Skype now offers voicemail to text services
Skype and SpinVox have just announced that Skype voicemail customers will be able to use, from now on, voicemail to text conversions. Thanks to SpinVox’s technology, Skype messages can be easily converted to text and then sent via SMS to any mobile phone. One voicemail to text conversion costs €0.20 ($0.25 or £0.17) – and [...]
Toshiba TG01 exclusively from O2 in Germany
Toshiba TG01, probably one of the nicest Windows Mobile smartphones of 2009, will be exclusively launched in Germany by O2. This way, O2 will offer an excellent alternative to the iPhone 3G, which can be bought by German customers only via T-Mobile. In fact, Toshiba’s handset outruns the iPhone in about all the departments, and [...]
LG Viewty II GC900 spotted
I thought we already had LG Viewty II phone in the form of LG KC910 Renoir. With all the emphasis on camera features, 8 mpx resolution, full touchscreen, etc; LG KC910 looked like a great successor to LG Viewty KU900. Well, it looks that I I’ve been too quick to call Renoir LG Viety II. At [...]
One third of the messaging phones in North America are made by LG
Messaging phones (you know, the ones featuring QWERTY keyboards) are becoming more and more popular all over the world, and especially in the US and Canada. Now, who do you think is leading the North American messaging phone market? It’s not Research in Motion, although all its BlackBerries have QWERTY keyboards. It’s LG, the world’s third [...]
Motorola ZN300 now official; comes with TD SCDMA connectivity
Although without a press release, Motorola has just gone official with the Motorola ZN300, a phone that we’ve seen a couple of times before, in several leaked photos. The ZN300 is now up on Moto’s website, where it’s presented as a camera phone. Well, an entry-level camera phone, as it only has a 3.1 MP camera [...]
Mio Explora K70 GPS phone announced
Mio, the Taiwanese manufacturer of various mobile devices, has recently announced its first 3.5G GPS phone, the Mio Explora K70. Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the Explora K70 comes with a simple, elegant design and packs a set of pretty nice features. Mio says the new handset is made “for the best possible GPS [...]
Motorola Touch Zine HD?? Probably fake
Remember high-res touchscreen phone from Motorola we told you about last week? I still don’t know whether it’s just a Photoshop job by a talented fan, or a real thing. Actually, for now I am leaning towards the Photoshop. But just in case it is not, some much better resolution pics of this handset have [...]
Sprint LG Rumor 2 image leaked, looks OK
When we first heard about the LG Rumor 2, there was no picture of it, and all we knew was that the handset would have a QWERTY keyboard (like the first Rumor). Now the Rumor 2 has just appeared in a leaked image and, of course, it does indeed have a full sliding QWERTY keyboard. It also [...]
Orange France to launch the HTC Dream this week for €99
While Vodafone’s SFR is getting ready to release the HTC Magic (G2) in France, Orange will apparently launch the HTC Dream (G1) in the same country. SVM reports that, starting March 5, the largest French mobile operator will sell the HTC Dream for €99 with a contract agreement for 2 years and the Origami Star Plus [...]
Palm Treo Pro to be outed by Alltel on March 5
For some odd reason, Sprint has still not launched the Palm Treo Pro, despite the fact that the smartphone appeared on its website back in January. Now it looks like Alltel is going to release the Treo Pro this week, on March 5, thus becoming the first US mobile operator to carry the handset’s CDMA [...]
Samsung SPH-M810 passes the FCC, could be Instinct Mini
The FCC has recently approved the Samsung SPH-M810, a phone which seems to be the rumored Samsung Instinct Mini that should be released by Sprint in the near future. According to FCC’s documents, SPH-M810 is a “cellular / PCS CDMA phone with Bluetooth and EvDO”, thus it can obviously run on Sprint’s network. Moreover, a [...]
Samsung W750 Haptic PoP with colorful covers
Many years ago Nokia had a bright idea about the user desire to customize their mobile phone. And they found a pretty easy way to do that – Xpress-on changeable covers for some Nokia phone models. The idea was a smashing hit for a while. I couldn’t pass any mobile accessory counter without seeing hundreds of [...]
Alcatel OT-707 and OT-800 – cheap touchscreen and QWERTY phones
Alcatel mobile phones are usually entry-level, affordable ones, and the new OT-707 and OT-800 are no exceptions. However, these two devices are definitely interesting: Alcatel OT-707 is the company’s first touchscreen handset, while Alcatel OT-800 is its first to have a full QWERTY keyboard. The OT-707 is quite small and thin (95 x 53 x 13 [...]
T-Mobile Samsung Memoir review
It is a time for rejoicing in North America as Samsung has officially kicked off the era of high-res cameraphones with the brand new Memoir, released on T-Mobile Feb 25, which features an 8 MP camera. What does this mean for the mobile phone industry? Up until now, phones have featured sub-par cameras with okay [...]