iriver dabbling with phones in the US

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

Who stole my BlackBerry?

Singapore-based company BAK2u reckons that it has a way of helping BlackBerry users get their phone back if it's lost. It has launched the PhoneBAK BB software, a Java application that checks the SIM card in a BlackBerry device, alerting the rightful owner if a foreign one is inserted.

Such software is not new. WaveSecure is another company which provides a similar service as part of its security software package for Windows Mobile and Series60. i-mate also built in such features into its Windows Mobile devices right out of the box. Nonetheless, this seems to be the first one designed specifically for BlackBerry devices. A good move,
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Sony Ericsson blings it with the T650i

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

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.



Via Gizmodo

Impressions of the Samsung SGH-i780

The i600 (left) compared to the i780 (right)

Too good to be true. That was what we should have told ourselves when we got a specifications sheet from Samsung last year saying that the SGH-i780 has 256MB of RAM.

Today, the Korean chaebol finally took the lid of its WM6 (Windows Mobile 6) Professional PDA-phone. Sad to say, when we got our hands on it at a launch event today and went to the settings page to find out what makes it tick, the RAM size registered at only slightly above 100MB. Even then, there's a lot to like about it--here's why.
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