LG Pop GD510: A Good-Looking, Minimalist Touchscreen Phone

February 20, 2010

The LG Pop GD510 bills itself as the world’s smallest 3-inch touchscreen phone.  I’d gander it’s true, though I wouldn’t be surprised if some no-name Chinese manufacturer has gone ahead and trashed that record.  Regardless, it’s a cute little handset based on the LG Cookie and packs enough features to interest anyone in the market [...]

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X2 Snowboarding For iPhone Brings Great Graphics, Engaging Tricks And Immersive Gameplay

February 19, 2010

Pumped up from the Winter Games?  You can snowboard like a heavily-padded athlete on your iPhone too with X2 Snowboarding, the first really good snowboarding title to ever grace the platform.
First, a disclaimer.  I’m not a big fan of snowboarding games.  In fact, I’d never been able to tolerate them until a friend turned me [...]

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Vodafone Announces Two New TCL-Made Entry-Level Phones For Emerging Markets

February 19, 2010

Vodafone has announced two of the most affordable phones to hit the mobile market.  Undercutting even Nokia’s dirt-cheap basic handsets, the Vodafone 150 and the Vodafone 250 show off features that harken back to the early years of the 21st century.
Made for emerging markets, both devices are equipped with money transfer and bill payment applications, [...]

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Samsung Corby Pop (aka C3510 Genoa) Is The Poor Man’s Corby

February 18, 2010

A new day, a cheaper Corby.  Yes, if you thought you couldn’t find a cheaper touchscreen feature phone than the Samsung Corby, then you’re wrong.  The Samsung Corby Pop (aka C3510 Genoa) is an even more affordable version of the entry-level handset, sporting much of the same hardware but throwing in a less-capable camera.
Physically, it’s [...]

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HTC Smart, A Budget Smartphone With Brew MP Announced

February 18, 2010

Apart from HTC’s trio of releases during MWC 2010, the company also announced their first phone under Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP).  Called HTC Smart, the handset bills itself as an “easy-to-use, affordable smartphone.”
While most people won’t be overly familiar with Brew, the phone is running HTC’s popular Sense UI on top.  That means, [...]

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Sagem Announces The Puma Phone, A Sports-Oriented Feature Handset

February 17, 2010

Puma started a teaser campaign a few days ago for a product called Puma Phone.  It attracted moderate interest, but, really – how excited are you supposed to be about a feature phone from a sports apparel company?  Well, they’ve officially used MWC 2010 as the platform to make it official.
Developed by Puma and Sagem, [...]

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HTC Intros Three New Phones: Legend, Desire And Mini

February 17, 2010

HTC introduced three new touchscreen phones at MWC today, two of them running Android and one running Windows Mobile.  The devices are called HTC Desire, HTC Legend and HTC HD Mini.
HTC HD Mini

Like the name implies, the Mini is smaller than your usual touchscreen slab, measuring 103.8 x 57.7 x 11.7 mm and weighing 110 [...]

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Microsoft’s New Mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 Series, Announced At MWC 2010

February 16, 2010

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the highly-awaited next generation of its mobile operating system.  Not only does it depart severely in design and capabilities from the last Windows Mobile 6.5, it’s coming rechristened with a new name too: the Windows Phone 7 Series.
Borrowing from the Zune HD’s interface, the main screen is organized into six hubs, namely [...]

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Motorola Quench Announced At MWC, Uses Swype For Text Input

February 15, 2010

Who needs a traditional QWERTY keyboard again?  Not the Motorola Quench, a new Android-powered smartphone that wants to change the way you input text.
The biggest update here is the loss of a standard onscreen QWERTY that you control with taps.  In its place, you get a QWERTY that supports Swype, a new technology that uses [...]

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