A few steps short of officially launching the Samsung S8500 Wave (the first Samsung phone to carry Samsung’s Super AMOLED screen), the company has released a promo video explaining what’s what regarding the new Super AMOLED display technology. In the interest of giving you the 4-11, here’s the short version: they basically built the touchscreen layer onto the display, eliminating the need for an extra touchscreen layer.
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Samsung explains Super AMOLED display, to be featured in S8500
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010AT&T ships first Android phone: Motorola Backflip now available
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
While it’s not necessarily the most advanced Android phone around, the Motorola Backflip certainly does have a unique twist to it. Backflip is more than a name though, it’s a description for a phone that comes with a qwerty keyboard on the other side of a hinge that allows it to be placed on a tabletop for hands-free viewing.
Nokia calls dibs on self-charging battery
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Although solar-charging phones is seen as a direction everyone could move on to down the road, this makes a little bit more sense—if only for the people who don’t have the time to leave their phones under the sun. Nokia has filed a patent for a “piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester,” or, in more simple terms, a cell phone battery that charges itself with electricity gained from movement—basically like a self-powered kinetic watch with the spinning weights inside.
Rare stuff: N97 Mini Oakley edition
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Nokia apparently partnered with Oakley and came out of the drawing board with this: the Nokia N97 Mini Oakley Edition phone, released during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. With the two brands concerned, you’d think the phone would be fitted with a special kind of awesome, but it’s really just the basic Nokia N97 mini with Oakley’s Olympics-themed Thunderbird logo laser-etched on the phone’s back plate, along with some Oakley-themed winter-olympics photos and videos.
Warning: do not pocket your Nexus One
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
The Nexus One is an excellent smartphone. Just don’t put them in your pockets (like you would any other phone). Apparently, a CNET UK staffer told HTC support that the display on their Nexus One cracked “while charging on a desk.” Now, no one can prove that it was actually charging on a desk or if it was dropped from the desk while charging, but HTC’s tech support suggested that a small crack could be caused by putting the phone in a tight pair of jeans and then sitting down, and the crack just spread.
Free Skype for Symbian app now available
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Skype and Nokia has just officially announced that the Skype app for Nokia smartphones can now be downloaded (for FREE) from the Ovi Store. What does that mean? Well, if you own an iPhone or BlackBerry, this doesn’t mean much. But if you own a Nokia smartphone (full list of supported Nokia devices after the cut), that means that you can now download something for your smartphone that’s way more useful than a mobile Facebook app.
Nokia intros 5230 Nuron touchscreen smartie for T-Mobile
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Nokia has just introduced the 5230 Nuron, a full touchscreen smartphone, for T-Mobile. Don’t let the catchy name fool you though, it’s not a high-end wonder of technology. It’s pretty affordable for a touchscreen 3G-enabled smartie though, so yeah, it’s interesting.
Keepin’ it real simple: Nokia debuts Cseries line, unveils C5
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Nokia has just announced the C5, their first phone to fall under their new Cseries line of handsets that mainly focuses on “communication.” Launched after realigning the rest of their products under the N, X, and Eseries, the Cseries will be representing their core range of products. The C5 certainly looks simple enough with a classic candybar body, but it’s not just a basic entry-level phone; this slim handset is packed with Symbian smarts.
Because they can: Quake games ported to Android phones
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
This started as a sort of challenge over at Android and Me, with a bounty for anyone who could port a full copy of Quake, a PC-based first person shooter (the original that was released back in 1999), to the mobile Android platform and allow for multiplayer gaming over Wi-fi. After that was accomplished, people started working on mobile (Android) ports of Quake 2 and Quake 3… and succeeded. (video available after the cut.)
Sagem and Puma teams up, intros the Puma Phone
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Sport lifestyle brand Puma and mobile phone maker Sagem has teamed up for a new handset called the Puma Phone. Overall, it’s a pretty cool kit that not only features the usual fitness feature set such as pedometer and stopwatch, it’s a full-featured smartphone for the outdoor crowd, adding a GPS receiver and a built-in solar charger at the back.
