Archive for January, 2009

T-Mobile G2 Confirmed, G3 Also Plausible?

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

T-Mobile announced that they'll be releasing a follow-up to the famous G1 Android Phone, the G2 and other devices in the same series. The competition is, however more fierce in 2009, as Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Samsung are readying their own Android devices. Here's how the G2 might look like, in ...

Apple Does Better than Expected, Goes Past 1% Market Share in 2008

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

ABI Research firm revealed recently that Apple went past the 1% market shared they estimated they would achieve in 2008, actually reaching 1.1%. The iPhones now stand for 1.1% of all phones in the world, a significant growth from 0.3% in 2007. This performance makes Apple equal to HTC and better ...

FireFox Mobile for Windows Mobile Gets Leaked, Unstable, Unimpressive

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

FireFox Mobile is loose! Well, not the loose we were hoping for, to test on our Windows Mobile devices, since this is an unstable leaked version we're dealing with. Fuzemobility posted a link towards the cab file for Fennec, but we don't know if this is the version we'll be ...

Orange Motorola Prizm Reaches Korea

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Prizm is a Motorola Krave ZN4 relative that just hit South Korea in its orange version and packing more powerful features, when compared to the ZN4. Instead of using a 240 x 400 pixels display (like ZN4), Prizm comes with a WVGA one (480 x 800 pixels) and it also sports ...

Samsung S3500 is a Fresh Entry-Level Slider

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Samsung has just announced a brand new entry-level slider, the S3500, that will hit the market under the Anycall branding in Asia and also it'll reach Europe at some point. Considering that the handset got the FCC's approval, it'll probably get sold by AT&T or T-Mobile in the US, but ...

Dell Preps Touchscreen Smartphone, Android Possibly on Board

Friday, January 30th, 2009

According to Wall Street Journal, Dell might be prepping a hot new smartphone, that packs a touchscreen and may arrive in two flavours: Android and Windows Mobile. This is just one of a long series of brands that have decided to go the handset way and showcase their products at ...

BBC Top Secret Phone is Hot and Original

Friday, January 30th, 2009

BBC will be launching a top secret phone developed by IA Technology and it turns out that it uses "the world's first fully accurate voice recognition system for cellphones". Also, the device relies on the Zumba Lumba Internet portal, that holds all of the phone owner's contacts, so in case the ...

Helio Ocean 2 Gets Virgin Mobile Release With Britney Spears

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Britney Spears and "Virgin" in the same phrase may spawn puns and jokes, but moving on, we found out that Helio Ocean 2 is finally going to get released. Virgin Mobile will be the company launching the handset, during Britney's Circus tour. The launch is scheduled for March, since the tour ...

i-mate New Smartphone Mockups Reveal the Future; Ready for MWC Release?

Friday, January 30th, 2009

According to msmobiles, i-mate is readying something "revolutionary" for Mobile World Congress 2009, an uber-smartphone that will one-up the likes of HTC Touch HD or Palm Pre. Wmpoweruser did a mockup of the device, pictured in the first image below and followed by a second mockup, done by Unwired View. Wmpoweruser's ...

AT&T Samsung Propel Pro Gets Pictured

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Just two weeks before Mobile World Congress 2009, there's a Samsung Propel update to have a look at, since the device got pictured in the wild. Propel Pro is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard device, packing an optical joystick, 3G support and a camera. Rumours claim that the joystick is useless, ...