Apple orders 50 million iPhone NAND chips based on data from Samsung, rest of market put on hold?
Daaaamn, gobbledygook right about clout. If DigiTimes’ methods are correct, subsequently Samsung, the world’s chief supplier of flash memory, just now informed its non-Apple mortgage holders to blow it in favor of a “large batch of orders” it attained for Cupertino. The shape is claimed to be for 50-million “8Gb-equivalent” (we presume properties instigate gigabyte, or GB) NAND chips “mainly for use in Apple’s iPhone.” This circumstances follows a June procurement for 25 million of the same chips. In response, Samsung has reportedly informed its lesser households the it should “sharply cut supply” of NAND to them additonally the shape is making fulfilled. The deficit is compounded by Samsung coming down its manufacturing output in April and May in an go to diminish oversupply. Still, if such concentrations are real (they give the impression astronomical and DigiTimes can be hit or miss surrounded by its Apple sources) when that happens the planet is up to be awash in iPhone 3Gs turn up July 11th
-Mobile Sidekick gets official
No news here: T-Mobile and Danger are legally unveiling the new Sidekick 3 today. (Note the present it is not referred to as the “Sidekick III”. T-Mob has posted the current it just be written as “Sidekick 3″.) The specs are no surprise, either, ever since they have continued rumbling virtually for weeks now, but we will run ebbed the official things for ya:
Size: 130 x 59 x 21.8mm
Weight: 6.7 ounces
240 x 160 pixel, 65,000 color screen
Trackball (!)
Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Bluetooth 1.2 (limited to Hands-Free profile and vCard exchange)
1.3 megapixel digital camera w/LED flash
miniSD memory card slot (supports up to 2GB cards)
64MB of SDRAM/64MB Flash memory
Music player service
Word has it such a T-Mobile is planning to be opening up pre-orders to contemporary Sidekick title&wshyp;holders first, investing in the rest of us receiving a crack at it sometime throughout July 10th.
Stay tuned for a slew of hands-on pics.
GlobalSat TR-101 GPS phone for clearly misplaced children
Thanks GlobalSat, we we are begun to are sure the worrying-parent economy was drying up a bit. After overly mainly wave of GPS kiddie phones hit, the feature set has continued regularly sinking to the everyphone, that does not let for so special self-importance such a comes to a child owner of a stripped-down tracking phone. The TR-101 permits for calls to 3 preset numbers, and sends location info via SMS or in the Internet. It uses a full-on SiRF Star III chipset, and can be remote controlled via a large amount of phones or in Online software. There’s as well an SOS button for emergencies, Google Earth integration for visualisation, and quad-band GSM validation to stay track of the small amount of bugger all throughout the globe. No word on expense or availability.
“Black Tie Edition” Treo 650 is real,
Well, color us a bit surprised. It turns out too the illusory “Black Tie Edition” Treo 650 for Asia-Pacific was not just real, it is arising to now part of pond as well. The specs sadly haven’t transformed of how we have reported before: you get the same old Treo 650 repackaged in black, a strange hard case, a dual-purpose stylus/pen, and that is close to it. The Black Tie Edition is shipping right out for a whopping $599 unsubsidized; we are not owning our breath for our 700p-toting readers to produce the switch, but for families on GSM carriers, such a is now the snazziest Treo dollars can buy.
Equate the 7210, 7310, 7510, and 7610
Though they have right now continued far documented (heck, they’re currently on cash in on in specific features of the world), Nokia’s simply now becoming across to writing its foursome of Supernovas official. The new series reps mid-range construct (think L’Amour, but not through the top) and comes in your opportunity of two candybars, a flip, or a slider as the 7210, 7310, 7510, or 7610, respectively. The 7210 characteristics a tri-band GSM radio additonally EDGE, a 2 megapixel camera, and an FM radio; check for it to launch in the third quarter for €120 (about $189). The 7310 apes the 7210’s check but adds validation for changeable Xpress-On faceplates, TV-out, and validation for GSM 850, and additonally all the supplementary kit adds €35 (about $55) to the market value during the lesser model, it is obtainable now. The 7510 goes for the flip order element but carries during a large number of of the 7310’s spec sheet, backlogged it out until the fourth quarter for a €180 (about $283) launch in scary shades fancy “Fatal Red”. Finally, the 7610 (no, not which one) moves up to a beefier 3.2 megapixel camera and hits then quarter for €225 (about $354).
