LG debutes two new clamshells today, in a pre-CTIA announcement from Orlando, Florida. The LG VX8700 (pictured at left) and LG 570 were unveiled alongside a new Bluetooth Stereo Speaker system, dubbed the LG MSB-100. The LG VX8700’s thin, RAZR-like proportions indicate fashion phone aspirations, while the LG570’s music playback concentration lends to its role…
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It’s official: Nokia to build factory in Romania
A full two weeks after I blogged about the rumour, it finally happened: Nokia today announced that it will set up a manufacturing facility for mobile devices in the county of Cluj in Romania. Nokia anticipates investing an estimated EUR 60 million in the Cluj plant, which will be the company’s 11th mobile device production…
Sony Ericsson launches W580, Z750
Sony Ericsson today announced two new devices – W580, Walkman phone with street style, and Z750, the company’s first HSDPA device.
Happy birthday Palm Pilot
From Pilot connected organizer to the Treo smartphone, Palm has made a long way. After 10 years, the company that invented the handheld/PDA category and the mobile computing as we know it today is on the crossroad. The million dollar question, “how will buy Palm,” still waits to be answered. We were hopping that CTIA…
Discretix Multi-Scheme DRM Client on TI’s M-Shield mobile security platform
Discretix, the leading provider of embedded security and DRM solutions for mobile devices and flash memory, today announced the Discretix Multi-Scheme DRM client for TI OMAP platform. The company’s Multi-Scheme DRM takes advantage of TI’s M-Shield security technology for the OMAP platform creating a robust, highly secure and future-proof DRM solution that shortens development time…
Symbian first to deliver Arm Cortex-A8 technology for smartphones
Symbian Ltd. today announced that Symbian OS is the first mobile OS to support the new ARM Cortex-A8 processor currently running on TI OMAP3430, the first applications processor in 65nm technology. The technology enables significantly higher Symbian smartphone performance whilst maintaining greater power efficiency and lowering development costs for handset manufacturers. Symbian OS is also…
Pantech debuts new handsets at CTIA
At this year’s CTIA, Pantech will debut a selection of forthcoming handsets for the North American market. Among them:
Helio announces Ocean dual-slider phone
Helio just released the new device at CTIA in Orlando, called Ocean. Previously thought to be called Oz Smartphone, the Ocean is a feature-packed device with an innovative dual-slide design, that boasts both regular handset keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard.
Sony Ericsson and Sagem partner for entry-level cell phones
Sony Ericsson and Sagem just announced a partnership agreement under which Sagem will make entry-level devices for the Swedish-Japanese company. As part of the agreement Sagem will license certain hardware and software technologies to Sony Ericsson. In addition the two companies will conduct joint development activities. As part of its commitment to the new partnership,…
Sagem my215x – stylish entry level phone
I really try not to write too much about entry level devices, but from time to time something caught my eye and I just have to spill it out. That’s the case with the recently announced Sagem my215x, an entry level device that doesn’t sports much of the features, but is stylish enough to post…