Archive for the 'Mobile Phone' Category

Europe is Epecting Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus By the end of This Month

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Inquisite juices are to be flowing again. Pre Central have unearthed the above O2 Germany promotional poster displaying a Palm Pixi stood in front of such smartphone luminaries as Sony Ericsson’s X10 and Motorola’s Milestone. Knowing the fact that the Pixi has yet to make its entry in the Atlantic, their supposition is that we’re [...]

Search The Web Search Wikipedia Through iPhone OS 4.0

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Apple has done a hilarious job bringing its iPhone OS up to feature parity while comparing it with the other modern smartphone platforms, and here is one big thing not discussed today that we have been long wanting: web and Wikipedia search directly from Spotlight. WebOS and Windows Phone 7 have had it since inception, [...]

4 Keynote Video Now Online iPhone OS

Friday, April 9th, 2010

We believe you have guttled each and every detail of the liveblog ( rather just a casual refreshment through the day, we have no right to comment over it!) but if you want to see the Steve Jobs-delivered iPhone OS 4 keynote with your own two eyes, the streaming video is now online. Multitask your [...]

BlackBerry 9650 Spotted in The Wild Again, ‘Bold’ Branding Confirmed

Friday, April 9th, 2010

The Tour branding never made a lot of sense — RIM’s most recently-released high-end portrait QWERTY device for CDMA networks occupies the same market position as the Bold over on GSM networks, so the name difference is kind of arbitrary and more than just a little bit confusing. It’s all good, though, because CrackBerry has [...]

Nokia’s Ovi Maps Headed To Windows Mobile and Android? (update: no way)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Put your skeptic hats on kids ’cause we’ve got a juicy one for you. When Greig Williams, Nokia’s General Manager for South East Europe, was asked by the German language Die Presse whether Ovi Maps would be coming to Android and Windows Mobile he responded very simply, “That will be the next step.” Well then, [...]

Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 Upgrades Will Be Possible, Up To OEMs to Make Them Happen

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Alright, keep your socks on here, this is as noncommittal a statement as Redmond can make on the matter, but when asked directly about the likelihood and possibility of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones being transitioned to the new hotness that is Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft’s Alex Reeve had this to say:
It’s early days yet, [...]

Vertu taste on a Nokia Budget: meet the N97 Mini Gold Edition

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Phone manufacturers usually leave the gilding to jewelers and other specialty shops that are more willing to show complete disregard for taste and common sense than themselves, but once in a while, pure, unadulterated emotion gets the better of someone in a position to make product decisions — yes, even at Nokia — and something [...]

Flash 10.1 might just not be a Battery Hog on Android

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Looking to fight an apparent outbreak of FUD, Adobe’s Flash evangelist Mark Doherty has posted some hard numbers (and accompanying video) on the effect Flash 10.1 has on the Nexus One — and put simply, it really doesn’t appear to have much effect at all. To back up his cause, Doherty plays a 17-minute embedded [...]

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCLV: ME600 rips Motorola Backflip down to its Shivering Blur Skin

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

There are many of us simple humans who “just don’t get” the Motorola Backflip. Their poor minds can’t fathom this oddest of twists on the QWERTY flip, and now here comes the “MOTOROIA” ME600 from Shenzhen to wrap their brain into ever more elaborate pretzel knots. The phone is a pretty faithful reproduction, but it’s [...]

Modern Smartphone Radio Design Partly to Blame for AT&T, O2 Network Woes?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Even though AT&T’s already committed both carrier and backhaul upgrades in an effort to buck the butt-of-the-joke trend it’s been experiencing for the last couple years, there’s some evidence that it’s a recent trend in the way phone radios operate — not a lack of overall capacity — that should shoulder at least some of [...]