Apple fanboys everywhere must have sensed a disturbance in the force at the unleashing of the latest iPhone doppleganger which shares the same birthmark as the iPhone, but in reverse.
Who is the rightful heir to the throne? You don’t need to have seen the Man in the Iron Mask to know that almost certainly this impostor is the true king. All hail the Windows Mobile 6.0, 3.2-inch touchscreen-equipped cell phone, he is clearly our social better.
Not only is this equal and opposite Newtonian constant a welcome leader of the anti-iPhone rabble, he also features TouchFLO, Office Software, GPS and encryption technology, so some might suggest his ascendancy is inevitable.
Nokia researchers have let prying eyes in on one of their projects for the first time. The noBounds project provides a low power solution for smartphone and tablet users to link to larger external displays be they HD or NED.
The stated goal of the project is to output video at FullHD at 30fps via USB or WLAN. Impressive stuff sure to be benefit to business users and one would imagine hackers such as this guy.
Japan may not have been privy to Apple’s iPhone as yet but with the touch, tap and shake functionality of the Sharp Fullface2 I doubt they have missed it.
Not only does the Sharp phone look extraordinarily similar to the Apple design it adds features like 3.2 megapixel sensor, microSD slot and1-seg TV.
Add 3G in there and you’ve got yourself some customers.
Blackberry makers RIM have come out of talks with the Indian government victorious, at least for now. The tremors felt by proposals to ban Blackberry level email encryption, or at least lessen its security, have eased today with the government ruling out a ban of the service.
We’ve already seen patents for 3D displays, but is this stereo camera concept phone from Motorola the beginning of 3D photo/video on a mobile?
The prospect of 3D video on mobile has obvious prospects for the adult content market, mobile gaming and, while its pure speculation, what other purpose such design could have is beyond us - panorama photos?
Beyond the mind bending possibilities of a 3D camera phone, this concept comes with WiFi, Bluetooth, multimedia player and ah, well, lets just hope its a 3D phone.
It’s been talked about considerably but the iPhone has finally set foot on Irish and Austrian soil as of today. Europeans however will be none too please at the “importing cost” effected pricing making the EU release.
Not only will the Apple newcomers suffer from lack of unlimited packages, they will be charged a massive 50% more than their colonial cousins stateside, $778 versus $519 in US dollar terms.
While Song-kyu Nam undoubtedly had youngsters in mind when she designed the heart-shaped concept phone Okids, there’s just something about this sleek candybar that makes you want to break into song.
Those of you unswayed by the karaoke-ready stylings of John Paul Young will perhaps be more interested in the phones ability to play games, store names and numbers?
Perfectly designed for that large group of people who wished their kids would talk more rather than less you now have a range of options for yor ‘but why’ obsessed youngsters, be it Toaster phones, Robot phones or the forthcoming 3D phones.
Well you no doubt caught the iPhone screenshots we posted yesterday for the forthcoming iPhone firmware 2.0 to be public in June, now here’s a video of it in action. The more eagle-eyed amongst you may well spot the ‘T-Mobile’ looming at top left…
In a clever follow up to the Olympian crossing continents with his N82, in this stroke of viral marketing genius Nokia and Stavros have joined forces to create location-based art using the streets of Italy and the GPS in his N82.
Following open submissions from the public of suggested designs, the World is My Canvas live event is underway and Stavros will feed his route to the website with the completed product to be a masterpiece.
You can follow the action here, or if you are in Italy you can participate or just enjoy Stavros’ third person narrative.
No less than Google’s VP Rich Miner is letting it be known that he expects Android sales to outstrip those of its more fancied rival the Apple iPhone. This despite sales of 4 million iPhones thus far, projected sales of 10 million by year end and an SDK that was downloaded 100,000 times in its first four days of release - explain sir.
“Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there’s a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone”, said Miner. With both SDK’s out Miner suggests that the Apple’s restrictions hinder its ability to provide rich applications, a failing not shared by Google’s more open approach, “There are things I saw people doing with the first version of the Android SDK that it seems like you can’t do with the iPhone at least at the moment,” added Miner.
With the Android SDK having quietly accrued 750,000 downloads since February, Rich Miner may have a point, suggesting if he were a developer “I’d certainly be looking at the iPhone, and if you believe there will be lots of Android phones out there, as we do, I’d be developing for both platforms.”
With Apple’s huge satisfaction ratings and market penetration can an Android phone made by the ailing Motorola really match the lust factor of the iconic Apple?
