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iPhone 4G would be the first mobile phone or gadget which would get the AMOLED display from Samsung. Previously iPhone 3G rocked us with its amazing features and now it is the turn of iPhone 4G to take the stage and create magic. But these Amoled Display is assumed to be a rumor at this part of time.

Apple has come up with certain news about the iPhone 4G that it is stll concerned about the power consumption of the device when it is used in Web browsing. The power consumption is mainly caused because of the graphical content, therefore the solution for decresing the power consumtion for iPhone 4G would be using the content in black background and white or blue letters in order to reduce the power consumtion.

Apple knows the best technology and would however come to a solution of reducing the power consumtion, So do not worry about the power consumtion.

Verizon and Skype announced that those who carry certain smartphones to call anyone over Skype on the 3G network. The phones that will start next month are the Motorola Droid, Droid Eris, Motorola Devour and a number of Blackberry phones. It will later work on other smartphones.

Now, one can enjoy unlimited calls with the VOIP services like this from the collective effort from Verizon and Skype. Skype is an all time favorite for people who are into calls and they do like the sound quality of it. Thus, Verizon has made an effort to show that it can provide these kinds of services apart from only letting people surfing on internet.

Verizon will soon allow unlimited Skype calling over 3G networks. The time when Verizon announced that it would have a joint press conference with Skype at Mobile World Congress, we hoped that it would land up with some thing with providing unlimited Skype calling over 3G networks.

Samsung is back with a bang with a new range of phones. The smartphones are gaining popularity not among the crown but among the big companies which are developing smatphones one after the other to maintain the competition between their competitors.

Here we come back to the point that Samsung Halo aka i8520 is another Samsung smart phone that comes with a built-in projector. So people who are always busy with conference and presentations this would help you in doing so if you run short of a projector a the right time. And it’s also great for viewing videos on bigger screen while you’re on the run.

The Samsung Halo runs Android 2.1, features a 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen and is packed with the “Specialized Projector UI”, for the ease of operation of the projector. The Samsung Halo comes packed with features claimed to be pretty similar to what the Wave has, including a Wi-Fi, GPS, DivX and XviD support for videos, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, 8-megapixel camera and 16GB of internal memory.

This Samsung Halo i8520 projector smart phone is expected to hit the Europe market in Q3 this year.

All the people calling microsoft’s phone as Windows mobile 7, a slight change in the name of it, it is now called as Windows Phone. So do not call it as Windows Mobile 7 atleast infront of the microsoft’s staff because the name has been given by Microsoft for its Gen Next phone as “Windows Phone”.

The phone sounds to be well built with all the features and Early hardware partners announced include Dell, Garmin-Asus, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and HP. While they’re hesitant to give any specific dates, Microsoft says to expect Windows Phone handsets to hit the shelves “in time for the Holiday season of 2010″.

As if now we heard that this phone has got many features and is much advanced than the previous version Windows Mobile 6.5. The folks who are waiting to get this phone in your pocket will have to wait till November for the “Windows Phone” to be released.

The physical appearance is as usually good looking but the biggest difference between LG Cookie and LG Cookie Plus is the newfound 3G network support, along with custom software for social networking sites like Face book, Twitter and Flickr. Also, the Touch screen is as hot as it ever looked before.

Here are few of the features of the LG Cookie Plus:

1) Built-in FM tuner

2) 3-megapixel camera

3) LiveSquare app manages social networking contacts

4) Editable Screenshot MMS function

The Editable Screenshot MMS function lets users to save and edit the images of a website they’re visiting and send them out to contacts.

The pricing has not been revealed yet but it would be slightly costlier that the LG Cookie which costs you for $230.

Nokia is allegedly set to launch a new Symbian-based device, the C5, according to a Daily Mobile report. If the details are correct, the device will serve as Nokia’s first Cseries smartphone. The new category appears to offer mid-range smartphone features compared to the company’s high-end Nseries handsets and Eseries business offerings.

According to the source of the leaked images, the C5 will offer a 3.2-megapixel camera, 2.2-inch QVGA display, GPS, and an FM radio. Internal memory is said to reach just 50MB, although a microSD slot is also integrated for further expansion. The operating system is claimed to be the Symbian S60v3 FP2 release.

Pricing information for the C5 remains unknown. The device is expected to be unveiled next month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

source: electronista.com

Microsoft today confirmed that the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 release launching first with the Sony Ericsson Aspen greatly improves the platform’s support for touchscreens. In addition to making buttons more touch-friendly, it adds support for capacitive touch of the sort seen in Android and the iPhone, making it much more responsive. Hooks have also been put in place for multi-touch, though this would still need phone builders to have an actual solution.

Most of the other changes center almost exclusively around touch and include a more consistent touch UI throughout the whole OS, such as the absence of tabs in many areas. Legacy apps even have a magnifier to reach buttons that were designed for a stylus, Microsoft says. Internet Explorer has been given smoother transitions in touch gestures as well as an overall speedup.

