Following on yesterday’s official announcement that the UK iPhone will be the responsibility of UK wireless carrier O2, Apple today announced that the German iPhone carrier will indeed be Deutsch Telekom’s T-Mobile – as we expected. Germany and the UK will see Apple dopping the iPhone simultaneously on November 9. T-Mobile Germany reportedly agreed to…
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Motorola cutting research costs by 15% to appease share holders
Motorola can be summed up in one sentence: Amazing designers, horrible software developers. After loosing the number 2 spot in market share to Samsung they had a serious look at their product line and came to realization that they are not innovating. How is cutting R&D funding going to help them solve that problem? It…
Proporta launches 30 gram Bluetooth GPS keychain
Filed under the “holy cow technology is making things smaller” category we have the Freedom Keychain GPS SiRF III Receiver. As the name suggest it has a SiRF III chip inside and is literally meant to be attached to your keys. A 450 mAh battery is set to power this puppy for up to 10…
Since when does Steve Jobs talk about unreleased products? 3G iPhone promisied for next year
Steve Jobs’ used to have impressive keynotes. I don’t use any Apple products, yet I still downloaded every single talk he gave because there was a lot to learn from him about how he used the English to try and push a product. It used to be we would listen to a speech in anticipation…
Nokia, it’s time for black Bluetooth keyboard and a gamepad
The time has come for Nokia to release black Bluetooth keyboard. All the latest Nokia smartphones come in black, including the N81 and N95 8GB models. You may argue, those two are NSeries devices, hence with these two, Nokia is NOT targeting enterprise users who may actually need an external full-blown QWERTY keyboard. I do…
Bluetooth mini phone headset
Here’s an interesting Bluetooth headset, strangely called “Bluetooth Mini Phone”, which looks like those old-fashioned telephone handsets. And while it requires that you hold it while making a phone call, it will certainly look more fashionable while you’re out and not driving. In that sense, I like it. Unfortunately, at the moment you can’t buy…
I-play announces 11 new mobile games
Looks like I-play have been busy working on the new games for mobile phones. In the next weeks and months, we’ll see 11 new titles released by the mobile games publisher. Let’s very briefly go through all of them: Hexic – logical game created by the same guy who created Tetris, Alexei Pajitnov. It’s a…
Mobile watch phone with a touchscreen
Again I’m going back to writing about watch phones. Don’t know why I’m doing so, guess I secretly want one… or not. 🙂 Today we’re presenting you with a China-made watch phone which also comes with a touchscreen. In addition, this one doesn’t look that bad — not that it’s cool lookin’ or something, it’s…
Highly unlikely: Sony Ericsson to make Windows Mobile smartphones?
Taiwan-based Commercial Times reported that HTC has received ODM orders to make Windows Mobile smartphones for Sony Ericsson. The news goes on, suggesting that the first such devices will hit the market in the second half of 2008… Let’s see what we can pull out from this, shall we. First, you should know Sony Ericsson…
Samsung SGH-i560 GPS Symbian slider heading to Vodafone
I just don’t get Samsung why they keep hiding their Symbian smartphones from us. The Korean giant is currently selling its smartphones in selected non-western countries (Russia) and through Vodafone. I guess the Big Red insists on exclusivity, but still we wouldn’t mind seeing some of the Samsung Symbian smartphones available OUTSIDE Vodafone’s offering. Anyway,…