J.Wong, the dynamic CE of Meizu has announced that users of the current 2G Meizu M8 will be able to upgrade to 3G for an additional $190 and $220 for the 8GB and 16GB respectively. No mention of the Meizu M8 3G MSR, and we’re expecting it to appear months ago. The good news above [...]
Continue reading...20. June 2009
The Palm Pre app store, the App Catalog, is still in its infancy and is certainly nowhere near the size of the Apple App Store, but apparently, they’re doing quite well on their own. In fact, despite the obvious lack of mobile apps to offer, they’ve already managed to amass 666,511 downloads as of June [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2009
Just how fast is the iPhone 3G S? Accordng to Anandtech, it’s 54% faster than the iPhone 3G and 11% 21% faster than Palm Pre. Even better, in application launch, it makes Palm Pre eat dust especially on web browser launch and Google Maps. Now, what I’m really interested in is battery life comparisons. See the [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2009
Jack Wong, the dynamic CEO of Meizu, has announced that future plans of their uber iPhone clone will include Google’s Android as an OS option, aside the Windows CE the Meizu M8 is currently running. Apparently, there are already leaks of the supposed Meizu M8 running Android. We have posted the screen shots below. The [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2009
Just when we thought HiPhone is winning the cloning wars by a huge margin, SciPhone suddenly made its biggest leap yet in cloning terms. First, the SciPhone N12 is the first SciPhone Nseries phone we’ve ever heard of and, second, it runs a genuine Android OS. Not only that, it’s got crazy specs like WiFi, [...]
Continue reading...17. June 2009
The washing machine and fridge maker has had it with the PMP market, apparently, as the sales of the iBiza Rhapsody may have indicated. Haier is now trying its hand on handset making and their H7 smartphone has chosen none other than Google’s Android to run. No idea on pricing and release. Screen is 2.7 [...]
Continue reading...16. June 2009
We’ve been wondering when Huawei will bust out their Android phone, and it looks like the wait is finally over. They’ve just unveiled the U8230. It features a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, 3.2-megapixel camera, 1500 mAh battery, trackball, and probably runs on Android 1.5 Cupcake as it has an onscreen keyboard as well. It’s not [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2009
So, is Dell really going into the mobile phone market? If the photo above is to be believed, it’s not only likely, it appears they will be going after the Palm Pre. The photo may be a hoax but it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Dell wants to be in the cellphone business with [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2009
The Finnish giant is going cheap with its touchscreen XpressMusic phones. The 5530 XpressMusic boasts a 640 x 360 wide screen that’s supposed to be just a shave off 3 inches. It’s not going to be 3G, but it will have WiFi connectivity and of course the S60 smartphone goodness. The 5800 XpressMusic was a great [...]
Continue reading...13. June 2009
Still remember the Samsung B7610 Louvre we featured way back in April? It turns out that the Louvre is actually the newest Omnia from the company, the Samsung Omnia Pro. Taking a cue from HTC where their Pro version such as the HTC Touch Pro2 features a QWERTY keypad, Samsung does the same with the [...]
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21. June 2009
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