Cellular related stories
To the surprised gasps of, well no-one, Captain Stevie Jobs set fanboy gussets a-moistening one more time with the announcement of the new 3G iPhone.
Now sporting Thinner edges and a full black plastic back, the upgraded handset runs iPhone 2.0 firmware, with Apple claiming that it will load webpages quicker than the N95 and Treo 750 (quote why they’re boasting about it being faster than the 18 month old Treo is anyone’s guess mind.)
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If the dimensions of the super-slimline mobile sitting in your pocket are still causing you consternation, then the ridiculously small Neon7 may be what you’re looking for.
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Slipping out of the new product dock mere moments ahead of the expected 3G iPhone launch is Samsung’s new Omnia i900 smartphone.
Sharing a similar design as the iPhone (and the LG KE830, Prada and Clie TH55 before it), the Omnia sports a beefy-sized 3.2″ 240 x 400 pixels big screen flanked by call start/end buttons either side and a central optical mouse whotsit. (more…)
RIM’s attempts to widen the appeal of their smartphones beyond their traditional business base seem to be paying dividends, with the company’s market share increasing from 35.1 percent at the end of 2007 up to 44.5 percent for the first quarter of this year.
The great dust storms generated by extended bouts of enthusiastic synergetic backslapping in Japan have finally cleared to reveal the fruits of a Walt Disney and Sharp mobile phone collaboration.
Being prepped for a June 7th offensive into adolescent handbags all over the Land of the Rising Sun is the new Walt Disney/Sharp DM002SH phone, known as the Cinderella phone.
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More details of the new Palm Treo 850w Windows Mobile smartphone have appeared on the Internet, and we have to say that finally it’s a bit of a looker to our eyes.
Sony Ericsson’s new W980 clamshell handset from the Walkman series is expected to be unleashed into the wild sooner than expected, aping the equally unexpected early release of their W760 phone.
The official launch date of W980 was vaguely set as the “third quarter of 2008”, but after several recent sightings ‘in the wild’ an earlier release may be on the cards.
Monitise, a company that provides banking and payment service via mobile phones, has announced that it will be offering their services in East Africa.
Much has been written previously about how mobile phones provide the communications — spoken and Internet — to many countries where their physical, in-ground infrastructure falls far behind their wireless links.
We covered yesterday morning how photos taken by individuals in Chengdu, China and posted to a mobile social network site had beaten news reports to publishing the story.
More details are emerging online of RIM’s new touchscreen phone, the Blackberry Thunder.