KT hopes to sell up to 500,000 iPhones in Korea
KT, South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier and the only one to distribute the iPhone on the local market (for the moment, at least), expects to sell 100,000 to 500,000 units of Apple’s famous smartphone.
The iPhone will be available via KT starting November 28.
KT didn’t announce the price for which it will sell the iPhone, [...]
New Samsung Diva phones: S7070 and S5150 Olivia
Samsung has recently showcased two unannounced phones that are part of a new design line called “Diva” and obviously targeted at female customers.
Samsung S7070 is a full touchscreen phone with a 3 inch WQVGA resistive display, TouchWiz UI, 5MP autofocus camera, Bluetooth, microUSB, FM radio and MicroSD card support.
The S7070 should be launched sometime in [...]
Motorola Motus shows up, specs included
First seen in a leaked Motorola roadmap which included the Sholes Tablet and the Zeppelin, Motorola Motus has now appeared in a leaked photo, together with most of its specs.
Like the already-available Motorola Cliq, Motorola Motus should come with Android 1.5 and the Motoblur interface.
The Motus has quad-band GSM connectivity and – weird enough – [...]
BlackBerry Pearl 9100 in leaked photos, video
RIM is getting ready to launch a successor for the popular BlackBerry Pearl 8100 / 8110 / 8120: meet the BlackBerry Pearl 9100, codenamed BlackBerry Stratus or BlackBerry Striker.
Like most of RIM’s new smartphones, the Pearl 9100 comes with an optical trackpad instead of a trackball. It has an overall glossy look, and a SureType [...]
AT&T launches the Pantech Impact for $99.99 on contract
First announced by AT&T at the beginning of October, the Pantech Impact will be available starting this Sunday (22 November).
The Impact is a weird messaging phone, featuring a “high-gloss faceplate” with haptic-enabled keys, and a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset also has two displays: a small external one and a larger internal one.
Other features include [...]
Google News updated for Android, iPhone, WebOS
The Google mobile team has announced a new version of Google News for Android, iPhone and WebOS (Palm Pre).
Available in 29 languages, the updated Google News for mobile features “the same richness and personalization” that Google News offers on your desktop PC. There are now more stories and images displayed on the homepage, and users [...]
TomTom for iPhone 1.2 offers text-to-speech and other new features
Perhaps in response to Google’s new and free Maps Navigation for Android 2.0, TomTom has just launched a new version of its iPhone application, TomTom for iPhone 1.2, which brings a set of new features.
These new features include text-to-speech, Advanced Lane Guidance (for “extra clarity when navigating difficult junctions”), updated Tele Atlas maps for the [...]
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 [...]
Verizon announces the rugged Casio G’zOne Rock
Verizon’s newest Casio phone is not the Brigade, as expected, but the Casio G’zOne Rock, a clamshell announced today by the largest US mobile carrier.
The Casio G’zOne is a rugged handset that features Triple Sensor technology and advanced G’zGear software which can operate in six modes: Earth Compass, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset, Tides, Walking Counter [...]
LiMo forms Korean Association, will launch the Samsung SCH-M510 via SKT
LiMo Foundation announced the establishment of the Korean LiMo Ecosystem Association, together with major Korean mobile companies including Samsung, LG and SK Telecom.
The role of the Korean LiMo Ecosystem Association, which is supported by the Korean Government, is to “fully catalyze and empower innovation upon the LiMo Platform within the Korean mobile industry.”
As part of [...]