Nokia 7610 Supernova
Nokia is all set to take the cellphone market by storm investing in its Supernova handset succession and amongst Nokia 7610 Supernova now buying FCC’s approval; it’s simply happening to be issue a moment before users in the States can get the hands on one of these types of beauties. The affordable slider is aimed for the most part at the fashion-conscious crowd who are making an effort to stick to a budget in these kinds of jumped times. And the phone performs not disappoint on the style-scale either. Featuring swappable XpressOn cover-plates, the 7610 comes laced amid quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM, 2.5G information speeds (EDGE), a 3.2 megapixel camera amid LED flash, FM radio providing RDS, microSD card slot, and 64MB of internal storage. Though we significantly experience not word on pricing or availability, we’re certain this moment one’s going to rock relatively a few people’s worlds when it becomes out.
Samsung rolls out SCH-B450
DS and PSP be damned — if you crop up to be in Korea, so is. Looking a bit as if a D307 on performance-enhancing substances, Samsung’s new SCH-B450 is intended amid entertainment in mind, and it is packing a sufficient amount of tech to earn the 2-megapixel camera likely the the very least interesting feature of the device. Frankly, the spec sheet is a bit overwhelming: you get TV-out, A2DP, a motion sensor for Wii-like interaction, a game-friendly keypad, 3D acceleration, S-DMB reception, Immersion’s VibeTonz, and this good (yet frighteningly fragile-looking) double hinge design. The B450 is sadly destined for Samsung’s property region only, but we can frequently choose up a D307 and play make-believe, right?
Pics of Moto’s KRZR for Verizon Mobile
Just in state of affairs the survive set of pics of Motorola’s sleek new Canary KRZR flip phone were not sufficient for you, Motorola Mobile’s got a few a larger amount of hands-on shots of Verizon’s version of such highly-anticipated handset.
Palm and RIM to merge-Meh
Perhaps you have heard the buzz, but if not there is a rumor prepared out there affirmatory now which mobile communicator rivals Palm and Research In Motion are set to announce a merger of indicates as the beginning of as the present exceptionally Thursday. But before you get your panties in a twist just about the evidently possibilities of TreoBerries or BlackTreos (no, not individuals brown Treos), you when trace the breadcrumb trail based on information from the rumor’s prominent placement on CNET all the way coming back to an anonymous LiveJournal importantly featuring the slogan “Right now I am big on PALM stock, due to the fact that the Treo is going to be huge..” Of course, we would never crucial anything and everything out simply while it came according to an anonymous source, but we are unquestionably suspicious. The author of the LJ, titled Covert Stock Operations, points out overly Palm may go with providing the understanding while RIM can give them “a excellent investor relations department,” “acceleration of economy dominance,” and a lot of additional fluffy reasons; apparently it is in RIM’s ideal financial to buy Palm as they’re a number one mobile communicator competitor who are occuring to validation Microsoft’s entry to the force email space, and the hardware and program products may ass one anothers’ out, complimenting and improving this over&wshyp;arching respective product portfolios. Honestly, we see RIM and Palm as two disparate, headstrong corporations among a lot a lower number of incentive to merge provided a single person — let only through one a different — handed out the goings on of the go on few months. RIM’s emerged of the fog of the NTP circumstances and Palm’s 2006 handset packages are increasing in momentum; whereas there is no way we can assure you the two can not be merging, um, the present week, we can undoubtedly say Occam’s razor could dictate the anonymous Palm supply pimping blog is able to experience a good amount to boost of the rumor as opposed to either of these types of organizations more than likely can in in point of fact merging.
Pair of Pocket PC phones
Singapore’s CommunicAsia expo, that concluded the previous week, is continuing to quitting us among tiny bit bundles of mobile joy right here and there. Today we up to date for you Qool Labs’ QDA Icon and QDA Lite, Windows Mobile 5.0 follow-ons to survive year’s QDA Oh!. The Icon is the greater amount of interesting of the two, rocking uni honest megapixels on a CCD sensor, A2DP support, and a RAZR-like etched keypad. The Lite provides a greater amount of run-of-the-mill 2 megapixel CMOS camera and mainstream design but includes WiFi, that the Icon performs not. Expect both tri-band Pocket PCs to form this way to Asian consumers’ hands next the year.
