The problem with mobile television services -- besides the fact that no one seems to use them, that is -- is that unless you happen to be in Japan or South Korea, very, very few handsets have the hardware necessary to take advantage. Chinese company Permian seems to have it all figured out, though, crafting a nifty dongle that does the heavy lifting of pulling in and tuning a TV signal, streaming ...

Here’s one more handset made by South Korea’s Pantech, which you’ll probably never see. It’s the touchscreen-equipped Pantech Presto, which is offered through SK Telecom (model name SKY IM-U310) and KTF (model name SKY IM-U310K). According to the manufacturer, Presto is a music phone as its name indicates — Presto is a rapid pace in music

SAN DIEGO and SEOUL, South Korea, -- DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIVX), a digital media company, and Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, announced that the Samsung Omnia(TM)(1)is the first DivX Certified(R) handset to be released in the U.S. market. The Samsung Omnia, a CDMA phone, will be available to consumers across the U.S. for purchase beginning November 26. DivX Certification(TM) of the Samsung Omnia enab...

We’ve just got hold of the specifications for the Samsung’s T-OMNIA which will be released in South Korea on November 27th, and it looks like the phone comes with a whopping 806MHz CPU, now that’s... [

In Japan and South Korea is the Samsung Omnia in a technically aufgemotzten version under the name T-Omnia sold. The most obvious difference: the touchscreen is at the sister model four times as sharp and has a resolution of 480x800 pixels. The display diagonal of the T-Omnia is marginally from 3.2 to 3.3 inch grown. The Omnia, which already since August 2008 in Germany and other European countrie...

From the Asian part of the world more exactly in South Korea, comes a new cellphone thanks to Pantech. It is codenamed SKY IM-U310 and can be added to the Presto lineup. As the Presto name suggests, this Pantech model is a music cellphone, and has a one-touch button to access the music functionalities. It has

Speaking about Samsung's T-OMNIA that will be released on November 27th in South Korea, it has come to our attention that it will come with a 806MHz CPU, which is pretty impressive for a smartphone. That's just to let you know. Other features include: 480x800 touchscreen display; CPU: 806Mhz (vs. 624Mhz); S-DMB Digital TV tuner; UMTS/HSDPA 7.2Mbps (likely); 4GB/16GB of integrated memory ...

For its home market South Korea, Samsung has redesigned its latest best-seller smartphone, the SGH-i900 Omnia, and is releasing it in Korea as the SCH-M490 T-Omnia. However, the T-Omnia received more then just a different name but Samsung made the good even better by replacing the Omnia's 3.2" 240 x 480 WQVGA screen with a 480 x 800 WVGA screen. Other feature updates include S-DMB...

The company Pantech in South Korea announced a new mobile phone with a touch screen - Pantech Presto (model SKY IM-U310 to the operator SKT and IM-U310K for KTF). According to the manufacturer, Presto - is a music phone, it said, and his name (Presto indicates a rapid pace in music). A feature of new items is quick access to the music - in one-touch ". The unit is equipped with DMB-TV tuner, suppo...

DoCoMo is gearing up for launch of the Google phone in 2009 according to company officials. The Nikkei said Wednesday South Korea's KT Freetel is also involved in the DoCoMo-Google project but the official said nothing had been decided on potential partners. DoCoMo has a 10 percent stake in KT Freetel. The daily also said the new Google phone would come with a keyboard and a touch-panel displ...