Posted on 23 September 2008 by Chris Davies
T-Mobile officially announced their G1 smartphone this morning, the first handset to use Google's Android platform. The G1 is a dualband UMTS, quadband GSM slider with a full QWERTY keyboard, trackball and 3.2-inch 320 x 480 HVGA capacitive touchscreen for navigation; it also has GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera. Our sibling site Android Community were on hand ...
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Posted on 18 September 2008 by Brenda Stokes
Well, it looks like the::unwired has gotten their hands on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, and the device is pretty slick from their account. And though the device will be launching later this month, it seems anticipation is high.
The demo video shows a handset that is still based on pre-production hardware, but you could have fooled us. In fact, the ...
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Posted on 10 September 2008 by Brenda Stokes
Nothing like some good old fashioned BlackBerry drama to keep things interesting. A video leaked out last night of the BlackBerry Storm in action. And call it what you want, Storm, Thunder, whatever, but this phone seems to have one major problem, and that's its screen.
Besides naming controversies, the BlackBerry Storm as it will be called on Verizon, and ...
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Posted on 02 September 2008 by Brenda Stokes
The time has finally come. We have finally gotten a look at the Meizu M8 OS. And we've learned a couple of things: it looks very much like the iPhone and it's really not that bad looking.
You can see the UI in action below and there's a bit of humor tucked away in there for you like the risque photos ...
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Posted on 06 August 2008 by Chris Davies
While we're still waiting for BlueAnt's award-winning V1 Voice Controlled headset to hit shelves - which we're hoping will be imminent - we came across a video from the company that demonstrates exactly why the Bluetooth earpiece promises to sweep the hands-free board. Fitted with dual-microphones for noise reduction, the really clever part is BlueAnt's voice recognition system, that lets ...
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Posted on 30 June 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
It has been way too long since I've actually held an iPAQ of any sort in my hands. HP has come a long way with the iPAQ 910 Business Messenger. It is obviously targeted towards BlackBerry carrying execs. The iPAQ 910 is 3G, has a QWERTY keyboard and a 2.46-inch touch screen display, 5-way navigation key, wrapped in a stylish ...
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Posted on 25 June 2008 by Ewdison Then
The Motorola ROKR E8 is no stranger to PhoneMag – our Vincent was handed one in New York today as part of Moto’s Holiday Gift Guide. Motorola has simplified the ROKR E8 navigation to allow user to make a quick switch between phone conversation and music playback – with only one touch.
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Posted on 08 June 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
We've been playing with Samsung's Instinct for Sprint over the past couple of days since our unboxing & first-impressions article, and our initial surprise over just how good a handset it is hasn't gone away. The carrier's hype machine has been in full effect over the past few months, pushing the Instinct as the ideal partner for the mobile user ...
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Posted on 08 June 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
We expected something big when HTC invited us to London for the launch of their next-generation of smartphones, and they delivered the HTC Touch Diamond handset. HTC wouldn't let us bring the Diamond back that we played with in the UK, but they did promise us our own and it arrived this weekend. Read on for the first part of ...
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Posted on 29 May 2008 by Chris Davies
A very short video with a demonstration of Sony Ericsson's new Paris device has been found on YouTube. The video depicts the handset for very common use, and does not really parade any of the advanced features of the device that we all know it has. The demo is very short, and seems as if it is destined to run ...
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