Posts Tagged ‘Mobile phone’

Posted on October 29, 2009 - by admin

Motorola and Verizon unveil the Droid, Google Maps navigation

After a long period of rumors, leaks and teaser marketing campaigns, Verizon and Motorola have officially announced Droid, Verizon's first Android smartphone, and the first Android device running Eclair. It will be available on Friday, November 6, for $199 with a two year contract and mail-in rebate.

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Posted on October 27, 2009 - by admin

Palm Pixi lands Nov. 15, indicates a third webOS device

Today, Palm announced that the Pixi, the company's second webOS device and slimmer, lighter-weight cousin to the Pre, will be available for the holiday season on November 15 exclusively through Sprint.

With a 2.63" multi-touchscreen, 8 GB of internal memory, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 2 megapixel LED flash camera, and integrated GPS, the Pixi lightens up on many of the Pre's specs (smaller screen, slower processor) and eliminates the Wi-Fi radio entirely.

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Posted on September 9, 2009 - by admin

Nokia X6 and X3 – they got the music in ‘em

Nokia is soon to release two new phones with a distinct focus on music – the X6 and the X3

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Posted on September 9, 2009 - by admin

HTC Tattoo could be the first ‘real’ free smartphone

Now that HTC has unveiled its fourth Android handset, one begins to wonder what is next for the Taiwanese company and indeed the Android handsets business as a whole. HTC was the first to release a phone running on Google’s open smartphone operating system, and now that it has shown off the Tattoo (formerly known as "Click") the company appears to have foregone design innovation in favor of releasing a cheap device.

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Posted on September 9, 2009 - by admin

Nokia completes LTE modem as 4G network rollouts approach

Finnish wireless giant Nokia announced that it has completed trials with the "first ever Long Term Evolution (LTE) capable Internet Modem."

The product upon which the trials were conducted was the Nokia Internet Modem RD-3, a development tool by no means intended for consumer use. The company says it will be used with network vendors as well as measurement equipment manufacturers and operators. The RD-3 is interoperable with GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA and supports multiple LTE frequency bands with a theoretical peak of 100 Mbps downstream.

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Posted on August 31, 2009 - by admin

China signs deal to sell iPhones

Mobile operator China Unicom has signed a deal with Apple to launch the popular iPhone into the world’s largest mobile phone market.

The phones are expected to go on sale in China later this year.

Read the full story at BBC News

Posted on August 31, 2009 - by admin

Apple: If an iPhone cracks or overheats, that’s your problem

In the latest indication that Apple tends not to show as much love toward its customers as its customers do toward it, the company made a statement to AFP press this morning effectively saying that fewer than 10 reports from its customers of overheating iPhone batteries are to be believed. Further, it added that anyone who finds herself with a cracked iPhone needs to look into the mirror for the cause.

“To date, there are no confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS and the number of reports we are investigating is in the single digits,” an Apple spokesperson told the AFP. The report goes on to say that cracking in iPhone glass cases is due to a phenomenon it has termed “external force.”

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Posted on August 28, 2009 - by admin

Nokia N900: The future of the ‘MID’ form factor?

There have been a couple of form factors in recent years that have completely failed to capture the public’s imagination, despite their promising capabilities: Tablets and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).

However, with the dramatic level of rumor circulating about Steve Jobs and Apple’s pet tablet project, there may be hope for that form factor after all. And with Nokia’s announcement of the N900 today, the MID concept looks like it might stick around too.

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Posted on August 24, 2009 - by admin

New BlackBerry Storm 2 videos, Piezo technology included

It’s not the first time we see the BlackBerry Storm 2 on video, but that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting seeing it again. Especially since the first video is no longer available, and the two new ones bring precious details about RIM’s second-generation Storm.

raed the full story and view the video at Unwiredreview

Posted on August 15, 2009 - by admin

How to turn off Palm Pre’s ‘Big Brother’ data collection

Debian developer Joey Hess this week pulled the covers off of Palm’s WebOS, and showed some interesting things going on in the background. Apparently, Palm Inc. collects daily samples of the user’s location, which apps he has installed and his usage of them, and app crash logs.

As expected, many have panicked at the thought of both Sprint and Palm harvesting their usage data. But Palm appears to be working within the realm of its Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, and the company’s data-sharing policy has actually been a known issue since the Pre’s release.

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