Samsung Alias Dual-Hinge Flip Phone Reaching Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless and Samsung announced the Alias by Samsung will be available in mid-April.The successor to the Samsung SCH-u740, the Alias sports the familiar dual-hinge design but is packaged with an updated easy-to-read full-QWERTY keyboard. In addition to sending text messages, customers can use Wireless Sync, Verizon Wireless' proprietary personal information management solution, to

iPhone SDK Beta 2 - time to make things look good

The major addition that the second beta of the iPhone SDK brings is the Interface Builder. This nifty little tool will allow you to drag and drop in order to build the user interface for your application.Tools like that make it on par with languages such as Visual Basic which make building new apps fast, easy, and convenient. Granted, using the drag and drop method may not give you the appearance

Verizon Wireless Unveils XV6900 From HTC Touch

Verizon Wireless today announced the XV6900 will be available in April. Whether customers are accessing local weather reports, navigating to the Internet, flipping through photos, or one-touch dialing of loved ones, they can interact with a myriad of the XV6900’s features with just a flick of their fingers.The Verizon Wireless XV6900 leverages the broad functionality and communication

Verizon Wireless Introduces The BlackBerry Curve 8330

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone will be available in May. Packaged in a liquid silver-colored finish with chrome highlights, smooth edges and soft curves, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is backed by Verizon Wireless' high-speed Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network.The BlackBerry Curve 8330 offers the following capabilities and key

AT&T Mobile TV Coming in May

AT&T confirmed that the mobile TV service will launch in May 2008 on two new exclusive handsets, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access. AT&T Mobile TV will also feature two exclusive channels, which will be announced soon.AT&T Mobile TV will deliver full-length television content and sporting events from top networks, including programming from leading entertainment brands CBS Mobile, Comedy Central,

Apple has supposedly ordered another 10 million iPhones - I want mine delivered now

According to an analyst at Gartner, Apple has ordered a second batch of 10 million 3G iPhones to be delivered. That’s a total of 10 million regular iPhones and 10 million 3G iPhones that Apple is apparently hoping to sell by the end of this year.Speculation by the same analyst was that the new 3G iPhone would use an OLED display which would net it a thinner design and a longer battery life. The

Resco Backup for Pocket PC (v1.10)

Never lose your data againResco Backup creates reserve copies of your PDA on the storage card.This data (called backup set) can be used to restore your device in case of problems.Basic features:Backup to the storage cardFull and custom backupFull and custom restoreBackup compressionSafe encryption (uses industrial standard AES)Fast incremental backupBackup schedulingAdvanced features:Integrity

TeaShark JAVA browser with tabs, zoom & RSS

Tired of using your mobile phone’s default web browser or perhaps you do not like Opera Mini? Here’s a new mobile web browser which offers full web browsing right in your mobile phone’s small display screen – TeaShark.These mobile browser supports multiple tabs and history, has time-saving jump-to-link navigation and two-level zoom, and bookmarks with colour coding for easy organisation.To

Sling preps mobile player for UIQ phones, N95 8GB

Sling Media, makers of the video-shifting Slingbox, have announced a new SlingPlayer Mobile client for Symbian UIQ. The new version will allow some Sony-Ericsson and Motorola phones to stream and remotely control Slingbox devices at home whenever the device is connected to either a 3G or Wi-Fi network. The initial lineup will include the P1i and P990i smartphones, the M600i, as well as the

The mobile phone in the future

What phone will you be using in the far off age of 2010? Along with our flying cars and robot slaves, you could be sporting one of these concept phone designs born out of a partnership between phone company Pantech (Sky Premium) and Korean university students. Still, would you trade in your current cellphone for one of these “phones of the future? AFter you jump see the Full Size.

LG-SH240 Wants to Stay Closer to You

Do you remember that semi-formal roadmap we saw not too long ago that pretty much stated that Microsoft had seen the error of their mobile ways and with 6.1 they were going to fix a lot of things and make a move towards higher useability? Well I don’t know if that’s come true or not, but word is that we’ll find out on April 1st.Supposedly April 1st is the release date for the new version of

LG KF300: the Wine Phone goes global

LG in February announced LG KF300, a fashion handset. I really knew nothing much about, except for the model number.Well, since we already know that LG KF300 exists, more details about it were bound to leak sooner or later. And today mobile-review.com got the scoop, with all the press pics and specs for LG KF300 fashion phone:Full specs of LG KF300 include: * Tri-Band GSM/GPRS/ EDGE * Main

