MetroPCS has recently launched its first touchscreen from Samsung known as the Caliber R860. Specs-wise, the handset is equipped with a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, a 3MP camera with flash, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, a microSD card slot (up to 16GB), a full HTML web browser, GPS with MetroNavigator, email, social networking integration (Facebook, MySpace), Bluetooth, a 1080 mAh battery and supports CDMA (1×800/1900 MHz) connectivity
Nokia has started to produce the Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition that comes covered with 18 carat gold.
Motorola has recently announced that their latest touchscreen phone ‘ QUENCH (aka CLIQ XT) ‘ will be coming to Brazil in late March via TIM (the country’s third largest mobile carrier, with more than 40 million subscribers). However, there’s no word on pricing yet at the moment. To refresh your memory, the QUENCH offers a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash, a full virtual QWERTY keyboard, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), an electronic compass, A-GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack and runs on Android 1.5 OS with supports for Google services and MOTOBLUR features
KDDI and Okinawa cellular have collaborated to launch three new colorful clamshell handsets. Dubbed as the Lotta (Produced by Kyocera), these cell phones will be available in White, Green, and Yellow and each one is represented with an embedded number 3, 7 and 5, respectively
Vodafone is reportedly preparing to launch their own touchscreen phone namely the Vodafone 547. Manufactured by ZTE (one of Vodafone’s main ODM partners), the handset is said to feature a touchscreen display, an accelerometer sensor, a Mobile TV and support GSM/EDGE connectivity. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing and release date yet
Nokia Research Center (NRC) Helsinki has proudly introduced the mobile radar concept at Demo House 2010 research exhibition in Espoo, Finland.
Word has it that the mobile version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser may soon be available for Google’s Android platform. The German Mozilla Community Website camp-firefox.de has reported that a first beta version of Firefox for Android (Fennec) may be out in February 2010. Stay tuned for more updates.
Sharp is gearing up to launch their latest solar-powered phone for the chinese market.
You are lucky if you are living in the States, because HTC has finally rolled out the HTC Touch HD2 via T-Mobile USA with an internal memory boost. The T-Mobile version has a 1GB ROM and a 576MB RAM, which means that you can install more applications or store more data on it. What’s more, the HTC Touch HD2 is also sold with a 16GB microSD card
Here’s a rendered image of HTC’s upcoming Android smartphone ‘Supersonic’. The handset is said to feature a 4.3-inch OLED display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera, a 1GB ROM, WiMAX connectivity, a kickstand on the back and run on Android 2.1 with Sense UI
Nokia has recently introduced the Nokia X6 16GB, a full touchscreen handset that has a 3.2-inch full touchscreen display in 16:9 ratio (360 x 640 pixels) and 16 million colors. Available in all black, all white, white with pink highlights and white with yellow highlights colors, the phone is powered by a 433.9MHz processor with a 5-megapixel camera with dual flash LED for low light photography, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.5mm headphone jack, A-GPS and WLAN. The Nokia X6 16GB will be sold without the Come with Music service but will come with the latest Symbian S60 5th edition
VTech has finally released their first Push-to-Talk DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone System. The LS6325 series provides instant communication for large households and small offices, where you get Push-to-Talk (PTT) functionality which enables instant voice delivery through the handset speakerphone.
Motorola has started selling the MOTOCUBO A45 Eco via its North American direct-to-consumer store. Priced at $160, the phone sports a full QWERTY slider with a 2-megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a microSD (up to 32GB), and a QVGA display. This environmental friendly handset is made from recycled and corn-based materials
Meizu CEO J. Wong has unveiled the specifications of the upcoming M9 smartphone. According to him, this new handset will feature a 3.6-inch 720 x 480 touchscreen display, a 1GHz Cortex A8-based Samsung S5PC110 CPU, a 5MP camera, a 512MB RAM, a 512MB ROM, a microSD card slot, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a USB port, TV-out and support WCDMA/CDMA/TD-SCDMA connectivity.
Truphone has recently announced that the Truphone for Android ver.