Phone News
First Symbian^4 demo videos spotted, innovations missing
Mar 2nd
A few weeks back there were some speculations about Symbian’s future but as it seems, Nokia aren’t keen on leaving the most popular smartphone OS in the mud. Instead, Symbian OS is on its way to a total makeover just like Windows Mobile.
2009 world handset sales ranked, iPhone OS eats WinMo
Mar 2nd
Technology researchers from Gartner have come up with their annual report on mobile phone sales, 2009 edition. And it’s an interesting read.
In short, 2009 phones sales have remained flat despite the economic imbalances but there are some pretty interesting market share shifts.
First Snapdragon-powered Nokia phone in the works
Mar 2nd
It is probably an understatement that Nokia and Qualcomm have buried the hatchet. Kissed and made up is more like it. In a recent interview Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs reveals Nokia have a Snapdragon-powered Symbian smartphone in the pipeline. Due by the end of the year.
Microsoft’s own Windows Phone 7 device will be made by Asus?
Feb 20th
Windows Mobile is reborn. We all met the new Windows Phone 7 and by the end of the year we’ll meet the first smartphones based on it. Reportedly, Microsoft will launch their own phone in early 2011 as well. And it will be made by Asus.
Windows Mobile is dead, long live Windows Phone 6 Starter Edition
Feb 18th
If you thought Windows Mobile 6 was finally put to rest, guess again. It turns out there’s a little something called Windows Phone 6 Starter Edition, which is headed to new and emerging markets and can be used for rugged field computing and so on.
Nokia and Intel combine Maemo and Moblin into MeeGo
Feb 16th
Now, how about that – Nokia and Intel shook hands to merge their mobile Linux projects into one. And along came MeeGo. The silly name aside, MeeGo is the blend of Nokia’s Maemo, used on the Nokia N900 and a few others, and Intel’s Moblin, which powers MIDs based on the Moorestown platform.
Microsoft announces the all new Windows Phone 7 Series platform
Feb 16th
Well, the wait is over. Microsoft finally let the cat out of the bag and Windows Mobile 7 (or Windows Phone 7 Series) as MS calls it, is now official. The first phones should start selling by this year’s holiday season.
Microsoft just announced their next mobile OS installment here at the MWC 2010. Meet the new Windows Phone 7 designed for “Life in Motion”. Though called that way, the new Windows Phone is not really a phone. It’s a new mobile OS. The best about it is that it breaks off with its roots and goes with completely different approach.
HTC Legend, HTC Desire and HTC HD Mini ready to roll
Feb 16th
The HTC press conference here at the MWDC 2010 is scheduled for tomorrow but it seems that the phones to be presented there have already made their way out with some nice pics and full specs. Now the HTC Legend and the HTC Bravo are hardly a secret – they’ve been around our rumored section long enough. Today’s surprise however is the HTC Touch HD Mini (yet another Mini version?)
Opera Mini 5 for iPhone to be shown at the MWC
Feb 14th
An opera browser on every mobile platform known to man – with Opera Mini for the iPhone and Opera Mobile 10 for Android, that seems an achievable goal. Opera will show beta versions of the two browsers at the MWC and a few more goodies.
First look at the Cseries with leaked Symbian-running Nokia C5
Feb 7th
Symbian is going to push out S40 out of all but the most basic phones – the newly leaked Nokia C5 is good evidence of that. With a modest price tag this handset would steer many buyers in Symbian direction.
The Nokia C5 is also the first phone of the Cseries we’ve seen yet – remember back in July last year when Nokia trademarked Xseries and Cseries? With the Nokia X3 and the Nokia X6 we saw the Xseries – the successors of the XpressMusic lineup – and now it’s clear that the Cseries takes over where the “classic” phones left off.
Symbian goes fully open source, it’s a free download to all
Feb 7th
There have been quite a few rumors about the fate of Symbian, but now the OS has entered a new stage of its existence – its code is now open source. This move began in June 2008, when Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation to take over the development of the OS. And the Foundation has big plans for the future.
Nexus One reviewed extensively
Jan 5th
There are still a few hours left to the Google press event this evening, where Nexus One is supposed to get official announcement. But there are already two full reviews published since yesterday, answering almost every question there is about the phone.
Vodafone H1 has 720p HD video recording, but somehow they fail to advertize it?
Dec 20th
Sometimes we can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever get what’s going on in the minds of manufacturers’ PR pros. Do you remember the huge PR campaign Samsung threw for Omnia HD? They never stopped bragging about its HD video recording, even though it barely hit 24 fps.
Screen protector brings a tactile keyboard to the iPhone, meet the 4iThumbs
Dec 6th
Have an iPhone and miss the reassuring clicks and feedback of a REAL keyboard? Regardless of its generation, the iPhone has always been a great messaging (read: mailing) device but even after the added landscape software keyboard there is still no hardware one. Up until now. Thanks to 4iThumbs.
The Nokia X6 poll results are in: its capacitive touchscreen wins the day
Dec 6th
Nokia Conversations recently had a poll asking readers for their favorite Nokia X6 feature. The winning feature by far was the 3.2” capacitive touchscreen – Nokia’s first. One in three voted “capacitive” but how the rest of the votes are spread out is pretty interesting too.
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