Huawei will be supplying T-Mobile with a future Android smartphone, scheduled for launch in Q3 2009, bearing the name of T-Mobile G3. The third Google phone will probably be a full touchscreen device, maybe the one showed by Huawei at MWC 2009, in February.
The G3 should pack a 5 megapixel camera, a headphone jack and WiFi support. Huawei demoed a...
The beautiful transparent keypad phone, LG GD900 just got checked out by the folks of Boy Genius Report, who were astonished by its looks and functionality. Shown at MWC 2009, the fashion phone comes with a transparent touch-sensitive illuminated keypad that supports gesture control.
LG GD900 is a very thin phone and its entire slide mechanism is transparent,...
MWC 2009 was not all about high tech mobile devices, like the Toshiba TG01 or Sony Ericsson Idou, but also innovative handsets destined to niche markets, like the segment of elderly folks. Doro showed the public such a device, that’s a very basic phone, with large keys and high volume.
Doro’s new handset supports Bluetooth and comes with...
While touring the many booths of MWC 2009, it was easy to notice that Motorola had almost nothing to show, unless you count the Surf A3100 touchscreen smartphone.
This average Windows Mobile device gets demoed in the video below, proving once again that Motorola must increase the pace if they want to compete with the rest of the mobile phone industry...
The news of the day is that HTC Touch Diamond2 will be arriving on April 17 2009, or so claims Expansys and it’ll cost about $560.
Unveiled at MWC 2009, together with Touch Pro2 and HTC Magic, the smartphone packs a Qualcomm MSM7200 528 MHz processor, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (upgradable to WM 6.5) and 512 MB ROM/ 288 MB RAM.
There’s...
Mobile World Congress 2009 wrapped up last week, but we continue to learn new stuff about the handsets shown by major manufacturers in Barcelona. Now it’s safe to say that we can pile up all the info and decide which phones and companies disappointed us and which have what it takes to becomes hits.
Misses:
1) Nokia N86
The biggest disappointment...
During MWC 2009, this week, Torch Mobile announced the launch of version 1.1.0 of the Iris Browser for mobiles, providing a full browsing experience to handset users. Iris Browser 1.1.0 can be downloaded from this address and it runs on Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
The browser uses a WebKit-based engine, that renders any website fast and allows the user...
Garmin-Asus showcased its very hot Nuvifone handsets at MWC 2009, the G60 and M20 being promising enough to make the Nokia Navigator series go hide and cry in shame. Here’s a bit of action with the Nuvifone M20, that got analysed in a hands on experience by PhoneDog:
Nuvifone M20 is a colourful device, based on Windows Mobile 6.1 and using Garmin’s...
As soon as Touch Diamond 2 and Touch Pro 2 were shown at MWC 2009, we thought that they’ll reach T-Mobile as MDA devices. And yes they will, Diamond 2 getting rebranded as the T-Mobile MDA Compact V.
This touchscreen smartphone will have the same features as its original version, Windows Mobile 6.1, a 3.2 inch display with a 480 x 800 pixel resolution,...
Disliking the N86 like we do? Well, in case you’re looking for someone to blame for this poor handset, here’s the man: Kimmo Nahkamaki, product manager at Nokia. He talks about the N86 in the following interview, probably unaware of the public’s general dissatisfaction:
First, we wait for a Nokia 8 MP phone for ages, then it gets...