Samsung Instinct: a serious iPhone competitor?
This may come as a shock to some people, but the iPhone isn’t the only smartphone with a touch screen! Samsung’s new phone, the Instinct, also has full touch screen functionality. Gadget Reviews has compared it to the iPhone. Here’s a short summary of the comparison:
Design; No real winner, purely a matter of taste.
Display; [...]
Open Source Smartphone sent to distributors
Openmoko has begun shipping the Neo Freerunner phone to distributors in Europe and Asia. Seems like the Linux-based open source smartphone will finally become available to customers! Until now, it only has been available for developers. The Openmoko Neo Freerunner is an open source Linux-based smartphone. Not only the software but also the hardware is [...]
Samsung Omnia Smartphone in action
The iPhone isn’t the only smartphone with a touch screen! Samsung’s newest phone, the Omnia i900, is a Windows Mobile 6.1 powered smartphone that also has one. The following video shows a demonstration of the touch screen interface in action. A word of warning, though: turn off the sound, because it has one of those [...]
iPhone 3G Faq
Gizmodo has an extensive faq about the new iPhone. A must read if you’re gonna buy one! Some of the questions that are answered:
How much will it cost?
What’s the difference between this one and the old one?
How much will it cost over the course of two years?
When can I buy it?
Where can I buy it?
How [...]
HTC Touch Pro
HTC has announced the HTC Touch Pro, their newest addition to the Touch line of Windows Mobile smartphones. It has the same slide-out keyboard as other HTC phones and a 2.8″ touch screen with VGA resolution. What makes this phone even more unique is the TouchFLO interface, wich makes browsing through different tasks and options [...]
RoverPC P7 Smartphone
The relatively unknown Russian electronics manufacturer RoverPC has released its newest smartphone, the P7. It sports a 416 MHz processor, 2.8″ touch screen, GPRS/EDGE, Windows Mobile 6.1, Bluethooth, Wifi. It supports MicroSD cards and has a mini-USB connector and a 2 megapixel camera. Unfortunately, there’s no 3G support.
As for now, the phone is only available [...]
Clamshell Blackberry Phone
It was getting about time this became available: a clamshell blackberry phone. I prefer clamshell phones over other ones, since even with a locked keypad I have ended up dialing someone with the phone in my pocket. Anyway, here are some of the specs of this phone:
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Suretype keyboard
2 Megapixel camera
320×240 16-bit color display
Wifi b [...]
Sony Ericsson Bluethooth Headset with Faceplates
Sony Ericsson’s new Bluethooth headset, the hbh-pv712 Style Edition, comes with faceplates to add some extra style to your mobile gear. Three faceplates, a red, purple and black one, are included. So far, no other plates are available, but if this becomes succesfull, this may change.
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Second Life comes to cellphones?
Apparently, Second Life is coming to cellphones soon. Samsung has demonstrated a handset that’s capable of running it, so you can access it from anywhere.
In my opinion, this is something that is gonna suck like nothing else before. I have tried Second Life for exactly ten minutes and is a horrible, horrible piece of junk. [...]
New OpenMoko handset coming
Open Moko has announced they will launch a new handset somewhere in the following months. Their first one, the Neo, hasn’t been very succesfull, but perhaps that’s gonna change.
So what is this Open Moko thing anyway? Open Moko is an open source mobile phone operating system. So far, only one handset for the OS has [...]
