Verizon’s new line-up: HTC Touch Diamond, LG 9600 Versa, Nokia 7205 Intrigue and BlackBerry Pearl Flip
Hey there, Verizon Wireless customers, wouldn’t you like to know what handsets your carrier is preparing to launch in the next few months? Well, we’re now sure about four of Verizon’s upcoming devices: HTC Touch Diamond, LG 9600 Versa, Nokia 7205 Intrigue and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 – all of which have just appeared in [...]
Sony Ericsson C510- “World’s First” (?!) Facebook phone. SE-Facebook cooperation announcement on Sunday
Sony Ericsson C510 Cyber-Shot phone has been announced a while ago. It seemed like a nice low-end cameraphone with nothing really special about it. Well, looks like there is something special here. Swedish online magazine mobil.se got their hands on SE C510 for a quick review, and they report that Sony Ericsson C510 will be [...]
Symbian Foundation welcomes 14 new members – HP, MySpace and Qualcomm included
Nokia’s Symbian Foundation has just got bigger than Google’s Open Handset Alliance, with today’s addition of no less than 14 new members. Among the most important ones, we must mention HP, Qualcomm, MySpace and SanDisk – which are not only important names in their domain of activity, but also globally-recognized brands. The other 10 companies [...]
Dual-faced Acer DX650 and Acer X960 spotted
We all know that Acer, currently the world’s third largest computer manufacturer, is getting ready to announce new smartphones at MWC 2009. Well, it looks like the Taiwanese company wasn’t able to keep the upcoming handsets from leaking onto the Web, as two of them have appeared today on the Vietnamese website Tinh Te. The first [...]
Samsung develops LTE phone chipset, will demo it at MWC 2009
Apart from lots of interesting handsets (like the S8300 Ultra Touch), Samsung will also showcase its first LTE chipset at MWC 2009. Said chipset, made for “mobile phones and data cards”, is the second LTE one to come from a South Korean company, after LG announced its own, back in December 2008. During MWC, Samsung [...]
Contacts on OVI loses 3 weeks of user data. All your profile, image and friendship updates gone since Jan. 23d
There’s something to be said when using various services in “beta” mode. And that is no promise of reliability. The service can crash, data can be lost and various bugs may disrupt the operation. Well Nokia just confirmed this with their Contacts on Ovi (former Nokia Chat) service. All the updates to profile details, images [...]
Opera Turbo announced for mobile and desktop browsers
Opera Software’s latest product, namely Opera Turbo, is not a new Web browser, as I first thought when seeing the press release announcing it. Instead, it’s a new solution developed by the Norway-based company for “business customers on Opera Desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Devices SDK.” So, what does it offer? Well, as its name [...]
Garmin-Asus unveils the nüvifone M20 Windows Mobile smartphone
Well, it sure didn’t take long for Garmin-Asus to unveil their second co-branded handset, after the nüvifone G60. The new device is called nüvifone M20 and it was announced today, during a pre-MWC 2009 event. Presented as “an all-in-one phone, mobile web-browser and premium navigation system”, the handset surprisingly runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. [...]
Mobiado Unveils Professional 105GMT White Luxury Watchphone
After CES 2009 we hear the term “watchphone” and immediately think of a certain wristwatch phone, but this particular watchphone is a little different. In fact, many of you may recall Canada luxury phone maker Mobiado releasing the Professional 105GMT Gold Luxury Watchphone just a couple months ago, complete with 24-carat gold coating — and [...]
Bell Canada to out the Palm Treo Pro on February 26, Samsung Omnia and Palm Pre later
Not long after releasing the Palm Centro, Bell is now said to bring the Treo Pro to Canada too. More exactly, the Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone might be available starting February 26. MobileSyrup has it that the handset could cost $199.95 with a 3-yr contract agreement and a monthly plan of at least $45. Not exactly [...]
Palm to kill PalmOS and focus on webOS, Windows Mobile
With the new Pre smartphone and the equally-new webOS platform, both announced by Palm at the beginning of January, many have wondered what would happen with the PalmOS platform. Well, there will be no more PalmOS, at least not on new Palm devices. According to PreCentral, Palm’s Ed Colligan has just stated that the Sunnyvale [...]
Gigabyte to launch an iPhone-killer smartphone: GSmart S1200
OK, I know many of you don’t like the “iPhone-killer” expression (and I’m not too fond of it myself), but wait until you see the Gsmart S1200 – one of the smartphones Gigabyte is readying for MWC 2009. The handset is only 0.43-inch (11mm) thick and it looks really well-designed. Its OS is Windows Mobile [...]
RIM and its BlackBerry smartphones doing better than expected
Although most handset manufacturers declared rather weak sales lately, Research In Motion has proudly announced that its net subscriber account additions for the fiscal fourth quarter (which ends on February 28, 2009) is higher than expected. As such, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones believes that the net subscriber account additions for said period may be [...]
Sony Ericsson C903 Cyber-shot caught live in red, silver and black
The freshly-announced Sony Ericsson C903 has just been spotted in a set of live pictures, showing it to be among the best-looking Cyber-shot phones ever. As unveiled in SE’s press release from yesterday, the C903 will be available in three colors (Glamour Red, Lacquer Black and Techno White), and the live shots, appeared over [...]
Alcatel to launch a Lego phone (for kids)
Alcatel is not exactly the biggest handset maker around, but that doesn’t mean it can’t come up with some unusual mobile phones, right? Right, so let’s see what the French company (now known as Alcatel-Lucent, after merging with Lucent Technologies) has in the making. It’s a Lego-themed phone, which will be targeted for kids. Details [...]
i-mate 810-F – the toughest Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone ever
The “revolutionary” smartphone that i-mate plans to launch at MWC 2009 turned out to be a rugged device, named i-mate 810-F. The 810-F is, in fact, more than a simple rugged handset. Under its tough, rubberized case, there’s a powerful Windows Mobile 6.1 device with a set of features that offers almost anything you’d want from a smartphone. Even more, the [...]
Nokia to shed more than 320 jobs, reduce production
As announced first in November 2008, Nokia is getting ready to cut operation costs throughout 2009. The first important measures that the giant manufacturer wants to take were unveiled today: Nokia will close its site Jyväskylä (Finland) and will scale down the production from Salo (also in Finland). The Jyväskylä site is a mobile devices [...]
Fring Twitter add-on for Symbian devices coming
I hear a lot of complaints from Symbian device owners about the lack of a real good Twitter client. Well, I hope that will change when the Samsung and Nokia App stores start working properly and energize Symbian’s developer and app user base. But that will take time. And for the moment a quicker fix [...]
Pre-alpha Mozilla Fennec for HTC TouchPro released
Mozilla foundation kept good on their promise to release the first version of Fennec mobile for HTC Touch Pro in February. Today Mozilla’s Brad Lassey announced that first milestone release of Fennec for Windows Mobile is available for download. The release is pre-alpha and intended for those early adopters who can handle it. It was [...]
Samsung S7350 review video posted on YouTube
The details about the new upcoming Samsung phones continue to leak out. This time we got the info about Samsung S7350 handset. I am not sure whether S7350 is the same Samsung Marcel, the picture of which we showed you few days ago. The looks are very close, but the specs – 2 MP camera and 2.2” display [...]