Month: February 2004
Motorola A925, A1000, E1000 review
Late last year Moto execs promised journalists that the 2004 range of 3G phones would look more like GPRS handsets than the 3G handsets currently on sale. Well judging by the Motorola 3G handsets launched this week – to…
Sendo snapper
3GSM was a busy one for British mobile phone company Sendo. It not only extended its portfolio of handsets by introducing a new mid-range camera phone, but also spent the show touting around its Symbian based smartphone the X…
Creating better photo messages
One of the key problems mobile phone networks are wrestling with at the moment is how to make money from photo messaging. While camera phones have become ubiquitous it appears that users prefer to use them as digital photo…
Moto's new smartphones
Motorola launched two new handsets in its MPx series of microsoft Windows Mobile powered smartphones at 3GSM in Cannes, but they weren't the phones many industry observers had expected. Until a few weeks ago the clever money had been…
Second Palm smartphone
Palm Source, the new name for the section of Palm that develops the PDA's operating system (OS), continued its attempts at 3GSM to push Palm as an OS for mobile phones. It had some success to for a second…
Blackberry e-mail for Sony Ericsson P900
Personally we wouldn't give a Blackberry device house space as they look awful and don't feature niceties like web browsing and music and video playback. We would however kill for a version of Blackberry innovative e-mail software on our…
Apple iPod mini arrives (err in the US)
Apple's iPod mini went on sale in the US at the end of last week, so not surprisingly the first reviews of the ultra small four gigabyte hard disk based MP3 player are filtering through. There's a neat little…
Orange considers pre-pay 3G
It appears it isn't just Three who has an eye on tempting punters to upgrade to 3G phones via cheap voice calls on pre-pay cards. Orange has plans in this area too. Aware of the fact that 3G data features…
Panny shrinks the smartphone
We've seen a few compact smartphones recently that use the Symbian operating system. Nokia's 6600, Sendo's X and Siemens SX1 leap to mind. Panasonic is set to shrink the Symbian smartphone even smaller with its X700 clamshell phone that…
Aiwa (Sony) MP3 players hit Europe
At CES we wrote about a range of MP3 players from Aiwa that we thought looked pretty impressive. They were also unusual in that for Aiwa read Sony. The two companies, which were always very close, are now in…