Samsung F480 Games Edition unveiled
Launched in the spring of 2008, Samsung F480 is Sammy’s most successful touchscreen phone to date, being sold in more than 5 million units worldwide (under various names, like Samsung TouchWiz, Samsung Toco or Samsung F488). Now the F480 comes in a Games Edition, which has five full games pre-installed, including “Pacman”, “Who wants to [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Samsung Armani phone to be announced on June 11
We first heard about a possible Windows Mobile Samsung Armani smartphone back in February, when a report from Taiwan stated that Sammy intends to refresh its Armani line-up this fall. Well, it looks like the Samsung Armani WM phone will come faster – in Italy, at least. Samsung.HDblog.it has it that the new Armani will [...]
LG GD900 coming in mid June in Germany, July 1 in the UK
Yesterday, LG has announced that the GD900 would be available in more than 40 countries worldwide, and now we know when the phone will hit the UK and Germany. British mobile users will be able to buy the LG GD900 Crystal starting July 1, exclusively from Carphone Warehouse. In Germany, the GD900 will come earlier, [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Rival A455 and Casio Exilim C721 coming on June 10
If you’re wondering when Verizon will launch the Motorola Rival A455, we’ve got the answer: the new messaging phone will be on sale starting June 10. As we’ve seen before, Motorola Rival A455 is a slider with a full QWERTY keyboard. It has 1X EV-DO connectivity, a 2.2 inch 176 x 220 pixels display, external [...]
Nokia Messaging for S60 5th Edition launched
Earlier this year, Nokia said that Nokia Messaging would be launched for Symbian S60 5th Edition too. Well, as of now, the service is indeed available for Nokia’s touchscreen phones, shortly after it was released in a beta version. Of course, the only Nokia S60 5th Edition handset available on the market is the 5800 [...]
Nokia 6730 classic announced for Vodafone
Nokia has announced the release of a new phone, Nokia 6730 classic, which will be exclusively sold by Vodafone. The 6730 classic will be commercially available starting June, “across Vodafone’s global footprint” – meaning in many European markets, as well as some African and Asian ones. Since all the classics that come from Nokia are [...]
Verizon to sell the Palm Pre, Android phones, new BlackBerries
Surprisingly or not, Verizon Wireless has unveiled today that it would carry the Palm Pre “in the next six months or so”. Just like AT&T, which also said it might sell the Pre, Verizon has to wait until Sprint’s exclusivity for the smartphone ends. Sprint will release the Palm Pre on June 6, and, most [...]
LG enV 3, enV Touch and Glance officially unveiled by Verizon
Today, Verizon Wireless has officially announced three of its upcoming LG phones, all of which have leaked before. First of all, we have the LG enV 3. The phone will be available starting tomorrow (Friday), in two colors: blue and red. Its price will be as low as $129.99 on contract and after a $50 [...]
Sony Ericsson Idou now called Satio, will ship in Q4 2009
Sony Ericsson Idou, SE’s flagship camera phone that was announced in February, will hit the market under the name of Sony Ericsson Satio. The phone will be available starting the fourth quarter of 2009 (probably in October), just like the brand new Sony Ericsson Aino and Sony Ericsson Yari. Running on Symbian S60 5th Edition [...]
Sony Ericsson Aino and Yari announced – new multimedia phones
I’m not sure how many of you anticipated this, but Sony Ericsson has just launched two new multimedia phones, both of which have high-end cameras, despite not being integrated into the Cyber-shot family. The first new phone is Sony Ericsson Aino, a touchscreen handset that also has a sliding alphanumeric keypad. The Aino comes with [...]
General Mobile DSTL1 dual-SIM Android phone for the US, Turkey
General Mobile’s Android plans were first unveiled back in January, when the company said it would launch the world’s first dual SIM phone to run on Google’s OS – the so-called DSTL1 Imaginary. As it turns out, the company is seriously betting on Android and it intends to launch the DSTL1 starting June. According to [...]
Samsung Spark T749 3G phone to hit T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA is getting ready to release a new Samsung phone, namely the Samsung Spark T749. As its mode number suggests, the Spark T749 is a mid-end handset – unlike the cheap T349 and T239, for example. The Spark was just approved by the FCC as an “850/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE / 1700 WCDMA Phone with Bluetooth”, [...]
18 to 20 new Android phones coming this year, says Google
We’ve recently learned that Android phone shipments are expected to grow at least 900% by the end of 2009. Andy Rubin, Google’s senior director for Mobile Platforms, comes to confirm this by saying that there will be 18 to 20 new Android phones released this year. According to The New York Times, the phones will [...]
LG GD900 Crystal coming to more than 40 countries
LG has just announced that its fashionable LG GD900 Crystal phone will be “very soon” available in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The South Korean company initially said the phone would be on sale starting May, but this obviously didn’t happen. The price of LG GD900 is still not announced, [...]
AT&T might sell the Palm Pre too, after Sprint’s exclusivity ends
We all know that Sprint is the exclusive US carrier for the Palm Pre until later this year (or even until 2010), but what will happen after the exclusivity ends? Would the other major carriers want to sell the Pre too? Well, AT&T wants it. At least that’s what Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said during [...]
Android Developer Challenge 2 announced by Google
Google has just announced the Android Developer Challenge 2 (ADC 2), the second edition of the competition that should (and will) bring new and cool applications for the Android OS – which has now reached version 1.5. Participants can develop apps, evaluate/score others’ apps, or both. The ADC 2 will debut in August, when developers [...]
Samsung flexible AMOLED displays to enter mass production soon
Samsung has quite an impressive line-up of phones with AMOLED displays (including the unreleased-yet devices), so it’s only natural for the company to try and develop the AMOLED technology even further. Samsung Mobile Display, a joint venture between Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics, has recently announced that it managed to develop the world’s first flexible [...]
Ovi Mail updated with Ovi.com integration, other enhancements
Nokia’s Ovi Mail was just updated – once again – this time in order to provide the free service with Ovi.com integration, as well as with several other improvements. According to the folks over at the Nokia Beta Labs, users can now easily navigate between Ovi Mail and Ovi.com – although, for the moment, the [...]
AT&T to upgrade its 3G network to HSPA 7.2Mbps
North America’s former no.1 mobile carrier, the big-and-blue AT&T, has announced it wants to upgrade its 3G network to HSPA, which should offer data transfer speeds of up to 7.2Mbps (double the current 3.6Mbps speed). The carrier said that network upgrades are planed to begin later this month, although they will be completed only in [...]
Skyfire 1.0 mobile browser now available
Skyfire, the mobile browser that will be competing with Opera and Mozilla’s Fennec, has reached version 1.0 and is available as a free download. Presented as “the only mobile browser to bring the full PC Web to phones”, Skyfire 1.0 comes with new features and, thus, with improved usability. Skyfire supports a wide array of [...]