Posts filed under Coming Soon

No sooner has Nokia launched the Nokia N97 than rumours of a new Nokia N97 Mini start swirling around the blogosphere.

This would be important news in its own right, but given the underwhelming reception that the Nokia N97 received, it’s news that might just save Nokia’s skin.

More details and pictures of the Nokia N97 Mini after the jump.

After reading our HTC Hero review earlier, you might be under the impression that mobiles are going the way of Windows – super-functional, but bogged down with bloat that makes them sluggish.

Not a bit of it! There’s no less than three super-charged mobile processors about to come on stream leading to a new age of GHz mobile phones that are super-fast, super-responsive, and which pack some stunning new features. The likes of Samsung, Toshiba and HTC are just some of the mobile phone manufacturers leading this race, with graphics specialist NVIDIA also helping out.

Here’s a run down of these new technologies, and a sneak preview at some of the phones that are coming that will make any handset you currently own look like a creaking old truck!

Sony Ericsson have been teasing us of late with what could be the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X5. Currently going under the codename of the Sony Ericsson Rachael, we’ve seen pictures of a brand new smartphone with a fantastic spec, all built on top of the Android OS. Better still, we’ve now got a video of the new user interface, showing exactly what Sony Ericsson has in store for Android’s UI.

More details and video of the Sony Ericsson X5 after the jump.

It must be summer, as rumours of Dell working on a smartphone have resurfaced. Although such rumours do the rounds seemingly every year or so, this one carries more weight as it comes from no less a figure than Ronald Garriques – president of Dell’s consumer division, and ex VP of Motorola’s cell phone division.

In an interview with analysts, Garrique said that Dell was in talks with the “…top three to four” telecoms companies to launch a range of handsets, including 4″ smartphones and 12″ netbooks running on Android.

Although al this sounds rather tasty, however, there may be a sting in the tail…

Just hours before the new Apple iPhone is due to be announced (assuming the rumours are true, that is!), details and pics of the new phone have been leaked all over the Web.

Well, I say leaked – it’s only a leak if these things are true, otherwise it’s just mad ramblings from an overexcited Apple fan-boy!

The fan-boy in question, though, John Gruber, has been right before, and what he says makes a lot of sense.

So read on for more details of the new Apple iPhone 3GS that should be announced in the next few hours (tip: don’t get too excited!)

We’ve just heard a rumour that T-Mobile’s second Android phone, the T-Mobile G2, will be launched in early June. The source is good, coming from T-Mobile themselves via Reuters, and fits in nicely with other news relating both to the G2 and other manufacturers who are working on Android phones. All we need to do now is to work out which phone it will be!

Fortunately, we have some thoughts on that as well…

Once more, Apple fanboys are out in force as the world awaits news of what could be the third generation of the Apple iPhone. The rumours come in advance of the Apple WWDC conference in San Francisco, during which Apple is expected to announce a newly-updated iPhone for the salivating masses.

The third generation iPhone is expected to have a compass, a 600MHz processor, “improved” camera to a still-puny 3.2 megapixels adn 32GB of storage – in other words, not exactly a quantum leap, and certainly not what you’d expect from a “next generation” device.

Still, all of this is just rumour at the moment, and these leaked pics haven’t even been confirmed as real, yet, so we’ll just have to wait until WWDC next week to see what exactly Apple has up its sleeve.

Until then, check out some more pictures of the third generation iPhone after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have been rumoured to be working on the new Sony Ericsson X2 for some time now, and these leaked pics show that it’s development is progressing nicely. Seemingly based on Windows Mobile (presumably version 6.5), the X2 comes with a large touchscreen display and a good-looking full QWERTY keyboard.

Seems like it’s smartphone season at the moment. The Nokia N97 is due for release in two weeks’ time, the Palm Pre is just around the corner, rumours of a new iPhone doing the rounds, a plethora of HTC smartphones and Android phones that are imminent, and now this from Sony Ericsson.

I think it likely that come a year or two’s time, the term smartphone will become meaningless in the same way that cameraphone is now. Every phone will be a smartphone, just like every phone now has a camera.

Glorious!

[Source: Engadget]

Seems the Android bandwagon just can’t stop rolling! Panasonic is the latest company to jump on board with plans for a new Android phone. Unlike other Panasonic phones, though, this one will be sold outside of Japan.

According to Panasonic’s Keisuke Ishii, Director of the Mobile Terminal Business Unit , “We are seriously considering developing an Android-based handset and entering overseas mobile phone markets in fiscal 2010.”

This is great news…

T-Mobile CTO, Cole Brodman, has revealed in an interview with GigaOm that the company is banking heavily on a mobile future filled with Android devices of all shapes and sizes.

In particular, he revealed that T-Mobile will “…follow up G1 this year with multiple Android devices in the second half that we’ll be launching with at least three partners,” and that “we will see Android [netbooks] …from different nontraditional partners, maybe HP or Dell or others.”

More details of T-Mobile’s future plans after the jump.