Blackberry Curve 8900, on Sale at AT&T Friday
AT&T has been in need of a serious upgrade to the Blackberry Curve 83xx series for some time now, considering it’s been stocked on the company’s shelves for almost 2 years. That wait is over, as AT&T has officially announced the Blackberry Curve 8900 will be available this Friday, May 22. Just in time for [...]
Google Sync Beta available for Symbian S60
Google Sync for mobile is now available in a Beta version for Nokia’s Symbian S60 smartphones (only the S60 3rd edition ones for the moment). The service provides “two-way, over-the-air contacts and calendar synchronization”, meaning that your Google Contacts and Google Calendars can be synced with your S60 device. So, when you make changes to [...]
Nokia enhances Ovi Maps, intros Ovi Maps Player API
Nokia Ovi Maps has once again been updated, reportedly bringing “better maps than ever before”. The application includes high-res satellite and terrain 2D/3D maps and features capabilities like tilting, rotation, night view, fly-througs and fly-overs. It also provides a weather service (24-hour, 5-day forecasts) and detailed POI (point of interest) information from Lonely Planet, Wcities [...]
Nokia EVP: We are still investing in OVI Share!
Well, it looks that Nokia stops investing in Ovi Share report was a load of BS afterall. We had an inkling of that when Ovi Share support team member explicitly denied Reuters report a last week. But who knows, sometimes low level grunts are the last ones to hear that their job is about to [...]
Cheap Samsung SGH-t349 available from T-Mobile
Samsung SGH-t349, the messaging phone first leaked in April, is now official and also available for purchase, exclusively via T-Mobile USA. Presented as a slim messaging phone, the t349 features a 20-key half-QWERTY keyboard, auto-word completion and XT9 predictive text. The handset is also T-Mobile myFaves enabled and it comes with email, as well [...]
Worldwide phone sales declined 9.4% in Q1 2009, says Gartner
According to a study published today by Gartner, worldwide phone sales declined 9.4% in the first quarter of 2009, while smartphone sales grew 12.7% – both when compared to sales in the first quarter of 2008. As expected, Nokia is still the no.1 phone manufacturer, with 97.39 million devices sold in Q1 2009 (accounting for [...]
Windows Mobile Alcatel OT-S988W for China Unicom WO
OT-S988W is the latest handset to come out under the Alcatel brand, and, surprisingly, it’s not a low-end device. Even more, the OT-S988W is a smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and features a sliding QWERTY keyboard – just like, say, the HTC Touch Pro 2. The new handset also has quad-band GSM connectivity, [...]
Palm Pres are in short supply. Probably only 200K in Q3
We told ya just after Palm Pre launched that it was likely to go for $199 on contract when it finally ships. And we told you one more thing then – that due to the shortage of the custom displays there will be pretty few Palm Pres available in the beginning, so you should expect shortages for [...]
Sony Ericsson will have to raise 100mil EUR to keep going
We knew things aren’t that good for Sony Ericsson right now. Dropping market share and falling handset sales made it lose hundreds of millions of dollars during the last few months. And, contrary to Motorola, they can not rely on a parent company to cover those losses as the coffers run dry. So Sony Ericsson may need [...]
Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 / Rhodium to come in June; live pics leaked
Step aside, T-Mobile, because you’re not the only US mobile operator to launch the high-end HTC Touch Pro 2 (as T-Mobile Wing II). Sprint will do it too, and it looks like the CDMA carrier will release the smartphone sometime in mid-June (not long after the Palm Pre becomes available), possibly under the name of [...]
New iPhone to be released on July 17 with OLED display?
While we know about all there is to know regarding the Palm Pre (including price and release date), official details about the other highly anticipated handset of the year, the new iPhone, are still missing. However, according to the latest rumors, the next-gen iPhone aka iPhone 2009 aka iPhone 3.0 – call it what you [...]
Samsung S5200 appears in official clothes
Samsung S5200 is a mid-end slider that we first saw more than a month ago, when details about its availability were not known. Now the phone has appeared on Samsung Italy’s official website, in the coming soon section. The S5200 is presented as an ultra-slim, fashionable phone. Apparently, the slider measures only 103.6 x 48.7 [...]
Samsung, LG and others form the SPMT Consortium, promising improved memory for cell phones
Samsung, LG Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor, Inc and Silicon Image, Inc have announced the establishment of the SPMT Consortium, which has the role of promoting SPMT (Serial Port Memory Technology) “for broad market adoption as an industry standard.” Reportedly, SPMT is the first-of-its-kind memory specification for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and it will be initially [...]
Palm Pre officially coming on June 6 for $199 with a Sprint contract
It’s finally here: the official release date of the Palm Pre in the US has just been announced by Sprint – June 6, 2009. That’s right, starting June 6, the long-awaited smartphone will be available nationwide, not only via Sprint (both in stores and online), but also through Best Buy, Radio Shack and select Wal-Mart [...]
Microsoft My Phone beta now available for everyone
Microsoft My Phone, the service that lets you sync information between a Windows Mobile phone and the web, is now open for everyone. Although still in beta, MyPhone provides Windows Mobile users with several useful features. For example, the service can back up all the data found on your phone (including contacts, images and so [...]
Android 1.5 Cupcake update delayed by T-Mobile USA
If you’re among T-Mobile USA’s customers who are waiting to update their G1 to Android 1.5 Cupcake, it looks like you have to wait a bit longer. Although the 1.5 version of the OS was planned to reach smartphones starting last week, this didn’t happen. According to the info found at the T-Mobile Forums, “the rollout [...]
Nokia 6600i slide, the smallest 5MP Nokia slider
Only one day after unveiling three new cheap, entry-level phones, Nokia has now announced a more advanced handset – the Nokia 6600i slide. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Nokia has launched, about a year ago, the 6600 slide. The difference between the 6600 slide and 6600i slide is that the new phone features a [...]
Mobiado Professional 105GCB Rose announced
Mobiado Professional 105GCB Rose is the latest (and arguably greatest) luxury phone unveiled by the Canadians from Mobiado. In the purest Mobiado tradition, the 105GCB Rose comes with a case built out of sapphire crystal and plated with 18K gold – rose gold, more exactly. It also has sapphire crystal keys that are hand-painted with [...]
Samsung Jackie B7320, Scalar B7330 and Jet S8003 coming soon
There’s little info about all this right now, but Samsung will soon release three new phones named as follows: Samsung Jackie B7320, Samsung Scalar B7330 and Samsung Jet S8003. All handsets have appeared over at the Wi-Fi Alliance website, here, here and here (PDF links). Needless to say, all of them will come with Wi-Fi [...]
Unlocked Nokia 5800 Comes With Music for £299 in the UK
It’s been less than one week since Nokia announced the upcoming launch of the 5800 Comes With Music edition via Orange UK (on May 29), and now we’re hearing that the phone will also be sold unlocked in the UK. The SIM-free Nokia 5800 CWM should be available starting Friday, May 22, for the price of [...]