LG Arena KM900 officially official
It finally happened. After all the rumors, leaks and semi-official teases, LG has officially announced it will launch LG Arena KM900 flagship at MWC 09 in Barcelona. In addition to the already published press picture of LG Arena KM900, official LG press release mentions several more details about the upcoming handset. It confirms Wi-Fi and [...]
Nokia to launch its own app store/portal at MWC 09
Symbian may be the most popular smartphone platform in the world and there may be tons of interesting mobile apps for it out there. The problem is – there’s no way to easily find and get them on to your handset. And when it’s too hard to do that, the users simply do not bother. All [...]
Samsung Leaks Continue: M7600 Revealed
Samsung is leaking more than a broken faucet. In the latest episode of a constantly streaming series of leaked photos, the Helio-esque M7600 has been revealed. We expect this series of leaks can be connected to the upcoming MWC 2009. If so, we are all in for quite a treat, as this would mean several [...]
Rogers brings a new smartphone to Canada: HP iPAQ 910c
If Rogers’ BlackBerries are not what you want but you are in need of a new smartphone, the largest Canadian carrier has just outed the HP iPAQ 910c – a Windows Mobile 6.1 device that might just be your thing. While it’s been officially announced by HP back in 2007, the iPAQ 910c has only now got [...]
Samsung Acme i8910 runs on Symbian S60 5th Edition, records HD at 720p, dies within 40 mins
Samsung Acme i8910, the touchscreen handset that appeared yesterday in a couple of pictures, has now showed up once again on the Web, this time in high-quality shots and with more details on its specs. It turns out that the Acme i8910 is a smartphone running on Symbian S60 5th Edition, thus being the third [...]
LG Arena KM900 officially confirmed. Sort of
Ever since I found the pictures of LG Arena KM900 on the net and learned at about it’s specs in the beginning of this week, I had little doubt that we will see this handset at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Feb. 16th Still, I figured that until that day all additional info we’ll [...]
Samsung E2100, E1125, E1100 and E1070 are now official
After a wave of leaked, unofficial Samsung phones, it was about time for at least some of them to become official. In consequence, the South Korean manufacturer has just announced, in Russia, the following handsets: Samsung E2100, Samsung E1125, Samsung E1070 and Samsung E1100. All four phones are entry-level models that support dual-band GSM frequencies (900 [...]
Amazon to Bring Kindle Books to Your Phone
Do you love the idea of reading books on your phone and hate the idea of spending loads of cash on a Kindle? Soon, Amazon hopes to bring you the best of both worlds. Amazon, which is already expected to expand its Kindle brand to a new model sometime soon, has just made known its [...]
Sprint announces the intrinsically safe Motorola i365IS
Motorola i365IS is the name of the newest push-to-talk handset announced by Sprint for its Nextel Direct Connect network. Well, the phone itself is actually not that new, since it’s just an intrinsically safe (IS) version of Motorola i365, which is offered by Sprint since the fall of 2008. Being intrinsically safe, the i365IS [...]
HTC Not Recession-Proof, Either
It seems that nobody in the wireless industry is safe from the negative effects of the economy. HTC, aka High Tech Computer, posted revenues for January that were 17% down from January 2008, and 27% down from December. The decrease in revenue from December is not surprising, considering the holiday season; however the year over [...]
Google brings books to Android, iPhone. Boasts about its OCR tech
Google has just announced the release of Google Book Search for Android and Apple’s iPhone, which means that you can now access and read more than 1.5 million public domain books via any of the two said platforms. The mobile editions of the books are optimized for small screens, so that you can read them [...]
Samsung Omnia Reloaded comes in purple, adds new features
A new edition of Samsung Omnia was announced in Italy, new edition that brings some extra features, as well as a fresh color: purple. Apparently called Samsung Omnia Reloaded, this version of the i900 will also be available in white and black (like the original version). The new features that Omnia Reloaded offers are on [...]
LG LBA- C300 something called Bluetooth enabled Qwerty Card
Bluetooth is a nifty feature to have in a mobile phone, what with all those accessories you can pair to it. And there’s no shortage of these mobile phone accessories today – speakerphones for your car, headsets, wireless keyboards, even watches. But once in a while some strange and interesting thingie to pair to a [...]
Mobile phone market declined by almost 13% in Q4 2008
Usually, a year’s fourth quarter is the one when mobile phone manufacturers register the highest number of sales. That’s not the case with Q4 2008, when the global mobile phone market fell 12.6 percent when compared to the same period of 2007. Well, that’s actually not a surprise, given the current economic situation around the [...]
Mozilla phone concept – a BlackBerry with OLED keys
Ever wondered how would a Mozilla phone look like? If you have, a possible answer to this question can be seen below. The Mozilla phone that we see here is a concept designed by Billy May. It’s created by mixing the old BlackBerry 7130 with an Optimus keyboard, thus it’s not exactly the pretties handset [...]
More Nokia E75 leaked images, plus detailed specs
The number of leaked pics with Nokia E75 is becoming ridiculously huge, so it would probably be a good idea for Nokia to put an end to the whole drama comedy and finally go official with the handset. Until this happens, though, we have some new visual goodies for you, as well as more details regarding the [...]
First Windows Mobile 7 devices to come in April 2010
With Android gaining more and more popularity, Windows Mobile’s future may not look as bright as Microsoft wants to see it. And unless the Redmond company comes quickly with a new and revolutionary edition of its mobile OS, WM could suffer a serious market share loss. I’m sure you already know that Microsoft has two [...]
HTC to release Snapdragon based handsets in Q2 2009
The recently announced Toshiba TG01 has stunned the world not only with its 4.1 inch WVGA display and that ultra-thin design, but also with its Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, which provides 1GHz of CPU power. Now it looks like HTC will be the next manufacturers to release Snapdragon based handsets. According to DigiTimes, the Taiwanese [...]
Samsung Acme i8910 touchscreen phone shows up
Samsung really has to do something to plug all those leaks. Or maybe not. We had a really fun week reporting about all those new unannounced Samsung handsets this week. And here’s another one – Samsung Acme i8910. Samsung i8910 Acme a full touchscreen phone and is rumored to have 8 megapixel camera with HD video recording, GPS, [...]
Samsung C6625 spotted – Windows Mobile plus QWERTY keyboard
Remember that Samsung C6620 that was exclusively launched by TIM in Italy? Well, it looks like there’s a slightly different version of it, called Samsung C6625 and sold unlocked. The C6625 was spotted at Expansys, where you can pre-order it for £249.99 (around $360). Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, Samsung C6625 is kind of [...]