Entries from July 2005
Voxtel V500. Live pictures
Package:
Handset
Battery
Charger
Stereo headset
USB-cable
CD with software
Manual
Voxtel V500 has already been highlighted by the press, and today we’ve got this device for our tests. This model is the first company phone with 1.3 MP camera, besides it is equipped with [...]
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Tags: Review · Voxtel
According to an image circulating around message boards, T-Mobile USA is getting ready to launch several new phones in August. The current T-Mobile line-up has not been updated significantly in quite some time.
The new models are:
Samsung e635 - Slider design with a camera
Samsung x495 - An update to the x475 that adds speakerphone and new [...]
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Tags: Samsung · T-Mobile
Asus j102. Live pictures
Package:
Handset
Charger
Manual
The company of Asus is widely known as a notebook and PDA component manufacturer. And not so long ago it decided to enter the mobile phone market. At the moment a low-end model Asus V55 is available on sale, [...]
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Tags: Asus · Review
Package:
Handset
Battery
Charger
Wire headset
Manual
The Chinese company of Soutec first has presented its devices at SvyazExpocomm 2005. At this moment there are two models available for sale - V36 and V16; V76 should be exposed later. Not so long ago Soutec V36 was launched. Today it will be a question of younger model Soutec V16.
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Tags: Review · Soutec
The FCC has posted approval documents (FCC ID NM8WZ) for a new Windows Mobile device from HTC that rumors call the Wizard.
Features of the HTC Wizard include:
Windows Mobile 5.0
WiFi
320ื240 touch screen
Megapixeal camera
Bluetooth
(HTC devices are known to be carried under many brands, including XDA, Audiovox, HP, MDA and more.)
[via PhoneScoop]
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Tags: In The News
Sprint yesterday announced its second quarter earnings results. This is the last quarter before the expected merger with Nextel. Like past quarters with Sprint, the wireless business lead most of the growth.
Facts and figures (all figures for the wireless unit only):
400,000 direct and nearly 600,000 total net add subscribers
Average Revenue Per User of $62
$4.04 [...]
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Tags: Sprint Nextel
Alcatel OT E157. Live pictures
Package:
Handset
Charger
Manual
Despite Alcatel OT E157 is a low-end solution, it can boast of having a pseudocolour screen. The screen is realized simply. The display itself [...]
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Tags: Alcatel · Review
We’ve put together a short video of the media event dubbed MOTONOW that served as the launching pad for (among others) the Motorola Q. We recommend that you have broadband before loading the movie as it is a large file (22MB).
Phones seen in the video include the ROKR, a pink colored RAZR, a 3G RAZR [...]
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Tags: Motorola
AOL today announced a new search site that is optimized for access by mobile devices. Available at mobile.aolsearch.com, the new service gives mobile users access to web, Pinpoint Shopping and AOL Yellow Pages.
Both Google and Yahoo have similar offerings. AOL’s web search results are actually partially powered by Google.
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Tags: Data
Package
Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual
Nokia 1101. Live pictures
A low-end Nokia 1101 is a slightly renewed version of Nokia 1100. As compared to [...]
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Tags: Nokia · Review
By Jon Gales — At a Motorola hosted media event in Chicago Monday evening, Motorola announced several new phone models that will define the next generation of phones from the largest handset manufacturer in the US market. The new models, including a highly anticipated model that will compete with the Treo and BlackBerry:
Moto Q
A910
Expanded selection [...]
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Tags: Motorola
UPDATE: See live photos and our exclusive take on the Motorola Q over in our MOTONOW coverage article
MOTONOW – Motorola has taken the wraps off its BlackBerry competitor, it’s called the Moto Q. Motorola is billing the handset as the smallest QWERTY phone on the market.
Windows Mobile 5.0 OS
1.3 megapixel camera
Out of the box support [...]
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Tags: Motorola
MOTONOW – We’re sitting in the front row waiting for Motorola’s CEO Ed Zander to begin speaking at MOTONOW and on stage are what appears to be several new models. One of the new models has a iPod like scroll wheel… It’s black, has a keypad like the SLVR and appears to be a [...]
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Tags: Motorola
Shares of Research In Motion (maker of the popular BlackBerry) fell in trading Monday due to increased speculation that Motorola will release a BlackBerry competitor. Dubbed the RAZRBerry, the device is supposed to mimmick the design of RIM’s flagship product. Purported design mockups leaked online late last month. Barron’s cover story [subscription req.] this week [...]
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Tags: BlackBerry
Amp’d Mobile, a youth oriented MVNO startup, today announced the first phone that it will carry once the service launches later this year. The Kyocera Jet Multimedia Phone is a customized version of the Slider Remix, with one major addition being EV-DO high-speed data.
Other features of the Kyocera Jet include:
176ื220 pixel 262K color display
VGA camera [...]
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Tags: 3G · Kyocera · MVNO