HTC Dragon in Early Stages; Thoth and Omni Still in The Picture
We have another HTC device to tell you about, and it’s not one of the 100 others that are being rumored and released in the near future. It’s called the HTC Dragon, which supposedly will be running Android Eclair (2.0). The Dragon, aka Zoom 2, hasn’t been pictured yet. In fact, all we really know [...]
Flash is Coming to The iPhone. Well, Sort of.
In a move destined to make Apple look like the bad guy in the long-lasting feud between them and Adobe, the latter company announced today at Adobe MAX 2009 that Flash will be (and is already) available to a degree on the iPhone. While Flash Player 10.1 – which will provide full web Flash content [...]
ZTE to make phones for 3 UK, Ireland and Sweden (F102 included)
ZTE, the world’s sixth largest phone maker, has signed an agreement with Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 in order to produce handsets that will be sold in the UK, Ireland and Sweden. The first phone (already available at 3 UK) is the ZTE F102, a simple candybar that features 3G, 2MP camera, Bluetooth, MP3 player, 128MB of [...]
Motorola Dext hits Orange UK on October 7; Verizon’s Droid / Tao / Sholes may come on October 30
We knew that the Motorola Dext was ready to hit Orange UK this month, and now Moto has announced an exact release date: October 7 (two days from now) – way ahead of T-Mobile USA’s Motorola Cliq, which will be on pre-sale starting October 19. British customers can actually get the Dext on October 6, [...]
Best Buy launches mIQ, its own mobile cloud service for smartphones
Best Buy Mobile has just announced the launch of its own mobile-web connected cloud service, called mIQ and available starting October 12. The new mIQ service lets users sync and backup the info found on their smartphone and access/manage it via a Web interface, from any computer. mIQ offers 1GB of storage space and allows [...]
Palm Ring P, Samsung F839, C6112 and E1390B coming soon
Palm is readying a new smartphone named (or codenamed) Palm Ring P. Unfortunately, we have almost no other details about the handset, except for the fact that, according to the Bluetooth SIG, it features Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR. However, the Palm Ring P is almost certainly a webOS smartphone, since Palm announced that [...]
More Blackberry Tour 2 Pics, Info on Dakota’s Camera Revealed
It seems just like yesterday that the Blackberry Tour was released to Sprint and Verizon. It wasn’t THAT recent, but it was still not too long ago. Crazy as it seems, though, we’re already looking ahead to its sequel. The truth is that we were looking ahead to it the whole time, but the Tour [...]
Flash 10.1 to Offer Full Mobile Flash Support with HD Video
If you use Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Symbian, you will be incredibly happy to hear that Adobe is updating Flash to 10.1 with some great features, including FULL Flash support on your device. If you use iPhone, sorry. No progress to report there. So here’s what Flash 10.1 will have to offer: full [...]
Tilt2, HTC Pure Now Official on AT&T
Tonight AT&T has officially announced the HTC Touch Pro2 (branded as the Tilt2) and the Touch Diamond2 (branded as the Pure) complete with Windows Mobile 6.5. What do you mean, you’ve already seen the Pure show up and get sold in AT&T retail stores? If you said it’s a formality, you’d likely be correct. It’s [...]
AT&T Intros Four Phones with Opera HTML Browser
So, you want to have a full mobile web-browsing experience on AT&T without being forced to shell out $30 for a smartphone or iPhone data plan. We understand. And apparently, so does AT&T. We have learned of the official introduction of four new handsets – 2 Samsung, 2 Pantech – that will be coming out [...]
Samsung Behold II Announced for T-Mobile, Android is Confirmed
Oddly enough, I just got an email from Samsung late tonight with an official announcement: the Samsung Behold II , aka the T939, is on its way to T-Mobile USA, and it will have a few goodies. The Behold II will indeed have Android. Most rumors had pointed toward the Behold being an Android handset, [...]
Unannounced HTC Pure appears in AT&T’s stores
We know that the HTC Pure is coming soon to AT&T, and it looks like it will come on October 6, when a whole batch of new Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones should debut around the world. The HTC Pure (AT&T’s version of the Touch Diamond2) was already spotted in some AT&T stores – and Mobility [...]
Acer renaming its smartphones: neoTouch, beTouch E100, beTouch E101 and beTouch E200
Acer’s Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones will apparently have different names than the ones initially announced. In the UK, the names will be changed as follows: Acer F1 will be Acer neoTouch; Acer C1 will be Acer beTouch E100; Acer E1 will be Acer beTouch E101; and Acer L1 will be Acer beTouch E200. According to [...]
Nokia 2330 headed to T-Mobile USA
Although T-Mobile USA has just launched the Nokia 5130, the carrier is getting ready to release yet another Nokia candybar. The phone in question is Nokia 2330, announced by Nokia way back in November 2008. It’s a really low-end device, with features like: 128 x 160 pixels TFT display, dual-band GSM/GPRS connectivity, Bluetooth, 2.5mm headset [...]
Telefónica (O2) testing LTE in the UK, Germany, Brazil and 3 other countries
Telefónica, one of the world’s largest mobile carriers, announced that it has selected six partners in order to launch LTE trials in six countries. The countries are: the UK, Germany and Czech Republic (where Telefónica operates as O2), Spain and Argentina (where it’s known as Movistar), and Brazil (where it operates as Vivo). The LTE [...]
HTC HD2 and Touch2 coming to T-Mobile Europe
Appeared in an O2 catalog earlier this week, the HTC HD2 is apparently coming to T-Mobile too – probably only in Europe. Previously known as HTC Leo, the unannounced smartphone is called HTC Touch HD2 by T-Mobile. As you may already know, the HD2 will be one of the nicest Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets around, [...]
Windows Marketplace Will be 6.1-Bound in November
Okay, so we know that Windows’ version of the App Store, called Windows Marketplace, will be available immediately with WinMo 6.5 on October 6. But when will it become available to anyone using WinMo 6.0 or 6.1? All we knew previously was that it is coming, but unsure when. WM Experts has hunted down a [...]
Obama Administration Bans Fed Employees From Texting-and-Driving
There are certainly a lot of news about texting and driving lately, and the government is starting to take notice. In an effort to make America’s roads safer (at least as safe as they were 20 years ago before cell phones and texting), President Obama signed an executive order last night banning all federal employees [...]
TXTBlocker Prevents Kids From Texting Whilst Driving
There’s a good chance you currently live in a state that has either banned texting while driving, or in a state that’s considering it. So it’s extremely unsafe and quite possibly illegal. Are you worried that your driving-aged children are breaking the law and putting their lives in danger, and you can’t do anything about [...]
Motorola Tao Will be Droid on Verizon, to Offer Flash?
A couple tidbits are coming down the pipeline about the Motorola Tao on Verizon — or should I say Motorola Droid? Yes, it’s all very confusing when you consider the history of this particular Android handset. It first began as the Motorola Shules before moving to Sholes; after that it then became the Tao, and [...]