With a little luck, we’ll see the Finnish cellphone giant pushing a new lineup of touchscreen smartphones on the Fira de Barcelona show-floor at Mobile World Congress next week. In a video interview with the Nokia N97 designer, Nokia shows off a couple new touchscreen smartphones with impressive feature-sets. The two new finger-friendly Nokia handsets…
Opera Mobile Going Turbo at Mobile World Congress
With only a few days left before Mobile World Congress gets underway in Barcelona, the announcements are bound to start pouring in, including this one from Opera Mobile. Opera Turbo is geared primarily to OEM and service providers, boasting 80% traffic compression by using their usual trick of processing sites on their servers then shunting…
Gigabyte’s GSmart S1200 Windows Mobile smartphone coming to Mobile World Congress
Gigabyte is preparing to roll-out new phones at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We’ve heard the company will unveil the 0.43-inches thick (or that’s thin) GSmart S1200, the all-touchscreen device that runs Windows Mobile 6.1 with Gigabyte’s own UI called Smart Zone on top of it. We don’t have much details at this…
Garmin-Asus releases G60 specs; Introduces nuvifone M20
You’ve probably already heard that Garmin and Asus have formed a partnership to jointly develop location-aware smartphones. Today we have two news to report from the new company. Let’s roll, shall we? First, we got the official specs of the G60, aka the original nüvifone. The Garmin-Asus’ smartphone will come with a quad-band GSM radio,…
ZTE to have 10 smartphones at display at Mobile World Congress 2009
We’ve already wrote about ZTE’s plans to enter the smartphone market. During the Mobile World Congress which starts on Monday, the Chinese company will have 10 such devices on display at its booth (Hall 8, B127). Among the devices we’ll be able to see is the Windows Mobile-powered VF 1231 model which has been developed…
Samsung Android phones delayed for now
It’s a sad day when we learned that we won’t see the first Samsung Android phone unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to the company mobile division’s head of marketing, Younghee Lee, there will be no Android phone at the show, but they are “planning internally” for a release in H2 2009,…
O2 launches O2 Academies with big name acts
Completing my trio of O2-related stories this fine day: O2 are having a launch party for the O2 academies, in support of the War Child Brits after Party. I’ll let them explain: Brixton Academy. Islington Academy. Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Now we’re part of it. To launch the O2 Academies, we’re supporting the War Child Brits…
Sprint readying Samsung Instinct Mini?
Sprint must really be busy readying new hardware, what with their continued delays in getting the Sprint Palm Treo Pro out to the waiting public. One of the new pieces of hardware rumored for Sprint’s 2009 lineup is smaller, thinner variant of Sprint’s most-popular smartphone, the Samsung Instinct. The original Sprint Samsung Instinct has the…
Sony Ericsson confirms ‘Filippa’ coming to MWC as Sony Ericsson C901 cameraphone
While it’s fun to speculate about an upcoming handset’s model name and possible feature-set, it’s even more fun when handset makers unveil their hardware earlier than expected. Sony Ericsson just made our day with their official unveiling of the Sony Ericsson C901, once known by its codename “Filippa.” The Sony Ericsson Filippa had been expected…
Latest Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots confirm Outlook Live, Marketplace, and My Phone branding
Just yesterday, Microsoft re-branded their SkyBox phone data-synchronization service as “My Phone.” Today, we see the cloud-sync service hanging out with the other WinMo applications in the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshot leak. Most impressive in the new screenshots is the refreshed Windows Media Player UI. With a more finger-friendly interface, the new WM Player…