We’ve already covered E-Ten’s Glofiish M800. Hack, we’ve even seen it passing the FCC hurdle. And now it’s out, just in time for Christmas season. The new device almost perfect. The things I don’t like include only 64MB of RAM, as well as 2 megapixel camera. Everything else rocks! There’s the 2.8″ VGA screen (640×480…
Bell Canada locks in HTC Touch with $7 unlimited data plan
Well, the cat’s officially out of the bag, tied down, and committed at this point. Bell Canada has just officially announced that they will indeed be bringing the HTC Touch (well, actually it’s the CDMA version – the HTC Vogue) to their Canadian subscriber base later this month. But the big news here is that…
HTC ships 1 million HTC Touch handsets in 6 months!
Hot on Apple’s tail, HTC has just announced their sales figures for the TouchFLO-based HTC Touch handset. The Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional-powered HTC Touch, released just this past June, has reportedly topped the 1 million-unit-mark as of the end of October, according to HTC CEO Peter Chou. Inching ever closer to Apple’s iPhone sales figures…
Asus prepping M930, Windows Mobile Communicator?
Apparently, Taiwan-based Asustek will be launching the Windows Mobile 6 powered Communicator device, M930, somewhere in Q1 2007. According to French site Mobinaute, the upcoming device will have a shape similar to the one of the Nokia Communicator series, sporting two screens – external for basic phone functionality and the bigger internal alongside the full…
Verizon may have Samsung i760 world phone in the works
We heard it on the grapevine. It seems that Verizon Wireless may be prepping a world-phone edition of their newly released Samsung i760 smartphone to pull duty as the jet-setting complement to the CDMA handset in the states. Word has it that the Samsung i760 world phone may rock EVDO for US-based phoning and GSM…
Brief: Sprint’s Motorola Q2 with Palm OS – for sure not going to happen
Remember that little holiday teaser from Sprint that just had to be a screw-up? You know, the one where the Motorola Q9c was renamed as the Motorola Q2, sporting what looked like Palm OS? Yea, well it turns out that it was a major screw-up by some advertising ‘tard at Sprint. Sprint’s promo site for…
ZenZui renamed to Zumobi; Public beta coming in December
Remember Microsoft’s ZenZui “zooming user interface?” Now forget its name – cause it has been changed to Zumobi. And while we’re still wondering how will the change of the name reflect to the future releases and whether we’ll actually see the ZUne phone which will be the flagship product with Zumobi UI, the team behind…
Microsoft getting into the mobile content business by acquiring Musiwave
Nokia has a music store, albeit only in the UK right now. Sony Ericsson will be launching Play Now Arena in the first half of next year. Now Microsoft has just purchased Musiwave for an undisclosed sum, giving them a foot in the content delivery business. Musiwave wasn’t a very profitable company, but they did…
HTC launches the HTC Touch Cruise
So, we’ve finally gotten the launch go-ahead from HTC on their new HTC Touch Cruise. Following on O2’s recent announcement that they’ll be bringing the HTC Touch Cruise (HTC Polaris P3650) to the UK as the O2 Xda Orbit 2, HTC has gone global with their shiny, new touchscreen device. The Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional-powered…
Video: Microsoft CEO and Symbian CEO talk smack about Google’s Android
I’m sure you’ve already read the quotes (here and here), but it is a completely different experiance watching their facial expressions. Steve looked relaxed, calm and unnerved. Nigel on the other hand looked a little bit tense. Now admittingly it could have been an upset stomach, jetlag, a multitude of things, but a mans face…