FCC Approved Toshiba TG02 Smartphone

FCC has approved the successor to the Toshiba TG01 smartphone. Dubbed as the Toshiba TG02, the phone sports WiFI 802.11b/g and Bluetooth connectivity. However, the Toshiba TG02 doesn’t support 3G. According to rumors, the TG02 is powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a 4.1-inch LCD display. Stay tuned for more updates.

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HTC makes the HD mini official

Only when you’re talking about a phone designed in the same vein as the massive (though drop-dead gorgeous) HTC HD2 with its 4.3 inch display would you ever call a phone with a 3.2″ display “mini” . That’s exactly what HTC’s doing this morning in Barcelona, with the announcement of the Windows Mobile 6.5.3-powered HD mini.
Given the announcement of Windows Phone 7 series, yesterday, it may be a bit hard to get the ol’ salivary glands tickin’ over a WinMo 6 phone. With that said, remember: we’ve still got at least 7 or 8 months before the first WP7 handsets hit the market, and that’s a really, really long time in the Smartphone world.
Hitting Europe and Asia (No word yet about the US) sometime in April, the HD mini doesn’t seem quite as powerful as the device from which it gets its name – in other words, size isn’t the only thing they toned down here. The 1Ghz CPU of the HD2 has been replaced with a 600Mhz model, and the 3.2″ screen is 320×480 rather than 480×800. It’s got a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, though without the flash found on the HD2.
Lowered specs aside, I still expect this to be a damn decent handset. We’ll be spending a bit of time with it (and all the other HTC handsets announced today) later for a hands-on, so check back for our impressions.


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HTC introduce the HTC Smart, an affordable and easy-to-use smartphone

HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, and Telefónica are today announcing an exclusive partnership to sell the HTC Smart, an affordable and easy-to-use smartphone in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The HTC Smart is a new type of smartphone that offers easy-to-use widgets, browsing and connectivity at an affordable price. “More and more people are craving advanced mobile phone experiences with email, web browsing and social networking but the cost and complexity often represent a significant obstacle for many. The HTC Smart introduces this functionality in an intuitive phone that is affordable,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation. “With the HTC Smart, HTC and Telefónica share a similar vision for bringing easy-to-use, affordable smartphone experience to the masses.”
HTC Sense

The HTC Smart embodies HTC Sense , HTC’s unique design philosophy that focuses the mobile experience on people. The HTC Smart’s compact touch design integrates the pillars of HTC Sense – Make It Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected – to deliver a user-friendly user experience. People can customise their own, personal HTC Smart experience using a variety of widgets for quick access to contacts, photos, music, weather and more. People are able to follow their friends’ status updates using HTC Friend Stream, an application that seamlessly aggregates all of your social communication including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised flow of updates. This simple aggregation makes it easier than ever to focus on what friends are doing as well as the images and links that they share.

“We believe this is a key move in our ability to bring smartphones to a far wider cross section of the population,” said Matthew Key, chief executive officer of Telefónica Europe. “The benefits of web browsing on the move and ability to experience applications like mobile social networking will now be brought to the mass market and reinforces O2’s position as the home of the smartphone.”

HTC Smart utilises Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP), a powerful and popular mobile operating system that enables HTC to deliver the HTC Sense experience on more affordable smartphones. By pioneering a new era of mass-market smartphones, Brew MP also provides the HTC Smart with a mass-market opportunity for new applications and services from software developers worldwide.

“Qualcomm’s collaborations with HTC have resulted in some of the most innovative smartphones the market has seen in recent years,” says Paul Jacobs, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. “The HTC Smart is a budget-friendly smartphone that delivers a really exciting user experience. We are pleased to be supporting HTC’s move to bring this advanced mobile experience and HTC Sense to the widest possible audience.”

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Peek TwitterPeek: Twitter Only Device, Nothing Else

When it comes to handheld devices, the most popular has to be smartphones, nothing else comes close. Just occasionally a device is launched that makes you think “Are they serious,” and you then look very surprised when you learn that they are. This is just what we thought when the TwitterPeek was previewed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.
The device made by Peek is a Twitter only device and will not do anything else. All you can do is send and read Tweets, as well as send personal messages in Twitter. Peek has done something similar in the past with a device that can only send e-mails.
TwitterPeek comes with a Full QWERTY keyboard, ideal for sending Tweets. Geek.com have been looking more closely at the device and said that although this is a device designed for use with Twitter, Tweets only show as text, you cannot click on them as the device is unable to go onto the Internet.
TwitterPeak comes in Twitter Blue and can be purchased from Peek or Amazon. The price is $99.99, this gives you 6 months of service, then will cost $7.95 a month after that. However, if you pay a one-off fee of $199.99, you will receive a lifetime subscription to the service.



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Samsung WAVE launches on Valentines Day!

No, Samsung isn’t hurling any social networking site for lovers. Wave is the latest name they have given to their first Super AMOLED handset, which is extensively speculated to be launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, in less then 24 hours from now.
Guys at Engadget came across a teaser on the Samsung Unpacked site that speaks “on Feb 14, a new mobile from Samsung is born. See it First in Barcelona”. There is a sturdy speculation that this novel mobile may well be Samsung’s first smartphone with its own OS – the Bada OS (“bada” means “ocean” in Korean).
Precisely, it’s called S8500 Wave. And one of the revelation features is its support of USB 3.0 (& bluetooth 3.0), which is yet to go mainstream. The Super AMOLED here refers to the 800 X 480 resolution and is claimed to have better discernibility, when used out in the open (20% higher than competing phones).
Here are some other specs :
1 GHz processor
5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash
720p video recording
2GB of internal memory (or microSD expansion)
802.11b/g/n WiFi and HSDPA data
DivX video support
USb 3.0 / Bluetooth 3.0
a 3.5-mm audio jack (in a device measuring 10.9-mm thick)


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