2 months ago we brought news of the supposed creation of this bastard child, we even saw some pictures and a video, well here it is in the flesh, again: 400 Euros for a very compact (88×54×8.9 mm) GSM/EDGE phone (no 3G) with 3 megapixel camera, 262K color 240×320 pixel touchscreen display, 50 MB of…
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Former Apple executive responsible for the iMac and iPod will lead Palm
Private equity firm, Elevation Partners, will pay $325 million in cash for a 25 percent stake in the company and Palm will pay a special distribution of $9 a share,or about $940 million in cash to shareholders for their reduction in ownership. Jonathan Rubinstein, the former head of the iPod division at Apple and creator…
White Nokia 7500/7900 Prism spotted
Roughly two weeks ago we’ve spotted the brown Nokia 7900 Prism passing the FCC hurdle. Now, we have first photos of the white Prism phone which, keeps the same look but also adds that “white touch” to the device. Somehow all pure white devices look iPodish to me. Guess Apple’s marketing affected me. However, have…
Garmin and TomTom to launch their own GPS-enabled phones this year?
It’s a fact that mobile phones with built-in GPS receivers will sooner or later kill the pure personal navigation devices. After all, who would want a device which only does a single task in the era of convergence. That being said, the latest rumor we have involves two navigation giants, Garmin and TomTom, which are…
Polytechnic students fly airplane with a mobile phone
Although we are getting used seeing mobile phones expanding their functionality every day, this one came as a surprise. Apparently, a research team of Mechanical Engineering Polytechnic College in Dattewal village of Moga district in Punjab was able to fly a scaled-down version of an airplane with the help of a mobile phone that worked…
Sony Ericsson W910i Kent special limited edition
Even though we still wait to see the Sony Ericsson’s shaky W910i Walkman phone released to the general public, that doesn’t stop the Swedish-Japanese handset maker to start working on the special limited version of the upcoming device. Along with the Swedish rock band Kent, they will be releasing the W910i special limited edition phone,…
Vodafone prepared to face the iPhone in UK?
Vodafone recently unveiled its Christmas collection which among other devices include the Nokia N95 8GB and Samsung F700 for which the carrier has an exclusive agreement. Beside the touchscreen, the so called “iPhone killer” also packs the HSDPA support as well as the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard — the features iPhone is missing. Vodafone seems…
Samsung U700 UFO transformer commercial
It seems everyone wants to be part of the Transformers buzz these days. We’ve seen several Nokia Transformers edition handsets, Motorola’s transforming phone, and even the Sony Ericsson transformers commercial for the W580i. Now, Samsung is joining the ride with its latest video ad for the U700 UFO phone. The phone itself is as slick…
New version of Documents To Go for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone or 6 Standard devices fully supports MS Office 2007 files
In case you wanted to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents on your Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone or 6 Standard based device, you’d be glad to know it’s now possible to do that. Dataviz just announced Documents To Go Premium Edition version 3.0010, “the first commercial Office solution in the mobile platform arena to offer complete…
Motorola RAZR2 V8 hitting T-Mobile in October
We knew this is coming – Motorola announced their brand new RAZR2 will be picked up by almost every single carrier in the country. And I guess T-Mobile wasn’t willing to pour out some additional cash to be among the first few. Whatever the case is, T-Mobile will be launching the new RAZR2 in V8…