Spice Mobile QT-95 is India’s first QWERTY 3G Dual-SIM phone
Spice Mobile has unveiled the QT-95 mobile phone today. As with all of Spice’s models, this is an affordable handset destined for the Indian market. What sets it apart from both its Spice brethren and any of its competitors is that it’s the first 3G dual-SIM phone to have a QWERTY keyboard and be sold [...]
Panasonic Android phones to be available starting early 2011
It’s not the first time we’re hearing about Panasonic pondering the launch of Android phones, but now we’ve got some clearer dates for when this will happen. Reuters has it that the first Android handsets made by Panasonic will be released in Japan, sometime early next year. Starting 2012, the company will also introduce Android [...]
Affordable Cricket TXTM8 3G messaging phone launched in the US
Cricket TXTM8 3G A410, a phone first seen in a leaked Cricket roadmap back in March, is now available for purchase via the regional US carrier. The TXTM8 3G is Cricket’s first device “with high-speed EVDO capabilities” priced at under $100 – not well under $100, of course, since it costs $99.99. The new phone [...]
Cheap T-Mobile Vibe E200 QWERTY phone available in the UK
T-Mobile has launched a new QWERTY phone in the UK: the T-Mobile Vibe E200. Manufactured by ZTE (which makes handsets for lots of companies these days), the Vibe is offered only on Pay As You Go and is really cheap: £39.99 (about €47 or $65). The new phone features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, [...]
JCB Tradesman is the world’s first “floating phone”
JCB, a UK-based maker of rugged phones, has announced four new handsets: JCB Tradesman, JCB Toughphone Sitemaster, JCB Toughphone Pro, and JCB Toughphone Pro-Talk. The most interesting of them is the JCB Tradesman, which has received the “world’s first floating phone” title from the Guinness Book of Records. The Tradesman is IP67 certified (waterproof and [...]
India: Tata Indicom launches Fly Mobile CG 588, a dual-network (CDMA+GSM) capable QWERTY phone
Tata Indicom, Tata’s CDMA-based carrier, announced a new phone it’s adding to its lineup, and it’s interesting from a few points of view. Meet the Fly Mobile CG 588. This isn’t a dual SIM phone, since Tata Indicom’s network is CDMA. Instead, it’s a dual-network type phone, able to operate both on Tata Indicom’s CDMA [...]
Spice Mobile launches cheap dual SIM phone with 3D display in India, no glasses needed
Sharp may be working on a phone with a 3D display that won’t require special glasses to view, but it looks like someone else beat them to the punch. India’s Spice Mobile has just launched the M-67 3D, which is a phone that has an auto-stereoscopic 3D display. What that means is that, you guessed [...]
Brew-based modu T announced, modu W with Android coming soon
“The Lightest 3.5G Touch Phone in the World” – this is what modu is officially calling its first touchscreen phone, the just-announced modu T. Reportedly recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s lightest touch phone, the modu T is a Brew-based handset with a 2.2 inch screen and other features like: GPS, social [...]
Rugged, IP-68 rated Sonim XP1300 Core officially announced, costs $399
Remember how we told you that the Sonim XP1300 Core would be announced in early October? Well, the new rugged phone has been officially unveiled yesterday as “the world’s first IP-68 rated GSM handset that’s fully submersible in 2 meters of water.” The handset comes in a “dual injected shell” that includes hardened rubber and [...]
Sprint intros Android-based Samsung Transform, LG Optimus S and Sanyo Zio
Since AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all announced new phones at CTIA, it’s no surprise that Sprint has also unveiled new handsets there. The new handsets (Samsung Transform, LG Optimus S and Kyocera Sanyo Zio) are Android-based and come with Sprint ID, which “allows users to quickly download ID packs that deliver a predefined experience, [...]
Huawei Ascend low-cost Android phone announced by Cricket
Regional US carrier Cricket has just announced its second Android phone, the Huawei Ascend. Like the Kyocera Zio (released by Cricket in August), the Ascend is a low-cost Android handset. Available starting mid-October, the handset will cost only $149.99 free of contract. The new Huawei phone runs Android 2.1 and features a 3.5 inch HVGA [...]
AT&T LG Neon II GW370 and Sprint Sanyo Vero available now
Yesterday, AT&T and Sprint have both launched new phones in the US. AT&T’s new handset is the LG Neon II (GW370), which obviously comes to replace the old Neon GT365. The Neon II features a 2.4 inch QVGA touchscreen display, 4-row QWERTY keyboard, social networking integration, 3G, voice-guided GPS, web browser, 2MP camera, and MicroSD [...]
Verizon announces the Casio G’zOne Ravine rugged clamshell
Following in the footsteps of the Casio G’zOne Rock and the Casio G’zOne Brigade is the Casio G’zOne Ravine rugged handset that Verizon has just announced. As the third member of the Casio G’zOne range, the Ravine brings a new form-factor to the rugged phone world: the clamshell. This phone is, as expected, dust-, water- [...]
Microsoft Kin lives on… as a Chinese clone named after a Nokia phone
Kin was a Microsoft project that seemed to have had “mega-fail” written all over it ever since it’s been announced. The Sharp-manufactured Kin One and Kin Two phones were overpriced, offered by Verizon in the US on expensive data plans, and reviewers were quick to point out the lack of required features (for a “social [...]
Sonim XP1300 Core rugged phone (IP68 certified) to be announced next month
We haven’t heard much about Sonim lately, but that doesn’t mean the Californian company is wasting time doing nothing. According to PortableGear, Sonim has a new rugged phone that’s called Sonim XP1300 Core and should be announced at the beginning of October. The XP1300 Core is IP68 certified (the previous model, Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro, [...]
TerreStar Genus satellite phone now available for $799 from AT&T
AT&T have just added a dual-mode cellular+satellite phone to their portfolio. It’s the TerreStar Genus, first announced a full year ago, and rather surprisingly, it looks nothing like the average satellite phone. Plus, this isn’t a satellite-only phone. It will work just fine as any other cellular device on AT&T. However, when AT&T’s coverage fails [...]
Kyocera Sanyo Innuendo QWERTY phone launched by Sprint
Sprint has added a new messaging phone to its line-up of devices: the Kyocera Sanyo Innuendo. Like the Sanyo Incognito (currently available at Sprint for free on contract), the Innuendo has two displays – a small, OLED external one, and a 2.8 inch WQVGA internal one. The phone also comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, [...]
Huawei to launch its first Android 2.2 Froyo phone, the Ideos U8150, at IFA
Huawei is getting ready to officially introduce its firs Froyo handset at IFA in Berlin. The launch event for the handset – called Huawei Ideos U8150 – will actually take place on September 2, one day ahead of the international consumer electronics show’s debut. The Ideos U8150 (pictured below) is not a high-end device, but [...]
Samsung Libre C3300 (Champ) and Orange Amsterdam launched in the UK: £49 on PAYG
Orange UK has launched two new and really affordable touchscreen phones for its Pay As You Go customers: the Samsung Libre C3300 and the Orange Amsterdam. Also known as Samsung Champ, the Libre C3300 is a tiny touch-only handset. It features a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, TouchWiz Lite UI, accelerometer, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, 1.3MP [...]
Cricket MSGM8 II launched, Kyocera Rio E3100 coming soon
US-based mobile carrier Cricket has launched a new messaging phone dubbed Cricket MSGM8 II. The MSGM8 II is a candybar with a full QWERTY keypad and a 220 x 176 pixels landscape display. It also features “one touch Web access via MyHomeScreen”, voice recognition, Bluetooth, microUSB, and a 1.3MP camera. You can buy the Cricket [...]