The MWg Zinc II is an attractive new phone, featuring Windows Mobile 6.1. The solid feature set includes a 500MHz CPU, courtesy of Samsung, a slide out keyboard, and the obligatory touch screen. The improvements, especially considering many new smartphones are still lumbered with 200-300MHz processors, should add up to a very speedy phone. continued »

According to Crave, mobile device manufacturer MWg (formerly O2 Asia) is planning on launching a number of new smartphones in the second half of 2008, which will incorporate Splashpower's wireless charging.  While the collaboration with the UK-based magnetic induction specialist has been known for a while now, MWg had previously declined to indicate a timescale for when we could see ... continued »

Wireless charging has been around a while, now, but it's needed annoying add-ons to work with your existing tech.  That could change, as MWG- who manufacturer the Zinc, Atom and UBiQUiO Windows Mobile smartphones, among other handsets - are apparently working with inductive charging specialists Splashpower.  That means future MWG cellphones will need only to be placed on a special charging base ... continued »

Lacking the slide-out keyboard of its Xda Zinc II sibling, the new MVG Atom V nonetheless manages to score with the rest of its features: quadband GSM/GPRS and triband 3.6Mbps UMTS/HSDPA , WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as a better camera than the Zinc II (3 megapixels rather than 2) and a slightly faster processor (520MHz rather than 500MHz, ... continued »

Could 2008 be the year when we finally get some decent competition in the Windows Mobile smartphone range?  Expansys Hong Kong has revealed the MWG Xda Zinc II, a sliding-smartphone with QWERTY keyboard, quadband GSM/GPRS and triband 3.6Mbps UMTS/HSDPA.  MWG also throw in WiFi in b and g flavours and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as a SiRF Star III GPS receiver and ... continued »