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…
iPhone video recording, more features coming soon?
As long as the iPhone hacking community keeps jailbreaking the latest iPhone firmware updates, we have no problem with updating our handsets. However, should there come a time when iPhone hackers are unable to find a way into the iPhone’s file-system, Apple had better offer us some really, really, enticing features to get us to…
New HTC smartphone cleared by the FCC (Iris) looks familiar
Thanks to the good ol’ FCC, we’ve spotted a new CDMA-based HTC smartphone – Iris. As you can see from the image on the left, the device in question looks kinda familiar. Yeah, I’m talking about the phone used for demoing the Android platform. All the buttons are there and also is the screen size.…
China Unicom to carry the iPhone too?
File this under “highly unlikely to happen” because of two reasons: 1) China Unicom is a not really a “pure” GSM carrier (they have both GSM and CDMA network) and the iPhone relies on the GSM technology; 2) We’ve already posted China Mobile may be the carrier for the iPhone. Though the latter doesn’t confirm…
Spotlight search coming to iPhone next year?
The iPhone SDK is coming in February next year and apparently apart from the support for the third-party apps, we may also see the iPhone enhanced with Spotlight-like search. According to analyst at PiperJaffray – Gene Munster, we should expect the contextual search feature allowing the iPhone users to locate contacts, emails, phone numbers and/or…
Vodafone’s fights iPhone defection by taking customer service offline
We love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but they usually amount to nothing more than paranoid thinking. Then again, sometimes the coincidences can’t be ignored. The Inquirer’s got a conspiracy theory that’s just too juicy to dismiss off-hand. The theory goes something like this: iPhone launches in Europe Vodafone is…
Sprint to launch pink Palm Centro for Valentine’s Day?
Over at TreoCentral forums, what seems as a Sprint employee “ashblades” is claiming that the carrier along with Palm will be launching a pink Centro smartphone on February 8. The idea seems obvious — to increase the sales during the Valentine’s Day’s shopping season by appealing to females. Earlier we saw Sprint launching black and…
Canadians need some iPhone love too! Apple iPhone on Rogers in January?
Now that the Europeans officially have the iPhone (the UK and Germany do, at least – France’s Orange is slated for November 29), it’s time to turn our attention to our hockey-loving friends to the North. We’re talking about Canada, of course. When is the iPhone coming to Canada? Well, we’ve been hearing rumors left…
Motorola Q9H/Q2 for Sprint will run Palm OS?
File this under “unlikely to happen,” but if you look at the Motorola Q9h (or Q2 as they call it) on Sprint’s Christmas teaser site, you’ll notice the Palm OS like icons. Can you imagine Motorola using Palm OS on its devices? Now that would be something especially for the image of the struggling Palm…