Sharp Touch Wood concept turns real with limited run of 15,000 handsets on NTT DoCoMo
You might have expected Sharp's pebble-shaped Touch Wood concept to remain just that, a concept, but the eclectic Japanese market has found a spot in its heart to fit 15,000 units of the curvy, wood-trimmed cellphone. Built from locally sourced cypress timber, each handset will have its own unique pattern and color, while the innards will be filled with a five megapixel imager, a 3.4-inch (854 x 480) display, a MicroSDHC expansion slot, and your usual GSM and 3G wireless radios
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: each-handset, japan, limited, limited edition, market, radios, result, sharp, touchwood, unique-pattern, usual, wooden
Droid 2 Global launching on November 11th?
Recent intel suggests that Motorola's Droid 2 Global will be coming in two colors -- kind of a strange choice for a phone being tagged as "business-grade" -- and now, it looks like we can expect to see at least one of those colors on next Thursday, November 11th.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: dual, engadget, exclusivity, like-the-pricey, motorola, radios, unclear-whether, verizon
Symbian^3 C7 with nHD display confirmed on Nokia’s own site
If Nokia's N8 is just too much smartphone for you then perhaps you'd like to take it down a notch with the C7. As part of the C-series of Nokia devices, you can expect it to trim some of the specs off the N8, but not much as the flagship device of the family . You know, something very similar to the apparently leaked image and specs (pictured above) we saw a few weeks back.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bluetooth, c7-00, entry, family, much-smartphone, nhd, nokia, notch, radios, resolution, result, symbian3, take-it-down
Aava Virta Android reference platform will be the first shipping Moorestown smartphone
Sure, Intel might not be planning for Moorestown -based smartphones to hit the market for at least another six months , and the LG GW990 might have died a quiet death , but that's not stopping Aava from getting right in the game with its Virta Android, an Atom Z600-based reference smartphone designed for developer testing. Slated to ship in Q3, the Virta features a Moorestown processor, a 3.8-inch 864 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, quad-band EDGE radios with AT&T 3G support, WiFi, Bluetooth, a five megapixel video camera, and a microSD slot
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aava virta android, atom, death, moorestown, quiet, radios, virta, virtaandroid, z6xx
HTC Wildfire escapes from Yellow Mountain riding Android 2.1 (update: official)
Whoops, a press conference in Germany seems to have inadvertently set HTC's unannounced Wildfire handset loose. The new candybar brings quadband GSM and 900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA radios to the Android 2.1 party powered by the ol' Qualcomm MSM7225 processor running at 525MHz
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, asia, friend stream, msm7225, press, qvga, radios, wildfire, yellow
Nokia N8-00 gets first official mention with Symbian^3 and nHD display
Simmer down, we don't have official pics yet (just the supposed leaks ) but we do have the first official mention of what looks to be Nokia's first Symbian^3 handset. The culprit is the "NN8-00r100-3G" XML file sitting pretty on nokia.com right now. The first notables are a " N8-00 " model and the "Symbian/3" string listed in the agent header that seemingly confirm that the N8-00 will run Symbian^3.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: agent, hsdpa, n8-00, nhd, nokia, nokia-com-right, qwerty, radios, source, symbian, symbian3, xml
Project Pink QWERTY slider ‘Pure’ found in the wild, headed for Verizon?
There's a lot of rumbling in Project Pink land today, as Microsoft is seemingly nearing that magical time where its much-leaked Sidekick followup can finally see the light of day.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: backup-reliance, bigscreen, entry, its-much-leaked, jackpot, microsoft, project pink, radios, turtle, twitter, verizon, verizon-wireless, wireless