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November 06, 2007
Google shows its hand and the future is open
A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined forces to announce the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated ...
November 05, 2007
Samsung launches touchscreen phone in Korea
Samsung has attempted to steal a march on the iPhone by launching a touchscreen mobile in Korea in advance of Apple's entry next year.The M4650 is a Windows Mobile 6 slider with a 2.8 inch screen. Connectivity takes ...
November 05, 2007
E28 denies business relationship with Google
Rumours that Chinese smartphone manufacturer E28 was to build the forthcoming Google phone have been strongly denied by the company.A spokesperson for E28, who specialise in creating smartphones using the Linux operating system, said, "We have no business ...
November 01, 2007
BlackBerry tops customer satisfaction survey
BlackBerrys rank highest in overall customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study released today.The inaugural study measures business customer satisfaction with their wireless smartphone, ...
October 31, 2007
AT&T offers Pantech Duo
AT&T has made the Pantech Dup available on its network. The Duo is a Windows Mobile full QWERTY slider, with 64 MB of on-board memory, microSD storage expansion, a slightly paltry 1.3 megapixel camera, and a 2.2-inch QVGA ...
October 29, 2007
T-Mobile goes dark with the Shadow
T-Mobile USA has unveiled the HTC-built Shadow, a smartphone aimed squarely at light users.The Shadow is of the slider format and features a large 65K 2.6-inch display and 2 Megapixel camera. Connectivity takes the form of quad-band GSM, ...
October 26, 2007
Facebook comes to BlackBerry
Research in Motion has announced that Facebook will now be available on the BlackBerry in the form of a special application that use RIM's push technology to send Facebook messages and alerts in the same way it does ...
October 26, 2007
Psion Teklogix Unveils Its Rugged PDA iKon
Psion Teklogix has announced its return to the market it pioneered over 20 years ago, launching today its newest product, the rugged PDA smartphone - iKon.A sleek, compact and powerful design with robust built-in functionality, iKon is an ...
October 25, 2007
i-mate unveils the Ultimate (again)
i-mate has announced the Windows Mobile 6 professional Ultimate 8502.Connectivity takes the form of GSM/GPRS/EDGE, triband HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR as well as integrated GPS.There is a QVGA touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. The camera is 2 ...
October 18, 2007
Handmark ports Pocket Express to Symbian
Handmark has announced a new version of its Pocket Express mobile service for S60 v3 Symbian, and will be featured on Nokia E-series and N-series handsets.This all-new release of Pocket Express for Symbian OS offers free mobile access ...
October 17, 2007
Nokia adds new features to S60 software
Nokia has announced several enhancements to its S60 platform at the Symbian Smartphone show in London.Most exciting is the addition of a touchscreen interface with tactile input, as well as sensing motion, orientation, proximity and light. The touchscreen ...
October 17, 2007
Samsung unveils new S60 smartphones
Samsung unveiled two new S60 smartphones at the Symbian Smartphone Show held in London, running on v9.2 of the Symbian OS. Both the new SGH-i550 and i560 include a GPS receiver. The candybar SGH-i550 has HSDPA and a ...
October 10, 2007
BenQ's stylish new smartphone
BenQ has launched the BenQ E72 - a Windows Mobile 6 based smartphone that features an incredibly thin body at a little over 1cm, an integrated instant messaging system and powerful multimedia experiences for professionals on the go. ...
October 10, 2007
Orange spurns QWERTY Touch Dual in UK
Orange has taken the rather strange decision to nobble the HTC Touch Dual when it launches on the network and replace the 20 key quasi-QWERTY layout with a 16 key nuumeric pad.The consensus is that Orange is therefore ...
October 10, 2007
Samsung readies new Blackjack
The FCC have done it again and revealed the inside scoop on a smartphone.This time it's the new version of the Samsung Blackjack - the SGH-i617.The 617 is evolution, not revolution. The design is little changed, and the ...
October 09, 2007
Apple faces law suit over iBricking
Apple is facing a lawsuit over its policy of disabling unlocked iPhones via the latest firmware update - v1.1.1. Timothy P. Smith and the legal team of M. Van Smith and Damian R. Fernandez have filed for a ...
October 09, 2007
Glofiish takes aim at TyTN II
The Eten Glofiish M800 is the successor to the popular X800 and judging by the spec sheet that was previewed recently at PocketInfo.nl (in Dutch) it will be in direct competition with the HTC TyTn II.500 MHz Samsung ...
October 05, 2007
Garmin launches Plug 'N Play Sat-Nav
The satellite navigation company, Garmin has launched a unique, all-in-one software solution that turns selected smartphones with internal GPS into high-end navigators. Garmin Mobile XT is a mobile phone software application that seamlessly pairs the phone's built-in GPS ...
October 04, 2007
Nearly a million HTC Touch units sold
Sources at HTC have revealed that sales of the Touch smartphone are not lagging too far behind those of its main rival, the Apple iPhone.800,000 units have shipped in three months, which compares favourably with the million units ...
October 02, 2007
Palm figures unsurprisingly poor
Palm announced yesterday that it had recorded a loss for the first quarter of its financial year.Total revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2008, ended Aug. 31, was $360.8 million. Smartphone sell-through for the quarter was ...