Nokia N95 In Three New Colors - White, Red And Blue

Nokia N95 is now available in 3 new colors, White, red and blue. Unfortunately the phones with the new colors will be exclusively sold by the Japanese provider “SoftBank”, that means that they have the “SoftBank”-Logo under the display and they have another, branded firmware than the free ones.In my opinion the white is ok , what you think? Which you prefer ? Red ? White Or Blue

Samsung Electronics Releases the AnyCall Haptic

Samsung Electronics has released a new touch screen phone, the AnyCall Haptic (Model: SCH-W420, SPH-W4200). The top premium model in the AnyCall Series.Among its new features, the latest UI is designed for users to enjoy visual, acoustic, and touch sensations. For example, an increase of volume triggers a cute sound and vibration similar to a real analog radio.Following the trend of my own mobile

Nokia intros VoIP-capable 6300i

Nokia has announced a new GSM phone, the Nokia 6300i, ability to make both cellular and VoIP calls. The latter are possible over Wi-Fi, an option which may save money when in range of an open hotspot. The phone is also able to browse the web and download applications over Wi-Fi, and can store as many as 2,000 numbers in memory.Nokia is otherwise reticent on sharing specifications; the regular

Sharp’s Internet machine 922SH to be released in Japan via SoftBank

Sharp launches its 3G mobile phone ‘922SH’ in Japan market through SoftBank, which is expected to be available on 28th March. Measuring 56*116*17mm at 132g, it comes with four different colors including pearl white, metallic black, bronze gold and pearl pink.Supporting 1-Seg, international roaming service, HSDPA and Bluetooth connectivity, the 922HS is quipped with a full qwerty keyboard, a 3.5-

Samsung i458 cellphone DAP with B&O amp and scrollwheel speaker

Samsung trying to present a good alternative to existing music phones with Samsung i458.Running Symbian S60 v3.1 with a 2.4-inch display and HSDPA connectivity, with a Bang & Olufsen ICEpower amplifier, microSD slot supporting up to 4GB cards and built-in speaker,the i458 stands a good chance of being a decent phone, too. The dual-slide is similar to that on Nokia’s N95, although with a wheel

LG to launch silicon HSDPA phone of skin feeling

LG Electronics’ cellphone label CYON on Tuesday launched a new 3G-capable HSDPA phone for the Korean market. The SH240 has a silicon-covered front panel and buttons that give it a touchable, human skin-like feel, instead of the usual relatively hard rubber or plastic common to most handsets. Other unique features include SK Telecom’s Moneta Mobile Card wireless payment system, which allows users

Dual-SIM on the way from Samsung

When Samsung introduced dual SIM D880 DuoS phone, it had targeted Eastern Europe market first.You can Find these phone, but is too expensive 700$.Well, Samsung is apparently working on bringing a couple more reasonably priced DuoS handsets to market. Smape has it from Samsung’s Russian head, Yoonsoo Kim, that Samsung plans to bring the Samsung P240 DuoS handset to market later this year. The new

MWg reveals two more phones,the UBiQUiO 501 and UBiQUiO 503g

MWg, which was reborn from the ashes of O2 Asia’s handset biz, has added two more Windows Mobile phones to its portfolio. The UBiQUiO 501 and UBiQUiO 503g. Both the phones have a full QWERTY keypad with a touchscreen and run on Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional.Processor: TI OMAP 750 200 MHzOperating System: Windows Mobile 6 Professional (Upgraded from WM 5.0)Keyboard: QWERTYNetwork: GSM900 /

Wireless phone services

Cell phone industry changed a lot in these last years. Nowadays, even young children have cell phones and these wireless phones is something necessary and usual in daily life. Phones evolved from 2G to 3G and the mobile industry in changing each day. In the early 90s the 2nd generation of phones appeared and these phones could work on GSM, TDMA and CDMA. In time, mobile phones become smaller and

LG Shine might be better than an iPhone

Ladies this is the phone for you with a refelective screen so shinny you can even do your make up on it.The LG Shine has a 2 megapixel camera with flash, 1 gig embedded memory, an mp3 player and all the other usual cellphone contents. Of course, the best thing about the Shine is that it has a super shiny sliding cover that can double as a mirror.

