Nokia Cupid service launched in the UK – send free Valentine’s Day text messages
Nokia though it would be nice to come up with a free service for this year’s Valentine’s Day, so it launched Nokia Cupid, a website that allows you to send, for free, anonymous love-themed text messages. The service is available only in the UK (too bad), and it simply requires you to enter your name, [...]
Google intros AdSense for mobile search
Google has just unveiled the availability of a “new AdSense product for both mobile network operators and mobile website owners across the globe”, namely Google AdSense for mobile search. Following the 2007 launch of AdSense for mobile content, the new Google offering comes to provide a simple way, for both carriers and mobile publishers, to [...]
Nokia E63 has hit the shelves in the US, $279 unlocked
About one month ago, Nokia said that its E63 Eseries smartphone would be launched in the US (alongside the low-end Nokia 1006), but it didn’t mention when exactly this will happen. Well, it just happened today, and, from now on, you can buy the E63 from Nokia’s Flagship stores in Chicago and New York, as [...]
Samsung Instinct Mini, HTC Cedar, LG Rumor 2 and LG LX370 to hit Sprint
While waiting for the Palm Pre to be released, Sprint’s customers might want to find out what other devices their carrier plans to offer in the near future. And since the Palm Treo Pro seems to be delayed until who knows when, maybe an LG Rumor 2 can catch your attention. That’s right, Sprint is [...]
Sony Ericsson W395 Walkman brings music to the masses
As we said a bit earlier, Sony Ericsson announced three new phones today: C903, C901 and W395. Since we’ve already covered the two Cyber-shots, it’s now time to see what’s with the W395 Walkman phone. Previously known as Sony Ericsson Yao, the W395 is only an entry-level device that resembles the gaming-centric F305. Targeted mainly at [...]
Sony Ericsson C903 and C901 Cyber-shot phones officially unveiled
Why it looks like today is a good day for officially announcing phones. After Nokia’s 5630 XpressMusic, here comes Sony Ericsson with not one, not two, but three new handsets: Sony Ericsson C903, Sony Ericsson C901 and Sony Ericsson W395. For the moment, we’re gonna take a look at the two Cyber-shots, the C903 and [...]
Nokia 5630 XpressMusic announced: an S60 music-centric candybar
Nokia’s XpressMusic family of handsets has just got bigger, with the addition of 5630 XpressMusic – a new candybar that we’ll probably see in the flesh during MWC 2009. The 5630 is ultra-thin (12 millimeters) and has a design that clearly says “hey, I’m an XpressMusic phone”. This being said, you’ll probably be surprised to [...]
LG Arena KM900 UI has multi-touch, dedicated multimedia chip, took 100 man years to develop
It seems that LG just doesn’t want to get off the frontpages with its LG Arena KM900 multimedia phone. Since it fessed up about the existence of LG Arena in a blogpost on Friday, there’s already the third official communication about how cool the new phone is. This time LG talks about the coolness of it’s [...]
Nokia 5800 with US 3G support to be launched this month for $400
Although Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is already available in the US, it’s only the European version that can be bought – for $349.99. This means you are forced to use it only on the GSM/EDGE bands, since European 3G frequencies are incompatible with the US ones. However, it looks like a North American version of the [...]
Nokia Maps 3.0 Beta – major update released
Nokia Maps 3.0 Beta, first outed at the beginning of December 2008, has just received an important update. And although this doesn’t change the number version (it’s still 3.0 Beta), it brings many improvements, as well as synchronization with Ovi Maps. The list of the devices supporting Nokia Maps is now larger than ever, including [...]
Microsoft My Phone and Google Sync mobile cloud services announced
2009 is shaping to be the year when Mobile Internet/Web/Cloud services really started going After success of Apple, everyone and their grandma is lunching their own mobile app stores. Music and games delivered to your phone via operator’s data connection is a nobrainer for most of the mobile players. And let’s not get started about [...]
Archos to come with breakthrough Android Internet Media Tablet
Archos, the French manufacturer best known for its portable media players, has just become the latest company to announce a device that will come with Android on board. Said device is not a regular smartphone, but an Internet Media Tablet (IMT) that has mobile phone capabilities, thanks to the fact that it merges “Google’s Android [...]
Samsung Eltz S7220 and Samsung Marcel in the wild
We’ve just got word about yet another two new Samsung handsets that are said to be readied for a showcase at MWC 2009 (thus in one week from now): Samsung Eltz S7220 and Samsung Marcel. Neither of them are high end (like the S8300 Ultra Touch, for example), although the Eltz S7220 does come close to what [...]
BlackBerry Gemini 9300 to be the first 3G Curve
Wondering when the first 3G BlackBerry Curve is going to be released? Well, we can’t answer this question yet, but we can tell you that the first Curve to come with support for 3G frequencies is apparently called BlackBerry Gemini 9300. According to BGR, the BlackBerry 9300 Gemini is a possible successor of the 8900 (currently [...]
Sony Ericsson Hikaru (W923?) – first image leaked
The pre-MWC leaks marathon continues today with what looks to be Sony Ericsson Hikaru, a handset that we first heard about back in October 2008. Coming as Sony Ericsson’s new Walkman flagship phone, Hikaru is a slider that looks quite nice, although it has nothing out of the ordinary (and it’s really far from the mockup [...]
Samsung revamps its TouchWiz UI
The same day when it officially unveiled the 8MP S8300 slider, Samsung has also announced that its TouchWiz user interface has been upgraded to include some new features and improvements. As expected, the revamped TouchWiz UI will be fully presented at MWC 2009, on the already mentioned S8300 and, probably, on some other new phones [...]
Nokia E75 (semi) official pics, specs, price and shipping date
The pictures and some specs of the upcoming Nokia E75 messaging phone have been leaked quite a few times already. And we will not hear anything official about it from Nokia probably until the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. But we can give you the next best thing to the official [...]
Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch officially announced for MWC 2009
We know that Samsung is preparing some really cool phones to showcase at MWC 2009, and now we’re certain that one of them is the S8300 Ultra Touch. First appeared at the end of December 2008, Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch has just been confirmed by the South Korean company to be among the devices they’ll [...]
Samsung D980 La Fleur Touch with Mobile Coupons
It seems that Samsung is getting seriously ready for a Valentine’s day in Russia. We already told you about a beautiful Samsung F480 La Fleur Touch edition. But it’s not the only one. Samsung has dressed up it’s dual SIM version of F480 – D980 – in La Fleur colors too. And aptly named it Samsung D980 [...]
LG Incite announced for Korea too
The same day when it officially unveiled the multimedia-centric KM900, LG has also announced the upcoming release of LG Incite in its home country, South Korea. Unlike other handsets – like the MotoPrizm – which reached Korea with upgraded specs, LG Incite seems to be the same Incite that AT&T outed a couple of months ago [...]