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Motorola A45 Murano gets official in Brazil as MotoCubo A45

When, in July of this year appeared the first photos of Motorola A45 Murano, no info was available about its details. But just yesterday Motorola announced this phone in Brazil officially under the name MOTOCUBO A45. A45, as well as the W233, is eco-green phone. 25% of this device is made from recycled materials, while [...]

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Mobile Phones sales down 6%, smartphones – up 27%

Mobile Phones sales down 6%, smartphones – up 27%

Gartner reports that in the second quarter of 2009 worldwide sales of mobile phones are 286.1 million units total, which is 6.1% lower than in the 2nd quarter of 2008. However, sales of smartphones in this period increased by 27%: overall 40.9 million of such devices were sold, while in April – June 2008 only [...]

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Rumors: Nokia 5900 XpressMusic

Rumors continue to flow on about the new Nokia 5900 XpressMusic smartphone. Previously, information about it already spotted in the network, but later it turned out to be another Nokia smartphone with touch screens – 5530 XpressMusic, which sales has already begun. By the way, in a photo provided by the source, too, apparently, is [...]

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Motorola Morrison specs and release date leaked

Morrison, some details of which leaked and before, was considered the first Android run phone by Motorola. Now if we believe rumors surrounding us, more technical specs and the date of its anouncement leaked also. According to available information, Motorola Morrison is based on a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A processor and has 256 MB RAM, [...]

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RIM patents hybrid touchscreen

As resistive, so  and capacitive touch screens have their advantages and disadvantages. RIM decided to overcome the problem of choice of technology for the touch screen on its own: it has developed a hybrid screen, which is based on both resistive and capacitive technologies. The screen has both resistive and capacitive controllers, providing thus a [...]

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What is iProd in the core of iPhone OS 3.1?

Ars Technica reports that in the latest version of iPhone OS 3.1 beta, sent to developers last week, there is an updated configuration file that contains references to the two mysterious devices – iProd 0,1 and iProd 1,1. The first of them appeared back in March and according to the coding system of Apple, it [...]

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Samsung M8910 Pixon12 is available in UK

August is getting hot on arrivals of newest gadgets and this time UK gets one of the most anticipated handsets of summer 2009 Samsung M8910 Pixon12. And along with that news there two more: one of them positive and one – negative. If you are from UK Pixon12 for free is available in a contract [...]

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Samsung Rogue U960 by Verizon from 15 August

Samsung Rogue U960 should replace an earlier model of Verizon Glyde U960. The model is designed for use in CDMA networks and is running OS Samsung TouchWiz 2.0. The device is a side slider and has AMOLED touch screen, combined with the QWERTY-keyboard. Full list of features is not known, but presumably the phone also [...]

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HTC Vigor, Dawn, Interlude, Imagio and Tattoo on the way

Taiwanese company HTC with each day becomes more and more like a big corporation, so it is no surprise that leakage of information concerning its future devices increases. However, sometimes HTC itself reveals some details about its future products, through testing them in the FCC, or (as now) for registering trade marks. Recently the company [...]

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Samsung S3100

Samsung will soon announce yet another budget mobile phone – Samsung S3100. At the moment, not much information is available about that device, but we can say that the Samsung S3100 is a slider with a music player, FM-tuner, Bluetooth 2.1 and EDR, USB 2.0 and MicroSD slot. Also this phone has a built-in camera, [...]

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T-Mobile announces Samsung Highlight T749 budget phone

This morning T-Mobile has put an end to rumors, officially announcing – Samsung Highlight T749. A full touchscreen phone, positioned as a middle-class device. Samsung Highlight is not a Smartphone, but has a 3″ display with a resolution of 240×400 pixels, 3 MP camera, communication standards GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA, as well as microSDHC cards up to 16 [...]

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LG launches own App Store – Asia first!

As promised, LG unveiled its Application Store, which currently contains over 1400 applications (only for the devices running Windows Mobile), both free and paid. Located at lgapplication.com store is currently only available in Australia and Singapore, other Asian countries will soon be added (it should support for 15 languages). By the end of the year, [...]

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Live photos of HTC Hero

On Wednesday, HTC held a conference, in which the correspondent of online portal The Unwired was able to make live photos of the new upcoming Android-communicator under the name HTC Hero. The lower part of the body made of an angle of 15°, which allows it lay comfortably in your hand. As you know, it’s [...]

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G gets official – priced $199 with 2 year contract

Done! As promised a week earlier, T-Mobile launched the next Android-communicator myTouch 3G (also known as HTC Magic). As news kept floating during last few days about this device, adding new details isn’t that simple. New product will be available in white, black and burgundy colors. It will have 3.2″ touch display and a 3.2 [...]

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Next T-Mobile Android phone may be G1 Touch

According to information posted on the official Twitter-account of the T-Mobile UK, the next Android-phone of this operator will be called G1 Touch. That would suggest that in Europe, the successor of T-Mobile G1 will be called G1 Touch. Recall that the U.S. version of Google-made OS run phone is expected to be named T-Mobile [...]

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