April 2008 Archive

Van Der Led WM2 Cell Phone Watch

April 10th, 2008

The Van Der Led WM2 boasts a “1.3-inch, 260k color touchscreen display, stereo Bluetooth, up to 240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk, and 1GB of storage for a few of your MP3 or MP4 files.”

Better yet, from a distance, those uber geeky keys on the numeric pad look just like the glittering wrist studs capable of mesmerizing groupies backstage. Yours for €300 (about $471 US Rubles) starting Monday

[via Engadget]

Sony Ericsson Paris Leaked Picture

April 9th, 2008

Here is another spy shot of the Sony Ericsson Paris. This time, showing the phone with the keypad slid open. No word yet on availability.

It uses the same operating principle as the P1 and the M600, with two letters assigned to each side of each button; on the Paris, the buttons appear to be half black and half white.

[via Engadget]

Nokia Tube

April 9th, 2008

SymbianFreak reports that the Nokia Tube is a “16:9 three-point-something-inch phone is quadband, 3G-ready, supports Bluetooth and has integrated GPS with geotagging support.” Click more for a video.

Here are the first—alleged—pictures of the Tube, the codename for Nokia’s response to the iPhone we talked about yesterday. It seems that these images were taken at the same developers conference in California. Looking at the second pic, it seems it will have stylus support

[via Gizmodo - SymbianFreak]

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Google Android Qualcomm Phone Running Quake

April 8th, 2008

In this video, you’ll see a “prehistoric-looking prototype handset running Qualcomm’s MSM7201 silicon”, powering Quake. Click more to watch.

While largely steering clear of the limelight, Android managed to make the occasional cameo at CTIA last week, including a prominent presence at Qualcomm. PC Magazine checked out a very fresh build of the platform running on some weird, giant, prehistoric-looking prototype handset running Qualcomm’s MSM7201 silicon, but be cool — the phone certainly won’t see the light of day looking anything like this, and more importantly, it runs Quake at a nice clip

[via Engadget]

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Verizon XV6900

April 8th, 2008

The Verizon XV6900 includes a “2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, 256MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, Bluetooth, and HTC’s TouchFLO interface.”

We’ve just received word that the blindingly white XV6900, Verizon’s rendition of the HTC Touch theme, will be available online on April 16 with in-store stock following on come April 30.

[via Engadget]

Samsung D870 - The Dual Standby Phone

April 8th, 2008

Samsung has just unveiled the D870. This candybar style phone boasts a 2.1-inch TFT-LCD display, 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD card, USB connectivity.

With Dual Standby, users can carry just one mobile phone and operate it as two mobile phones using two SIM cards. Even while consumers are using a certain mobile number, they are still able to get a call from the other number. Seamless transition from one to the other number provides exactly same experience to bring two different mobile phones while just carrying one single mobile phone

[via Akihabara News]

LG “Black Label” Phone Revealed

April 7th, 2008

LG expands its “Black Label” phone line with a new 5.0-megapixel slider. It features stylish carbon fiber accents.

The as-yet-unnamed slider promises to be the thinnest 5 megapixel cameraphone in the world when it launches, featuring a reinforced glass touchscreen up front (just a little Glimmer-esque, if you ask us) and a shell constructed from carbon fiber

[via Engadget]

Samsung SCH-M470

April 7th, 2008

Samsung’s latest slider phone, the SCH-M470, features a 2.0-megapixel camera, video calling, web browsing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0, HSUPA support, and Wi-Fi.

SKT (SK Telecom) plans to start 2Mbps speed upload demonstration services in designated areas, then extend the service to more areas

[via Akihabaranews]

Samsung F480

April 6th, 2008

The Samsung F480 offers a 5.0-megapixel camera, 2.8-inch touchscreen display, 228MB built-in memory, a microSD card slot, Bluetooth, USB connectivity, FM radio with RDS, and HSDPA support.

It’s not too often that we are so impressed with a handset as we are with Samsung F480. The little fella is an extremely capable device carrying a serious feature pack. In addition, it is so suave and compact that it is bound to earn itself quite a lot of fans. User-friendliness is also among its definite strong points

[via Gsmarena]