HTC is taking full advantage of the global audience here at Mobile World Congress with the launch of their next-generation smartphones, like the HTC Legend. Today, HTC announced the HTC Legend as the successor to its wildly popular HTC Hero. The Legend takes the Hero’s recipe for Android greatness and spices it up a bit…
HTC unveils HTC HD Mini as compact HTC HD2 at Mobile World Congress
If you like what the HTC HD2 has to offer, but you just can’t deal with the extra heft that the 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen brings to the table, HTC has something just for you. The company that brought us the single most impressive Windows Phone on the planet (for now) has just unveiled the HD2’s…
Discretix to provider DRM solution for Sony Ericsson’s Android and Windows Mobile smartphones
Sony Ericsson has chosen Discretix‘ Multi-Scheme DRM Client to “protect distribution and consumption of multimedia content” for its PlayNow services. The Swedish-Japanese handset maker will use Discretix’ solution on its smartphones running Windows Mobile and Android operating systems. I’m not a DRM expert, hence here’s and expert from Discretix’ press release which takes about their…
TrueCar Launches Mobile Site
TrueCar.com has launched a mobile optimized version of its consumer website, which is available for all web-enabled mobile devices, including Apple iPhone and BlackBerry. It utilises the same easy-to-follow interface as the car pricing website, and the mobile version now allows car buyers to pull up competitive price reports while at a dealership to ensure…
Vopium launches IM on iPhone
Fairly brief one this one – Vopium, a free piece of software to help you route least cost calls, are taking a major step forward, by introducing Instant Messaging – initially, for the iPhone. Now you can make FREE calls to Skype, Gtalk and other Vopium users when they are online. You can chat with…
Wireway (by Konami) now available on Apple App Store
Konami Digital Entertainment have announced that WireWay is now available on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. It was initially released to gamers on the Nintendo DS, but players will now be able to use the innovative touch controls to safely guide the ‘loveable alien’ ‘named Wiley 🙂 In WireWay, players…
CAT Launches Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot in Thailand
Novatel Wireless, a provider of wireless broadband access solutions, has announced that CAT, the only CDMA operator in Thailand, is launching the Novatel Wireless’ MiFiâ„¢ 2220 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot. For those of you that don’t remember, the MiFi platform creates a personal cloud of high-speed Internet connectivity that can be easily shared between multiple users…
Acer unveils 5 more smartphones and a dual-boot netbook
In addition to the Liquid e, Acer unveiled 5 new smartphones and a dual-boot netbook at the show. I’ll be as brief as possible to sum up each of the phone’s key features. But before we start with the list, you should know that neoTouch phones run Windows Mobile (version 6.5.3), whereas beTouch and Ferrari…
ST-Ericsson U8500: 45 nm, 1.2 GHz, dual core, ARM Cortex A9
Forget everything you know about how fast smartphones are right now, because once you buy something with the dual core ST-Ericsson U8500 inside, then you’re going to have your face blown off. You’re looking at a chip manufactured on a 45 nm process packing 2 ARM Cortex A9 processors, each humming along at 1.2 GHz.…
Nuance unveils T9 Write handwriting technology for touchscreen devices
Nuance has unveiled T9 Write, a version of its T9 predictive text technology specially tailored for touchscreen devices. The new tech blends handwriting input with Nuance XT9 predictive text technology to “enhance the recognition of naturally shaped letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation.” In other words, the software will predict words as you write them. Here…