Pantech this week announced a new lineup of GSM and WCDMA phones for the US, to replace and extend the current models offered for Cingular.
C600: A small clamshell 3G phone with an internal antenna. Features include EDGE, dual-band WCDMA, a microSD memory card slot, stereo Bluetooth, and a VGA camera. Available early 3rd quarter.
C710: A higher-end clamshell 3G phone with a sleeker design. Feature upgrades over the C600 include a megapixel camera, PTT, and most likely HSDPA. Planned for late 3rd quarter.
C510: A clamshell music phone with external music controls, stereo Bluetooth, and a microSD memory card slot. Features include quad-band GSM, EDGE, an OLED external display, and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Available in the 2nd quarter.
C150: An update to the C120 that adds Bluetooth, EDGE, and a larger display in a slimmer package. Available in the 2nd quarter.
C3b: An update to the C3 that adds Bluetooth. Available in April.
Ever since Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we’ve known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June. But we haven’t known exactly when.
Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular (we called 800-947-5096 and were transferred to sales) gave us that date late Thursday, but, alas, said he didn’t have any additional information beyond that.
That date is no coincidence. It’s the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15. (Incidentally, the agenda includes a focus on Leopard, the next generation of OS X that’s supposed to be released sometime in the second quarter of 2007.)
Rumors have been swirling about the iPhone release date. One blog pointed to a release date of June 15 based on alleged documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, but those have been shown to be a hoax.
The Sony Ericsson Z750, announced today at CTIA, is the first tri-band HSDPA phone to hit the North American market and is causing quite a stir. Users will be able to access the internet, send emails and blog at broadband speeds on this great looking handset.
Sony Ericsson have created a very good looking phone in the Z750. With its external display and mirror like finish the Z750i looks great in either Phantom Grey or Rose Pink.
Functions include live RSS tickers bringing the latest news to your desktop and a true push email application.
A 2 mega pixel camera and large 2.2 inch high resolution colour screen are becoming standard on Sony Ericssons and the Z750 is no exception.
The Z750i is the first Sony Ericsson phone based on their new Java platform allowing companies to create applications for a number of handsets more easily.
The Z750 is a tri-band HSDPA (850/1900/2100), Quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900) phone and will be available in selected markets from Q3 2007.
With the CTIA Wireless trade show about to get under way, the cell phone news is starting to fly quickly and furiously. The Ocean is a new mobile from upstart cell service Helio, known for bringing over cool phones from overseas vendors.
Most interesting is the phone’s form factor, which features a dual-sliding keypad design. Pull the ‘pad out from the bottom, and you have the traditional set of number keys for making calls. Slide it from the side and you can use the full QWERTY keyboard to text, IM, email, and surf the Web, all while taking advantage of the screen in landscape mode. The phone also has a “presence detection” feature; punch in a friend’s name and the phone will tell you which IM service he/she is logged into (Yahoo!, AIM, or Windows Live Messenger).
The phone is no slouch in the features department, offering a 2-megapixel camera (useful for uploading pics using the service’s mobile version of MySpace), Bluetooth, 200MB of internal memory, and a microSD slot. Helio also claims that the Ocean plays 15 hours of music thanks to a “special chip designed to optimize music playback,” which should help out as you start stocking up on tunes from the service’s music store. The Ocean is due this spring and will cost $295.
