Wait, didn’t Orange and Apple just announce their partnership to bring the Apple iPhone to France? In fact, they did – just last week. But, according to Reuters, the two companies are still struggling to come to agreeable terms in the revenue sharing model that Apple is demanding from all potential iPhone carriers. With T-Mobile…
Archives for September 2007
Live pics of the HTC Touch Slide – to be announced next week
With HTC’s upcoming press event next week, we’re anxiously waiting to see which Windows Mobile smartphones HTC will be bringing out of the closet. We’d love to hear more about the mysterious HTC Kii and maybe even see the HTC Omni get officially launched, come Monday – although we can’t be sure. One thing we…
Apple kicks up iPhone to version 1.1.1 – WiFi iTunes Music Store, better security, louder volume
Just as we expected, Apple has opened the flood gates on the newest iPhone update (barely getting it in before the week’s end). We’re now in the world of the iPhone version 1.1.1 and it’s looking better than ever. Tipping the scales at a massive 153MB download (via iTunes), the new iPhone v1.1.1 firmware brings…
Mobilize your website with Myxer
Myxer is a neat new service designed to help web publishers mobilize their content. Launched at DEMO, Myxer works like a widget which, thanks to the drag’n’drop magic, allows site visitors to easily send content from the website to their mobile phones. Users can send both images and videos to their mobile devices, while sending…
Disney Mobile shutting down
Not that we haven’t expected this, it’s just kinda sad to see the “happiest MVNO” shutting down. As of September 27, content and applications will no longer be available for purchase. However, Disney Mobile will continue to provide Voice, messaging and the Family Center services, as well as billing and care support but only until…
LG Shine 8700 now available at Telus
Canadians looking for the fashion phone can now turn to Telus and grab one of the coolest looking phones available on the market today – LG Shine 8700. We’ve already ranted about LG’s stylish clamshell before, I’ll just repeat it comes with two screens (internal is QVGA), 2 MP camera, stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP), media…
Cellufun Releases Wap Chess
We’ve already wrote about Cellufun‘s WAP-based Space Wars game. Instead of using Java ME or some other software platform, they’ve decided to go WAP, hence allowing more users to enjoy playing at once right from the start. It seems their “WAP experiment” has succeeded, and now we have them announcing yet another WAP title –…
Sony Ericsson K660i Cyber-shot concept
Although we deferred writing about concept handsets lately, here’s one that caught my eye. It seems that the designer of the Sony Ericsson K660i Cyber-shot concept had an idea to make an affordable 3G-enabled camera phone. Somehow, I do agree that, if priced correctly, such device could easily find its market. On the other hand,…
A Chinese flip phone with WQVGA screen
I used be impressed with Chinese phones that come with WQVGA screens. Ok, I’m still fairly impressed, although now I think all major handset makers should go WVGA, not WQVGA. Anyway, today we’re presenting you with quite ugly Chinese handset which among other things sports the mentioned 3″ WQVGA (240×432) 16 million color touchscreen, 1.3…
Fujitsu F905i leaked; Best phone ever?
Cry if you’re not in Japan, cause they are about to get one of the best mobile phones, like ever! The Fujitsu-manufactured F905i is the mobile TV (1Seg) enabled device and among other things comes with the 3.2 MP camera with autofocus, memory expansion slot and full HTML web browser. So what’s so special about…