Apart from the LG Prada phone, Shine is the LG’s best-looking device. Now, Korean company goes one step further by introducing the Shine Gold edition. As the name says, the new Shine is for the rich who actually wants to look rich while using the cell phone. Except its distinctive color, the device should be…
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.NET Compact Framework 1.0 for S60 platform released
Now this is big. It seems that the long-time awaited .NET Compact Framework 1.0 for Nokia Symbian S60 smartphones has been released by Red Five Labs, with a no-royalties runtime. The significance of this release is hard to deny, as it may bring more applications and developers to the S60 platform, which is known for…
Nokia 6267!?
Nokia is always working on new device. Just recently, Slashphone spotted a profile for the still unannounced Nokia device – 6267. Apparently, the upcoming Nokia handset will be a Series 40 device and will sport a standard QVGA screen (240×320) in the portrait mode. Furthermore, the Nokia 6267 will be a 3G device, and our…
Sony Ericsson’s two new devices!?
It seems that Sony Ericsson is working on the new phones. After their announced acquisition of the UIQ Technology, many people (including myself) expected to see the Japanese-Swedish company announcing the new smartphones at 3GSM. However, they only announced a pair of new stylish Walkman and Cybershot phones a day before the event.
AMD to bring console-quality graphics to handhelds
AMD announced its strategy to enable console-quality games and multimedia content to handheld devices. In that sense, AMD is introducing a suite of tools to help content creators develop applications for handheld devices based on OpenVG 1.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 standards and AMD’s patented Unified Shader Architecture (used in Xbox 360). AMD’s suite of…
More HTC devices are coming: HTC S730 (Wings) and HTC P6300 (Panda)
Good ol’ HTC, just when they announce a device… more are coming. It’s already not-that-easy to differentiate among their many (similar) products. Anyway, two new HTC devices were rumored these days…
MontaVista linux phones set to be released in Italy
MontaVista Software’s leading mobile Linux distribution has recently found another partner. Italy-based OEM, Enteos, will use MontaVista’s Linux on its two smartphones – iGO730 and LinAP. Enteos expects that such, Linux-based devices which will among other things bring a WiFi connectivity, will attract business users. I guess that these two devices will soon hit the…
Nokia E65: The little things
Most mobile phone reviews online are the same: size, weight, OS, call quality. You don’t really get an accurate portrait of what makes that device unique. Ed over at E-Series shares what owning an E65 is like after a few weeks. He talks about all the little things that other reviews might have missed. Lots…
Nokia to sponsor SIGIR 07
I know what you’re thinking. What is SIGIR? IGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the field of information retrieval. Nokia has chosen to be a bronze sponsor. Why am I bringing this up? Look who else is sponsoring the…
The SDHC meme has started
I’ve written about SDHC several (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) times. In a nutshell it is an updated version of the SD standard that will let you use between 4GB and 32GB of storage. The current SD spec allows only 2GB. You can get a standard 2GB SD card for less than $20, miniSD will…