Microsoft Focuses on Windows Mobile Phones; Less Units, More Quality

While speaking at CES 2009, Todd Peters, Windows Mobile marketing VP mentioned that Microsoft will make a big announcement at next month’s Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. He also said that Microsoft wants to limit the number of handsets using its operating system, because their efforts would get diluted otherwise. Right now, there are 140... 

IcePhone @ CES 2009

Remember the IcePhone? That dual folding beauty, sporting an emergency button, gaming controls, a hot widescreen display and a QWERTY keypad… That’s right, it couldn’t miss CES 2009 and every blogger and journalist wanted to spend a few minutes with it, believe us. No info on its launch in the States, in case it ever crosses the Ocean. For... 

Mobinnova Ice Gets Hands On Treatment

This is the last day of CES 2009, so Engadget Mobile got some quality time with Mobinnova Ice, a pretty decent Windows Mobile handset, although it has quite a few flaws. Its specs list includes a QVGA display, AGPS, FM radio, HSDPA and a secondary touchscreen display used for navigation purposes. The hands on experience revealed a pretty average d-pad,... 

Nokia Announces E63 and Nokia 1006 Handsets at CES 2009

Just as CES 2009 started yesterday, Nokia went out and announced that the E63 will be made available in the US, in an optimized version for this market. The handset will hit the stores in the following weeks, for $279 and the Finnish giant also announced two other handsets: Nokia 7510 and Nokia 1006. We’ve dealt with Nokia 7510 yesterday, so... 

Logic Bolt Phone Features a Mini Projector, Shown at CES 2009

Logic Wireless recently introduced a handset, which is also available at CES 2009 and was already posted on some sites, in neat hands on experiences. The main feature of the device? An incorporated mini projector, with a display size that goes from 36 to 64 inches, depending on the area you project the image on. Logic Bolt features a quad band GSM... 

iriver lanches WAVE Wi-Fi Phone

The famous South Korean electronics maker iriver has just launched its famous WiFi touchscreen phone, WAVE and its specs list is pretty decent. WAVE comes with a 3 inch LCD touch display, WiFi connectivity, VoIP support and works with the Bugs Music service. iriver’s latest product also features a call forwarding service and this new handsets... 

Sony Ericsson Announces Three New Phones: C510, W508 and W715 at CES 2009

CES 2009 has just begun and with it have started the announcements of hot handsets, among which three new Sony Ericsson beauties: C510, W508 and W715. The first device has appeared many times on the interwebs, under the codename Kate, while the W715 was made exclusively for Vodafone. C510 is an affordable Cyber-shot cameraphone that features a new... 

Palm Nova Resurrects the Brand With a Touchscreen and QWERTY Keypad

Crunchgear claims that Palm is readying something special for tomorrow’s CES 2009, namely the Nova smartphone. The device packs a touchscreen and a slide-down QWERTY keypad, just like the mockup you can see below. The source that leaked this info also claims that the smartphone will feature an “amazing OS”, the famous Palm App Store,... 

LG Watch/Videophone Is Awesome for Teens and Dick Tracy

We’ve started the CES 2009 countdown already and one of the products we’ll be seeing during the show is surely the LG videophone/watch from the image below. This gadget seems designed for Dick Tracy and tweens looking for a cheap way of videoconferencing. LG’s product sports a 1.43 inch touchscreen, a built in camera for 3G video... 

Mystery T-Swivel Phone Is Compal Tesco, Still Could be Palm

We were fascinated by a mysterious T-swivel handset last week, only to discover, a couple of days later that it’s supposed to the Palm Roteo, a prototype handset. After this story seemed to become less appealing to bloggers, Pocketables and Engadget Mobile did some digging and found out more stuff about the phone… Turns out that its first... 

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