Mobile

Though O2 spends plenty of time getting cozy with Quanta for its Windows Mobile needs, that doesn’t mean they’ve thrown HTC to the curb. The latest two HTCs to get the O2 treatment — in Germany, anyway — will be the Herald and Elf, released as the Xda “terra” and “nova” respectively. As you might [...]

The Walkman phone’s sporty orange trim gets switched out for a classy attempt in gold on Sony Ericsson’s newest rendition, the W660. At a svelte 0.57-inches, the UMTS 2100 and GPRS 900/1800/1900 phone really packs in the goods with Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, FM radio support, a 2 megapixel camera, web browsing, RSS feeds, and a [...]

If you’re in Germany this week and have a chance to hit the CeBIT show, you may be able to peep the new BlueBird BM-500 WM Smartphone (yes, it’s Windows Mobile 5-based). This bar handset — part of the PIDION line — features a rather nice 2.8 inch touch-screen, EV-DO data speeds, built-in 802.11b WiFi, [...]

Pure speculation on our part here, but doesn’t it make sense? The U740 is getting a heck of a lot of love from the Verizon camp these days, after all. Since Cingular was the first to take a chance on the form factor, we reckon it only makes sense that we might see this (or [...]

Here’s a novel idea: take a standard clamshell mobile and add in a media player so you can rock out to tunes right on your phone. But wait, we’re not done! Give it some gold accents, too, to make it a sort of fashion accessory. Think it’ll fly? Alright, we’re just having a little fun [...]

Yeah, we covered this one before when Softbank first announced it back in January, but its spec sheet is so frickin’ glorious that we felt the need to hit it up one more time now that the Japanese carrier has started populating store shelves with it. The first thing one notices when laying eyes on [...]