Motorola Crush touchscreen phone announced for US Cellular
Motorola has just unveiled a brand new touchscreen phone called Motorola Crush.
The Crush is an EV-DO Rev. 0 device with an interesting design, having the power and lock keys above its 2.8 inch, 240 x 400 pixels touchscreen display, and no keys at all below it.
The phone further features a virtual QWERTY keyboard, a tap-to-silence [...]
Will Maemo bring Nokia N-Series Mojo back? It’s all about software and services now
When Nokia first introduced the N-Series, they were all about pushing the limits of what a mobile phone should be. But it was mainly, on the hardware side, with software running the devices, taking a back seat.
A digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics (N90), music player with built-in hard drive (N91), mobile television [...]
Nokia N97 Mini to be launched in India on November 16
It looks like the Nokia N97 Mini will be launched in India on November 16 (and yes, that’s tomorrow), during an event called Nokia N-Tourage.
Coming as N97’s little brother, the Nokia N97 Mini features a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 360 x 640 pixels and 16 million colors, full QWERTY keyboard, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, [...]
Samsung Corby WEP490 Bluetooth headset announced
Samsung currently has three Corby phones (well, four, if you count the B3310 Corby Mate too), and it will soon introduce a Corby Bluetooth headset as well.
Named Samsung WEP490 Corby, the headset comes in various color versions, to match the colorful Corby phones.
The WEP490 Corby features a status LED indicator, echo cancellation, noise reduction and [...]
Inventor Turns Cell Phone into Microscope
Over the last decade our mobile phones have evolved greatly from just being a simple phone that allows you to make calls anywhere outside your home, to being a miniature computer. We now wonder exactly where mobile phones will evolve over the next decade, and this story posted in the NY Times may give us [...]
Samsung to increase phone sales by 20% in 2010 (to 270 million units)
Samsung had an excellent year until now (when it comes to selling phones, anyway), and it looks like 2010 will be even greater.
China Times had a chat with DonJoo Lee, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Division and Digital Media & Communications Business, who says that the company expects to sell 260 to 270 [...]
RIM announces BlackBerry OpenGL ES support, new deal with Adobe and more
Research in Motion has just announced a bunch of new things for the BlackBerry platform – starting with OpenGL ES support, which will allow BlackBerry developers to create cool 3D graphics and games.
Next we have a new RIM-Adobe collaboration that should allow app developers and creative professionals to use Adobe Creative Suite content and the [...]
T-Mobile Loses Customers in Q3
As T-Mobile released its quarterly earnings and numbers today, it became much more apparent that there is a divide ever-expanding between the top 2 US carriers and the next 2. As AT&T and Verizon continue to grow its subscriber base from year to year, Sprint and T-Mobile are both losing customers.
For Q3, T-Mobile lost 77,000 [...]
Only 2% of All Mobile Phones are Recycled, Says Report
This is going to be a bit of a shocker to (we hope) everyone: a new report by ABI Research determined that only 2% of all mobile phones that are no longer being used. This means the vast majority of cell phones are probably either just thrown away or lying around in someone’s basement.
Another surprise [...]
WAT: Why there ain’t more phones with Android 2.0. And there won’t be soon, if ever
This is another post in my “Wild arsed theories” (WAT) category. It’s a pure speculation, based on the stuff I see happening in mobile industry. And some of these posts will certainly be completely off base. So if you have some corrections, objections, or knowledge that I am wrong, do not hesitate to share [...]