ITG has unveiled the price of its upcoming xpPhone, based on Windows XP.  And it will be available soon in China. The price of the phone is said to be around USD400 – USD600, depending on the options.  The device is like a MID with phone option.  With the small form factor and relatively slow processor, it is hard to say whether it will be powerful enough for day-to-day use. Anyway, it is good to [...]

Palm has been doing everything to stay alive in the mobile computing market.  However, by looking at its recent performance and market competitions, there have been analysts saying the future of Palm is not looking.  And the latest is from MSN Money’s Michael Brush. In his newest column, 7 companies that won’t make it to 2020, Palm is listed as one of the companies for the following reasons: Apple iPhones have a lock on coolness. Apps [...]

Expansys has the phones you are waiting for.  People from Singapore, if you are waiting for these phones (MILESTONE, A1, Palm Pre) to be officially available in Singapore, you can either keep waiting, or get them now from Expansys. Prices for now: Motorola MILESTONE (DROID): SGD896.49 Acer A1: SGD734.99 Palm Pre: SGD994.99 Goto Expansys Singapore web site and get one for Chirstmas now.

Interested in the recently announced Trinity concept phone by ZiiLABS (subsidiary of Creative Technology)? CNet Asia has attended the Zii Submit held in China and has posted a video of the device.  Although the device is targeted for manufacturers’ customization, but it is interesting to see this new ZMS platform and have a feel of what might be in the market later on. [via cnetasia]

The recently leaked ROM of HTC Hero Android 2.1 shows a bunch of codenames that could be phones to be released by HTC in the near future. The developers have found a list of codenames in the leaked ROM, and many of them have never been heard before.  We have Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Dragon, Espresso, Halo, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Passion, Sapphire and Supersonic.  And of course we have the Dream, HeroCT, [...]

ZiiLABS, the wholly owned subsidary of Creative Technology Limited (a Singapore owned multimedia hardware company), has announced TRINITY, a concept phone based on their StemCell Computing technology. The heart of the phone is the ZMS-05 and ZMS-03 StemCell CPU from ZiiLABS which are highly optimized to run multimedia applications, with low power consumption and flexible processing power allocations.  The concept phone is capable of processing HD media of 1080i format. Features of the Zii TRINITY [...]

Do you still remember there was a report few months back that HTC was getting a patent for a capacitive stylus that works on a capacitive touch screen. It seems like the product is coming.  According to Clove, the UK online retailer, the HTC HD2 Capacitive Stylus is about to launch.  The stylus will cost 15 British Pound before tax. While technically one will not need a stylus for a capacitive touch screen.  However, being [...]

Lenovo, one of the largest PC and notebook manufacturer , has bought back their mobile technology spinoff, Lenovo Mobile Communications Technology Ltd who released their first Android based OPhone in China not long ago. Lenovo Mobile was owned by a private equity group, Legend Holding, who owns Lenovo Group also.  With the buys back, Lenovo will have total control of its mobile strategy and they can make a better road map for convergence of desktop [...]

Some of you might still remember the Access Linux Platform (ALP) was being pushed by Palm before as an mobile OS of choice.  And after all the hypes of WebOS, we thought it is a dead project by now. However, an Isreali company, Else, moved on and created an amazing looking and intuitive device based on the ALP platform.  And they call it the First Else. Based on a totally new concept, you don’t see [...]

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