Mobile Firefox to launch in a few weeks time

Mozilla has announced that an alpha version of its much-touted Firefox Mobile Web browser will be launched in a few weeks' time.

Coming after the first imminent launch of the first Google Android phone and its mobile version of Google Chrome, together with the iPhone's Safari browser, Pocket IE, Opera Mobile and Nokia's use of the WebKit browser, the mobile Web is looking set to positively explode.

Indeed, it seems there are more mobile browsers than desktop-based ones!

This is fantastic news for the mobile Web, which should finally provide an experience similar to the desktop equivalent we've all grown used to.

Having used the mobile Web for the past year with my Nokia E90 and loved every minute of it, I think it's something the vast majority of users will become increasingly accustomed to.

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The latest high end mobile phones

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HTC Touch Diamond LG KC550 Orsay Silver LG KF750 Secret LG KU990 Viewty Purple LG KU990 Viewty Silver Nokia 3120 Classic Nokia 6220 Classic Nokia 6300 Nokia 6300 Black Nokia 6500 Classic Black Nokia 6500 Slide Nokia 6500 Slide Black Nokia 6500 Slide Silver Nokia 8800 Arte Nokia E51 Nokia E90 Nokia N95 Nokia N95 8GB Nokia N95 Red Sport Prada phone by LG Silver Samsung F400 Samsung F480 Tocco Samsung G600 Black Samsung G600 Purple Samsung i900 Omnia Samsung J700 Black Samsung J700 Chrome Samsung J700 Pink Samsung P520 Armani Samsung U800 Pink Samsung U800 Silver Samsung U900 Soul Samsung U900 Soul Pink Sony Ericsson C702 Black Sony Ericsson C702 Cyan Sony Ericsson C902 Black Sony Ericsson C902 Red Sony Ericsson K660i Sony Ericsson K770i Black Sony Ericsson K850i Sony Ericsson K850i Black Sony Ericsson P1 Sony Ericsson T303 Sony Ericsson W760i Sony Ericsson W890i Silver Sony Ericsson W980i

Posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 10:45 pm by Mike Evans
Filed under Mobile Web

8 megapixel LG Renoir KC910 released on October 15th

Cameraphone fans, the new LG Renoir will be available to buy on October 15h. Is this special? Hell yes! The LG KC910 Renoir takes all the features (and, LG hopes, the success) of the LG Viewty and runs away with - far, far away!

You can think of the LG Renoir as LG's answer to the Nokia N95. Actually, it's more than that - in many ways, it's the successor to the N95 and what the N96 should have been.

Projector phones and mobile HD displays on their way

A number of prototype mobile phone display technologies have been demoed at this year's CEATEC 2008 exhibition in Japan. In addition to KDDI's 3D mobile phone displays, there were a number of mobile phone projectors as well, which project the image from your phone's screen onto a wall at sizes up to 50".

World’s first 3D mobile phone screen

KDDI have been showing off a new prototype LCD display screen destined for mobile phones that's capable of showing 3D images. Obviously you don't get the full effect in the picture here, but that's because you're not just seeing one image: you're seeing two, projected and interlaced by two separate LCD displays, one of which outputs images for the left eye, and the other for the right eye.

Next-gen DoCoMo phones predict your every move

Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile carrier is working on new technology for its next generation mobile phones that will quite literally predict your every move. Their next gen phones will be stuffed full of senors that will be able to identify the movement that you're making.

Based on your actions you make when you move in a particular way (all of which the phone records via its sensors), sophisticated software will predict what your next actions wil be and will provide recommendations in advance. In other words, the phone will attempt to guess what you're doing, and the predict what you're about to do, which sounds just a little bit freaky if it works too well!

The Nokia Tube is here - a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic preview with videos, pictures and everything!

Nokia have finally announced the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Unofficially called the Nokia Tube, the 5800 is Nokia's latest and fanciest music phone, and has been touted for some time as Nokia's answer to the iPhone.

The iPhone, of course, has been with us for over a year now, so their response has been a bit late in coming - indeed, they're the last mobile phone company to release a touchscreen phone - but it's here now, and there's been a lot of hype around this phone, so it's time to take a look at some of its features.

Sony T700 8 megapixel camera phone that isn’t

When I first saw these pictures, I thought "blimey, now that really is a camera phone." Actually, what I was really thinking was "is that a phone, or just a camera?!" I then noticed the word "Cyber-Shot" emblazoned on it, and the title "Sony T700", and I got all excited. A new Sony Ericsson CyberShot phone that's never been seen before? Better still, a new Sony Cyber-Shot phone, sans Ericsson?

Alas, no, it's none of these things. It's another fake Chinese phone, and this one isn't even sure of what it is either. It's a camera phone alright, it's just that it doesn't quite know how good a camera phone it is.

DoCoMo demos projector phone and 250Mbps mobile network

Also demonstrating some fancy concept phones at CEATEC 2008 were DoCoMo. As well as a fantastic looking projector phone (above), which projected the phone's screen onto a flat surface (technology that surely will become reality in the very near future), they also showed off the progress they were making with the latest version of 3G: 3GLTE.

Short for Long Term Evolution, 3GLTE is being touted as 3.9G - i.e. version 3.9 of the third generation of mobile network technology.

Four Japanese concept phones from KDDI

Despite appearances, this is a mobile phone and not a satellite phone. Maybe I should say it's a mobile phone with satellite pretensions. Whatever, it's the latest concept phone from Japanese company KDDI, and despite its ability to operate without a battery, it's clearly not going to go on sale any time soon (at least,not in the UK, where our five days of sunshine a year would render it less than useless!)

KDDI also had several other odd-looking concept phones on display at this year's CEATEC 2008 event, which you can see after the jump.

LG KP500, a priceless touchscreen phone for the masses

In the new spirit of fiscal responsibility, LG have announced the LG KP500, a touchscreen phone at a bargain price. Quite what that price is, though, is anyone's guess, as they don't actually mention it in their press release. All they say is that the LG KP500 will come "...with an affordable introduction price never offered before."

Seriously, LG, if you're going to market a phone based on its price, you should at least give some idea of what it is!