The iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger has been upgraded to “coming soon” status! The new iPAQ phone from HP is built around VoIP and packs in a quad-band EDGE radio, with Windows Mobile 6.0 running the show. We don’t want to take away from the phone’s WM6 OS, but the real draw of this phone is…
Archives for 2007
HTC Sees 20% Jump in Year-on-Year Revenues
HTC has reported that its revenue has increased 19.7% from April 2006. This amounts to revenues of $273.8 million, but it doesn’t stop there. Taiwan-based analysts are putting HTC’s second quarter growth at 15%, due to an increase in self-branded handset releases. But, we’ll have to wait and see how marketing and advertising costs, associated…
E-TEN goes VGA on the Thin Glofish X500
E-Ten has gone official with their Glofish X500 update. The E-Ten Glofish X500+ will update the GPS PocketPC with a full VGA resolution screen! As the first VGA device from E-Ten, the X500+ will get an enhanced Auto-Macro camera and..wait for it, Windows Mobile 6.0! E-Ten, we gotta hand it to you. At a time…
Run the latest WinMo 6 Office Suite on your Windows Mobile 5 smartphone
Tired of waiting for the Windows Mobile 6 update for your smartphone? It’s time to act. What you can do is install the WinMo 6 Office Suite on your device right now — without waiting for the handset manufacturer or a mobile operator to show some mercy. Point your browser here, download the file and…
Motorola Blames Financial Slump on Lack of 3G Phones – Vows to Change
Motorola’s newly-safe Chairman Zander announced a new plan to Motorola’s shareholders. Zander said, on Monday, that the recent slump in Motorola’s finances was attributable to the lack of 3G handsets. The second-largest handset manufacturer has (another) plan to keep that red-ink off its accounting sheets. Motorola intends to introduce a bevy of new devices with…
Sony Ericsson Announces New Phones
We got word today that Sony Ericsson isn’t stopping with that awesome S500 “not-a-Walkman” Walkman Phone. The company has announced 3 additional handsets – all slated for a 2007 release. The new Sony Ericsson line-up looks pretty impressive – the S500 brings a 2MP shooter, stereo Bluetooth, and EDGE in a sleek, US-bound slider; the…
Evening with S60 Helsinki: June 14, 2007
Huge thanks to reader R2 for finding the Evening with S60 Helsinki registration page: Hey all you S60 enthusiasts in and around Helsinki! Our "An Evening with S60" event first touched down in New York City, then Chicago, now we’re trying to score a hat trick with Helsinki! So you’re all very warming welcomed to…
HTC acquires Dopod; Announces Global Branding Strategy
HTC, the world’s leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile PDAs and smartphones, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Dopod’s subsidiaries across Asia at the sum of Dopod’s adjusted net worth at the end of Q2 2007. The deal, which is still subject to shareholder approval, will “deliver” Dopod’s retail expertise and subsidiaries…
DataViz announces Documents To Go for BlackBerry; Joins UIQ Alliance Partner Program
DataViz announced the latest addition to its popular mobile Office editing suite: Documents To Go for BlackBerry. The new mobile office suite is expected to ship later this year, and will enable BlackBerry users to access, view, edit and create Native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on their devices. Using DataViz’s InTact Technology technology,…
Vodafone Australia will NOT cripple Nokia N95’s VoIP capabilities
In reaction to the criticism for crippling the Nokia N95’s VoIP capabilities, Vodafone decided NOT to go this way in Australia. In the earlier post we talked about how carriers have pulled out VoIP services from the Nokia N95. They haven’t did that completely, and VoIP providers found the way to get around the barriers,…