Samsung to launch four phones at Mobile World Congress
According to a Korean news site, Samsung will release just four phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: the S8300 Ultra Touch, i8910 Omnia HD, BeatDJ (pictured) and BeatDisc.
The S8300 Ultra Touch has a 71mm (2.8-inch) touchscreen, an 8-megapixel camera and Samsung's TouchWiz interface.
The i8910 Omnia HD builds on the existing Omnia. It should offer high-definition video, an 8-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G support.
As its name suggests, the BeatDJ will have a music focus. The 71mm touchscreen display will support 16 million colours and will feature a scroll wheel designed to resemble a DJ's turntable. Features should include a 3-megapixel camera, an FM radio, stereo Bluetooth, a memory card slot, GPS, USB mass storage, quad-band GSM world support and HSDPA 3G. Continue reading...
Intel and LG create 'mobile Internet devices'
Intel announced today at the Mobile World Congress that LG will use its latest generation technology to build a new class of device called 'mobile Internet devices', or MIDs. Yeah, that'll catch on.
Specifically, Intel and LG will work together to build these devices using a processor that Intel has code-named Moorestown. The devices will also use a version of the Linux open-source operating system called Moblin. The LG device is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to hit the market. And Intel has said that devices using the new Moorestown chips will hit the market by 2010. Continue reading...
Nokia E75: Qwerty slider with Nokia Messaging 
The Nokia Mobile World Congress press conference has just wrapped up. We've started, so we'll Finnish. Announcements included the debut of two E-series phones. First up is the Nokia E75, a Qwerty-equipped sideways slider. Continue reading...
Most smart phones to get Adobe Flash Player 10 next year
Adobe Flash Player 10: Coming to most smart phones in 2010 Adobe bringing Flash Player 10 to most smart phones in 2010 Most smart phones to get Adobe Flash Player 10 next year Continue reading...
Hands-on: Sony Ericsson's 12-megapixel Idou
Here at Mobile World Congress, Sony Ericsson has unveiled what it dubs the future of mobile entertainment -- a 12-megapixel concept handset currently known as Idou.
This will be the first 12-megapixel mobile to hit the UK when Sony Ericsson releases it later this year. It's a fully touchscreen device, featuring a 16:9 display, a xenon flash for making those 12-megapixel photos even smarter in low light, and the latest Symbian operating system for running games and movies. Continue reading...
Media Go: Sony Ericsson's war on media management
Sony Ericsson's hoping to take a lot of the complications that even we, as reviewers, have to suffer when reviewing mobile phones: file management. Its new Media Go application, which debuts with the all-new W995 Walkman handset, promises pain-free media management, and it could be the sorely needed final piece to the Sony Ericsson puzzle.
Typically with phones and media players, dragging and dropping a music or video file onto your new device will give you compatibility errors like 'incompatible format', 'unsuitable frame rate' or 'incorrect aspect ratio'. This is what Sony Ericsson aims to make a thing of the past. Continue reading...
Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman: 8-megapixel music monster
Holy 3.5mm jacks, Batman! Sony Ericsson just announced its latest and certainly greatest Walkman handset -- the W995 -- and it's got a real headphone socket! Oh, Sony Ericsson, you shouldn't have. No wait -- you should've. Well done. Took you long enough.
Anyway, Son Eric's latest flagship slider handset's a juicy little peach. It's got an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus, a 66mm (2.6-inch) 240x320-pixel screen, GPS, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support, an 8GB Memory Stick Micro M2 card, stereo Bluetooth, and that all-important 3.5mm headphone socket, of course. Continue reading...
Make money on Twitter
Crave may be a team of dedicated tech journalists with a peerless collective expertise on just about every gadget going, but frankly we have the financial nous of a houseplant. Fortunately we have a team of mercenary cut-throats upstairs taking care of the coffers, so we invited them to take a break from holding schoolkids upside down by their ankles to nick their lunch money, and offer some suggestions on how to monetise your Twitter experience.
If you're setting up a Twitter feed for your company, band, charity or organisation, or if you want your personal feed to start paying its way, here's how to get exposure, build your brand and get yourself minted. Continue reading...
Play the name game
The five most spurious Valentine's Day press releases
It's Valentine's Day tomorrow! That can mean only one thing: romance? Unlikely. A posh dinner? Expensive. Lots of cards? No chance. No, the only certainty on Valentine's Day is that every journalist in the world is drawing straws and the work-experience kid/the newest team member/whoever's too hungover to say no, has to write a gift round-up. And where journalists go, PR follows. So pucker up gadget fans, and give big air kisses to the five most spurious Valentine's Day-themed press releases of 2009! Mwah! Continue reading...
CNET UK Podcast 123: The good and bad of Twitter 
This week on the CNET UK Podcast, Ian, Nate and Rich discussed the news and cool stuff they've got their hands on.
It wasn't a good start to Thursday, with Pioneer announcing it will pull out of TV production. As if that wasn't bad enough, we found out that satellites are colliding with each other in orbit. In happier news, Her Majesty the Queen decided to re-launch her official Web site. She did all the coding herself, and is rumoured to have learnt PHP for the project.
Eidos, one of the UK's biggest games companies, announced it would be bought by Japanese publisher Square Enix. We assume Lara Croft will get tentacles and a cat tail any minute. Amazon, meanwhile, announced the second version of its e-book reader, the Kindle. It won't be available in the UK just yet though, which is annoying. We also discussed lying politicians, but that's hardly news, is it? Continue reading...
