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£10 discount on tariffs from Vodafone

UK carrier Vodafone is offering a monthly discount of £10 on two of their tariffs (£35/month and £40/month) if and when customers sign up for a 18 month deal. In fact, Vodafone has actually researched it to show why it’s that necessary. From a survey it appears that 52% of all Brits have on at [...]

Press shots of the Motorola W755 from Verizon

The features aren’t that impressive: 1.3 megapixel camera, speakerphone, and stereo Bluetooth. However, this is predicted to be a free phone from Verizon. The phone will be available in two colors: titanium and grey, and the keyboard looks rather ‘funky.’ If you’re interested, check out the pictures in the gallery.Source

To be released in June 20th: Windows Vista for your smartphone

The small UMPC seen above will feature a full version of Windows Vista that runs on a 1.33 Ghz Intel Centrino processor, 40GB of hard disk memory, 1GB RAM, Bluetooth, 02.11 b/g, and a 5 inch WSVGA touch screen. Now that’s sweet! But it hardly makes sense to run Vista on a 1.33 Ghz Celeron [...]

Google AdSense comes out with image ads for mobiles

In an announcement, the mobile division of Google AdSense said that they are launching mobile image ads which would still be priced on a cost per click basis, but can also boot as a branding tool for advertisers. It has been reported that they have good click-through rates. Mobile Publishers who are interested will have [...]

ZN5 from Moto is clearer and with Kodak co-branding

The above image is a clear full-body shot of Motorola’s new ZN5 candybar that has hit the web and the phone apparently borrows a bunch of fresh design elements from recently spied models. For example, the keypad font is seen in Verizon’s yet to be announced Moto clamshells, and morph tech from the E8. But [...]

Light-weight laser-based head mounted display patented by Apple

Such head-mounted displays are anything but breaking news material, and the possibility of presenting content from a mobile phone at nose distance isn’t either. However, this new patent application from Apple does away with the load by separating the “laser engine” from the goggle-like head mounted display and thus actually makes wearing one feasible for [...]

Released: Samsung SCH-W599

The SCH-W599 has been announced by Samsung and the handset supports both GSM and CDMA carrier networks and boasts simultaneous dual GSM SIM card usage. The specs are as follows:

2.4? QVGA 260k colors touchscreen with handwriting recognition
2 megapixel camera
72 tones polyphonic melodies
MP3 and streaming media playback
FM radio with up to 20 channels
Bluetooth support
34MB of memory
microSD [...]

HP iPAQ 900 Series featued in FCC

You will come across a new HP iPAQ 900 series smartphones in the works if you happen to be surfing the FCC website. There is still no confirmation about when the devices will be released to the masses and also there is no word about which carried will be offering them. It is rumored, however, [...]

Motorola’s internal roadmap

Up to 9 different handsets will be launched this year, and several of them are already available (U9, W270 and E8), as indicated by Motorola’s internal roadmap. Names of leaked models include the ZN5, A810, A1800 and A1600, and below are the specs so you know what you can expect:A810

2.2″ 260k color QVGA TFT display
2 [...]

iPhone to be rivaled by LG

LG plans on challenging Apple’s burgeoning market share by releasing a new range of handsets that will feature touch screen user interfaces.LG plans on challenging Apple’s burgeoning market share by releasing a new range of handsets that will feature touch screen user interfaces. In fact, it was LG who came out with the first iPhone [...]

The Sony Ericsson Z780 in clearer view

Above is a much clearer image of the elusive Sony Ericsson Z780, and now there is no more doubting the fact that handset will indeed be released to the public. The only query that does remain though is ‘when’ and ‘how much.’ The picture above shows the Z780 being compared with its predecessor, the Z720, [...]

The BlackBerry 9100 coming soon?

It wasn’t too long ago that the BlackBerry 9000 was outed to both positive and negative reactions. That certainly wasn’t the iPhone fighting Blackberry that everyone was hoping for. But as a smartphone, the Blackberry 9000 certainly is a solid PDA and should give potential iPhone buyers much to think about. And there’s speculation that [...]

$10 million “interconnection fees” lawsuit: Verizon sues Sprint

After having tried all other means to get Sprint to pay up the amount owed to them in ‘interconnection fees,’ Verizon are suing Sprint to get them to finally make good on the $10 million. The following is a Verizon statement:[We have] repeatedly attempted to resolve this dispute short of litigation. Yet these attempts, made [...]

Nokia’s CEO Kallasvuo: The Apple iPhone is a niche product

So all of you must be aware that Nokia is working to fight the iPhone with its plans of introducing a touchscreen handset based on S60 Touch OS, and from first impressions it does seem that the S60 Touch OS still needs work. What does look good though is the hardware. And well, the most [...]

Opera Mini for Android

Opera Mini will be coming to Android! Chris Mills of Opera explains that rather than begin from scratch, they have employed the existing code base and binary package with a  wrapper that converts the converts the Java ME API calls to Android API calls much like a translator would. And yes, this has only [...]