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Samsung CorbyTXT phone

The Samsung B3210, also known as the CorbyTXT phone, is a message-centric handset that targets those who are constantly typing out a flurry of text messages as well as emails and instant messages. This is made possible thanks to the a full QWERTY keyboard located right on the phone's face, where quick launch buttons on the handset's front offer fast access to key features such as a music player, camera and messaging application. Nice to see a 3.5mm earphone jack being retained, making it...

Comparing Palm to iPhone 3GS

Market research firm Interpret recently made some discoveries about public perception of smartphones that should shock, surprise, and amaze you. The just released report, dubbed "Signature Smartphones: Gaining Mindshare in Order to Gain Market Share," reveals that despite being massively disadvantaged in the marketplace, Palm managed to nab a huge chunk of mindshare with the Pre in fact, the report suggests that the Pre is number two only to the iPhone 3GS in the metric. The study looks at the...

Vodafone debuts

This time last year, you might have thought that LiMo was waning in the shadow of Android's eminence, but we're witnessing the vanguard of a new resurgence in the form of the Vodafone 360 H1 and M1 handsets by Samsung. Being the first LiMo Release 2 devices, they'll come with a bagful of fancy 3D UI visualizations to splash atop 3.5- and 3.2-inch touchscreen displays, with the bigger H1 (pictured) getting the AMOLED treatment, WiFi, HSDPA and 16GB of internal memory, and the M1 receiving HSDPA...

Pink phones From Microsoft’s

It looks likes someone at Microsoft is terribly sloppy with where they leave their important files sitting around. There is an other reference has gotten its hands on two images allegedly of the Pink smartphones that we've been hearing about lately. If you believe your orbs, these represent two distinct iterations of devices which the big M is looking at. Taking a glance at the renders, it's clear that at least one model is that Pre-like phone we spied the other day, supposedly (and...

Intelligent Android home screen from Larva Labs

HTC and Motorola may have done their best to whip Android's interface into shape, but it looks like the folks at Larva Labs still weren't satisfied with the options available, so they've naturally gone ahead and designed their own UI (with a little help from Ideas on Purpose). While it's unfortunately still just a concept, the firm's so-called "Intelligent Home Screen" does bring plenty of interesting ideas to the table, which Larva Labs says should help it "appeal to Blackberry owners and...