The Motorola A4500 for Verizon has been revealed in documents on the FCC web site. This slab-style smartphone is similar to the Q9m/Q9c, but with numerous upgrades, including quad-band GSM world roaming, Wi-Fi, fingerprint scanner, and a 2-megapixel camera. Features in common with the Q9m/Q9c include EVDO data, stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, voice command, and a QWERTY keyboard. The A4500 appears to run Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. The A4500 has yet to be announced by Verizon or Motorola.
Apple’s white-hot iPhone 3G could be sashaying over to Verizon Wireless, in flies a Wall Street Journal report asserting that the suits in Redmond are (also?) in talks with America’s largest carrier. ‘Course, we’ve heard rumors that Microsoft was banging out a smartphone behind closed doors for centuries now, but much to our chagrin, there’s no mention of “Zune” in “Project Pink.” Instead, we’re told that said handset is a touchscreen-based multimedia phone that will aim to extend the Windows Mobile OS while “adding new software capabilities.” Not surprisingly, the article also mentions that Windows Marketplace would be front and center on the phone, and potentially most interesting is this tidbit: “a third-party is expected to make the device.”
Once assumed to be a physically smaller version of the original Instinct (affectionately referred to as the Instinct Mini), the Instinct s30 is actually not an Instinct Nano. Sure, it’s trimmed up and a bit more curvaceous, but those accustomed to the original won’t notice a great deal of weight loss here. Unlike the original, Sprint’s (smartly) not pushing this handset as an iPhone killer; instead, it’s letting it be exactly what is it, which is a decent featurephone with a few unique niceties and nothing whatsoever that’s mind-blowing.
This is totally unsubstantiated, but also totally plausible — likely, even — so we wanted to pass along a hot rumor out of Italian site hdblog.it claiming that there’ll be a QWERTY-equipped Omnia Pro hitting the market in the coming months, and they’ve even crafted a mockup looking like the offspring of an F700 and an original Omnia to illustrate their point. Specifically, the rumor suggests that the Omnia Pro will run Windows Mobile 6.1 upgradeable to 6.5 — which might explain Sammy’s decision to back off the OmniaHD branding for the Symbian-powered i8950 — along with a 5 megapixel cam and sweet 3.5-inch WVGA AMOLED display. Considering that the old Omnia is widely considered to be one of the company’s better (and more successful) smartphones in recent memory, it certainly stands to reason that they’d want to carry on the legacy — and slapping on a sliding landscape keyboard seems like a no-brainer way to do it. To top things off, gossip has this sucker launching this summer for something in the range of €500 ($662), which throws it face-first into this summer’s superphone smackdown alongside the N97, the GSM Pre, and whatever Apple has up its sleeves. Fun time to be alive, isn’t it?
Frankly, if we were forced to choose between smudgy and blurry, we’d take the former each day of the week. Russia’s own Mobile-Review has somehow already managed to wrap its paws around one of the newly released Android-based Samsung I7500s, and while it’s not really a drastic departure from Sammy’s other smartphones of late, it’s still worth a peek if you’re suddenly in the market for one. Check the read link for the goods.
Good Technology, the company which Motorola sold to Visto, has recently announced that users of the AT&T Samsung Propel Pro are now able to use Good for Enterprise 6.0, the company’s “platform for managed mobile messaging and application access” which sings along Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino.
In addition to the Samsung Propel Pro, Good Technology’s software/solution works on a number of other devices running various smartphone platforms. Among the recent devices that were included in the mix are two other AT&T phones – HTC Fuze and Samsung Epix…
Nokia has just unveiled the 6216 Classic, a fully integrated Near Field Communication candybar mobile phone that features a quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) support as well as a dual-band WCDMA (850/2100MHz) data connectivity.
The Near Field Communication or NFC enables the device to store a users’ credit card and other important information securely on a SIM card. Powered by S40 5th Edition Feature Pack 1, the 6216 features a 2 megapixel digital camera, stereo FM radio and music player. An extra microSD card slot and a Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR with support for stereo headsets are also loaded on the phone.
