LG have also been showing off a few phones at the Korea IT Show, including this, the LG KC1 smartphone. The KC1 uses WiBro, which is the Korean equivalent of the super-quick WiMAX wireless network standard, meaning the data transfer rates of this beast will be huge (up to 50Mbps).
Specs and more pics after the jump.
More pics from the Korea IT Show, this time of the curious Samsung SCH-B710. The B710 is a mobile TV phone with what Samsung are calling a 3D video screen. Not sure what they mean by this, as it looks 2D to me, but maybe that's because it's a 2D picture!
Specs and more pics after the jump.
If you thought CES and CeBIT were a bit poor for mobile phones this year, check out the phones that Korean manufacturers LG and Samsung have rolled out for the Korea IT Show: a super-thin HSDPA phone from Samsung, super-fast Wi-BRO phone from LG, and what Samsung are calling a "3D video phone"
What you see here is the super-thin Samsung SPH-W2700 HSDPA phone (other phones are in other posts) - more pics and specs after the jump.
LG showed off the LG-KB2700 phone at Korea IT Show last week. The LG-KB2700's main claim to fame is its widescreen LCD TV display. Many other mobile TV manufacturers (LG included) let you watch mobile TV in widescreen format, but you need to swivel the screen around. LG have decided to do without the complicated swivelling mechanism, and just fit the screen in the phone in widescreen format as standard.
More details and pictures of the LG-KB2700 mobile TV phone after the jump.
The worlds of mobile phones and computing are converging rapidly, as both Nokia and Intel announced separately that they're developing new technologies involving WiMax for 2008. Nokia announced they will be releasing WiMax phones in 2008 (LG and Samsung already have WiMax phones in South Korea), while Intel announced it is dropping support for 3G technologies from its Centrino range of laptop CPUs to focus exclusively on WiMax instead.
This could have huge implications for mobile network providers, and could lead to super-cheap, super-fast phones for us users. Read on to see how.
Here's something quite unusal. A video of an unknown Sony Ericsson, posted on YouTube without any further information. It's quite normal for leaked pictures of such phones to emerge and do the rounds of forums and blogs, but not videos.
Leaked pics can be faked easily, whereas videos can't be. If you're going to go to the trouble of videoing a forthcoming phone that presumably Sony Ericsson would rather not be videoed just yet, you'd assume there'd be some extra info behind it to at least give some background on.
But no...all there is is....silence! Intriguing!
[Source: Slashphone]
Some leaked pictures of a rumoured Sony Ericsson W999i have been doing the rounds. The W999i looks to be a cross between a standard Sony Ericsson Walkman phone and a Sony Ericsson smartphone, as it features the Walkman logo plus the qwerty-esque keypad of the Sony Ericsson M600i.
It's a good looker, and the green Walkman logo adds a nice touch, but whether it's fake or real I'm not so sure. I go for fake, but time will tell.
[Source: NewLaunches]
More leaked pictures for you, this time of the Sony Ericsson W970.
The pictures are photoshopped rather than blurred pics of a real device, but the quality of the images lead us to believe that this may indeed be a real Sony Ericsson phone rather than a fake.
More details of the Sony Ericsson W970 after the jump.
More Google Phone rumours are coming, with reports that High Tech Computer (HTC) is now manufacturing the Google phone, and expect to ship it late 2007. The reports come from "handset component makers" via DigiTimes, who claim the Google phone will support Texas Instruments' 3G platform and EDGE, and will feature mobile versions of Google's GMail and Search (naturally).
According to DigiTimes, "Industry watchers expect Google will first partner with European telecom provider Orange for the launch of the handset", which leads me to think a note of caution needs to be added to these reports...
A while back, we reported that Dell may be working on a new Dell smartphone. Although highly speculative at the time, new reports suggest Dell is actively working on such a device, and that it will become Dell's chief driver in the consumer market.
The new smartphone, codenamed the Dell Fly, will be based on Windows Mobile and be produced by Quanta Computer (who also produce the O2 XDA Atom smartphones). The Dell Fly will apparently feature a touchscreen (naturally!), Wi-Fi and HSDPA, and probably a full QWERTY keyboard as well.
