Nokia E55 to come in red too
Last week, when Nokia officially announced the ultrathin Nokia E55, the smartphone only appeared in two color versions: black and white. But the Finnish manufacturer also has a red E55, or at least that’s what some new leaked pictures lead us to believe. Spotted at mobile.mail.ru, the pictures show the half-QWERTY handset dressed in the above-mentioned color [...]
Asus P835 officially unveiled: WVGA display, 5MP camera and more
Despite the alliance with Garmin, Asus doesn’t give up on announcing its own handsets after all. The Taiwanese manufacturer has just unveiled the Asus P835, a brand new Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone that offers a large 3.5 inch touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixels, plus a set of other nice features. In Asus’ own [...]
Asus P565 pulled off the shelves after the alliance with Garmin?
Unveiled back in November 2008, Asus P565 is a Windows Mobile smartphone that features a VGA touchscreen display, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, a 3.2MP camera and an 800 MHz CPU – thus being a pretty cool device. However, it looks like Asus’ partnership with Garmin, announced at the beginning of February, has determined the Taiwanese company to [...]
Bell intros the Palm Treo Pro, BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230
Bell Mobility, Canada’s largest CDMA carrier, has launched two new smartphones manufactured by Palm and RIM respectively: Palm Treo Pro and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230, the latter coming in black and pink. While the US still doesn’t have the CDMA versions of said handsets, Canadian mobile users can buy any of them as of today. Bell offers the [...]
Nokia Netbooks may be jointly developed with Taiwanese partners
This week the rumors that Nokia will be moving into a netbook / compact mobile computer market started flying far and wide. Well, we ourselves got something to do with it when we reported about the early prototype of Nokia’s Sparrow based mobile computer. Then the company’s CEO confirmed that Nokia is eyeing the mobile computer market with [...]
Good-looking Samsung S3500 announced, priced
When we first saw Samsung’s S3500 slider, details about its release date and price were not available. Today, the phone was officially introduced in Russia as an affordable yet good-looking device. Samsung S3500 kind of resembles the Soul U900, although it doesn’t have a touch-sensitive navigation pad and neither the high-end specs the U900 sports. [...]
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic officially outed in the US
The North American version of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has been finally launched in the US, more than two months after its European version was made available via Nokia’s flagship stores in Chicago and New York. The NAM 5800 obviously comes with support for US 3G bands, and, as of today, it can be purchased for [...]
AT&T bound Samsung i637 with WinMo passes the FCC
FCC has just approved the Samsung SGH-i637, a new handset that should hit AT&T in the near future. We say this not only because the i637 is described by FCC as a “850/1900 GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA phone”, but also because it comes with Media FLO, AT&T’s mobile TV service. [...]
BlackBerry Bold has overheating problems too; sales in Japan halted
Hey, AT&T Quickfire, you’re not the only QWERTY handset to have overheating problems. RIM’s high-end BlackBerry Bold has them too – at least in Japan. The Bold was introduced last week in Japan by NTT DoCoMo, the country’s largest mobile operator, and 4,000 customers have bought it since then. However, according to Reuters, DoCoMo received [...]
Early Nokia 5800 XMs have a major speaker defect. It’s likely to die within months
With Nokia 5800 NAM hitting the stores this week, and releases in other parts of the world planned soon, many of you must be eager to buy one, and spend a good chunk of your hard earned money on it. Don’t. Not until you read this: All Nokia 5800 XM handsets made before February have a [...]
Motorola i465 press photo leaked
Remember that Motorola i465 iDEN phone, which showed off its full QWERTY keyboard in a blurry picture about a month ago? Well, it turns out that Moto has revamped it and probably wants to officially release it any time soon. The i465 didn’t look too attractive last time we saw it, but now we have a [...]
Vodafone announces Microsoft Online Services with voice and data
Vodafone has just announced a global partnership with Microsoft under which the carrier will start offering its business customers Microsoft Online Services with voice and data. The new communication solution will integrate the following: Microsoft Exchange Online for e-mail and calendars; Microsoft Office Communications Online; Microsoft SharePoint Online; and Microsoft Office Live Meeting (for webconferencing [...]
Nokia updates Ovi Contacts for S60 FP2
Ovi Contacts, the client software formerly known as Nokia Chat, has just been updated by Nokia for all its Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones with Feature Pack 2 (FP2) This comes shortly after the service lost three weeks of user data, following a server breakdown. Although there are no major changes in the updated version, [...]
Google’s own slider smartphone patent app
Google’s ambitions (and their limits) in mobile space are pretty well known by now. Google wants to have one of the major mobile OS’es out there. Android 1.0 is a good start, but Google is looking forward for Android 3.0 release next year to really get going. And by now it should be clear that [...]
iPhone 3G to finally hit China this spring
Rumors about an iPhone 3G release in China have been around even before the smartphone was officially announced by Apple. Now we’re hearing that the iPhone 3G could finally be launched in the world’s largest mobile market starting this spring. According to Shanghai Daily, Apple is close to striking a deal with China Unicom, [...]
LG Versa officially announced by Verizon
After lots of leaked images and rumors, LG Versa has now been officially introduced by Verizon Wireless. Presented by Verizon as an MVP (Most Versatile Phone), Versa is a touchscreen handset that comes with LG’s own UI and a detachable QWERTY keyboard. Said keyboard is wrapped into some sort of protective case for the phone, case that [...]
Nokia confirms intentions to enter laptop business – Nokia Sparrow might be real
Just yesterday, we were telling you about the so-called Nokia Sparrow, which is said to be something in between a laptop and a MID (mobile internet device). Now Nokia has confirmed that it’s seriously thinking about entering the laptop business, although it didn’t give any clear details regarding the matter. According to Reuters, Nokia’s CEO [...]
Samsung Memoir finally available from T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA and Samsung have kept their promise regarding the release of Samsung Memoir, and now the 8 Megapixel camera phone is finally available for purchase across the US. Coming as North America’s first 8MP handset, Samsung‘s Memoir T929 is a full-touchscreen phone that can be bought for $249 with a 2-yr T-Mo contract agreement. Or, for those [...]
AT&T Quickfire has overheating problems, could burst into… fire
Launched in November 2008 by AT&T, the Quickfire GTX75 seems to have some serious quality problems. More exactly, the touchscreen QWERTY handset can significantly overheat if you incorrectly insert the AC charger into its charging port. And although there have not been reports of the device literally bursting into fire, this may happen. So it [...]
Palm Pre shows up on European websites
Although a GSM Palm Pre was showcased during MWC 2009, a release date for it was not given. Well, we still don’t know when the smartphone’s GSM version will be launched, but we can tell you that Palm has added it to its European websites. So now the Sunnyvale-based manufacturer presents the Pre as coming [...]