Mobile Phone News

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian, Android

According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates, Google’s Android OS and Nokia’s Symbian will “combine to provide a single open source OS,” sometime in the very near future… say, three to six months. Sure, Android is just about to launch on devices in lat. 2008, and Nokia just declare in June that it will be moving Symbian towards open source — and of course the two companies have no formal relationship that would come close to permitting such a collaboration. Still, J. Gold assures us this is happening, stating, “A combination of the Android and Symbian efforts would be good for the industry, good for Google and good for Symbian.” In related news, we understand a handful of similar mergers are in the offing: Linksys and Belkin, Red Hat and Ubuntu, Engadget and Gizmodo, and the inevitable one-two punch of Coke and Pepsi.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Arne over at the::unwired has his hands all up on the production version of Samsung’s touchtastic Omnia i900, and yeah, it’s pretty much official: the Touch Diamond has a solid competitor on its hands. The skinning Sammy’s managed to perform in this place atop Windows Mobile’s ancient UI might not be Truly on part with the magic that is TouchFLO 3D, but it looks pretty close — it’s still better by leaps and bounds by the default, the transitions are kinda cool, and you’re certainly plan to want to use it if you’re using this phone. Like the GSM version of the Touch Diamond, the Omnia sadly lacks any whiff of North American 3G (for the moment, anyhow), so this video is the closest many otherwise-interested yanks and canucks are plan to get.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE

The rumored i740 slider from Samsung has at this time been declare, and as expected, it’s a 3G-free beast. That’s actually pretty cool since it’ll do its part toward keeping the sticker shock to an absolute minimum — around €300 ($469) when it launches in October — though it’s a tougher pill to swallow when you consider that it also lacks WiFi. In other words, buyers should expect to use this Windows Mobile 6.1 bad boy as a slave to ActiveSync with the occasional jaunt over EDGE for email (text only, of course) or Internet Explorer Mobile if you’re trying to teach yourself some sort of sick lesson. On the flipside, it’ll do GPS and feature a decent 3.2 megapixel cam plus an FM radio. You know, the kind of radio people used before they had 3G to stream it over the ‘net.

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