It’s nearly the New Year, which means we’re hurtling towards Conference season, with first CES, then the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona following hot on its heels. These exhibitions give us the first glimpse of what the major mobile phone manufacturers…
Nokia have been showing off the S60 Touch, a touch screen user interface for their N Series of mobile phones that will also become part of the S60 User Interface platform. As such, it’s not just Nokia who’ll benefit from…
More Google gPhone rumours for you, this time apparently from an ultra reliable source. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins has spoken to several people inside the mobile phone industry, and has the scoop on what we can expect from the new Google…
Apple’s iPhone really set the cat among the pigeons with its fantastic interface, causing virtually every other mobile phone manufacturer to release a new phone with touchscreen in effort to seem like thei’r phones aren’t out-dated. However, none of these…
Ah, those Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone rumours just won’t go away. After a variety of Sony Ericsson execs were quoted talking about the company possibly working on their own gaming phone, none other than outgoing CEO Miles Flint has told…
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…
Motorola have announced an agreement with Microvision to develop pico projector display solutions for its future mobile phones.
Microvision’s PicoP technology is an ultra-miniature laser based display engine that can project a mobile phone’s display onto a wall or even…
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…
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…
Mmmmm, don’t you just love juicy rumour? We’re all bored of the Apple iPhone now that it’s finally emerged from the (not particulalry dark) shadows, and although the Google phone is starting to garner a little interest, there’s still not enough known about it or Google’s presumed intentions to make for interesting reading…yet!
The Apple iPhone has finally been announced, and it emphatically marks a watershed in mobile phone design. In his keynote speech, Steve Jobs claimed the iPhone was 5 years ahead of all other mobile phones, and poured scorn on existing state of the art smartphones, such as the Motorola Q, RIM’s Blackberry and the Nokia E65.
If you thought 2006 gave us some terrific new phones, from 6.9mm super-thin devices to 10 megapixel mobile TV leviathans, just wait until you see what 2007 will bring! Using a combination of my trusty sources, technological intuition, and even a bit of speculating, I’ve rounded up an in-depth list of the ten hottest technologies that will be coming to mobile phones in 2007.