And here we have it: what’s likely to be the world’s first Bluetooth 3.0 phone courtesy of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). According to the filing’s description, the “compact and slim” Samsung GT-S8500 is a touchscreen slate phone with a “high resolution” 3.1-inch OLED sporting a TouchW…
They knew this day was coming, but still, we can’t help but feel like there must be some higher-ups at Verizon that are squirming today at the knowledge that the innermost workings of one of their highest-profile smartphones — the Droid Eris — are now available to anyone willing to invest the cou…
It doesn’t look like we’ve got any showstoppers here — but just as with any major new smartphone release, Verizon’s Pre Plus is starting to take some lumps after romping in the field for a week since its retail availability kicked off. Of the two biggies being cited so far, one is of particular con…
The screen shots we’ve seen of Bada so far don’t really remind us of the TouchWiz we know and love (or hate) today, but a new blog post on Samsung’s official Bada site says that the platform will definitely be hooked up with “the latest version of TouchWiz” with “chic touch interaction and component…
Motorola’s so-called Calgary has found itself on a lengthy, fascinating journey from rumor to retail — a journey that began way back in 2008. Finally, here we are a whole bunch of months later, the high-end Droid having been released back in November and Verizon still without a midrange choice for…
Here’s the thing about Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Pureness: once you get past the translucent display, there’s not much to it. Seriously — it doesn’t have 3G, a camera, hunks of precious metal, or even a fancy name to flaunt like Vertu, Dior, or Versace; it’s just a low-end phone from a mass-market ma…
North Americans are about as familiar with Alcatel as Europeans are with baseball, but the brand — owned by China’s TCT — actually does a decent amount of low- to mid-end handset business around the world. One thing Alcatel isn’t known for, though, is venturing into the smartphone fray, so it com…
Have any idea what a SureType keypad would look like if it were removed from a BlackBerry and (barely) enlarged? We’re guessing it’d look a little something like this. Designed by Mobience, the smallQWERTY keyboard is meant to give you a more tactile option when it comes to texting or inputting cha…
Motorola’s so-called Calgary has found itself on a lengthy, fascinating journey from rumor to retail — a journey that began way back in 2008. Finally, here we are a whole bunch of months later, the high-end Droid having been released back in November and Verizon still without a midrange choice for…
It ain’t the first company to do it, but Logitech’s new iPhone app is certainly one of the easiest to get into. Oh, and did we mention that it’s completely free to download? Available now in the App Store, Touch Mouse transforms your handset into a wireless trackpad or keyboard, and thanks to its re…
Call it proof that there’s a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan — NTT DoCoMo — has encountered exactly the oppos…
Nokia’s just posted its literally-named Custom Dictionary utility to Beta Labs’ hallowed halls of experimental wares, finally bringing what appears to be a thorough predictive text solution to S60 devices so that you can use (in Nokia’s own words) friends’ names and nicknames, places, and “slang” (…
Need a mystery to keep you bewildered? Here’s one: that layer of nothingness between the touch-sensing glass and the display on your phone. Whatever that is, Samsung’s about to blow it away with a new 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen coming in March. The magic lies in the on-cell touch technology -…
Cellphones, whether they be smart or dumb, are pretty amazing things — but they’re pretty lifeless things, too. Design researcher Fabian Hemmert thinks that our gadgets could move us a little more if only they could, well, move. As part of his TEDxBerlin talk late last year he shows off some proto…
“It’s the hyperlink in the physical world” says a Microsoft PR man, giving us the most succinct definition of what Redmond’s Tag initiative is all about. Having annouced its alternative take on the barcode at CES 2009, Microsoft has been working behind the scenes on proliferating the use of these m…
You know what’s really annoying? Teenagers. Even more annoying? Teenagers inventing legitimately useful things and getting awards for it. Meet Alexander Kendrick, the 16-year old inventor of a new low-frequency radio that allows for cave-texting, which isn’t some fresh new euphemism, it just means …
Get to it N97 owners. In addition to your free Ovi Maps, Nokia just let loose firmware version 21.0.045 that promises to improve call reliability and smooth out the jumpiness some have seen with kinetic scrolling introduced in v20. It’s available now via the a Nokia Software Update tether if you ju…
Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE d…
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It doesn’t look like we’ve got any showstoppers here — but just as with any major new smartphone release, Verizon’s Pre Plus is starting to take some lumps after romping in the field for a week since its retail availability kicked off. Of the two biggies being cited so far, one is of particular con… 
The screen shots we’ve seen of Bada so far don’t really remind us of the TouchWiz we know and love (or hate) today, but a new blog post on Samsung’s official Bada site says that the platform will definitely be hooked up with “the latest version of TouchWiz” with “chic touch interaction and component… 
It ain’t the first company to do it, but Logitech’s new iPhone app is certainly one of the easiest to get into. Oh, and did we mention that it’s completely free to download? Available now in the App Store, Touch Mouse transforms your handset into a wireless trackpad or keyboard, and thanks to its re… 
Call it proof that there’s a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan — NTT DoCoMo — has encountered exactly the oppos… 
Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE d… 
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