Motorola Rival A455 and Evoke QA4 – specs unveiled
Although they’re not officially announced, Motorola A455 and Motorola Evoke QA4 have already appeared in press photos. Now we also have their main features and specs, which confirm the fact that the handsets are not high-end ones. Let’s start with the A455. Previously appeared as Motorola Rush 2, the device will apparently be launched as [...]
Palm needs money for launching the Pre, developing other products
Palm has just announced its intention to remarket around 18.5 million common shares which underlie preferred stock and warrants that Elevation Partners has acquired in January 2009. Assuming the remarketing will be completed, Elevation Partners would receive $49 million, representing the price it initially paid for the shares, while Palm should receive all net proceeds in excess [...]
3 UK gives away 1,000 USB dongles
UK residents in need of a new Mobile Broadband dongle can now get one for free, as Hutchison’s 3 offers no less than 1,000 such accessories. The largest British MVNO has set up a giveaway contest that’s open from 9 AM today, to 9 AM tomorrow, March 10 (UK time). To enter the giveaway you [...]
Verizon’s Nokia Intrigue appears in press photos
Last time we heard about it, Nokia Intrigue was set for a March 15 launch via Verzion Wireless. We can’t confirm that yet, but we can take a look at the phone’s press photos. As reported before, the Intrigue (also known as Nokia 7205) is a stylish clamshell that has external music-dedicated keys and a nice [...]
5 million Samsung TouchWiz F480 phones sold
With Samsung being the world’s second largest handset manufacturer, it’s no wonder its touchscreen phones are sold in millions of units. As we already reported, Samsung shipped more than 10 million such phones in 2008 only, having a quarter of the global touchscreen market. Now we’re hearing that the most successful touchscreen phone from the [...]
Apple Netbook to finally come in Q3 2009?
Rumors about an Apple netbook have been floating around since last year, although the Cupertino company has said/done nothing to confirm it will actually launch such a product. Now it looks like a netbook with the iconic fruit logo on it might be outed as soon as the third quarter of 2009 – according to DigiTimes. [...]
Orange and Barclaycard will launch mobile payment services
Orange, currently the world’s ninth largest mobile carrier, today announced a strategic partnership with Barclaycard, the global credit provider owned by Barclays plc. The two companies will launch a series of mobile financial services in the UK, with the final purpose of “revolutionizing the way people pay on the high street and web”. By using [...]
Nokia to unveil new music product(s) on Wednesday
Nokia is getting ready to unveil a new music-oriented product, during an event that will be held on Wednesday, March 11. Details are scarce for the moment, but there’s a header saying “Your Music Player is Ringing”, which might mean the Finnish company has a new music phone to announce. The last XpressMusic handset that [...]
LG Cooky KP500 gets 3D S-Class upgrade
LG must feel really happy about its low cost LG Cookie KP500 touchscreen device, of which they have sold more than 1.3 mil in Europe since October 2008. And they must feel really proud about their new “S-class” 3D User Interface too, for which they’ve spent more then 100 man years to develop. So now they [...]
LG Viewty II GC900 in live pics
Last week, we’ve discovered that LG actually has a Viewty II phone that’s not the Renoir. The handset is LG GC900, and now it has finally appeared in some photos so we can take a good look at it. As you may already know, LG Viewty II has a 3 inch touchscreen display, like the [...]
Acer wants its own app store
Following the path that Apple opened, more and more handset manufacturers want their own app store. We have Nokia’s Ovi Store, RIM’s BlackBerry App World and so on. Now Acer, which has recently ventured into the smartphone biz, also ponders at setting up a software marketplace for its handsets. According to Mobile Entertainment, Acer’s senior [...]
Verizon to launch Nokia Intrigue on March 15. AT&T’s Nokia E71, LG Zenon and Samsung Jackfrost coming soon too
We knew the Nokia 7205 Intrigue is part of Verizon Wireless’ 2009 line-up, but we had no clue on when it could be released. Now it looks like Verizon plans to out the mid-end clamshell on March 15. Well, at least that’s what a leaked stock sheet appeared at Engadget says. The price of Nokia [...]
Vodafone may ditch Google for Yahoo
Vodafone currently relies on Google’s services for the default search engine on its mobile phones. But the agreement with Google expires this year, and Vodafone might ditch the big G and choose Yahoo instead. According to Bloomberg, sources familiar with Vodafone’s plans say that the giant mobile carrier is in talks with Yahoo, although no [...]
Google sets up Android development team in Taiwan
Android is mainly associated with smartphones, but that doesn’t mean Google won’t try to bring the OS to other platforms. The Mountain View giant has just set up an Android team somewhere in Taiwan, with the said purpose of providing technical support to local hardware manufacturers that want to develop products based on Android – including [...]
$5,500 Gresso Lady Diamond phone announced
It sure didn’t take long for Gresso to come up with yet another new luxury phone. After the Skeleton Gold, the Russian company has now launched the Gresso Lady Diamond, a handset obviously designed for the ladies. More exactly, for ladies who can afford to pay $5,500 on a phone, because that’s the price of [...]
HTC’s 3G smartphones may be banned in Germany due to alleged patent infringement
With a population of 82 million and a 123% mobile penetration rate, Germany is a very important market for most of the major handset makers, including HTC. But HTC seems to have some problems lately. The German website Handeslblatt reports that the Taiwanese manufacturer has lost a patent violation suit in favor of IPCom GmbH. [...]
Samsung Instinct Mini / Instinct S30 in leaked images?
Rumors about Sprint’s Samsung Instinct Mini have been around for sometime now, but there were no images with the handset so we couldn’t actually see it. Well, today we have a couple of shots that are likely to present the Instinct Mini aka Samsung SPH-M810. According to a thread from the Howard Forums, these pics [...]
T-Mobile moving from WM to Android worldwide?
One of T-Mobile’s most popular families of handsets – in Europe, at least – is the MDA series, which is comprised of devices running on Windows Mobile. So we can easily say that T-Mo and Windows Mobile had and still have a pretty good time together. But this may change soon, and WinMo could be [...]
MOTOROKR phones come with U2′s No Line on the Horizon in Latin America
Motorola and Universal Music singed a new agreement that allowed the handset maker to pre-load, on four of its MOTOROKR phones, U2’s brand new album called No Line on the Horizon. The phones are MOTOROKR EM35, EM30, EM28 and EM25, and, unfortunately, they will be offered only in Latin America with the latest U2 album. [...]
Simple Samsung SCH-r211 released in the US via Cricket
Only two weeks after launching the A100 and Kyocera S1300, Cricket has now outed yet another affordable phone: Samsung SCH-r211. Like the other two phones released before it, the SCH-r211 is only a simple candybar. It works on the CDMA 800Mhz and PCS 1900Mhz bands, thus it can be used in all the Cricket markets in [...]