The Sony Ericsson Idou is still riding the hype-wave generated by Sony Ericsson’s PR team, and with good reason – the Sony Ericsson Idou smartphone boasts a class-leading 12-megapixel autofocus camera, GPS, WiFi, and the Symbian Foundation OS. As a smartphone, the Symbian Foundation OS is expected to deliver all the functionality you could want,…
Sony Ericsson booth tour from the Fira Barcelona
Sony Ericsson’s booth at Mobile World Congress wasn’t as big as we remember it being last year, but was nevertheless impressively stocked with new hardware from the Japanese-Swedish cellphone maker. The newly unveiled Sony Ericsson Idou 12-megapixel smartphone was on-deck as the highlight Sony Ericsson’s Barcelona appearance was the. With an industry-leading 12 megapixel camera…
O3SIS launches multi-platform smartphone clients for data sync, media backup and push email
O3SIS launched the new version of its device client suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards, O3SIS’ new offering enables users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support push-email capabilities of today’s smartphone platforms like iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and…
Skuku joins mobile VoIP space
Another company is joining the ever growing mobile VoIP space. It’s called Skuku and they’ve launched a Windows Mobile client to allow low-cost phone calls for the users of smartphones running Microsoft’s mobile OS. By now you probably already know how these things work – you start the app and it will route international calls…
Mobile industry unites for universal, energy-efficient chargers
You know how it goes when you switch from one handset maker to the other one? Your old cables are useless with the new phone. Handset makers know that but they don’t seem to care much. No more! At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA along with 17 leading mobile operators and manufacturers committed…
LG to pre-install GyPSii software on its devices
LG and GyPSii announced a partnership to embed GyPSii’s “location-enabled mobile digital lifestyle application” on a range of new mobile devices. Under the agreement, LG mobile phone users will have access to utilize GyPSii services — including user generated content sharing, friend finding and social networking application, as well as the ability to view it…
Blyk, Velti partner for new content service
Mobile marketing and content services technology provider Velti and ad-supported mobile operator Blyk have partnered to launch the new Blyk content portal called “On Blyk.” Built primarily on messaging, the new service is already available to Blyk’s UK customers. Here’s how “On Blyk” works (from the press release): The new portal acts as a conduit…
Acer Shell UI video demonstration
As part of Acer’s inaugural push into the smartphone space, the computer-maker turned mobile phone vendor used the Mobile World Congress world-stage to showcase their new Windows Mobile UI overlay, the widget-based Acer Shell UI. The whole idea behind a Windows Mobile UI overlay is to give the customer a more intuitive and finger-friendly UI…
Touchatag Introduces RFID Developer APIs, Enterprise Solutions
One of the companies showing off at Showstoppers was Touchatag, which you might know as tikitag; they had been working on a 2D barcode scanner and RFID detector which allowed for contactless close-range communication between tagged objects and your phone. In addition to their rebranding, Touchatag is now offering an extended API for developers to…
A sneak peek at i-mate’s credit card sized i-mate Centurion
The model name for i-mate’s upcoming super-slim Windows Mobile smartphone conjures up images of an American Express credit card. And so it should. The not-yet-announced i-mate Centurion’s name is something of an ode to the credit card that inspired its size and form-factor. Barely thicker than half a deck of playing cards and almost exactly…