Mobile Phones

The first Mobile Phone Ever

The first documented use of the mobile phone was in 1922, the event was recorded on film and the film clip has turned up during the search of an old film archive by British Pathe. The film which ironically is silent shows two women walking along a street in an American city. They are carrying a large wooden box of which the top flips open to reveal a phone. They take a wire from the phone and connect it to a fire hydrant. It is assumed that this provides the radio phone with a ground connecti...

Proof: iPhone 4 has antenna problems

A big issue hits every iPhone 4 owner this period: signal strength. Most of the experts(except Apple ones) claim that this is caused by the magnetic band. How this happens? We'll give you some proofs. Reports say that when you hold iPhone 4 in your left hand, you will experience signal loss problem. On the left side of the phone is a little space in the magnetic band and when this is covered the strength of the signal is weakened or lost. Further more, a conversation between an Apple user ...

Microsoft Kin will not be shipped this fall in Europe

Harsh news for social addict guys: It seams that Microsoft Kin phones(One and Two) will not be shipped this fall in Europe. We don't know yet if this means the end of Kin project, but this will be a loss almost surely for Microsoft and his customers. Meanwhile, in US, Microsoft will continue to sell the phone through Verizon and support customers. "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we ar...

Motorola Droid X smartphone will be available from July 15

Few time ago Motorola and Verizon gather all journalists in New York to announce a new mobile device: Droid X. Like his brother(Droid), Droid X comes with some interesting features and will be one of the rivals for iPhone 4 or HTC Evo. The front of the phone has a 4.3-inches WVGA screen that supports a 854 x 480 resolution and 16:9 ratio. Later this year, Adobe Flash Player will come to support video streaming as well as gaming experience. The virtual keyboard supports multitouch, so you c...

iPhone 4 announcement was made at WWDC 2010

WWDC 2010 conference begun today, and Steve Jobs had a keynote where he presented the past and the future of Apple. More than 1000 Apple engineers will attend at the event scheduled between 7 and 11 of June at Moscone West, in San Francisco, California. The event begun as usual with numbers, huge numbers recorded by Apple:  2 million iPads sold, 5 million books downloaded, 15.000 new apps submitted each day and 95% accepted, 5 billion downloads and $ 1 billion paid to developers. Another big...

Dell Streak is a tablet rather than a phone

Dell, a big name for electronic consumers is releasing soon the first tablet phone ever made. The device called Streak is an Android based device with a 5-inches screen, 1Ghz processor and full connectivity options. The big screen display is a TFT LCD one with multi-touch option and 800 x 480 WVGA resolution. Streak dimensions are quite big for a phone and maybe that's why it is called the "tablet phone". It measures 152.9 mm with 79.1 mm wide and has 220 grams and could become one of the hea...

Wi-Fi is the only thing that Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus will get

Palm, a company HP recently bought for about 1.2 billion, will release this month two upgrade models for Pixi and Pre mobile phones. Palm Pixi was a model we've analysed in the past and we weren't so happy that time as it lacked Wi-Fi connectivity, but the good news was WebOS and the 600 Mhz Qualcomm processor. Is useless to say that the revamped models have the "Plus" word at the end, but at least let's hope they'll will bring a + comparing with previous ones. Pixi Plus comes with the same l...