Nokia opens up Point & Find, launches Management Portal
Nokia Point & Find, the beta service introduced by the Finnish company back in April, can now be used “as a mobile discovery platform to launch your own experiences.” Nokia has launched a Point & Find Management Portal, which allows users to create, manage and share custom experiences – these are called “worlds” by Nokia. [...]
BlackBerry Tour 9630 announced by RIM, Verizon and Sprint will launch it soon
Previously known as BlackBerry Niagara, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is now official, as RIM has just announced its upcoming availability in North America. The Tour 9630 will be launched later this summer, by both Verizon and Sprint in the US, and probably by Bell and Telus in Canada. Verizon didn’t unveil the new smartphone’s price, [...]
T-Mobile’s MyTouch 3G and BlackBerry Gemini 8520 in live pictures
Two of T-Mobile USA’s unannounced smartphones, HTC MyTouch 3G and BlackBerry Gemini 8520, have just appeared in some leaked photos, confirming the fact that they’ll be soon launched by the fourth largest US carrier. Obviously running on Android (version 1.5, more exactly), T-Mobile MyTouch 3G looks exactly as you’d expect: a slightly modified version of [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 to be announced on June 17?
We’ve seen the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 a couple of times until now, and yet there’s still nothing official about it. But this might change in two days from now, as Sony Ericsson might unveil the X2 on June 17, in Singapore, during CommunicAsia 2009. Reportedly, the Swedish-Japanese company has sent out invitations for an [...]
LG GM730 officially launched, available starting July
Remember the LG GM730 Windows Mobile smartphone presented way back in February? Well, LG has officially launched it today, but not before changing its appearance a bit: while the original GM730 had a round d-pad, the handset’s final version comes with a rectangular one. This aside, it looks like the GM730 has the features that [...]
Samsung Omnia II i8000 and Omnia Lite B7300 smartphones announced
Alongside Omnia Pro B7610, Omnia Pro B7320 and the Jet, Samsung has also unveiled the Omnia II i8000 and the Omnia Lite B7300 – so there’s a total of five new phones announced by the South Korean company today (two more than Nokia). First, let’s talk about the Samsung Omnia II i8000, which doesn’t look [...]
Samsung Jet S8000 Cubic Officially Unveiled
We’ve noticed that when Samsung rains, it pours. Today is one of those days that Samsung has chosen to come out with around a million handsets or so. Okay, not a million — but Samsung has just announced the fifth handset of the day. This one is the Samsung Jet, aka S8000 Cubic. The Jet [...]
Details on Motorola ZN50 and Verizon’s W766 Harmony show up
The Bluetooth SIG has recently approved two unannounced Motorola phones: ZN50 and W766, the latter being the Moto Harmony clamshell seen last year with Verizon’s logo on it. Unfortunately, there’s no image available with the ZN50, but we do know that it is a “touch based multimedia music phone.” Its features include a 3.5mm headset [...]
Dell’s first Android smartphone looks like the Palm Pre?
It looks like the long-rumored Android smartphone made by Dell has finally appeared in a leaked photo. The PDAFans forum from China has unveiled a picture with the supposed Dell handset, showing a device that definitely resembles the Palm Pre. The smartphone has a rounded case, a large touchscreen display and a video call camera. [...]
Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 now official
We first saw it as Samsung Louvre, but its real name is Samsung Omnia Pro B7610. The smartphone is now finally official, as Samsung has just presented it today, alongside the Android-powered I7500, the Pixon12 M8910 and the B7320 (aka AT&T’s Samsung Jack i637). Samsung doesn’t give too many details about the Omnia Pro B7610, [...]
Nokia E72, 5530 XpressMusic and 3710 fold officially announced
Nokia has just announced no less than three new phones: Nokia E72 (leaked yesterday), Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, and Nokia 3710 fold. Building on the success of Nokia E71, the new E72 comes with a similar design, but brings several new features. First of all, the E72 has an optical trackpad, which should make scrolling and [...]
Docs to Go Available in App Store
After months of speculation and rumors as well as 3 nerve-wracking weeks in review by Apple, Dataviz has announced that Docs 2 Go is available for download in the iPhone’s App Store. The well-known mobile document viewing and editing software will not be the first of its kind for sale in the App Store, as [...]
Nokia E72 video leaked, showing a 5MP camera and more
Nokia E71 is almost one year old now (well, in Europe at least, because AT&T launched its E71x just one month ago), so it’s about time for its successor to show up. And it did, today, as Nokia Conversations accidentally posted a video with the unannounced Nokia E72 on YouTube (no, not the E72 which [...]
Samsung Louvre B7610 is actually the Omnia Pro?
It looks like a Samsung Omnia Pro will be indeed released later this year, as rumored back in April. Reportedly, the Omnia Pro is none other than the Windows Mobile 6.1 Samsung Louvre B7610, which we recently saw in a leaked image. Now we have a whole series of official photos with the smartphone, plus [...]
Nokia Life Tools services launched in India
Today, Nokia announced the Indian release of Nokia Life Tools, the service unveiled by the company back in November 2008 The commercial launch comes after a successful pilot in the state of Maharashtra and will be first rolled-out in said state, in collaboration with the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB). Targeted at non-urban consumers, [...]
Rogers, Bell and Telus to launch Zoompass mobile payment service
Rogers, Bell and Telus, Canada’s largest mobile carriers, are getting ready to launch a mobile payment service across the country. Called Zoompass, the new service will apparently be managed by EnStream, a Toronto-based company owned by the above mentioned carriers. Zoompass should be available starting June 15, for the subscribers of Rogers, Fido, Bell, Telus, [...]
Samsung Louvre B7610 to feature an AMOLED screen, 5MP camera and more
The first and last time we saw the Samsung Louvre B7610, the smartphone looked like the old Samsung F700. However, that leaked image wasn’t showing the Louvre B7610 – so it was probably just the F700. The real Samsung Louvre B7610 looks much better. Even more, it has a set of impressive features, starting with [...]
Sprint’s HTC Snap S511 already available, but only from Best Buy
Sprint hasn’t officially announced the HTC Snap S511, but the smartphone can be already bought from Best Buy. The giant retailer sells the Snap for $519.99 – sans contract, of course – and it looks like the handset is available both online (here) and through the Best Buy shops. Looking slightly different than the original [...]
New T-Mobile Samsung Bigfoot image leaked
We already saw the Android-powered Samsung Bigfoot, in a pretty clear picture, so we know that it will come with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. But it looks like the Samsung Bigfoot that T-Mobile USA prepares to launch is quite different from the first-spotted handset. A new image with it has appeared over at BGR, showing [...]
G1-like LG Tritan AX840 launched by Alltel
Alltel Wireless has released a new LG phone that borrows a bit from the form factor the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream is famous for. The new phone is called LG Tritan AX840 and it obviously has a touchscreen, plus a full QWERTY keyboard hidden underneath it. There’s also a weird-positioned d-pad that looks to [...]