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The Orion Concept phone is made for gaming

This is the Nokia concept phone known as the Orion that could put the PSP and DS out of business.

Actually, that probably isn’t the plan, but you have to admit that gaming on mobile phones is about as good as playing the Atari 2600. Not that it isn’t fun, but if gaming could be more on a mobile, let’s make it more.

Oddly enough, this has a QWERTY keyboard on the back of this, but I don’t understand how this can improve mobile gaming. That or how it can improve a phone.

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February 6, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Garmin-ASUS M10 gets early reviews

Windows Mobile 6.5.3 debuted with the Sony Ericsson Aspen. Now we see yet another smartphone running the new software in the form of the Garmin ASUS M10. Unlike the SE Aspen, the M10 is one of the first to be caught in the flesh. Two Chinese sites were able to get their hands on the phone and put it through its paces. Let see what they found out.

Garmin-ASUS’s last attempt at making a phone, the M20, didn’t do really well when it came to reviews. But the new one, according to the reviews, is much better than its predecessor. It runs on a 600MHz Qualcomm processor offering much more performance. The camera is of 5 megapixels but lacks auto-focus and the overall build quality of the phone is rather mediocre.

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February 6, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

China Mobile’s OPhone platform goes 2.0, supports WinMo API

Remember the OPhone platform, Open Mobile System? You know, China Mobile’s supposedly beefed up Android? Things have become even more interesting as OMS jumps from 1.5 to 2.0 — it now supports Scalable Vector Graphics UI elements and does voice recognition, but what really caught our attention was the vague mention of Windows Mobile API support. Now, our understanding is that it’s been China Mobile’s intention to make Symbian and WinMo apps run on OMS all along, but we don’t know if this update means WinMo apps will run natively in OMS through some compatibility layer, if there’ll be Symbian- and WinMo-based versions of OPhone, or that it’ll just be easier for developers to port WinMo apps to OMS. No word on what phones will be getting 2.0 or when they’ll be getting it, but considering Android’s generally positive outlook on upgradeability, we’re hoping the answers are ‘all’ and ‘soon.’

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February 4, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Japan certifies its first LTE device, LG says ‘whoa, ours?’

In a country whose carriers’ phone lineups are dominated by domestic giants like NEC, Sony, Sharp, and Fujitsu, you wouldn’t necessarily think that the road to 4G would begin elsewhere — strangely, though, South Korea’s LG has garnered the honor of becoming the first company to have an LTE device certified by Japan’s TELEC, a necessary, FCC-like step to getting cellular equipment deployed in those parts. NTT DoCoMo, which intends to launch commercial LTE service later this year, is undoubtedly stoked to hear that the LD100 external modem is the lucky recipient of TELEC’s seal of approval (following FCC certification last year, coincidentally), meaning the carrier now has the green light to use it in trials. Considering that TeliaSonera’s already beaten DoCoMo to the punch with a live, customer-facing LTE network, are the days of being shocked and awed by Japan’s mobile tech drawing to a close, or are we just witnessing a little fluke here?

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February 3, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Nexus One’s big update can be had without the wait

Android’s devised one of the slickest, most widely-deployed systems for delivering over-the-air operating system updates to smartphones, but there’s a problem: you’ve got to wait until your carrier (or manufacturer) blesses you with them. They’re typically deployed in rolling batches so that it’s easier for the company to do one final test of the code’s veracity and limit potential damage before sending it to a wider audience — but where there’s a will, there’s a way, right? As is often the case with these things, some folks have found a way to get the Nexus One’s glorious new multitouch code on the phone before Google’s willing to give it to you, and for anyone who’s done this before, it’s a fairly standard-issue procedure: copy the update to the root of your microSD card, reboot into recovery mode, and apply the binary. We’ve tested the procedure and it works like a champ, so if you’re feeling impatient, go ahead and pull the trigger — we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that the risk of bricking is pretty low.

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February 3, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

HTC Droid Eris Cell Phone Review–An Odd Package

The HTC Droid Eris cell phone uses the Google Android (Cupcake) operating system in tandem with a Qualcomm® MSM7600™ processor and two hundred eighty eight megs of RAM.  It has a 3.2 inch touch screen, email client,  a battery that supports two hundred and fourteen minutes of talk time, a speakerphone, a five megapixel auto focus camera, support for a variety of audio and video files,  Bluetooth connectivity, a microSD card slot, trackball and more.

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February 3, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Nokia Custom Dictionary takes predictive text to the obvious next level

Nokia’s just posted its literally-named Custom Dictionary utility to Beta Labs’ hallowed halls of experimental wares, finally bringing what appears to be a thorough, editable predictive text solution to S60 devices so that you can use (in Nokia’s own words) friends’ names and nicknames, places, and “slang” (read: every four-letter word you know) with aplomb in the course of normal textual conversation. What makes Custom Dictionary cooler than the average predictive text system, though, is the fact that you can load, unload, and transfer custom word lists to and from your PC and between devices, making it easy to back up your nonsensical gibberish in the event you lose or change phones. As with anything in Beta Labs, you’ve got to proceed at your own risk — but the stuff’s available to download now. Follow the break for a video demo.

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February 3, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Mac OS X 10.3 installed on Nokia N900 via PearPC, barely usable for impatient geeks

Curious folks around the world enjoy a bit of hackintosh every now and then (although once is enough for many), but no geek has successfully ventured as far as Toni Nikkanen of Finland, who became the first person to run OS X on a phone — the Nokia N900. As you can see in the video after the break, Toni’s hack relies on PearPC — a PowerPC emulator — to install good ol’ OS X 10.3 (Panther), but the mammoth sluggishness means it’s far from usable. Still, if you can spare 90 minutes for each boot-up plus plenty more for the snail-paced cursor, then head to the source to learn from Herra Nikkanen.

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February 2, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Logitech app turns your iPhone into wireless trackpad or keyboard

It ain’t the first company to do it, but Logitech’s new iPhone app is certainly one of the easiest to get into. Oh, and did we mention that it’s completely free to download? Available now in the App Store, Touch Mouse transforms your handset into a wireless trackpad or keyboard, and thanks to its reliance on vanilla WiFi signals, you won’t need any proprietary equipment to get it up and running. It’s fully compatible with both Mac and PC platforms, and it’s obviously a pretty fantastic way to control your HTPC without dragging a full-fledged keyboard / mouse into the living room. Hit the source link for more details, and be sure to let us know how it goes in comments once you give it a roll.

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February 2, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Microsoft to unveil the Tegra-based Zune at the Mobile World Congress?

A Spanish website MuyComputer is claiming that the Zune phone will be launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Moreover, they say that the device will be powered by NVidia’s Tegra chipset ensuring smooth media playback. Features are unknown, but it is speculated that the Zune phone will rock WiFi, HDMI video output, and a 272×480 pixel touchscreen (why now WVGA?).
Personally I’m not that convinced on the specs, but I do believe we’ll see the Zune phone unveiled at the event. After all, we have the Windows Mobile 7 launch confirmed and we even saw that Zune software driver leaked.

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February 2, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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