Archive for the 'Mobile Phone' Category

Nokia Serves North American X6 up for Pre-order: $455 Unlocked

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Nokia’s downright seductive X6 just started shipping to those across the pond, and shortly after the company announced a Comes Without Music edition, along comes this: a NAM version for those who call North America home, sweet home. The pre-order page (which is live this very moment, by the way) makes no mention of a [...]

Best Buy Kicks off Motorola Devour pre-sale, No Rebate Required

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

You’ll still have to wait until February 25th to actually get your hands on one, but those not wanting to take any chances on missing out on the Motorola Devour can now head down to their local Best Buy or Best Buy Mobile store and reserve one starting today. The only catch is that you’ll [...]

RIM Demos New WebKit-based BlackBerry Browser At MWC — it’s Fast!

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

We weren’t expecting much out of RIM’s presser here at MWC this morning, but the company managed to bust out one surprise — a demo of the company’s new WebKit-based BlackBerry browser. We’re assuming this is what came out of that Torch Mobile acquisition, and the early build shown off on-screen looks pretty solid, rendering [...]

Puma Joins Forces With Sagem To Birth The Puma Phone

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Looks like the rumors we heard were true: august cordwainer Puma has teamed up with Sagem to make a phone — and it’s quite a looker, too. The Puma Phone (as it’s called) is a lightweight little guy that boasts an integrated solar cell for charging and charge indicator to let you know how you’re [...]

Acer’s E110 Android / P300 WinMo Phones Unearthed By Bluetooth SIG

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Ah, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, our second-favorite source for mobile leaks (next to the FCC, of course). Here’s two new entries care of Acer, both touchscreen devices with quadband GSM. The Android-powered E110 (pictured, right), however, also touts the AT&T-friendly 850 / 1900 frequencies and A-GPS. As for the P300, it’s got an unknown version [...]

myTouch 3G With 3.5mm Headphone Jack Hits T-Mobile’s Store, Now With Less Fender

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

No offense meant to Eric Clapton, but not everybody wants a faux wood phone. And yet, it seems like there are many folks in this subset scattered across this fruited plain who’d like a real 3.5mm headphone jack on their phone, and for those crazy people there’s at last the T-Mobile myTouch 3G to suit [...]

Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing Now Available, Makes The World Your Course

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Since it looks like GT5’s still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we’ve seen to do that. At a glance, Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead [...]

China Mobile’s OPhone Platform Goes 2.0, Supports WinMo API… Wait, What?

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Remember the OPhone platform, Open Mobile System? You know, China Mobile’s supposedly beefed up Android? Things have become even more interesting as OMS jumps from 1.5 to 2.0 — it now supports Scalable Vector Graphics UI elements and does voice recognition, but what really caught our attention was the vague mention of Windows Mobile API [...]

TI’s OMAP4 Prototype Drives Three independent Displays Without Breaking A Sweat

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

It’s been a long, long while since we’ve seen any life from the OMAP4 labs at Texas Instruments, but with the sudden resurgence of the tablet, now seems just about right for the company to start showcasing the platform’s prowess once more. TI is expected to have a mind-bending showcase at Mobile World Congress later [...]

Windows Mobile 7 Roadmap Elucidated, Starts With MWC 2010 Demo

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

You know, January is all but expired now. Gone are the heady (or is that headless?) days of CES 2010, and we’re nearly past the rumor euphoria of the decade, so what do we have to look forward to? According to CNET’s sources, WinMo 7. This year. Sure, we heard as much from DigiTimes, but [...]