The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has been investing “hundreds of millions of dollars” in a cellphone project. Reports of a “Google phone” are not a particularly new revelation, but this latest report comes with some added details. The Journal reports that Google has made mobile phone mock-ups, courted carriers (T-Mobile, Verizon), and continued working on… → Read More
Sony Ericsson has just released two new phones which we will NEVER see in the U.S. The w960 (pictured right) comes packed with powerful features such as WiFi, a 240×320 touch screen for browsing media, 3.2 megapixel camera, and 8GB of storage. The red w910 features a cool playback mode in which it plays music based on your mood. This feature will obviously be of no use to those in the emo… → Read More
Face it. It was only a matter of time before Sony took a look at its mobile phone division and went “Hmm…maybe we should do a little PSP-integration…” Sure enough, this recent patent filing shows just that. Could a new Sony-Ericsson phone be coming out that plays like a PSP? Quite possibly. If you take a look at the patent, you’ll see the screen flips so that when not… → Read More
Those of you who are rugged lumberjacks out there will be happy to know that Verizon will be releasing an updated version of Casio’s rugged phone, the G’zOne. Dubbed the G’zOne Type-S, this phone not only is tough and sounds like a bad italian dish, it also features a round, rubber antenna to pick up chicks with. For a rugged phone though, the Type-S has a pretty nice design. It… → Read More
Use Sprint to the MAXX? If you live in San Francisco, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Tampa, or Philadelphia (booh yah!), you’re now eligible to take part in Sprint’s unlimited plan trial. The unlimited plan costs $120 a month and gives you unlimited voice, texting, and data use. Need a PC card thrown in there too? For $150 you can get PC card access thrown in there are well. Some would call… → Read More
John is working hard over at the big Motorola event in NYC today. He says Zander just showed off the RAZR 2 and it’s looking really nice. Features include haptics, front touchscreen, music player, vibrating front buttons when you touch the screen, full HTML browser, landscape and portrait modes, and multi-shot photos. It also does video conferencing, you can send an MMS while a call is in… → Read More
, we told you Microsoft was working on some sort of phonish, Zunish system or device that would play music and maybe let us watch a little CSS dancing around — they’re SO cute — on our phones. Well, Steve Ballmer just confirmed that it won’t be an actual device. Instead, it will be a piece of software. But as long as he’s throwing the possibilities out there, he also… → Read More
As far as music phones go, I believe Sony Ericsson was and still is the only mobile phone manufacturer to get it done right. The Walkman-series phones are always beautifully designed, feature rich, and have great music playback capability. But now all that is history. Why? Look at that phone above. That is supposedly the rumored Sony Ericsson W999i Walkman phone. It looks absolutely stunning and… → Read More
Samsung has announced today that they will be bundling VoiceIndigo‘s advertising supported Podcasting service with their phones. The first model to be shipped with the service will be the dual Samsung’s faced mp3 player/phone, UpStage. VoiceIndigo service is a mobile application that downloads podcasts to your phone so you can listen to the whole thing, whether offline or online. The… → Read More
EarthLink is expected to announce a beta test for Accton Technology Corp’s WiFi phone as early as tomorrow. Beta testing on the phone has been in the works on EarthLink’s municipal wireless network in Anaheim and it seems to be working very well. Like any WiFi phone, you’ll be able to make VoIP calls from your home network or on EarthLink’s Municipal WiFi network. As soon as you power… → Read More
Yesterday, I called out Engadget Mobile for reporting about an insanely fake Gucci Phone. Well today it seems I have to bash The Giz/MobileBurn for doing some terrible fabricating. See this “Google Phone” that was found on a “survey site”? Totally fake. Look at the “glare” going on here. Last I checked, glares don’t like someone Bryce would draw up for our… → Read More
A patent attributed to Google describes a phone application that pre-emptively hunts down what you’re looking for. The phone or device will take into consideration your past habits and patterns and make suggestions and prepare maps based on your current location, predilections, and the decisions about the past searches. The result is a phone that knows you like Chinese food, will send you a… → Read More
Not everyone needs a crazy, feature-rich phone for what they do in life. It seems the Samsung SGH-T219 caters to just that crowd, containing only the essentials needed for a usable cellphone. Aside from the beautiful candy red coloring, the phone has a 64k LCD internal display, a greyscale exterior display, IM, and supports SMS messaging. Yup. That’s it. It can also be used with… → Read More
