Oct 24
Filed under: Cellphones
Sure, we’ve seen a lot of product announcements from Hop-on accompanied by janky product renders over the years — but we’ve never seen an actual Hop-on phone, so we’re a little skeptical of the company’s promise this morning to release an Android phone at CES this year. What’s more, it’s supposed to come in under $200, which is right in character for a manufacturer whose major claim to fame is the “disposable” cell phone, we suppose. We’ll see if such a phone actually appears at the show — Hop-on boldly says this mythical device will make it “competitive in the high-end phone market,” which is probably sending shock waves through the offices of HTC, Apple, and RIM as we speak.
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Source: Nilay Patel
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Mar 10
hands-on, wibro, swt-w100k, w100k, Ces2008, ces 2008, pmp, gps, wimax, ces, samsung
Filed under: GPS, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
We had the chance to get hands-on with Samsung’s WiBro-lovin’ SWT-W100k back at CES in January. Judging by the arrival of the product waifs, the 4.3-inch, WVGA touchscreen PMP now looks to be getting an official coming-out party in its native S.Korea. €341 takes the little all-purpose device with GPS, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 8GB of internal flash, and DMB mobile television home on a yet to be determined date. VoIP client, personal organizer, and web browser? Sure, that too. No word on the processor choice but it’s definitely not running any flavor of Microsoft OS. With any luck, Samsung will bring a US-specced variant capable of running on Sprint’s XOHM service later this year. Video refresher posted after the break.Continue reading Samsung’s SWT-W100K WiBro PMP gets official, priced
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Source: Thomas Ricker
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Jan 11
Filed under: CES, Features
Perhaps they lacked a crackshot marketing team, the URL they wanted was camped by someone unreasonable, or — sadly — they just thought it was a good idea at the time. For whatever reason, these products and companies actually made it to fruition for our sheer enjoyment.
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Source: Barb Dybwad
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Jan 11
Filed under: CES, Features
We’ve herein rounded up our picks for some of the best of the worst booth displays and decorations, and a good smattering of booth gimmicks we couldn’t decide whether to file under “best” or “worst” — we’ll leave it to you to arbitrate the true winners in the comments. For our part, we don’t care how fracking big Bumblebee was — our personal favorite in this category has to be the bowl of pretzels.
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Source: Barb Dybwad
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Jan 11
Filed under: Cellphones, CES, Handhelds
We seriously have no idea what Qualcomm was thinking here, but it turns out that those two so-called “Snapdragon prototypes” being shown at CES this year… wait for it… don’t use the Snapdragon platform. Now, that would’ve been just fine with us had Qualcomm made it clear that they were built using its existing chipsets, but they didn’t. Here’s the best part: Qualcomm actually contacted us with a minor correction on our original story (they wanted us to point out that their ARM-based cores are highly customized) without bothering to mention that our “Snapdragon-powered” statement was not accurate. Anyway, it turns out that the Anchorage and Fairbanks prototypes are merely meant to demonstrate “examples of what Snapdragon-enabled devices will feature,” which begs the question: if the current MSM series chipsets are capable of the same functionality, aren’t those probably the wrong features to be demonstrating? That behavior walks a fine line between poorly executed PR and outright deception, Qualcomm, and we’d ask that you not let it happen again.
[Thanks, Sascha]
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Source: Chris Ziegler
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Jan 11
Filed under: Cellphones, CES, Features
We bumped into the Bang & Olufsen Seranata at Samsung and were sure you’d all love it’s crazy design. This has been around for
a while now, but it was our first opportunity to get our hands on it. First impressions? Impressive! Pop on over to Engadget Mobile to see the pics.
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Source: Sean Cooper
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Jan 10
Filed under: Cellphones
Looks like the folks at
Samsung woke up on the right side of the bed this morning, and decided to gift us all with the SGH-F490. This handsome prada-esque set features full screen browsing on its 3.2 inch screen in both landscape and portrait mode, 5 mega pixel camera, 3.5 mm audio jack, 130 MB of internal storage, and memory expansion via microSD. The disappointing bit is that we’re only getting tri-band GSM / EDGE and HSDPA in the European 2100 MHz band. Price is set for for about €530 (roughly $780) and is expected to ship in February.
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Source: Sean Cooper
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Jan 10
Filed under: CES, Features
In terms of layout, UTStarcom’s booth is close to a dead ringer for its showing at last year’s CES; just the promos and handsets have changed, basically. The darlings of the show have to be the HSM180, an absolutely bizarre HSDPA candybar featuring two circles for a keypad, and the TXT8010, a QWERTY slider with an attitude for CDMA networks. Check ‘em out, yo.
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Source: Chris Ziegler
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