The PT-S280, also known as the PT-K2800, features a 2 inch QVGA display, an MP3 player, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, the Moneta suite of banking applications that will allow the user to make money transfers and check its account balance while on-the-go, a number of different user interfaces and a text viewer.
The PT-S280 [...]
we’re going to talk about the FIC Neo1973 smartphone, a device that is going to run on an open-source OpenMoko platform and will be shaped like an egg.
The first thing that will make a Linux user jump for joy when holding in his hands one of these beauties is the fact that he will [...]
Cingular Wireless and Firefly Mobile announced the availability of the Firefly phone, a mobile phone specifically designed for kids with ages under 12.
The Firefly phone was designed with just five keys instead of a regular keypad. Parents use a private PIN to program up to 22 outgoing numbers into the phone, including speed-dial keys [...]
Pantech has announced that they will supply branded mobile handsets to the French carrier Orange France, the first of the series being the Pantech U-4000, a 3G cell phone with a design somewhat similar to the famous iPod MP3 player and some influences from SanDisk’s e260 multimedia player. By mixing the two design approaches, [...]
KTF Korea have just launched the EV-KD350 handset that shows us how a phone with a good design should look like (at least in this case, we sort of have some kind of replacement, the LG Chocolate, but it just isn’t the same and you’ll see why later on).
The device features the DMB TV [...]
A Silicon Valley startup is announcing a new cell phone mapping service to let users know when their friends are nearby.
The so-called social mapping service by Palo Alto-based Loopt Inc. was to announce Tuesday it has teamed with Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Boost Mobile LLC, to launch the feature for the carrier’s youth-oriented Boost-branded phones.
The service [...]
With instant messaging programs, it’s easy to tell whether a friend is at the computer, ready to chat. Despite its immense popularity, the concept of the buddy list hasn’t made a smooth transition to the mobile world.
Now a small cell phone provider named Helio LLC is introducing a service for its youthful target audience that [...]
Actor Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute will commission independent filmmakers to make short films for mobile phones, Redford said on Wednesday.
While film content is already available for cell phones, six independent filmmakers will be the first commissioned to make short films especially for the medium, Redford told reporters at a news conference.
The deal was reached with [...]
New 3G wireless technology has yet to find a home in emerging markets, where cell phone use has surged.
That could spell trouble for cell phone makers looking to such markets for much of their growth.
Nokia and Motorola have prospered selling low-cost phones to first-time users in developing countries. Profit margins for such wares are slim [...]
Predictably, one question from journalists that Hasnul Suhaimi has to answer repeatedly is what makes him believe that 3G has potential in Indonesia.
The question is not unfair, since the country — with only around 62 million mobile phone users, or less than 28 percent of its total population — now has three major operators offering [...]
The M600+ comes preloaded with the latest version of Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, which adds support for Direct Push technology. With Direct Push the mobile capabilities of the M600+ are extended even further by enabling most of the information stored on a corporate Microsoft Exchange Server to be updated directly on the phone. Many [...]
HTC’s P3600 runs Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, thus it needs a powerful processor and enough memory. For this purpose, HTC throws in a Samsung SC32442A 400 Mhz and 128 MB RAM and 64 MB SDRAM memory. Some might say that it has a too low memory and that many manufacturers are already launching [...]