Spotify for Symbian available for download
Already available for iPhone and Android, Spotify Mobile has now been launched for Symbian too. The app requires users to have a Spotify Premium account and allows them to search and stream music over the air, create and sync playlists, and even save music for offline playback. A complete list with the supported Symbian handsets [...]
Unannounced Sony Ericsson Kurara U5 gets previewed
The Sony Ericsson Kurara has not been officially announced (or confirmed), but that didn’t stop Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-review to publish an interesting preview of it. Also called Sony Ericsson U5, the handset is certainly an interesting one and it will probably be one of SE’s flagship devices for 2010, together with the Xperia X10. [...]
KT hopes to sell up to 500,000 iPhones in Korea
KT, South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier and the only one to distribute the iPhone on the local market (for the moment, at least), expects to sell 100,000 to 500,000 units of Apple’s famous smartphone. The iPhone will be available via KT starting November 28. KT didn’t announce the price for which it will sell [...]
New Samsung Diva phones: S7070 and S5150 Olivia
Samsung has recently showcased two unannounced phones that are part of a new design line called “Diva” and obviously targeted at female customers. Samsung S7070 is a full touchscreen phone with a 3 inch WQVGA resistive display, TouchWiz UI, 5MP autofocus camera, Bluetooth, microUSB, FM radio and MicroSD card support. The S7070 should be launched [...]
Motorola Motus shows up, specs included
First seen in a leaked Motorola roadmap which included the Sholes Tablet and the Zeppelin, Motorola Motus has now appeared in a leaked photo, together with most of its specs. Like the already-available Motorola Cliq, Motorola Motus should come with Android 1.5 and the Motoblur interface. The Motus has quad-band GSM connectivity and – weird [...]
Officially confirmed – Nokia will not exhibit at MWC 2010 in Barcelona
We’ve first heard rumbles, that Nokia may not have a stand at Mobile World Congress 2010, during Nokia World 2009 in September. With sort of confirmations about this popping up now and then. When asked directly whether they will be at Mobile World Congress Exhibition 2010, the official Nokia response is: Nokia is committed to [...]
BlackBerry Pearl 9100 in leaked photos, video
RIM is getting ready to launch a successor for the popular BlackBerry Pearl 8100 / 8110 / 8120: meet the BlackBerry Pearl 9100, codenamed BlackBerry Stratus or BlackBerry Striker. Like most of RIM’s new smartphones, the Pearl 9100 comes with an optical trackpad instead of a trackball. It has an overall glossy look, and a [...]
AT&T launches the Pantech Impact for $99.99 on contract
First announced by AT&T at the beginning of October, the Pantech Impact will be available starting this Sunday (22 November). The Impact is a weird messaging phone, featuring a “high-gloss faceplate” with haptic-enabled keys, and a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset also has two displays: a small external one and a larger internal one. Other [...]
Google News updated for Android, iPhone, WebOS
The Google mobile team has announced a new version of Google News for Android, iPhone and WebOS (Palm Pre). Available in 29 languages, the updated Google News for mobile features “the same richness and personalization” that Google News offers on your desktop PC. There are now more stories and images displayed on the homepage, and [...]
TomTom for iPhone 1.2 offers text-to-speech and other new features
Perhaps in response to Google’s new and free Maps Navigation for Android 2.0, TomTom has just launched a new version of its iPhone application, TomTom for iPhone 1.2, which brings a set of new features. These new features include text-to-speech, Advanced Lane Guidance (for “extra clarity when navigating difficult junctions”), updated Tele Atlas maps for [...]
Motorola Crush touchscreen phone announced for US Cellular
Motorola has just unveiled a brand new touchscreen phone called Motorola Crush. The Crush is an EV-DO Rev. 0 device with an interesting design, having the power and lock keys above its 2.8 inch, 240 x 400 pixels touchscreen display, and no keys at all below it. The phone further features a virtual QWERTY keyboard, [...]
Verizon announces the rugged Casio G’zOne Rock
Verizon’s newest Casio phone is not the Brigade, as expected, but the Casio G’zOne Rock, a clamshell announced today by the largest US mobile carrier. The Casio G’zOne is a rugged handset that features Triple Sensor technology and advanced G’zGear software which can operate in six modes: Earth Compass, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset, Tides, Walking [...]
Nokia Booklet 3G successful among corporate customers
Recently announced for AT&T in the US, the Nokia Booklet 3G is one of the Finnish company’s most interesting products ever – mainly because is its first (and only, for now) netbook. Nokia designed the Booklet 3G to be a consumer device, but it looks like it may become highly successful among corporate customers. According [...]
LiMo forms Korean Association, will launch the Samsung SCH-M510 via SKT
LiMo Foundation announced the establishment of the Korean LiMo Ecosystem Association, together with major Korean mobile companies including Samsung, LG and SK Telecom. The role of the Korean LiMo Ecosystem Association, which is supported by the Korean Government, is to “fully catalyze and empower innovation upon the LiMo Platform within the Korean mobile industry.” As [...]
Fring finally comes to Android, available for download now
Already available for Symbian and Windows Mobile, fring has now been launched for Android. The fring Android app will allow you to make free VoIP calls over Skype, Google Talk or MSN, as well as to chat via ICQ, AIM or Yahoo! Twitter is also integrated, and it looks like the fring app works with [...]
T-Mobile Complete launched in the US, offering contract-free BlackBerries
T-Mobile USA has just announced a new pre-packaged contract solution called T-Mobile Complete. T-Mobile Complete doesn’t require an annual contract agreement and allows customers to buy four phone models starting at $59.99, with the first month of data being free. Two of the phones included by T-Mobile in the new offering are the BlackBerry Curve [...]
Sony Ericsson WebSDK for Android and Symbian launched
Sony Ericsson announced the availability of WebSDK beta for Android and Symbian, which will allow developers to create apps for the company’s Android and Symbian smartphones – starting with the already-available Satio and the upcoming Xperia X10. The WebSDK is created together with PhoneGap (an open source community) and enables devs to work with HTML, [...]
ZTE to Bring Android Phone to US Next Year
Really, at this point it would be more shocking to learn of companies that AREN’T planning to release an Android device in the near future. But without fail we go forward with further news that a relatively unknown player to most Americans is trying to come to the US in 2010. The company, ZTE Corp., [...]
Microsoft Announces WinMo 7 Announcement Coming March 2010
It’s always weird to hear that a company is announcing that it will make an announcement, but Microsoft doesn’t have to worry too much about little things like that, since any announcement the company makes receives an incredible amount of news exposure. This particular time, Microsoft is announcing that Windows Mobile 7 will make its [...]
Will Maemo bring Nokia N-Series Mojo back? It’s all about software and services now
When Nokia first introduced the N-Series, they were all about pushing the limits of what a mobile phone should be. But it was mainly, on the hardware side, with software running the devices, taking a back seat. A digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics (N90), music player with built-in hard drive (N91), mobile television set (N92), [...]