Mobile Review News

The BlackBerry Pearl 2 has finally arrived, but are the improvements worth the bother? Research In Motion (RIM) gave Pocket-lint the new 8120 ahead of the launch to have a play and find out. Now available in blue, rather than black in the UK (there will be other colours, but not in the UK) the […]

The HTC TyTN II is the company’s answer attempt to give you a powerful smartphone in a relativity small form factor, but does it work? We get mobile working with the device to find out. While on the surface the HTC TyTN II might look like a small brick, on closer inspection is really is. […]

Viewty? I can’t work out why this phone has that name, or indeed why the name might be applied to any mobile. But then LG doesn’t bat an eyelid at using odd names for its handsets. Shine, anyone? If you remember my review of the predecessor to this mobile, the Prada, (this time the odd […]

LG has announced the KS20, a full touchscreen smartphone based on Windows Mobile 6 Professional. This handset, destined for the European market, features tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz) and WCDMA (2100MHz) connectivity, with data speeds up to 3.6Mbps thanks to HSDPA support. The KS20 is also equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 for additional wireless connectivity options.

The Centro is Palm’s latest entry in the handset market, and their first attempt at a consumer oriented ‘multimedia’ device. Targeted towards the younger, hipper crowd, the Palm Centro features a 1.3 megapixel camera, a microSD memory card slot, and a multimedia player. Running the relatively ancient Palm OS, with a few updates, can Palm […]

We’ve been trying to find a good justification for the cool Ultra-Mobile PC category ever since the sleek designs started rolling out from Samsung and Sony more than a year ago. But the new OQO model 02, with its mobile broadband and new solid-state hard drive, is helping us broaden our thinking about the UMPC […]

Samsung announces the SPH-M4650 Windows running touchscreen smartphone. The 14mm thin Samsung SPH-M4650 runs on the 624MHz high-PXA300 CPU from Marvell Corp. and Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional.
Samsung highlights the vibration touch feedback feature of the SPH-M4650.

Hobbyists pull out their cameras on the weekends. Pros keep a camera with them wherever they go. But almost everyone these days keeps a phone with them, and many of those phones come with built-in lenses that, if not exactly top-quality, are often good enough to do the job. But can that job pay money?

Microsoft’s recent announcement of its new System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 should be a galvanizing moment for the mobile security industry. While the market still has not opened up as much as expected—largely due to a threat landscape that still hasn’t truly evolved (but undoubtedly will)—the idea of a large vendor with deep pockets […]

The original Pentax Optio S, launched in 2003, was one of the first truly ultra-compact digital cameras. It utilised a unique Pentax-designed Sliding Lens system, which meant that a 3x zoom lens could fit into a camera just 20mm thick and fold away flush with the camera body. It was a terrific piece of design […]