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…
Acer Announces Tempo Smartphone Lineup
After a whole lot of talk, Acer has finally entered the smartphone market with four handsets in a Windows Mobile series dubbed Tempo. They all run Windows Mobile 6.1 and pack stylish touchscreens, but each with their own individual twist. Acer M900 The Acer M900 takes up Acer’s slider spot, and as such has…
Windows Announces Marketplace for Mobile, Preloaded on Windows Mobile 6.5
Nokia‘s not the only one announcing a mobile app store at Mobile World Congress 2009 – Microsoft, hot on the heels of their Windows Mobile 6.5 launch, have opened up on their own plans for on-device software browsing and downloading. There are more than a few advantages for Windows Mobile developers: An easily discovered on-device…
HTC Magic Launch Video at Mobile World Congress 2009
Here’s the quick hype video Vodafone showed us at their press conference, showing off all the snazzy utilities of Android running on their new Magic device. While I haven’t had the chance to try it hands-on just yet, a fellow blogger has assured me that it stands very separately from the G1. Honestly, I’ll believe…
Vodafone Announces Android-Powered HTC Magic
We had seen a few pictures of the next Android handset informally dubbed the G2, but now Vodafone and HTC have gone official with the European launch of the Magic. During Q&A they were rather mum about North American availability, but we do have some hard and fast specs. Really, it just boils down to…
Skype to Integrate with Nokia N97, Rest of N-Series to Come
The VoIP service provider we all know and love, Skype, has joined hands in holy softwarimony with handset giant Nokia, with apps preloaded on N97 models this third quarter. Awareness and instant messaging through Skype will be built right into the address book, and though starting only with the N97, should spread throughout the rest…
Samsung Launches Slim, Sexy Touchscreen Slider: Ultra Touch
The Samsung Ultra Touch was the last of three new handsets announced by Samsung today (the Blue Earth got an honourable mention). The S8300 is a classy little number with a slide-out keypad, full AMOLED WQVGA screen that clocks in at 2.8″ and 240 x 400 pixels. It’s packing an 8 meagpixel camera (like just about…
Samsung Launches two Beat Phones For DJs who Can’t Afford Turntables
Samsung’s has two new additions to their Beat lineup for the musically-inclined: the DJ M7600 and Disc M6710. Both feature HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps, 2.6″ AMOLED WQVGA (240 x 400 (touchscreens), 3 megapixel cameras, and very cool disc-style user interfaces. The Beat DJ features a remixing application that lets you bust out some impromptu scratch routines, including…
Samsung Launches Omnia HD
Omnia HD is now good and official, although it was previously spied as the i8910. The Omnia HD has all of the high-definition goodies you would expect, such as: HUSPA 5.76 Mbps / HSDPA 7.2 Mbps Quad-band EDGE 3.7″, 350 x 640 QHD AMOLED touchscreen DivX, XviD support Record HD video at 24 FPS DLNA…