Archive for May 5th, 2008
Filed under: Handsets, Others, Misc
While that lone image above doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence of its actual existence, China’s Epoda is apparently now looking for partners to help distribute its EP2501 water-proof watch phone, which supposedly packs more features than your average, non-wearable cellphone. That includes Windows CE 6.0 for an OS, quad band 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900Mhz connectivity, a 2-megapixel camera, a 1.4-inch display, the usual PMP functions, 1GB of memory, and “support” for WiFi and Bluetooth (it’s not clear if that means it’s built-in or not, even though dongles would pose a bit of a problem). Of course, there’s no word on price or availability, but those interested in doing business with Epoda can contact ‘em at the link below for more details.
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Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Announcements
If ever there were an LG Shine to live up to its lofty name, this would definitely be it. We’d like to introduce you to the Iron Man phone — presented here by our boy Robert Downey, Jr. — based on the Shine slider as sold by AT&T. Unlike the garden-variety Shine, the Iron Man edition trades up to a deep red case with gold plated highlights and a solid 18K gold battery cover to commemorate the launch of the film in style. That’s plenty enough element 79 to give this thing some serious heft. We’re not bragging, though — we want you to have it.
The phone is valued at a princely $1,500; twenty are being given away by LG directly — we’ve got the twenty first. How do you pry it out of our hands? Easy: we want to see just how nasty, disgusting, and close to finish breakdown your current face candy is. Send us a photo and tell us a tiny bit about your poor, dilapidated phone and the long journey it’s taken to its current say of disrepair. We’ll pick the saddest entry and let you retire that terrible thing for something just a little flashier.
One word of advice though: don’t bother breaking your phone or taking a pic of your dad’s Dynatac or something, that’s not what we’re looking for.
Check out the gallery to see shots of the very Iron Man phone that could be yours, and don’t forget to enter. Good luck!
The rules (yeah, there are always rules)
- Send us your original pic. If we find your picture elsewhere on the web, you’ll so be disqualified. Don’t test us here, we’ve seen every picture of each phone. Ever.
- Email submissions to contests [at] engadget [dawt] com with the subject “I am Iron Man!” And for the love of our inbox, please keep your images 1MB or under, ok?
- You may only enter this contest once. If you enter this contest more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc.
- Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you’ve to be mad.
- Entries must be in by 11:59PM EDT, Sunday, May 18th. After that, give us some time to sort through the entries and pick out the ideal (or worst, depending on how you look at it).
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Filed under: Handsets, Features, Pantech, ATT, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, UMTS
 We’ve learned that Pantech and AT&T are apparently hard at work on the successor to the Duo C810 smartphone, a Windows Mobile 6 Standard device whose claim to fame is its dual slide mechanism in the same vein as the Pantech-sourced Helio Ocean. The Duo 2 — model number C820, naturally — is said to feature a rounded black case that recalls the look of Motorola’s old MPx200 and clocks in with dimensions very close to those of the HTC Vox. We’re also told that the dual slide feel is “excellent” with well-illuminated buttons on both the numeric and QWERTY pads; the QWERTY side is apparently the easier to use of the two, with the numeric side being just a bit difficult to navigate by feel alone. Up front, the 2.4-inch screen is QVGA (who’d have thought?). Along the four edges you’ll find a Pantech proprietary charge / sync connector and a microSD slot protected by a hard plastic cover.
It doesn’t sound a heck of a lot different than the phone it replaces so far, but here’s where it gets a tiny interesting: the C820 moves up from a 1.3 to a 2 megapixel camera and packs Windows Mobile 6.1, which apparently is already pretty well customized for the carrier thanks to the inclusion of apps like MobiTV and AT&T Music. Follow the break for software, memory, and processor details; since we might be waiting a while for a release, you may as well get all the info you can in the meanwhile, eh?
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Filed under: Handsets, Features, Pantech, ATT, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, UMTS
We’ve learned that Pantech and AT&T are apparently hard at work on the successor to the Duo C810 smartphone, a Windows Mobile 6 Standard device whose claim to fame is its dual slide mechanism in the same vein as the Pantech-sourced Helio Ocean. The Duo 2 — model number C820, naturally — is said to feature a rounded black case that recalls the look of Motorola’s old MPx200 and clocks in with dimensions very close to those of the HTC Vox. We’re also told that the dual slide feel is “excellent” with well-illuminated buttons on both the numeric and QWERTY pads; the QWERTY side is apparently the easier to use of the two, with the numeric side being just a bit difficult to navigate by feel alone. Up front, the 2.4-inch screen is QVGA (who’d have thought?). Along the four edges you’ll find a Pantech proprietary charge / sync connector and a microSD slot protected by a hard plastic cover.
It doesn’t sound a heck of a lot different than the phone it replaces so far, but here’s where it gets a tiny interesting: the C820 moves up from a 1.3 to a 2 megapixel camera and packs Windows Mobile 6.1, which apparently is already pretty well customized for the carrier thanks to the inclusion of apps like MobiTV and AT&T Music. Follow the break for software, memory, and processor details; since we might be waiting a while for a release, you might as well get all the info you can in the meanwhile, eh?
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Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, GSM, EDGE
No surprises here — particularly since LG’s Vu has been on sale through a number of AT&T retail outlets since late last month (whoops!). Today, however, the carrier is officially listing LG’s latest for sale, and the Mobile Television-supporting handset is going for a stiff $549.99 sans contract, or $299.99 after giving away your cellular soul for two years and waiting anxiously for a $100 mail-in rebate to arrive. Check out our hands-on gallery to see if you’re really ready to make this kind of commitment.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, GSM, EDGE
No surprises here — particularly since LG’s Vu has been on sale through a number of AT&T retail outlets since late last month (whoops!). This day, however, the carrier is officially listing LG’s latest for sale, and the Mobile TV-supporting handset is going for a stiff $549.99 sans contract, or $299.99 after giving away your cellular soul for two years and waiting anxiously for a $100 mail-in rebate to arrive. Check out our hands-on gallery to see if you’re really ready to make this kind of commitment.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile
If you completely, positively haven’t seen enough of HTC’s newest iteration of its Advantage, the X7510, then boy do we’ve a treat for you. After the break, you’ll find a charming video of one of these odd devices being unboxed. Sure, it looks pretty cool, but we’re still trying to figure out just exactly what someone would be using this thing for. We’re open to hearing your thoughts on the matter — maybe you can convince us to make a purchase.
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Continue reading HTC Advantage X7510 gets unboxed, still baffles us
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Filed under: Handsets, RIM
Apparently, RIM is a bit worried that the rumored high price-point for the forthcoming BlackBerry 9000 might be a bit too steep for some, and plans to offer a budget version — sans 3G. According to the Boy Genius, an nearly identical model of the next-gen phone will be available without high-speed data, and will have a slightly different bezel and back casing (which he’s gotten a picture of, seen up above) — though we’re not sure why they’d go to the trouble of making a different body when only the guts will change. Clearly it’s one of life’s mysteries we weren’t meant to comprehend.
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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Sprint, EV-DO, CDMA
Just in case you haven’t learned enough about the forthcoming Samsung Instinct from our hands-on gallery / UI video walkthrough, Sammy has launched a promotional website designed to give you the skinny. Within the site, you can peer at a handful of press shots, get schooled on all of its features and sign up to be notified when it’s ready for your hands to be wrapped around it. Nothing too exciting, but those with the Instinct high on their list of next mobile to own will surely find it worth the click over.
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