The Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer is designed in honor of the Pioneer 10 probe, which became the first man-made object to pass the asteroid belt. Therefore, it's natural to make the phone out of a real meteorite (the back cover anyway). A meteorite surely tops all the mundane materials such as gold, leather and wood that we've seen on luxurious mobile phones - and we've seen our share of those. Usually ultra ... Read More

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic seems to have it all - large 3.2" touchscreen display, 3G and Wi-Fi support and even a GPS receiver aboard. The cute Nokia 5530 XpressMusic kept only the Wi-Fi, its display shrank to 2.9 inches and the battery capacity was decreased to 1000 mAh but the device costs considerably less than its smarter bro. Then the 5230 was introduced. And now we've got some live shots of ... Read More

BlackBerry Storm2 was officially announced by Vodafone, just hours after we saw it appearing in an official promo video. Vodafone’s Storm2 (model name 9520) will be available in the following countries: UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy and South Africa. According to this pre-order page, Vodafone UK will ship the Storm2 starting October 26. As expected, the new Storm comes with a significantly improved SurePress technology, which should let you easily control ... Read More

The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new specification that will enable WiFi devices to discover and connect to one another without a router, a move that could potentially threaten Bluetooth technology. Wi-Fi Direct will allow WiFi enabled devices such as phones, cameras, printers, computers, keyboards, and headphones to connect on a one-to-one basis or several at a time. Standard data rates and connection ranges (100m) will be supported, so ... Read More

It's still showing as a preorder on Nokia USA's own site, but Amazon and the brick-and-mortar flagship stores in Chicago and New York are finally stocking the N86 8MP -- a little bit of a stretch for the "coming weeks" claim made at the North American version's launch announcement back in July. The beefy dual slider features a 2.6-inch QVGA OLED display, US 3G up to 3.6Mbps on the downlink, ... Read More

Technology.am (Sept. 14, 2009) — The Nokia 8800 Erdos, the successor of luxurious Nokia 8800, is expected to come with Symbian S60 operating system and will be available in Oct. 2009. It will target premium and high profile users. gsmarenaThe device is made completely out of stainless steel silver, with a glass display. The mains specs of Nokia Erdos include: Dimensions: 116.9 x 50,3 x 15.0 mm 2.4 inch OLED display with 320 x ... Read More

Samsung surely haven't gone out of their way to popularize that one, but we just stumbled on some pretty interesting version of the highly popular Samsung Star - one with Wi-Fi, which is quite naturally called Samsung S5230W Star WiFi. The "Star with Wi-Fi" will hit the markets in Africa and Asia as well but under a slightly different model number - the Samsung S5233W - nevertheless it's still the same ... Read More