AT&T HTC Hero Coming Early 2010?
Sometimes the rumor mill works its hardest at night, when the world is sleeping. Next up on our ever-growing Wall of Speculation is AT&T, which apparently is planning on bringing the HTC Hero into its fold early next year. Will this be AT&T’s first Android phone? There has been much chatter around the internet for [...]
Moto CLIQ is Out Now to T-Mo Customers
If you are currently a T-Mobile customer and are looking for the latest and greatest device, there is a possibility you’ve been eyeballing the Moto CLIQ rather heavily ever since it was announced to be coming to your phone network of choice. Happily, the wait is now officially over. That’s right, everyone. The CLIQ is [...]
T-Mobile Release Date Rumors: Tap, Behold II
More leaked documents are abounding this holiday season, and you will be able to reap the benefits. Two more anticipated handsets now have tentative release dates — at least, if you believe the leaked docs found by TmoNews. First we have the Samsung Behold II Android with AMOLED touchscreen and Touchwiz UI, receiving a date [...]
Verizon LTE iPhone Rumored To Be in Testing Phase?
Ready for another Apple rumor? It’s easy to imagine that Apple has more rumors floating around about its R&D projects than any other company on the planet. As I post this, there are rumors floating around about an iTablet, new iMacs, Mac Mini, iPhone Nano, a new FM iPhone app, not to mention countless patents [...]
Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer luxury phone pays homage to NASA
Mobiado has jut unveiled its second QWERTY-equipped handset, the Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer, which is the world’s first phone to “utilize the compelling beauty of meteorite.” The company says that the Grand 350 Pioneer pays homage to NASA – more exactly, to its Pioneer 10 spacecraft. Launched 37 years ago, Pioneer 10 is the first [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry Bluetooth Watch (inPulse) shows up
That BlackBerry Bluetooth Watch we first heard about in August seems to be a real device after all, as two photos of it have just appeared on the Web, along with some technical details. According to CrackBerry, the watch will come as an accessory “designed specifically for BlackBerry from the ground up.” It has a [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Rachael to be called X10?
Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone, the unannounced Xperia X3 Rachael, might be officially called Xperia X10. According to Tweakers.net, the info was obtained from anonymous SE employees, who also said that the Android-powered Xperia would be available starting 2010 (yeah, we’ve heard about this before). Although it might not hit the market until next year, [...]
Samsung i5700 Spica (Galaxy Lite) in new video preview
We still don’t know if the Samsung i5700 will be called Spica or Galaxy Lite, but one thing’s certain: this Android smartphone is really close to being officially announced. A new video preview of the Samsung i5700 has just appeared over at the ai.rs blog, this time showing the black version of the handset. It’s [...]
Asus reconfirms: they’ll have an Android phone this year
It’s been a while since we last heard about Asus’ Android plans, and if you were worried that the Taiwan-based company has forgot about Google’s mobile OS, well, it didn’t. While its Taiwanese neighbor Acer has already announced its first Android phone (the Liquid A1), Asus hasn’t provided too many details about its own Android [...]
New HTC Android phone leaked, might be the Dragon
An unknown HTC phone has recently appeared in some leaked photos, running Android and looking pretty good. The phone is supposed to be the HTC Dragon, of which we first heard about two weeks ago. The handset we can see in the photos below seems to be a GSM phone. It has a large touchscreen [...]
Verizon Storm 2 Could Launch on Oct 21
The Blackberry Storm sequel may have already been officially announced by RIM and Vodafone, but Verizon has naturally been quite tight-lipped about the release of its version of the phone. Thank our lucky stars for information leaks. Recent merchandising documents have been leaked to PhoneArena which confirm that the Storm 2 will be launching this [...]
Verizon Prepping Palm Pre for Early 2010
It’s such a rare opportunity to hear Verizon actually fess up to various rumors, and we just got one today out of the blue, on Twitter no less. VZWOffers apparently needs more followers, and found a great way to get exposure by announcing Verizon will be selling the Palm Pre early next year. Talk about [...]
Verizon Droid. No Idea what it is, but it’s here, on preorder
By now, all of you, who are at least a little bit interested, know that something called Verizon Droid is comin’. Yes. Neither you, nor I have an iDea what it is. I think it might be Motorola Scholes Google phone, or it might be some other thing with Android on it. But it’s almost [...]
Fun stuff with Nokia N900: P2P/ Bittorent downloads and Xvid/AVI movie playback
Before I checked this out, I thought that P2P/BitTorrent clients on smartphones was one of the things the people just did not do. I guess, I was wrong. It seems that every major mobile platform has one. On the other hand, since I use Bittorent mainly to catch up with the U.S. shows, like Lost, FlashForward, Mentalist, [...]
Sony Ericsson’s Q3 2009 results show “positive trend”
Today, Sony Ericsson announced its results for the third quarter of 2009 and, although they’re far from being great, they’re a bit better than the results for the second quarter of the year. 14.1 million Sony Ericsson phones were sold in Q3 2009 (compared to 25.7 million units in Q3 2008, and 13.8 million units [...]
Motorola i410 flip phone for Nextel and Boost shows up
Motorola’s line-up of iDEN phones will soon be expanded with the addition of i410, a clamshell that appears over at the FCC with Nextel’s logo on it. The Motorola i410 has two displays (external and internal), large keys on the inside, and no photo camera. The phone obviously features push to talk, as well as [...]
Nokia CWM has slightly over 100K users after one year
Launched by Nokia in October 2008, the Comes With Music service doesn’t seem to have the success Nokia has hoped for. According to MusicAlley, in July this year CWM had a total of 107,227 users in the nine markets were it’s available – that’s not exactly a great number, since Nokia has surely invested a [...]
France Senate Considering Mobile Ban for Students
Recently we have seen several moves from governments to limit the use of mobile phones in order to ensure greater safety. Driving, in particular, seems to be getting the brunt of the bans. Sure, it may be an obvious statement to say that mobile phones tend to have an adverse affect on the study habits [...]
AT&T to Launch Bolds in White and Non-Camera; America Yawns
I guess you can call us confused on the timing of everything. AT&T has announced that the Blackberry Bold 9000 will be unleashed in two new styles within the next few days, and most of the US is likely wondering why, on the heels of a rumored Bold 2 launch sometime in the near future. [...]
Bell’s HSPA November Lineup Leaked
No, it’s not your imagination. It’s true that Bell has been a prominent figure in the phone news as of late. They’ve got some crazy stuff going on — most good, some bad. Fortunately we have more news on the good end of the stick. BGR has leaked the new lineup that’s supposed to start [...]