Archive for January, 2007

Mobile internet use on the increase

UK mobile users accessed the internet from their phones almost 16 million times in December 2006, figures from the Mobile Data Association show. The report shows an increase of over one million on figures for November 2006, which was the previous record. In the past three months the internet was accessed 45.6 million times from [...]

LG Shine

The LG shine is the latest handset from LG that places the emphasis more on looks than features. The handset weighs in at 115g, and measures 94x51x14mm. The handset is encased in a metallic body and the screen has a smooth mirrored effect once the backlight fades away. The handset incorporates a 2.0 megapixel camera, [...]

LG Prada

LG have announced the LG KE830 Prada phone. Due to be released across Europe in February 2007, the Prada is a complete touchscreen phone. LG claim the Prada will be the first product to market with this function, months ahead of the recently announced iPhone. As well as the touchscreen interface the LG Prada boasts [...]

Apple confirm the iPhone

So after all the rumour, photoshop pictures, Apple have finally confirmed the iPhone. Originally planned for release to the American market in June, the iPhone is scheduled to make it’s appearance in the UK before Christmas ’07. The iPhone has a lot of interesting features. It will automatically sense if the phone is in landscape [...]

Nokia 6131 NFC

It looks familiar. It is, after all, the Nokia 6131. Nice clamshell handset, excellent quality QVGA internal screen with 16 million colours. The difference is with the NFC technology. The idea with NFC (Near Field Communication) is to allow you to store information on the handset that you can share with compatible equipment (not necessarily [...]

New NSeries handsets announced at CES

Today Nokia have announced the launch of three new NSeries handsets at CES (Consumer Electronic Show) which is held in Las Vegas. First of the handsets is the N76: The Nokia N76 is a very slim clamshell phone, running Symbian Series 60 software. The specification is now quite standard for a phone of this type; [...]

Nokia E65

Spotted over on http://www.slashphone.com/87/6200.html pictures rumoured to be the Nokia E65. With CES (Consumer Electronic Show) and 3GSM due in the next few weeks it’s very likely most of the major manufacturers have some new phones for us to see. Expect this to be the one of many rumours between now and then. Topline spec [...]