Tag Archive for 'smartphone'
Is there a slide-out keyboard version of the HTC Touch HD in the works? That’s the latest rumor surrounding the upcoming super-smartphone from the company, whose habit of launching a “Pro” version of touchscreen handsets with a QWERTY slide-out section has led some to predict an HTC Touch HD Pro could be in development.
Samsung have announced the I7110, a 12.9mm thick smartphone running Symbian S60 with a 2.6-inch AMOLED display. The I7110 includes both 3G HSDPA (900/2100MHz) and quadband GSM/EDGE, together with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS. There’s also a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, smile-shot, blink-shot and an LED flash, with a secondary camera up front for video calls.
With the current economic climate and the hotly contested smartphone war, it’s either a great time or a ridiculous time to be launching a new cellphone. Velocity Mobile as a company aren’t that green - in fact Phone Magazine played with their handsets earlier this year - but they’ve only just got around to commercially launching their [...]
It’s perhaps the most anticipated mobile device of the year, behind the iPhone 3G, and our sibling site Android Community have spent the past week hands-on with it. We’re talking, of course, about the T-Mobile G1 powered by Google Android, the first device to hit the market with the latest open-source mobile OS. As of [...]
HTC have announced the release date for their Touch HD smartphone. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro device, which has a 3.8-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen with haptic feedback, a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and 3G HSDPA, will be available in Europe come November 6th.
Occasionally it’s nice to glance into the distance and see what our friends in the Far East are enjoying (and then usually drool uncontrollably while cursing the current state of our own electronics). Today it’s the turn of the Sharp Softbank 9225H, a cellphone-cum-MID with a 3.5-inch widescreen VGA display and full QWERTY keyboard.
A Norwegian developer has apparently hacked the iPhone 3G to run Windows Mobile. In a video interview at the MyPhone2008 conference, Erik Kristiansen demonstrated his hacked Apple smartphone which clearly shows WM6.1 Pro loading, and then him navigating between different applications including an Excel Mobile spreadsheet and the Today homescreen.
Video demo of Windows Mobile running [...]
The dust has barely settled on the RIM BlackBerry Storm launch, and already there’s news of new, improved devices on the horizon. The BGR has received word from multiple sources that not only are RIM currently working on the second-gen BlackBerry Storm (and in the early stages of the third-gen Storm), but that the more immediate [...]
Over at AndroidCommunity the first user review of the T-Mobile G1 smartphone has been posted. The G1, which officially launches on October 22nd, is in the hands of forum-member Kaziko, and he’s been giving his first impressions of the touchscreen device as well as answering questions on its capabilities.
Saab have partnered with Sony Ericsson to bring remote control of its latest vehicle to the touchscreen of the XPERIA X1. Demonstrated at the launch of the Saab 9-X Air concept at the Paris Motor Show last week, the system would allow XPERIA X1 owners to remotely control ambient lighting, lock the car, control seating, switch [...]