T-Mobile BlackBerry 8820 Available with GPS & HotSpot Support

T-Mobile and Research In Motion announced the national availability of the BlackBerry 8820 smartphone, featuring built-in GPS and support for T-Mobile’s HotSpoHome( service for Wi-F calling. hone.The BlackBerry 8820 helps people stay connected to business associates, colleagues, family and friends by offering Wi-Fi connectivity for voice and data, access to location-based applications and

MIU HDPC - tries for James Bond, hits somewhere around The Tick

Hardware wise this thing is amazing featuring a VIA C7M ULV CPU running at 1GHz, 4GB of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, and your choice of a 60GB HDD or a 4GB SSD. Where it starts to fail is in respect to design, I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it's ugly.It even has a cool feature where it can dual boot WinXP and your choice of WinCE 5.0 or Linux Qplus. There are two screens; the larger of the

HTC Dream Android Phone

The HTC Dream Android phone rumors have surfaced again. The HTC Dream is supposed to be the first Android running handset released to the public. A person close to the situation recently told InfoWorld that this handset is indeed scheduled to be the first Android phone to debut, acknowledging rumors of the new cell phone.“The HTC Dream Android phone is said to measure 3-inches wide by 5-inches

Samsung SGH-G600 Belle comes in burgundy

Samsung has now partnered with nails inc. to launch the G600 Belle, a device available exclusively at Phones 4u in the UK. This new version of the G600 is cloaked in a sleek burgundy colour and the manufacturer is now throwing in 3 bottles of nail polish in the box, including one that matches the G600 Belle’s color.The stylish G600 Belle is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with camcorder

Toshiba’s ultra-exclusive invitation-only Cosmic Shiner revealed

Adding another gem of a handset to the glamorous line up of luxury phones, Toshiba have finally introduced the Cosmic Shiner, a FanFun 815T model studded with diamonds.This limited edition model, with only 1,000 available, is to be offered for $4,000 via an interesting invitation only scheme. In addition to the custom design features by Kansai Yamamoto discriminating buyers will also be entitled

Google Search plugin for Windows Mobile

After the success of the Google Search homescreen plugin for S60 handsets - which Vincent described as making “a big difference” to handset usability - the search company has announced a similar app for Windows Mobile handsets.Google has now brought its home screen search application to the WinMo platform, noting on its blog that it has discovered that S60 and BlackBerry users with the app

LG LH2300 with Wide VGA Screen

Offering a full internet browsing experience, LG has start selling the LG LH2300 in Korea with a Wide VGA LCD display screen.With a high resolution Wide VGA LCD (WVGA) display screen, the LG LH2300 is offering a 800 x 480 pixels and internet browsing in landscape mode. The screen is also a full touch screen, you can scroll around the web pages with your finger easily. Other features include a new

Samsung Glyde U940 for Verizon Wireless Gets More Photos Leaked

First leaked in end 2007, it looks like Samsung Glyde U940 is finally reaching the Verizon Wireless. It is said that the model will be available in April and feature an auto focus 3 mega-pixel camera and high speed wireless connection capabilities. With a full QWERTY key pad that slides underneath the display, it will give users enhanced access to mobile e-mail and text messaging services. See

Myspace Mobile Now Accessible To Sprint Customers On All Web-Enabled Sprint Phones

MySpace and Sprint today announced the launch of MySpace Mobile on all Web-enabled Sprint phones. The free direct access to the new MySpace Mobile website on a U.S. wireless carrier allows Sprint data subscribers a fast track to their MySpace profiles on their phones.MySpace provides Sprint users direct access to MySpace Mobile's tool set, including the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and

Hands On with iPhone 2.0 - new changes abound like Spring cleaning

Engadget has gotten their hands on iPhone firmware version 2.0. Some of the new features include a scientific calculator when you turn your iPhone sideways with the calculator open and the previously announced Exchange support is as smooth as it should be.There isn’t a contacts search function, although they proposed that it might be because they don’t have too terribly many contacts, so it might

Flash Coming to iPhone one way or another

Well, they may not have quite said it like that, but, they did say that they've taken a look at the iPhone SDK and they believe that they can use just the SDK to get Flash on the iPhone. Sure they'd much rather work directly with Apple on this matter and make sure Flash gets fully integrated, but they've more or less said that one way or the other, Flash will be built for the iPhone.Now, since

Puretracks DRM-Free Mobile Music Store for BlackBerry

Puretracks DRM-Free Mobile Music Store for BlackBerry. Puretracks, Toronto-based digital music provider along with handset development partner Magnet Mobile Media have developed a new DRM-free mobile music store and service for select RIM’s devices, including the popular Curve, Pearl and 8800 series smartphones. A sneak peek of the Puretracks Mobile Edition music service for BlackBerry was

