ZTE S315, A261, R220, R230 and R230BT launched in India
ZTE, the world’s sixth-largest phone maker, has announced no less than 5 entry-level GSM handsets for the Indian market.
Coming at prices ranging from 1,100 INR ($23) to 3,800 INR ($79), the new phones are: ZTE S315, ZTE A261, ZTE R220, ZTE R230 and ZTE R230BT.
By the end of 2009, ZTE plans to offer the phones [...]
INQ to release Android phones starting next year
INQ Mobile, the handset maker owned by Hutchison Whampoa, announced that it will offer phones based on Google’s Android platform.
The announcement was made the same day when Motorola unveiled MotoBlur and the Motorola Cliq / Dext (the company’s first Android device).
INQ didn’t give too many details about its Android plans, but said that its first [...]
Vodafone intros 533 Catwalk Collection, 541 Touch and more
Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile carriers, has announced no less than eight new phones that will be soon available under its own brand – at about the same time with the LG GM750 Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone.
The new Vodafone handsets range from stylish and expensive devices to basic, affordable ones (some of them [...]
Mivvy one comes with Windows Mobile for $380
Mivvy, the Czech company that launched three dual SIM phones earlier this year, has unveiled its first smartphone, called Mivvy one.
Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the Mivvy one is a full-touch handset with mid-end features.
It seems that Mivvy has customized the phone with its own User Interface, which is obviously a good thing, since [...]
Verizon launches entry-level Escapade world phone
Fist seen about two months ago, Verizon’s Escapade world phone is now official – although it looks like it’s not made by Pantech, as initially thought, but by PCD (Personal Communications Devices).
Presented by Verizon as a “must-have phone for globetrotters and jet-setters”, the Escapade is a rather simple clamshell that comes with dual band CDMA [...]
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 GSM and [...]
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 Mobile [...]
Huawei C7300 and T550+ touchscreen phones for China
Huawei is readying two new touchscreen phones for the Chinese market: C7300 and T550+.
The first one, Huawei C7300, is a CDMA2000 phone, and thus it will probably be launched by China Telecom.
The features of C7300 are rather modest, including: 2.5 inch QVGA touchscreen display with 65k colors, GPS, handwriting recognition, 2MP camera, MP3 player and [...]
Verizon’s Casio Brigade C741 approved by the FCC
A few weeks ago, we’ve heard that Verizon is readying two new Casio phones, namely the Casio Rock C731 and Casio Brigade C741.
Details about the Rock C731 are currently missing, but the Brigade has just been approved by the FCC, under the name of Casio Hitachi C741.
We don’t know much about the specs of C741, [...]
INQ Chat 3G and Mini 3G – Twitter phones with iTunes syncing
Remember INQ’s plan to release a Twitter phone before Christmas?
Well, the company has just announced not one, but two such phones: INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G, which come as “affordable 3G social mobiles with Twitter and iTunes media sync”.
The handsets use a software developed by doubleTwist and capable of syncing music from both [...]