Two giants are going to enter the mobile phone hardware market with BlackBerry-, SideKick-, Palm-like cellphoes. this is the secret “Zune Phone” codenamed “Pink.” While Windows Mobile is not going away soon, the Turtle and Pure phones will probably have multimedia software courtesy of Zune.
Continue reading...Sunday, May 24, 2009
The phone may not seem too usable for the likes of me and you, but little fashionistas would get a kick out of this. If they’re still too obsessed with their SideKicks (I think they still are), you might convince them by pronouncing the cheap price of the C90+, just $129.99 and the fact that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Microsoft is planning a phone, yes, and it has been given the code-name “Pink.” Sounds very interesting. Here’s what CNBC’s Jim Goldman says, “I’m hearing from a good source that Microsoft is ready to give a major facelift to the company’s Zune music player that could mean its evolution into a new smart phone from [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 10, 2008
Nice of Sony Ericsson to jump into the SideKick market with their new XPERIA X1. It runs WinMo 6 and is a device meant for Web browsing, multimedia entertainment, among other things phone are used nowadays. The connectivity on this monster s plain awesome: quadband GSM, 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA for U.S. bands. On phone mode, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 16, 2008
What’s the difference again of a UMPC and a MID? This is what Intel has to say. But according to Amtek’s new U560 UMPC, absolutely nothing. The device is a slider of the SideKick variety and is powered by an 800MHz processor, which can be reduced for battery optimization as Steve/Chippy found out in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 13, 2007
I’ll never accuse MSN of brand loyalty, tat is after admitting the Zune, especially the Brown Zune is one of the worst design disasters for a consumer product. Here’s what the site had to say about the Microsoft MP3 player: When Microsoft launched its “iPod killer” in 2006, the company made sure to include many of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 11, 2007
Meet the MP4-3010A from Foshan Joyoung Electronics, which looks more than a little Sidekick-like. It plays AMV (WMV, MPEG, MOV and AVI files can be converted into this format) and MPX videos, and displays still images on its 2.4-inch TFT screen. MP3 and WMA audio files are supported as well. The device has e-book, FM [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Taixingbang Technology Co., Ltd of Shenzen has come out with a stainless steel PMP that copies the sleek beauty of Nokia’s 5300 XpressMusic, copied previously and less successfully by another Shenzen manufacturer. The Taixingbang version does not have a slideout keypad; instead, the keypad is crammed below the waist. It has a 2.4-inch screen and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 10, 2007
Now, we know Russia and China are not the best of terms (not to re-live Jack Bauer’s heartaches), but look who’s trying to act like the United Nations (or perhaps like Bill Clinton) and make bridges between the two countries, at least tech-wise. Qumo, a portable media player designed for gaming spotted not too [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 26, 2007
Affluent International brings the gaming to PMPs with its Sidekick-looking AF-736 model, which features a sliding 3-inch TFT screen. The product supports ASF-formatted MPEG-4 video files (playback at 320×240 pixels, 30fps) and popular audio formats such as MP3, WMA and WAV. Gaming-wise, it supports “game cards” (we assume this means cartridges), and NES games. Yup, [...]
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
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