Sync desktop browser bookmarks with mobile

Suppose you are traveling or at your friends house and you are in need of accessing or showing some of your favorite websites you bookmarked in your desktop web browser. You may have a mobile or laptop with internet connection with you, but the bookmarks are in your home/office desktop, you will not be able to access those bookmarks.There are couple of suggestions that would help you sync your

The world’s most expensive iPhone

Austrian luxury designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson has something more to add to his kitty – ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the Aloisson designed iPhone – the world’s most expensive iPhone. The phone derives its name from the Princess cut used on 138 of the 318 diamonds on its surface. The rest of the 180 diamonds on the phone are brilliant cut and it has 17.75 carats of diamonds set in

Nokia N82 in black Now

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N82 in stylish black, bringing a blend of state-of-the-art imaging, integrated navigation and high-speed Internet connectivity to the Nseries range of converged devices.The Nokia N82 in black is expected to start shipping within weeks, with an estimated retail price of approximately 400 euros, before taxes and subsidies."The Nokia N82 is made for storytelling," says

Sprint Builds On Leading Open Application Approach with Faster, More User-Friendly Open Internet Access

As the first U.S. carrier to launch the OpenWeb solution from Openwave Systems Inc., Sprint customers will be able to get faster, more user-friendly renderings of Internet sites, even those not optimized for the mobile device.With Openwave OpenWeb, webpages will automatically appear on data-enabled Sprint phones in an easy-to-read format, regardless of the memory or processing power of the device

Nokia launches 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards to support Pangea Day

In a world where people are often divided by borders, differences and conflicts, it's easy to lose sight of what we have in common. Pangea Day is an event that seeks to overcome these barriers by helping people see themselves in others through the power of film. Nokia is inviting everyone to enter the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards by creating and submitting their short videos to www.ovi.com

Samsung Releases MiniSkirt Season 2 Phones

Samsung Electronics has announced the MiniSkirt Season 2,models SCH-C225/ SPH-C2005/ SPH-C2255 which have adopted new features and colors on the base of its previous model Mini Shirt Phone. These handsets come jam packed with the “Smile Shot” function which automatically shots smiling faces, vibrating touch keys and SMS-related features. Measuring 10.9mm-thick, the phones also feature 2MP

Microsoft Becomes Latest Licensee of Flash Technology for Mobile Handsets

SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 17, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced that more than 500 million mobile devices shipped with Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software to date. Flash Lite, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, has seen over 150 percent growth over the last year and is now delivered on mobile phones and devices from all

Apple transparent trackpad patent suggests clamshell iPhone

Apple has developed a technique that could allow for a smaller iPhone with all the controls but half the size, according to a recent but not yet fully public US Patent Office filing. Described as a “dual sided trackpad,” the primary variant on the invention would have a translucent cover with a capacitive, multi-touch trackpad that accepts input on either side and can activate controls depending

Sony Ericsson W580i gets a new color - Jungle Green

Last year Sony Ericsson show their pink version of W580, the Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman phone is now available in a new and fresher color — jungle green.That means you can now get the W580i in white, black, grey, pink and green. Personally, I’m not sure that white is my color, so I’d be more likely to pick the staid black version, but if you need to camouflage your music-phone while trekking

HTC patenting unique dual-mode slider

HTC has developed a technology for slider phones that could make them both more useful and more elegant, according to a new US patent filing. Rather than rely on either dual sliders (as with the Helio Ocean) or other complicated designs, the prototype would include a unique keyboard plate and slider track that would allow users to shift the LCD from calling to text modes without significantly

LG enV2 spotted in press shots

LG’s direct sequel to the enV messaging phone has been officially uncovered and suppled with more details. Previously known just as the VX9100, the sequel is likely to be called just the enV2 in public and will have a simpler look than the original (known as the VX9900) with only a small external LCD.The new version should also switch to a smaller, standardized USB connection for charging and

iPhone firmware 2.0 has already been jailbroken

With the new 2.0 firmware coming out for the iPhone in July, I’ve been wondering how long it will take for someone to jailbreak it. Surely it will only be a matter of a few days after it is released to the masses, right? Nope, it has already been done months before the update is rolled out.The iPhone Dev Team apparently got ahold of the new firmware and has already worked their voodoo on it. They

