The HTC Touch HD is one of my favorite HTC devices. It has a 3.8 inch touchscreen phone which was recently released by HTC. People say that this Touch HD is being modeled to become an Android handset too for T-Mobile. It’s even referred to as the G2 although there’s nothing official to support these rumors.
With all this in mind I can’t help but think about HTC’s official Twitter from a few days ago which clearly said that the Touch HD is not officially coming to the USA. What do you think?
It looks like 3.5G networks are being developed by various carriers out there. Canada’s Telus makes no exception. The company has announced the arrival of their 3.5G HSPA network. It is scheduled to be launch in early 2010. By that time Telus will be working hard on getting it fully functional in Canada.
Telus is going to work side by side with Bell. That two carriers will finish developing the new network faster and cheaper than if they worked alone. Telus is expecting to pay around $750 million for the upgrade in 2009 alone. HSPA upgrades might cost even more in the years to come. While others are thinking LTE for the future, Telus is going to focus on HSPA. Good or bad decision? We’re going to find out in a little less than two years.
It looks like the G1 is quite the iPhone killer, isn’t it? From what we heard, T-Mobile has managed to pre-sell every phone it had available. Then they started a second run and sold that too. No less than 1.5 million G1s have been sold to date. Add to that the sales which are going to occur when the phone lands in T-Mobile stores and the G1 might sell just as good as the iPhone in the first weekend.
I think that Apple and Google will wager a real war in the mobile business. The iPhone and the G1 will sell really good. And the Storm isn’t even out there!
Nokia has just had a tiny taste of the touchscreen phones world with its 5800 XpressMusic phone. We’re expecting more phones to follow that trend in the near futures. At a recent Nokia event in New Delhi, the marketing director of Nokia India, Devindere Kishore said that: “We will have lots of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.” Not that a future N-series to sport a touchscreen is such an unexpected move but we have at least a small confirmation from a Nokia official.
You might have seen it by now, but just in case you didn’t here’s the new AT&T commercial. Unlike Microsoft’s latest commercial, this one will actually get you some laughs. Like always AT&T claims to have a great coverage area so you’ll be able to make and receive calls no matter where you would are. So how about making a commercial speaking about AT&T’s 3G coverage and its various issues?
TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology is a Chinese company which is said to start making mobile devices which will run on Google’s Android OS. Production will start in early 2009. There aren’t that many details to play with yet but we know that TechFaith is usually working with Motorola, LG, Sprint, France Telecom, SK Telecom, CECT, Amoi and Bird. We should get more details in November. I am already starting to thing that TechFaith plus Motorola might equal Android soon!
AT&T seems ready to launch a new device but it’s not the BlackBerry Bold. It’s the Quickfire, a slider phone made by UTStarcom for AT&T. From the pictures it looks pretty good and it will certainly make an impression with hardcore texters and not only.
The phone is going to be launched sometime later this month and it’s rumored to cost $99.99 if purchased with a two-year plan. We’re going to get you some features by the time it launches. For now we know it has a GPS chip and it comes in orange, silver and white
After hitting Best Buy stores, the iPhone 3G seems ready to make itself available to Walmart customers. Is this for real or not? Well the rumors say November 15 is the day when Apple’s device is going to be available in Walmart stors. Is it believable? Well why not? It would be understandable to see Apple trying to get as many resellers involved in its iPhone program. After all they must meet the 10 million sold iPhones goal. Wait a second, I thought they did sell 10 million handsets already! I meant the 15 million sold iPhones by Christmas?
Do you think we’re going to see cheaper iPhones since they are coming from Walmart? Didn’t think so myself either!
Here’s a concept phone with has Nokia written all over it. I don’t think it’s the phone we’re going to see next week since it proposes quite an interesting idea. As you can see it’s a phone that immediately makes you think it comes with a touchscreen. Indeed it does. The other features aren’t clear right now but we don’t actually need them right now.
We are more interested in the touch experience. This Nokia will get you the feedback you are looking for in your touchscreen phones. And it’s not haptic feedback it’s water. The phone has a pump which allows water to be inserted into the substrate beneath. Thus you will get some buttons on that surface. Wonder if this concept phone will ever be picked up for mass production… What do you think?
We know the story already. Same stuff, different handset. We’ve seen how the Chinese iPhone will loose its 3G chip and WiFi antenna. Well Nokia’s first touchscreen phone, the 5800 XpressMusic will get the same treatment. Again it looks like Chinese mobile carriers want to determine their subscribers to only use the Chinese custom TD-SCDMA network. I understand the lack of 3G but shouldn’t they be able to use WiFi if they wanted to? After all it should be one of the most important human rights! One should be able to use WiFi at any time and any place he or she would feel like, no matter of age, race or religious beliefs.
We talked about Motorola’s Krave ZN4 phone last week and we have now a scheduled arrival date for the handset. Verizon is going to launch it on October 14th at 9AM EST. Huh? 9AM? That early? That’s more details than I would have wanted to know. After all the Krave isn’t the must-have-phone we were all waiting for, right? But as we’re expecting for Motorola to wake up and start launching decent phones, we’re going to give this one the benefit of the doubt and check it thoroughly once the Mac event is finished.
