New Samsung SmartPhone

More pictures and details about the upcoming Samsung SGH-i780 were posted today on unwiredview.com. This looks like a really cool device. I'd love to see a sliding qwerty key pad though. Funny I should mention that because another site captured a few details about another Samsung device, Samsung SGH-i640, that looks related to the the i780 and it looks like it's a slider. The i640 is said to be launching on Vodafone around Christmas. Both devices are GSM with UMTS/HSDPA. No word on release dates for the U.S.
unwiredview - i780

theunwired - i640

Palm Centro on Sprint

Sprint and Palm released details about the upcoming new device the two have been working on. The Centro shares the same form factor as the European Treo 500v, but is a Palm OS device instead of Windows. Sprint also has launched a website dedicated to the device that let's us know that the device will be $99 after rebates and contract discount and will be released on Oct 14. "It's also the world's smallest Palm device." The url is quite clever also, moreyous.com.

Sprint Press Release

Palm Site

BusinessWire

Engadget

Gizmodo

WiMAX World USA - Chicago, IL

WiMAX World USA is about to kick off in Chicago and last night Sprint and Motorola demonstrated how the Xohm service will work when it is deployed. I would love to go to this event, but it wasn't a possibility this year, maybe next year. What I missed most was the demo that was given last night on the Chicago River. Sprint set up four towers along the river to demonstrate that mobile WiMAX will work even when switching from tower to tower. Motorola has a press release for the event, and a fellow bloger was able to attend and documented his experience very well. Check out the story by By Eric Bangeman from ars technica. Here's the link to the Moto Release.

Here's the Sprint press release via Yahoo.

Cowboys For Real

The Dallas Cowboys faced their biggest challenge of the year last night and came looking like the future NFC champs. Notice I didn't say World Champions. A couple of AFC teams will be a huge challenge. We'll get to see what the Cowboys have against the Patriots on October 14. Romo is for real and the Cowboys offense is really looking good. The Bears offense last night was awful, but their defense was pretty good. The first half of the game was really close, but the second half was all Cowboys. It's great for the NFL to have the Cowboys back as a contender and great for all Cowboy fans.

Intel Shows Off New Chip Set and Possible Implementations

Intel's new Menlow platform was highlighted recently Anand Chandrasekher, Intel's senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group shared the highlights of the Menlow platform and showed off some possible implementations. The detail that I really like is that the Menlow platform is 802.11n wireless technology, 3G and WiMAX for extended broadband coverage.

"In the first half of 2008, Intel will take a major step to deliver what these users are looking for with our first platform designed from the ground up for MIDs and UMPCs – codenamed Menlow, which will deliver 10x lower power compared to the first UMPCs in the market," said Chandrasekher.

I've also learned a new acronym from this story this new platform is targeting the Mobile Internet Device (MID) and Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) device categories. The difference between a MID and UMPC is the operating system. Intel sees the MIDs to be Linux based systems and UMPCs as Microsoft systems. I really think that the Gphone will be more of an MID than a smartphone.

DailyTech has covered the Intel platforms really well check out the links below.
Intel Details Next Generation "Menlow" MID, UMPC Platform
Intel Announces Ultra Mobile PC 2007 Platform
Intel Announces "Moorestown" UMPC Platform

Another Gphone Story

I just read another story about the upcoming Google Phone, which I love to refer to as the Gphone or gPhone. Digitimes writes that they have confirmation that the new device will be branded as a Google Phone. I'm still not sure about the branding, but it would be good marketing to see people using their Google Phones around town. I'd be very surprised if this device is released without 3G, as I have written I really think this will be a 4G device. Check out the story at DIGITIMES.

P.S. The gPhone image is fake!

Xohm is Coming

Sprint has released a new marketing video about Xohm at the Xohm homepage. Hit the link below and then select "About Xohm" on the page.

Xohm is Coming