Kyocera Rio hits Cricket today for $130
Alright, we know what you're thinking, so let's just clear this up at the outset: it ain't Android . That being said, Kyocera's new Rio for regional carrier Cricket features a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD expansion up to 16GB, a 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth, and an optical trackpad -- a rather unusual touch for this market segment. Of course, Cricket likes to play the no-contract game, and sure enough, the $129.99 that the carrier is asking nets you the Rio without a commitment.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 5mm, bluetooth, Carrier, cricket, engadget-mobile, kyocera, mobile, nov, outset, regional, rio, segment, stereo, trackpad, unusual
Optimus One is LG’s fastest-selling phone ever: one million in 40 days
One million units sold in the realm of smartphones isn't quite as impressive of a feat as it once was -- especially if your phone is available on numerous carriers around the world.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: focusing-much, froyo, lgoptimus, optimus one, phone, result, segment, success
Samsung Wave 723 flaunts Bada, little else at IFA
Samsung just grew its Bada line with a low-end foil to the original Wave , the so-called Wave 723 -- and we just happened to catch it hanging out tucked away in a distributor's booth at IFA this week. Though the leather-grain flip cover is a classy touch, make no mistake that this one is destined for the bottom bits of the full-touch featurephone market segment thanks to a middle-of-the-road TFT LCD that looks pretty washed out and low-res compared to the Wave's Super AMOLED (interestingly, the 723 is the first Bada phone to use version 1.1 of the platform, whose major addition is support for auto-scaling between multiple resolutions).
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 723, bada os, bada-as-ever, engadget, entry, gallery, market, market-segment, result, samsung wave, segment
T-Mobile’s apparent myTouch 3G HD gets spied from the rear
So, how do you feel about the look of this myTouch 3G HD we've been seeing this week? Haven't formed a complete opinion yet? Well, maybe this new shot -- seemingly of said phone's backside -- will help.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: credibility, models, mytouch, mytouch-3g, mytouch3g, mytouch3ghd, picture, qwerty, render, result, segment, words
LG launches Cosmos and eco-friendly Remarq
LG saw fit to launch a device for each of its CDMA friends: Sprint's Remarq (pictured left) and Verizon's Cosmos. Both of these sets are fairly low-end, but that won't stop them from likely garnering some support in the messaging segment
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cosmos, ctia, ctia 2010, keyboard, martin-valdez, mobile, rebates, remarq, segment, sprint remarq, verizon, verizon cosmos
Samsung to announce Galaxy S smartphone, content initiatives this week
We've just received a veritable cornucopia of information around Samsung's supposed announcements out at CTIA this week -- and seeing how this is the biggest wireless show the US has to offer, you might imagine that the reveals are fairly US-focused while still hanging onto some global relevance.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: cortex, Delivery, differentiation, engadget, global, heard-referred, homegrown, magazine, movies, result, segment, smart-life, smartlife, week
Public Mobile launching in mid-May: ‘you’re not going to see us at Yorkville’
Canada's Public Mobile -- one of the wireless start-ups to benefit from the country's AWS spectrum auction -- has started detailing its launch plans this week behind its contemporaries at WIND Mobile and Mobilicity . These guys are being totally forthcoming about the fact that they're targeting the lower end of the market, a segment they claim to be "underserved" by the big guys (we're sure Koodo, Fido, and Virgin would all disagree) -- even going so far as to make their launch announcement in an area of Toronto ominously described as "hardscrabble." So what's the deal? Stores are open immediately to the tune of 15 in Toronto and another 10 in Montreal, the only markets Public Mobile says it's going to target for now, with service launching in mid-May to the tune of CAD $40 (about $39) a month for unlimited talk and text.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aws, fri, mobile, mobilicity, publicmobile, segment, toronto, tune, windmobile
Nokia N900 review
Today, Nokia stands at a fascinating fork in the road. Let's consider the facts: first, and most unavoidably, the company is the largest manufacturer of cellphones in the world by a truly sobering margin
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcement, consumerism, dominance, laurels, leading, maemo5, n900, nokia, nokia-n900, segment, smartphone, spectrum, symbian, wireless