Cheaper touchscreen MP4 players are going to be popular this year and Memorex will be releasing one early. The TouchMP boasts a slim and sleek form factor (think one half of a MotoRAZR), 8GB of storage, microSD slot and a pretty decent UI with landscape mode support. The 2.8-inch touchscreen is not a bad size [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 22, 2008
A survey conducted by J.D. Power and Associates seems to have hit a nerve in the mobile world. What they found out was that a quarter of Apple iPhone customers were former customers of Motorola. On everybody’s mind it’s RAZR fans ditching RAZR and switching to iPhone. It’s not exactly switching from Mac to PC [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 11, 2008
What’s interesting about Verizons trifecta of LG announcements is that we’d finally see the third iteration of the LG Chocolate. Perhaps the most popular phone model after the RAZR and the iPhone, the third edition is a beautiful clamshell that allows users to enjoy music and perhaps even video without flipping it open. The LG [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 4, 2008
Rumor - AT&T will increase its subsidy on the iPhone. Not only will it give up a significant portion of its earning for each iPhone subscription, it’s going to shave off $200 on the iPhone 3G price with no loss for Apple. That’s how desperate AT&T is in making the iPhone a true RAZR replacement. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The news does not surprise me in the least - 33% of iPhone users have a second iPhone. Rubicon Consulting also says that 75% of iPhone users said they’ve surfed the Web on-the-go more because of the iPhone. People read more email on the iPhone but despite the virtual QWERTY keyboard, they are not writing [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2008
So, you take an average double-sided electric razor (if there is such a thing), slap on a 2.4-inch TFT screen, and you’ll approximate the look of the SA-866 from the incomprehensibly named SOAIJVJ Electronics. The device can’t actually shave your face, but it supports MPEG-4 and AVI videos, MP3, WMA, APE and FLAC audio [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 3, 2007
A prototype for Motorola’s RAZR2? Nope, this is the act-429 from Act Corp. The model supports AVI videos, MP3 and WMA audio files with lyric display, and JPEGs. No phone features, though, and it doesn’t flip either. The act-429 has a 2-inch TFT screen, a speaker and six EQ settings. FM radio functionality is optional, while [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 29, 2007
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker says that the international mobile phone market grew steadily during the third quarter of 2007. Wordwide venders have shipped a total of 289.1 million units–9% more than the previous quarter and 13.8% than the same quarter a year ago. The growth was affected by high-volume shipments [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 19, 2007
In its first half year on sale, the Apple iPhone has already taken fourth place in the US cellphone market. The expectation is that it will become number 1 within the next two quarters, a real achievement for Apple. The iPhone has racked up 1.1 million in total sales, which makes up for 13% of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Now this is an accessory that would make my neat-freak mother happy. If you’re sick of seeing the tangle of wires from the chargers of all your different gadgets, then this sleek charging station from Gomadic is the perfect solution. The QuadCharge Charging Station allows you to charge not only your Zune but [...]
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