Verizon to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8530 Aries in February 2010
Although it was initially slated for a September-October 2009 launch through Verizon, BlackBerry Curve 8530 (aka BlackBerry Aries) will not hit the US market this year. According to The Street, the 8530 Aries was delayed and thus it will be released by Verizon sometime in February 2010. Coming as the CDMA version of T-Mobile’s BlackBerry [...]
Verizon announces the HTC Ozone; only $49.99 starting June 29
First seen at the beginning of July, Verizon’s HTC Ozone is now official, as the largest North American carrier has just announced its upcoming availability. Since it’s nothing more than a redesigned HTC Snap with both GSM and EV-DO connectivity, the Ozone comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, a QVGA display, an “ergonomically-designed QWERTY keyboard”, [...]
Telus to launch the iPhone 3G S in Canada?
As crazy as it may sound, Canada’s Telus might release Apple’s brand new iPhone 3G S sometime in October this year. Yes, we know, Telus is a CDMA carrier and the iPhone 3G S is a GSM/HSPA phone, so this doesn’t make sense, right? Well, wrong, because Telus is getting ready to roll-out a HSPA [...]
Google intros AdSense for Mobile Applications (iPhone and Android)
Google has announced the beta release of AdSense for Mobile Applications, available at the moment only for iPhone and Android smartphones. Leveraging on the fact that people use more and more smartphones, which come with a continuously increased number of applications, Google wants to make things easier for developers, publishers and end users. More exactly, [...]
Sony Ericsson T715 announced – a “sophisticated slider”
Sony Ericsson has just announced a new slider phone, called T715 and looking quite different from what the company has offered until now. The new phone will be offered in two versions: Sony Ericsson T715 (with quad-band GSM and 2100 HSPA), and Sony Ericsson T715a for the Americas (with quad-band GSM and 850/1900/2100 HSPA). The [...]
Nokia orders Netbooks from Compal, Quanta
It looks like Nokia has already ordered Netbooks from two major Taiwanese OEMs: Compal Electronics and Quanta. The news comes at about the same time with the announcement of Nokia and Intel’s long-term collaboration for developing new mobile computers – computers which will use the two companies’ most advanced technologies. The Nokia Netbook made by [...]
Pantech announces TruEmotion, its own 3D UI
Pantech, the third largest South Korean phone maker, has just announced that it developed its own 3D mobile UI, called TruEmotion – notice the spelling. According to Pantech, the TruEmotion UI is simple, intuitive and dynamic, featuring three-dimensional transition effects. It seems that now all the Korean cellphone vendors opted for a pretty similar 3D [...]
Mio Amber Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone coming soon
Mio Technology, the Taiwanese maker of Personal Navigation Devices, PDAs and smartphones, will soon introduce a new Windows Mobile handset, codenamed Mio Amber. The handset is not yet officially announced, but some pictures of it have appeared on the Web, alongside most of its features. Mio Amber comes with Windows Mobile 6.5, a 3.61 WVGA [...]
AT&T Navigator now available through Apple’s App Store
Today, AT&T announced that AT&T Navigator, its own turn-by-turn GPS navigation service, is available for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S users, via Apple’s App Store. Created for iPhone OS 3.0, the AT&T Navigator app provides “full audible and visual turn-by-turn navigation service” via the carrier’s network. The Navigator app further provides features like: 3D [...]
HTC Hero will come with full Adobe Flash support
HTC Hero, the new smartphone unveiled just hours ago, will be the first Android handset to come with support for Adobe Flash. This will enable the Hero to provide a rich Web browsing experience, as well as access to a lot of Flash-based content available on the Web (videos, games and so on). You can [...]
HTC Hero in live pictures; the first review already published
Now that the HTC Hero is finally official, how about some high-quality live pictures with it? First of all, I must say that this third Android smartphone from HTC looks good. Maybe not better than the Magic, but certainly better than the G1. HTC Hero will be available in two colors (white and black/graphite), although [...]
HTC Hero and HTC Sense now official (update, video included)
As expected, HTC today unveiled a brand new Android smartphone – it’s the HTC Hero, a handset we’ve seen several times until now, in unofficial photos and videos. Coming as the third Android product from HTC, the Hero is a G1-meets-Magic device, combining the looks of the first with the elegance of the second one. [...]
Samsung Innovation Quest 2009 debuts, asks you to develop widgets for the Omnia HD
Samsung has recently announced the details for its Innovation Quest (IQ) 2009 competition, which will end on August 14. By that date, participants must create a Samsung Mobile Widget for the Omnia HD i8910 smartphone (pictured below), which runs on Symbian S60 5th Edition and at the same time uses the Samsung TouchWiz UI. Samsung [...]
Vodafone’s Samsung Blade is an S5600 remake
Known under various names across Europe (Samsung Preston, Samsung Halley or Samsung Player), the S5600 is offered by Vodafone in a slightly different version and, obviously, with a new name: Samsung Blade. The Blade appears on Vodafone Spain’s official website, and it seems that it’s already available for purchase – free on select plans. Samsung [...]
Samsung Pixon 12′s price in Spain: €639, unlocked
A few weeks ago, when Samsung unveiled the new Pixon12 M8910 camera phone, it didn’t announce the handset’s price. Now we’re hearing that, in Spain, the Samsung Pixon 12 will retail for €639 ($897) – probably slightly more than you’d want to pay for an unlocked phone, even if it’s the first in the world [...]
LG KT878 and KV920 announced for China
LG will enter the Chinese 3G market with two phones destined for China Mobile and China Telecom: LG KT878 and LG KV920. China Mobile’s KT878 is a TD-SCDMA smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and features stuff like a 3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth, music player, FM radio and microSD [...]
Intel, Nokia collaborate to launch new mobile computers
Intel and Nokia have announced a strategic, long-term relationship that should bring us “a new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures”. According to the two giant companies, their goal is to develop a new mobile platform capable of combining high-bandwidth mobile communications, Internet connectivity, and the power and efficiency of computers. [...]
Bharti Airtel launches the HTC Magic – India’s first Android phone
HTC Magic has become India’s first Android phone, as HTC and Bharti Airtel announced its upcoming availability in the world’s second largest mobile market. The Indian Magic comes in an interesting red/black color version. Other than that, its features are similar to the ones of the original Magic, including: Android 1.5 OS, 3.2 inch HVGA [...]
Motorola Karma QA1 for AT&T now official
Motorola and AT&T have just announced a new quick messaging phone, the Karma QA1 – which is actually not that new, since we first saw it back in February. Targeted at teenagers and young adults, Motorola Karma is an oval-shaped phone that features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3G (dual-band, 850/1900 MHz), threaded messaging, and a [...]
WM 6.5 HTC Firestone shows up again
Remember the HTC Firestone? Several months ago, the smartphone appeared alongside Whitestone, Thoth and other unannounced HTC handsets. Well, today we have what seems to be the first clear render of the Firestone. The smartphone should come as the successor of HTC Touch HD, so it has a similar design. It will run on Windows [...]