AT&T’s two newest 4G LTE devices, the Pantech Burst Android smartphone and the Element Android tablet are now available for purchase. BGR exclusively revealed the Pantech Element ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show and it features an 8-inch display with a 1024 x 768-pixel resolution, 16GB of storage, a 1,5GHz dual-core processor and Android 3,2 (Honeycomb). It’s now available for $299 with a new two-year AT&T contract. The Pantech Burst smartphone is equipped with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen with an 800 x 480-pixel resolution, a 1,2GHz dual-core processor, a 5-megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats and 16GB of storage. The phone is now available for just $49,99 with a new two-year AT&T contract.
01/2/2012
— Filed under: Markets,Mobile
Tags: AT&T, Tablet
Nokia Corp. is still the largest maker of mobile phones in the world even after a massively unlucky year 2011, when the company lost smartphone leadership to Apple and Samsung Electronics. But this is only the beginning. Samsung claims that this year it will become the absolutely biggest supplier of cell phones on the planet.
12/20/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: Leader, Samsung
Online payment company PayPal processed nearly $4 billion worth of mobile payments in 2011, an exponential increase from the previous year.
12/19/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: Payments, PayPal
For the Android faithful that are considering purchasing the Motorola Droid 4 once the smartphone makes it into the public arena although just when the Motorola Droid 4 will release is apparently still somewhat of a mystery, Motorola Droid 4 accessories arriving in stores should mean an imminent release.
12/12/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: Accessories, Motorola Droid 4
I should probably make it clear outright that I’m not particularly enamoured by all-touch phones, finding that they can’t really compare to phones with tactile keyboards; having said that, I’ve mentioned already in my review of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet that RIM are surprisingly competent at creating a usable touch screen interface. This is also true of the BlackBerry Curve 9380, the first touch screen phone in the Curve range, which drops its tactile keyboard altogether, unlike its keyboard-and-touch-endowed bigger brother, the Bold. It comes in a gorgeous shell with the same industrial design aesthetic as the rest of RIM’s phones, and boasts the latest iteration of their smartphone operating system: BlackBerry OS 7.
12/11/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: BlackBerry Curve 9380, Review
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia line of smartphones has given the company a much needed boost in terms of sales. Indeed Sony Ericsson is going to concentrate solely on smartphones from mid-2012 onwards so you can expect them to put all their eggs in one basket.
11/22/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: Ericsson Xperia Pro, Sony
Unveiled last month, the LG Nitro HD is now available through AT&T. This smartphone operates on the Android 2.3.5 OS and comes embedded with a 4,5-inch 720 x 1280p AH-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen featuring accelerometer, compass, gyro and proximity sensors.
11/21/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: AT&T, LG Nitro HD
LG’s biggest, fastest phone to date, previously known as the Optimus LTE, has made its first landing outside of Korea. In a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to the retina display-beating resolution density, it’s now answering to the name, Optimus Eye.
09/29/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: LG Optimus Eye, LTE
Motorola has unveiled the Motorola Admiral, an Android Gingerbread smartphone with keyboard and email provided by the carrier Sprint, with this phone having the particularity of offering the Sprint Direct push-to-talk function.
Motorola Admiral 01Motorola has continued to announce new Smartphones, this time with carrier Sprint — unveiling the Motorola Admiral, a Smartphone running Android 2,3 Gingerbread.
This is a handset with a 3,1» VGA screen (640 x 480 pixels) with a full keyboard located under the screen. It is powered by a 1,2 GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon processor and comes with a 5 mega pixel camera on the back, with flash and 720P video recording options.
Designed primarily for professional use, it meets the military MIL-810G standard for dust and water resistance, shocks and temperature variances, while the screen also uses the Corning Gorilla technology.
The Motorola Admiral also calls on numerous enterprise functions, both in terms of data exchanges and information encryption. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth compatible, with an AGPS chip and 4 GB of internal memory that can be extended through the microSD port, the phone comes with all Google mobile services (and access to the Android Market), the QuickOffice suite for viewing documents and Sprint Direct’s push-to-talk functions.
Push-to-talk is a function similar to a walkie talkie although signals travel over the mobile network. This allows you to communicate with up to 20 other Sprint Direct users directly by simply pressing a button.
The Motorola Admiral is a CDMA EV-DO RevA smartphone which can be pre-ordered today for $99,99 (with a two year subscription) via Sprints retail outlets. It will be available from the 13th of November.
09/28/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: keyboard, Motorola Admiral
When it comes to the iPhone 4S the critics will be exposed for what they really are, the new Apple [AAPL] smartphone is the best yet, will sell millions and the first benchmark tests confirm it’s fast as a fast thing.
09/18/2011
— Filed under: Mobile
Tags: Apple, iPhone 4S
