One of the mobile phone hardware design that I love is the Sidekick LX 2009. I’m a fan of it’s sleek design. I was sad when Danger got acquired by Microsoft and the platform just sort of slowly started it’s demise. Today T-Mobile announced that it is pulling the Sidekick from it’s list of mobile phone offerings starting July 2 according to the Phonescoop site.
The loooong wait is over. Today, I received a trial unit of the Nokia N900 from WomWorld/Nokia. I am going to have the chance to use and try out the Maemo based Nokia N900 for 4 short weeks. After receiving the package, I quickly took the N900 out of the DHL packaging. I took some pics of it just to remind me that today I am actually going to have some hands-on with the N900.
Sony Ericsson has finally announced the Android based Xperia X10 mobile phone. The Xperia X10 boasts of an 854 x 480 pixel display, a phone memory of 1GB and supports up to 16GB external storage with an 8GB microSD included in the package. What’s alarming to me is that from the official Sony Ericsson page, it says that the screeen is only capable of displaying 16,536 colors — IS THIS REALLY TRUE, I hope its an error ‘coz I can just imagine trying to watch movies using a screen that can only display 16000 colors. Checkout the screen capture from the Sony Ericsson web page below: Continue reading …
The Nokia USA web site has now made available the landing page for the Nokia N900 mobile phone based on the Maemo 5 operating system. The Nokia N900 which has been previewed extensively looks like a very promising connected phone from Nokia. With preorders already available in Europe. Nokia USA preorders should be imminent. From the looks of it, the N900 version that will be available is not actually a North American version but it should work on the T-Mobile network in the US. Continue reading …
Nokia has announced the new line of XpressMusic mobile phones called the X series. Introducing the new X series are the Nokia X6 and X3 cell phones expected to be released on the fourth quarter of 2009. The X6 is really looking sleek at 111mm x 51mm x 13.8mm with a 3.2 inch screen.
Motorola has gone a long way since I first read about the news that it’s hiring some 300 Android developers. It has heavily invested in the Android open mobile platform that Google has initiated. Recently it has opened up it’s web site for Android development in preparation for its upcoming mobile phones based on Android. It has even started beta on its new MotoDev Studio for the Android platform.
I’ve just read a very interesting article over at ComputerWorld (via Engadget) about a trademark issue that Apple may be having once it starts selling the iPhone in China. As the story goes, it seems that another company, Hanwang, owns a trademark for the term ‘i-phone’ on mobile phones. While Apple owns an “iphone” trademark that only covers computer hardware and software.
