Tag: smartphones

In video – Acer and others at Mobile World Congress

We were extremely busy last week at the Mobile World Congress. I've just found a few more bits on the camera that you might like. We had a look at the Android Alcatel OT-980 - a new Android device with a sliding QWERTY keypad, plus some of the …

HTC Press Conference – Full high quality video

Did you miss the big HTC announcement on Tuesday ? Well, don't worry. The whole thing was filmed for HTC. This is full professional quality, and you even get to see the reporters and bloggers snapping shots and banging away on their laptops. This show...

Wrap-up – Mobile World Congress 2010

We've spent the last week in Barcelona giving unparalleled coverage of the Mobile World Congress. It was an extremely busy week, ending with a closed UK airport and a walk through a field. News items this week have popped up minute-by-minute, so if yo...

HTC and o2 Team up for Smart roll-out

Now, whilst we don't cover the Qualcomm Brew platform, we were on site for the HTC and o2 anouncement. The HTC Smart, which was announced earlier is to be rolled out across Germany, Ireland and the UK on the o2 network. There's a range of colours and ...

New HTC devices available from devicewire

This morning HTC unveiled two new Android devices (the Desire and Legend), plus a new Windows Mobile device (the HD mini). You'll be able to get the Desire from Orange soon enough, but we've just received word that devicewire.com will be offering th...

HTC Announce three new devices at MWC

Today HTC have unveiled several new handsets. The HTC Desire, pictured here, the HTC HD Mini, pictured here, and the HTC Legend, pictured here. We were lucky enough to play with the Legend a couple of days ago. The build quality and feel is fantast...

HTC Event Tomorrow

HTC have their press conference due at 10.30 tomorrow at Mobile World Congress and I will be there posting all the news live from the hall.  After spotting the HTC Legend today it is pretty obvious that this will be one announcement and other web...

Mobile World Congress 2010 – The night before..

A quick walk around Barcelona tonight reveals just how big the Mobile World Congress is. Planes are overbooked and, when you do arrive, the taxi drivers look at you as you juggle your mobile and laptop and say, "The congress?, Si?" We're stopping just...

Mobile World Congress – Live and direct

Next week is the start of the Mobile World Congress. You'll no doubt have seen many sites talking about it - put simply, it's the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry. Held in Barcelona, you should expect big announcements, revelations, ...

Pressure-sensitivity coming to mobiles

A new material could allow phones to have more pressure-sensitive screens. It would allow tricks like faster scrolling depending on how much pressure is applied on the screen. The technology originally comes from Peratech in Yorkshire, who make the "Q...

Price drop on HTC phones

Devicewire have been busy. They've just dropped the prices on stacks of HTC kit. The HTC Touch2 (reviewed here) was £275.99 but now it's only £199.95. The HTC Touch Pro2 was £444.99, now it's down to £354.94. Other handsets are down in price too. ...

Inside the HTC factory

Are you visiting us to get the latest on new phones? Thirsty for more? Well, have you ever stopped to think about just how much work goes into the manufacturing of mobile phones? It's quite a task, but HTC have it down to a fine art and, in …

Mobility: The Green Shift

Yeap. It's an honest-to-god column. My current life/schedual doesn't allow me time to do proper news reporting, so I reasoned the best way I could contribute to this site was by setting down my crazy thoughts on the mobile tech world. Oh, and apologie...

Nav4All Shuts down – Free sat-nav is no more

Whether Windows Mobile or Android, you may have stumbled across the Nav4All free navigation at some point. Although it was sometimes criticised for being a little basic, it did the job and didn't cost you a penny. Unfortunately, although it's still in...

Got moisture in your phone? Give this a try

A bag of Basmatic rice? What's that got to do with phones? Well, this all came from a conversation I was having with someone last week and I had to actually put it into action this weekend. A friend had told me about a phone he'd dropped in …

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Launching 29th March?

Sony Ericsson's latest handset called 'Vivaz' has landed on the Play website with a pre-order price of just £349.99 and a launch date of 29th March 2010 The reason I say 'just' £349.99 is because what other Symbian powered smartphone with ...

Apple finally announces their tablet

So, Apple has finally announced its long-awaited tablet. As almost all our readers will know by now, it's called the iPad, and it's... essentially a glorified iPod Touch. In terms of looks, it's basically a large iPhone, with the same buttons (or lac...

Android or WinMo – Dual boot bootlauncher coming soon

Dual booting into Windows Mobile or Android? Well yes, it could soon be possible thanks to some work over on xda-developers.com. After installing Android on your WinMo phone it'll let you switch between the two OS's using a friendly user interface. T...

HTC Smart – Smartphone features for the masses

Announced today at CES in Las Vegas, this is the HTC Smart - a "more accessible device for global markets". It's up now on the HTC website and is the more "affordable smartphone” with a flavour of the HTC Sense interface. Excited? Well, calm down a ...

