Tag: Mobile world congress
MWC 2008: LG handsets round-up
Whilst not teeming with various new handsets like Samsung, LG at least focused on quality, with their four handsets all being innovative and desirable. Samsung and Motorola, pay attention.
KF510 – touch-sensitive buttons, with an MP3 player, 3.0-megapixel camera, image stabilisation, LED flash and red-eye reduction it can also record QVGA video. Out mid-March. See details here…
MWC 2008: Motorola handset round-up
As Gary said when he did the product announcement for Motorola earlier in the week, “their heart’s not in it”. With just three handsets officially announced, we were decidedly unimpressed.
Z6W – a Wi-Fi version of the Z6, it supports all four GSM bands, and has a 2.0-megapixel camera and microSD slot. See details here…
MWC 2008: Samsung handsets round-up
Samsung had the longest line-up of all the manufacturers, with 12 models displayed at the Mobile World Congress show. It’s enough to give anyone Samsung fatigue!
Here’s a recap on all the new handsets…
U900 Soul – 5.0-megapixel camera, 4x zoom, image stabilisation, HSDPA, mobile blogging, RSS feeds, music library, and microSD slot. Out March, for €400. See details here and video here…
MWC 2008: Nokia handsets round-up
We’ve taken a look at Sony Ericsson’s showing for MWC this year, but what of Nokia? Let’s look below at the four handsets announced…
N78 – dubbed Nokia’s ‘multimedia’ phone, not only does it have a 3.2-megapixel camera, Nokia Maps and A-GPS, it also enables you to geo-tag your photos. Out mid-2008, for €350. See details here and video here….
MWC 2008: Sony Ericsson handsets round-up
img alt=”sony-ericsson-MWC-one.jpg” src=”https://www.techdigest.tv/sony-ericsson-MWC-one.jpg” width=”336″ height=”159″ />
The Mobile World Congress show has ended for another year, Stuart, Ashley and Susi are on flights home as we speak, and so it’s now time to look at all the major manufacturers’ new models.
Sony Ericsson announced the arrival of seven new handsets for the masses this week, the Xperia X1, G700, G900, C702, C902, Z770 and W980i phones. Here’s the CliffsNotes for each handset, from the left to right –
Z770 – HSDPA, push email, Google Maps, RSS reader, 2-megapixel camera, media player, can be used as modem via USB. Out mid-2008. See details here….
MWC 2008: Taptu wins all-important award at MWC, continues to aid in mobile search
We’ve been getting excited about Taptu for months now, so it’s fantastic to see they won the Global Community Award at the MoMo Peer Awards last night at the Mobile World Congress, rewarding our confidence in this small English start-up to no end.
No doubt you’ve forgotten exactly what they’re made of, and how exactly they can revolutionise the way you use your mobile phone. Taptu is a search engine for your mobile, allowing you to gain content categorised into the various forms it exists – video, image, song, wiki, etc, then after you’ve discovered the perfect page deconstructing Morrissey’s lyrics, you…
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: First picture of the LG MusicStation Max music phone
Remember the big news yesterday about LG’s MusicStation Max handset, which they’re working on with Omnifone? You know, the one that you buy, sign up to a monthly contract, and then get unlimited music downloads for the duration of your contract? Pretty cool, eh?
MWC 2008: Philips Xenium 9@9j phone has AAA battery backup
Yes, 9@9j really is the name of Philips’ upcoming mobile phone. It’ll be fun going into Carphone Warehouse asking for that… But the candybar handset does have one innovation – there’s a slot for a AAA battery in the bottom.
MWC 2008: Meet the mobile Calendarettes
I have seen the future of mobile TV, and it’s a reality show featuring a bunch of models in bikinis fighting it out to become the star of a glamour calendar. Possibly. And if it’s not that, it’s a sitcom about pasta.
MWC 2008 Video Preview: LG's new HSPA Horizon phones
Here’s something to confuse you – Ashley displays his geek credentials in this video, by explaining the differences between HSDPA, HSPA, HSUPA and other 3G formats. Believe it or not, he claims the various companies adopting these new 3G acronyms is the most exciting thing to come out of the MWC show….
