Pantech’s SKY IM-R200 slider with dual displays
Replacing the good, old fashioned numeric keypad with a touch sensitive display seems to be all the rage these days — not to mention a certain phone from Apple that intends to bury buttons for good.
Palm Treo 755p review roundup
Despite offering little more than a mild refresh to its already-ancient predecessor, initial reviews of Palm's latest and greatest Garnet device have been overwhelmingly positive. The same Palm OS niggles of old are still there — the lack of multitasking capability is pretty hard to swallow at this point — but for business users looking for familiarity and a time-tested formula, the platform simply can't be beat.
Dopod’s C720W curiously left out of WM6 upgrade plans
We applaud Dopod's effort (or should we say HTC's effort?) in keeping its devices updated with all that warm, buttery Windows Mobile 6 goodness, but one rather notable handset has strangely been left out in the cold: the C720W, Dopod's flavor of the HTC Excalibur.
Helio Ocean unboxing and hands-on
The last time we got to hang with the Helio Ocean it was still technically a prototype — albeit a unit obviously near completion. Today we finally snagged the real deal, and let us just say this Ocean runs deep.
Surprise, surprise: Cingular 8525 becomes AT&T 8525
Following new firmware to rebrand the handset's software, sources are reporting that the 8525 — AT&T's variant of the venerable HTC Hermes — has gone under the knife to get external branding to match.
Mozilla Firefox being prepped for mobile market
With Opera having brought the closest thing to full web browsing to millions of Java-enabled handsets, are there other mobile browsers to be had? Sure there are — Symbian, Palm and Windows Mobile users have many mobile browser options, including Opera Mobile, Pocket Internet Explorer and others.
Newer images of iPhone spotted — with new features?
It looks as if the Google Maps app inside the upcoming Apple iPhone may have gotten a few more useful icons according to recent reports. The"up/down arrows" and "front-facing car" icons in the above image lead us to think that the Google Maps demo by Steve Jobs back during January's iPhone announcement wasn't totally showing the app's capabilities at that time (nor should it have been).
