Motorola Inferno to be released soon as Motorola Torch by Verizon?
Motorola Inferno is one of those Moto handsets that leaked at the end of last year with Verizon written all over them. Now word on the street is that the Inferno will actually be called Motorola Torch. Even more, BGR says that Verizon will begin hardware trials with the Inferno / Torch as early as [...]
Nokia gets back to Korea. Stupidly
Nokia hasn’t shipped any new phones to Korea since 2003. But now that the WIPI regulation is about to be lifted, the Finnish giant thought it would be a good idea to return to said East-Asia country. The problem is that, apparently, Nokia’s comeback will be done in a silly way. The Finns intend to [...]
T-Mobile USA will launch “more G series phones” this year
The fact that a G2 exists is kind of confirmed, thanks to those hands-on pics leaked not long ago. But that doesn’t necessarily mean T-Mobile will release any new G-phone sometime soon, is it? Well, it actually does mean that – at least now, after some of T-Mobile USA’s plans for 2009 were unveiled by a [...]
Samsung S3500, new entry-level slider
One of the newest entry-level phones to come from Samsung is the S3500, a pretty nice slider that doesn’t seem to have a particular target. For the moment, we have no details about when the handset will be released, but we do know that it should be available in Asia (under the Anycall brand), as [...]
Confirmed (Almost): Dell Working on Smartphone
The rumors are true. Dell is indeed planning on entering the competitive smartphone market. Wall Street Journal just broke the news this afternoon that Dell “has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office in the Chicago area.” They produced prototypes built on Google Inc.’s Android [...]
Black and red versions of Nokia E71 now official
The same day when Nokia announced a trio of new classic phones (Nokia 6700, Nokia 6303 and Nokia 2700), the Finnish giant has also officially unveiled the black and red editions of its E71 smartphone. You know, the ones we first saw back in December 2008. So now Nokia’s Europe website features the E71 in four [...]
Virgin Mobile will launch the Ocean 2 with Britney Spears
Earlier today, when I saw the title of Virgin Mobile’s latest press release, I said “meh” and moved on – the title speaks about Britney Spears and its Circus tour that’s sponsored by VM. Yeah, so what? Well, it turns out that the press release has a hidden gem in it. More exactly, Virgin Mobile [...]
i-mate to present “revolutionary” handset at MWC 2009, possibly with Windows Mobile 6.5
i-mate, the Dubai-based developer of Windows Mobile devices, is reportedly preparing a breakthrough smartphone that will be presented in February, during MWC 2009. For the moment, there’s little info about the smartphone, but, according to msmobiles, it will be “revolutionary” and “like nothing else”. This being said, it’s possible that we’ll see a Windows Mobile 6.5 [...]
Samsung Propel Pro to hit AT&T sometime soon
AT&T’s Samsung Propel may be a freshly-released handset, but that doesn’t mean the blue and white carrier can’t think of a successor for it. Successor which is apparently called Samsung Propel Pro. And since the device has such a moniker, it’s only natural for it to come with more features than the original Propel. Sadly, details about [...]
Orange UK debuts PAYG BlackBerry services
Orange has just announced that it will become the first UK mobile operator to offer Pay As You Go BlackBerry Internet services. Starting early February, the carrier will launch an indigo version of BlackBerry Pearl 8120 on PAYG. The smartphone costs £145 ($207) and it’s an Orange-exclusive handset – at least in the UK. And, [...]
Microsoft patents the interface to transform your phone into a PC
The power of modern smartphones in many ways equals and even surpasses the power of a desktop PC of just few years ago. You know, things like CPUs faster then 800 Mhz, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, tens of gygabytes of storage, dedicated graphics accelerators, etc;. So why not just ditch the old laptop and [...]
Nokia 6700, Nokia 6303 and Nokia 2700 – three new classics
Alhtough the first month of 2009 is not over yet, Nokia has already announced three new phones: Nokia 6700 classic, Nokia 6303 classic and Nokia 2700 classic. All of them have been unveiled just a few hours ago, and, as Nokia puts it, they offer a mix of “functionality and user experience required in today’s hectic times, [...]
Sony Ericsson S001 for Japan is everything you’d want from a Cyber-shot phone
If you thought the C905 is the best-possible Cyber-shot phone, you were wrong. Sony Ericsson has just released the S001 in Japan, a new Cyber-shot slider that looks to be a dream come true for any SE fan and even for any user who’s into camera phones. Coming in a slider form factor, Sony Ericsson [...]
Sidekick LX 2009 to have a 854 x 480 pixels display, GPS
All right, all you T-Mobile USA texters out there, check out this piece of news: your beloved carrier might soon release a Sidekick LX 2009 that will sport a marvelous 3.2-inch display with a resolution of no less than 854 x 480 pixels. Even more, the yet to come Sidekick LX will reportedly have 3G and [...]
Nokia Royal comes with 1160 diamonds and 8 platinum screws
Those of you in need of a special Nokia Carbon Arte should be happy to find out that a so-called Nokia Royal will soon be launched. The Royal resembles the Carbon Arte, but brings more luxury to the table. It’s not covered in carbon, but in solid platinum fixed with 8 handmade platinum screws. On [...]
Nokia teases with funny Audio Smileys
Nokia isn’t exactly the first company that comes in mind when you’re thinking about funny mobile software, yet the Finns have just came up with Audio Smileys – a beta application that, simply put, plays funny sounds. Although its target is represented by youngsters, Nokia says that adults can use Audio Smileys too, “for fooling [...]
RIM Blackberry Curve & Bold sales halted by T-Mobile in Holland
Buggy software& hardware has been a bane of RIM Blackberry devices recently. Although it’s probably not the case, it seems that there’s some problem reported somewhere with some Blackberry device every couple of weeks or so. Or at least often enough for me to wonder about the quality control issues over there. In todays news – the [...]
Samsung Memoir to hit T-Mobile USA on February 25 for $299
Rumors about Samsung Memoir (the US version of Samsung Pixon) have been floating around since the end of last year, but without clear details about its release. Now it looks like the handset will be outed by T-Mobile on February 25. Or at least that’s what a leaked document found at TmoNews says. The bad [...]
Motorola i465 mixes iDEN technology with a QWERTY keyboard
A Motorola phone with a QWERTY keyboard is certainly not something you’ve never seen before, but when that phone is also an iDEN one, well, then we’ve got something special. And the new Motorola i465 is exactly that: an iDEN handset with a QWERTY keyboard. There’s nothing official about the i465 for the moment, but [...]
New T-Mobile Shadow and Nokia 7510 available from T-Mo USA
The brand new T-Mobile Shadow is out today, a day earlier than we’ve expected, and it’s offered by T-Mo USA for $199 with a 2-yr contract agreement. Since it’s manufactured by HTC, the new Shadow comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 on board, being the first WM device to support the Unlimited HotSpot Calling service from [...]