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Samsung SGH-P960 mobile TV phone for European market

RedPepper — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:33:28 +0000

Samsung will launch soon on European market a new mobile phone SGH-P960 slider with DVB-H TV and 2.6-inch DNIe 262k color display. Interesting and new features for a mobile phone with TV receiver are picture-in-picture viewing and time-shifting which give users the option to pause TV programming and answer the phone call and resume the [...]

Opera Mini 4.1 beta

RedPepper — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:19:35 +0000

Opera’s mobile software uses a remote server to pre-process web pages before sending them to your phone. Web content is compressed to reduce the size of data transfers, enabling fast browsing experience at low costs even on simpler phones. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of web addresses, making it easier [...]

Sony Ericsson unveils the Xperia X1 mobile phone

RedPepper — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:14:57 +0000

Barcelona, Spain – Mobile World Congress 2008 Sony Ericsson presents XPERIA, a new brand, a slider phone powered by Windows Mobile. The XPERIATM X1 combines a 3-inch clear wide VGA display and a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body. “XPERIA represents the first brand that is truly borne from within Sony Ericsson. It [...]

HTC sells 2 million Touch devices in 2007

RedPepper — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:38:46 +0000

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the Touch family of handsets. At last week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch. The HTC Touch uses Microsoft Windows Mobile [...]

Polymer Vision launched Readius phone with fold-up screen

RedPepper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:20:05 +0000

Polymer Vision, a Dutch company launched Readius phone with 5-inch (13-cm) display – the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket. The gadget is in production and will fight with Apple’s iPhone and Amazon’s [...]

Water-powered cellphones coming soon

RedPepper — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:48:35 +0000

After a bunch of hot news about methanol-powered fuel cells and speculation over what time they may really become available, a Korean company has surprised everyone by producing a device that runs on water. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEM) has unveiled one of its parent company’s mobile phones being powered by a fuel cell that breaks down [...]

Bone-conduction cellphone eliminates ears

RedPepper — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:33:47 +0000

The A1407PT, made for Japan’s second most popular cellphone provider, KDDI by Pantech, is a very ordinary 3G handset running on the company’s CDMA 1X network apart, that is, from its earpiece, which is actually a bone-conduction loudspeaker. The principles behind bone conduction are nothing new – simply press the speaker to the head just [...]

Microsoft has big plans for Windows Mobile 7

RedPepper — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:14:09 +0000

Microsoft is now developing Windows Mobile 7, the first revolutionary change to its mobile device operating system. An inside document from Microsoft describing details the touch and gesture plans for Mobile 7 has presented at InsideMicrosoft Blog. This document is a confidential internal use only document, used to explain the plans for Mobile 7, and [...]