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Motorola washing hands of budget cellphone production?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 28th 2009 No Comments

Motorola are seemingly clearing their plate to focus on their upcoming mid- to high-end handsets, with the news from China being that the company have outsourced production of all of their entry-level models. According to the United Daily News, any handset costing under $150 moving forward will be built by a third-party, potentially over 40 million devices per year.

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Microsoft Pink Turtle and Pure phones leak

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 24th 2009 No Comments

Crystal ball, secret tunnel or loose-lipped mole; we don’t know how Gizmodo are doing it, but hot on the heels of the Microsoft Courier dual-touchscreen tablet leak comes shots of Microsoft’s two upcoming Pink cellphones. The Microsoft Turtle (the squarish model) and Microsoft Pure (the more traditional handset) are both manufactured by Sharp and will be co-branded, and like the Sidekick – which Sharp also manufactured for Danger – will be targeted at a messaging-friendly youth market.

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LG BL20 Chocolate gets official, specs outed

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

lg bl20 LG’s BL20 has gone from being a poorly kept secret to an acknowledged member of the Chocolate family, with the fashion phone appearing on LG’s developer site. A slender 12.3mm thick handset with a 2.4-inch QVGA 262k color display, slide-out numeric keypad and touch-sensitive controls, the BL20 has triband GSM and dualband 900/2100 HSDPA.

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AT&T 3G MicroCell pricing explained: not just $20 unlimited calls

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 22nd 2009 No Comments

AT&T have come in for some criticism over the past couple of days for their femtocell pricing, having kicked off a trial of the new AT&T 3G MicroCell in Charlotte, North Carolina. The carrier has now confirmed, however, that the much-critiqued $19.99 monthly fee being trialled is not the only way test subjects can use the 3G MicroCell; they can also use it without any extra monthly fees whatsoever.

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Samsung slim capacitive touch control with new integrated chip

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 22nd 2009 No Comments

The slimming of our electronics continues, with Samsung the latest to promise smaller gadgets thanks to their new mobile display driver IC. The new chips bundle both display and capacitive touch-panel control into one, using Samsung's Touch Embedded DDI technology.

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Sony Ericsson Motion Activated MH907 headphones: your ears’ remote control [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 21st 2009 No Comments

Sony Ericsson promised to revolutionise personal audio, and while that’s so loaded with PR hyperbole we’d normally just throw any subsequent press release straight out of the window, it turns out their Motion Activated MH907 headphones are pretty nifty. The stereo headset is the first to use SensMe, where capacitive sensors in each earbud can track whether they’re in your ears or not, and remotely control your cellphone accordingly.

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Verizon LG Chocolate Touch spotted in wild: no BL40 goodness here

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 21st 2009 No Comments

Images of Verizon’s upcoming LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 have leaked, and it seems that the BL40’s distinctive stylings were indeed too unusual for the CDMA carrier’s tastes. According to phoneArena, Verizon had two prototypes of their Chocolate Touch – one resembling the BL40, the other a more restrained design – and following focus groups decided to go with the somewhat mundane style you see here.

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Peek Apps launches: Twitter, Facebook & more

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 18th 2009 No Comments

Having thrown open the doors – or at least left them more than a little ajar – Peek have announced the latest string to their messaging-device’s bow: Peek Apps. Launching on the one-year anniversary of the email-centric handheld, Peek Apps isn’t an on-device download store like you would find on the iPhone or Android, but instead the culmination of service mashups that bring Facebook, Twitter and Google Maps to the Peek.

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Sony Ericsson Pureness gets £530 UK launch in November

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 15th 2009 No Comments

Sony Ericsson’s Pureness cellphone has been confirmed for the UK, but the company is not going for the usual pile-’em-high strategy. Instead, when the handset – which has a translucent-display – arrives in November, would-be buyers will need to trek to Selfridges and design museum shops; that’s because, according to SE spokesperson Cathy Davies, the Pureness is an “iconic niche product, not mass market.”

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