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]
And, The BlackBerry Storm, Oops, THUNDER Goes To Verizon!
Do you remember that Apple Killer by RIM? So, as Boy Genius says, this new touchscreen phone will go out with Verizon. So to you all who love Verizon, and already have contracts with it, and want an Apple iPhone, but don’t want to be AT&T and in a crowd with 100 million iPhone owners of 2008, you may wait for, hmm… for August, to get your BlackBerry Thunder! Yeah, smoking hot phone by RIM, it’s gonna kick iPhone in the nuts. Well that’s a pretty smooth move of RIM. They are betting on getting sales from guys not who like their phones, but the carrier. Because if there would be choice of iPhone and BlackBerry, phones with slightly the same features, iPhone would win. I think it’s not because iPhone will be cheaper, it’s something esle, like, brand? :) I don’t know let’s wait for the keynote from Steve Jobs on 9th of June.
Breaking News, Rumors Are True, 3G iPhone Will Come In Two Colors!
iPhone Black is now appearing in the model selection popdown menu on AT&T’s customer screen. Must be this one slipped just like AT&T free WiFi for iPhones last week. There is alot of mess in AT&T. Spokesperson declined to comment this. There is no other information than this screenshot, but I’m pretty sure this means iPhone will come in two colors and will be in plastic body. However, this is pretty sad that iPhone won’t come in red color, which also has been rumored by casing layouts.
New 3G iPhone Photos Discovered, iPhone is getting thicker.
New, almost looking like real 3G iPhone photos are discovered at Chinese iPhone website WeiPhone. The phone meets all the specs that were posted previously. We can clearly see it is getting thicker and wider, and has a 3G Camera to the left. This is not the iPhone itself, most likely these are just bodies. Looks like they are being made of plastic, or painted aluminum, without chrome on the borders. If someone knows Chinese and you can translate what do they say on Chinese website please let me know 
Well this photos only look real, no any confirmation, but the fact that they match 3G iPhone case layouts and photos come from China, where they do assemble iPhones, those may be true. We can just wait for MacWorld this summer.
Xenium, juicy iPhone clone by Philips.
Hello world, my name is Xenium, I am a new phone by Philips. I am being developed by Philips for a long time and promised to have a long battery life, but after meteoric iPhone success creators of mine think it would be best idea to make me just another iPhone clone. I’m not pretty sure yet but I have all the features you can find on the iPhone, even orientation sensor. Maybe god will bless me with 3G, anyways I don’t think much about myself, only that I won’t have any buttons, but I will definitely have and Edge To Edge touchscreen. I also have hip name, Xenium, and may I suppose I will go out of order after couple months of use, just like all Philips products. Thank you for your attention, keep an eye on me.