Archive for the 'Cellphones' Category
Group Sense’s Palm OS line-up give way to lone, Linux-based phone
Well, it looks like Group Sense’s once mighty line-up of Palm OS-based handsets has finally been shown the door with the whole lot now replaced by a one, Linux-based device. From the looks of it though, it doesn’t seem like the new handset is about to work any wonders for the company, with the…
Samsung i900 Omnia vs. HTC Touch Diamond… fight!
At that point, neither the HTC Touch Diamond nor the Samsung i900 Omnia need any introduction, but we’re happy to announce that these two have stepped into the squared circle and faced off in an epic nine-page battle. Reviewers manhandled both phones for an extended date and broke down the UI, h…
HTC’s NEON400: a CDMA Touch Dual?
In HTC parlance, the “Neon” codename denotes a device of the Touch Dual style factor — original Touch styling plus a slider keyboard, a drill we all know by now. that specific mold factor seems to be a pretty popular one, too, considering the sheer number of variants HTC’s turned out; at that p…
Matias Duarte, designer behind Sidekick and Helio, now developing Palm’s next-gen UI
So we heard from a very dependable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte — who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences — actually left Helio late final year to join up with Palm. Although no announcement was made, we take in he and his gang of…
Motorola’s worldly Q9: “Napoleon” breaks cover for Verizon
It looks like Motorola and Verizon are getting ready to take a third crack at the Q9 mold factor, following up the Q9m and Q9c — and that date around, there’s a little something additional in store. On top of the EV-DO Rev. A radio, the so-called “Napoleon” (codename, of course) features GSM, c…
Is the BlackBerry KickStart getting a $50 price tag on T-Mobile?
We could tell by looking that RIM wouldn’t think of charging too many hundies for its still unannounced BlackBerry KickStart, but $49.99? CrackBerry has it that said flip phone will be selling at T-Mobile for a penny under $50 on a two-year contract, which certainly seems smart given the competi…
Telus announces HTC Touch Diamond for a summer release
Though the Sprint version is the most well-scooped CDMA variant thus far, Telus is actually fitting the first carrier ’round these parts to announce the Touch Diamond imbued with a little EV-DO for your data-consumption delight. The phone will run $149.99 CAD (which is just about a wash in US do…
OpenMoko says “screw it,” starts taking FreeRunner orders a day early
July 4 was the period, but hey, what’s the harm in opening up the floodgates just a handful of hours early? Get past the lack of 3G, EDGE, camera, and a rock-solid set of tested, commercialized apps, and open-source phoning nirvana can now be yours for $399 on the plastic.
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Samsung bringing the intuition to Canada next
Fired up to capitalize on some of the hype Sprint has managed to drum up for the Instinct down in the States, Samsung’s taking its iPhone fighter north of the border for a promised intro later that summer. Bell Mobility is the lucky partner (seriously, Telus, you probably should’ve hustled Samsu…
German “Future Store” lets you grocery shop with your cellphone
It’s been a long, faraway time since we’ve heard from Germany’s “Future Store” — the ultra-futuristic German grocery store that might have sprung directly from the Sprawl trilogy — but they’ve got a new feature we thought you might be interested in. Shoppers in the store can now use camera-equ…
