HTC’s 2010 line-up to include the Legend, Bravo, Trophy and more
No less than 8 new unannounced HTC smartphones have recently appeared in some leaked images, offering us a glimpse of what the Taiwanese manufacturer is readying for the first half of 2010. Five of the smartphones run Android, while three run Windows Mobile 6.5. All have some common features, though, like HSDPA connectivity and 3.5mm [...]
Hands-on Review of the Samsung Moment
Motorola and HTC have been looked at as the frontrunners in the race for Android supremacy. However, in the course of a month, Samsung has made its fair contribution to the Android fans by introducing two new handsets: the Behold II and the Moment. I had the pleasure of reviewing both these units in succession [...]
CDMA Samsung Corby S3650 coming to India?
Officially announced only in GSM flavor, the Samsung Corby S3650 might also be released in a CDMA version for the Indian market – where major carriers like Reliance and Tata use CDMA networks. The new Corby S3650 would be India’s first CDMA touchscreen phone to provide access to social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc). [...]
Samsung i6500U Saturn is an Android phone “with Google”. Samsung i899 isn’t
That Samsung i6500 Saturn, of which we first heard about one month ago, is indeed an Android smartphone, and it’s also Google-branded. The first images of the i6500 / i6500U Saturn have appeared today at Mobile-review, showing it to be a full-touch smartphone, probably without a QWERTY keyboard. The Samsung Saturn has a photo camera [...]
More Motorola Sholes Tablet (XT701) photos, Android 2.1 confirmed?
First appeared in some leaked photos just a few days ago, the Motorola Sholes Tablet has now made a new appearance, and this time we can see it better. Reportedly, the Sholes Tablet will be launched by China Unicom, as Motorola XT701, with Android 2.1 (Flan) on board. The smartphone has no hardware keyboard – [...]
Nokia closing its Regent Street flagship store in London
Open on February 2008, Nokia’s flagship store in Regent Street (one of London’s major shopping streets) will be closed before its 2-year birthday. The store will be closed for the same reason most stores are closed: it’s not profitable. More exactly, a Nokia spokeswomen declared that it’s “not been as efficient or as profitable” as [...]
Nokia to halve its smartphone portfolio in 2010
Nokia announced more than 15 smartphones this year, both touch and non-touch (E72, E75, E55, E52, N86 8MP, 5630 XpressMusic, 5530 XpressMusic, N97 Mini, X6 and so on), and it looks like this number will be halved in 2010. The reason for this is the continuously increasing competition coming from RIM, Apple, HTC and, more [...]
The world’s first broadcast app for iPhone: Knocking Live Video
Pointy Heads Software is the company that recently launched the first video broadcasting app for iPhone, called Knocking Live Video. Basically, the Knocking Live Video app lets users instantly broadcast video content from one iPhone to another. You don’t have to upload, send or download anything (save for the app itself). Just open Knocking Live [...]
How not to use a mobile phone: don’t Tweet “I do” before kissing the bride
I’m not sure if this is funny or rather sad (or both?), but software developer Dana Hanna used his mobile phone during his wedding, just after saying “I do” to his future wife and before kissing her, to update his relationship status on Facebook, as well as to Tweet about him getting married. So what [...]
Confirmed: HTC Touch.B is HTC’s first dumb/feature phone on Qualcomm’s BREW. UI video included
That HTC Touch.B (Rome) handset we told you about a couple of days ago? We were not sure which smartphone OS – WinMo or Android – it will be running on. And for good reason. Because HTC Touch.B is no smartphone at all. It’s HTC’s first feature/dumb phone, running on Qualcomms BREW platform. The Touch.B that [...]
Samsung Corby S3650W to come with Wi-Fi
The youthful Samsung Corby S3650 is a pretty cool affordable phone, although it lacks some features that many users would want. One of these features is Wi-Fi – and it looks like Samsung plans to launch an upgraded Corby to include it. The upgraded phone will be named Samsung Corby S3650W – as this Wi-Fi [...]
Layar 3.0 mobile augmented reality browser launched
Layar, the world’s first augmented reality (AR) browser for mobile phones, has reached version 3.0 – currently available only for Android 1.5 and 1.6 (an iPhone 3GS version is to follow). In case you don’t know what exactly is Layar and why it is called an augmented reality browser, it’s an “application on your mobile [...]
Symbian^3 looks mighty interesting: multi-desktops, multi-touch, NFC, HDMI, HD video, song recognition and more
By now, everyone who cares, knows that major user interface upgrade is coming in Symbian^4, sometime at the end of 2010/beginning of 2011. Until then we’ll bee stuck with the old and tired Symbian^1/S60.5 UI, that we’ve seen on the phones like Nokia 5800, Nokia N97, Samsung i8910 HD and Sony Ericsson Satio. Or so [...]
Opera Mobile 10 beta 2 for S60 and Windows Mobile released
Opera has announced a new beta version of its Opera Mobile browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60, namely Opera Mobile 10 beta 2. There are many enhancements and new features in Opera Mobile 10 beta 2, for both WinMo and S60, including: a more finger-friendly UI for touchscreen phones, download manager, Opera Link, better [...]
LCD makers about the Nokia suit: it’s not that easy to fix prices for small LCD panels
Shortly after the news about Nokia’s lawsuit against big LCD makers hit the Web, some “sources with Taiwan’s panel sector” have declared that it’s actually hard for manufacturers to control prices in the small to medium-size LCD panel market, because there are quite many companies that compete in this sector. In other words, Nokia may [...]
Google Maps for mobile reaches version 3.3 (for Symbian and WM)
Google Maps for Windows Mobile and Symbian has just been updated to version 3.3. The new version brings the ability to sync the places you star on Google Maps for desktop with the ones you star on your phone, and vice-versa. For example, let’s say you’re in London and star a hotel on your desktop [...]
Motorola Sholes Tablet appears in leaked photos
It looks like that Motorola Sholes Tablet is more than just a rumor, as some photos of it have allegedly appeared in China. Unfortunately, said photos only show parts of the Sholes Tablet. Anyway, they confirm the fact that the device has an 8MP autofocus camera with Xenon flash, HMDI port, and a 3.5mm headset [...]
FCC unveils the ZTE Vodafone 545
Vodafone will soon launch a new phone made by ZTE (which also made the MTV-branded F870E), called Vodafone 545. The 545 has just been approved by the FCC, and we can see that it has the shape of a QWERTY-equipped smartphone – although, for some reason, it only features an alphanumeric keypad and it’s probably [...]
Nokia N87 12MP to come with WVGA display
If we’re to believe a recently-appeared rumor, Nokia is working on a 12MP camera phone dubbed Nokia N87 12MP. Like other Nseries smartphones (N96, N86), the N87 seems to be a dual slider. Its features should include: a 3.2 inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touchscreen display, 16GB of internal memory, a 600MHz processor [...]
Nokia’s plans for 2010 include its first Maemo 6 device, re-engineered Symbian UI and more
Today, during Nokia Capital Markets Day 2009, the world’s largest phone maker announced some of its plans and targets for next year. Nokia hopes to improve its value share and believes it will be competitive in both the cell phone and the smartphone market. The company’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, says that they will “take the [...]