HTC Touch Pro2, Diamond2 Also Going to AT&T
So we’ve found out about the HTC Lancaster Android phone, HP Obsidian, and Palm Eos coming soon to AT&T. But yet, there’re so many more handsets to cover before today’s over. Let’s keep going! Two more HTC devices are coming out soon, and they’re biggies because they are the Touch Pro2 and the Touch Diamond2. [...]
Android Coming to AT&T in HTC Lancaster
Android lovers on AT&T, rejoice! We are loving whoever sent Engadget all the official AT&T slides showing off the coolest new phones to come out in 2H 2009. The biggest news in the bunch, we believe, is the fact that AT&T is readying a new Android device: the HTC Lancaster. Up until this point we [...]
Palm Eos WebOS Device Becomes Officially Unofficial Through AT&T
For the second piece of big AT&T release news, we find that the Palm Eos is gearing up for release on the major GSM carrier sometime during second half of 2009. Because of the Eos’s big brother, the Palm Pre, this Centro replacement hasn’t received much fanfare since it’s stayed out of the limelight. But [...]
HP iPaq Obsidian with WinMo 6.5 Coming to AT&T
Get ready for an onslaught of AT&T phone release news everyone. The first piece of news is coming from good ol’ Hewlett-Packard, which has been rather quiet in the US phone market since its launch of the iPaq 6xxx lineup a couple years back. Turns out HP has been cranking out quite a few handsets [...]
Nokia, Maemo, Symbian ditching thing explained
This week we’ve had a rather interesting rumor come to life and spread like fire. And, like most of the rumors that gain traction, it had a lot of true things in it. But it completely missed the real story. The rumor was started by this post on Mobile Crunch and took a life of [...]
Cartier sues Apple over iPhone apps, withdraws suit the same day
French luxury goods maker Cartier has filed a suit against Apple on Friday, May 22, only to withdraw it hours later. The Wall Street Journal reports that Cartier International filed a complaint against the iPhone maker, addressing the illegal use of its trademarked Tank watch brand in two iPhone apps. But since Apple quickly removed the [...]
Mobiado to launch a Grand Line luxury QWERTY phone?
Until now, Mobiado’s luxury phones have all had about the same style – candybar with alphanumeric keypad. Well, the Canadian company is apparently getting ready to unveil a new phone that will have a full QWERTY keyboard – this could be the world’s first luxury messaging phone. According to Mobileburn, the new QWERTY handset is part [...]
Motorola A1200 MING back from the dead as the widget-ready A1200R
Motorola A1200, also known as Motorola MING, was a pretty successful phone back in its days (it was released in 2006). Now Moto wants to bring the MING fever back, with the unveiling of Motorola A1200R. The new phone was announced in Argentina – so it might be released in several other Latin American markets. [...]
Samsung S5200 price and release date unveiled
Samsung S5200, the new and pretty cool slider that we saw a couple of times until now, will be available for the retail price of €129.99 ($182) – in the Netherlands, at least. According to AllAboutPhones.nl, the handset will be sold via the Dutch retailer BelCompany, starting next week. Which probably means that other European [...]
Samsung t239, another cheap phone for T-Mobile USA
Just a few days ago, T-Mobile USA released the Samsung t349, an affordable phone with a half-QWERTY keyboard. Now T-Mo is getting ready to launch another Samsung phone, the t239, which will be even more affordable. We know that the pre-pay price of Samsung t239 is of $59.99 – and, according to a post at the [...]
iPhone 32GB appears and disappears at T-Mobile Austria’s website
More and more rumors and stories about the existence of a 32GB iPhone have appeared lately, culminating with this: T-Mobile Austria’s website hosted, for a few hours or so, a placeholder for the new iPhone. There’s no image to literally show the iPhone 32GB, but since a place for it appeared on an official website, [...]
Android 2.0 on Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone?
Although Android 1.5 isn’t yet available for everyone, Sony Ericsson already talks about Android 2.0. According to ePrice, Peter Ang, SE’s vice president of marketing, said that the company’s first handset to run on Google’s OS will come with Android 2.0, as well as with “Sony Ericsson’s unique style” – a new UI perhaps, to [...]
LG Rumour 2 to hit Bell Canada on June 9
LG Rumor 2 was recently released in the US by Sprint and Alltel, and now it’s time for the handset to reach Canada as well. The new messaging phone will be released in Canada as LG Rumour 2 (notice the slightly different spelling), by Bell Mobility – which will also launch the Palm Pre, sometime [...]
LG Glance VX7100 to hit Verizon on June 5 for $49.99
LG enV Touch is not the only new South Korean phone that Verizon will launch on June 5. The giant US carrier will also introduce the LG Glance VX7100, which is not as exciting as the enV Touch, but it might still attract many customers. Coming in a candybar form factor, the Glance VX7100 is very [...]
Panasonic plans an Android phone for outside Japan
Panasonic, one of Japan’s largest handset makers, intends to manufacture an Android phone for various markets around the world. The Japanese company currently sells phones only in Japan, so the planned Android device will represent its mobile debut overseas. Tech-On quotes Keisuke Ishii, director of the Mobile Terminal Business Unit at Panasonic Mobile Communications, as [...]
Russian operators unable to sell iPhone. May be liable for $1 billion in fines to Apple
Russian mobile and business sites have been abuzz about state of the iPhone in Russia these past few weeks. Turns out the Apple phone is not too hot over there. But that is not the biggest problem. The worst part is that swayed by the lure of iPhone 3G last fall, Russian mobile operators bent [...]
Nokia to sell CDMA phones to fewer carriers, Verizon and China Mobile included
The vast majority of Nokia’s phones are for GSM/UMTS networks, but the giant Finnish company also makes CDMA handsets, selling them in North America, India and China. However, following recent personnel cuts, Nokia will ship CDMA phones to fewer carriers from now on, concentrating its efforts to working with operators like Verizon Wireless and China [...]
LG EnV Touch on pre-sale at Best Buy; new live pics leaked
Although Verizon still hasn’t officially announced it, it looks like the LG enV Touch can be pre-ordered now from Best Buy. If you make a $50 deposit, you should be able to get the new enV Touch on June 5, when, according to BGR, the phone will become available. The phone’s price is not known [...]
Motorola Morrison to be T-Mobile’s fifth Android smartphone?
After the Motorola Calgary and the Motorola Ironman, here we have the third Moto phone rumored to run on Android: Motorola Morrison (most likely, this is just a codename). According to TmoToday, Motorola Morrison will be launched by T-Mobile USA in the fourth quarter of 2009, during the holiday season, for a price that’s currently not known. [...]
Google wants to make your Android phone much smarter with accelerometer and other sensors
The smartphones we carry around today are pretty smart. They can already do a lot of things and usually do exactly what we tell them to do. And the recent improvements in user interfaces are making the process of telling your smartphone what to do better and better. So now the R&D labs at major [...]