Good Technology is teaming up with LG to include “Good for You” offering on a range of LG mobile phones across markets of Europe, Asia and Latin America. The first devices with Good’s software are also announced and they are GW520, GW550, GW620, GD510, GM730 and GM750. These phones packed with Good’s software will be…
HTC Desire: The Nexus One with a dash of Sense UI, finally official; hitting T-Mobile UK March 26th
We’ve been seeing leaked images of the HTC Desire/Bravo for several months now, and the latest leak late night pretty much hit the nail on the head, so we’re glad to see this thing finally become official. As expected, the Desire is nothing more than a Google Nexus One, but with the HTC Sense UI…
HTC announces the HTC Legend – Unibody aluminum construction, Android 2.1 OS, revamped Sense homescreen
HTC is taking full advantage of the global audience here at Mobile World Congress with the launch of their next-generation smartphones, like the HTC Legend. Today, HTC announced the HTC Legend as the successor to its wildly popular HTC Hero. The Legend takes the Hero’s recipe for Android greatness and spices it up a bit…
HTC unveils HTC HD Mini as compact HTC HD2 at Mobile World Congress
If you like what the HTC HD2 has to offer, but you just can’t deal with the extra heft that the 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen brings to the table, HTC has something just for you. The company that brought us the single most impressive Windows Phone on the planet (for now) has just unveiled the HD2’s…
Discretix to provider DRM solution for Sony Ericsson’s Android and Windows Mobile smartphones
Sony Ericsson has chosen Discretix‘ Multi-Scheme DRM Client to “protect distribution and consumption of multimedia content” for its PlayNow services. The Swedish-Japanese handset maker will use Discretix’ solution on its smartphones running Windows Mobile and Android operating systems. I’m not a DRM expert, hence here’s and expert from Discretix’ press release which takes about their…
Acer unveils 5 more smartphones and a dual-boot netbook
In addition to the Liquid e, Acer unveiled 5 new smartphones and a dual-boot netbook at the show. I’ll be as brief as possible to sum up each of the phone’s key features. But before we start with the list, you should know that neoTouch phones run Windows Mobile (version 6.5.3), whereas beTouch and Ferrari…
ST-Ericsson U8500: 45 nm, 1.2 GHz, dual core, ARM Cortex A9
Forget everything you know about how fast smartphones are right now, because once you buy something with the dual core ST-Ericsson U8500 inside, then you’re going to have your face blown off. You’re looking at a chip manufactured on a 45 nm process packing 2 ARM Cortex A9 processors, each humming along at 1.2 GHz.…
Ultrabrief: LiMo and Symbian join Adobe’s Open Screen Project
Adobe’s Open Screen Project, also known operation “we need to put flash on mobile phones before people start preferring to make mobile optimized websites”, just got two new members today: Symbian and LiMo. Consumers can look forward to “enjoying” the Flash enabled web on their mobile phone, namely videos and advertisements. Developers can look forward…
Quick Mobile World Congress 2010 Status Update
Dusan is on the left, Will is on the right.
Nuance unveils T9 Write handwriting technology for touchscreen devices
Nuance has unveiled T9 Write, a version of its T9 predictive text technology specially tailored for touchscreen devices. The new tech blends handwriting input with Nuance XT9 predictive text technology to “enhance the recognition of naturally shaped letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation.” In other words, the software will predict words as you write them. Here…