LG launches cheap touchscreen KP500 handset in the UK

LG has announced that it’s bringing the LG-KP500 handset to the UK at the end of next month, and has hailed it as “the most affordable full touchscreen handset in the UK”. However, bafflingly, the company won’t announce the actual price until the phone launches.
In other words, it’s an unprovable boast. And besides, with the [...]

iPhone coasters make us ache with need

This is just a quick note to say that though we have ever wanted to balance beverages on our iPhones, we seriously want us some of these coasters!

And people say nothing good can ever come of a fanboy obsession.
(Via technabob)

Direct feed Nokia Tube pic leaked, announcement dated…

We’ve been waiting for an age for an official announcement concerning Nokia’s first touchscreen handset, the Tube, so we are delighted to learn that the big date for the grand unveiling will be (drum roll please) October 2nd. Given that we have already heard that the device should be on sale in the UK by [...]

Another 8 megapixel contender from Samsung gets its Pixon (pics on)

The 8 megapixel monsters are really starting to come out of the woodwork now. Samsung’s INNOV8 is scarcely out of the block but it seems that the company had to do something to answer LG’s recently announced full touchscreen 8 megapixel offering, the LG-KC910 (or Renoir for short). Behold then, the Samsung Pixon M8800, a [...]

iPhone 2.2 firmware update will revamp Safari browser

Details have emerged of Apple’s upcoming 2.2 software update for the iPhone, thanks to an early build being sent out to developers. It seems one of the key changes will be a revamped Safari browser, although judging by reports so far, it’s more of a retweaking than a full revamp.
According to iPhone Atlas, the search [...]

Rumour: Windows Mobile 7 delayed to 2010

Bad news, WinMo fans. According to well-connected tech blog VentureBeat, the first handsets running Windows Mobile 7 might not be on sale until 2010. Why? Because Microsoft’s handset partners will reportedly not get access to the new OS until the second half of next year.
Microsoft hasn’t responded officially to the report, other than to say [...]

Two thirds of planet earth to have mobiles by December

The secretary general of the International Telecom Union (ITU), Hamadoun Touré, has stated that he expects the number of mobile phone users to exceed 4bn, by December. Just to put that into perspective that’s 61 percent of the worlds population, close to two thirds of all the people on the planet. It certainly puts the [...]

Steve Balmer takes the ‘la la la, I can’t hear you’ approach to the iPhone’s success

It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft’s Steve Balmer was praising Apple’s “narrow but complete” end user experience, but now it seems that as far as Microsoft’s future mobile plans go, its strategy isn’t going to be much different from its approach to dominating the PC market.
When talking about Nokia’s 30 percent share of the smartphone [...]

Brando’s multi-charger, for literally all your charging needs

I’m struggling to see who this might be aimed at – perhaps if you are either a) facilities manager for a small office where the chief business is testing loads of different phones or b) one of the parents of the Walton Sextuplets – who, unbeknownst to the media, have each decided they like a [...]