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Irvine, CA — Hop-on, Inc. announced that it plans to launch a sleek new slider phone targeting the mid-tier phone market in the U.S. The model 1888 slider cell phone is available in black and silver. Dan Gannon, Chief Executive Officer of Hop-on, commented, “This handset includes all the features of the comparable name brand offerings being sold thru the carrier channels but is priced approximately 30% less.”

Hop-on’s new slider phone, model 1888, is 88x43x24mm. It is a tri-band handset (900 / 180 / 1900 MHz), with a vibrant color screen. The Bluetooth phone comes standard with a 1.3M CMOS digital camera functionality, and has Video Streaming. SMS and MMS messaging are standard along with MP3 and MPEG 4.

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Florida-based OpenPeak is about to introduce a brand new remote (most likely at CES) that can do it all. According to their PR firm, “Simple Remote, is part movie/IM command screen, part electronic program guide, part VoIP phone, and an all-in-one remote that controls appliances, TVs, garage doors, and stereos. It’s WIFI enabled and music can be streamed to it by using headphones.” Sounds a tad too much, but it sure would be nice to get rid of everything that clutters the coffee table….

This is the kind of remote I had imagined could be a big opportunity, but apparently the money crowd didn’t think it was a good idea then. (Read, Remote, Mouse of the Digital Lifestyle)

In case you were wondering, like I was, can this be true? We shall wait and see, but apparently, Open Peak is the company that makes the software that goes inside Philips iPronto Netx 6400 WiFi-IR Bridge, a remote-WiFi bridge. The Boca Raton, Florida based company has some heavy weights on its board of directors including former Apple CEO John Sculley; J. Tomilson Hill III, Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group; and Mort Topfer, Managing Director of Castletop Capital and former Vice Chairman of Dell.

From gigaom.com

A lot of cellphones pass through the FCC, but Samsung’s new SGH-i858 looks a mite big promising if you ask us. It features tri-band GSM, EDGE data, a QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth, mini-USB, MicroSD, and a 2 megapixel camera. No idea which OS this thing’s gonna run; if we had to we’d guess either something proprietary, or perhaps Symbian with UIQ (though it’d still be unusual for Samsung to rock Symbian, even despite their partnering up with those peeps back in ’03). Guess we’ll have to wait and see, but once more, FCC, we tip our hats to you.

[Via PhoneArena]

From Engadget.com

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This is “Blufin” and here are some specs:

• 131 x 72 x 22mm
• Microsoft Windows CE 5.0
• AMD Au1200 CPU and hardware accelerator (wmv9, divx and mpg)
• 128MB DDR RAM
• SD/MMC Slot
• 4.3 inch, 480×272, 16m color TFT LCD
• 20/30G HDD
• 2MP (not sure about this)internal camera
• USB 2.0, USB OTG
• 2800mAh battery

So there you go, another Win CE5.0-based PMP coming up – just like the Centrix MVP-150. I vaguely recall “8MB RAM” being an “awesome specification” for a regular PC, some dozen years ago. Now even PMPs come equiped with 128MB DDR RAMÂ .

SOURCE (Korean). From DAPReview