Samsung S5560 and B3410 coming to UK via Carphone Warehouse
Samsung S5560 and B3410 will apparently debut in the UK this week, exclusively via Carphone Warehouse. Priced at £149.95 on PAYG, the Samsung S5560 is a full touchscreen phone that features a 3 inch WQVGA display, Wi-Fi, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.1, FM radio with RDS, 5MP autofocus camera with flash and video recording, and [...]
Nokia 5132 XpressMusic headed to China Mobile
Nokia is getting ready to launch the Nokia 5132 XpressMusic, an entry-level candybar destined for the Asian market. The 5132 actually looks just like the 5130 XpressMusic, but the logo seen on its homescreen indicates that it’s made for China Mobile (and probably has some of the carrier’s specific software on it). Like the 5130 [...]
Renesas to offer application engine for Cortex A8 CPUs with 1080p video recording
Renesas Technology, the Japanese semiconductor maker (joint venture between Hitachi and Mitsubishi), announced a new ARM Cortex A8 based application engine for mobile devices. Called SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 (SH73720), the new Renesas product is designed for next generation phones, smartphones and netbooks. Its features include full HD 1080p video recording, high-speed 3D graphics rendering, [...]
Nokia’s Maemo plans for 2010 to include only one device
With the huge amount of attention the Nokia N900 got since it was initially announced, you’d think Nokia will want to launch several similar smartphones (i.e. Maemo-based) next year. But it looks like the Finnish giant has no such plans and wants to stick to introducing only one Maemo handset in 2010, just like this [...]
iPhone to hit T-Mobile USA next?
There have been many rumors regarding a possible iPhone release through Verizon, but almost none about a T-Mobile launch (sure, T-Mobile already sells the iPhone, but in Germany, not in the US). Well, now it’s time for T-Mobile’s customers to hope for an iPhone release in the States. AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity is ending next year, [...]
AT&T intros the LG eXpo (Monaco) – the first US phone with a 1GHz processor
AT&T has officially announced the LG eXpo (also known as LG Monaco and LG IQ), presented as the United States’ first phone to feature a 1GHz CPU, as well as the first to have an optional integrated pico projector. The eXpo is actually not a simple phone, but a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 [...]
Samsung Jet Mystic Purple spotted in Hong Kong
Samsung is no stranger to introducing various color versions for its popular phones, so I’m not surprised to find out that the Samsung Jet S8000 has been dressed in purple and called Samsung Jet Mystic Purple. For the moment, the Jet Mystic Purple seems to be available only in Hong Kong, and there’s no word [...]
MiKandi Android adult app store released
Self-proclaimed as the world’s first mobile adult App Store, MiKandi has just been launched for Android, with other devices coming soon (iPhone, maybe?). MiKandi (some sort of misspelling for “my candy”?) comes with both free and paid adult applications, and a feature called KandiJar, which lets users “re-download or upgrade applications they have previously purchased [...]
KT’s Samsung M8400 WiBro WCDMA Wi-Fi phone starts shipping in Korea
Samsung and KT have just announced the availability of Samsung M8400 in South Korea. First seen in mid October, the Samsung M8400 is a 3W phone, meaning that it supports WCDMA, Wi-Fi and WiBro (South Korea’s homegrown WiMax technology). Apart from being a 3W phone, the M8400 also features Windows Mobile, a 3.7 inch WVGA [...]
Motorola Milestone hits the UK on December 7, exclusively through Expansys
Already available in the US as Motorola Droid, Motorola Milestone will be released in the UK on December 7. For the beginning, the Milestone will be sold exclusively via Expansys and, interestingly, you’ll only be able to buy it unlocked (thus unsubsidized), for £449.99 (about €495 or $744). Starting 2010, the world’s first Android 2.0 [...]
Will HTC Hero skip Android 2.0 upgrade and go directly to Android 2.1/Flan?
Remember my WAT (Wild arsed guess), that we won’t see any more Android 2.0 phones this year, if ever? Well, more then a month has passed since the announcement of Motorola Droid, holiday shopping season is in full swing, but we still have not seen a single other handset running Android 2.0. And, even though [...]
Speculations about who might buy Nokia’s handset manufacturing division
Shortly after we told you that Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki doesn’t exclude the possibility of Nokia selling its handset division, now speculations about who might buy it are starting to appear. Chinese newspaper Economic Daily News says that, in case Nokia does indeed want to sell its phone making business, Foxconn Electronics (“the largest manufacturer of [...]
Samsung sells 50 millionth touchscreen phone. 40 million of them this year!
I’m already getting used to that. Every couple of months or so, Samsung is putting out a press release, to crow about one or other of it’s achievements in mobile phone biz. Most of them about something or other, related to their touchscreen phones. They have a real good reason to do so. It seems [...]
“iPhone Effect” starts pushing smartphone prices down in Korea
This weekend the long awaited iPhone has arrived to South Korea, generating much excitement there. Most of the reports focused on better then expected iPhone pre-orders, and eager fans lining up for a long hours of wait to get their hands on the new handset. But, looking at the actual figures – 65K pre-orders – they [...]
Nokia doesn’t exclude the possibility of selling its handset division
In an interview that should appear tomorrow (Monday) in the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Nokia’s head of marketing Anssi Vanjoki talked about the company’s future. While speaking about how Nokia needs to quickly “boost its offering of mobile internet solutions” (which are mainly related to the Ovi brand), Mr. Vanjoki said that, in the long term, [...]
Samsung bada to be launched on December 8
Samsung’s recently announced new mobile OS, called bada, will apparently be launched on December 8. According to Mobile Crunch, Samsung will hold a bada press event in London on this date, when more details about the OS will be unveiled to the world. Even so, the first Samsung bada phones will probably be available starting [...]
Acer to launch more phones with Android, fewer with Windows Mobile (in 2010)
Acer, one of the latest big companies to have entered the smartphone industry, launched about 10 handsets until now, most of them running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS. In fact, only one Acer smartphone doesn’t have Windows Mobile – the Acer Liquid A1, which is based on Google’s Android platform. For 2010, Acer plans to introduce [...]
Some Sony Ericsson Aino phones have touchscreen problems
Launched not long ago in Europe, the US and India, the Sony Ericsson Aino isn’t doing too well in the UK. More exactly, some customers have reported issues with the phone’s touchscreen functionality. According to Reuters, a SE spokesman said that only a small number of Aino units have issues and the company is “working [...]
LG Arena Max (LU9400) coming soon?
LG Arena KM900 is one of this year’s most successful LG touchscreen phones – as of August, it’s sold in more than 1 million units – and it looks like the world’s third largest handset maker is readying a successor of it. A so-called LG Arena Max LU9400 has recently received a Wi-Fi Interoperability Certificate, [...]
Nokia Ovi Contacts for Symbian touch and S60 3rd Ed FP2 has new features
If you’re using Nokia Ovi Contacts, you should know that its versions for Symbian S60 5th Edition and Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 have just been updated. One of the new features of Ovi Contacts for the mentioned platforms is file transfer – which enables users to send and receive larger files than before. Nokia [...]