Motorola Aura Diamond Edition announced, costs $5,730
Remember the Motorola Aura, the uber-expensive luxury phone announced by Moto last year and promoted by David Beckham? Well, Moto has announced an even more expensive Aura, called Motorola Aura Diamond Edition. The new Aura is plated with 18 carat gold and has 34 diamonds, 30 of which are embedded above and bellow the phone’s [...]
Nokia Illuvia series: purple 5530 XM, 6700 and 6303
Nokia has launched a new series of special edition phones, called (for an unknown reason) Nokia Illuvia. The series includes three phones: Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Illuvia, Nokia 6700 Illuvia and Nokia 6303 Illuvia. Apparently, the only thing that differentiates the Illuvia phones from the original models is that they come with purple-ish cases, as well [...]
Samsung i6330 touchscreen phone leaked
A new and unannounced Samsung touchscreen phone has appeared over in Russia – although it will most probably be released in China first, since it has the logo of China Mobile above its display. The phone is Samsung GT-i6330 (or simply i6330) and, unfortunately, little is known about it. Anyway, we can see a video-call [...]
Verizon’s HTC Desire shows up in the… dark
When Verizon and Google announced that they would launch several Android phones, they presented the Motorola Droid and an unnamed HTC handset. Well, this HTC handset seems to be the HTC Desire, which has just appeared in a leaked photo. Details are scarce at the moment, but the Desire is probably similar in features with [...]
New Pics and Videos of Sony Ericsson Susan and Sunny Emerge
Just a couple weeks ago we reported at Unwired View that Sony Ericsson has a couple new handsets in the works that will be rugged and waterproof. At the time we had a couple drawings or mockups of these devices, but just recently we found some more official-looking pics and videos showing them off. Here’s [...]
GSM Palm Pre Available Unlocked in the US
Up until now, Palm lovers in the US interested in grabbing the Pre in all its WebOS glory had to head over to Sprint and sign 2 years of their life away with them. Finally, there is a second option, now that an unlocked GSM version has made its way overseas from Germany and is [...]
AT&T Posts Q3 Numbers; Admits Possibility of Losing iPhone Exclusivity
To many who have been around AT&T a while, there was a giant nugget of surprise during today’s call announcing the company’s Q3 2009 finances. CEO of AT&T Mobility Ralph de la Vega admitted that there is always a possibility AT&T will lose iPhone exclusivity sometime in the near future, though he also is confident [...]
Ballmer: Zune is Coming to Next Windows Mobile
Farewell, Windows Media Player; hello Zune? We have a pretty good feeling that the guys and gals over at Engadget had a great day, if nothing else than for the fact they interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and got some useful tidbits from him besides the usual CEO-speak. And now all of the blogs are [...]
Official Motorola Verizon Droid specs, site and what not revealed a week early
When I told you about that Verizon Droid mini site and video, it was pretty obvious what phone they were talking about. It was Motorola Sholes/Tao/Droid, that was leaked, and leaked and leaked again tons of times. But, up until now, it was still a rumor, floating among blogs without any real confirmation. Well, today, [...]
Samsung expands its Hello Kitty line-up in France
Samsung has recently launched two new Hello Kitty phones in France, which are actually special editions of the S5230 and E2210 models. Since the S5230 is called Samsung Player One in France, the new special edition model has become Samsung Player One Hello Kitty. It’s the first Hello Kitty touchscreen phone (if we don’t count [...]
Vertu Constellation Ayxta video preview
Vertu’s first clamshell phone, the Constellation Ayxta, was just caught on video and previewed, so if you’re into luxury (and obviously expensive) phones, read on. In case you don’t know yet, the Ayxta comes with features never seen in a Vertu phone before: it has two displays (QVGA internal and 128 x 160 pixels external), [...]
Samsung Galaxy Spica officially announced in Russia
We’ve been hearing about the upcoming Samsung i5700 Galaxy phone, codenamed Spica for quite a while now. Well, the wait might be almost over. This Android handset has been officially announced today in Russia, as Samsung Galaxy Spica. I checked all the official Samsung PR sites and haven’t found it mentioned anywhere else, so in [...]
Samsung launches mobile app contest for the Omnia II
Samsung has kicked off a new Mobile App Contest targeted at global developers and looking to generate new applications for the Omnia II Windows Mobile smartphone. Samsung will offer up to $330,000 in prize money. Two top winners will receive $100,000 in cash, each. There will also be smaller prizes: $10,000, $5,000 and $2,000. All [...]
Nokia sues Apple, claims iPhone infringes 10 of its patents
In a surprising announcement, today Nokia said that it has sued Apple for infringing no less than ten patents “for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.” The patents cover speech coding, wireless data, encryption and security, and Nokia claims that they’re infringed by all of Apple’s iPhones – starting with the 2.5G model launched [...]
Google Maps 3.2 brings Layers to BlackBerry
Google Maps for mobiles version 3.2 is now compatible with RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones, offering users most of the features already available for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile. One of the nicest new features available now for BlackBerry is Layers. With Layers, users can quickly view various types of info directly on their maps. There are [...]
Nokia investigating Carphone for unauthorized sales of its 5530 inventory
Nokia UK is apparently investigating Carphone Warehouse for selling tens of thousands of 5530 XpressMusic phones on the grey market. Carphone launched the Nokia 5530 in the UK on August 11, after it ordered about 130,000 units from the Finnish phone maker. According to MobileNewsCWP, more than half of the units were “offered to the [...]
Nokia N900 delayed a bit, will start shipping in November
If you’ve been eagerly waiting for the Nokia N900 to become available, it looks like you’ll have to wait a bit longer. Nokia initially announced that the new Maemo 5 handset would be on sale starting October, but this won’t happen. According to Peter Schneider (Head of Marketing, Maemo Devices), the Nokia N900 will start [...]
Nokia is exploring 3D multi-touch interface
By now, almost everyone has figured what a good touch interface on a mobile device should look like. Also, almost everyone is dabbling with at least some sort of multi-touch features on mobile devices. Nokia is no exception here. While Symbian based Nokia touch handsets might still be lagging behind the competition, their Maemo 5 [...]
Free of contract T-Mobile Pulse launched in the UK
T-Mobile UK has announced the availability of its first Pay As You Go Android smartphone – the T-Mobile Pulse (made by Huawei). The features of T-Mobile Pulse include: 3.5 inch HVGA touchscreen display, Android 1.5, HSDPA/HSUPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, pre-installed nru mobile application, Bluetooth, 3.2MP camera, 256MB flash memory and a 2GB memory card included [...]
Nokia Sports Tracker becomes a startup – Sports Tracking Technologies
The creators of Sports Tracker, one of Nokia’s most successful mobile applications, have decided to form a company of their own, called Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd. Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd was announced as part of the Nokia Technopolis Innovation program, which has the purpose of converting “Nokia’s unused ideas and innovations into growth businesses through [...]