Nokia updates Ovi Mail to version 1.1
Ovi Mail (also known as Mail on Ovi), Nokia’s service that provides simple email access via S40 phones, has just been updated to version 1.1. The update brings support for 12 languages: UK English, US English, Hindi, Bengali, French, German, Spanish, Portugese (Brazil), Portugese (Portugal), Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa, Malay and Tagalog. Also, Nokia paid attention [...]
Email friendly Nokia E75 starts shipping
Nokia E75, the only Eseries slider to come with a full QWERTY keyboard, is now shipping and customers should be able to find it in stores starting this week. The E75 is the first smartphone to come with Nokia Messaging – the service that provides easy access to corporate email (Mail for Exchange and IBM [...]
#CTIA09: Neutrano Nutec WristFone
The wristphone craze lives on! Sparked ultimately by the groundbreaking CES showing of the LG GD910 watch phone, others have certainly given it their best shot to come out with the product before LG officially does. One such example of similar product is the Neutrano Nutec WristFone. At CTIA this was another product that was [...]
BlackBerry Onyx and Magnum to hit AT&T; BlackBerry Driftwood for T-Mobile?
AT&T’s latest BlackBerry smartphone, the Bold 9000 (currently available for $299.99 on contract), is about five months old now, so you may wonder when new RIM-made devices will come to the giant US carrier. We can’t say exactly when, but we can say AT&T will be releasing not one, but two BlackBerry smartphones sometime in [...]
Another new iPhone Rumor: 802.11n Support
The cabinet we file all the rumors about the new iPhone(s) coming out this summer is starting to become so full we can’t pack any more rumors in. The newest rumor stems from wireless radio component specs embedded within the OS 3.0 beta firmware that include support for a low-power 802.11n chip. This support was [...]
Verizon Touch Diamond Geared for April 10 Release
We’re glad to hear this is coming pretty soon, as some of BGR’s faithful ninjas has revealed that Verizon has marked this coming Friday on its calendars as the date for the HTC Touch Diamond to say hello. Word has it that the Touch Diamond will be available through the internet, B2B and Telesales to [...]
HTC Snap, Touch Pro2 Given Release Dates on T-Mobile
For some fabulous weekend rumors, TmoNews is now reporting a schload of tentative release dates for several handsets, most notably the HTC Snap and Touch Pro2, which will be rebranded on T-Mobile as the Wing II. These are not official release dates, of course, so these certainly are subject to change at any time — [...]
#CTIA09: Elektrobit Hybrid Cellular-Satellite Phone
Aside from all the buzz that takes place at shows like CTIA 2009, there are hidden gems that for whatever reason don’t receive a whole lot of attention. It’s the lone booth that few people walk past that has a new idea that may have a lot of potential. At this year’s CTIA one such [...]
#CTIA09: Looking at Palm Pre Emulator
Palm announced while we were at CTIA that an emulator for the original Palm OS would be available on the Pre. The news of this is a sigh of relief for many current Palm owners who are nervous about making the switch from Palm OS to WebOS. Fortunately this will ensure any software that worked [...]
#CTIA09: Palm Pre’s new Applications
Of all the vendors at CTIA, Palm had the highest expectations coming into the show. The ironic thing about that statement is that Palm wasn’t even officially a vendor. Palm let Sprint do the work for them instead; and even then, Sprint didn’t have a booth — just a VIP press lounge tucked away from [...]
#CTIA09: Sony Ericsson Maria Sharapova Phone, Sans Maria
Upon first arriving at CTIA I sprinted over to Ericsson’s booth, hoping to get a glimpse of Maria Sharapova showing off her brand new phone just recently announced. Much to my chagrin however, there was no Maria. I guess I just barely missed her, or so I will just assume. At least she left us [...]
#CTIA09: What is the Samsung Valencia?
Here’s a mystery. It seems rather odd to me that certain phones are outed by Microsoft at its booth instead of the manufacturer itself. If Samsung is going to come out with a new device, wouldn’t it be nice to show that device off in Samsung’s own booth? This is exactly what happened at the [...]
#CTIA09: Examining the Samsung Magnet for AT&T
Of the six major phones announced this week to be coming on AT&T soon, we were happy to take a gander at all six of them at CTIA. A couple of the phones such as the Samsung Impression and Nokia E71x hogged most of the attention as all the buzz seemed to be upon them. [...]
#CTIA09: Samsung Mondi WiMax Video and Pics
Bundled together in an announcement of the Samsung Instinct S30, the Samsung Mondi WiMax device was another show-stealer at CTIA 2009. The Mondi is loaded. It’s basically everything you could want in a device, except a phone. It’s simply an internet tablet with Windows Mobile 6.1 and a whole load of extra bells and whistles, [...]
#CTIA09: Samsung Instinct S30
One of the popular phones being announced and shown off at CTIA 2009 was the Samsung Instinct S30. Originally dubbed the “Instinct Mini”, supposedly in an effort to throw off all of us who like to report rumors and phone leaks, it certainly is by no means the miniature version of its predecessor. The Instinct [...]
First Samsung Android smartphone to come in June; other two handsets promised for the US
We already know Samsung wants to launch three Android smartphones later this year. Previous reports said the South Korean company would release its first Android handset sometime in the third quarter of 2009, but it looks like the device will come earlier than expected. According to Forbes, a Samsung Android smartphone will be released in June, [...]
New iPhones to come with 3.2MP, 5MP cameras?
The iPhone 3G may be a high-end device, but, you have to admit it, its 2MP photo camera is similar to the cameras found in many entry-level phones today. However, the new, third-generation iPhone, may come with a 3.2 Megapixel camera. Or at least that’s what DigiTimes says. The Taiwanese website reports that OmniVision Technologies [...]
Verizon’s LG enV3 appears in live photos
If you liked Verizon’s LG enV and LG enV2, you’ll probably also like the upcoming LG enV3. Thanks to a couple of live shots with the enV3 (appeared over at Howard Forums), we know the handset has a larger external screen and a redesigned QWERTY keyboard (there’s a space bar in the middle). Also, LG [...]
Samsung B7610 Louvre with WM 6.1 spotted
Samsung B7610 Louvre is a new and obviously unannounced handset that should come to replace the Samsung F700 (released at the end of 2007). The B7610 appeared at The Phone House (Dutch version of The Carphone Warehouse) and we can see that, design-wise, it is only slightly different when compared to the F700 – it [...]
#CTIA09: Hands-on With Garmin M20 Nuvifone
One phone I have been anxious to get my grubby hands on for quite some time now is the Garmin Nuvifone M20, and I had the opportunity to see it today. One of two phones in the forthcoming Nuvifone series, the M20 has Windows Mobile loaded on it and is the smaller of the two. [...]