HTC has just posted its 2008 financial results, which include a $4.5 billion revenue and $931 million profit. The revenue is up 29%, comparing to the previous year and HTC managed to sell 12.03 million devices, 70% of them with 3G support.
1 million of these devices had Android on board, so it turns out that the rest are all Windows Mobile handsets,...
After quite a long wait and a CES announcement, the Skype native VoIP client for the iPhone is available for free, as a download via the iTunes App Store. Skype for iPhone looks more like an iPhone app than like its 4.0 version for Windows, which is good news, if you’ve been an Apple fan for the past years.
The app’s screens are well organized...
Motorola has just announced their brand new touchscreen handset, Evoke QA4, a social networking-oriented phone, packing a 2.8 inch screen and a virtual QWERTY keyboard. There’s also a traditional sliding keypad on board, widget support and a full HTML web browser.
Evoke allows the user to dial phone numbers via keypad or by pressing the touchscreen...
Shown at MWC 2009, the beautiful LG GD900 transparent keypad phone will also get some press time at CTIA Wireless, starting tomorrow, April 1. We also learned that GD900 will be showing its transparent side in shops starting from May, packing neat features, like the S-Class Touch UI and 3 inch touchscreen.
The phone’s display supports a WVGA...
Microsoft recently announced that they have partnered with Design Museum London and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, that will provide cool Windows Mobile 6.5 designer themes (colors, wallpaper etc).
The first designs were created by fashion guru Isaac Mizrahi and the Redmond giant also announced that it’ll release a Theme Generator,...
Here’s a premiere shot of Samsung Instinct S30 aka Instinct Mini or M810, that will hit Sprint in the following weeks. The handset is more impressive than the first Instinct and apparently all of the software issues of the first version were removed, so Sprint might launch a hit after all, aside from the promising Palm Pre.
Expect an important...
Huawei’s Android phones should be hitting T-Mobile around Q3 this year, as claimed during MWC 2009. A trusted source claimed recently that the new handsets are already getting tested as we speak and will reach the market in the third quarter.
No details were given, but a couple of specs were mentioned, like the 5 megapixel camera, 3.5mm headset jack,...
After seeing tons of next-gen iPhone concepts, it’s time to take matters more seriously, since summer is coming and with it the announcement of a brand new Apple handset. Say “goodbye” to sliding keypads and big cameras and imagine an even slimmer handset with a very curved back side.
The guys from Gizmodo claim that they’ll...
AT&T has goodies for you, almost as good as Easter Eggs, perhaps even better, since they can text, browse the web and whatnot. I’m talking about 4 new devices, that will reach the carrier’s portofolio pretty soon: LG Xenon, LG Neon, Samsung Magnet and Samsung Impression.
Samsung Magnet should reach the pockets of youngsters looking...
Here’s a very nice handset getting demoed and tested in front of the camera, Sharp SH-04A, a thick device with a solid QWERTY keyboard. Its sliding mechanism is OK, the phone’s interface is user-friendly and original, but more on that in the following video:
Next, we go to the classic Iron Man trailer playback, showcasing the video features...