnaire and i-mate Centurion to come with Windows Mobile 6.5
Apart from unveiling the world’s toughest Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone (the 810-F), i-mate has also announced two smartphones which will be launched with Windows Mobile 6.5 on-board: i-mate Legionnaire and i-mate Centurion. The Legionnaire is a full-touchscreen handset that’s scheduled for a Q3 2009 release, together with a UMPC called i-mate Warrior. Apparently, the Legionnaire would fit into [...]
AT&T’s Pantech Matrix PRO now official
AT&T’s Pantech Duo finally has a successor: Pantech Matrix PRO, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone that was officially unveiled today. Looking sleeker than the old Duo, the brand new Matrix PRO is 22 mm thick, but that’s obviously because it packs two sliding keyboards: a QWERTY and an alphanumeric one. Apart from that, Pantech Matrix [...]
Samsung Propel and Samsung Gravity headed to Canada, via Rogers
Rogers Wireless is getting ready to launch two new Samsung phones, namely Samsung Propel and Samsung Gravity. Targeted for users who text a lot while on the go, both phones come with sliding QWERTY keyboards: a horizontal one on the Gravity and a vertical one on the Propel. Mobile Syrup has it that the largest [...]
Interesting phone designs by Neo
There are some interesting nuggets hidden among the hundreds of exhibitor stands at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Today, walking around the halls I found a little company called Neo. They try to differentiate among handset makers with interesting design ideas, some of which were on disply. One of them is Neo 808i, what they [...]
#MWC09: Motosurf A3100 video demo and some pics
I don’t really understand why on earth Motorola exhibits at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is the second year that I visit their stand and they don’t have a single interesting thing on display. Just these plain old lame phones we are seeing again and again. And when I asked Motorola rep on the [...]
Nokia Magnifier app for Symbian S60 introduced
Nokia has just unveiled a pretty interesting application for its camera phones, part of the Nokia Accessibility program and called Nokia Magnifier. As its name suggests, the app acts as a magnifier for hard-to-read texts, using the phone’s camera. Furthermore, it features a built-in image stabilizer, as well as negative filter technology for enhanced readability. [...]
CDMA Nokia 8208 officially announced
Nokia 8208, a handset that we first saw in January, has just been officially announced by Nokia, coming as its last device unveiled during MWC 2009. The 8208 is a dual-slider phone made for Nokia’s “CDMA markets outside the US” – like India, for example. We’re not sure why Nokia doesn’t want it to be released [...]
Mobile industry giants to adopt universal chargers for phones by 2012
The GSM Association announced that it has gathered 17 important mobile companies in order to develop and implement a universal charging solution (UCS) for cell phones, by 2012. More exactly, GSMA wants all mobile phones (or at least most of them) to be charged via a standardized solution that would use Micro USB as its [...]
Gigabyte’s GSmart S1200 fully unveiled: WVGA display and Windows Mobile
Gigabyte may not be the first company to come into mind when one’s thinking about smartphones, but that doesn’t mean the Taiwanese company does not have a place of its own at MWC 2009. We told you not long ago that the manufacturer’s GSmart S1200 is almost ready to be unveiled to the world, and [...]
Samsung confirms three Android handsets, Linux smartphones
Undoubtedly, Samsung is one of MWC 2009’s stars, if we’re to think that it has come to the show with handsets like Omnia HD and the funky, youth-oriented Beat DJ. But the South Korean company (currently the world’s second largest handset manufacturer) won’t rest on its laurels after MWC ends, that’s for sure. Reuters reports that [...]
#MWC09: Nokia E75 and E55 preview, video
As you already know, Nokia has announced two messaging/business devices at MWC 09 – E75 and E55. Both of them are interesting handsets optimized for mobile messaging and e-mail. And both of them have some design elements that are new to Nokia phones. Nokia E75 The interesting thing about Nokia E75 is that it comes [...]
Huawei’s first Android smartphone looks sharp, although very iPhone-like
Huawei’s plans to manufacture Android-based smartphones have been known since 2008, and we also knew the Chinese company would be present at MWC 2009 with its first Android device. Sadly, Huawei only brought a non-working sample of the handset at MWC, so, for the moment, no one actually knows too many details about its features or [...]
#MWC09: Nokia N86 8MP preview video
We already told you about the official launch of Nokia N86 8 megapixel camera smartphone. Nokia N86 8MP is an image centric Symbian S60 device, with improved optics (wide angle lens) that allows for better picture quality in low light conditions. And it’s also Nokia’s first 8mpx device. Today I’ve got the possibility to check [...]
LG KT770 officially unveiled – Symbian S60 on board
LG KT770, one of the brand new smartphones from LG, has been officially presented by the South Korean company at MWC 2009, alongside handsets like LG Arena KM900 and LG GM730. While Arena and GM730 are using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, the KT770 runs on Symbian S60 3rd Edition, being a rarity in LG’s family of [...]
Nokia and Qualcomm working on S60 smartphones for North America
Nokia is known for concentrating its business in Europe and Asia, while North America is usually a market where its handsets are launched with delays (some of them don’t even get the chance to be sold there). But fret not, American customers: Nokia has just announced its plans to come up with “advanced UMTS mobile [...]
Yahoo intros new Yahoo! Mobile app, teams up with Opera
Alongside a myriad of new handsets (Nokia N86 8MP, HTC Touch Diamond2, Sony Ericsson Idou and so on), MWC 2009 has also brought us important news on the software side. For example, here we have Yahoo’s brand new Yahoo! Mobile app, which will be available for iPhone, Android (via the WebKit browser), Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows [...]
#MWC09 Confirmed: Acer is working on Android device in Q4
I just got back from the interview and new device check-up with Acer. As far as the new first generation devices (M900, F900, X960 and DX900) go, I’m underwhelmed.They are all pretty well specc’ed out, have nice design and tons of features. And Acer made its own interface for the for touch navigation. But they all [...]
Vodafone announces HTC Magic, its first Android smartphone
Just yesterday, we saw the HTC Magic in some leaked images, with Vodafone’s branding on it, and today the smartphone has been officially announced. Coming as Vodafone’s first Android device, HTC Magic is a keyboardless smartphone that will surely attract many of the giant V carrier’s customers. Design-wise, the Magic does look better than T-Mobile [...]