Nokia Ovi Movies service on the way?
With Nokia busily moving into various online content and service fields, one thing is glaringly missing from it’s OVI online offerings. Movies. Yes, I know, they are pretty busy with worldwide rollout of Music store, Ovi store for apps and other things. And I know that one Nokia exec explicitly stated that they do not [...]
GoldVish Revolution luxury phone looks weird, costs $488,150
The Swiss company GoldVish, creator of the world’s most expensive phone – GoldVish Le Million – has unveiled another luxury handset, called GoldVish Revolution. The GoldVish Revolution is a weird candybar that looks like a mix between Motorola Aura and a Mobiado phone. The device is covered in diamonds, as well as pink and white [...]
KTF launches mobile-controlled cleaning robot
KTF, the South Korean carrier that just released the Nokia 6210s, announced the introduction of a Cleaning Robot which can be controlled via 3G mobile phones. Built in collaboration with the Korean company Microbot, the CW100 robot – which is actually a very smart vacuum cleaner – uses video calling to send live images to [...]
Cellphone energy gap widens, says Strategy Analytics
According to a report issued by Strategy Analytics, the average time between charges for mobile phone users is likely to fall by 4.8% per year in the near future. The report mentions that, in the last three years, battery capacity in handsets has increased by only 4% yearly, despite the fact that nowadays phones (and [...]
Gmail and Google Calendar for iPhone and Android updated
Google announced that it has updated Gmail and Google Calendar for mobile – more exactly, for iPhone and Android. The new Gmail for mobile uses browser technologies like HTML5 and Gears, thus it’s “a lot faster” when it comes to opening emails, searching and navigating. Also, even though your network connection is slow or non-existent, [...]
Samsung Omnia HD loses its name. Will be known as Samsung i8910i HD. WTF?!
Mobile Crunch reports that Samsung will drop the brand name from the Omnia HD phone and will release it under the generic i8910 moniker. Due to the fear that there will be confusion between original Omnia, which was Windows Mobile phone and i8910, which runs on Symbian OS. PortableGear.nl confirms that, with the clarification from Samsung that [...]
Dual SIM Samsung B5702 officially announced
Samsung B5702, the slider we first saw back in January, has been officially announced in Russia. Samsung presents the B5702 as a dual SIM phone for “all continents”, and that’s due to its quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz), supported by both SIM cards. Too bad the handset is only [...]
Blackberry Storm 2 to add “new way of typing” and lose carrier exclusivity in Europe in late 2009
Well, the info about Blackberry Storm successor – let’s call it Storm 2 is starting to trickle out bit by bit. Yesterday we reported that Blackberry Storm 2 should be released by Verizon in September and will most likely have Wi-fi connectivity. Well, today the existence of Storm 2 has been confirmed, on the record, by [...]
KDDI launches iida premium mobile brand in Japan
KDDI, Japan’s second largest mobile carrier, launched a new premium brand in its home country. Dubbed iida, the new brand currently has three phones in its line-up. The first two are iida G9 (apparently manufactured by Sony Ericsson) and iida misora. The G9 is a cool slider that measures 115 x 50 x 17.4 mm [...]
Orange UK offers 500MB of mobile data for £4.25 per month
Orange UK announced the introduction of a new data bundle that offers 500MB of data for £4.25 (€4.75) per month. Coming to replace the old 10MB and 250MB packages (which cost £5.00 and £6.38, respectively), the 500MB data bundle will be available to “pay monthly business customers with new or existing voice packages”. According to [...]
Samsung Impression now available from AT&T
Announced at the same time with Samsung Propel Pro and Samsung Magnet, AT&T’s Samsung Impression is, as of today, available for purchase. The handset can be bought for as low as $199.99, but only after the signing of a 2-yr contract agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate via AT&T Promotion Card. If you don’t [...]
Sony Ericsson Idou release date rumors
Officially unveiled during MWC 2009, Sony Ericsson Idou is not only the first 12MP camera phone to hit the market, but also among the first ones to run on Symbian Foundation’s open source mobile OS. Initially, Sony Ericsson said that Idou would be released in the second half of 2009, meaning we might see the [...]
Nokia 6210s launched in Korea without navigation capabilities
Nokia’s plans to re-enter the South Korean market have been confirmed today, as the Finnish company officially announced the release of Nokia 6210s in the Asian country. The phone is actually the 6210 Navigator, launched in Europe in the summer of 2008. As we already reported, the 6210s cannot offer navigation capabilities in South Korea, because [...]
BlackBerry Storm 2 to come in September 2009 with Wi-Fi
Launched by Verizon Wireless in November 2008, BlackBerry Storm is surely an unusual smartphone – after all, it’s RIM’s first touchscreen device. However, the device lacks a feature that no modern smartphone should lack: Wi-Fi. Well, it looks like the next-generation Storm will come with Wi-Fi. According to SlashGear, “a source very close to the issue” confirmed [...]
Sony Ericsson announces W205 Walkman and S312 Snapshot phones
Sony Ericsson has just announced the expansion of its entry-level handset line-up, with the addition of W205 and S312 – a Walkman and a Snapshot phone. Sony Ericsson W205 is a slider and it will be launched as a device that can be “your first Walkman phone”. It has a set of almost complete features – although [...]
LG GM310, GM210 and GM205 officially announced
We first saw the LG GM310 more than one month ago, not long after MWC 2009 closed its doors. Now the handset has been officially announced, together with other two music-oriented phones: LG GM210 and LG GM205. All three handsets come with Dolby Mobile and LG Sound Engine technology, so they should offer a pretty [...]
Nokia’s Friend View updated, still in beta though
The same day it updated Ovi Mail (to v. 1.1), Nokia has also updated Friend View, the experimental location and micro-blogging service launched back in November 2008. Apart from coming with some bug fixes and some small enhancements, the new Friend View for S60 phones allows you to run it as a background application – [...]
Samsung S5200 unveiled, new mid-end slider
Not long after announcing the S5600 and S5230 touchscreen phones, Samsung has now unveiled yet another device from the S-series: Samsung S5200. Unlike the S5600 and S5230, Samsung S5200 does not have a touchscreen display and it’s a slider – a mid-end one. The S5200 was presented by Samsung in the Netherlands, alongside the M2310 [...]
T-Mobile readying Android tablet PC, Android home phone
You probably already know T-Mobile is the world’s first carrier to release an Android smartphone (the T-Mobile G1, built by HTC). Well, it looks like the carrier may also be the first to introduce a “home phone” and a “tablet computer” (with a 7-inch display), both of which will be based on Google’s Android platform. According [...]
HTC to come with a feature phone later in 2009?
When you say HTC, you can only think about smartphones and Pocket PCs, as the Taiwanese manufacturer doesn’t have a single feature phone in its line-up of products. But it looks like the company wants to enter the feature phone market too, and release such a handset in the fourth quarter of 2009. According to [...]