Samsung intros new Bluetooth headsets: WEP870, WEP850 and WEP470
Samsung has announced the availability of three new Bluetooth headsets: the WEP870, WEP850 and WEP470. Available for $89.99, Samsung WEP870 includes a noise-canceling mono headset, as well as a pair of premium stereo ear buds for listening to music. The WEP870 can be paired with two Bluetooth devices at the same time. It features active [...]
Palm Eos (Pixie) not coming this year?
Wondering when Palm will release its second webOS smartphone? Well, it may not happen this year – assuming that the second webOS device is the Palm Eos, aka Palm Pixie. When we first heard about it, the Eos was rumored to come via AT&T sometime in the second half of 2009. According to All Things [...]
Android-based Philips V900 presented by China Mobile
Although it’s not a Xenium phone, the Philips V900 is an interesting device, first of all because it’s the first Philips to be based on Android – more exactly, on China Mobile’s OMS (Open Mobile System). The V900 was recently unveiled by the largest Chinese mobile carrier, and it should be available for purchase pretty [...]
Window Phone concept mixes transparency with weather forecasting
Unhappy with the weather bureau in his town, designer Seunghan Song decided to make a phone concept that can provide users with “accurate” weather predictions on a daily basis. In real life, this would work if the phone – called the Window Phone – would have wireless access to the Web and gather information from [...]
Qualcomm takes equity in South Korea’s Pantech
Pantech, South Korea’s third largest phone maker, announced that Qualcomm would become a minority shareholder in both Pantech Co. Ltd. and Pantech & Curitel Communications Inc., as a result of the Korean company’s plan to convert its “outstanding debt” into equity for its creditors. Qualcomm will become a passive investor, holding no more than 15% [...]
Samsung S3100 now official – another entry-level slider
Remember the Samsung S3100, appeared in a tiny picture back in July? The phone is now official, and thus we can take a better looks at it, as well as at its specs. As previously reported, the S3100 is just a basic phone, targeted at those who don’t want to spend too much on a [...]
Samsung’s mobile market share to top 20% by the end of 2009
Last time we heard about it, Samsung’s global mobile market share was 19.2% (in the second quarter of 2009). By the end of the year, the company’s mobile market share is expected to top 20%, for the first time in its history. According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung will sell 117.8 million phones in the second [...]
Modu 2 phone to feature touchscreen and HSDPA
While Modu’s first mobile phone is still launched only in Israel – the company’s home country – the phone maker already has plans for a second handset. This will be called Modu 2 and will apparently be high-end. There’s no word on what the new phone will look like, but, according to Pocket-lint, the handset [...]
Samsung Omnia EUR 286 in Russia. May get cheaper still elswhere
Original Samsung Omnia was quite a big hit for the Korean company in some countries. But now with Omnia II, Omnia Pro and other new phones on the way to the shops , it is becoming a bit dated and will probably be dropped from the inventories around the world. But it still is quite [...]
Huawei U7510 – another new touchscreen phone
Shortly after we saw the Android-based 8220 (T-Mobile Pulse) and the China-bound C7300 and T550+, now another touchscreen phone made by Huawei has showed up. Called Huawei U7510, the new phone looks like it’s made by HTC for its mid to low-end Touch series. Anyway, the U7510 uses Qualcomm BREW 3.1 and comes with both [...]
No 1GHz CPU for the Samsung Omnia HD after all
Last week, when Samsung launched the Omnia HD i8910 in India, the smartphone’s specs sheet showed that a 1GHz processor is included in the device. Well, it turns out that this is not true. Apparently, the folks over at Samsung India thought that it would be a good marketing idea to add the 420MHz speed [...]
Ericsson telecom insiders take over Sony Ericsson to save it from collapse
Shareholders have finally got fed up with the mess that is Sony Ericsson right now, and decided to do something about it. The current management team at SE, lead by Hideki (Dick) Komiyama, consumer electronics sales veteran from Sony, totally screwed up in mobile market. They haven’t been able to come up with a single hit product [...]
Samsung opens TouchWiz to third parties by launching Mobile Widget SDK
Samsung has just announced the availability of Samsung Mobile Widget SDK, thus opening its TouchWiz User Interface to third parties – we already said that this would happen, back in April. Obviously, the Samsung Mobile Widget SDK will offer software developers the ability to create widgets for the TouchWiz UI. Since TouchWiz runs on Windows [...]
HTC Mega and Click coming in a few months for about $300 each
HTC Mega and HTC Click, two smartphones that we’ve seen before (despite being unannounced), should become available in early Q4 2009 the latest – hence sometime in October. Being part of HTC’s upcoming mid-range line-up, both devices will have attractive prices: according to DigiTimes, you’ll have to pay about $300 for either of the handsets. [...]
Dell Mini 3i smartphone finally launches in China
After lots and lots of rumors, Dell’s first smartphone is now finally official, as it was just unveiled during a China Mobile press event, under the name of Dell Mini 3i (also spelled MINI3I). Contrary to previous beliefs, the Dell Mini 3i does not literally run on Android, but on China Mobile’s proprietary OMS (Open [...]
New Nokia phones spotted along N97 Mini and possibly the 5900 XM
Leaked photos of unannounced phones always make the delight of mobile enthusiasts, so we’re sure that this new image with many Nokia phones will be of interest to you (or at least to those who like Finnish phones). Said image shows no less than 10 Nokia handsets, although it looks like only 5 of them [...]
Verizon completes first LTE data calls over its 700 MHz spectrum
Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile carrier, has just announced that it has successfully completed LTE (4G) data calls in Boston and Seattle – which currently have 10 functional LTE cell sites each. Based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard, the data calls were made over Verizon’s 700 MHz spectrum, and involved file downloads/uploads, streaming [...]
China Unicom denies having bought 5 million iPhones from Apple
Although China Unicom is definitely in talks with Apple for selling the iPhone across China, it looks like the carrier actually didn’t buy 5 million iPhones, as reported yesterday by Chinese sources. According to Cellular-News, China Unicom’s spokesman Yi Difei declared about the 5 million order rumors that they are “not true”. However, the spokesman [...]
Samsung E2120 / E2120C – new, simple candybar
Samsung knows that you can’t be the world’s second largest handset vendor without releasing many entry-level phones – and that’s why devices like the new E2120 exist. Although it’s not officially announced, the Samsung E2120 has appeared at Samsung Germany’s website, which means that it will probably be available soon – in Europe, at least. [...]
Samsung i7500 Galaxy hits the UK next week via O2
Samsung’s first Android smartphone, the i7500 Galaxy, is ready to hit the UK as soon as next week. The handset (already available in other European countries – like France) will be exclusively sold across the UK by O2. According to RegHardware, O2 planned to offer the i7500 earlier, but the smartphone’s release was pushed back [...]