From the monthly archives:
We already know from published rumors and reports that LG wants to launch about 10 different smartphones in the 2009 calendar year. That’s a fair amount for any company, especially with phone sales dropping overall. We also know that the South Korean manufacturer further intends to concentrate more on the cheaper side of mobile phones by coming [...]
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These days, messaging phones are pretty much everywhere, and “texting” has become a viable way of talking to someone (why you’d do that in many situations when you have a phone in your hand is beyond me, but anyway..). Mobile phone makers have even partnered with operators to engineer their own version of a messaging [...]
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Samsung and LG may have been running out the best high-megapixel phones for a while now, but it seems somebody’s not happy with what they’re doing lately in camera arena. More to the point, Kodak is displeased at Samsung and LG’s business of focusing on various technical parts of their camera business, and has filed [...]
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Which brings up an interesting question: How many 10 year olds really need their own cell phone that badly, aside from emergency concerns?
After announcing a couple of serious, big-feature phones like the recently featured Eternity, the South Korean handset manufacturer has now unveiled a phone that won’t attract too many adult users: the Samsung Tobi [...]
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Companies promise things sometimes, and price and market conditions change. But then there’s occasions where you’re like, “Hey, hold on a sec…”, and the recent release of the Nokia 5800 is a case in point.
For those looking forward to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s release date (which is supposed to be “some time in Q4 2008″, [...]
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The world has a new iPhone competitor and it’s called Samsung Eternity. Derek talked about it earlier today and gave you all the details about this new device. But if you want to see the device in action, check out this video.
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This just in to our ever-diligent news department: detailed specs on the upcoming Samsung Eternity. All based off of AT&T’s website listings, so these aren’t guesses; this is the real deal straight from the source.
3MP Camera: A bit disappointing given rumors of 5MP camera, but it has 3X zoom and it’s serviceable. Still better than [...]
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Yes, AT&T internal documents leaked to several sites had this coming out in October, but now we’re getting reports that the release of the Samsung Eternity is imminent. There were rumors floating around that a big delay was in the making (or perhaps that the phone had been scrapped altogether), but those have been shot [...]
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Samsung announced on several sites they were working on a 12MP camera phone for the future, but it’s Sony that has beat them to the punch and actually announced the world’s first 12 MP CMOS image sensor for handsets, and the technology should be in phones as soon as March 2009, according to Sony.
The Asian half [...]
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Officially announced today, the Samsung Anycall SPH-W6050 is the latest 5-megapixel cameraphone to be released for consumption in Korea/Asia. While its looks are a bit on the vanilla side, the specs are what make this phone, as aside from a 5MP auto-focus camera that’s pretty strong, it also features a built-in DMB TV tuner (a [...]
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The team from Microsoft’s Windows Mobile crew perhaps realized with the evolution of the mobile platform, they needed to step up the pace a bit. Some had started to call this vaporware, which is something MS couldn’t afford to let happen.
But the release is on the horizon: they’ve announced the availability of emulators and documentation for Internet Explorer [...]
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While the iPhone OS 2.1 software update is still settling in among a few users (and it made significant improvements admittedly, for many users), there’s a rumor flying around now that the next firmware version update might be coming a little quicker than most thought. Testing is going well, and according to an inside tester, the [...]
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Nokia seems to enjoy creating unusual concept phones, and they are released for oogling all the time. It’s sort of a hobby for the company.
The latest one, created by Finnish designer Heikki Juvonen, might be the oddest looking of them all, but also has a chance of catching on and becoming a future design soon, based [...]
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This is exactly what the mobile web browsing industry needs: a little price war. AT&T tends to be expensive (and doesn’t offer unlimited anything mobile internet wise as far as I know), and other carriers with unlimited plans tend to be expensive. Rumors have surfaced that Verizon may be introducing something to change the playing field [...]
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It appears the LG KC550 5 mpx camera phone will soon get a new companion phone in its line, and proves that LG definitely has a new focus; style and slickness at a good price (or in this case, a semi-fair price considering the ”coolness” points). Considering most of LG’s recent line is coming out with gold-plating soon (no, i’m not [...]
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