PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster has thrown his prediction hat into the ring and suggested that Apple will have three distinct iPhone handsets in the market by January 2009, one of which will be the well-discussed 3G version of the smartphone.  The other two devices, he maintains, will be a "budget" iPhone - priced between $200 and $300 - and a ... continued »

The New York Times has revealed further details of the origins of Apple's iPhone, indicating that, as widely maintained, the project began not as a revolutionary cellphone but as a notebook-scale internet tablet.  John Markoff, discussing Apple CEO Steve Jobs' recent dismissal of ebooks, claims that MultiTouch began life in a hardware development project creating a so-called 'Safari Pad'. "Apple's multitouch technology ... continued »

Microsoft and Nokia have struck a deal to bring Silverlight to Nokia phones running Symbian OS, beginning with the S60 smartphones as well as S40 phones and their linux-based Internet Tablets: N810, N800, N770, N700, etc. This is a big win for Microsoft as they have a huge task ahead of them trying to displace Adobe's Flash as the default ... continued »

Acecad have added Bluetooth to their DigiMemo electronic notepad so that you can now send messages written on paper as email or MMS directly through your cellphone.  The DigiMemo, a digital clipboard which uses a special pen to record anything a user writes and stores it in flash memory, previously required a USB connection to a computer to transfer, analyse and perform ... continued »

Should the HTC Magnum ever see the light of day, and you do decide to buy it, you’re going to get your money’s worth – every single penny. Surely this has to be some sort of an internal prototype cooked up in the labs as a proof of concept for future products. So this begs the question, is ... continued »

Most of us might be more excited about the upcoming dual-boot HTC Shift, but T-Mobile would like us to remember that its younger sibling, the MDA Ameo, is still around and still making mobile warriors smile.  Well, they'll have even more to smile about now, as the smartphone-cum-tablet has had an upgrade, with storage doubled to 16GB, the removable keyboard ... continued »