Java Application: OT Mobile Chart

OT Mobile Chart is a free portfolio manager and charting tool for your mobile phone. This tool on your mobile phone helps you keep track of your financial quotes, anytime and anywhere.Here are some key features of “OT Mobile Chart”:· Scrollable quote list with price info· Displays price history in charts· Market data from all major stock exchanges· All major currencies supported· Minimum amount

Retro-terrific CBX-300 tabletop audio system from Onkyo

The CBX-300 houses a goodly modern audio system- complete with CD player compatible with MP3 and WMA CDs, an iPod slot along with an radio tuner with timer that lest you set it like an FM alarm-inside a very elegant retro plastic and faux wood exterior.The tabletop system also boasts of superior sound quality delivered by Active Bass Control and 8cm OMF diaphragm speakers with Aero Acoustic Drive

HTC Touch Cruise Out in US

HTC Touch Cruise has arrived in the US, delivering personal navigation features via GPS, the TomTom map and the TouchFLO touch-sensitive interface, with portrait and landscape views.The handset comes with high speed connectivity via EDGE and HSDPA, quad-band support for GSM 850, 900, 1800 and 1900, J2ME games plus the possibility to download others that you like.With HTC Touch Cruise you get all

Boston Acoustics Duo-i - stylish iPod sound system with AM/FM radio

If you are going to have an iPod sound system in your room, make sure it’s a decent looking one - like the newly-launched Boston Acoustics Duo-i.It’s the company’s first iPod dock, offering high-end sound via two Boston 3.5 inch drive units, ported acoustic enclosures and BassTrac for a clean sound at all levels. Add to that iPod charging (and of course, playback), connectivity for the iPhone,

Vertu launches 10th anniversary Constellation Monogram Collection mobile handsets

2008 marks the 10th anniversary of Vertu and to mark the occasion they have released a special collection of monogrammed Constellations.The collection will feature very special and very luxuriant fine grain leather which will be graced by the Vertu V monogram which interestingly enough is engraved in a four-hour long process and the whole hide is finished with a special protective layer in the

iPhone prepares to lock horns with BlackBerry

Finally, Apple has blown the trumpet of war with BlackBerry. The revelation came in the form of its announcement of the forthcoming iPhone software update. To realize its dream of winning the hearts of business people and dethroning BlackBerry devices, Apple has even teamed up with Microsoft to increase the iPhone’s email capabilities. Now, that means a clear and open war is in the offing.

Stun guns that look like mobile phones aren’t new. But, the latest cellphone turned stun gun to be discovered actually looks like a decent handset upon cursory inspection.This Sony Ericsson look-alike is a fresh departure from previous stun guns masquerading as ugly monoblock handsets, and the police in Nottingham, England are surprised to have found it. The BBC reports that they found this stun

Sprint announce green LG Rumor to celebrate St Patrick’s

Sprint announced LG Rumor as the Official Wireless Phone of St. Patrick’s Day. Not only does it feature a new green color scheme, but it also comes in environmentally friendly packaging. This popular handset features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard in addition to the standard numeric keypad found on the front of the device.The guts of the green Rumor are the same as its rainbow-hued brethren, of

Gameloft Promises 15 Games for iPhone

Yesterday Gameloft announced it will produce no less than 15 new native titles for the iPhone this year, making it the fourth major developer to publicly embrace the iPhone as a gaming platform.According to Guillemot, Gameloft developers have already started using Apple’s software development kit to produce a series of new titles, some of which should be available when the App Store launches in

P-Per Futuristic Cell Phone with E-Paper Technology

P-Per was awarded for the Red Dot Concept Design. It’s designed by Chocolate Design Agency and is a simple mobile phone concept with features that were supposed to be incompatible: simple, advanced, green and unique.Exploring many possibilities of sustainable design, P-Per made only from 4 layers, and one of them is an e-paper screen (which is chocolate agency famous product) which warps the

Bluebird Pidion BM-350 Windows Mobile Smartphone with HSDPA & GPS

Bluebird was at CeBIT last week and to tell you the truth I have never heard of this name before until now, but as they say we learn something new everyday.The Bluebird Pidion BM-350 Windows Mobile Smartphone has quadband GSM, WiFi and 2100MHz 3G HSDPA plus it I equipped with GPS with Assisted-GPS support.Other features on this handset include 520Mhz PXA 270 processor, Bluetooth 2.0, 1.3-

