Channel Title: Mobile Gazette Channel Description: Information on new and upcoming mobile phones and smartphones in Europe and worldwide. <video> [Retromobe] Nokia 5140i Description: Launched ten years ago, the rugged Nokia 5140i was a popular and quite cool looking device. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Motorola PEBL U6, Q8 and RAZR V3x (2005) Description: Ten years ago this month, Motorola was still riding the wave of success created by the iconic RAZR handset. But they were finding it a struggle to find new products to capitalize on their surge in popularity, with several devices that had been announced.. and then cancelled. However, in July 2005 we saw a trio of products being shown off that Motorola hoped would change things. </video> <video> [Retromobe] BlackBerry Curve 9300 and BlackBerry Torch 9800 (2010) Description: Five years ago, BlackBerry owners Research in Motion (RIM) were at their peak, with an income of almost $20 billion in the fiscal year from March 2010 to February 2011. Two handsets that formed the heart of this success are were the BlackBerry Curve 9300 and the BlackBerry Torch 9800. These two devices were very tightly focussed on messaging, and both featured the classic BlackBerry physical keyboard. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Sharp 903 (2005) Description: Ten years ago, Vodafone was attempting to leverage its Japanese subsidiary to come up with some exciting 3G phones to help promote their push into this new market. To this end, the Sharp 903 was launched, replacing the year-old Sharp 902. The 903 featured a 2.4" QVGA display, a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and optical zoom, it came with miniSD expandable memory, Bluetooth, a music player with stereo sound, a barcode scanner plus OCR support, and of course it supported UMTS data with a download speed of 384KBps.. which doesn't sound like much these days, but it was six times faster than GPRS. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Nokia 6111 Description: This cute little slider was popular in its day, but who remembers it now? </video> <video> [Retromobe] Nokia 7360, 7370, 7380 - the L’Amour Range (2005) Description: A decade ago, Nokia had a reputation for making practical if slightly dull mobile phones. But occasionally the Finns liked to let their hair down and produce something different... and the Nokia L’Amour range from 2005 was certainly different from the norm. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Sony Ericsson P990 (2005) Description: Following on from the successful P800, P900 and P910 smartphones, the P990 did not live up to expectations. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Apple iPhone 4 Description: More than just an upgrade, the iPhone 4, launched five years ago this month, was a massive improvement over previous versions. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Bang & Olufsen Serene Description: Imagine you that were designing a mobile phone but you had never seen one before. You knew what components you had to include, but otherwise you had a blank sheet of paper. The Bang & Olufsen Serene (also known as the Samsung E910) is such a phone. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Motorola ROKR E1 - the Apple phone before the iPhone (2005) Description: The Motorola ROKR E1 has the dubious distinction of being one of the most disastrous mobile phone releases ever. But what is it with this innocuous looking device that is so horribly wrong? </video> <video> [Retromobe] Motorola StarTAC (1996) Description: Twenty years ago, mobile phones were big brick-like affairs. But in January 1996, Motorola changed people’s perceptions with the Motorola StarTAC clamshell phone – a device that was half the weight of the competition, and which would easily slide into your pocket. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Nokia 770 Description: Launched ten years ago, the Nokia 770 was arguably the world's first internet tablet. </video> <video> [Retromobe] BlackBerry Pearl 3G Description: At the time, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G was a hugely popular device. But who remembers it now? </video> <video> RETROMOBE: A Tale of Two Tablets: Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 and BlackBerry Playbook (2010) Description: The concept of a “tablet” had been around for five years or so by September 2010, with the Nokia 770 pioneering the way with modest sales in 2005. However, the launch of the original Apple iPad in January 2010 really defined what people expected from a tablet, and the iPad rapidly went on to be a huge success. Of course, other manufacturers wanted a slice of this market and two of the earliest competitors were quite similar to each other - the Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 and the BlackBerry PlayBook. However, neither of these could match the success of the Apple product for somewhat different reasons. </video> <video> [Retromobe] Motorola FLIPOUT and Nokia X5-01 (June 2010) Description: A decade ago, Motorola and Nokia were trying to do something a little different with a pair of square smartphones with physical keyboards. </video>

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