Nokia’s on a press junket craze like no other recently. The Nokia N81, the Nokia N95 8GB Black, all those Nokia accessories, and not to mention the Nokia 5310 and 5610 Xpress Music Phones – it’s a lot in such a short timeframe. We’ve barely had time to process the results of the Nokia GoPlay…
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Opera launches Opera Mini 4 beta2 – Dimension gets some new features
The best mobile browser has finally gone beta 2.0 ! We love the Opera Mini 4 Dimension browser for our non-touchscreen handsets – and the Opera team has just released their second beta. Dimension was initially released in beta form to much fanfare and anticipation. Our resident Nokia fanatic, Stefan, tested the hell out of…
HTC gets real with the HTC Touch II (Nike) TouchFLO smartphone – DoCoMo’s HTC HT1100
It’s finally here folks. After much speculation and a handful of spy pics, HTC has finally gone official with their HTC P5500 Touch II (codenamed “Nike”) Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional smartphone. Unfortunately for those residing within US borders, the HTC Nike is making its debut on Japan’s DoCoMo network, renamed (just like carriers love to…
First Chinese phone with full QWERTY slide out keyboard
Chinese have did it again. This time I’m not talking about a clone device — or at least I think I’m not — but about the first China-made device which sports the slide out keyboard. Although, it DOES resemble some smartphones from the HTC portfolio, it’s kinda hard to patent the slide out mechanism, hence…
Samsung SGH-i620 Windows Mobile 6 smartphone officially announced
We’ve already talked about Samsung SGH-i620 and discussed that it will most probably be carried by Vodafone across Europe. Now, the smartphone has been officially announced and soon we could expect it to hit all major European markets. Apparently, the QWERTY (or AZERTY or QWERTZ – depending of the country) keyboard equipped slider will see…
Old Ericsson phone made out of wood
No, this isn’t some exclusive eco-friendly exclusive handset. Rather it’s an old Ericsson phone made out of wood and it’s coming from Russia. Actually, everything outside has been replaced with wood except buttons and display. Also, I doubt there are any changes in terms of device’s hardware — it remains the basic phone that can…
Palm Island in the Carribean bans mobiles on beach
Now, I can understand governments are banning officials to use mobile phones at the cabinet meetings, but banning the mobile phone usage on a beach just doesn’t make much sense. It’s not a spa, people are heading to beach for different reasons – why would someone ban you from using your phone? Privacy of other…
Vodafone offers Pocket Gamer’s content to its subscribers
Vodafone is one smart company when they decided to bundle content from the Pocket Gamer website to their mobile portal. Naturally, not all content will be available through Vodafone — only the games selling through their Vodafone Live! service. Still, it’s nice to see the big company like Vodafone offering some independent editorial to educate…
Live full-length college football games coming to V CAST Mobile TV
To get more subscribers to use advanced services, Verizon keeps pumping its mobile TV offering with additional content. Now, they are teaming up with Qualcomm-owned MediaFLO to bring live, full-length college football games from a variety of broadcast and cable networks to their V CAST Mobile TV service. Apparently, the carrier scheduled to air more…
Hands on Nokia N81 music phone
Apart from luxury Vertu phones, Nokia N81 is one of the most beautiful phones Finish handset manufacturer has ever made. The stylish slider is a music and gaming dedicated device, powered by Symbian OS V9.2 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (S60 3.1). It’s selling in two flavors – one with the microSD expansion…