Mobiles

We managed to put together a video of Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 panels interface at work, finally answering the question about what they really do. The panels serve as a way to get to both apps and different home screens. They are worth checking out.
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Nokia has finally officially announced the N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition, after endless rumors and several leaks. Announced at CTIA 2008, the new version of the N810 adds support for Sprint's soon to launch XOHM WiMAX service.
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Today at the 2008 CTIA Wireless show, Sprint and Samsung announced the launch of the Samsung SCH-M800 Instinct, a full touchscreen feature phone that is packed full of functionality and sports a user interface co-designed by Sprint and Samsung.
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Today LG officially announced the impending availability of the Vu, its new full-touch based phone for AT&T. One of the Vu's top features is its Mobile TV support, which will work with AT&T's new MediaFLO based network when it launches soon.
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LG announced today at CTIA Wireless 2008 the availability of the new LG Vu,  a touch screen handset with the support of the new AT&T Mobile TV. With a large three-inch interactive touch screen accompanied by a minimalist scroll bar design, the LG Vu is equipped with video, music, and camera features, in addition to offering first-time access to AT&T Mobile TV.

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As expected, Sony Ericsson confirmed that it will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 on its stand-out arc-slider phone, XPERIA X1. On top of it they will be adding their own XPERIA panel user interface (UI)

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At CTIA Wireless 2008, Microsoft unveiled the new Windows Mobile 6.1 with a new version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which adds desktop-grade Web browsing to Windows Mobile phones. The updated smartphone OS also includes a new time-saving features, easier phone navigation and management, and increased security safeguards.The new version of Internet Explorer Mobile adds the ability to easily view full-screen Web pages and multimedia on the Web with a smartphone. By taking advantage of Internet Explorer 6 technologies and supporting established and upcoming industry standards such as H.264, Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, the updated Internet Explorer Mobile gives people a rich mobile Internet experience. The update will be available to mobile phone partners in the third quarter of 2008, with the first Windows Mobile phones using the new version expected to be available by the end of 2008.

With Windows Mobile 6.1 users will be able to accomplish the following:

• Stay up to date and share from a single location. Glance at and respond to notifications such as missed calls, upcoming appointments and new messages from the home screen as well as play music and share photos.
• Get up and running in minutes. From setting up e-mail, a Bluetooth headset or Wi-Fi, the new Getting Started Center makes the phone experience intuitive and simple.
• Save time with features adapted for the small screen. Easily flag, delete or move groups of messages and keep track of conversations through threaded text messaging. Zoom in on text or pictures, or view an entire Web page at once.
• Help keep business information protected. Support for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 helps administrators manage phones similarly to a Windows-based PC or access company data that may be behind a firewall; and support for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 advanced mobile policies helps businesses manage and administer security for phones while enabling people to find, share, and use information no matter where they are.

COMEDY CENTRAL Mobile, a division of MTVN Entertainment Group, and RealArcade Mobile, a division of digital entertainment services company RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), announced today the launch of the new "South Park" "Imaginationland" mobile game. Based on COMEDY CENTRAL's hugely popular "South Park" "Imaginationland" trilogy, in which the doors of the world's imagination are thrown wide open and the boys of South Park are transported to a magical realm in their greatest odyssey ever. The mobile game will be available cross carrier and on a variety of handsets including the iPhone, and various Windows Mobile and Blackberry mobile devices. COMEDY CENTRAL Mobile and RealArcade Mobile plan to release the "South Park" "Imaginationland" game worldwide in June.

The player's mission in the "South Park" "Imaginationland" mobile game is to take on Butters' massive job to rescue the world in three arenas (Happy Imaginationland, Evil Imaginationland and The Battle for Imaginationland). The quest begins with the Mayor teaching the player how to bounce high by using his imagination. The player must utilize his bouncing skills to collect items and accomplish missions inside an allotted time limit. As the player accomplishes more missions, Butters gains extra imagination power to restore Imaginationland from the grasp of evil. "South Park" "Imaginationland" mobile game has more than 60 mind-blowing levels.

This is the second "South Park" mobile game made in cooperation with RealArcade Mobile, which publishes casual game hits from the PC onto mobile handsets and portable devices. RealArcade Mobile has created more than 40 mobile games supporting more than 800 handsets for wireless carriers around the world.

You can try out the first South Park game on your phone, by downloading a free trial at BustedThumbs.

BenQ today announces its latest mobile phone - the slim BenQ T60. Measuring a mere 8.9mm thin, the T60 sports a 2.2-inch QVGA TFT LCD display, a built-in camera with 3.2 megapixel photo output, and a multimedia player.

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Today here in Las Vegas, Microsoft officially launched the update to Windows Mobile that we all knew was coming: Windows Mobile 6.1. The update to the popular smartphone platform adds a new version of Internet Explorer as well as a number of usability enhancements.
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