Archive for September, 2006

3 Ireland to Trial Live Broadcast

3 Ireland are to start testing Mobile TV, ComReg has issued Hutchison 3G Ireland with a temporary permit to begin testing DVB-H (digital video broadcast over handheld) services.
Over the next year 3 will be testing this and hopefully offering it to it’s customer. As of yet we have no more information on the rollout or [...]

Nokia 6230i

Take a trip to the Vodafone website and you’ll find they are offering the Nokia 6230i for Bill Pay Upgrades for €59, the 6230i is one of the most popular phones in the Irish market everybody at some stage has had one or the older model the 6230. So what makes this  phone so popular?
The [...]

Nokia 6288 announced

The Nokia 6288 has been announced today, this is a 3G slider phone which some high end features.
Dont expect to see this for a couple of months but we might see this in Ireland before the end of the year around the €300 price range.
The Spec for the 6288 includes:
* QVGA screen with 262k colors
* [...]

Nokia N80 Review

If you have €500 burning a hole in your pocket and your looking for a new mobile maybe you should take a look at the Nokia N80. It’s been around since early this year but three.ie are offering it online for a reasonable price.
This 3 megapixels slider-phone comes with 40 MB internal memory, miniSD (up [...]

Netgear SPH101 Skype WiFi Phone

We should expect to see the Netgear SPH101 Skype Wi-Fi Phone around October in Ireland, if you haven’t see this yet the phone is capable of making Skype calls via a WiFi connection, therefore cutting out the need for a PC.
While all calls to Skype users are totally free you can also call non-Skype users [...]

Nokia 2310

Vodafone are offering the Nokia 2310 which has a built in radio for €79 this month. This is not a bad phone and comes with Colour screen, Built-in Handsfree Speakerphone and a Standby time Up to 320 – 400 hours.
With customizable animated screensavers and wallpapers, polyphonic ringing tones you can be really creative. Even better [...]

Nokia 5200 and 5300

Pictures of the Nokia 5200/5300 are finally available, the new Nokia slider will have 160 x 128 displays, 1.3-megapixel cams, Bluetooth, EDGE data, and A2DP support on the 5300.
Thats about as much information as is available at present, but we’ll keep you posted should this change
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SanDisk introduces 4GB miniSDHC card

ScanDisk have just announced a 4GB miniSDHC card, with this they have basically doubled previous capacities of the miniSD card.
“The 4GB miniSDHC card represents a significant technological breakthrough and highlights the growing need for large-capacity, high-speed storage for the mobile phone market,” said Yoram Cedar, executive vice president of handset business and corporate engineering at [...]

Nokia 6085 announced

The new Nokia 6085 is basically a clamshell phone. Nokia plan to ship this towards the end of the year, it should be available is three different colour schemes sand gold, royal pink, and seagull silver.
At this stage I’m not sure if this will be available in Ireland I’ll keep you posted as soon as [...]

Nokia 6111

The Nokia 6111 has been around a while but this is a really good sliding phone. On the front of the 6111 is a 128×160 pixel display in 262,000 colours. It’s comes with Bluetooth, tri-band with the provision of automatically switching between the bands…which really helps.
With talk time of three-and-a-half hours and a standby time [...]

Vodafone v1210 Smartphone

Word on the street (or Web) is Vodafone are going to be releasing the V1210 around the end of October, details are really sketchy at present. As soon as we have more information we’ll post it here.
Windows Mobile 5.0 (Smartphone)
AKU2.6
No camera
Tri-Band GSM/GPRS/3G
300Mhz Intel CPU
128Mb ROM, 64Mb RAM
2.2 QVGA TFT-LCD display
MicroSD, Bluetooth 1.2, IR and USB

LG VX8600 Chocolate flip

Coming to a shop near you soon maybe is the new LG VX8600 Chocolate flip, these photo are doing the rounds on the Internet at the moment. Rumour is that the VX8600 will have Bluetooth 2.0. microSD, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and V CAST music (1.2), but so far no more information is available.
Word on [...]

The Motorola E690

The Motorola E690 is a new offering from the mobile giant, this smart phone is power by Linux and is a return to an older OS for them. From what we can see this it’s very slim and looks to be based on the RAZR models.

Motorola E690 specifications
* GSM Triband (900/1800/1900MHz).
* GPRS (General Packet Radio [...]

Mobile TV

Nokia and Motorola have agreed to work together to promote mobile tv standard DVB-H. At the moment there are a number of comperting mobile TV techologies and nobody knows whos going to win, but with the new Nokia and Motorola are going to cooperate together DVB-H may become a standard.
DVB-H is thought by many industry [...]

Nokia To Start Naming Phones

Nokia are going to follow all the other mobile phone manufacturers like LG, Motorola and Samsung and start given their phones names instead of numbers. So no more Nokia E61, Nokia N93, Nokia 6234. Is it really just a marketing plot or as analysts have put it that consumers have a hard time recalling model [...]

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