Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Nov 18, 2008 5:23 pm
Filed in LG, Rumors
The crisis in the global economy is not slowing LG down, at least not on paper. According to Pocket Lint, LG is planning to release 125 unique handsets next year. These are not 17 phones in a rainbow of colors but 125 individual handset models. The UK alone will supposedly receive 25 of these new [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Oct 29, 2008 6:07 pm
Filed in Android, Asus, Rumors
It looks like Asus isn’t just stepping its game in the netbook market next year. Hot on the heels of launching its first Windows Mobile handsets, company sources revealed today that Asus may be jumping feet first into the Android handset market as well. Its first Android-powered handset is expected to debut in the first [...]
HP added two new Windows Mobile handsets, the Data Messenger and Voice Messenger, to its enterprise messenger line of smartphones on Monday. The Data Messenger is a touchscreen slider while the Voice messenger is non-touchscreen candy bar with a Blackberry Pearl-style SureType keyboard. The two phones are business oriented and lack some of the high [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Oct 21, 2008 11:34 am
Filed in Handsets, Motorola
Motorola announced on Tuesday its new luxury phone, the Motorola AURA. The AURA features the world’s first circular display with 16 million colors and 300 dpi resolution and is the first phone to really capture that “cyclops” look. You wont need an invisible shield for this phone as the display is covered with Grade 1, [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Oct 20, 2008 11:27 am
Filed in Handsets, LG, Samsung, Sprint
Ready for your buying pleasure from Sprint are two new QWERTY texting phones and one dual-sliding music phone. The LG Lotus and the Samsung Rant give texting fanatics two new choices for finger flying messaging. The LG Lotus is the more compelling of the two with a square design that looks like a someone took [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Oct 18, 2008 12:42 pm
Filed in Handsets, Rumors, Sony Ericsson
This one is for you hardcore Sony Ericsson fans. The folks over at SEMC blog compiled a list of the upcoming Sony Ericsson phones with their codenames and known features. No new smartphones but a bunch of Cybershots, a few Walkmans and one phone rocking HSUPA are on the near horizon. The rumored early 2009 [...]
Posted by Joshua Karp on Jul 24, 2008 3:53 pm
Filed in Handsets, Rumors, Windows Mobile
The Zune Phone has been rumored for about as long as we can remember, but Microsoft has been doing their best to squash any and all rumors related to it’s possible existence and/or development. Just today, however, the company’s CEO Steve “I Heart Beer” Ballmer made a subtle reference to a possible change of course [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jul 15, 2008 10:18 am
Filed in BlackBerry, Handsets, RIM
Expansys doesn’t seem to be in any rush to pull a seemingly large mistake from its UK and Irish sites, but we imagine they will soon enough. What exactly is the mistake you ask? Well a quick click on the read link will bring you to an Expansys page where you can pre-order the “BlackBerry [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jun 9, 2008 10:54 am
Filed in Handsets, Samsung
Look! Look! Apple announced the new iPhone ahead of schedule! Huh? Wait a minute, is that a decent camera? Ok ok, that’s not an iPhone at all. Samsung appears to be doing their best imitation of the dumb kid that used to copy all of your test answers over your shoulder back in elementary school. [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jun 6, 2008 9:42 am
Filed in Handsets, Sony Ericsson
Scoring a 9.5 out of 10 on the BGR WTF-o-meter, Sony Ericsson has apparently teamed up with MTV to concoct a handset with hideousness that will haunt our dreams forever. The W760 MTV Edition mobile phone, beyond being a design monstrosity, is identical to the standard W760 specs-wise. The phone that hides beneath the colorful [...]
Posted by The Boy Genius on May 31, 2008 2:18 pm
Filed in BlackBerry, Rumors
We’re so confused…Engadget picked up this photo from HorizonWireless and they claim it to be a picture of the BlackBerry Thunder. Ah, come on, guys, you don’t remember the Thunder? In all seriousness, we’re just not sure about the legitimacy surrounding the above photo snap. It does look like our render, though, just as it [...]
Posted by The Boy Genius on May 29, 2008 12:13 pm
Filed in Exclusives, Handsets, Motorola
Don’t even ask how this one showed up on our desk this morning. But it’s here, the much-awaited much-rumored 5 megapixel camera phone from Motorola with the Kodak lens. This is a slider phone running on the MOTOMAGX Linux platform, and it’s actually not the worst looking phone. There is one major issue we ran [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on May 28, 2008 11:23 am
Filed in Handsets, Samsung, Symbian
Samsung used the S60 Summit in Barcelona Spain today to announce a new S60 slider that has the blogosphere talking. With a sexy brushed steel face, a slender physique and RAZR-esque flush keypad, the L870 is bound to turn some heads once released. The specs aren’t too shabby either:
HSDPA (2100MHz) 3.6Mbps + EDGE/GPRS 900/1800/1900
2.4 inch [...]