Project PDA

Shortly before the turn of the year, on 31.12.2008, the Nokia 6208c has officially been presented at an event in the Chinese city of Nanjing. Already one week earlier were first information about the mobile Internet emerged. The 6208c is the first touchscreen phone with the S40 operating system. It is in China and, as Nokia, "in other selected markets" in the first half of 2009 appear.

Tchibo tries, with special offers to clear his stock. Five newcomers phones are currently available on the website of the coffee roaster for the bargain price of 15 euros. A SIM card is included - and, unfortunately, a network lock.

Although cell phones for the wrist is not a new invention, it has so far none of the major mobile phone manufacturers raised. That will soon change, because LG Electronics has now announced that the bracelet phone GD910 next year on the market. A camera even allows video phone calls with the clock. However, we must be already close look, the touch screen is only 1.4 inches tall. The phone also supports Bluetooth and has a music player. So much technology has its price, the mobile-clock stands with nearly 14 millimeters thick clear from the wrist.

Building on the success of innov8, Pixon and brings Samsung U900 Soul soon another camera phone with 8 megapixel resolution in the trade. It combines all the features of its predecessor, sexy, writes the blog dailymobile.se technology. First photos confirm, at first glance, the Samsung S8300 sharply from right.

The added DX900, a dual-SIM smartphone from Eten, which the company already presented at Computex 2008, is now in series production gone. In Russia, it is already available, the price is over 20,000 rubles (around 500 euros). Other countries will follow shortly, while on online retailer eXpansys, the device can be pre-ordered.

The Japanese entertainment group, Konami announced today the classic game Metal Gear Solid on the iPhone to bring. The 3D shooter but is only one of four games, which is soon to the Apple phone will appear. While Escape Silent Hill, Frogger Dance Revolution and the end of December 2008 from the App Store can download comes Metal Gear Solid touch until the spring of 2009.

The French Cartel Office has the exclusive contract for the sale of the iPhone in France declared invalid. With this decision may also all other French operators will phone the cult of Apple offering. France's third largest mobile service provider Bouygues Telecom had against the sole selling rights complaint.

Nokia's touchscreen 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone comes on 16 January 2009 in Germany in the trade. But as in Russia, brings the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer a limited contingent even before the official start selling in the stores

After entering the Open Handset Alliance Sony Ericsson has his plans for a Google phone materialized. In an interview with the magazine Garfield Bruse, spokesman for Sony Ericsson announced a Android smartphone in mid-2009. The company will be the other platforms, Symbian and Windows Mobile but not negligible.

Scientists at the Texas A & M University and the University of Houston have a piezoelectric material discovered at a thickness of 21 nanometers, the energy yield doubled. On this basis, scientists want to develop materials with which the battery life of mobile devices can be increased significantly.

At Nokia World, in Barcelona, on 2 and 3 December Nokia has the new touch-screen mobile phone N97 not only presented, but also a few copies of the model states. The journalists of the Spanish offshoot of the tech blogs have briefly demonstrated the device and a short video of them shot. It is only two minutes long, but gives a first impression of the new mobile phone.

The mobile discounter simyo the iPhone can no longer special offer. Inland recently was unlocked and contract-free iPhone 3G in the 8 - and 16-gigabyte version of the Partner Stores sold out. The phone again available, Starting next Monday.

As report says, reporting more and more users of hacked iPhone on problems with the benefit of the Web `n` Walk flat rate data from T-Mobile. This tariff was some iPhone users used to speed with EDGE in the network of T-Mobile to surf.

According to information from the New York Times Google plans its search function on the iPhone with a voice control to expand. The user speaks his request in the mobile phone and gets a list of relevant hits on the display. The application will be free from Friday, 14 November in the App Store will be available.

Motorola continues its descent in the third quarter of 2008 continued. Between July and September reached the struggling U.S. manufacturer with a turnover of 7.48 billion U.S. dollars, converted 5.732 trillion euros. Compared to the same period last year, is a minus to 1331 billion U.S. dollars. The decline had an impact on the net profit from the year-on-year to 457 million U.S. dollars and decreased the end of the third quarter as a loss of 397 million U.S. dollars has been expelled.