Despite facing stiff competition from veteran local players such as Samsung and LG, KT is still very optimistic about their newest offering, the iPhone, as they expect to sell around 100,000 to 500,000 units once its releases in Korea. They still haven’t announced their official pricing for it, but analysts predicts that the Korea iPhone [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
Taking the iPhone to a whole new level of functionality, Dynamic Controls has just announced they’ll be releasing an iPhone app soon that will allow disabled individuals the freedom to control their power wheelchairs via the iPhone or iPod Touch. It works via Bluetooth and as you can see with the screenshots above, is a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
It’s out of stock, due to miscalculation. Wow. When Barnes & Noble announced its e-reader Nook, we were led to believe that it was going to rival the Amazon Kindle. Well, it was certainly a success in its first outing, but then B & N dropped the ball and couldn’t produce enough Nooks for everyone [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Steve Jobs’ baby is set to make another conquest. South Korea is one of the two most advanced countries in the world when it comes to mobility and connectivity. Will the iPhone make an impact there? The iPhone will be distributed by KT, though SK Telecoms will be following suit. SK serves 50% of Korean [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
The processor maker has jumped into the handset market with the unveiling (leaking) of their very own QWERTY MID. It’s slightly underpowered compared to the AMD Super Mobile CPU-powered xpPhone. I’m comparing it to the xpPhone because the VIA MID will also feature telephony. Indeed, the slideout QWERTY and the tall form factor suggests this [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 14, 2009
One thing I seriously don’t like with the BlackBerry App World is that it’s limited to PayPal account owners only. It’s a prerequisite before you can start downloading apps from the App World, which to be honest, is quite a hassle. Fortunately though, RIM big boss Jim Balsillies has just announced that their planning to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
It’s not surprising to see Nokia dominating the global smartphone market scene, but what is interesting to see is how both RIM and Apple posted huge growth this past quarter. Aside from HTC, they are the only two other phone makers who managed to improve on their performance last year and by a significant margin at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
With the original BlackBerry Storm making such a big splash when it debuted last year, it’s hard to imagine that its successor, the Storm 2, isn’t creating the same kind of buzz this year. Case and point, Verizon has already launched the BlackBerry Storm 2 without much fanfare and has been available for retail since [...]
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...Thursday, November 12, 2009
We’ve been on the lookout for ONN PMPs ever since they announced their intentions to invade the China market. They have simple, basic but well-designed MP3 players, like the V2 and V1. ONN (Owen) is a Danish company, which reminds us that Nokia is a Finnihs company. Will we see ONN become the Nokia of [...]
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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