Gigabyte GSmart MS808 3G Phone

Gigabyte GSmart MS808 is 3.5G, and compatible with the following networks: HSDPA, WCDMA 2100, EDGE, GSM850/900/1800/1900, and GPRS. The GSmart MS808 also features a nice 2.8” VGA touchscreen, and a Marvell PXA310 CPU (624MHz). Furthermore, quite typical for GSmart devices, the MS808 supports DVB-T, DVB-H, T-DMB, and/or DAB while the device will be preconfigured to work with DVB-T and DVB-H. And

Samsung SWT-W100K WiBro communicator

The SWT-W100K. It features a 4.3 WVGA TFT touchscreen, WiBro (13Mbps,) as well as DMB and DMB PIP (Picture In Picture), a GPS module, a 2 Mpix AF camera, supports VoIP and Video Chat, USB host, and has 8GB of internal camera memory. It’s compatible with MP4, XviD, WMV, and H.26 video files.There’s still no release date announced, but Samsung could certainly win a few customers (and Sprint gather

Asus M536 PDA Phone With GPS

Asus announced a GPS enabled PDAphone called Asus M536, at CeBIT in German, which has full qwerty keyboard in the front just like a Blackberry.Asus M536 is the successor to Asus M530W but adds new features such as the touch screen, a biometric finger print reader and a GPS receiver. Kind of different with M536 is the square screen resolution at 320×320 instead of the usual 320×240 pixels.Asus

LG KF600 / LG Venus

The GSM version of the LG Venus VX8800, the LG KF600 is a dual-screen slider phone, with a touch-sensitive display at the bottom. This may look like a bit of a gimmick, but remember that the very popular Nintendo DS uses a very similar system.LG call the lower screen the "InteractPad™" - it is a 1.5" 40 x 176 touchscreen that dynamically changes according to the application that the phone is

Sony Ericsson G700 and G900

These two handsets look like ordinary Sony Ericsson phones, but in fact the Sony Ericsson G700 and G900 are two touchscreen Symbian smartphones, designed to bring touchscreen technology into the mainstream.Both handsets are very similar in terms of specifications. The Sony Ericsson G900 is a 3G device with WiFi, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and a photo light, a 2.4" 320 x 240 pixel

Adidas and Samsung Launch Mobile Training System miCoach

Yesterday at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, adidas and Samsung, announced their strategic partnership and unveiled the first product initiative as a result of the collaboration, called miCoach.miCoach is a real-time training system designed to motivate, inspire and enable athletes at all levels to reach their training goals. It collects and turns personal data into individual training plans

MemoryUP Boosts Mobile RAM Enhancing Performance

eMobiStudio Inc. announced the release of MemoryUp Standard Edition v2.2, an extension over its MemoryUp v2.0. In the new upgrade, a refined optimization algorithm is developed to automatically adjust mobile RAM refreshing rate in order to further reduce overall mobile system load.“Not only can MemoryUp boost up the overall performance of smartphone and BlackBerry, ” said eMobiStudio CTO, Daniel

Verizon renames the Samsung U740 to Alias

The U740 was released in Feb 2007, yet now over a year later, Verizon has decided to change the branding of the phone to Alias. No official word was given by Verizon as to why they decided on a name change, but one can only guess it’s to move away from obscure model numbers to a catchy name, now that we know the upcoming U940 will be called “Glyde”.“At first glance, the Samsung Alias in Black

Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 Software Beta

Apple previewed its iPhone 2.0 software, scheduled for release this June, and announced the immediate availability of a beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers.The iPhone 2.0 beta release includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) as well as new enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide secure, over-the-air

Samsung Anycall L258 announced in Kong Kong

Samsung Electronics introduced its latest glossy candy-bar phone, SAMSUNG Anycall L258. This stylish model comes with handwriting recognition to bring mobile users’ greater and more personal connectivity with friends.The slim and compact SAMSUNG Anycall L258 comes in a metallic-silver and black exterior, giving the phone an added sense of sophistication and glamour. With its touch screen and

Emoze is pushing its free push email services for CTIA. We received an invite for a meeting at CTIA which stated.emoze announced some great achievements and developments of its push-communication technology:* Everyone with a personal email account from their Internet service provider can now download emoze for free and have their email pushed to their mobile phone or PDA* emoze is now the

YouTube Mobile 3G Enhancements & Java Beta Launchd.

