HTC announced HTC Touch 3G and HTC Touch Viva today; a site leaks made HTC to push the announcement one day earlier than planned – Both Touch 3G and Touch Viva sports TouchFLO technology enabling quick navigation and one touch access to messages, contacts, and other information.
OpenFrame is a home phone and information center developed by OpenPeak that’s meant to make the experience of talking on your house phone a much more twenty-first century experience. And if there’s one area that’s been left behind, it’s the home phone!
Landline phones have taken a pounding from cellphones these past few years; people expect their handsets to come packed with features, and beyond DECT digital cordless and a built-in answerphone the humble landline couldn’t really compete. Now it’s either aim budget or add tech to justify your price-tag: VTech want $99.95 for their IS6110 cordless phone, and to make it worth your while they’ve thrown in instant messaging, a color screen and a QWERTY keyboard. SlashGear has been doing more than the usual amount of online chatting to see whether it’s enough.
After being in development for quite sometime, OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner is now available for end users to buy. On July 4th, OpenMoko will be taking orders for the handset and expected to be shipping on July 7th.
The Linux powered handset will be available in two version, 850MHz or 900 MHz Tri-band GSM. It weighing 6.5 ounces and features a 2.8-inch touch screen with 480 x 640 VGA resolution, 802.11b/g WiFi, AGPS, GRPS 2.5G, Bluetooth 2.0, two 3-axis motion sensors, and 128MB WSDRAM / 256MB NAND Flash.
The OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner comes with the price tag of $399 and will be available directly from OpenMoko.com store or via distributors in EU, India, and North America.
Lately people are using home phones less and less, however, for some it is either necessary or they just aren’t willing to have nothing but cellphones in the house. I’m sure eventually landlines will disappear entirely, but for now there is this sleek phone from GE.
Our editor Kim Poh at SlashPhone spotted Samsung’s latest touch screen phone at Communicasia 2008 in Singapore and has hands-on time with it. The phone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 and accompanied by TouchWiz to allow user to navigate the menus a lot quicker and easier.
There have always been rumors that cellphones might have a few unwanted side effects, typically I have scoffed a bit at them. I am a bit curious about this new one though, especially since the researcher happens to be a former skeptic until the facts they discovered were too much to ignore.
Apple sets the tone for touch devices, and now almost every handset manufacturers are putting at least some sort of effort to improve touch screen device experience. Philips unveiled its own touch handset today called X800, a tri-band GSM/GPRS Windows Mobile based handset.
Here we go again, another rumor – I know you might be tired of hearing these rumors, but news is news. There are reports saying that the new revision of iPhone will not only put faster network on your hand, but also includes GPS, video conferencing, and mobile TV functions.
Another rumor is that the 3G iPhone will come in three-color choices, black, silver, and white. The report also said the 16GB model will be available in silver only while the 32GB version will be available in white, black, and silver.
Sometimes secrets are just too hard to keep, and AT&T seems to be the type that let the cat out from its bag often. iPhone Black has showed up on AT&T’s website – the option to select an iPhone Black was available on existing AT&T customer’s page.
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