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Is Nokia about to announce a new N-Gage smartphone?
February 21st, 2006
Nokia spent some time discussing the future of their N-Gage mobile gaming platform at 3GSM last week. The N-Gage as a mobile phone was killed off last year. However, N-Gage as a mobile gaming platform, incorporated into other Nokia phones, will live on. In an interview with GamaSutra, Jani Karlsson (Nokia’s Senior Manager for N-Gage) discussed how Nokia will improve the tools used by content developers to create N-Gage games, make the N-Gage more powerful as platform, and revealed that Nokia will be “announcing quite a few things at GDC [Game Developer's Conference]” next month.
Read more on the future of the N-Gage after the jump.
[Source: Gamasutra]
More Korean mobile TV phones heading for Europe
February 17th, 2006
New Korean phones always raise a stir, as the technology packed inside them is normally a good 18 months ahead of, well, everywhere else! Recently, however, an increasing number of Korean phones are making their way outside of Korea, and heading to Europe. Glorious! Continuing this trend is LG, who announced at 3GSM that the LG V9000 mobile TV phone with marvellous swivelling form factor will be heading to Europe later in 2006. And, just like Samsung, they’re keeping their options open with regards to the mobile TV technology to use. The LG V9000 uses them all (T-DMB, Media FLO, and DVB-H, though not simultaneously).
[Source: TechDigest.tv]
3GSM: Samsung shows off hundreds more new mobile phones
February 17th, 2006
Samsung showed off even more mobile phones at 3GSM than the seven mobile TV phones reported in earlier. OK, not quite hundreds, but enough to keep your average blogger’s finger’s fried just writing about them! As well as a host of ‘nothing-special’ phones, Samsung saw fit to show off the super-fast SGH-Z560 HSDPA phone, the SGH-Z160, billed as the world’s slimmest 3G phone (9.8mm thick, if you were wondering!), and the credit-card sized P900.
Read all about Samsung’s 3GSM mobile phones after the jump.
3GSM: Samsung shows off 7 mobile TV phones, many destined for Europe
February 17th, 2006
Samsung showed off a host of mobile phones at 3GSM, including seven mobile TV phones, the super-fast SGH-Z560 HSDPA phone, and the SGH-Z160, billed as the world’s slimmest 3G phone (9.8mm thick, if you were wondering!). Samsung didn’t quite show off as many new mobile phones as they showed off at CES last month, but by far the more interesting thing about these phones is that many of them are heading for Europe. So instead of just drooling from afar at the new Korean phones as they are released, with their 5 megapixel+ cameras and mobile TV, knowing they’ll never be released outside of Korea, we now finally get a chance to play with them ourselves. Well, we Europeans do, anyway. No news yet on the US, although Samsung’s mobile TV phones do cover Qualcomm’s Media FLO mobile TV standard, which is apparently heading your way later in the year.
Read all about Samsung’s mobile TV phones at 3GSM after the jump.
[Source: Samsung, EngadgetMobile]
3GSM: 5 Megapixel LG cameraphone heading for Europe
February 16th, 2006
LG have announced at the 3GSM conference that the LG KG-920 5 megapixel camera-phone will be heading to Europe this year. The number of megapixels in camera phones has steadily been rising recently. Thin mobile phones now offer 1.3 megapixels; most high-end mobile phone have been offering 2 megapixels as standard; and some of the Korean manufacturers such as Samsung and Pantech will be releasing 3 megapixel cameraphones later on in the year. However, this is the first time one of the super-high tech Korean phones will make its way outside of Korea, and the most megapixels of all the cameraphones on the European market. No news yet whether the LG KG-920 will be available in the US, but the signs are promising.
More details and pictures of the LG KG-920 5 megapixel cameraphone after the jump.
[Source: Akihabara News, WAPZon]
3GSM: BenQ-Siemens shows off super-fast 3.6Mbps mobile phone
February 16th, 2006
BenQ-Siemens have announced three new mobile phones at 3GSM, including what they claim is the world’s first HSDPA super-3G phone. The BenQ-Siemens EF91 supports HSDPA (and therefore download speeds of up to 3.6Mbps), and is already signed up by Vodafone and T-Mobile. As well as super-fast data rates, the EF91 also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, MP3 player and 262k colour screen.
Also announced by BenQ-Siemens were two other mobile phones, including the BenQ-Siemens EF51 (a mobile music phone) and the BenQ-Siemens S81 (a super-thin 3G phone at only 13mm).
More details and pictures of BenQ-Siemens new mobile phones after the jump.
[Source: BenQ-Siemens]
3GSM: Motorola and Yahoo demo Mobile Podcasting
February 14th, 2006
Motorola and Yahoo have demonstrated mobile podcasting at 3GSM. Using a Motorola RAZR V3x, the Mobile Podcast application lets consumers drag and drop podcasts directly from their PC straight to their mobile phone through the Yahoo! Music Engine. In addition, consumers can directly download podcasts over-the-air to their handset using an integrated application.
Demonstrated on a Motorola RAZR V3x, the application is extremely flexible and may be made available on a variety of Motorola handsets.
See what else Motorola is demonstrating at 3GSM after the jump.
[Source: Motorola]
3GSM: Nokia announce new Nokia 6136 Mobile Internet Phone
February 14th, 2006
Nokia have announced at 3GSM the new Nokia 6136 mobile phone, which features UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access): a technology that enables the phone to make calls over mobile networks and broadband Internet connection via WLAN. Both data and voice calls can be made over a user’s Internet connection via WLAN, enabling incredibly quick download speeds and high quality voice calls when within range of a home WLAN/mobile basestation. When out of range, the voice or data call is transferred seamlessly to the mobile phone network. Orange have already said they will be an initial customer for the Nokia 6136, and will sell the basestation with the phone.
More details on the new Nokia 6136 mobile Internet phone after the jump.
[Source: Nokia]
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3GSM: Motorola snubs Apple, partners with Microsoft
February 14th, 2006
Motorola have announced at 3GSM that they are partnering with Microsoft to enable their future mobile music phones to synchronize seamlessly with PCs, play all Microsoft music formats, and “provide mobile handset offerings that are tailored for discovering and acquiring music over an operator’s 3G network.” In other words, you can forget any hopes of future Motorola/Apple partnerships, like the heavily criticized Motorola ROKR. Future Motorola music phones will be firmly Microsoft affairs.
Motorola’s partnership with Microsoft is big news, coming as it does after all the hype of the ill-fated Motorola ROKR and Motorola’s partnership with Apple. Whether the new partnership with Microsoft is any more successful, only time will tell, but it does seem as if Motorola have some big plans up their sleeve. More details of what you can expect form Motorola and Microsoft’s partnership after the jump.
[Source: Motorola]
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3GSM: Sony Ericsson announce two more new mobile phones
February 14th, 2006
Sony Ericsson have announced two more new mobile phones at 3GSM, the Sony Ericsson K610 and entry-level Sony Ericsson J100. The K610 is a 3G mobile phone with candy bar form factor, 2 megapixel camera and is just 17mm thick. The J100 is good looking…er, and that’s it! Oh, and it’s cheap!
Read more about the Sony Ericsson K610 and Sony Ericsson J100 after the jump.
[Source: Sony Ericsson]
