Samsung i8920-OMNIA HD 2 ?

The Samsung i8910 OMNIA HD was a great phone at the time of introduction and it is still a great phone a year on since it’s introduction. But as with everything, it requires a successor to carry on it’s legacy and this leaked phone might just be that. The phone in the picture is said to be the Samsung i8920 otherwise known as the OMNIA HD 2.

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Review of 3 Olive phones

The Indian mobile phone industry has seen unprecedented growth and emergence of new players in the market. Players like Micromax, Maxx, Karbonn have come from nowhere and started selling handsets in the lakhs.

Amongst them is a company called Olive. Olive Mobiles is a new entrant just like the ones above and many more. So what makes them unique you might ask, they all are the same after all! One look and you might say so. But a closer look reveals that it is not the same.

Olive phones have made quite a splash with their handsets. Engadget even covered one of their models. A feat, no Indian manufacturer I know has managed till date.

Olive has been very kind in providing us at Fonearena, three devices to review. We’ve put each of the handset through its paces and pushed it to the hilt. Continue reading “Review of 3 Olive phones”

Sony Bravia Phone lands in Japan

You might have heard about Sony BRAVIA Televisions but a BRAVIA branded Phone S004 has landed in Japan. We are not sure if this is the first phone with that branding but the specs do look interesting with a 1 GHz CPU , 8 Megapixel Camera , TV and you can carry it along with you to the bathtub ! Continue reading “Sony Bravia Phone lands in Japan”

Revision3 brings HTML5 Video to the iPad

Revision3 is an online TV channel which hosts shows such as Diggnation , ROFL and Tekzilla. They were using a Flash based Video player till now which meant that none of their videos would play on the Apple iPad. Now the company announced that they are using HTML5 in the iPad version which means all those shows should play totally fine on your iPad .  Apple has made it clear it will never allow Flash on it’s Mobile Products Continue reading “Revision3 brings HTML5 Video to the iPad”

HTC Wildfire Official Photos

HTC has just launched the Wildfire for Europe and Asia and here are some official photos of the phone for your viewing pleasure. You will clearly notice in the photos that the phone looks a lot like the Nexus One and HTC Desire .The Wildfire  is expected to replace the Tattoo and will bring Android 2.1 to many users at a lower price compared to the Legend.

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Rumour – 24 million iPhone HD units to be shipped by Foxconn

According to Digitimes Research , close to 24 million iPhone 4G / HD units are going to be shipped by Foxconn this year. The company is known to manufacture iPhones and other Apple products. Last year an employee of the company committed suicide after losing an iPhone prototype. Foxconn is expected to ship 4.5 million units initially and 19.5 million units later . Some interesting details about the iPhone 4G have emerged

Image of iPhone 4G leaked in Vietnam

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HTC Wildfire a mini Desire

HTC has launched the Wildfire a Android 2.1 handset which takes design cues from Desire , Smart and Legend. The company has been coming up with some incredible names for its products and the Wildfire is the latest one. The product announcement is coming from Germany and we should have more information from HTC soon.

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Download Playlist DJ Mobile App for non-touch Nokia phones

Syntonetic the company which released the PlaylistDJ app for Nokia Touchscreen phones is now making the app available for free for non-touchscreen Nokia phones too.  The app basically analyzes your music library stored on the phone and then displays tracks based on the mood of the song – joy, passion, anger and tempo etc. The app has is approaching 1 million downloads on the OVI Store already.

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FoneArena on NDTV CellGuru

As many of you might know folks from NDTV were at the FoneArena HQ recently to check out the Google Nexus One. Our small review of the phone was aired on NDTV yesterday in their cellphone show CellGuru. If you didn’t watch the show don’t worry as you watch it online even now. You can watch the video embedded below.  Just wait for around 10mins and someone you know must appear 🙂 Continue reading “FoneArena on NDTV CellGuru”

NFS Shift Launching on Android soon

Android seriously lacks some nice games with hi-def graphics which are one of the main strengths of the iPhone platform. NFS shift is one of the best games we have ever played on a mobile device – iPhone. This game is going to be launched soon on the Android platform. EA Games is going to release the NFS Shift Game on the Android Market on June 4th . Continue reading “NFS Shift Launching on Android soon”

HTC Desire Tons of Pics

Here are tons of pics of the HTC Desire running on Android 2.1 . The Desire is expected to be launched in India really soon and we bring you new exclusive pics of the Phone. The Desire hasa 3.7 inch AMOLED display and a optical trackpad. It has 3 physical keys below the screen. Continue reading “HTC Desire Tons of Pics”