Archive for the ‘Smartphones & Tablets’ Category

PSP Phone Won’t Come (from SE)

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The much rumoured PSP phone will not come. Even though Sony has made it's Bravia, Cybershot and Walkman brands available to SonyEricsson. The company expressed it's intention to reserve the PSP for Sony only products.

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Gizmondo Delayed Again… Will it be Vaporware?

December 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Carl Freer said in interview that the Gizmondo would be ready before Christmas 2008. In the latest interview, he admits that it will not be there in time. It's the financial crisis which killed the timely release of what could be the best mobile gaming device.

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Additional Import Taxes for Smartphones

December 9th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

The smartphone market seems to be booming with the success of devices like the HTC Touch Diamond, Nokia N96 and of course the Apple iPhone (though I am still not convinced it is a real smartphone). Yet, the EU is thinking about raising import taxes on them.

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G1 Multitouch Proof of Concept

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

According to US consumers, one of the big lacks of the G1 is support for multitouch on the device. A hacker has now created a video in which he shows that it is possible after all.

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Motorola Ditches UIQ and Linux

October 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

In order to streamline it's handset offering, Motorola will no longer offer UIQ and Linux based devices to the market. Instead, the full focus will be on Windows Mobile, Android and it's own P2K.

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iPhone 3G Counts 130,000 Reservations at O2 UK

June 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | 1 Comment »

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The success of the second generation iPhone from Apple is doubted by
lots of analysts in the industry. At O2 UK, 130K devices have been
reserved already.

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SonyEricsson PSP Phone Coming?

June 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | 1 Comment »

It seems that finally after many rumors. Finally a SonyEricsson mobile
gaming dedicated mobile phone is coming to the market in an attempt to
beat N-Gage.

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T-Mobile Holds Back Ovi Handsets

March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Tmobile Ovi, Nokia’s step to open up mobile content to consumers seems to be biting the Finish giant as T-Mobile Germany announced not to sell Ovi supporting handsets at this moment.

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Mitsubishi Electric Exits Device Market

March 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Mitsubishielectric Though Mitsubishi only released mobile phones on the Japanese market for many years, the company has chosen to stop further development as device sales are expected to slow down in their market.

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Fly’s nPhone

February 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Fly Handset vendor Fly has released a mobile phone that supports all kind of old Nintendo games. It’s not the first time we see a phone with Nintendo support, but is does seem to be the most complete one on the market today.