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Taiwanese E-Ten will intro Hellen aka DX900 Glofiish at Computex

A Taiwanese company, E-Ten, has got a pretty interesting smart PDA phone, which has the codename Hellen aka DX900 Glofiish. The handset will make its grand debut at the Computex Tradeshow in Taipei next month - June.

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Asus P560 smart PDA phone hits Europe in June

Asus P560 is a mobile PDA phone that runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and is scheduled to hit Europe in June this year. The phone is targeted for a price of about 500 Euros.

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iSwish puts iPhone UI on any Windows Mobile phone

Those who have used the iPhone would have fallen in love with the iPhone UI. It’s definitely much more fun to use than any other UIs on other mobile OSes.

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LG KS-20 smartphone deemed as a another iPhone challenger

Nowadays, whenever any cellphone maker other than Apple, is getting ready with a new cell phone that comes with iPhone-like or better features will be considered as a iPhone challenger. Whether you like it or not, the LG KS-20 smartphone is deemed as LG’s new effort to challenge the iPhone, after LG’s few previous attempts such as the LG Prada etc.

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Zumobi widget applications for Windows smartphones

Zumobi has introduced its widget applications for your Window Mobile phones at CTIA 2008. Each widget is for delivering nice content that you’re interested in a fun and innovative way.

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Windows Mobile 6.1 will hit us on April Fools Day

Windows Mobile 6.1 OS has got itself with lots of rumors floating around over the past few weeks. And now there seems to be a confirmation that this new mobile OS is making its way to the market on the April Fools day. Hope this is not another joke for the April Fools.

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Wireless charging solution: Magnetic inductive charging for Windows mobiles

MWG will produce Windows mobile phones or PDAs that can be charged wirelessly via magnetic induction. And they target to ship the wirelessly chargeable devices by mid 08. Basically, the technology used is similar to the one used in portable toothbrushes, provided by U.K.-based Splashpower.

The picture shows a charging plate which users have to place the mobiles on it for charging them wirelessly. Similar to electric toothbrushes, inductive power sends current obtained from a wall adapter through a coil in a charging unit. As current flows through the coil, it generates a magnetic field, which in turn induces a current to flow to the receiving coil in the toothbrush handle.

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ANYCOM Stowaway Keyboard lets you type quickly on your PDA, smartphone

Although your smartphone, PDA or UMPC comes with a QWERTY keyboard, but I don’t think they can provide you as much productivity as the full-sized PC QWERTY that your’re used to. This is simply because of your fingers are too big to type quickly on the overly small QWERTY of your PDA or smartphone. Due to the small size of the QWERTY of your smartphone or PDA, you tend to not to use it for typing long email messages, memos or surfing the web. Even though it comes with almost all the functionalities that you get on your laptop/PC. The ANYCOM Stowaway Keyboard is the wireless Bluetooth-enabled full-sized PC keyboard that works with any PDA, smartphone, tablet etc, to enable you to gain as much productivity as using the full-sized PC QWERTY keyboard.

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An iPhone without the phone or it’s an iPhone clone?

iPhone is only coming into Asia market in 2008, there is no surprise that we’d see lots of iPhone-clones coming up in Asia before iPhone launched in 2008. Well, the copycats phenomenon has become a norm in Asia market, especially China.

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