Gizmodo: tri-band

Art Lebedev Develops WiMax, Tri-Band GSM Handset

Sean Fallon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:58:00 EDT

Earlier this month Russian carrier Scartel partnered with Samsung to bring a WiMax network to around 20 million potential customers in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have big plans on expanding that network throughout the country, so it only made sense to turn to Russia's premier design team at Art Lebedev to develop a flagship headset to take advantage of the WiMax rollout. What they have come up with is a hot looking WiMax, Wi-Fi and triple-band GSM capable handset with a 850 x 480 screen (most likely touch), dual cameras, a five-position joystick and a microSD slot. Again, this device is only in the design stage and there is no word on what OS it will run, but things are definitely looking good for Russian mobile users so far.

[Art Lebedev via Pocket-Lint and Unstrung]

Motorola Alexander's QWERTY-Free Cousin: The Atila

Sean Fallon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:16:00 EDT

It's been about a week since spy shots of the Motorola Alexander surfaced, and it appears that it will be followed by an inbred cousin dubbed "Atila" that was born without a QWERTY keyboard. It will also be the first Motorola device with tri-band UMTS/HSDPA. Other features include: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, 1.8Mbps HSUPA, 2.8″ QVGA 240 x 320 screen, Wi-Fi b/g, a Qualcomm 7201A chipset and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. As usual, no release date or pricing has been announced just yet. [BGR]

LG B2250: Wafer Thin

Noah R — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:34:41 EDT

LG Korea is crafting a new tri-band GSM phone that is 15mm (.59") thin. Not quite as slim as Siemens' CC75 .50" candy bar. But in exchange you get a 262k TFT screen and a multi-color backlight. To say nothing of the GSM, GPRS, WAP, VGA camera and loads of other acronyms that come standard with phones nowadays. No word yet on whether it is arriving stateside.

LG B2250 Cell Phone [MobileWhack]
LG B2250 [SlashPhone]
LG Announces Thin B2250 Camera Phone [MobileBurn]