Remember that beautifully slick clamshell from BenQ? It was basically the BenQ’s last push for industry legacy as the company’s finances were circling the drain. Still, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this sleek new handset – and now we have some shots of this puppy in the flesh! The chrome accents and sliding…
Archives for 2007
AVG Mobile Security BETA released for Symbian UIQ 3 smartphones
I’m not aware of any existing virus for Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ 3-based smartphones. Yet, the company that develops the popular AVG security software Grisoft announced AVG Mobile Security BETA for the mentioned devices (Sony Ericsson M600, W950 and P990). They want to scare us or what? Symbian v9.x that runs under the UIQ 3…
OneTrip, first iPhone-optimized 3rd party (Web) app
OneTrip is a Web-based shopping list application, specially optimized to work with the upcoming iPhone. At the moment, it is only accessible via Safari browser — it doesn’t work with both Firefox and IE. However, I’ve managed to try out OneTrip using the Opera browser that comes with my Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. There you…
Four Sony Ericsson concept handsets: W990i, K850i, K1i and Mc700i
Tomorrow is THE day for the Swedish-Japanese handset manufacturer. And while we’re still wondering what will Sony Ericsson announce, designers around the world have been busy designing their own SE concepts. Today, we’re presenting you with the four such designs, all spotted during the last few days. Hopefully, we’ll see some handset manufacturer (it doesn’t…
Video: Riding around on a motorcycle, in China, pimping the Nokia brand
Best job ever! Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the guy in the video Jan Chipchase? [Via: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]
Syncing with the Birds: New software allows Windows Mobile devices to synchronize with Thunderbird and Sunbird
I’ve came across an interesting piece of software that allows synchronization between Pocket Outlook and Thunderbird, Lightning or Sunbird. This way you could use one of the three mentioned non-Outlook email/PIM apps on your PC, and still make it work (sync) with your Windows Mobile-based smartphone. For one thing this is good — I can…
Chart: iPhone buyer profile
Cellular-News received a series of graphics from Solutions Research Group, illustrating the profile of people who are interested in buying the 4GB version of the Apple iPhone. The information comes from SRG’s independent syndicated trend study called Digital Life America, and the results are based on an online survey of 1,230 American consumers during the…
Blackberry 8707h now understands Japanese
So far BlackBerry addicts in Japan have been able to get their “push dose” only in English. Now that changed, as RIM and NTT DoCoMo have announced the Blackberry 8707h with support for Japanese language. As part of the launch pack, the two companies will also release localized versions of BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry…
Independence Day is coming; Get ready for Sprint’s “wireless evolution”
Hmm. Sprint is cooking up something interesting. Apparently, the carrier is planning to announce something uber-cool on the Independence Day. The teaser site is quazi-live (accessible only via Google cache) and suggests something with music, messaging, TV, search and navigation. If we’re in the Q2 2008, I would bet on WiMAX. Since it’s not, my…
For true addicts only: 16 iPhone UI “changes” since MacWorld
Have you noticed the changes on the iPhone? According to the article on TheSimpleWebSolution, there are at least 16 changes on Apple’s flagship device happened between Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynote and the latest iPhone commercials. Please note that these are all minor changes, and are actually important only for true Apple addicts. Let’s roll…