Archive for the 'mobile' Category

eBay Watch: $6,000 16GB iPhone Studded with 1240 Diamonds

At $6,000 on eBay, this 16GB iPhone "has a staggering 1240 diamonds on the front with clarity SI, Color F and Bezel carat approximately 12.4CT."

HTC Touch Pro2 Preview

HTC just might be the king of Windows Mobile smartphones, and the Touch Pro2 just adds to their impressive lineup. Featuring a 3.6-inch touchscreen display, 3.2-megapixel camera, and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. Video after the break.

As is common with variants, Sprint’s Touch Pro2 has gotten a visual makeover as well. We have to say, unless [...]

Motorola Cliq

The Motorola Cliq is going to be this company’s first Android-based smartphone, but one of several running this OS being launched by T-Mobile this year.
It will have a sliding keyboard, 3G, Wi-Fi, and a 5 MPx camera. This device will be aimed at pro-sumers: people who use their phone for much more than voice calls, [...]

iPod Touch 3G Tear Down

While the new iPod Touch may not come with a camera, this tear down reveals that there actually is a spot for one at the top. That’s not all, the "ARM processor in the iPod touch is a newer revision than the iPhone 3GS’s CPU."

It has a 1080 mAh battery; what does that [...]

Acer’s Congo-based 11.6-inch Ferrari One

Acer is extending its boutique Ferrari lineup with the Ferrari One, an 11.6-inch machine that is among the first to rely on AMD’s newly announced Congo platform. Packed within the chassis is a dual-cure 1.2GHz Athlon X2 L310 CPU, ATI’s Radeon 3200 graphics, an XPG port for connecting an external graphics solution, a 1,366 [...]

A new effort to extend the cloud to the iPhone

The iPhone has proven to be a strong content creation tool, with applications that allow the user to create graphics and presentations, record video, sequence audio, or draft compositions. But while it gives users plenty of tools to create, it doesn’t exactly have a uniform tool to let users manage, move, and share their creations: [...]

iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update Released

Apple announced the iPhone OS 3.1 software update, a free update to iPhone OS 3.0 users. The update will be made available today through the iTunes store.
It’s a slim update though, adding support for ringtones and Genius technology. 30,000 ringtones will be available from the four major labels, selling for $1.29 per ringtone. A [...]

HTC Touch Pro2

The HTC Touch Pro2 is this company’s new flagship Windows phone, and one that offers virtually everything that a smartphone user could want: WVGA screen, mobile broadband, Wi-Fi, GPS, and much more.

HTC Tattoo has resistive touchscreen, a few regrets

We suppose it was inevitable. In the effort to take Android to the mainstream with the HTC Tattoo (i.e., cheap), HTC had to commit that most controversial of technological sins: fronting a touchscreen-only device with a resistive sensor. Granted, Android is more prepared for pairing a resistive screen with your stubby fingers than something [...]

How Apple Will Sell 50 Million iPhones

There are two kinds of investment analysts: the kind no one listens to–who say crazy things just to get noticed–and the kind who say smart things that everybody ought to hear.
Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi is definitely in the latter category. So when Sacconaghi wrote something pretty startling Monday: that Apple ( AAPL – news – [...]