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Jolla's 'Aqua Fish' phone quietly surfaces at MWC
So this is a surprise. Jolla, the Finnish mobile company known for its gesture-based Sailfish OS, quietly showed up to MWC with a new handset called "Aqua Fish." The Sailfish-based phone is the result of its partnership with Indian firm Intex Technologies. Aqua Fish is the first handset to come out of Jolla's licensing ambitions, which the Finnish company launched after its fumbled crowdfunded tablet launch.
Mobile Miscellany: week of April 8th, 2013
If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week, we were treated to a peek at the Lumia 928 in white, Canada's upstart carriers made waves, BlackBerry users got a new free calling option and the Lumia 520 spread its wings to more carriers in the UK. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that's happening in the mobile world for this week of April 8th, 2013.
Mobile Miscellany: week of February 4th, 2013
If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought the arrival of Cricket's first waterproof smartphone and Three introduced an updated Galaxy S III known as the Ultrafast. Not to stop there, we'll take a trip to India to highlight the latest value-oriented smartphone. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the "best of the rest" for this week of February 4th, 2013.
Indian firm planning sub-$125 Android phone
Oh, and did we mention that's an unsubsidized price? Indian manufacturer Intex says that it'll have a Froyo-based handset on the market this coming February for right around INR 5,500, which works out to something like $122 at the current exchange rate. It's going to come equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera -- not bad, really -- but the cost savings would appear to come in part from the use of a bargain-basement 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen that'll probably make the virtual keyboard a challenge without the use of a stylus. Considering that HTC's "low-end" Wildfire runs about double that, there might be a market for this kind of hardware -- but hey, screen manufacturers, would you please research dirt-cheap capacitive technology?
