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Images of an unannounced Motorola device called the EX225 have turned up on the Bluetooth SIG’s site. They say it’s a 3G phone with a 2.4 inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, dual SIM capabilities, and that it’s a “product for [the] trendy generation”. The folks at Unwired View, who made this discovery, have blown up…
Last month we saw an interesting Motorola handset leak called the EX130. We knew it was going to be a budget feature phone, but what made it unique compared to every other boring feature phone we tend to cover was the tiny little secondary screen on the bottom of the device. We’re used to seeing…
Motorola’s yet to be announced EX130 has just been leaked and while at first glance it appears to be just another feature phone with what we’re assuming to be a poor quality touch screen, a little surprise in the form of a second screen located at the bottom of the device is making us take…
AT&T confirmed that the HTC Freestyle will debut on February 13th. The feature phone will be the first quick messaging phone to include HTC’s Sense interface. Similar to Samsung’s Touchwiz interface which appears on its smartphone and feature phones, a variant of HTC’s popular Sense UI will grace the user interface of the Freestyle. The…
One of the more overlooked announcement at AT&T’s CES event this morning was the HTC Freestyle, a lower-end feature phone running Brew MP. Although it’s not technically a smartphone, it runs Sense and AT&T is aiming to provide apps for the platform. Whatever it takes to get ’em using data, right AT&T? The Freestyle has…
Verizon is breaking from the “smartphone is king” trend and bringing a smartphone feature to it feature phone lineup. Verizon is launching version 4 of its Mobile email application which will now offer support for Exchange email and Outlook Calendar sync. The new version will let customers with select feature phones hook up with their…
Last month, I visited Namco Games in New York City to get some hands-on time with some of their upcoming mobile games. One game in particular that I was impressed with was the mobile port of Splatterhouse. Namco is going to be releasing Splatterhouse on the iPhone, JAVA, BREW, and Windows Mobile this week, and…
The Verizon and Skype partnership is bearing more fruit as the VoIP calling service is coming to variety of 3G BREW phones on Big Red. Skype is already available on devices like the Motorola Droid but it is now coming to devices like the LG enV Touch, Chocolate Touch and the Samsung Reality. With the…
Verizon Wireless took a step back from its smartphone fiesta and added the Samsung Gusto to its lineup of feature phones. The Samsung Gusto is your standard flip phone with a two-inch inner display, mobile web browser, and Bluetooth support. Other features on this entry level handset include: 2-inch QVGA inner display and a 1-inch…
Just as we expected, Namco Networks is bringing Firemint’s highly popular Flight Control game to more mobile phone users. The original iPhone title is one of the best-selling games in the AppStore, so we were not surprised when we’ve heard Namco wants to port it to other mobile platforms. And that’s exactly what they did,…