wmc2008

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Phones

Hands-On the LG KF600: Colour Chocolate Touchpad Still Sucks Cocoa

4:00AM Brian Lam | Despite the high sales of the LG Chocolate*, anyone who’s actually used it knows that its touch controller is one of the worst UIs to come out in the last several years. The KF600 is LG’s new 3MP mobile with a slider keypad. It has the same electrostatic chocopad the Chocolate has, but with an improved 1.5-inch colour display underneath. Reader: Avoid this phone at all costs. More »
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Phones

Nokia 6210 Navigator First Hands-On: It Works Great

8:18AM Jesus Diaz | We tried the Nokia 6210 Navigator assisted GPS for pedestrians at Nokia’s World Mobile Congress booth today. The device itself feels very good and is extremely compact, but the best of all is that it really works great, using its built-in compass and accelerometers to know exactly where you are facing exactly, changing the orientation of the map in real time. You know, like Ultima Underworld, but with finnish blonde valkyries around instead of fugly monsters drooling around. Or better said, both. More »
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Nokia’s Touch UI Hands-On: Officially Way Behind Apple

7:01AM Brian Lam | When we first saw the Nokia Symbian Touch UI over the familiar S60/Symbian OS, we were stoked. Then we found out it was not a working proto but a rendering, and we wondered how far along they really were in their touchscreen UI. Turns out, not as far as we would like. More »
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Android Hands-On Video: It’s Fast, It’s Still Not There

1:00AM Jesus Diaz | We have been playing with the Android prototypes scattered through the Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona. ARM had theirs running on one of their lower-end processors. No fancy graphics demos, no iPhone-style multimedia fizzbang, just a humble ARM9 processor in a plain white prototype “to demonstrate the scalability of Android” and serve as a “development platform.” Our verdict: it works, it’s fluid, but it’s boring. Qualcomm’s Android prototype, however, is a real beast. More »
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