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Friday 01 February 2008

nuvifone: Garmin’s GPS-phone [ 01-02-2008 19:45 ]

Author: Irina Turina Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

Garmin has announced its first mobile phone called nuvifone. Naturally, being a Garmin product it must have GPS-functionality. The nuvifone is a compact device with full touch control: a 3.5” display occupies most of the front panel and leaves no room for a keypad. The device features 3G support (HSDPA), Internet browser, built-in camera, which can tag coordinates to the image info, and media player (MP3, MPEG4/AAC). It comes with the preinstalled maps of America and Europe, vast database of POI, Google local search and Garmin Online service providing online info on road situation, news, weather forecast and so on.

The sales of Garmin nuvifone are scheduled for 3Q 08. The price hasn’t been unveiled yet.

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Motorola to restructure business [ 01-02-2008 17:23 ]

Author: Irina Turina Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

Motorola is considering business restructuring opportunities to pull its mobile unit out of the crisis. Motorola Mobile Devices hasn’t been successful of late: it suffers loss, company’s share on the mobile phone market is shrinking. Motorola is currently ranked third after Nokia and Samsung.

Motorola is looking for a better way to recover popularity of its handsets. For example, the company might separate mobile business from the rest of the company (including some telecoms-related businesses). However this step might result in the sale of the loss-making unit, instead of stronger positions of Motorola on the mobile market. Motorola’s top management sounded vague about possible ways to resolve the problem, leaving the final decision with the board of directors.

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Manila set to replace TouchFLO in HTC communicators? [ 01-02-2008 16:20 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Mobile-Devices Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

The Web has witnessed a couple of screenshots today, which are, as the source claims, nothing less than the new user interface codenamed Manila brought about by HTC. We have can’t tell for sure whether this information is 100 percent correct or true, but it has been reported that this UI is the next stage of the company’s very own TouchFLO’s development, and just like the predecessor it works with touch-display enabled communicators, allowing for finger based navigation. Also it is said the new UI version will come out, implemented in HTC-branded devices, towards the end of this year. Unfortunately, no more cues about the Manila are available as of today.

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Lenovo pulls out from Mobile Phone and Windows Mobile business [ 01-02-2008 11:56 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: The Unwired Translation by: Administrator

Lenovo, a Chinese maker of PCs, smartphones and communicators running Windows Mobile is about to pull out from this market. Its Mobile unit will be bought out by Hony Capital Fund, which is a part of Legend Holdings (that owned over 42% of Lenovo Group as of May 31, 2007).

For the most part, Lenovo's devices are known on the native market and haven't seen much success world-wide. The year of 2007 clocked out at 134 million Yuann losses for Lenovo Mobile, which was the reason why the HQ decided to get rid its unsustainable business for 100 million USD and devote itself solely to desktop PCs and laptops, which is the chunk it bought from IBM back in 2004.

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SE’s patent for transformer phone [ 01-02-2008 10:16 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Unwiredview Translation by: Rytchkova Anja

The US Patent Office has got a patent application from Sony Ericsson. The project describes a mobile phone with two detachable connected housings. The idea can be implemented in a clamshell, slider or a rotator-type phone. The phone consists of two parts: the one with the keypad and the battery (GPS-receiver and camera can go in there too) and the other with the display, some buttons and another battery. Both housings communicate with each other via Bluetooth. The developers believe such design serves two opposite goals – while being compact, it provides a convenient hardware keypad. That is, you can use only the display housing and the rest of the phone put deep in your bag. Besides you can joint two parts with the main display on the inside or outside of phone, when closed.