Samsung is not going to stop at Wave for its Bada push, it has just announced the second Bada phone – the Wave 723. Sure, it looks like the Android 2.2 with the TouchWiz 3.0, but the underlying OS is Bada – the mobile OS created by Samsung. Specs wise, the phone will come with a 3.2 Super AMOLED screen, 802.11n and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash.  The Bada OS is upgraded to [...]

What a surprise!  Just a few months after Microsoft announced the KIN phones, they are killed by Microsoft Now. According to the news, the existing KIN phone team will be merged into the Windows Phone 7 team.  According to Microsoft’s official statement: “We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the [...]

Thinking of buying the Microsoft KIN phone?  Want to read some reviews before you buy one. Engadget has just reviewed the 2 new devices from Microsoft.  The conclusion is no so encouraging.  Basically there are so many other devices in the market that do the jobs equally well (if not better) and cost less.  Unless you really want to own a Microsoft phone Anyway, the review is here.

Motorola is ready to acquire a small company called Azingo, who makes a Mobile OS based on Linux. The current OS, Azingo Mobile 2.0, already includes a comprehensive application suite including a Webkit-based browser, web runtime, Flash runtime, and full developer tools. Despite the strong relationship with Google, by producing lots of Android based phone, Motorola is looking beyond to have its own mobile operating system. According to Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola: “I’ve always [...]

It is earlier than expected, the social network connected devices from Microsoft, KIN ONE and KIN TWO, will be available for pre-order on 6th of May and it will be launched on 13th of May, according to Verizon’s report. If you are waiting for these new phones, it is good new for you. [via slashphone]

The first Moorestown (Intel’s CPU) based device is unveiled by LG during CES 2010. It is now official, it runs Moblin ( a Linux based mobile platform from Intel), and it’s launching in the second half of this year. The GW990 will be coming with a 4.8-inch panoramic widescreen display (with a 1020 x 480 resolution), HD Video, 3D gaming, aGPS, WiFi, 1850mAh battery, digital compass, HSPA radio, 5 megapixel camera, 16Gb of built in [...]

There is a leaked information that the upcoming Samsung Bada phone (S8200) will be coming with a very high end specs that will match the just-released Google Nexus One. According to the information, the S8200 is coming with: 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen displays 1GHz Snapdragon processors HSPA Wi-Fi GPS 5MP autofocus camera That’s something to look forward to. [via hdblog.it]

HTC had just announced a new smartphone (or dump phone?) for the masses – the HTC Smart. This is the first HTC phone that does not use any smartphone OS from the market like Windows Mobile and Android.  In fact, it is based on Brew Mobile Platform from Qualcomm. It has a 300Mhz CPU (huh?!). The specs include a 2.8″ QVGA touch-screen, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and single-band 3G/HSDPA, 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.0 [...]

A new phone from Sony Ericsson called “Robyn” is coming.  It looks like a mini Xperia X10 from outside and it seems to have a same blue colour theme like the Xperia X10. Not much is known about the ‘Robyn’ but the SE-Blog did say it is to have “a Touchscreen display, 5mp camera (with AF), 3.5 mm audio jack, USB connector, HSPA, WLAN”. Well I do not what Sony Ericsson is up to now.  [...]

Blogger from Samsunghub posted more screenshots of Bada, the upcoming Samsung’s OS for mobile phones. The screenshots confirms Bada will have a finger friendly UI that is optimized for finger touch.  However, the author is saying that the Bada will not support multitasking.  That means it will only run one user application at a time.  You have the quit the current running application in order to launch another one, just like iPhone. You can find [...]