Phone Magazine week in review

Posted on 25 May 2008 by Chris Davies
Tags: Carrier, HTC, HTC Touch, Nokia, Palm, Samsung, Samsung Instinct, Sidekick, Sprint, Treo, week in review

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Nokia had quite the fiasco this week with the N-Gage mini scandal. N-Gage users were outraged to find out that all those expensive N-Gage games they bought for their N81, N82, or N95 were not good to be used on another device. This was confirmed by Nokia themselves. Nokia responded to the outrage circulating on the blogs though, and said the games will be made transferable in the future.

The HTC Touch Dual is making its way to the U.S, and this time with American HSDPA. The device is to be sold exclusively in Best Buys stores, not all of them though. The device takes all the features that we know in the current HTC Touch with it, but ups the ante with Windows Mobile 6.1, and a 20 key SureType esque keyboard.

If you have been waiting for the Sidekick Gekko, then you have no doubt been searching for some information on the device. This week, a few of the manual pages from the device were outed. The pages revealed that the new Sidekick will have video support, and will also have interchangeable face plates. The device is rumored to launch at the end of June.

Sprint’s ‘iPhone Killer’ the Samsung Instinct, will be released on June 20th according to advertisements found on Sprint’s website. The device has lots of features that make it a winner, including EV-DO Rev. A, and GPS. The device also has a touch screen, and comes in with less screen real estate than the iPhone.

Photographs of the Palm Treo 850w were revealed this week. The device is a little early, as the Treo 800w is not even out yet. The device is running Windows Mobile, as you would assume thanks to the ‘w’ appended to the devices model number. Little is known about the device except it will have a 400MHz CPU and 100MB of RAM.

Really big news showed up this week in the world of mobile hardware. A start up called ASOCS, has introduced the worlds first software programmable radio. The news is huge, as phones of today have to have many chips to control the different functions. A chip that could be programmed to perform any function given, has been worked on for quite some time.