Samsung Galaxy. i7500 Android phone gets a name. Will launch in France early July
We were pretty impressed with the first Samsung Android phone – i7500 when it was announced. With 5 megapixel camera, capacitive AMOLED touchscreen, huge 1500 mAh battery and many other goodies built-in, there was little not to like about this handset, promised for June launch. Well, it looks like it might be delayed for a few [...]
Mivvy intros three affordable dual SIM phones
The Czech company Mivvy (ever heard of it?) has recently introduced no less than three new dual SIM mobile phones: mivvy dual TV touch, mivvy dual nio and mivvy dual slide. The handsets come only with tri-band GSM/GPRS connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) and all of them can use a secondary SIM card [...]
More Pics, Details Emerge of enV Touch
Just ten days ago we mentioned a follow-up to the Voyager coming out on Verizon, called the enV Touch VX11000. We had a few leaked pictures shown off and a couple new details and specs about the device. Over the weekend we found more pics and a leaked employee manual that shows a few more [...]
Nokia N97 NAM Coming on June 2?
We certainly want to believe a new rumor emerging this weekend that puts the North American edition of the Nokia N97 hitting shelves on June 2nd. And so far we have little reason not to believe it, though Nokia reps at CES and CTIA had us convinced the NAM version would be surfacing in the [...]
HTC Touch Pro 2 and Samsung C6625v coming to Vodafone UK
Vodafone UK is getting ready to release two new Windows Mobile handsets, the HTC Touch Pro 2 and the Samsung C6625 (also known as Samsung Valencia). It’s not clear yet when the devices will be available for purchase, but they’ve already appeared on Vodafone’s Business website as coming soon: here’s the Touch Pro 2 and here’s [...]
Philips X550, another phone with impressive battery lifetime
The Philips Xenium family of phones has a new member, a candybar that will be launched pretty soon under the name of Philips X550. Obviously, one of the new handset’s strongest points is its battery, which should last up to one month in stand-by. Unfortunately, like most of the other Xenium phones, Philips X550 doesn’t [...]
Cheap Nokia 2730 classic, 2720 fold and 7020 announced
Nokia has just unveiled three new phones targeted at emerging markets: Nokia 2730 classic, Nokia 7020 and Nokia 2720 fold. All phones are “Internet-ready”, featuring Ovi Mail and Nokia Life Tools – the two services first announced in November 2008. They will be commercially available starting the third quarter of 2009, except for the 7020, [...]
Samsung and LG both sell 20 million touchscreen phones
Samsung and LG have announced that sales of their full-touchscreen phones have passed the 20 million mark. Which means that more than 40 million South Korean touchscreen phones were sold around the world – a performance that no other country can be proud of. Both Samsung and LG began to commercialize full-touchscreen handsets about two [...]
Samsung B7300 specs show up
We told you a while ago that Samsung B7300 Windows Mobile touchscreen handset is on the way. But, except for the good looks, we didn’t know very much about it then. Well, today we learned the key specs of Samsung B7300 and they are nothing much to write about. The best thing we can say about Samsung [...]
Samsung i7500 approved by FCC, T-Mobile 3G included
Samsung’s first official Android smartphone, the i7500, has just been approved by the FCC to work on the GSM/EDGE 850/1900MHz and 3G AWS 1700MHz bands. This obviously means that T-Mobile USA could, theoretically, release the handset, like, right now. Of course, this won’t actually happen. Instead, T-Mo will probably launch the i7500 sometime in the fall of [...]
Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile 6 now available
Three months after the pre-alpha Fennec for HTC Touch Pro was released, now Mozilla has launched the Alpha 1 version of its browser for Windows Mobile 6. Naturally, this version has the same overall look as the one released for Maemo devices. It is entirely CSS-based, it supports add-ons and it includes the JeMalloc memory [...]
New Intel-based MID concept with folding display
Here’s an interesting MID concept that looks to be what Sony Ericsson Idou, the iPhone or the BlackBerry Storm will probably never be. The MID was designed by Petr Kubik, and, according to its portfolio page, the concept is the “winner of Intel competition mobile internet device.” And while this doesn’t mean we’re going to see [...]
Samsung’s MEMS shutter for camera phones to bring better photos
Although phone manufacturers are continuingly boosting the Megapixel count, camera phones are still no match for digital cameras, which generally have mechanical shutters. So Samsung thought it might be a good idea to use MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) technology for phones, instead of a mechanical shutter which is both expensive and too large. The South Korean [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 is now complete, “looks really good”
Microsoft has just announced, via its developers’ Twitter account, that Windows Mobile 6.5 is finally complete and every bit of it is functional. According to the WM developers team, the 6.5 OS “looks really good” – and that’s not a surprise, since we’ve seen quite a few images of it. Of course, we still have [...]
Pics of Blackberry Storm 2 Leaked
It hasn’t been that long since we got wind of RIM’s CEO spilling the beans that his company was working on a follow-up to the popular Verizon touchscreen device. So we are happy to find that pictures of the upcoming Blackberry Storm 2: Electric Boogaloo have surfaced and are now circulating the net. Pictures are [...]
Samsung a167 GoPhone launched by AT&T, only $70
The same day it announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Jack i637, AT&T has also unveiled the Samsung a167 (or SCH- a167). Unlike the Jack, which is a Windows Mobile smartphone with loads of features, the Samsung a167 is an ultra-basic device. That’s why AT&T is selling it as a GoPhone, on pay as you [...]
Barcode scanning available with Google Product Search for Android
Launched about three weeks ago, Google Product Search for mobile now has a new and pretty cool feature. I’m talking about barcode scanning, which is integrated with Google Product Search for Android – the iPhone version doesn’t have this feature, and Google said nothing about when or if it will have it. Anyway, to test [...]
Nokia Beta Labs mobile website now available
Nokia Beta Labs, the place where all kinds of interesting Symbian and Java applications are announced by Nokia’s developers, now has a new website especially optimized for mobile browsers. So when you visit the Nokia Beta Labs via your phone, you should automatically see the mobile website instead of the desktop one. However, if this [...]
Gresso Lady Gold and Ultramarine Gold phones launched
Two months after unveiling the Lady Diamond collection, the Russia-based company Gresso has now launched two new luxury handsets: Gresso Ultramarine Gold and Gresso Lady Gold. The Gresso Ultramarine Gold comes in a blue case, representing “strength and serenity”, while the Lady Gold has a “brilliant red color”, being an “ode to femininity, to elegance and to beauty” [...]
Nokia plans to take back marketshare with cheap consumer smartphones
The smartphone market has not been too kind to Nokia these last few months. Both it’s sales volumes and market share had seen significant declines. Much of that was well deserved, since Nokia had pretty few compelling devices in the category at least until second half of 2008. But things might be turning around for [...]