Fragmentation – The scourge of the mobile OS

I've just read this DailyFinance article and I have to agree on the majority of the findings. Android developers are enjoying quite an open and easy application ecosystem. Apps appear in the Android Market without much difficulty and customers love th...

HTC Touch B – Woah there cowboy..

Remember that HTC Touch B that popped up on mobifrance the other day? Well, we didn't know a fat lot about it and for some reason other sites guessed that it'd run Android. Well, it doesn't. Worse still, it doesn't run Windows Mobile either. It actua...

Sony Ericsson dropping 2000 employees

Engadget have just posted some rather sad news about Sony Ericsson. According to the story, 2000 employees are being let go, with 450 already dropped last year. The Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina is set to close, with offices in Mia...

HTC Launch new brand and advertising campaign

HTC have today launched a new ad campaign, further promotion of the "uuumazin" HTC HD2 and a new look website. A new brand slogan, "HTC - quietly brilliant", has also been revealed and you can watch two of the new TV ads below. Both ads feature the An...

CTIA Wireless 09 – New handsets on show

The CTIA Wireless IT&E 09 event is currently taking place in San Diego. Microsoft have a range of new handsets including the Omnia II and this, the Samsung Interpid on Sptint. The Intrepid has the stock WinMo 6.5 build, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a QW...

Smartphones continue to thrive in the recession

If you're sitting down to do some lunch-time browsing I'd heartily recommend this BBC news story. It covers the recession and how it's affecting mobile phone sales. Whilst many "mid-range" handsets are being hit by the world credit problems, smartphon...

Car mobile ban in US too?

I'm not perfect. I'll admit that the phone has distracted me whilst driving in the past. Sometimes a text arrives and you may try to at least see who it's from. Here in the UK it's illegal to physically use the phone, so more people have Bluetooth kit...

Palm trimming staff

A little news snippet for you this morning from Palm. We're hearing that they're laying off staff in the US. We're doing a little more checking into this currently. Apparently it's due to "restructuring" but a number of staff have been dropped. Link -...

Meanwhile, over at Orange (Edit – and Vodafone!)

Yesterday we were pretty much the first people to reveal that the iPhone was officially coming to Orange. It explains why o2, who have had the exclusive rights on the iPhone here in the UK for two years, are sniffing around the HTC Leo / HD 2 and …

Get free WiFi at Starbucks

Listen up coffee lovers. If you're a regular at one of the UK's Starbucks then this will definitely be of interest. You'll no doubt have seen the BT Openzone WiFi access points but perhaps ignored them due to the price. However, there is a way to get ...

HTC Predator and Imagio to land on Verizon

American readers will soon be getting the HTC Whitestone in the shape of the "HTC Imagio" on October 6th for Verizon customers. The device, which features Windows Mobile 6.5 running on a 528Mhz CPU and a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, will be one of t...

The LG Watch Phone – Reviewed

The LG Watch Phone started selling a short while back and queues of people waited to get the first ones from Orange. Every now and then we have a look at cool gadgets, so this techradar.com review lets us know if it's worth buying. The verdict? Well, ...

T-Mobile and Orange to merge

Rumours of a possible merger between Orange and T-Mobile have been stirring up since this Guardian story appeared on Sunday. Bids of £3.5bn to buy T-Mobile were received from Vodafone and o2 but rejected. Both bids were low because o2 and Voda would ...

Watch phone from LG on sale – queues form

We've been tracking the launch of the LG Watch Phone for the last few weeks. Today marked the first sales of the device and queues formed outside the Bond Street Orange store this morning as the watch phone arrived. John from Harogate travelled to get...

HTC Hero OS – on the Touch Dual!

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you, that really is the HTC Hero Android OS running on a HTC Touch Dual. The ageing Dual first appeared a couple of years ago with Windows Mobile on board and, if I'm honest, I still like it. If you've still …

Microsoft launch software app for feature phones

News today that'll no doubt stir-up feelings with WinMo owners comes in the form of OneApp. It's designed to deliver access to apps such as Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Twitter and others to feature phones. Oh and yes, those feature phones includ...

LG Watch Phone to debut next Thursday

We've been keeping an eye on the LG Watch Phone for a while now. It's available from selected Orange stores next Thursday but lucky Stephen Fry has already managed to get one (I do envy his life at times). If you've got £500 washing around in your ba...

Texting at the wheel. Drifting into danger.

Right, we've been soaking up the t'interwebs for 7 long years with all the latest Windows Mobile (and now Google Android) news and reviews. Today it's time for one of those "public awareness" messages. We don't do it very often and sure, nobody likes ...

The HTC Hero – Discounted for a limited period!

Now, I know I'm pimping the guys at Devicewire.com yet again, but they've loaned us some of the latest phones so we can get them reviewed for you recently. They've got quite a few deals on the latest kit currently, plus if you follow them on Twitter y...

Clothes? Who needs them. I’ve got my mobile

It's safe to say we love our phones. But, following Ofcom research, it's not just us. 862 people were questioned and 41% said they would rather cut out home improvements and holidays than their mobile phone. A massive 47% save rather pay for their mob...