HTC Touch Viva

Windows Mobile loyalists, and we know there are still a lot of those, will be charmed by HTC’s Touch Viva mini smartphone. The only question is whether you can upgrade it to Windows Mobile Phone.

Size and specs may be slight but this mighty mite bring’s a 2.8-inch touch screen, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, a 2 Megapixel camera for stills and video plus microSD connectivity.

A big feature is HTC’s TouchFLO user interface that exists above the requisite Windows 6.1 and brings finger swipe navigation and widgets for weather, time, messaging and social media.

 The HTC Touch Viva is a serious and utilitarian phone that is pretty no frills in its approach and appearance but offers a sensible array of features. What isn’t sensible is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack. C’mon, no one uses the proprietary USB headphones on these devices so why is HTC so insistent on pushing USB as the only way to get audio out? Despite that head scratcher, this is a semi-smartphone that, while lacking 3G connectivity, should satisfy WinMo peeps.

Apple: Jailbroken iPhones will be Problematic

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple is cautioning iPhone users who are tempted to jailbreak their iPhone and extend functionality and run non-Apple approved applications that their iPhones and iPod Touches are likely to malfunction. Releasing a recent report, Apple stresses that Jailbroken iPhones will likely not be able to take official OS updates and maybe locked out.  Read the document after the break.

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Breaking news: Next Generation iPhone 'lost and found'

photo of new iPhone from Gizmodo.com (via Gizmodo.com)

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It seems that the next iPhone was lost and found in a bar in Redwood City, California. Gizmodo has procured the device and examined it and they have photos as well as video showing the next gen iPhone.

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Samsung B7300 OmniaLITE

More Windows Mobile love, this time from Samsung whose B7300 is a budget smartphone riding on Windows Mobile 6.5 and offering a full-touch interface on its 3” inch 65k-color resistive touchscreen.

Samsung has packed a lot of features in the B7300 including 3G with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, a built-in GPS, Wi-Fi with DLNA, stereo Bluetooth 2.1 and a standard microUSB port and a 3 megapixel autofocus camera with smile detection and VGA (for 15fps video).

There are a few misgivings that taint the overall package. The display is pretty low end for a Samsung phone. This is another one of those phones that refuses to add a 3.5mm audio jack, which is just annoying. We see the Omnia stylngs and some of its features but we certainly feel the lite aspect of the B7300 that has too many compromises.