Bang & Olufsen, well known for their pricey consumer electronics and high-end styling, has announced that they will be pulling the plug on manufacturing everything outside their core TV and sound system business. That means all those mobile phones, DVD players and DVD recorders that well-heeled consumers were snapping up last year are going to become a bit more scarce.
The problem is that current economic conditions don’t favor high-end gadget purchases like $2000 cellphones and $20,000 home theater systems. Bang & Olufsen’s chief executive Karl Kristian Hvidt Nielsen says that sales on all products have taken a hit. “It’s a pretty broad spread.”
So, if a Bang & Olufsen handset was high on your list of must-have gadgets for this holiday shopping season, may we suggest eBay or Craigslist?
With the T-Mobile G1 already getting well acquainted with Android fans in the US, we couldn’t wait to get our hands on the first-ever smartphone to be powered by Google’s Android mobile OS. Today, the wait ended.
The T-Mobile G1 you see pictured in these galleries was dropped off this morning and we couldn’t have been happier to have our breakfast interrupted by the delivery man. The T-Mobile G1 is manufactured by HTC - one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers that many have probably never heard of.
The T-Mobile G1 began its journey down the path to Android glory as a speculated prototype device from HTC. In the early days, HTC confirmed that 
they were working to develop a smartphone powered by the Linux-based Android OS. Back then, the handset that would come to be known as the T-Mobile G1 was only known to us as the HTC Dream.
T-Mobile turned that “Dream” into an Android-powered reality with the T-Mobile G1. The announcement of the T-Mobile G1 ushered in a new age of open-source Android development and the first smartphone to bear Google’s renowned branding.
Keep reading to get at the picture gallery. And, keep an eye out for a full review! Read the rest of this entry »
According to Nokia India’s Devinder Kishore, “We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.” This is some pretty good news in light of the warm reception of the XpressMusic 5800. The N96 model number is already spoken for, so this new one might come to market as an N97 due in early 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 in Sandstone With Pink Henna Design From AT&T
12 Oct
Posted by ludwig as BlackBerry
Bored of your tired old BlackBerry Pearl 8110 that came in Black? No need to worry, the Pearl and indeed a heck of a lot of other devices out there are coming out in new colors almost every day. And if you don’t like the colors offered, you can always accessorize or get a custom paint job done on your phone!? Why not? Read the rest of this entry »
The Sony Ericsson ‘Kate’… er… C912?
Last month, we reported on the new Sony Ericsson ‘Kate’ device. It was/is a cyber-shot as far as we could tell, but the image quality was blurry at best, and we really couldn’t tell that much about it. Thankfully some new photos have emerged for a clearer picture.
As you can see above, the design is very similar to the C902 Cyber-Shot handset. And with that knowledge, we can certainly assume or put a best guess forward that the ‘Kate’ will be the Sony Ericsson C912. Rumors have this device featuring a 5MP camera with Xenon flash… and it will also feature HSDPA.
Announced back at CTIA, the BlackBerry 8350i running on iDEN has been a long time coming, what with the 7100i being the last BlackBerry to enjoy push-to-talk functionality. Although it’s packing the usual Curve form factor, it’s apparently got some extra bulk to it. Unfortunately, that doesn’t translate to the levels of ruggedization that are demanded in PTT environments, so hopefully we can see an OtterBox made for this thing soon after it comes out. Look out for the BlackBerry 8350i from Sprint Nextel this December. Read the rest of this entry »
HTC has broke the horrible news via Twitter:
sad news, US. we looked into it- by the time we could bring Touch HD to the states, it would be old news. we do have other cool stuff coming
Before you start contacting your favorite importer, let me add that I wouldn’t get this too serious. The way I see it, HTC just wants to push the sales of its Diamond and the Touch Pro smartphones while they don’t prepare the Touch HD for the U.S. market, sign all the necessary papers and push the WVGA screen equipped device through carriers…
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