Samsung E950, one of the announced touchy-treo with Touch Sensitive Keypad, starts shipping in Europe this week, while the U.S. shipments are scheduled to start somewhere in the fall of this year. As a reminder, the E950 is a slim slider phone boasting such features as 3.2 MP camera and a media player. However, the…
Archives for August 2007
Japan’s KDDI to offer GMail to its users as “au one mail”
In its effort to expand its dominance to the mobile world, Google is working with KDDI to provide mobile search to the Japan’s second largest carrier’s users. But now they decided to extend the partnership by launching the KDDI version of Google’s popular GMail service. According to the arrangement, the special version of GMail (both…
Samsung and Adidas teaming up to release SGH-F110 handset for exercising
If Levi’s can do it, why wouldn’t Adidas? Apparently the famous German sports equipment makers has teamed-up with Samsung to make an Adidas-branded phone. As expected, the new slider handset is dedicated to sports fanatics who need such tools as pedometer, heart rate monitor and distance/calories burning calculator – easily accessible through dedicated buttons. Plus,…
Sony Ericsson Z610 on 3 Australia ads
Sony Ericsson Z610 is a nice shiny mid-range handset, and it doesn’t surprises 3 Australia is doing its best to promote in in a proper manner. Not that they don’t have other cool phones in their portfolio… Anyway, what follows are two short Sony Ericsson Z610 commercials — one with Big Brother talk and the…
Nokia Q2 results are out: Enterprise turns a profit, market share increases and over 100 million units shipped!
Nokia Q2 results are out and the conference call is set to begin in less than 90 minutes, but here is what we know so far: 100.8 million units shipped, almost 30% more than this time last year Europe: 27.1 million, 13.4% increase compared to last quarter and 28.4% compared to Q2 2006 Middle East…
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR approved and ready
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the adoption of Core Specification Version 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) by unanimous approval. Improvements of the new Bluetooth specification include advances in security, simplified pairing, and enhanced power optimization — all in all Bluetooth SIG promises improved Bluetooth experience for the consumers. What about the new generation of Bluetooth…
Manage real estate leads on your iPhone
Here’s another vertical market that is now supported on the iPhone. Real estate technology company “a la mode” optimized its Agent XSites software for the iPhone, allowing real estate agents to manage website leads directly on their shiny new handset. To put it in other words, the real estate agents equipped with an iPhone will…
AC/DC’s music now available exclusively through Verizon V CAST
Verizon has done it again! What I want to say is they’ve provided its users with one more reason to jump into their V CAST service. The latest addition to their catalog are the albums of the classic rock legends AC/DC. It’s important to note that this is the first time AC/DC’s music is available…
Open Interface North America introduces lossless Bluetooth audio codec – SOUNDabout Lossless from OINA
Some people are never satisfied – and that’s a good thing. The less-than-high-fidelity audio that we get from our A2DP Bluetooth Stereo headphones apparently irked Open Interface North America enough to develop a higher-quality solution – a lossless audio codec (that piece of code that encodes and decodes a data stream) for Bluetooth headphones. OINA’s…
France gets the HTC Touch on Orange
With the HTC Touch already having graced T-mobile’s German network as the T-mobile MDA Touch, it was just a matter of time before the TouchFLO toting iPhone-fighter hit French shores. Orange is picking up the HTC Touch as the, well, HTC Touch. It’s nice to see a carrier not only keeping with the device manufacturer’s…