Sharp brings quartet of phones to India, maintains some of their Japan-ness
Think this phone looks like a device destined for the Japanese domestic market? Not quite -- its manufacturer is Japanese, but this puppy's an export.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: alice, blink, clamshell, Cyborg, engadget-mobile, mobile, phone, sharp, tango
LG Octane texts its way onto Verizon for $100
You might think $99.99 on contract after rebate is a little pricey for a phone with such a tiny display, but the new LG Octane's got a secret: it's a bit like the enV series with a secondary display inside the landscape clamshell accompanied by a full QWERTY keyboard. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel autofocus cam with flash (yes, autofocus, not fixed), a new email client, microSD expansion up to 16GB, and Bluetooth 2.1. Look for it online and in stores starting tomorrow
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: autofocus, autofocus-cam, clamshell, entry, landscape, tiny-display, vzw
BlackBerry Style first hands-on!
Yes, folks, it's true: Engadget's capable of scooping itself at its own reader meetup , as evidenced by the BlackBerry Style we just checked out at RIM's booth here. The phone is pretty much what you'd expect from what you've seen in the shots so far, essentially a clamshell riff on the Curve line; to that end, we'd argue that it feels a little cheaper than your average Bold, but it still seems to be a marked improvement from the Pearl flips of days gone by -- and at $99 on contract, we think that's exactly the market they were likely going for.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-style, BlackBerry, charge, clamshell, clamshell-riff, entry, flip, itself-at-its, keyboard, qwerty, result, sprint
KDDI crafts gorgeous see-thru designer phone with LED sub-display and dual-mode radios (video)
KDDI launched a wave of new phones this morning, but this is the one we really want to hold -- it's called the X-RAY, and it's one of two new products in the company's iida designer brand.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: camera, case, chips, clamshell, display-alerts, dual, entry, imagination, kddi, phone, Pixel, radio-as-well, tokujin yoshioka, Tuner
Casio G’zOne Ravine blasts its way onto Verizon
Alright, Boulder owners, heads up -- your upgrade has arrived. The rumored Casio G'zOne Ravine is now official for Verizon, offering a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, noise cancellation, VZ Navigator support, and -- of course -- MIL-STD-810G compliance for resistance to "water, dust, shock, vibration, humidity, altitude, salt fog, solar radiation, and high and low temperatures." Salt fog can be brutal, can't it? It's also got push-to-talk capability over Verizon's EV-DO network, though we suspect that ain't a thing for most would-be Ravine buyers -- serious push-to-talkers have long since rallied around Sprint and Boost, both of whom offered their own ruggedized gear.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: altitude, capability, clamshell, engadget, gzone, mobile, navigator, radiation, result, shock, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, vzw
BlackBerry 9670 series clamshell earns FCC love
At first, we thought we were looking at the back of yet another standard design Bold or Curve -- but check out that nice, fat hinge up top. Indeed, we have every reason to believe we're looking at the long-rumored BlackBerry 9670 clamshell here, and the test reports confirm the presence of 802.11b / g / n and dual-band CDMA in this particular version -- in other words, it'll almost certainly be coming to either Sprint or Verizon
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 11b, BlackBerry, clamshell, clamshell-earns, conference, developer, entry, Hinge, Monster, reports, result, verizon, verizon-given
Sanyo Innuendo announced for Sprint, if you catch our drift
If it looks (and sounds) vaguely familiar, well, it should -- Sanyo's new Innuendo clamshell replaces the similarly-named Incognito launched earlier this year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: available-now, camera, clamshell, drift, engadget-mobile, entry, estate, innuendo, mobile, qwerty
Sony Ericsson concept phone is as clever as it is unreal
Looking for some innovation to go with your porridge this morning? How about this fan-made flip phone concept that pivots vertically and horizontally? You can use it as a standard old clamshell , with the lower of the two displays acting as your number pad, or you can rotate it down to pair the screens into one snazzy widescreen panel
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: clamshell, concept-phone, dual-screen, fanmade, Flip Phone, fri, generous, Pad***, porridge, sonyericssonfh
LG dLite lands today on T-Mobile for $50
By almost all accounts, LG's dLite for T-Mobile is an unremarkable midrange clamshell that barely warrants mention, with two notable exceptions.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: boy, clamshell, dot, engadget-mobile, entry, exceptions, flip, light, little-victory, matrix, result, south-korean, usa
Motorola Rambler coming to Boost Mobile with full QWERTY on a hinge
Motorola already offers the Clutch if you're looking to get your text on through Boost Mobile -- but what if you want that oh-so-rare combination of full QWERTY plus a clamshell form factor? That's pretty hard to find regardless of carrier or network technology, but it looks like Moto is going to deliver with a phone called the Rambler featuring a 1.3 megapixel cam with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, GPS, and not much else -- in other words, like most Boost devices, this one will be pretty low-end. More on price, release date, and specs as we get it
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: boost-mobile, Boostmobile, capture, clamshell, engadget-mobile, factor, network, qwerty, text-on-through, video, video-capture, words