YouTube announced enhacements for Mobile giving users access to the largest repository of mobile video content available, on over 100 million devices worldwide, and will give them more tools to personalize their experience.YouTube for Mobile (http://m.youtube.com/) users will be able to access tens of millions of videos. YouTube for Mobile requires either a streaming capable (RTSP) phone as well

Motorola Updates Verizon Q9m & K1m, T-Mobile W490 Firmware

Motorola has issued three new firmware updates, all of which are available for updating via the internet.The first, and largest update, is for the Verizon version of the Motorola Q9m. The update is not detected by the standard version of Motorola Software Update. Users must go to the MSU web site (linked below), and select the Verizon Q9m from the list of available phones. A special version of

Meizu iPhone clone makes public appearance

Meizu’s miniOne iPhone clone — also known as the M8 — has made an appearance at the ongoing CeBIT expo in Hannover, Germany. The device on public display can only display four different images, but is said to closely mimic the interface of the iPhone, including its finger-flick touchscreen motions.Technically the OS runs on top of Windows CE 6.0, but it looks, and works, just like the OS X Mobile

58 Million U.S. Mobile Subscribers Have Seen Advertising Over Their Phones

Twenty-three percent (58 million) of all U.S. mobile subscribers say they have been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days, according to a new report out today from The Nielsen Company. Half (51% or 28 million) of all data users who recall seeing mobile advertising in the previous 30 days say they responded to a mobile ad in some way.The findings come from the bi-annual Mobile

Yahoo! Announces Yahoo! onePlace Mobile Content Management

Yahoo! today unveiled Yahoo! onePlace - a mobile content management solution.Yahoo! onePlace will bring together a consumer's interests and important information into a single location. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept current, and served to them the way they want.For example, if a user is planning a holiday to Paris in June, he could create a "Paris" collection, and begin

Samsung Unveiled Soul in ClamShell, Samsung G400

Samsung today announced the launch of Samsung G400, the latest dual screen clamshell at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. Samsung G400 inherits the look and feel of Samsung’s flagship product Soul with unique premium exterior and graphical user interface design identity.Similar to Soul, the Samsung G400 offers a new series of graphic user interfaces (GUI) providing three different options for users.

Yahoo! Brings Yahoo! Go 3.0 and New Mobile Widgets for European Users

Yahoo! today announced at CeBIT 2008 the upcoming availability of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for a number of European countries, as well as several new European-based widgets that will be accessible across Yahoo!'s mobile browser and client-based offerings.Within the next two months, European users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be able to access localized services from new mobile widget

Nokia to Use Microsoft Silverlight in S60 Phones

Nokia today announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Adding support for Silverlight will extend opportunities for developers to create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way.Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering

Vodafone’s Otello search engine uses images, not text

Vodafone is demonstrating a trial service called “Otello”, which is a search engine that uses images, rather than words at the CeBIT show in Germany. Rather than use a word as a search term, Otello users can send images via MMS from their mobiles and the search service which then returns the results to the user’s phone as an “ordinary” search result.A picture from a newspaper, billboard, book

Sony Ericsson Announces T303 slider phone

Sony Ericsson today unveiled the T303, a small compact slider phone with a mirrored screen, metal housing and chrome finish. The T303 comes with a built-in FM radio, meaning you can tune in, chill out, and let time just pass you by.Sony Ericsson T303 - At a Glance * TrackID * FM Radio * Media player * Java * Camera: 1.3 megapixel camera * Bluetooth * USB support * Size: 83 x 47 x 14.7 mm

Social.FM coming soon to your cellphone

Social.FM will be coming to your cellphone; similar to Last.FM, in that it offers a streaming genre-specific radio service, Social.FM also gives access to a user’s own digital music collection and a social network with buddy-list music playback. Available for Symbian and Windows Mobile handsets, the service requires a 3G or WiFi connection.HandMark has contracts with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile,

MOTOROLA RIZR Z3 BLACK Mobile Phone Review

Motorola again have released a latest version mobile phone in the market known as Motorola RIZR Z3 black mobile phone. This RIZR is a beautiful phone with very attractive cool blue backlighting on the keypad. This is a superslim slide version mobile from Motorola which created a good impact on the overall users mind.Design:The Motorola RIZR Z3 black mobile phone is measuring about 106 x 46 x 16mm

BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Smartphone Video review

Vodacom and Research In Motion introduced the new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone in South Africa. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone’s built-in GPS with Vodafone SatNav, powered by Telmap SatNav technology, enables users to find an address and track their location simply and easily as the route is displayed on a 3D map, together with audible step-by-step directions. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110

