Archive for the 'Mobile Technology' Category
LG’s KT520 and KF390 get checked out
Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
It’s easy for some of the mid-range riff raff to get buried by the headliners at trade shows, and that’s exactly what happened with a pair of LG sliders at CommunicAsia this year that still deserve just a little bit of attention. The KT520 is arguabl…
Keepin’ it real fake, part CXXII: if Nokia won’t make it, China will
Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM
Don’t get us wrong, Nokia’s Aeon concept is beautiful. By the time you remove all the fanciful, nonexistent technology and try to come up with a dead ringer of your own, though, a certain something is lost in translation. A manufacturer — not Nokia, trust us — ha…
Group Sense’s Palm OS line-up give way to lone, Linux-based phone
Filed under: Cellphones
Well, it looks like Group Sense’s once mighty line-up of Palm OS-based handsets has finally been shown the door with the whole lot now replaced by a single, Linux-based device. From the looks of it though, it doesn’t seem like the new handset is about to work any wonders for …
Samsung i900 Omnia vs. HTC Touch Diamond… fight!
Filed under: Cellphones
At this point, neither the HTC Touch Diamond nor the Samsung i900 Omnia need any introduction, but we’re happy to announce that these two have stepped into the squared circle and faced off in an epic nine-page battle. Reviewers manhandled both phones for an extended time and …
HTC’s NEON400: a CDMA Touch Dual?
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
In HTC parlance, the “Neon” codename denotes a device of the Touch Dual form factor — original Touch styling plus a slider keyboard, a drill we all know by now. This particular form factor seems to be a pretty popular one, too, considering the sheer number of vari…
UTStarcom sells North American phone distribution biz
Filed under: UTStarcomApparently looking to concentrate its efforts on its network infrastructure businesses, UTStarcom has sold off its Personal Communications Division — the guys pushing the corporate wares to Virgin Mobile, Verizon, and others in North America — for $240-plus million to a group…
T-Mobile first to blanket UK in HSUPA
Filed under: T-Mobile, HSUPAWhat’s the first network to claim a true, full HSPA across all of the United Kingdom? Vodafone? Orange? 3? Nope — try T-Mobile, which has just flipped the switch on its HSUPA upgrades nationwide to bring upload speeds to a blazing 1.4Mbps (theoretically, anyway). The fig…