Nokia, Microsoft to announce alliance tomorrow, possibly related to MS Office
Microsoft and Nokia aren’t exactly the best pals in the world, so it comes as a surprise the fact that, tomorrow, the two giant companies will be announcing some sort of alliance. According to CNET, the deal is about Microsoft’s Office suite, which is might become available to Nokia’s Symbian smartphones. Speculating a bit, Microsoft [...]
Sprint announces 17 new WiMax (4G) markets for 2009
Sprint has just announced that no less that 17 new US markets would benefit from its 4G network by the end of 2009. These will be added to the markets previously announced (like Atlanta, Las Vegas and Portland, where 4G services should be available starting this month). According to Sprint, the 17 new markets where [...]
Motorola Sholes to hit AT&T too, Android 2.0 Eclair included
Apart from being an interesting device by itself, Motorola Sholes is, reportedly, also the flagship phone on which Google will release Android 2.0 (aka Eclair). Moreover, AndroidAndMe reports that there will be a GSM/UMTS version of Motorola Sholes, along the CDMA one destined for Verizon Wireless. It’s said that this GSM version will be launched [...]
Huawei C7300 and T550+ touchscreen phones for China
Huawei is readying two new touchscreen phones for the Chinese market: C7300 and T550+. The first one, Huawei C7300, is a CDMA2000 phone, and thus it will probably be launched by China Telecom. The features of C7300 are rather modest, including: 2.5 inch QVGA touchscreen display with 65k colors, GPS, handwriting recognition, 2MP camera, MP3 [...]
BlackBerry Developer’s Blog launched by RIM
Some folks over at Research In Motion have been “working very hard” to launch the so-called BlackBerry Developer’s Blog, which is now online. Obviously created for the BlackBerry developer community, the new blog is set to be “a key component to the overall BlackBerry Developer Zone experience.” The BlackBerry Developer’s Blog will concentrate its posts [...]
LG Shine 2 for AT&T – live picture leaked
Wondering when AT&T will release the LG Shine 2? Well, we still don’t know when, but the first live picture of the phone has just appeared in the wild, so it probably won’t take long until the second largest US carrier announces the phone. As previously reported, the LG Shine 2 should come with the [...]
Samsung and LG take almost 50% of the North American phone market
This may or may not be a surprise, but, according to Strategy Analytics, almost one out of every two cell phones sold in North America in Q2 2009 are manufactured by either Samsung or LG. Reportedly, Samsung’s market share in the US and Canada is currently of 24.7%, as the company sold 11.7 million handsets [...]
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic available in the UK, free on select plans
Right on schedule, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is now available for customers in the UK. On Pay As You Go, the new music phone can be bought for £129.95 (if £20 Airtime from Vodafone is purchased), or for £139.95 with £10 Airtime from either T-Mobile or O2. Vodafone and Orange are also offering the 5530 [...]
1 million Nokia Ovi Mail accounts created
Launched in December 2008, Nokia’s Ovi Mail service has proven to be quite successful until now, as more than 1 million users have registered for it. Designed to be easily set up and used directly on phones, Ovi Mail is targeted at users located in the developing world, as it doesn’t require you to have [...]
Vodafone UK offers £1,000 and free HTC Magic phones for Android app ideas
In search of new and cool Android applications, Vodafone UK has announced a contest through which it offers a grand prize of £1,000 ($1,646) in cash, plus free HTC Magic phones to 10 runners up. The nicest part of this is that you don’t necessarily have to be an Android developer to enter the contest, [...]
Sprint’s Samsung Dash M850 in hands-on photo
Shortly after being approved by the FCC, the Samsung M850 Dash has appeared in a blurry live picture, which means that Sprint is probably really close to announcing it. The M850 Dash is said to be the true successor of Samsung Instinct M800, which debuted on Sprint last year. However, the new phone looks more [...]
BlackBerry 9700 coming to T-Mobile, live picture leaked
As rumored back in May, the BlackBerry Onyx 9700 will indeed be launched by T-Mobile USA, and the evidence is a live picture with the smartphone bearing the carrier’s logo. Appeared over at CrackBerry, the image shows a device similar to what we saw last month as BlackBerry 9020. Like the Curve 8520 (already available [...]
Sony Ericsson smartbook reportedly coming soon
Not long after we reported about Nokia’s plans to make a smartbook (in collaboration with Compal), we’re now hearing that Sony Ericsson wants to launch a smartbook, too. According to Netbooknews, “a reliable Taiwanese source” has confirmed the fact that Sony Ericsson is working on a smartbook that’s coming “soon.” Details are scarce at the [...]
Sprint’s Samsung M850 Dash approved by the FCC
It’s been quite many months since we last heard about Sprint’s Samsung Dash. But that doesn’t mean the phone isn’t comings soon to a Sprint store near you – because it probably will, as the FCC has just approved it. The CDMA frequencies the M850 works on, as well as the model number (Sprint has [...]
BlackBerry Storm 2 (9520) for Vodafone – pictures leaked
We’ve seen the BlackBerry Storm 2 several times until now, but none of the units leaked were for Vodafone. Well, Vodafone’s Storm 2, aka 9520 aka Odin, has recently appeared in some live pictures, over at benezblog.de. The smartphone works on Vodafone’s Germany network, it has 3G and it doesn’t looks too different from the [...]
Sony Ericsson T715a passes the FCC with AT&T 3G bands
Last week, the FCC approved the Sony Ericsson T715 – the European version, which presents little interest for the US customers. Well, today, the Sony Ericsson T715a has passed the FCC as well, with GSM 850/1900 and UMTS 850/1900 bands, as mentioned in the sar report. These are exactly the bands that AT&T uses, so [...]
iPhone 3GS 8GB apparently confirmed by Rogers
The existence of an iPhone 3GS 8GB, of which we first heard last week, seems to be confirmed by Rogers Wireless, which lists the 8GB internal memory option as available for Apple’s latest generation smartphone. If you go to this page on Rogers’ website and select the “iPhone Comparison” tab, you’ll find the features of [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23022 demoed on video
A new build of Windows Mobile 6.5 has been recently previewed on video, few days after several screenshots of its have appeared over at the xda-developers forum. This Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23022 has some new features and it seems to be tweaked for use with capacitive touchscreen displays (hence those that don’t need a [...]
AT&T’s Samsung A797 spotted in the wild
As seen earlier today, AT&T is getting ready to release quite many new and interesting phones: Blackberry 9700 Onyx, HTC Tilt 2, Nuvifone G60, some Samsungs and so on. None of these phones are officially announced by the second largest US carrier, but we’ve already spotted two of them: the Tilt 2 / Touch Pro2, [...]
Motorola Sholes to Bring Android 2.0 to Verizon
As just reported, Motorola is busy working on its Android Morrison device which will launch on T-Mobile in late October. But Motorola has another device up its sleeves that will be launching on Verizon around the same timeframe. Called the Motorola Sholes, it is rumored to be operating on the Android 2.0 OS and is [...]