Motorola have announced the Motorola T605 in-car music streamer at CTIA 2007. The T605 lets you stream music from your mobile phone to your car stereo over Bluetooth, and even pauses the music automatically when you receive a call.
But don't take my word for it - MediaMentalism has far more to say on the Motorola T605.
[Source: MediaMentalism.com]
I wrote a few days back about Google's plans for a revolutionary mobile browser. Now it seems that Google's plans are starting to take shape, as it's announced a deal with LG that will see Google products and services pre-installed on select LG phones shipped globally.
Although not the Google browser at this stage, this announcement (together with similar partnerships with other handset manufacturers) gives Google a toe-hold on millions of new mobile phones from which it could later introduce a forthcoming browser.
Nokia have announced the Nokia L'Amour 7088, a low-specced designer phone in the company's L'Amour range. I say designer - whoever designed the L'Amour 7088 clearly has a love of shapely arses, as this phone has one fat ass! But then Nokia calls it "the pinnacle of mobile fashion design", so what do I know?!
More details of the Nokia L'Amour 7088 after the jump.
Samsung had a better CTIA than most of the other manufacturers. They started off showing the Samsung Upstage, which is a rebranded Samsung Ultra Music phone, which will coming to Sprint in the US later in the year.
The Samsung Upstage is a super-thin candy-bar phone with two faces: the front, which provides traditional mobile phone keypad layout (see pic on left), together with a small screen; and the, er, front, with a larger screen and dedicated music buttons (pic on the right).
The Samsung Upstage price will be $149 with contract, will accept up to 2GB flash cards, and will feature over the air (OTA) music downloads (which, ironically, you won't be able to use as ringtones!)
Samsung had a few other goodies to show off at CTIA 2007, as you can see after the jump.
Motorola had a disappointing CTIA 2007. They let loose the new MOTOROKR Z6m, a new sliding music phone with 2 megapixel camera and up to 2GB of storage, and the RAZR maxx Ve, which is a 3G RAZR with 2 megapixel camera. Don't know why they didn't just call it the RAZR yamr (yet-another-motorola-razr)!
Rumours that Motorola's manufacturing plants can't actually build a phone that doesn't look like a RAZR are unconfirmed (but would explain why company keeps churning out the same old design!).
Just before CTIA 2007 started, Sony Ericsson announced their new Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman phone. A slider phone with 2 megapixel camera, the W580 is nothing special, but it looks good, should sound good, and is destined for the US market first (hence it's announcement just prior to CTIA 2007, which is seen as the US's version of 3GSM).
The W580 was on display at the show, and like Sony Ericsson's W880i, which was also on display, won wide plaudits for its slimness and overall design.
The company also announced the Sony Ericsson Z750, which their first HSDPA phone for the US. The Z750 is an attractive clamshell phone with mirror-like external finish, 2 megapixel camera and VGA video camera.
Other than the W580 and W880i, though, Sony Ericsson didn't have anything else exciting on display, but you can see a plethora of piccies and videos after the jump.
The major mobile manufacturers have been upstaged at CTIA 2007 by the gloriously-sounding Thunder Super Radio HiFi phone. As you can see form the pic, the Thunder phone is a normal mobile phne on one side, but rather than kitting the back out with a camera, they've bolted on what looks like an old '80s ghetto blaster!
More pics of the Thunder Super Radio HiFi phone after the jump.
Sony Ericsson have announced the new Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman phone.
Another model in Sony Ericsson's ever-expanding Walkman range, the W580i is first Walkman phone to use the slider form factor.
It's a mid-range quad-band phone, with 2 megapixel camera, FM radio, 512MB of memory, and email, so offer nothing new, but it does look great, and should please those after a decent music phone.
I've just posted a lengthy article wondering whether Sony Ericsson is in decline, as it's phones' features are being left behind by its competitors, and the W580i does nothing to address that. That said, it really looks the business, so if looks and great sound-quality are what you're after, you could do worse.
Full details and pictures of the Sony Ericsson W580i after the jump.
Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson W580i, just in time for this year's CTIA trade show. And about time, too! Sony Ericsson have been a bit too quiet at the past few shows, so it's nice to see them finally releasing a new phone.
Unfortunately, despite looking great, being a Walkman phone, and exuding "ice-cool, understated" urban style (their words, not mine!), the W580i is yet another Walkman phone. A slider this time, but nothing that really stands out.
Which makes me wonder - is Sony Ericsson in decline?
Read on to find out why Sony Ericsson might be losing the mobile phone wars.
The NeoNode N2 is one little phone that's been getting a lot of attention recently, in part because of its similarities with a certain other mobile phone that was announced recently. The NeoNode N2 is a mobile phone featuring a touchscreen and user interface not all that dissimilar from the Apple iPhone. Where the two differ, though, is in dimensions - the NeoNode N2 is tiny, at just 47×77×14.7mm, and weighing only 70 grams.
See the video of the NeoNode N2 after the jump.
