November 1st 2008 |
Starting Friday, Canada will be the first country outside of the US to be able to download the Beta version of Skyfire, the mobile browser. Skyfire just announced that they are expanding the availability of their award-winning PC Web experience mobile browser to Canada. Now Canadians can watch live sports like NHL hockey, NBA basketball, or use their favorite music and video services just like on their home/work computers.
Skyfire’s claim to fame is its zoomed-out browsing mode that replicates desktop browsing on a much smaller screen. A mouse lets you navigate around the page. You click as you would on a desktop browser to zoom in for a closer look. By using a proxy server to help serve and render Web pages, Skyfire can also stream Flash video and support Ajax and Quicktime. However, it’s far from the only one of its kind. [Read More...]
November 1st 2008 |
Verizon Wireless is now selling LG’s VX5500, an entry-level flip handset. You’ll be able to get the phone fir $49.99 with a 2-year contract, $119.99 with a 1-year contract or $219.99 to buy the phone outright. It’s not going to feature any high-speed data or flip open to reveal a hidden QWERTY thumbboard, but if you’re just looking for a basic model or backup to complement your new smartphone, the VX5500 might be right for you.
Just as a refresher, this one’s bringing Bluetooth, a VGA camera, speakerphone, VZ Navigator support, voice activated dialing and Mobile Web 2.0. Sadly, you won’t get any EV-DO.
October 31st 2008 |
Arrives in Italy, in collaboration with TIM, LG Tribe a touchscreen phone with QWERTY keyboard is dedicated to young Italian. TIM has signed agreements with LG to give youth a phone that enable to chat at any time. This phone is very stylish with fantastic colors and a beautifully laid out full QWERTY keyboard. The slide-out QWERTY keyboard as can be clearly seen under the 2.4-inch screen. It has an ability to speed up the sending of SMS messages and chat with the support of the keyboard functions
The dimensions stand on 101.5 x 51 x 16.6 and it weighs 108 grams with touchscreen of 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 “262K color TFT QVGA resolution. The camera however is just your basic 2 megapixel phone camera. Dedicated to “generation Web 2.0″, LG Tribe seeks with its light and fresh style. The internal memory of 15 MB, however, is expandable with microSD cards. The device also includes serial mp3 player and FM radio. The phone is compatible with networks triband GSM / EDGE and autonomy from 4 to 100 hours thanks to Li-Ion Battery 800 mAh [Read More...]
October 31st 2008 |
With the introduction of the iPhone, every major mobile phone maker has jumped on the touchscreen bandwagon. Softbank and Sharp announced the Aquos Fulltouch 931SH slider. The Softbank’s Sharp AQUOS FullTouch 931SH handset boasts an amazingly high-resolution, AQUOS-branded display with pixel-counts that darn near rival those on sub-notebooks. It features  3.8-inch 1024 x 480 pixel resolution screen. While “Standard†netbook screen resolution these days is pegged at 1024 x 600. That’s just 120 pixel difference there!
The Aquos Fulltouch 931SH also comes with a 5.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth with A2DP, media player with microSD expansion and 1Seg TV Tuner. Apart from that, the specs of Sharp’s new phone include:Tri band GSM connectivity (900/1800/1900 MHz) plus WCDMA/HSDPA; GPS CMOS camera for video calls, 100MB of internal memory MicroSD.  The Sharp AQUOS FullTouch 931SH isn’t going to finding a home anywhere outside of Japan, or outside of Softbank’s network, for that matter.
October 31st 2008 |
The Nokia N85 looks set to make an appearance in the US pretty soon. Nokia’s N85 slider showed up in recent FCC documents, clearing the way for the phone to be sold by AT&T in the US. The Nokia N85 features a 2.6″ AMOLED(INFO) display which should give it a bright, high contrast display. It also has features from the top of the Nseries range, such as its five-megapixel  autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash. The phone is also loaded up with an FM transmitter, a microSD card slot, and a standard 3.5mm audio port that pulls double-duty for the TV-out function
The documents filed with the agency show that the phone will support tri-band UMTS for 3G access along with quad-band GSM for global voice service. This N85 version was tested at 850/1900 GSM and 850/1900 WCDMA and is a full 7 band capable phone with 850/900/1800/1900 GSM and 850/1900/2100 WCDMA. The Nokia N85 NAM should be available any day now, and with the Euro version currently on Ebay as low as $530
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