History: The Long Odyssey of the Cell Phone.
Just check this good gallery on time.com out. One of the most interesting facts, is that Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first cell phone, made his first phone call to his competitor, Bell.
Nvidia Tegra, I see envy in Intel’s eyes.
Specs/Features:
- Up to 1080p HD video playback
- Ultra-low-power GeForce GPU for intuitive and smooth 3D user interfaces
- Integrated media processor for over 100 hours audio and 10 hours HD video playback
- Image processor with advanced DSC and HD camcorder processing
- Connectivity to support Web 2.0 and social media applications
- Display support for up to 1080p HDMI, WSXGA+ LCD, SXGA CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV-Out
This thing will power Windows Mobile devices in the future. Nvidia calls it “Tiny Computer with massive punch”, well that sounds tru, just look at the User Interface video:
And, this video demonstrates HD Video, but what do we see in the beginning? It’s the attempt to reinvent Cover Flow, not impressed.
iPhone 3G Ad Kicks All ‘em Wannabees In The Nuts
It’s finally here: the first phone to beat the iPhone.
And yes, it’s iPhone 3G who beats the iPhone. Prices are $199-299, for 8GB and 16GB Models. These photos turned out to be real, 16GB version goes in 2 colors! And those are totally fake, iPhone 3G doesn’t get a front camera for videocalls, what a pity!
BlackBerry 9500 aka Thunder aka Storm aka Apple Killer now has face.
Boy Genius posted a “Live Shot” of BlackBerry 9500 aka Thunder. Picture shows phone layout. RIM phones known for good, hardware keyboard, so it’s going to be interesting to see what OS keyboard will be feature on this phone, it’s clear that it’s going to be a touchscreen. Touchscreen keyboard can kill or make the phone. Interesting fact, it has pause button on the top, so their headphones won’t be as good as Apple’s :) It’s clear that it will be exclusively from Verizon. BoyGeniusReport
3G iPhone Will Have $200-250 Price Tag?
Well tomorrow, we will have a strong picture of what 3G iPhone look like and how much will it cost, but until then, some people try to fake the new device. And some try to figure out how AAPL stocks will behave in different situations, to make some sort of a money. Last year, stocks were climbing up just before the announce, but it was just rumored, but pretty obvious. Then, on the MacWorld this year, some geniuses thought iPhone 3G will be annouced, but it didn’t and stocks felt down very fast. Now stocks of Apple are at the peak, and only hours left for big stock holders to figure out what to do, keep them, or sell them and buy out when they will fall *if they will*. Financial Times posted this recently:
The new version of the Apple iPhone is set to be sold at significantly lower prices than the existing one, in a tacit acknowledgement by the US technology company that its previous sales strategy was not sustainable. Apple has bowed to pressure from mobile phone operators and agreed they can subsidise the latest iPhone, expected to be unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on Monday.
Nominal price of the phone is much bigger, but it will be covered up with AT&T plan prices, and this way AT&T take care of expenses to sell this phone cheaper, to make people buy it. Financial Times
P.S.: Idea is floating in my head that low iPhone prices will probably kill iPod Touch? That’s why they are giving it away with iMac to students :)
3G iPhone in Red color kinda sorta confirmed, will be thicker but thinner.
Leaked pictures, show the thing that we supposed earlier, iPhone is going to be in black and red colors. Those may be not real pics! Rumors been going around it’s going to thicker, and thinner. What I have to say, it turned out to be thicker, but the feel will be thinner, because of thinner edges, just like Motorola RAZR had, the phone itself wasn’t so thin, but it felt like it because it was trimmed with metal and thin edges. 3G iPhone has videocall camera, what a wonder. You will now be able to iChat not only with other iPhone users, but also with Windows Mobile users, using 3G or Wifi if you are able. Photo credit goes to Crunchgear.
EDIT: How cool, when the next iPhone will be about to be announced, I’ll photoshop new iPhone too, to get some clicks on my blog :)
Samsung i900 Cellphone, No Word From Samsung Yet.
While there is no actual confirmation of this phone, no release date, not a single word about this phone from Samsung, pictures with it are all around the Internet already. This phone is very good, especially Samsung fans will love it. The only disadvantage by far is the lack of physical keyboard, which is a great one considering this is a Windows Mobile phone. Recent photos revealed us some specs:
- 5Mpixel Camera (with autofocus, very good)
- 3,5″ Touchscreen “supposedly” a WQVGA, 400×240 pixels.
- Quad-band, 3G and HSDPA 7.2 Mbits
- Wifi, FM radio, Bluetooth
- 16GB crazy on board memory, and microSD slot.
- Windows Mobile 6.1
No price tag, neither release date, more info here.
New HTC Touch Does Better Windows Mobile UI
After trying some QWERTY-less products, HTC is back to their business, slide-out QWERTY Windows Mobile phones. This HTC Touch Pro, rumored as HTC Raphael. It has HTC Diamond’s back, but less diamondy. New TouchFLO 3D, improved user interface as on the Diamond. Also will have YouTube application and Google Maps app (GPS avaliable). Will come late summer to Europe, Asia and Middle-East. And in 2008 to Latin and North America. It’s very good that HTC is now back to phones with full keyboards, because this is the best thing that suits Windows Mobile. More specs:
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
- 512 Mb Storage (internal, microSD slot)
- 2.8″ VGA screen
- 3.2 Mpixel Camera
- GPS, 3G, 8 hours of talk time battery (1350 mAh)
- More info on HTC
New Rumors Hit 3G iPhone, 22 percent thinner? No-believe.
New *Most likely fake* 3G iPhone specs leaked (if it can even be called specs), here. It’s only 7 days until it’s announce, and yes, rumors are still floating. The picutres on that site shows iPhone in aluminum cover, which is believed to be plastic for 3G iPhone. It will have GPS as supposed, but most likely will be useful feature for car drivers, becausewho will waste battery life on that? Joke. Anyways, I don’t believe this rumor to be true, while Apple really likes to make all things smaller, and smarrel, and then even smaller. This is not the case, it’s not that easy to get twice as much RAM memory, 3G and GPS chips, and what is most important, keep price tag the same! Do not believe in this. [Picture Gizmodo]
First News About Android On This Blog
Eventually I was making this blog to post news about Windows Mobile phones, iPhone and Android news. But as long as Android hasn’t much to shine right now, this is the post about android here. And it’s a good news! There will be a store, where Android users will be able to get their applications, and developers sell their stuff. Just like upcoming iPhone App Store. This is pretty amazing, i guess after success of both of them, microsoft will lauch their app store for Windows Mobile users. Here is the quote by Andy Rubin, project leader:
“It would be a great benefit to the Android community to provide a place where people can go to safely and securely download content and where a billing system would allow developers to get paid for their effort…We wouldn’t have done our job if we didn’t provide something that helps developers get distribution.”
This is pretty good, because developers are not limited with as much as iPhone app developers are. While Android is not avaliable in the market, we are looking forward to touch it and visit the App Store for Android users.