Anonymous tipster sent this to Engadget. Apparently, the already confirmed device is set for the AT&T/Cingular, and it’s already present on the carrier’s internal website. What potential users will get is a business-centric device that is smaller — easier to carry around than the 8800 (as you can see from here). Now, we just have…
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First carrier-branded mobile search launched by Alltel and JumpTap
Alltel Wireless and JumpTap announced the launch of the first carrier-branded mobile search application to be pre-installed on handsets with a dedicated search key. The new search key launches an Alltel-branded BREW client that presents the subscribers with a search box to find content, services and information. Two companies are arguing that the visibility of…
Motorola action figures
Motorola has teamed up with Hong Kong artist Eric So to action figures. Yes, you’ve read that correctly — I’m talking about toys. The new Moto toys are of Chinese stars Jay Chou and Zhou Xu holding the Moto E6 and MOTOKRZR. I doubt will see them hitting the Western world markets, but who knows.…
Touchscreen with a force feedback video
What have we here? A kick-ass technology that should extend the usefulness of the touchscreen by providing a force feedback. According to the company behind this technology, F-Origin, their “HaptiTouch” creates a mechanical key press sensation on a touchscreen. Furthermore, the following video also showcases their other two technologies which somehow resembles the iPhone’s functionality.…
Nokia Open Wins 4G Concept Phone Contest
Nokia’s Open Concept Phone is the product of a design competition held by Nokia for a new 4G concept phone. The Open Concept phone features a swing-arm that opens a touchscreen LCD. The screen kinda unrolls out of the arm and ‘opens’ up a lot touchable real estate and then closes into a barely-there diminutive…
Motorola Goes Retro With New StarTac Model – StarTac III MS900
No, it’s not that decade old flip-phone. Motorola is reliving the good ole’ days with a modern take on the StarTac. Motorola’s previous StarTac was one of the hottest phones back in its day, we remember Magic Johnson carrying on his hip when coaching games (wow, that really was a long time ago). We already…
N95 Destroyed! – Guts Lay Bare
Apparently, some stinkin’ rich bad-ass in put the hurt on his brand spankin’ new (and likewise expensive) Nokia N95 “smartphone.” It seems that in his post-relationship-breakup rage he was on edge (can you really blame the guy?). The Nokia N95’s failure to locate him with GPS and the constantly disconnecting GPRS connection pushed him over…
Leaked Photo Of The “Zante” – Sidekick X?
The best leaks are always unintentional, if sometimes unreliable. The latest such leak comes to us in embedded EXIF image data from a photo on Flickr. The EXIF info suggests that the pic may have been snapped with a “Danger Zante.” Now, this mention of a Danger Zante, may be referring to the Zante codename…
Engadget: If the N95 had USA 3G we would buy it
Chris Ziegler wrote a brief review of the N95. He likes the audio quality and the ability to plug in his 3.5 mm Shures. Camera functionality is great compared to $300 point and shoots, GPS takes way too long to lock on, out of memory errors are annoying and "this is the best S60 device…
LG Issues Cease-And-Desist To Hong Kong Shops For Carrying LG SHINE Clone
Sam Chan, over at gearfuse, reports that LG has taken pre-emptive action against rip-offs of its uber-stylin’ LG SHINE phones. “Replicas” can hurt sales of popular phones, even before they start shipping. So LG made the move to squash the possibility of any “replica” gaining enough popularity to cut into LG SHINE revenues – by…