Archives for the ‘Mobiles’ Category

Nokia N97 – the fight for the Iphone spot is on now

Finally Nokia has come out with a beater I guess. It invokes more a cool headed enthusiasm rather than the knee-jerk hysteria of the Iphone. For good measure the Iphone has given the mobile world a jerk and the results are good to see. The impressive Nokia N97 is here. Twenty-four hours after teasing us [...]

Motorola Krave ZN4 hands-on over at Engadget Mobile

Motorola’s only — yes, only — touchscreen phone in the US market is on sale with Verizon, offering VCAST TV, two touch-sensitive surfaces (you’ll just have to read the hands-on to find out exactly what that means), and a 3.5mm headphone jack, among a host of other lustworthy features. But is the total package any [...]

RIM clears up BlackBerry Storm OS situation

Well, it looks it looks like we can put the first Storm conspiracy theory to rest, as RIM has now come out and said that the supposed delay-causing Storm OS glitch was, in fact, more of a sticker glitch, and that there was never such a thing as an OS version 4.7.0.82. As you may [...]

zzzPhone now shipping with Android? T-Mobile doesn’t seem terribly concerned

Those crazy zzzPhone kids are at it again, and this time they’re jumping on the open handset bandwagon. Sure, the whole thing has always seemed excessively shady, and as far as we can tell no one has ever received a one of these devices, but apparently the made-to-order cellphone is now “shipping” with Android. If [...]

Nokia’s QWERTY slider E75 spotted in the wild again

In the “form factors Nokia hasn’t fully explored, but probably should” bucket, side-sliding QWERTY candybars ranks pretty dang high on the list, so we’re delighted to see that — as far as we can tell, anyway — Espoo’s still hard at work banging out the details of its E75. We’re told to expect WiFi (naturally), [...]

BlackBerry Storm’s clickable screen (and the rest of it) dissected, exposed

So you’ve read our extensive BlackBerry Storm review and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can’t help but wonder just what makes the thing tick click. While we were a bit too squeamish to rip one of ours apart and find out, phoneWreck felt no qualms about turning this week’s [...]

Microsoft developing NVIDIA-based mobile phone – report

Microsoft will announce its entry into the smartphone arena early next year with an iPhone rival build around NVIDIA's new system-on-a-chip (SoC) for small form factor mobile devices, according to a new report. Article: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/24/microsoft_developing_nvidia_based_mobile_phone_report.html

Google on Android

From Google Blog: At Google, we develop products that we love to use ourselves. For example, we’re avid users of Search, Gmail, Maps, and many others. But for those of us in mobile, it’s tough. Not all products work the same on all devices, and although we try and optimize for each device, we often [...]

Street View and walking directions come to Google Maps for mobile

Courtesy Google Blog: This July, Street View went international for the Tour de France, and in August, expanded coverage to Japan and Australia. Now, Street View is coming to another new frontier: your phone. Today we’re launching a new version of Google Maps for mobile with the same street-level imagery available on desktop. Wondering if [...]

Introducing Mobile Search with My Location

Courtesy Google Blog: From time to time, we all need information about local businesses when we’re away from our computers — like confirming the address of a bar while on the way to meet friends. Today we’re introducing Search with My Location, a new way to make searching for nearby businesses on your Windows Mobile [...]