Samsung Preston (S5230) & Samsung Star (S5600) www.samsungmobile.com Samsung has unveiled the Samsung Star (S5230) and Samsung Preston (S5600) for the global market. Boasting a compact design and intuitive usability, the products answer today’s customer needs of a full touch phone at affordable prices. Supporting 2.5G networks (Star) and 3G networks (Preston) respectively, Samsung is [...]

For its considerably cheap P16,400 tag, you get a touchscreen smartie carrying the bare essentials and then some. It has an intuitive interface and lets you get around the phone’s features, settings and access applications using swipe-and-tap finger motions. It functions on a Quad-band GSM network with GPRS and EDGE capabilities for connecting to the Web with Internet Explorer.

By Daniel Ionescu PC World (US) January 21, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO  – Would you buy a crap phone just because it’s “green”? When a company has 350 employees dedicated to implementing a brand-spanking-new mobile OS into its devices, one doesn’t really expect to see a phone made out of recycled plastic bottles. But defying any [...]

By Lincoln Spector, PC World PC World (US) January 06, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – Want to hear a shocker? My family ran up nearly $2,700 in phone bills over the last 12 months. And that doesn’t include new cell phones, or our landline-based DSL Internet access. Why so much? We have two adults and two [...]

By Daniel Ionescu PC World (US) December 10, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO – After months of waiting, Nokia finally announced the N97, the company’s second (unreleased) device to challenge the iPhone and revive to the N-series to their former glory. With a 3.5″ touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 32GB of memory, the N97 is one phone worth [...]

January 7, 2009 iPhone Competitor On the Rise By Luis Anthony G. Oliveros Published in the November 2008 print edition of PC World Philippines Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia 8GB- P33,000 • 16GB- P38,000 www.samsung.com You have to admit that Apple was practically daring for competition when the iPhone came out. And true enough, competitors have scrambled [...]