Mobile Phones
16GB Apple iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch Now Official
It’s been rumored for a while that Apple was preparing a 16GB iPhone and now the rumors got true. It was expected since the 16GB iPod announced back in September, but unfortunately the iPhone still doesn’t feature 3G.
The 16GB iPhone is available immediately both for US and International markets, so in the next few days [...]
Skyfire To Release Browser For Windows Mobile
It seems that finally we can enjoy our phone’s internet option to its best, PC-like. Skyfire launched its browser named, you guessed: Skyfire, which it’s supported by Windows Mobile 5 or 6, touchscreen or not. Before Skyfire you needed proxy sites ot other third-party apps to watch on Youtube and other video applications so if [...]
29Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
New 6 Or 8 Megapixel Nokia Slider
Nokia could be working on a new N-Series slider. Some pictures show not only the schematics of the phone, but also what seems to be an accurate drawing of it. If you look very careful under the lens it looks like it has a writing of 6 or 8-megapixel. We should wait to see if [...]
3Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
DVB-H New European Mobile TV Standard
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) will be the new standard for mobile TV in the European Union. Nokia helped with the technology. This move has been made in order to increas the system’s audience, although some EU states, like Britain and Germany, opposed. An EU executive said that “DVB-H will be published by the [...]
30Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
EU Will Open GSM Radio Spectrum
The European Union proposed to “open radio frequencies allocated exclusively for GSM mobile phones services to other technologies, such as 3G mobile data.” GSM Association says that if the European Parliament approves, a 3G network in the 900MHz band will be able to provide a 40% grater coverage, with the same capital, than 3G network [...]
30Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Unlocked iPhone To Be Sold By Orange
The iPhone will go on sale today at 18:30 in Orange stores across France, as France Telecom announced. The iPhone costs €399 and a monthly fee between €49 and €119. The phone could be unlocked for free after 6 months or you could pay €100 to unlock it earlier, but you will still have [...]
28Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
LG VX8800 Venus Released, LG VX10000 Voyager Announced
The LG VX10000 Voyager with QWERTY keyboard and LG VX8800 Venus slider have been announced. The Venus has a dual-display: the main 2-inch display and the second 1.49-inch VibeTouch touchscreen used for navigation. The VX8800 has been made available this morning for $200. The Voyager features an 2.8-inch VibeTouch external touchscreen and 2.8-inch internal display. [...]
19Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
E-Ten unveils Glofiish M800
A new Glofiish announced by E-Ten : the M800. This pocket pc features a QWERTY keyboard, a 480 x 640 2.8 inch touchscreen, a 500MHz Samsung S3C2442 CPU, quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE, tri-band UMTS / HSDPA data, 2MP camera, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, WiFi b/g and SiRF Star III GPS. The M800 uses Windows Mobile [...]
16Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Nokia N82 available as of today
A new addition for the Nokia Nseries it’s the N82 candybar. The phone has a lot in common with the recently announced Nokia N81, but the N82 has something specific: a 5MP Carl Zeiss lens that has a naturally autofocus and a xenon flash. The N82 sports a 2.4 inch QVGA display, microSD expansion, WiFi, [...]
Nokia announced 8800 Arte and Sapphire Arte
Nokia is preparing to release two new mobile phones: the 8800 Arte and Sapphire Arte.The first one will be released in the fourth quarter of 2007 and it will cost €1,000 without taxes and the second will be released in the first quarter of 2008 and it will be priced at €1,150 without taxes. [...]
13Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Apple limits iPhone to two per individual
Maybe you’ve heard that almost 250,000 of the total 1.4 million iPhones sold in Q4 were unlocked and this pissed off Apple, that decided not to sell more than two iPhones per individual. Also, they will only accept payments by credit or debit cards, to keep away the unauthorized resellers.
Apple seems to be really serious [...]
AT&T and Apple kick asses
It seems Apple and AT&T have been successful in selling the iPhone and letting other companies, like Palm, Motorola or T-Mobile without a part of the customers. There are a lot of customers that before iPhone, they were using Motorola Q, Palm Treo or T-Mobile Sidekick, so those companies were kicked quite hard by Apple [...]
16Oct2007 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
Samsung announced F210, F330 and i450 musicphones
Samsung has announced three musicphones, the swivel stick F210, dual sliding i450 and the slim F330. The nicest one is the S60 3rd Edition Symbian smartphone i450, with Touch Wheel music navigation, a 2.4 inch LCD display and 3.6Mbps HSDPA. Also, it sports a B&O IcePower amplifier with Samsung music UI, for high quality music [...]
10Oct2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Apple Delays France iPhone Launch
There are different rumors around the Internet that Apple is currently delaying the release of their popular iPhone in France. It seems that there are 2 different laws in this country that do not head up with Apple’s wish to capture as much money as possible. One law passed in 1998 requires a mobile phone [...]
8Oct2007 | Martin J. | 2 comments | Continued
Executives Not Using Their Own Mobile Services
Many studies have been done in the past pointing out that some top personalities that work for different mobile phone carriers or companies linked with cell phones do not really use the products they are selling. A recent study even pointed out the fact that more than half of the individuals surveyed are in the [...]
6Oct2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued