The leakomania continues with two new Acer phones showing their faces. The phones leaked yesterday were an unusual dual sided DX650 and X960. The DX650 runs on WinMo and has a 2.8-inch QVGA screen on one side while the other side is taken by a small 1.2-inch monochrome OLED screen along with an alpha […]
Reuters: Nokia E75, app store launching next week
Reuters is confirming a no-brainer rumor that gained momentum in the past few weeks. According to its two industry sources, Nokia will be unveiling its horizontal QWERTY Eseries slider, E75 and also their version of app store at the MWC next week. Eldar Murtazin had already said Nokia was giving the finishing touches to […]
Samsung denies launch of 12MP phone too
Looks like Sammy has gone into total denial mode. Just after turning down the launch of an Android phone at the MWC, a source close to the marketing plan says that the MWC portfolio will not include a 12MP shooter. Don’t know if this is true or not but our guess is Samsung might […]
LG announces solar powered flip phone
Are we going to see a new type of war soon between handset manufacturers? Just when Samsung introduced its solar powered touch phone, its Korean peer, LG also announced its solar powered clamshell phone. We are not pro at Korean but the rough machine translation says a 10 minute charge could give up to […]
Samsung Blue Earth Phone will make environmentalists happy
Samsung just announced Blue Earth phone which is by far the greenest phone I have seen. The touchscreen phone has a solar panel at the back which is used to charge the phone. Apart from being solar powered, Samsung has not used any environment harming components. The handset is made from PCM recycled plastic […]
Samsung Android phone will not launch until 2H 2009
Head of marketing at Samsung, Younghee Lee has confirmed that Samsung will not unveil any Android based phone at the next week’s MWC show. The exact reason for the delay is unknown but Lee said that they are planning internally for a launch in second half of the current year. Early rumors have suggested […]
ZiiLABS will demo 1080p HD content on Android at MWC
Remember Zii? Yea, the SoC from Creative that was endlessly hyped to ‘change everything’. Well, to show how worthy their chip is, they will be demonstrating their ZMS-05 media processor to run up to 1080p content on the Android platform. Now if ZiiLABS’ ZMS SoC can do the full HD trick with ease, Qualcomm’s […]
First ZTE VF 1231 official image surfaces
Looks like the first official picture of ZTE’s VF1231 has emerged. The image clearly shows the phone running on Windows Mobile (mostly 6.1) and has the GSM and EDGE housed on the same chip. I don’t think there will be a customized UI considering its cheap price tag. The phone will be officially unveiled […]
Opera Turbo aims to give blazingly fast surfing speeds on Mobiles and PCs
Taking its expertise of server-side optimization (which Opera Mini currently uses), the Norwegian browser company has announced of a new server-side solution dubbed as Opera Turbo. Turbo enabled browsers work the same way as Opera Mini but a major difference is that it offers full support for web technologies like Javascript, Ajax and Flash. […]
ZTE will show its complete smartphone lineup at MWC
Chinese handset maker, ZTE is excited to display its entire range of smartphones at the next week’s MWC expo. There will be 10 different phones to grace its booth and ZTE is banking on VF 1231 to be the show stealer that they have developed specially for Vodafone. VF 1231 will be a Windows […]