Thursday, September 11th, 2008 77 views
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA
Well, that about covers Sprint’s new handset binge at CTIA,and we got hands-on with both the Samsung Highnote (pictured left) and the Samsung Rant to wrap up the
announcements. The Highnote’s the music centric handset — isn’t there always one? — in this launch, but sadly, the speaker seems to lack oomph in the sonic delivery department, but the dedicated messaging button’s kinda useful. The Rant is built like a tank, and the very solid metal construction is top notch — so if you’re prone to dropping your phone, it’s worth checking out. The gallery covers the range of colors that’ll be available — and the purple is a glowing example of ugly — when these two hit in October. You know the drill, the read link has the goods.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 155 views
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android
There’s still seriously no telling what T-Mobile and HTC plan to call the Dream at retail — it could still be “Dream” for all we know — but evidence is building that “G1″ might be the real deal. A purported clandestine shot (which would be utterly impossible to fake, mind you) of SKU listings for G1 retail packages has turned up, showing that T-Mobile’s inaugural Android box could launch in black, white, and brown — another rumor we’d heard before that’s starting to build some steam. All indications still point to a fall launch, but we still don’t have anything remotely approaching official word on a date or a price, so let’s just all keep our hopes way, way up, yeah?
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Monday, September 8th, 2008 78 views
Filed under: Nokia
2008 has generally treated Espoo pretty well, but every rose has its thorn — and for Nokia, that thorn might just end up being the third quarter. The company has now revised its Q3 market share estimate downward, now predicting a slip from Q2 rather than the flat line it’d been suggesting before; cited reasons include a “tactical decision to not meet certain aggressive pricing of some competitors,” generally fierce competition (particularly on the low end), and the delayed launch of an unnamed midrange handset. In justifying its failure to meet market pricing head-on in every market segment, Nokia says it’s only going to play that game where it thinks it’s profitable to do so, and for what it’s worth, it still expects to ship about 10 percent more devices in 2008 than it did in 2007. What’s more, they say they expect to meet the rest of their expected launch dates in ‘08 — so it looks like every night has its dawn after all.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 133 views
Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Nokia
Nokia’s “free,” all-you-can-eat, music subscription service is set to world premier in the UK next month before hitting continental Europe and Asia in 2009. Nokia already has Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music on board and plans to have EMI signed before launch — in total, Nokia expects to offer some 2.1 million tracks at launch. While touted as free, the service costs will be baked into the price of Nokia’s pre-pay 5310 XpressMusic Comes With Music Edition handset (currently priced between £70-£80 for the pay-as-you-go, non-CwM handset) when purchased though the UK′s Carphone Warehouse. You must then purchase another CwM-compatible device at the end of the year in order to continue downloading tracks. For those not wishing to re-up with Nokia, your 5310 CwM edition phone will continue to make / receive calls and text messages and, like your computer, continue to playback all those DRM-wrapped WMA tracks — they will not play anywhere else. While the approach is interesting, the DRM-enabled time-bomb and device lock-in makes the entire model sound fatally flawed to us — though we’re sure that’ll be hacked away soon enough. Come on Amazon, now is the time to take your MP3 store global and show these fools how it’s done.
Update: Expect the service to launch at, or shortly after, a Nokia Comes With Music press event scheduled for October 2nd.
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Read — Nokia press release
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