Philips Xenium 9@9j can use standard AAA batteries; Available in Asia

On the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Philips has demoed one of its latest handset - Xenium 9@9j. Just like the rest of 9@9 series, this one also has an excellent battery life plus, it can also use standard AAA batteries as a source of power.Other Philips Xenium 9@9 specs include: * Quad band GSM (900/1800/1900/850 MHz)/GPRS connectivity * 176×220 px 262K color TFT display * 1.3

Sony Ericsson W380i pictures and video

Here is some pictures of Sony Ericsson W380i and also a short video.Sony Ericsson just unveiled its new non-3G Walkman phone - W380i. There’s the 176×220 262K color TFT internal and 128×36 monochrome STN external screen, 14 MB of phone memory that is further expandable with microSD cards, 1.3 MP camera, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP). As for the pre-installed apps, users can expect Sony Ericsson’s

Samsung to release its two AM OLED handsets in Japan; Samsung 820SC and Samsung 821SC

Samsung Electronics launches its two AM OLED handsets Samsung 820SC and Samsung 821SC in Japan market through Softbank, which both support 1-seg and international roaming service.So, first model Samsung 821Sc adopting 2.6-inch AM OLED display with QVGA resolution, the 820SC offers ten hours of 1-seg recording via 2GB micro SD card. Measuring 51.3 x 102.8 x 18.2mm at 132g weight, it comes with

Windows Mobile trojan in the wild - InfoJack Trojan

Watch out folks, security firm McAfee has warned that they've discovered a new Windows Mobile trojan. This time, the trojan, InfoJack Trojan, is actually in the wild and capable of infecting unprotected Windows Mobile smartphones.The InfoJack Trojan infects your Windows Mobile device when an unsuspecting user downloads and installs an infected application, or uses an infected memory card. The

Mitsubishi Electric to Terminate Mobile Handset Business

Mitsubishi Electric has decided to no longer continue its mobile handset business in Japan.Mitsubishi Electric started supplying car phones in 1983 to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. and since then, the company has been involved in the mobile handset business in Japan, with the recent products supplied to NTT DoCoMo.It has become difficult these days, however, to expect growth in

T-Mobile and Nokia introduce Nokia 6650

Today, at CeBIT 2008, T-Mobile and Nokia announced the Nokia 6650, available exclusively for T-Mobile customers, the Nokia 6650 is equipped with the latest wireless features, such as an integrated GPS and multimedia player, allowing T-Mobile customers easy access to a wide range of services such as web'n'walk, MyFaves, Mobile Jukebox and NaviGate.The Nokia 6650 will be available from T-Mobile

Nokia introduces the Nokia 6124 classic for Vodafone

Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia 6124 classic, exclusively available from Vodafone in Vodafone markets. The Nokia 6124 classic is a compact multimedia device offering Vodafone customers faster and easier access to all of Vodafone's high speed Internet and entertainment services.Available exclusively for Vodafone customers world-wide, the Nokia 6124 classic has a 2.0" display and

O2’s bringing the iPhone to Ireland on March 14th

O2 has confirmed that following it’s launch of the iPhone in the UK, it will be the exclusive carrier for Apple’s mobile phone in Ireland.iPhone will be sold in Ireland through O2 retail stores. The device will also be available through Carphone Warehouse retail stores. iPhone will be available in an 8GB model for €399 (inc VAT) and a 16GB model for €499 (inc VAT) and will work with either a PC

InfoSonics Begins Shipping Its i700 verykool GSM Slider Handset Into South America

InfoSonics Corporation has begun to ship its verykool i700 to carriers in South America.The i700, a slider form factor, is a quad-band, feature-rich wireless cellular phone that includes a 2.2 inch LCD display, 2.0 mega-pixel camera, Bluetooth wireless connectivity, an MP3 player and additional features. The product is currently shipping in three colors; black, blue and red.Specifications: *

iPhone SDK apps to require Apple approval and iTunes distribution - I am So Shocked!

In a move that anyone even remotely familiar with Apple could have seen coming from miles away, even with the SDK Apple wants complete control of what Apps make it onto the iPhone and iPod Touch and complete control of distribution. I don’t think this tidbit has been confirmed, but how likely is it Apple is going to open up any portion of their business model?The rumor also says that third party

Samsung launches entry level phone Guru100 in India

Samsung announced the launch of its entry level mobile handset - Samsung Guru100. Equipped with features such as MP3 ringtones, mobile tracker and 9-hour long battery, Samsung Guru100 offers a strong value proposition to its users with its consumer relevant features and affordable pricing.Samsung Guru100 is a stylish bar-shaped handset that offers unrestricted talktime of 9 long hours. The