Crash tests may be more fulfilling and exciting to watch than someone poking and prodding a small electronic’s display, but that doesn’t mean the testers job is any less important (or any less fun to watch for us geeks). As with many consumer products, the phones in this video made by Nokia in particular are subjected to a battery of physical tests ranging from extreme temperatures -40°C to 85°C to harsh drop tests inside a spinning box. It’s pretty...
If you’re familiar with the Samsung Alias currently available on Verizon Wireless, the Samsung Zeal is the obvious successor. Featuring the same dual-hinge desgin and E-ink display means a nifty transforming phone that takes to physical tricks to adapt to the variations life offers. As far as specs go — we don’t have any quite yet. But it’s not exactly a “smart” phone. With that said, the featurephone market is still quite important to...
Smartphones have the ability of usually being fairly customizable on the users’ end, allowing various configuration changes and other software tweaks. The biggest reason that such tinkering catches on however is generally dependent on the OS and hardware inside. Because of that, the ability to customize a device varies from handheld to handheld. But what if the typical notion of a smartphone were removed from the traditional plastic shell and shrunken down into a...
Just like clock work, HTC has taken the wraps off of their three newest devices: The HD Mini, Legend, and Desire. We looked briefly over these devices late last night when some of the details were leaked. However, the blanks have now been filled in and we are looking at three of the best smartphones going into spring 2010. So, without further a ado… HD Mini HD Mini: The sole WindMo 6.5 unit will come to market with a 3.2 HVGA display, 600MHz Qualcomm processor,...
It’s might sad to see a once great tech giant falter and begin to fail. As they travel along their downward spiral of a decent, you start remembering all of the fond memories of years past. Such a reminiscing period will soon fall upon New York and Chicago residents who currently flock to Nokia flagship stores on a regular basis. The blood letting (read: extreme profit losses) that is killing Nokia within claimed it’s first store a couple of days ago. Tonight...
