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Verizon Samsung Zeal gets premature preview

Chris Davies, Nov 9th 2010 Discuss [3]

Looks like the rumors about the Samsung Zeal were true; the dual-hinge messaging handset has seemingly been prematurely tipped by a third-party news service used by Verizon. The press release itself has been pulled, and there's no mention of the Zeal on Verizon's own press pages at the moment, but we did come across a 360-degree viewer which shows the front of the handset. Read The Full Story

Soon We’ll Tell You if Facebook is Making an Android Phone

Chris Burns, Oct 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

Or at least, we'll tell you whatever they're about to tell us, and it appears more than likely that it'll have something to do with phones, contact lists, and a mysterious connection to Firefox, iPhone, Google Chrome OS, and two of the most rock and roll developers in the world: Joe Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos. We'll be at a special Mobile Event at Facebook HQ on November 3rd and we'll be able to tell you all about it. Until then, speculation below! Read The Full Story

OTECH F1 quad-SIM cellphone is probably overkill

Chris Davies, Oct 22nd 2010 Discuss [4]

Dual-SIM phones are rare enough; is four SIM cards in a single handset just plain silly? OTECH don't seem to think so; they've unveiled the F1, a quad-SIM QWERTY phone that keeps all the cards active at the same time. Read The Full Story

Nokia announce Q3 finances; roll Symbian^3 and ^4 into “one constantly evolving” platform

Chris Davies, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia has announced its Q3 2010 financial results, with device sales up 4-percent year-on-year to €7.2bn and smartphone shipment volumes up 61-percent and 10-percent sequentially. Net sales were €10.3bn, up 5-percent year-on-year and 3-percent sequentially. Meanwhile the company has announced that it is abandoning its Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 nomenclature, and will instead be introducing the updates planned for the ^4 platform as ongoing improvements to the existing OS. "It will be one constantly evolving and constantly improving platform" the company says, "we will no longer be talking about Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 at all". Read The Full Story

iida X-Ray see-through mobile phone is cool

Shane McGlaun, Oct 18th 2010 Discuss [3]

I have to admit that when it comes to form factors for mobile phones the one I dislike the most tends to be the clamshell or flip phone. They look like devices we used back in the 90's to me and I just don't like them for the most part. A new flip phone has turned up from a company called iida dubbed the X-Ray. Read The Full Story

Nokia C5-03 Symbian^1 budget touchscreen phone debuts

Chris Davies, Oct 14th 2010 Discuss [2]

Lest you thought Nokia had turned an entirely new leaf and shifted over to capacitive touchscreens for its finger-friendly handsets, the new Nokia C5-03 ruins that reputation by using a 3.2-inch 640 x 360 resistive panel. Still, that's because this budget device is altogether more modest in its ambitions: it runs Symbian^1 (i.e. S60 5th Edition) and has a 5-megapixel camera. Read The Full Story

Modu T touchscreen modular phone packs Brew OS; Android Modu W still to come

Chris Davies, Oct 11th 2010 Discuss [3]

Modu held their launch event for the Modu T over the weekend, but expectations that it would be the company's first Android smartphone were disappointed. Instead, the Modu T runs Qualcomm's Brew OS - like the HTC Smart - on a QSC6270 processor, with a custom swipe-controlled UI and a 2.2-inch 240 x 320 touchscreen. Read The Full Story

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Panasonic LUMIX 13.2MP phone hands-on [Video]

Chris Davies, Oct 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

The promise of 13.2-megapixels in a cellphone-sized package is a red rag to video-hungry bloggers, and so the SlashGear Japan team made sure to stop by Panasonic’s booth at CEATEC 2010 this week to check out their new LUMIX phone. To the untrained eye it could be mistaken for one of the legion of existing Japanese feature-phones on the market, but sure enough if you turn it around there’s a 13.2MP sensor and a high-intensity flash.

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Panasonic LUMIX Phone tipped for CEATEC 2010 reveal [Update: 13.2MP!]

Chris Davies, Oct 1st 2010 Discuss [1]

Panasonic are preparing to extend their LUMIX digital camera brand to cellphones, with the company kicking off a teaser campaign ahead of a promised unveil at CEATEC next week. Details on the handset are sparse, but Panasonic has confirmed the LUMIX Phone will have their Mobile VenusEngine, WiFi with DLNA media streaming and - according to one translation - a 3-megapixel Update: 13.2-megapixel camera with digital zoom. Read The Full Story

Nokia clamshell patent suggests modular folding phones

Chris Davies, Sep 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Could a new modular clamshell cellphone be in Nokia's future? The company has only really dabbled in folding phones before now, but a newly published patent suggests the Finnish engineers have been working on a new hinge design that could address not only functionality but hardware longevity. The hinge, the patent suggests, uses a double-rotating mechanism which is then covered by a "shield structure" casing that could include a camera, different controls or other functionality. Read The Full Story

Nokia UK lead is latest to jump ship

Chris Davies, Sep 20th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia has lost another exec, in the shape of Nokia UK and Ireland general manager Mark Loughran. Set to leave his desk for good at the end of this month, Loughran appears to have left voluntarily (rather than, as with ex-CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, being pushed) and will take up a new role as president of Pace Enterprise, a division of STB provider Pace. Read The Full Story