Today on the Japan mobile front. ADSL infrastructure company eAccess has announced its new mobile carrier for Japan, eMobile. For now, they will carry only one phone. The Sharp EM ONE. eMobile will skim its way into the Japanese market in March with a data-only HSDPA service, which by 2008 should grow to voice data as well. The Sharp EM ...
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Gigabyte GSmart q60 Smartphone, the t600’s pretty sister
Other then the DVB-T and DVB-H supporting t600, Gigabyte also produces the HSDPA supporting GSmart q60 Smartphone. The q60 was shown at 3GSM, and though not creating the fuss that the t600 has, is indeed a nice looking phone. The Gsmart is powered by an Intel PXA270 512 MHz and runs on the newest Windows Mobile 6 Pro OS. The ...
Read More »World’s first cellphone supporting both DVB-T and DVB-H
Taiwanese cellphone company GIGABYTE has unveiled the world’s first cellphone that supports both DVB-T and DVB-H digital broadcasting standards. The t600 is also a smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the CPU is an Intel PXA270 520Mhz which is reasonably powerful. The t600 has 256MB ROM and 96MB RAM, external memory used here is microSD. In terms of ...
Read More »Speaker phone over FM radio
We’ve all seen Bluetooth headsets for cellphones, we’ve also seen in-car speaker phone, a lot of us may also own an iTrip, now imagine putting all 3 together; you’ll end up listening to your own voice over the FM radio. Princeton Japan has announced this new in-car hands-free that borrows your car’s HiFi system as speaker for speaker phone, it ...
Read More »GSMK CryptoPhone 220 keeps your voice secure
In our modern times of identity theft, phreaking, phone tapping, and lord knows what else, its good to feel secure with the people we talk too. The GSMK CryptoPhone is the secure answer for the PDA. The Tri-band phone runs Windows Mobile 5.0, has a 2.8 inch TFT LCD touchscreen, a 1.3 MP CMOS camera, and multimedia support for audio ...
Read More »HTC wants to merge with SonyEricsson and make babies
“Mobiltillverkaren HTC, v ¤xer lika snabbt som Sony Ericsson. Bolaget ¤r kund till Ericsson och i en intervju med di.se s ¤ger vd:n och grundaren Peter Chou att han g ¤rna pratar samg ¥ende med Sony Ericsson” What is that supposed to mean? Yeah we wondered too, apparently the founder and CEO of HTC, Peter Chou expressed his interest in ...
Read More »Spotted: Sharp HSDPA slider prototype for European market, plus more insider gossips
A lot of Sharp fans are worried because they have not heard any news from Sharp at 3GSM this year, no new models at all apart from minor facelifts. As told by our insider 2 months ago, it’s about time we expect something from the Japanese company. Itmedia spotted this HSDPA (3.6Mbps) slider prototype at the 3GSM Sharp booth, a ...
Read More »HTC Advantage Smartphone: The laptop twin
You might recall HTC from our previous post on the Vox smartphone. The HTC Advantage is the businessman’s alternative. Featuring a different design, resembling a really small laptop. The Advantage is actually a rebranding of the previously announced HTC Athena. The HSDPA data-supporting phone runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, a product name getting more and more ...
Read More »PlaysForSure dead? Think again and meet PlayReady for cellphones
Microsoft is doing an amazing job and confusing us right now in terms of where they stand with their own DRM technology. Remember PlaysForSure? And how the Zune completely snubbed that idea, and how we thought that PlaysForSure was “for sure” going to get phased out? Not happenning yet. Microsoft has announced that they have another DRM technology that is ...
Read More »LG KS10 3G Smartphone shown at 3GSM
LG presented its new 3G series smartphone, the KS10, at the 3GSM World Congress 2007. The KS10 features fully functioning internet capabilities. Its high speed HSDPA internet connection can transfer data at speeds up to 1.8Mbps, allowing streaming of high quality TV. The KS10’s 2.4-inch QVGA screen looks to be crisp and clear from the pictures. Along with its full ...
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