The current and hottest news from all the way across the Atlantic is that Modu might be launching its long-awaited Modu mobile phones as early as this week. Though we had seen these phones at the Mobile World Congress in the start of this year, we had had no info after that and have been waiting ever since.
Now, word from Israel is that the company will be launching its phones on this very Wednesday, that is, July 22. Each phone will be priced at 500 Israeli Shekels, approx. around $130. Well, just a couple of days more to go and we’ll know all about it, right? So stay tuned, folks.
Some of you may recall that the MyPre or PreCommunity was initially seen in a Palm Pre, making use of a GSM SIM card at the Mobile World Congress that had been held in February this year. Now, Palm is believed to be making another GSM Palm EOS for AT&T.
Palm Pre GSM
The rumoured Palm Pre with GSM has supposedly leaked in a video on YouTube. This runs on Vietnam’s GSM VN Mobifone Network. Take a look at the video below and let us know your thoughts.
Microsoft, it is rumored, is all set to “launch” Windows Mobile 6.5 at the Tech Ed 2009 event. Tech Ed takes place in Los Angeles and goes on from May 11 through May 15.
We do not know what exactly a Windows Mobile 6.5 “launch” entails. The smartphone operating system was officially unveiled during the Mobile World Congress event that took place this past February. Perhaps the company is planning to show the final version of the system, which has still been going through changes since the February showing.
Maybe we will also see some sort of device launch to coincide with Tech Ed, but Microsoft has made no mention of such as of yet.
Ericsson, a joint owner of Sony Ericsson, will demonstrate its new HSPA multi-carrier multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) device at the CTIA Wireless 2009, which is capable of blazingly fast 56Mbps download speeds. The device being used in the demonstration is a proof of concept wireless broadband modem.
Ericsson had already demonstrated a 42Mbps capable HSPA device at this year’s Mobile World Congress event held in February in Barcelona. The company said that it will make the 42Mbps technology available in commercial devices by the end of 2009. The appropriate standards committees are currently ratifying that version of HSPA with MIMO.
