Archive for the 'Other' Category

T-Mobile in Germany to launch Apple’s iPhone

An Apple’s iPhone is displayed following its introduction in Berlin September 19, 2007. Deutsche Telekom’s mobile phone division, T-Mobile, said on Wednesday it won a deal to sell Apple’s iPhone and said the price would be 399 euros ($558) will be available from November 9. [Reuters]

September 23rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

Ubiquam U520

Russian mobile operator Skylink has teamed up with Korean mobile phone manufacturer Ubiquam in order to put an end to this and provide the U520, a handset that works on both standards.
The U520 is a dual mode CDMA 450 and GSM 900/1800 mobile phone that will work on both CDMA 2000/1x/EV-DO and GSM/GPRS 900/1800 [...]

March 23rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

Cigarette King 3838

Cigarette King 3838 quite a few look-a-likes such as the Nokir E828 or the Suny Ericssom P999. In this case, we get to see one of the few truly unique Chinese-manufactured mobile phones, that believe it or not, also works as a ‘cigarette box’.
Dubbed Cigarette King 3838, the mobile phone looks like a smoke [...]

March 23rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

Papipo! Mobile Phone for Kids

In Japan, mobile phones for kids aren’t very different from mid to hi-end phones in other parts of the world, which makes you wonder why they are considered child phones.
They are equipped with GPS, 3G capabilities and cameras and are mostly useful for parents to track down their children, but maybe not as much [...]

March 12th, 2007 - Posted in Other

Pantech IM-S200K

The S200K has a slider form factor and wears a tight white plastic suit with a very good looking numeric keypad under the front scroll-wheel. If you thought that the scroll-wheel is the thing you know from other cellphones you’ve laid your hands on, you couldn’t be more wrong. This is an electro-luminescent scroll-wheel [...]

March 11th, 2007 - Posted in Other

China reports sale of 120 million mobile phones in 2006

Sales of mobile phones in China increased 40 percent year on year to 120 million units in 2006, Xinhua quoting deputy chief of the China Mobile Communications Association Xie Linzhen.
Xie said China had become one of the world’s largest handset markets, adding sales would likely surge 25 percent to 150 million units this year, Xinhua [...]

February 5th, 2007 - Posted in Other

Mobile phone operators mull creating rival to Google

Some of Europe’s biggest telecoms groups are to hold talks next week about creating a mobile phone search engine which could challenge US giants Google and Yahoo!.
Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and American network Cingular will come together for talks at the industry’s annual trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Britain’s [...]

February 5th, 2007 - Posted in Other

Pantech Sky IM-U150

IM-S150 by Pantech, a tiny clamshell with Korean traditional patterns and a sleek design, is now followed by a less tiny but still good looking model, going under the name of IM-U150. The white IM-U150 comes with some pretty interesting features like an external touch wheel for navigation, surround sound and 1GB of storage [...]

January 3rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

CECT IP1000

While the IP1000’s looks will appeal to some and disappoint others, the phone’s features will most likely not disappoint. The phone includes a 2.2 inch 260k touch-screen with a QVGA resolution, a 4 megapixel camera with auto focus and an electronic dictionary.
Users for whom music and video playback is very important when choosing a [...]

January 3rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

UTStarCom CF210

UTStarCom GF210 can work on tri-band GSM 850/1800/1900 or 900/1800/1900 MHz networks and WiFi networks, although WLAN and GPRS don’t work simultaneously, while the VoIP client allows the users to make voice calls via WiFi networks.
The candybar measures 106.5 x 44.5 x 20 mm and weighs 95 grams and has been recently approved by [...]

January 3rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

Mobiado Luminoso

Luxury mobile phone manufacturer Mobiado has decided to present the world’s first and only 3G luxury mobile phone in an attempt to offer both a luxury phone with good looks and a set of features closer to the ones found in today’s smarter mobile phones.
Not only does the dual illumination technique implemented in this [...]

January 3rd, 2007 - Posted in Other

NetLink 8000 Series Wireless Telephones

The new NetLink 8000 Series handsets are the first commercially available enterprise-grade handsets to support the IEEE 802.11a, b and g radio standards.
The two models available: the basic NetLink 8020 Wireless Telephone and the more advanced NetLink 8030 Wireless Telephone enhance SpectraLink’s Wi-Fi telephony platform with longer talk times and improved durability suited for [...]

January 3rd, 2007 - Posted in Other