Acer’s iPad rival has yet to be launched, and they’re already so excited in telling the world that they’re gonna release a new handset with both Windows Phone 7 version and Android version. Known as the Liquid Metal handset (surely not designed and developed by Apple’s liquid metal arm), it might hit stores in the end of October. That’s purely speculations thought. Read more…
We already knew about Samsung’s grand campaigns for escalating its display manufacturing arm in 2011, but now we also have a number to give us a sense of solid numbers: 30 million. That’s how many screens the new Mobile Display fab (set to go live in July) will be able to churn out in a month, which is a vastly superior rate in contrast to the current 3 million maximum. 10 times baby, 10 times. Read more…
Sony Ericsson is now the official mobile handset of the UEFA Champions League, after signing a sponsorship to partner with UEFA last week. Besides leveraging on Sony Corporation’s existing global marketing partnership with UEFA, Sony Ericsson will be integrating a new application which is jointly developed with UEFA.com. Through this partnership, Sony Ericsson will have exclusive rights to distribute news and info of the league, giving fans around the globe greater access to the ‘best football’ league in the world through this specialized mobile application. What’s no mentioned thought is the platform that is based upon, which we assume to be on Android exclusively for Sony Ericsson handsets.
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Kauppalehti, a Finnish newspaper was given some statement by a person name Tapani Kaskinen. Now, this Mr Kaskinen is not some anybody, but Nokia’s Senior Comms Manager. Therefore, his words do command some strong truth when it comes to Nokia’s phones. The whole article is in Finnish, and might have some errors while going through the translation maniac’s brain. But what’s important, and can’t be wrong, is the statement “will begin shipping in 30th September.” Well, you’ll Nokia lunatic fans will be able to get your hands on this long awaited N-series phone right about October. Shall I wake you up when September ends?
SOURCE via kauppalehti.fi
BlackBerry’s upcoming replacement for the Bold 9700 seemed to have surfaced yet again, but this time in the face of snow white. As a fresh reminder, it’s presumably equipped with a new 5-Megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM instead of 256MB, and of kush the ‘awsm’ BlackBerry 6 OS. Still no indication of a release date, but Phone Arena is predicting a launch date in the October.
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Nokia might be throwing more Symbian^3 smartphones into the market sooner than we thought. After sneakily making an awkward early appearance on Nokia’s Dutch online storefront, Mobile Geek Inc has since dug even more info out in regards to it. No QWERTY, which in turns is a full fledge touchscreen like the Nokia 5800, instead of the C6-oo slider that it’ll replace. There’s 8-Megapixel camera with dual Xenon flash, and the new Symbian^3 OS. Perhaps we will see it’s unveiling in Nokia World 2010 which will arrive on the 14th September in London.
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Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass, has announced that the Samsung Galaxy will employ the alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield. The glass is similar to the “helicopter windshield” Retina stuff Apple uses on their iPhone 4, which was rumoured to be Gorilla Glass at one point, and while neither tech is impervious to shattering, they certainly can take a beating.
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If ‘removing-the-back-cover-take-out-the-battery-plung-in-another-push-back-back-cover’ gets too complicated for some users when their Samsung Galaxy S (or any of the wide varieties) gets dry up, Samsung has yet another accessory for you. The Samsung Galaxy S Power Pack. This power pack will sincerely allow additional 8.5 hours of talk time when you run out of juice while gossiping with your BFFs. Yeah, it’s such an annoyance to remove the battery when you’re on the phone. That’s why this power pack is ‘so’ convenient. What’s more, you’re getting an additional GPS radio. Geddit? Additional GPS radio! Woohoo! Someone in Samsung must’ve smoked too much weeds.
[mobiflip.de via Engadget]
Here’s Nokia’s new simpleton phone with the standard 16-button keypad and a nice 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen. Er… wait, what? Yeah, this simple phone has touchscreen! Nokia has done what traditionally not done, by putting touchscreen onto the budget phone. But of kush, that’s a resistive panel there, so don’t expect an ‘iPhone-like’ experience. Read more…
It seemed that the Motorola Charm will be hitting shelves next Wednesday (August 25th) with a price of $74.99 on contract. The Motorola Charm is a cute little portrait QWERTY Android device with a Kodak-branded 3 megapixel cam and landscape display, which we seldom see from Android-base phones. Since most Android phones are fully touchscreen, this will be a great contender to RIM’s hugely successful BlackBerry with QWERTY keyboards.
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