Taiwanese company G-Plus released 2 new handsets today with a super close resemblance of the Nokia 8800. The DS838 is made of white plastic, making it 89g, pretty light in your hands (95x41x15mm). The DS900 is a sister machine of the DS838 built with a metallic body instead. The DS838 and DS900 are dualband GSM machines that also support GPRS, ...
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Go straight from phone to TV with Spectec MiniSD & MicroSD Video-Out Adapter
These days, computers are becoming small enough to fit in your pocket, if you consider cell phones to be computers, that is. One of the major problems with cell phones acting as computers, however, is that the screen is just too dang small to share things with anyone. Spectec jumped this hurdle with the release of the video-out adaptor which ...
Read More »Gearfuse Plumbers: Sharp overdoes the AQUOS phone idea
In Japan, Sharp has already released AQUOS DMB (One-Seg) phones for NTT DoCoMo (SH903iTV) and Softbank (905SH and 911SH), so the next target is AU KDDI. And we managed to dig up a leaked pic of what’s supposed to be the W51SH from Sharp, surprise surprise surprise, the same old Cyclone screen design is used. The difference between Sharp’s Cyclone ...
Read More »Linux Open Source Greenphone: Hey, it’s worth a try
Developers are gonna love this. The Linux Trolltech Greenphone, complete with SDK tools is really more of a tool or a kit then a “phone” per se. Linux has advertised this phone as a tool for developers to create new software for mobile phones, but on a totally open source spectrum. Its $700 price tag confirms the point that this ...
Read More »Verizon LG enV VX9900 Commercials
The newest generation of Verizon’s answer to the Sidekick looks like an absolute joy to work with. The LG line of micro SD phones has had their problems in the past, but the VX9900 is looking great compared to the original release of the LG “The V”. The VX9900 now comes with a 2 megapixel camera and additional productivity tools ...
Read More »LG releases yet another phone, the SB190
LG just released the SB190, their next phone in the line-up, to their friends in Korea. LG took into account the popularity of the Chocolate, and so again steered away from flip phones, creating another slider. Sliders are great and all, but after a few months the screen starts to get scratch from everyday wear and tear, and then your ...
Read More »Gearfuse Plumbers: Pantech’s W51PT nailing Japanese taste
The Gearfuse Plumbers got their hands on some leaked photos of what’s supposed to be Pantech’s (the largest phone manufacturer in Korea after Samsung and LG) unannounced W51PT for Japan AU KDDI’s EV-DO Rev.A network. The main display should be a 2.4″ QVGA, camera is a 2.1 Megapixel CCD with autofocus, One-Seg DMB tuner and microSD slot are built in ...
Read More »Samsung SGH-Z720 might blow away in the wind
It’s only a matter of time until our mobile devices are so thin and light that they begin to blow away in the wind. The new Samsung SGH-Z720 is officially the thinnest HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) slider phone coming in at 13.8mm thick (or thin). In case you care, yes, that is .1mm less than the Motorola RAZR, the ...
Read More »Spot Review: Toshiba TX80 UMTS phone
Gearfuse is bringing you reviews that you have never seen before, we call them spot reviews. No boos and no fancy paragraphs going on and on. Everything is kept in a precise and concise manner, covering absolutely everything you need to know whether you were thinking of buying or not. As we announced it a few days ago, here is ...
Read More »Pantech IM-S150 Phone: For when you want nothing less than Korean class
Pantech has announced it’s IM-S150, which seems to be geared towards the hipsters of Korea. Despite it’s resemblance in design to a slab of pavement from any typical American road, Pantech says that since design has become such an imporant focus of the mobile community, that this is there answer to the trendy line of designs being released. On the ...
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