Palm have officially announced that the Palm Pre will be exclusively on O2 in the UK, Ireland, and Germany, and Movistarin Spain (all Telefonica companies).
Unfortunately they were not quite as open about specific release dates, only saying that it would be "in time for the holidays". That Christmas and not summer holidays unfortunately.
A nice long press release after the jump.
Apparently T3 Magazine has heard from Orange that the touchscreen LG Watch Phone will be available on its network for a limited time on a pay as you go scheme, or SIM-only. Orange have also claimed that "at least three new market-leading devices to be unveiled by the end of the year".
The CEO of Orange UK, Tom Alexander, claims "the watch phone is the must-have gadget of 2009. It's handcrafted, exclusively limited, and will turn heads on the high street", and will supposedly bring "a 21st-century experience to our 21st century customers"
The phone itself couples with a bluetooth headset has video calling and HSDPA for fast internet browsing. No word on what the price would be but T3 seems to think its going to be in the region of £1000……………………….. Not for the poor then.
Source : T3
Michael Arrington, the founder of Silicon Valley blog network TechCrunch has created a touchscreen web tablet called the CrunchPad which according to the New York Times could be released as early as this month.
With a 12-inch touchscreen and only 16mm thick, the CrunchPad promises to give us super fast internet access through its simple browser only OS. The browser will let you do all types of surfing, web based email and with Flash support all your YouTube needs. Its not fully known what powers the CrunchPad yet but it’s believed, like most netbooks will be Atom processor powered.
It is expected to retail in the States for $300 or £190 in the UK.
Danish website Mobil got their hands on some documents about Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone. Codenamed Rachael it is expected to be released later this year as part of their XPERIA range.
The phone will contain the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform, which should give the phone a speed of 1GHz and faster HSPA speed of up to 7.2Mbps. The Snapdragon platform also has great 3D graphics capabilities which obviously opens many doors for games capabilities etc.
Although all the specs haven’t been released the phone will have an 8MP camera with auto-focus a 3.5mm jack and a mini-USB connector.
Oh dear, seems a few people are suffering burnt body parts from hot iPhones. A lot of complaints are being made about some serious heat issues. You’d think with the new all singing and dancing iPhone only being out a fortnight this issue might just be a firmware bug but it seems its quite a big problem, to which Apple has responded.
If your phone is exceeding “normal operating temperatures” Apple says it can affect phone charging, display brightness and signal strength. If your iPhone gets too hot Apple recommends you 1) don’t leave it in parked car , 2) don’t leave it in direct sunlight and 3) don’t use processor-intensive Apps in hot conditions (ie using the ipod feature in the sun, or using GPS in a hot car)
If the white iPhone discolouration complaint continues (for those who may not know, people have been reporting that the white backed iPhones when getting extremely hot have discoloured the white plastic to a pink colour) may lead Apple to recall its “Jesus” of smartphones.
Source : T3
Fudzilla are reporting that ION 2 should launch toward the end of the year.
Industry sources have told them that the new Ion 2 will have a decreased die size, should have much faster graphics and much more shaders.
The ION 2 will have more than double (32+) the number of shaders of the original Geforce 9400M /MCP79 /ION chip.
Earlier this year phone manufacturers announced to bring in a universal phone charger in a bid to improve the mobile industries environmental outputs. Today an agreement was signed at European Parliament to see it happen. Many of the phone companies responsible for giving us a million different chargers agreed to sign up for it but now the deal has gone through the European Commission, it can finally go ahead.
However it’s not actually law, but completely voluntary. How good would it be though to finally be able to use everyone else’s chargers without having to carry yours with you everywhere you go. The new chargers will use mini-USB and should be arriving with our phones some time next year…..hopefully
Source : Electricpig
On first looks the Arena looks like a smaller, slightly fatter iPhone. The screen takes up most of the phone with three buttons at the bottom of the screen and a small camera at the top. On the back of the phone, the camera lens is very small as to is the flash. The brushed metal finish is attractive but the plastic back seems to get dirty quick. Being a touchscreen phone thats very iPhone looking, this is obviously LG’s attempt to draw in those customers that Apple has attracted. However a smartphone this is not but this doesn’t stop it being a good all round phone.
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