Lately it seems that Israel is really becoming a frontrunner in the world of advancing technology. Between firefighting devices and advanced weapons systems, someone managed to squeeze a Kosher cellphone into the mix. Designed for the Israeli Army, the Shabbatphone was designed to allow those who need to make calls during Shabbat to do so. It works by allowing the user to operate the phone in an… → Read More
We all knew it was coming, but RIM just pulled the curtain back on the BlackBerry 8800, AKA the Full-QWERTY Pearl. The latest offering in the super-slim ‘berries is a worthy successor to the Pearl (which was my favorite phone of all last year.) It comes loaded with a built-in GPS, microSD slot, a media player, high-contrast 320×240 display, quad-band GSM/GPRS, and EDGE. It’s a… → Read More
Looks like HP resurrected its near-dead brand of PDAs. The new iPAQ 510 is a strange, yet slim phone device that runs Windows Mobile 6 and comes with features like Skype, EDGE, Wi-Fi and extended battery life. Despite packing some decent features, we still have no clue why HP would continue the iPAQ brand. Says Laptop Mag: The HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger is a solid phone for people who like the… → Read More
The Kensington Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone is a neat little device that fits and charges in the PCMIA slot of your laptop. It can be used to make calls over VoIP services like Skype, MSN and Google Talk. The phone has three hours of talk time and 30 hours of standby time, and also blinks when you have 10 minutes of talk time left. The fold-out design is particularly cool. Unfortunately, the… → Read More
If you haven’t heard much about Verizon’s oddly named G’zOne phone, then you rugged outdoorsmen are missing out big time. Made to be compliant with military standards and general ass-kickings, the G’zOne is supposed to be able to take a lot of punishment without failing on the user. Some dude named Andy got his hands on one and really put it to the test. The phone was… → Read More
After a long day at CrunchGear, I usually get ready for the nightlife by slapping on some cherry red lipstick, some eyeshadow, blush, and a lot of concealer. Then I throw on my spandex pants, adjust my fake boobs, put on some high heels, and hit the streets looking for action with Josh. Occasionally though, I like to dress up in private so I can chat with my pals (at $1.99 a minute) on the phone. → Read More
Well hello LG! You’re looking mighty dapper today. What’s that? You just released a new Prada phone? Sweet! Tell us more, won’t you? The Prada phone or KE850 from LG is looking to be quite the sexy phone. It has a touchscreen and a design that sort of reminds us of the iPhone, but in no way is it a competitor to the iPhone. Why? Not everyone is down with Prada. I might be, but… → Read More
We got a chance to see the Simpsons phones in the wild. It’s all clamshell all the time over there with an A717 for Cingular, an M500 for Sprint, and a U740 for Verizon ensconced in glass cases and colored yellow as Homer’s sun-kissed pate. The phones will be available during the film launch in July. → Read More
Rumors are fluttering about that tomorrow at the MacWord keynote Mr. Jobs wil announce some sort of partnership with Cingular. While the kneejerk reaction would be to assume that Cingular will be releasing whatever the “Apple iPhone” has become, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that the partnership is to deliver iTunes on Cingular devices. We don’t know how or why. → Read More
There was a time when I used Skype exclusively. I talked to my parents, my friends and I even purchased some SkypeOut time to talk to my ex-girlfriend in Europe (Edit: Europe, huh? How did you manage to chase away every girl on this continent? Look out South America, he’s coming for you next–JG). I enjoyed the convenience of sitting at my computer and dialing people up, but because it… → Read More
I don’t see why phones don’t just have a function built into them yet which allows you to project the image somewhere else, but until that day comes, there is Project-a-Phone. The company has previously released an underwhelming 640×480 pixel contraption called the ICD-3000. They believe the demand for the product was high, so they’ve released their ICD-5000, with a 5.17… → Read More
Skype phones are popping up all over the place. In Sony MP3 players, in mice, and now–of course–in a keyboard. Buffalo is releasing this USB keyboard/handset for about $60. It doesn’t have speakerphone capability, but it does have 109 keys on it. It’s also named the BKBU-SKJ109/SV. Get yours in October. BKBU-SKJ109/SV [Impress via Engadget] → Read More
There’s something about this new Skype mouse from Sysgration that just makes me want to bang my head against my keyboayrd, but the Inquirer had a chance to play around with it, and they said that: This is certainly a fun product. It works well as a mouse and it works well as a Skype phone, offering a decent-quality sound and a lot of options. We don’t yet know the price but it should end… → Read More
As part of the Zune news yesterday, Microsoft announced that a Zune-branded phone was part of its upcoming Zune platform. Chris Stephenson, the general manager for marketing for the Zune, didn’t give any other details on the device. This announcement is interesting, since Apple’s iPhone is supposedly coming in January ’07, so this announcement could just be a “hey… → Read More
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