Will HTC Hero skip Android 2.0 upgrade and go directly to Android 2.1/Flan?
Remember my WAT (Wild arsed guess), that we won’t see any more Android 2.0 phones this year, if ever?
Well, more then a month has passed since the announcement of Motorola Droid, holiday shopping season is in full swing, but we still have not seen a single other handset running Android 2.0.
And, even though [...]
Speculations about who might buy Nokia’s handset manufacturing division
Shortly after we told you that Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki doesn’t exclude the possibility of Nokia selling its handset division, now speculations about who might buy it are starting to appear.
Chinese newspaper Economic Daily News says that, in case Nokia does indeed want to sell its phone making business, Foxconn Electronics (“the largest manufacturer of electronics [...]
Samsung sells 50 millionth touchscreen phone. 40 million of them this year!
I’m already getting used to that.
Every couple of months or so, Samsung is putting out a press release, to crow about one or other of it’s achievements in mobile phone biz. Most of them about something or other, related to their touchscreen phones.
They have a real good reason to do so. It seems [...]
“iPhone Effect” starts pushing smartphone prices down in Korea
This weekend the long awaited iPhone has arrived to South Korea, generating much excitement there.
Most of the reports focused on better then expected iPhone pre-orders, and eager fans lining up for a long hours of wait to get their hands on the new handset.
But, looking at the actual figures – 65K pre-orders – [...]
Nokia doesn’t exclude the possibility of selling its handset division
In an interview that should appear tomorrow (Monday) in the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Nokia’s head of marketing Anssi Vanjoki talked about the company’s future.
While speaking about how Nokia needs to quickly “boost its offering of mobile internet solutions” (which are mainly related to the Ovi brand), Mr. Vanjoki said that, in the long term, the [...]
Samsung bada to be launched on December 8
Samsung’s recently announced new mobile OS, called bada, will apparently be launched on December 8.
According to Mobile Crunch, Samsung will hold a bada press event in London on this date, when more details about the OS will be unveiled to the world.
Even so, the first Samsung bada phones will probably be available starting next year, [...]
Acer to launch more phones with Android, fewer with Windows Mobile (in 2010)
Acer, one of the latest big companies to have entered the smartphone industry, launched about 10 handsets until now, most of them running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS.
In fact, only one Acer smartphone doesn’t have Windows Mobile – the Acer Liquid A1, which is based on Google’s Android platform.
For 2010, Acer plans to introduce yet another [...]
Some Sony Ericsson Aino phones have touchscreen problems
Launched not long ago in Europe, the US and India, the Sony Ericsson Aino isn’t doing too well in the UK.
More exactly, some customers have reported issues with the phone’s touchscreen functionality.
According to Reuters, a SE spokesman said that only a small number of Aino units have issues and the company is “working as quickly [...]
LG Arena Max (LU9400) coming soon?
LG Arena KM900 is one of this year’s most successful LG touchscreen phones – as of August, it’s sold in more than 1 million units – and it looks like the world’s third largest handset maker is readying a successor of it.
A so-called LG Arena Max LU9400 has recently received a Wi-Fi Interoperability Certificate, so [...]
Nokia Ovi Contacts for Symbian touch and S60 3rd Ed FP2 has new features
If you’re using Nokia Ovi Contacts, you should know that its versions for Symbian S60 5th Edition and Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 have just been updated.
One of the new features of Ovi Contacts for the mentioned platforms is file transfer – which enables users to send and receive larger files than before. Nokia also [...]