Sagem Orga shows off pricey SIMfi prototype at MWC
Sagem Orga was on the floor of MWC this week, a company that really doesn't typically draw a lot of attention outside wireless industry suits who fly out to Barcelona to broker deals -- at least, not until they do something totally insane like stuff a WiFi radio into a SIM card .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: barcelona, circuitry, demo, dummy, gentleman, orga, rocket, sagem-orga, sagemorga, Sim
Editorial: Engadget on Windows Phone 7 Series
Microsoft took a dramatic step with Windows Phone 7 Series this morning at MWC in Barcelona, and obviously we've been talking about it all day here at Engadget HQ. Just like with the iPad and the Droid , opinions on the staff are all over the map -- it's not every day that a company reboots an entire OS -- so we're going to let everyone speak for themselves, starting with the people who've handled Windows Phone 7 Series in person: Josh, Chris, Thomas, and Sean
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 7 series, barcelona, developers, editorial, experience, mobile, winmo, winmo 7 series
Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win
Windows Phone 7 Series.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: barcelona, breaking-news, congress, holidays, microsoft, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsphone, zune
Windows Mobile 7 interface and device leaked on MWC banners
The eagle-eyed folks of learnbemobile have come across this stupendous leak of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Mobile 7 OS . It would appear that some last minute alterations were taking place under the covers in Barcelona, though apparently no one bothered to check if there were cameras around before lifting said covers.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: barcelona, entry, heavily-rumored, leaked-on-mwc, microsoft, mobileos, mwc 2010, stupendous-leak, windows, windows-mobile, windowsmobile, windowsmobile7, xbox live, xboxlive
Samsung Beam (Halo) Android projector phone hands-on
Well here it is, Samsung's pico projector phone live and in the flesh here at Mobile World Congress. And surprise surprise it's running Android 2.1 with a TouchWiz 3.0 skin just as we heard. The only difference is the name: Halo is the codename, the official product name announced today is Beam
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: barcelona, beam, camera, Demonstration, halo, integrated-pico, people, projector-phone, result, samsung
Twenty-four telecom operators unite to form Wholesale Applications Community
Big doings over in Barcelona today. Twenty-four telecom operators, with the support of the GSMA and three major hardware manufacturers, have formally announced they will come together to form the Wholesale Applications Community. Essentially, the goal of the alliance will be to create a viable, cohesive and open industry platform for mobile app developers.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2010, after-the-break, application, applications, barcelona, china-mobile, china-unicom, developers, doings, endeavors, manufacturers, operators
Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 and A50 hands-on
So, we had a few precious moments to play around with Garmin-Asus' latest Nuvifones here in lovely Barcelona today -- the M10 and A50 , running on Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and Android 1.6, respectively -- and even better, we did so in the back of a black Mercedes expressly purposed for testing out the integrated turn-by-turn capabilities.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: barcelona, black, break, Capabilities, engadget, entry, few-precious, integrated, m10, mwc 2010, windows
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: barcelona, being-withheld, exhibits, fcc, pb10zu, pb20zu, project, result, sidekick, through-the-fcc, turtle
Pumaphone coming next week, solar power in the mix?
Puma (and partner Sagem ) have thrown up a teaser site ahead of the launch of the company's first-ever phone next week -- a trend being voraciously adopted by designer brands lately -- but sadly, there's not a lot to see at the moment other than some unhelpful videos (one of which you can peep after the break). That may not have always been the case, though: Recombu is reporting that there'd previously been an all-too-brief glimpse of what appeared to be a touhscreen phone with a solar panel aboard in one of the videos, but Sagem eventually pulled the offending segment and asked that the site take down its screen capture
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, barcelona, capture, days, entry, glimpse, panel, pumaphone, sagem
Garmin-Asus nuvifone A50 runs Android, knows where you are turn-by-turn
The long rumored Nuvifone jump to Android is here just as we get set to kick off Mobile World Congress next week. Garmin and ASUS claim that the A50 brings "more location technology than any other smartphone" with a plethora of location-aware apps making use of a highly sensitive (though unnamed) GPS receiver. Spec-wise, the A50 packs a 3.5-inch HVGA (that's 480x320 pixels, presumably) capacitive touchscreen with custom, finger-friendly UI, 4GB of internal storage with microSD expansion, and accelerometer for the usual portrait to landscape mode flip.