Sony Ericsson Rachael (X3) to be announced on November 3; SE Kurara coming soon too
The long-rumored Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Rachael (which might be called X10) will apparently be officially announced on November 3. Sony Ericsson’s What’s Next webpage lets us know that this is the date of some mysterious announcement. The guys over at the se-blog took a look at the page’s HTML code and found that the [...]
HTC unveils YOU advertising campaign, Quietly Brilliant brand
HTC, one of the world’s largest smartphone makers, announced a new global ad campaign, as well as a new brand positioning – Quietly Brilliant. The HTC YOU campaign has a pretty smarty tagline: “You don’t need to get a phone. You need a phone that gets you”, and it represents the Taiwan-based company’s commitment “to [...]
Sprint Palm Pixi price and release date announced: $99.99 starting November 15
Sprint and Palm have just announced that the Palm Pixi (the world’s second webOS smartphone) would be available in the US starting November 15. The price of Palm Pixi will be a rather attractive one: $99.99 with a 2-yr contract agreement, after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate. Customers will be able [...]
T-Mobile USA launches Even More and Even More Plus plans
T-Mobile has introduced new suits of plans for its customers in the USA, plans that are called Even More and Even More Plus. The T-Mobile Even More price plans require a 2-yr contract agreement and let you buy phones at discounted prices. Starting at $59.99, Even More individual plans offer unlimited calls. The T-Mobile Even [...]
Verizon announces the BlackBerry Storm2 for October 28
Today, Verizon has finally announced the release date and price of its BlackBerry Storm2 – ten days after Vodafone went official with its own version of the new Storm. So, Verizon customers will be able to buy the Storm2 starting October 28 – the same date when Verizon and Motorola are hosting their Droid event. [...]
Vodafone Updates Touch Pro2 to WinMo 6.5
Any of you who have a HTC Touch Pro2 with Vodafone, we know you have been patiently waiting for your handset to get Windows Mobile 6.5. And finally Vodafone has an update ready for you to download. What you’ll need to do to download 6.5 on your Touch Pro2 is follow this link leading you [...]
HTC Files Patents for Screen-Locking Capabilities
With the iPhone and other similar touchscreen phones popping up all over the place, each with their own way of unlocking the screen after it’s been in your pocket/purse/etc. it’s always interesting to see new patents filed about this very process. This time we see patents being filed from HTC; 3 of them, to be [...]
Rumored HTC Passion Coming to Verizon, is a HD2 With Android?
It appears that Verizon really DOES have a change of heart on its smartphone lineup. Even so soon after we heard about the upcoming Droid phone series starting off with a couple solid choices (Droid and Droid Eris), another fresh rumor is starting to surface about a mystery device from HTC making its way to [...]
LG Aims to Boost Marketing Budget, Add Celeb Endorsements
Consumer electronics giant LG has announced plans to change marketing strategy and significantly increase its marketing budget for next year. LG has two different methods of marketing it will focus on the most: celebrity marketing and specific sponsorships. The company feels that it will be more effective at reaching customers by having Hollywood celebs endorse [...]
China Unicom to offer amnesty to jailbroken grey market iPhone owners
China Unicom will start selling iPhones in China already next week. And it has already made them available for pre-order since the beginning of October. But, at prices ranging from $730 for Wi-Fi less iPhone 3g 8GB, to $1000+ for an iPhone 3Gs 32GB, unsubsidized, it does not seem that China Unicom was happy with [...]
Symbian is getting totally awesomely open
When I look at the way Symbian Foundation and it’s employees talk in public about the development and future plans of their platform, I am constantly pleasantly surprised. Symbian Foundation is pretty happy to tell everyone around, that right now they are just a small new star-up. And, despite the fact that they own the [...]
Which Blackberry Devices are Getting 5.0?
Blackberry OS 5.0 is coming not only to new devices but several existing devices as well. If you’re anxiously awaiting this update, you’re surfing the interwebs to find out if your Blackberry is one of the chosen devices to receive the update. Kevin from Crackberry was gracious enough to compile a list of Blackberry devices [...]
Emblaze Mobile’s first Else Intuition vaporware on the way become Gizmondo #2
Yesterday I heard about quite an interesting product being launched. It seems that we have a new super duper Linux based smartphone OS and device coming up soon, from a little known Israeli company Emblaze Mobile and Japanese software company Access. The new handset, “First Else”, running a new Linux based “Else Intuition” OS, is [...]
Blackberry Storm OS 5.0 Firmware Coming Sunday
Are you a current Blackberry Storm owner and don’t plan on upgrading to the sequel quite just yet? Just in time for the upcoming Blackberry Storm 2 (or 9550), a new Firmware upgrade called OS 5.0.0.328 will be available for download this Sunday, October 25. I suppose it’s never too late, but it is pretty [...]
Droid Passes FCC With AT&T 3G
It’s true, Droid news is flying all over the place like crazy. Ready for some more? If any of you in the US are hoping for a version of the Droid on AT&T, you’re in luck. While a GSM version had passed the FCC just a few days ago, it only had 3G support for [...]
MicroUSB Standard Now Backed by ITU
It’s going one step at a time, but we certainly can see progress is being made at a fast enough pace. We reported a couple weeks back that the CTIA has declared war on proprietary chargers and vowed to have every wireless device use a MicroUSB standard by 2012, and now we have another group [...]
Droid Will be an Entire Series; HTC Desire Becomes Droid Eris
Some trusty tips from the Engadget peeps reveal one crucially important nugget of enlightened information about the forthcoming Verizon Droid. Up until today the Droid was previously thought of as one single phone known as the Motorola Sholes, but we learned today that it is not just one phone but rather an entire series of [...]
Sense UI update for HTC Magic is here. Only in Taiwan for now
When HTC launched the Sense UI on a Hero Android handset, I was mightily impressed. And, very soon, I started getting questions from readers, who already bought HTC Magic handset with plain vanilla Android UI, whether there is any way to get Sense skin on Magic. Well, on G1/Dream too. I know that HTC promised [...]
Nokia’s Here and Now updated, includes movies and restaurants
Nokia Here and Now, the beta application announced back in April, has just been updated. Designed to provide instant access to various info directly on your phone, the application now adds nearby movie listings, as well as nearby restaurants. The new release also fixes some bugs and solves a “nasty wrong location problem that had” [...]
Motorola Zeppelin with Android shows up in China
The Motorola Zeppelin from that leaked Moto roadmap for late 2009 / early 2010 seems to be a real phone, as photos of it have allegedly appeared on a Chinese website. Like Verizon’s Motorola Droid, the Moto Zeppelin runs Android, and apparently it’s the world’s first Android phone to have both GSM and CDMA connectivity [...]