Samsung Omnia offered with free xbox 360

One of the most highly anticipated mobile phones of the year hits shelves tomorrow - The Samsung Omnia i900, but that’s not what’s really got us excited - for us, even more exciting is the pre-order bundle which includes a free Xbox 360 Games Console along with the phone.

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Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for pocket PCs

Opera software ASA had showcased their newest web browser in this year’s 3GSM congress in February. The browser termed as iPhone’s safari “killer” based on latest opera’s Presto rendering engine has been released as beta for all touch based pocket PCs. The mobile web browser even in its beta is miles ahead of the old internet explorer mobile, which is default browser for all pocket PCs.

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HTC Touch Diamond, now with quad band support

HTC touch diamond launched recently has been quite a popular phone here in Europe. But essentially it is a tri-band mobile phone, so it doesn’t allow roaming over in Americas as they run on quad band 850MHz frequencies. Even the global version made its debut almost a month ago, American frequencies version is still to see daylight.

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Sony Ericsson W902, critically reviewed

Sony Ericsson used to be pioneer in music oriented mobile handsets just a couple of months ago. But it seems that the design boards are running out of ideas these days when they are producing handsets which feel same and have same features with only difference being either in megapixel count or design of the handset.

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iPhone 2.0

Well, the iPhone 2 is finally out and selling like hot cakes. The much awaited addition of 3G base band to already popular and critically acclaimed iPhone is already in stores and well literally out of it too. The phone does make up for the absent features on the original iPhone but misses out on some which were already present in the original version.

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LG decoy, bluetooth headset meets the mobile phone

Sometimes you might be wondering if the Bluetooth headset you are using quite a lot these days could get integrated into mobile phone itself. Just imagine how much pain it would save you from managing two devices. Well, it’s not a dream now. LG has come up with this concept into a commercial phone where they are providing the Bluetooth handsfree integrated into the back of handset itself.

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Nokia 7610 Supernova reviewed

Nokia already announced its supernova collection for female audience last month. Here we preview one of the handset from it, the Nokia 7610 supernova. This is not to be confused with the initial symbian powered 7610 phone as the previous was a smartphone, but the new supernova is a rather series40 powered featurephone. It seems that Nokia has finally started to run out of names.

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Samsung i740, does it have enough teeth to bite?

Here comes another crippled smartphone from Samsung. They just announced SGH i740, a phone targeted at budget users, who don’t expect much from their mobile phones. Unlike i900 omnia, which is a fully blown smartphone with all the high-end features loaded. The i740 reduces the cost by lack of a 5megapixel shooter, a wi-fi solution and further there is no 3G or HSDPA.

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Philips X800, a dud even before it is launched

Philips have been again on launching spree of their mediocre (take it as boring) handset range. They have yesterday announced new Philips X800. The specs are truly below average by any standards and the phone itself is not even a smartphone. With such a poorly armed device if Philips is trying to capture some share in the market, then they must reconsider their plans again.

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Vodafone, O2 and AT&T announce prepaid tariffs for iPhone 3G

With the countdown timer slowly ticking towards the showdown on July 11th, almost all the operators are coming out with their plans for the iPhone 3G, in both contract as well as prepaid no contract plans. Here is the summary of a few plans from operators in Europe and AT&T across the Atlantic.

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Motorola W231 announced for music lovers

Well, Motorola has announced another mobile phone for music centered audience. W231 as it is called is an entry level music phone, which comes in a candy bar form factor. It is one of the first phones from Motorola featuring dedicated music buttons on top of the handset. Dedicated play pause, skip and rewind buttons as well as music application shortcut key.

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Motorola announces Z200 for Brazil

Motorola got approval for another lot of their mid-range mobile handsets from FCC today. The new handsets are Moto ZN200 and Moto W231. With the approval from FCC done, they will be launching these handsets in September, 2008 in Brazil and later on in America and maybe Europe.

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