After Microsoft launched Windows Mobile 6.5, a Market Place for this OS and My Phone, Nokia finally unveiled their own app distribution service, the Nokia Ovi Application Store. This service will open for business starting May and the N97 will pre-integrate it, reaching the market in June.
Nokia officials mentioned that the owners of Nokia S40 and...
We have our doubts regarding the best handset shown at MWC 2009, but at least we know what the worst phones are. They’re branded Hyundai and the one you can see in the image below, MB400 looks like a cheap iPod knock-off.
It plays music, calls and features a minuscule touchscreen, operated via stylus. Yuck!
Wait, there’s more ugliness to...
Aside from the S1200 handset, Giga-byte also launched another device today, the GSmart MS820, that supports GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA connectivity and features a GPS and a 1300 mAh battery. There’s also WiFi on board, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 5 megapixel camera, all of that on the same Windows Mobile handset.
MS820′s camera features face detection and...
Samsung revealed the Valencia smartphone today at MWC 2009, a messaging device that packs a QWERTY keyboard. This handset looks very much like a combo between a BlackJack II and a Moto Q9h, with the usual mid-level specs and some extra memory.
Samsung Valencia supports tri-band EDGE connectivity and it runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard with the aid...
We knew that there was an 8 megapixel Nokia cameraphone in the works, but we expected an official announcement at MWC 2009, not a very unlikely leak on the first day of the show. Nokia N86 is the device in question, that just got even more leaky, since we now know its full list of specs.
The slider is scheduled for a Q2 2009 launch and it’ll...
Adobe announced today its plans to bring the PC version of its famous Flash video player to high end handsets in the year to come. Of course, our first question was “ALL smartphones?”, with the first thought being Apple iPhone, but we’ve got no info on that.
The good news is that there are enough smartphones out there to buy and use,...
If you thought Touch Diamond 2 was the bomb, at Mobile World Congress 2009, you’ve got another thing coming! HTC Touch Pro 2 was just announced, featuring the same innovative zoom bar that was present on Diamond 2′s specs list.
Touch Pro 2 features a 3.5 inch 800 x 400 display, a dedicated touch-sensitive zoom slider and a decent amount...
With the hype building up, as MWC 2009 gets ready for the big debut, LG leaked a photo showing some of its yet unannounced handsets. We don’t have any info on these devices, so feast your eyes on them and count the hours to the Mobile World Congress opening festivity.
After having a closer look at the handsets in the picture above, we spotted...
This week Sony Ericsson announced a brand new cameraphone and a music phone, the C903 and W395 respectively, that we’ll probably see in action at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona, that debuts tomorrow. February 16. Till then we’ve got two promotional videos, for these handsets:
I’ve got to say that I like the C903 video better,...
Samsung Acme i8910 and M7600 are a pair of unannounced handsets that got leaked on the web a while back and we know that they’ll be shown at MWC 2009, but under different names. Samsung Acme i8910 will be announced and sold as Omnia HD, while M7600 will be known as Beat DJ.
Omnia HD must come from the fact that the device can record and play...