Ultra-thin Palm Eos coming to AT&T for just $99?
This is definitely Palm’s week. A boatload of rumors and stories related to the Sunnyvale company are coming from all over the Web, culminating with this: the second Palm smartphone to run on WebOS is the Palm Eos, a 10.6mm thin handset that will (apparently) be launched by AT&T.
Since it’s bound for AT&T, the Eos [...]
Sony Ericsson W518a approved by FCC, heading to AT&T
The Sony Ericsson W518a that we’ve heard about back in March is a real device after all.
The Walkman clamshell was just approved by the FCC and it will soon be launched in the US by AT&T.
An exact release date is not known, but the phone will probably be available starting the next few months.
Hopefully, the 8MP [...]
Vodafone’s new data plan for the UK: only 50p per day
Vodafone has just announced a new “flat 50p daily rate” for its UK-based customers.
The data plan provides unlimited Internet browsing and email access from your Vodafone handset and it will obviously cost only 50 pence per day (£0.50).
It will be available starting May 1, for all Vodafone UK customers who haven’t subscribed to a data [...]
Next-gen Palm Centro with WebOS leaked
In yet another Palm-related piece of news, we’re hearing the maker of Palm Pre already has a new Centro-like device up its sleeve.
The unnanounced smartphone runs on WebOS and, according to Boy Genius Report, it will be released this autumn.
This may or may not be related to the smaller Palm Pre that’s also rumored to [...]
Koreans are testing indoor LBS services too
Finland is not the only country where indoor Location Based Services are being tested.
Far away from Nokia’s homeland, in Seul, South Korea, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has already developed an “Indoor location search technology”.
Using Wi-Fi signals, ETRI’s technology was tested at the COEX Mall, Seoul’s largest shopping center. It can provide accurate [...]
Blackberry Apex Announcement Expected at WES
There is a lot of buzzing going on about a few new Blackberry handsets getting ready to grace the shelves of Verizon stores everywhere. Recently we have heard about the Blackberry Niagara and Flip 8230, but we are now hearing there’s more.
Turns out the Blackberry Apex is rumored to be announced at the Wireless Enterprise [...]
Samsung phones to use Nokia’s Navteq map data
Samsung, one of Nokia’s fiercest competitors, will use Navteq maps on several of its handsets that should be available in no less than 76 markets worldwide.
Acquired by Nokia in 2008 for about $8.1 billion, Navteq currently provides Geographic Information Systems data and digital navigation maps for giant companies like Garmin, Yahoo and BMW.
Reportedly, the first [...]
Motorola confirms several Android phones for November
It’s no secret that Motorola is working on an Android phone and was planning to have them launched by the year’s end.
Moto’s CEO has repeatedly told us that and there were numerous leaks and hints about Moto Android smartphones during the last few months.
Well, today, in its quarterly earnings release, Sannjay Jha, head of Moto [...]
Palm is looking for Pre reviewers?
Amidst the preparations for the Pre release, Palm has though it would be a good idea to search for non-professional reviewers who should “share their opinions about Palm phones across the blogosphere, social networks and beyond.”
The smartphone maker announced some sort of contest that simply asks you to write stuff about its handsets – including [...]
LG GT810 – WM 6.1 Incite headed to South America
We have noticed that LG is working on a new touchscreen phone LG GT810H a few months ago.
But beyond the screen resolution and 3G data support, nothing much has been known about the device.
Until today, when LG has published the details of this handset on their developer site. And there’s nothing really interesting [...]