The Nokia N900 is still on a pre-order basis, but that’s apparently not an issue with Amazon as they’ve further lowered its price to just $479.99. This price is inclusive of a $50 mail-in rebate which previously stood at $560. We’re not sure why they decided to drop the price of the Nokia N900 by [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Motorola Droid may be making the iPhone sweat in the U.S., but in China OPhone is the name Apple will be most wary about. So when Moto has recently announced its liking for OPhone, the mobile world better listen. Introducing the Motorola MT710, the company’s first OPhone mobile. In case you haven’t heard, OPhone [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 8, 2009
The new touchscreen smartphone from Palm, even with all its charms (it’s the best mobile at CES 2009, says right there on the poster), aren’t selling in Canada. The Palm Pre is now only $99.95 Canadian from $149.95 a few weeks ago (CAD is only slightly lower than USD). Another price cut within weeks of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Verizon wasn’t joking when it claimed the it’s upcoming Motorola Droid Does and the AT&T iPhone is pretty much an iDon’t phone. The official unveiling today probably marked the beginning of Google Android phones as a serious contender in the smartphone market. It’s all about the operating systems now: Mac OS X vs. the open [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 16, 2009
Apple isn’t exactly fond of allowing 3G video streaming on the iPhone. The iPhone SlingPlayer app doesn’t come with it and neither does the recently released EyeTV app. Fortunately, there seems to be a quick fix for this as far as Elgato’s EyeTV iPhone app is concerned. When you try to run Live TV on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Like Sony, Samsung has entered the Chinese PMP market in earnest. The YP-CM3 is the first PMP with CMMB (Chinese mobile TV) support from the Korean company. It boasts a 3-inch screen and will play multiple video codecs including MP4, AVI and SVI. I’m not sure why Samsung would want to skip RMVB support, as [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
Qualcomm’s FLO TV is a stand-alone mobile TV that it’s trying to sell to the public spoiled by iPod Touch and other premium and not so-premium PMPs, not to mention multimedia phones. Yes, this is not a PMP but a personal television with 3.5-inches of portable viewing screen. They have priced this at a prohibitive [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 9, 2009
The Archos 5 Internet Tablet is now available for shipping at Amazon. The 160GB will set you back $389.99. Other capacities like the 500GB and the 32GB are not available yet. The Archos 5 is a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen PMP with WiFi, 3.5G connectivity and GPS. It supports HD TV out thru an HDMI [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
So far, 240 reported dead and hundreds of thousands of evacuees have been documented in the aftermath of Ketsana (Ondoy), a tropical storm that barely registered as a Typhoon. The Philippine government, by some accounts, have been slow to react, undermanned and under-equipped. Contrast that to individual Filipinos, like a 49-year-old judge who miraculously saved [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 4, 2009
The OPhone platform or OMS is no secret anymore, and while we’ve already seen a couple of handset touting this Android-modified China-brew mobile OS such as the Dell Mini 3i and Lenovo 01, there were actually a bunch of other goodies that were unveiled by China Mobile that will also run on this new system. [...]
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Friday, November 20, 2009
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