Mobispine Pens Tell All About Their iPhone MMS App, Doesn’t Exactly Tell All

We’ve heard a few things about the Mobispine MMS app supposedly being developed for the iPhone, but the company’s just answered a couple of questions, and we thought we’d give you a quick rundown. Interestingly, the app will utilize Apple’s announced but delayed push notification, which Mobispine says is due “pretty soon,” though carriers may use SMS notification in lieu of the service.

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First Pics Of Motorola’s MOTO QA30 QWERTY Slider

Sliders are typically known for offering the best of both worlds: the sophisticated, clean looks you want hiding the ugly, QWERTY keypad you need. Motorola’s bucking that trend with the chunky MOTO QA30, looking rather utilitarian open or closed and featuring the sort of squat form-factor that didn’t exactly woo us on the UTStarcom TXT8010. The 2.5-inch 320 x 240 screen is a bit on the small side

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800MHz CPU-packing P565 Handset Appears On ASUS Site

ASUS’ P565 has been pretty much unofficial until now, though we did see some alleged photos and specs of the device not terribly long ago. The phone has just been officially listed on the ASUS site, however, and we’ve got a quick rundown of its stats (which are pretty much exactly what we’d seen before).

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Samsung’s Q310-34P Laptop Reviewed: Not Bad For A First Try

Okay, so maybe Samsung isn’t entirely new to the laptop game here in the USA, but for its first line of self-branded lappies, the Q310 ultraportable didn’t fare half bad in its first review. Critics over at Laptop Mag found the design of the 13.3-incher to be “handsome,” the performance “smooth” and the endurance to be satisfactory enough.

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More Details Of Tectoy’s Zeebo 3G Gaming Console Emerge

We recently caught wind of the Zeebo, a new 3G network-based gaming console that’s supposedly launching soon in Brazil. Details were pretty hard to come by initially, but now we’ve gotten some more solid information on the upstart system. It turns out that manufacturer Tectoy is partnering up with cellular carrier Claro, whose 3G network will enable the system to have a constant, free-of-charge connection — and Qualcomm, which holds a 43 percent ownership in the company.

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Now Listed At €429 For Spain, Up From €279

Well, it looks like folks in Europe (or Spain, at least) already sold on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic could be in for a bit more than they bargained for, as the phone is now listed on Nokia.es for €429 (or just under $550) which, even given the now weaker Euro, is quite a leap from the €279 price for Europe that Nokia first announced just over a month ago.

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BlackBerry Storm Comes To Vodafone Today — Take Cover Immediately

Just how badly do you want a Storm? Badly enough to pull up your long-established roots, fly for half a day, and take residence in a foreign land thousands of miles from home? For Americans who absolutely cannot wait another week for RIM’s first touchscreen device to launch on domestic soil, that’s the only option; for Brits on Vodafone, though, heaven is but a single shop trip away.

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Keepin’ it Real Fake, Part CLXVI: The Sany Ericssan X1 With Wyndowz Mobil

Strategic advantages Sany Ericssan holds over Sony Ericsson:

* A quarterly sales volume measured in the hundreds is considered a rousing success.
* Neither Sany nor Ericssan have any intention of pulling out of the joint venture.

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Verizon’s Samsung Saga Shows its Face, As Anticipated

Nothing new or unexpected here: just like we said a few days ago, the Samsung Saga, one of the bluest handsets in recent memory, is now available online at Verizon. Also filed under “things we already knew,” the globetrotting GSM and CDMA-enabled smartphone with EV-DO is selling for $199.99

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American Airlines Getting in On That Cellphone Boarding Pass Fad

American Airlines has joined its peers at Continental in offering boarding pass barcodes that you can download to and display on your BlackBerry, iPhone, G1, or whatever have you. Presently the airline is only offering the option on domestic, non-stop flights departing from O’Hare — LAX and Orange County will start on the 17th.

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Legacy Entertainment’s Atari-style Joystick isn’t As Old As it Looks

There are plenty of reasons to return to the classics: maybe they’re better than the currents, maybe it’s an ironic move (like listening to Kajagoogoo and wearing giant eyeglasses), or maybe you’re just aged and yearning for old-timey days. Regardless, Legacy Entertainment’s classic controller looks exactly like an Atari joystick, but it’s Windows / OS X / Linux compatible, and connects via USB.

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Europe Also Getting A Taste Of OLPC Sugar On Monday

The OLPC, Give One Get One program is heading to Europe on November 17th — the same day the deal kicks off in the US. Thanks to the Amazon hook-up, 27 EU nations as well as Switzerland, Russia, and Turkey can grab an XO

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Mgestyk Fusion: The Force is 6-degrees Strong With This One

Everyone and their grandma loves the Wii. But even Nintendo’s new dual-axis MotionPlus struggles in 3D space due to limitations presented by the sensor bar. Mgestyk thinks it can do better by marrying its interesting gesture processing technology to the sensor data received from devices like the Wiimote. Mgestyk Fusion replaces the sensor bar with a 3D camera and image processing to translate yaw, pitch, roll, forward/back, right/left, and up/down motions from the Wiimote connected to a PC over Bluetooth.

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