Posts filed under Rumours

More 3G iPhone rumours doing the rounds, this time from wireless chip and DSP sector analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts.

Strauss is convinced that Apple are working on a 3G iPhone, and expects it to be announced at the same time that Apple announces which operator it has chosen for the iPhone in each European country in which it will be sold. According to EETimes, this announcement “…is expected imminently, and could come as soon as this week.”

Why wait for the iPhone, though, when you can get the same user interface in the Apple iPod Touch, which is out now and much cheaper.

More details after the jump.

More Google phone rumours, this time from an HTC “insider”, who claims that smartphone manufacturer HTC have provided Google with 20 different designs of smartphone for them to choose from for their near-mythical Google phone.

Apparently, the new Google phone will come with a custom version of Google Maps using internal GPS, built-in Wi-Fi to support Google Talk with VoIP, plus GMail and Google Calendar.

More interestingly, the rumour also suggests there’ll be an announcement in two weeks time, with the Google phone itself shipping in the first quarter of 2008, but then we’ve had rumours predicting an imminent announcements for over a year now, so I wouldn’t hold your breath!

[Source: HTLounge]

Well, Motorola have well and truly blown the designer phone market, if this, a leaked pic of the Motoroka ROKR E8 is anything to go by. First they created the market with the original RAZR back in 2004. Then they watched as competitors such as LG actually innovated in the market with cool designer phones such as the Chocolate and Shine, while Motorola simply painted their RAZRs different colours.

Then they waited some more and watched as their market share took a pummeling, they lost the number two spot to Samsung and recorded heavy losses. Now, finally, they’ve released a new phone, and look, it’s hideous! It’s as designer as shoulder pads!

More pics of the ROKR E8 after the jump.

Sony Ericsson are to launch a new gaming phone in February 2008 according to new rumours. There’s been speculation for some time that a PSP-branded gaming phone was on the cards, ever since Sony Computer Entertainment exec Izumi Kawanishi said “Could the PSP ever replace your cell phone? There is a possibility” in an interview with IGN last September.

Since then, there’s been little further news, other than more rumours allegedly confirming that Sony Ericsson are working on such a device, but no hint as to what the device would be capable of.

Now, though, there’s a little more meat on them rumours…

Rumours that Nokia are about to launch the Nokia N81 on August 29th are gathering pace, and are helped no end by these leaked pictures of Nokia’s new uber-music phone. The pictures show what is, apparently, just a mock up, but the finished product shouldn’t look too different from this.

Nokia’s teaser site shows the outline of a phone that resembles this picture of the Nokia N81 extremely closely. As such, I think most people will be more surprised if Nokia don’t release the N81 on August 29th than if they do!

Specs of the Nokia N81 after the jump.

Nokia has taken a leaf out of Sony Ericsson’s book by creating a new teaser site for a new phone that it’ll be releasing on August 29th.

The teaser site’s not bad, actually, if a bit geeky, but the combination of nearly showing what the phone is without actually telling you anything about it is a perfect bit of marketing. This is one teaser site that’s going to go viral in seconds!

So what phone is it then, do we think? Well, current rumours speculate it’ll be the Nokia N81 and Nokia N82, which you can read more about after the jump.

Rumours surfaced last March that Google was working on a mobile phone. Now those rumours have come back with a vengeance, with the Wall Street Journal claiming that Google is courting mobile phone operators to provide an ad-supported mobile phone service to Google-customized handsets.

Furthermore, the article also claims that the company has already built Google phone hardware prototypes that are up and running in its labs.

Fuelling the rumours are reports that Google has been talking to mobile phone operators regarding handset specifications, and their recent proposal to offer the US Government $4.7 billion for wireless spectrum.

Suddenly, it seems, the Google phone rumours are starting to seem like more than just hot air.

More details of the Google phone after the jump.

No sooner has Samsung sprung the Samsung G600 on us, than leaked pictures turn up of the forthcoming Samsung G800.

The new G800 seems to be the G600’s bigger brother.

Although both cameras feature a 5 megapixel camera, the G800 adds 3G (and possibly HSDPA) connectivity, and looks set to take on the Sony Ericsson K850i in the race to be the best camera phone, as it also features a xenon flash, auto-focus and 3.5x optical zoom.

More details of the Samsung G800 after the jump.

These are leaked pictures of the new Sony Ericsson P3i smartphone. There’s no details yet, other than the new P3i will be the big brother of the P1i that’s just been released, and will feature a touchscreen. You can also bet it’ll have Wi-Fi, 3G, possibly HSDPA, and should have a 3 megapixel camera.

You can also see that the P3i comes with the same dual-key rocking keyboard design as the P1i, which is a design I’m still not convinced about.

That said, the P3i does look stunning, and as it looks set to be Sony Ericsson’s new flagship smartphone, it should come fully tricked out with a whole host of features. Don’t expect it anytime soon, though, as the company has only just released the P1i, and so they’ll be focusing on that for a while.

More news when we get it.

[Source: NewLaunches]

Samsung are working on the new Samsung P520 touchscreen mobile phone. No prizes for guessing which other phone, er, influenced its design, and of course, it comes with a touschscreen. Being a Samsung, it’s also super-slim as well, but despite reports of the P520 being Samsung’s iPhone killer, if you looks at its specs, it’s actually more of an iPhone clone – and that’s not good news…