I know, I know, a lot of you guys have been waiting for Xbox to have a Blu-ray drive. When rumors came up saying MS will add a Blu-Ray drive to the 360, I’m sure most of you were dancing all over the place. But I’m sorry, I have to pour cold water over your heads. Microsoft has once again denied the latest rumor that it’ll launch a Blu-ray Disc drive add-on for the Xbox 360.
Yes, that’s right! An article from The Register stated that a blogger going by the name of “Major Nelson” has posted an audio interview online with Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for the Xbox 360. In the interview, which took place at the Tokyo Game Show this week, Greenberg said: “We have no plans to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience.”
However, Greenberg went on to say: “We also believe that the future’s digital, and that’s why we’ve invested in a massive library of entertainment content.” His statements seem to confirm the statements released by Microsoft back in May in which it stated that is has “no plans to introduce a Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360” because “games are what drive consumers to purchase game consoles”.
Here’s a Windows Mobile phone we thought we wouldn’t see by the end of this year. But it looks like Sony Ericsson has outdone themselves and the cell phone will be soon available in more markets. Right now we know it has landed in Sweden and we have proof of it.
There’s no point in telling you about the touchscreen or the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard right? And you already know it’s got GPS, WiFi and a decent 3.2 megapixel camera. We did talk about the Xperia pretty much right? Now I’d be more interested in what Sony Ericsson is going to offer next. There are rumors about future Xperia versions. Some people would say such versions will be based on Android OS. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Enjoy the pictures while you wait for your X1.
eMachines has announced its new line of slim tower PCs. Its more or less the same with HP’s Pavilion SlimLine and Dell’s Inspiron 530s desktops. However, eMachines allow users more upgrade flexibility and what’s even better is its still in the range of budget PC territory. The EL1200 features two configuration, one can cost about $298 and the other is $349.
The configuration specs are as follows:
EL1200-05w ($298)
-1.5GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU
-1GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Nvidia GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics chip
-160GB 7,200rpm hard drive
-18x dual-layer DVD burner with Labelflash
-14-in-1 digital media card reader
-Windows XP Home
EL1200-01e ($349)
-1.5GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU
-2GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Nvidia GeForce 8200 integrated graphics chip
-320GB 7,200rpm hard drive
-18x dual-layer DVD burner with Labelflash
-14-in-1 digital media card reader
-Windows Vista Home Premium
-HDMI port
-eSATA port
LG Electronics launches its flagship handset ‘Secret(models LG-SU600/ KU6000/ LU6000)’ in Korea. It features timeless and elegant design of the phone enhanced by stylish materials such as carbon fiber and tempered glass. The Secret phone boasts its smart technology including the slimmest 5MP camera with face detection, ISO 800 and video recording at 120 fps.
Some of the phone’s features include:
-11.8mm ;
-HSDPA;
-5Mpix camera capable of shooting DivX video at 120 fps;
-2.4″ touch-screen with haptic feedback;
-Suite of mobile Google apps;
-Bluetooth;
-DNB TV
The current economic crisis is definitely affection major companies. RIM is no exception. Their shares have dropped down to $53 which apparently caught Microsoft’s attention. Word is that if RIM’s share drop below $40, Microsoft is going to make a move. They will make a $50 bid per share and hope to acquire RIM.
Imagine RIM phones running on Windows Mobile! Imagine a Zune phone! But then again we’ve seen Microsoft blowing the Yahoo deal earlier this year so we wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t get to buy RIM after all. That’s what we hope predict to happen.
So Firefox is coming to the mobile world. Sure it’s only the Alpha version and we might be in for a longer trip to the final mobile version. But that’s the way to go, baby steps.
What’s surprising is the device that’s going to get the Alpha. It’s not even a phone! It’s Nokia’s N810 open-source internet tablet which will receive the Alpha some time next week. Firefox Mobile is based on Firefox 3 and it will have the smart URL bar and support for various add-ons. Get ready to enjoy the Alpha! The Beta is arriving in 2009. As I said, baby steps!
It looks like RIM isn’t going to pause for air although it has designed one of the its best handsets yet. While we haven’t actually touched the Storm and the phone might show some flaws eventually, we’re sure RIM has a hit already. They did have other remarkable devices but the Storm will surpass them in popularity.
And word on the street is that RIM is working on the successor of the Storm. It’s going to be a touschscreen phone with a 5 megapixel camera, 1GB of memory and an almost HD LCD. People say a third generation Storm is also designed.
We’re waiting for more proof to support all this. After a Storm 2 should be expected. Just like the iPhone 3G was expected to arrive.
If I am not mistaking, I believe we told you a while ago about HTC getting ready to release one Android device and one WiMAX device by the end of the year. Well what do you know? We have the HTC Dream or the G1 which is the first Android phone. And now we have the T8290 which is a WiMAX HTC Touch.
From what we can figure out it’s a 3.8 inch 480 x 800 WVGA display, WiMAX and GSM support, 802.11g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.
How much it costs and when it is going to be available it’s still a mystery. For now the phone has Russian language written all over it so we’re going to wait for HTC official news.
The Samsung i770 is the successor of the i760. Like always with upcoming phones we have some leaked pictures which we can’t say if they’re real or not.
The i770 is longer and thinner than the i760 according to the pictures. The i770 was announced earlier this year and people said it will be available for Verizon some time last quarter. That’s right, there was no i770 official release yet. We’re going to have to wait a little longer right? I wonder if the FCC received the handset yet…
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October 12, 2008
