BlackBerry Tour may have a touchscreen display
There’s nothing official about this at the moment, but it looks like the BlackBerry Tour (also known as BlackBerry Niagara or BlackBerry 9630) will feature a touchscreen display, in addition to a full QWERTY keyboard. If this is true, BlackBerry Tour will be a Bold-meets-Storm, so it should be a pretty interesting smartphone – like [...]
HTC Touch Diamond2 announced for India
Already available Europe and several Asian markets, the HTC Touch Diamond2 was just released in India, offering Indian customers the chance to buy one of the hottest Windows Mobile smartphones out there. Obviously replacing the first-gen Touch Diamond, the HTC Touch Diamond2 comes without the diamond-like pattern on the back case, but it adds many [...]
Palm Pre to hit Bell Canada this month?
When Palm and Bell Mobility announced the release of Palm Pre in Canada, the companies said that the smartphone would be available in the second half of 2009. Now it looks like the Pre might be launched earlier, meaning before the end of June – so in the first half of the year. According to [...]
Silver Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 leaked, looks good
Only one week after we saw an image that supposedly shows the new, unannounced Sony Ericsson Xperia X2, we now have a better, bigger image, this time showing a silver version of the smartphone. As you may already know, the X1 is available in both black and silver, so it kind of makes sense for [...]
Cheap Samsung E1107 Crest Solar phone announced
Samsung’s first commercially available solar-powered phone will not be the Blue Earth (announced in February), but the new E1107 Crest Solar candybar. Unveiled today, Samsung E1107 Crest Solar is a low-end phone targeted at emerging markets. The handset has a 800 mAh battery that can be charged in the usual way, as well as thanks [...]
Pink LG Arena, Samsung Toco Lite for the UK
Pink-loving mobile users in the UK should know that they can now buy two new phones in their favorite color: LG Arena KM900 and Samsung Toco Lite (aka Star S5230). The pink LG Arena can be bought only from Orange and it’s free if you’re willing to pay 30 GBP per month for two years. [...]
NTT DoCoMo and Tata launch new GSM brand in India
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile carrier, announced the unveiling of a new brand in India, established with the purpose of offering GSM services across the country. Created in collaboration with Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), the new brand is called Tata DoCoMo. It will launch its services sometime later this month, first in southern India. By [...]
Nokia N86 8MP shipping, should be available pretty soon
Nokia’s first (and only) 8MP camera phone, the N86 8MP, is now shipping worldwide, which means that it will probably be available for purchase in the next few days or weeks – depending on the country you want to get it from. Marketed as the “best mobile imaging device” from Nokia, the N86 comes with [...]
Casio Exilim and Motorola Rival launched by Verizon
Verizon Wireless has just launched two new and quite interesting phones: Casio Exilim and Motorola Rival A455. We saw the phones several times until now, and we also knew that they would be released this month, so it’s good they’re both finally available for purchase. First, let’s talk about the Casio Exilim, a clamshell presented [...]
Nokia may use ambient electromagnetic radiation for charging phones
I’m not sure how many of you foresee a future where mobile phones don’t have to be recharged at all, but Nokia believes this is possible. Researchers from the Nokia Research Centre, in Cambridge, UK, are currently working to develop a new technology that would allow phones to harvest electrical current from ambient electromagnetic radiation, [...]
Philips Xenium X830 comes with a 5MP camera
More and more Philips mobile phones have appeared lately, with this new Xenium X830 being the sixth that gets to be unveiled in 2009. Like the X810 and the older X800, Philips Xenium X830 has a touchscreen display – a 240 x 400 pixels one with 262k colors, more exactly. The new X830 also features [...]
Nokia N97 NAM available now for $699, unlocked
If you’re looking for an alternative to Apple’s new iPhone 3G S (which will be launched by AT&T on June 19), Nokia N97 might be just the right handset to look at. The North American (NAM) version of N97 is now available for purchase in the US, only one week after Nokia announced the smartphone [...]
Apple intros the iPhone 3G S in 16GB and 32GB versions
Apple has just announced its brand-new, third-gen iPhone, which is officially called iPhone 3G S (and will probably be referred to as iPhone 3GS – without the space between 3G and S). Most of the credible rumors about the new iPhone, appeared over the last few months, are now proved to be correct. First of [...]
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta announced and available for download
Today, Opera Software has unveiled Opera Mobile 9.7 beta for Windows Mobile, a new and improved version of its popular browser for smartphones. The 9.7 beta release of Opera Mobile comes with Opera Turbo technology, providing server-accelerated rendering, and reducing “the amount of data that needs to be downloaded by up to 80 percent” – [...]
Palm Pre now available from Sprint, $550 off-contract
No surprise here, but it’s good it’s finally happening: Sprint has just launched the Palm Pre, as promised. If you’re willing to sign a 2-yr contract agreement with Sprint, the new and much-talked-about smartphone can be yours for the price of $199.99, after a $100 mail-in rebate. Off-contract, the Pre costs $549.99 – a reasonable [...]
Sprint CEO: Verizon won’t launch the Palm Pre this year
Although Verizon recently said that it would get the Palm Pre “in the next six months”, it looks like this won’t happen after all. Dan Hesse, Sprint’s Chief Executive Officer, declared to CNET that their exclusivity agreement with Palm is longer than six months and that the folks over at Verizon “need to check their [...]
Samsung B5100, new Symbian S60 smartphone
Samsung’s Symbian S60 line-up of smartphones will soon be enlarged with the B5100 – an unannounced mid-end candybar. The Samsung B5100 has a metallic case and a design that reminds me of the i7110 model, which also runs on Symbian S60. Feature-wise, the handset comes with a QVGA display, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and [...]
T-Mobile MyTouch 3G box art leaked – three color versions confirmed
T-Mobile USA’s HTC Magic will indeed be called MyTouch 3G, as recently rumored. Moreover, the smartphone’s three color versions are now confirmed to be black, white and merlot. How do we know this? Well, MyTouch 3G’s box art has appeared over at Engadget, allowing us to see that the handset will come in a pretty [...]
BenQ Android phone, netbook prepared for 2010
Although it’s not part of the Open Handset Alliance (yet), BenQ has recently unveiled its intentions to launch Android products sometime in 2010. According to a MacWorld report, BenQ plans to release both a smartphone and a netbook based on Google’s open source OS. Sadly, the Taiwan-based company didn’t give further details about the products. [...]
Latest 3rd-gen iPhone Pics Brought to Life
We, just like everyone else, are rather relieved that we don’t have to put up with the 3rd-generation iPhone rumors for much longer, since WWDC is mere days away. But still we love to find every ounce of evidence that such a device really exists and is on its way soon. The latest in the [...]