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iriver dabbling with phones in the US
Damian Koh | Jan 09, 2008
Well, this piece of news isn't meant for our audience, but we thought you might still might want to know (for bragging rights). iriver has been actively hawking its wares at this year's CES and, among them, include a GSM phone for the US market. According to PC Mag, the handset will come with a generous 3-inch 480 x 272-pixel touchscreen display and a Linux-based user interface complete with all the fancy swiping, flicking tricks of the iPhone.
Everything's still pretty iffy for now and it's not clear whether the handset will sport Wi-Fi. Other features include 4GB of flash memory, 2-megapixel camera, GPS, Adobe Flash player and GPS. One thing's for sure, though: It will have 3G connectivity.
Someone please tell iriver that Asia is a pretty big market, too?
Source and picture: PC Mag | Via Engadget
Sony Ericsson blings it with the T650i
Damian Koh | Jan 08, 2008
When you're in Sin City, you're almost automatically excused after committing rounds of debauchery. You'd may even welcome the "Precious Gold T650i" that is outfitted with 24-carat plating complementing a rose-tinted keypad and borders on looking gaudy. There's no mention of when it'll be available this side of the world, but our sources told us we should know by the end of this month. When/if that happens, the Hilton-esque handset will sport a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, Bluetooth stereo for piping music to your cans and a fancy mineral glass LCD screen, which we assume wouldn't interest you at all.
An early look at WM7's overhauled interface
John Chan | Jan 08, 2008
At the InsideMicrosoft blog is a long article about the touch and motion gestures that will be part of Windows Mobile 7 (WM7)--the next version of Microsoft's mobile OS for smart phones, handhelds and PDAs. In it, he has many screenshots detailing how multi-touch and physical motions applied on a device will affect what's seen on the screen.
Before iPhone fans start the "copycat" accusations, the source of the images and information are supposed to be from an internal Microsoft document, and the screenshots seen there may not be in the final product. In one of the images, the onscreen keypad has a text bubble which magnifies the letter being touched--just like on the iPhone. But right beside it, a screenshot showing the desktop version of Word is superimposed on the handheld's display. This just goes to show that some of these images have been created to illustrate concepts and ideas. We certainly hope the end-product will look significantly different from Apple's.
According to the blogger, this new version of WM will ship in 2009. Here are a few of the screenshots but head on over to the source for the full 3,000-word write up.
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Via Gizmodo
Redfly Mobile Companion
John Chan | Jan 02, 2008
The Palm Foleo was canned last year, even after so much talk from its creator about how it would revolutionalize the use of smart phones. No matter. If Palm won't make one, someone else will.
Redfly will be showing off its Mobile Companion at CES this year, a notebook-like device meant to be used with your Windows Mobile phone. Its purpose is to give a larger display, keyboard and mouse so you can make better use of your handset. Yes, it sounds exactly like the Foleo, and at the same price, too--US$499.
Though the Foleo was demonstrated with Palm OS, it would have worked with Windows Mobile as well because of the Treo 750. Palm even said it would work with many other mobile OSes as long as the manufacturers want to participate. Even then, analysts and commentators didn't quite give it a chance--it's commonly known as the "Fooleo", even on Palm fansites.
Going by that, this Mobile Companion may have an uphill task. But if this product from Redfly becomes a hit, we can picture Ed Colligan sitting at his desk hitting his forehead repeatedly against the table going "why, why, why?"
Via Gizmodo
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