InfoWorld reviews the Palm Treo Pro and gives it very high marks. If you’re partial to Windows Mobile, you’d be hard-pressed to do better than the new Treo Pro from Palm. The BlackBerry, iPhone, and T-Mobile G1 may be the kings of smartphone cool, but if you ask me, they all share one big shortcoming: They don’t run Windows Mobile. The Treo Pro is easily the best smartphone in the Palm line to date. It …
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Xperia X1 Webcast Now Available
From Sony Ericsson: If you didn’t have the opportunity to catch the live global Sony Ericsson webcast on Monday 15 September, you can now watch it at www.sonyericsson.com/premiere The webcast has a Q&A session about Sony Ericsson’s new digital marketing campaign, a webisodic thriller called Johnny X, and you can see the first live in-depth demonstration of the Xperia™ X1. To watch the preview of Johnny X, visit: www.whoisjohnny-x.com The first episode will air on …
Continue readingBlackberry Claims to have Invented the Smartphone Flip-phone
Crackberry.com has been covering the Jim Basille keynote where BlackBerry unveiled the new Pearl 8220, and “stated with the Pearl 8220 RIM was the first to crack the smartphone in a flip phone code.” I don’t know what the “flip phone code” is, but there have been numerous Windows Mobile and Palm OS flip smartphones available through out this century. Microsoft was the only one who actually branded their smartphone operating system as “Smartphone”. Take …
Continue readingXperia X1 Will Be Revealed September 15th
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is one of the most highly anticipated smartphone devices of the year (and there have been many). A webcast has been scheduled for September 15th at 1pm GMT +1 time (7am EST here in New York) which will show the first live in-depth presentation of the Xperia X1. To join the webcast, visit this site on September 15th at 1pm GMT +1. Sony Ericsson is also unveiling a web-based alternative …
Continue readingMore Treo Pro (850w) Photos
We posted earlier about the Treo 850w being rebranded as the Treo Pro, now WM Experts have collected plenty more photos of the Treo Pro. While it is similar to the CDMA Treo 800w, there are some significant design changes; the body is a slippery finger-print-prone gloss black, the screen is flush (not recessed), softkey buttons seem to be missing, and some important hardware buttons are also flush and potentially difficult to feel with your …
Continue readingTouch Diamond Adam Lein Edition
The HTC Touch Diamond is one of the most attractive Windows Mobile phones ever. Even the angled cut plastic body matches the “Diamond” theme and it looks great. But I’m kind of tired of black, so in following my old UDA wishlist from 2003, I decided my Touch Diamond should change colors by itself. So here it is, the Touch Diamond Adam Lein Edition with color shifting technology! How does one achieve this effect you …
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