The improvements almost uniformly confirm the suspected nature of 6.5.3, which is to better position Windows Mobile as a competitor to hardware from Apple and Google’s partners until the launch of Windows Phone 7 by end of the year.

The aging Microsoft OS has only supported imprecise resistive touch and in many cases has required a stylus in most areas. Only one Windows Mobile phone currently supports capacitive touch, the HTC HD2, and does so through extensive changes to the user interface and drivers that render Windows Mobile almost unrecognizable.

source: electronista.com

Tired of waiting for the Xperia X10 for your first taste of Android and Sony Ericsson? Leave it to the gang at the XDA-developers forum to jump the gun. Last week marked the successful port of Android 2.0.1 (or Android 1.6, if you so choose) to the Xperia X1. No bluetooth, camera, or GPS — not yet, at any rate — but WiFI, GSM, resistive touchscreen, and all the other amenities should be functioning.

source: engadget.com

While just recently made official, there have been plenty of Motorola Devour leaks over the years (er, months) to keep us occupied. This latest one has the aluminum colored phone sized up in bokeh-filled and yet surprisingly small, compressed and grainy shots — as if Mr. Blurrycam is holding up a nice, low aperture DSLR lens to his RAZR’s sensor. Oh well, it’s the thought that counts. What’s particularly helpful here is this comparison shot with the Nexus One, which shows the Devour to be a good bit larger, despite its significantly smaller screen size.

source: engadget.com

Research In Motion is planning to use its WebKit-based BlackBerry browser as a surprise weapon against Android phones and the iPhone, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu said today in an investor note. He cites “sources” who say the browser has been delayed but that it will take advantage of the push nature of BlackBerry Internet Service to load sites much more quickly. It could load pages as much as 30 to 60 percent faster than other WebKit devices simply by not having to use as much bandwidth.

Wu also believes the browser will soon integrate Flash. RIM joined the Open Screen Project in October but didn’t say at the time it would add the plugin to its browser. The completed software doesn’t have a definite unveiling point but may get a demo anywhere between Mobile World Congress in the middle of this month and RIM’s self-run Wireless Enterprise Symposium at the end of April.

Hardware is similarly being worked upon as two new touchscreen BlackBerries are still thought to be in progress. A conventional BlackBerry shape with a touchscreen, nicknamed elsewhere as the Dakota, is still in development. A full-touchscreen slider resembling the Storm2 is also due but hasn’t received new details. Both phones are unofficially slated to ship in 2010.

We’ve finally found ourselves a solid, confirmed shot of a micro SIM in the wild, thanks to an FCC filing from Lok8u — the company that just inked a deal with T-Mobile — that shows the innards of its GPS watch torn asunder. Over on the right there is one of the micro SIMs in question, and as you can clearly make out, the contact pad is identical to the one you’d find on a traditional SIM (that shot of an AT&T unit that we’d posted earlier was actually a mockup by our own Sean Cooper, you see). In other words, if you were really hard up to get that iPad up and running on a network that isn’t providing micros, you could probably shoehorn a traditional SIM in there with a little elbow grease and handiwork, which happily matches up with information we’ve been hearing from several contacts of ours.

Since it looks like GT5’s still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we’ve seen to do that.

At a glance, Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead view, but its secret sauce lies in the map: it can turn pretty much any street in the world into a racecourse.

The game lets you chart out your heated battle using nothing more than Ovi Maps data and your finger, meaning Manhattan, Prague, or your folks’ quiet, peaceful neighborhood are all potential targets for your high-speed bedlam.

The rest of the world is catching on rapidly but overall, Japan is still the world’s most advanced society mobile society. That being said, you’d assume that the first 4G (LTE) device to get an official certification from Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications must be coming from one of the many mobile companies over here, but it was South Korea’s LG who got the bragging rights [KR] for that today.

Just look at how proud the model in the picture is holding said certification in her hands. The Korean company will sell not a handset but a 4G-compatible data modem, the LD100, in Japan. Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is ready to distribute the device in its home market (Docomo said just in November 2009 it will kick off 4G operations in Japan in December this year).Docomo (and other Japanese carriers) have been conducting 4G field tests in Japan for quite some time now, and you can expect the data modem to be among the first 4G devices available later this year.

Here’s the thing about Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Pureness: once you get past the translucent display, there’s not much to it. Seriously — it doesn’t have 3G, a camera, hunks of precious metal, or even a fancy name to flaunt like Vertu, Dior, or Versace; it’s just a low-end phone from a mass-market manufacturer that can’t do much other than make calls. We suppose that’s why it was so easy for a Shenzhen KIRFer to pop out this near-perfect duplicate of the Pureness — the Somy X5 — in no time. Heck, it’s even got support for two SIMs, or exactly twice as many as you’ll find on the $1,000 genuine article — which, if you’re keeping track, is over twelve times the bargain-basement sticker on the Somy here at RMB 550 ($81).