T-Mobile USA’s HTC HD2 has 1GB of ROM, more RAM; might get WM7
T-Mobile USA’s subscribers will be able to buy the HTC HD2 much later than many European and Asian users, but their wait won’t be in vain – it looks like they’ll have the best HD2 made by HTC until now. According to the smartphone’s official page found at HTC USA’s website, T-Mobile’s HD2 will come [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 headed to O2 UK?
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 (which will soon hit Japan via NTT DoCoMo) has appeared on O2 UK’s website, in the accessories shop (you can’t see the page if you’re not in the UK) – which means that the largest British mobile carrier should soon offer the smartphone for sale. Coming as Sony Ericsson’s first Android [...]
Sony Ericsson announces Q4 results, reports almost €1 billion loss for 2009
Not long after announcing the Kurara / Vivaz (and the Xperia X10 for Japan), Sony Ericsson has now reported its Q4 and full year 2009 results, which continue the “positive trend” started in the previous quarter. The company sold 14.6 million phones in the fourth quarter of 2009 – slightly more than in the third [...]
Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 gets official, Windows Mobile 6.5.3 confirmed
Garmin-Asus’ newest Windows Mobile smartphone, the M10, has just been confirmed by the joint-venture. The M10 is part of the Nuvifone series and will be launched in Taiwan in February, featuring Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Maldives (we’ve also heard that Windows Mobile Maldives is a codename for Windows Mobile 6.6, but it looks like this isn’t [...]
HTC Obsession/Diamond3 to Launch on AT&T, T-Mobile USA With WinMo 7
As you can tell by the headline, this is a pretty juicy rumor coming hot off the presses, but I preface this rumor with a disclaimer: it’s from “reliable sources”. Sometimes I fear that various websites use that term too liberally, considering we have no way of knowing whether it’s really from reliable sources or [...]
Nokia C3 and C5 Cseries phones to come on January 26?
Back in 2009, Nokia registered two new brand names for its handsets: Xseries and Cseries. We’ve already seen some Xseries phones (Nokia X3 and Nokia X6), but we know nothing about the company’s Cseries devices. Well, the first phones from this new series might be announced next week, on January 26 – one day ahead [...]
Gigabyte’s GSmart Android phone in live photos
Gigabyte’s first Android handset – the still unnamed device from the GSmart series – has just appeared in a set of live photos, allowing us to take a better look at it. Granted, this is not a phone that can make you say wow – but most probably Gigabyte doesn’t want it to be anyway. [...]
Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus pricing announced by Verizon
Verizon has just announced the prices of Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus – its first WebOS smartphones, officially unveiled two weeks ago. As expected, the prices are similar to the prices of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi: $149.99 and $99.99, respectively (both on contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate received “in the form [...]
Samsung files for “Vita OS” trademark – another mobile OS?
Samsung is yet to show us what its newly-announced Bada OS is all about. Until we see any Bada phones, though, we have to mention that Samsung could be readying another mobile OS called Vita OS – or maybe that’s just an alternative name for Bada, we can’t know for sure. What we do know [...]
Garmin-Asus to launch Android phone, M10 WM phone at MWC
Garmin-Asus is reportedly getting ready to unveil its first Android smartphone at MWC 2010 (a few months later than initially predicted). There are no exact details about the upcoming Android handset, but it looks like it won’t be Garmin-Asus’ only device to run Google’s OS: Asustek’s president Benson Lin recently mentioned that they’ll have 4 [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 (SO-01B) goes to Japan via NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, has just announced the upcoming availability of Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 (SE’s first Android smartphone). The Japanese carrier’s X10 is called “docomo Smartphone Xperia” (model number SO-01B) and it should be commercially available starting April – one month after it will be launched in Europe. The only notable difference [...]
Nokia smartphones to come with free GPS navigation – now official
Nokia is just about to announce “something big” related to its Ovi services, but, before this to happen, Reuters is reporting that the world’s largest handset maker plans to offer free GPS turn-by-turn navigation on its smartphones. Not in select markets, but worldwide. The news comes several months after Google has announced its free navigation [...]
20 to 30 Motorola Android smartphones coming this year?
Today, while launching the Moto Dext in Singapore, Motorola talked a bit about its plans for 2010. CNET Asia was at the Dext launch event and interviewed Spiros Nikolakopoulos, vice president of Motorola Asia’s Mobile Devices unit. Mr. Nikolakopoulos declared that Motorola wants to release 20 to 30 Android smartphones by the end of this [...]
HTC Bravo appears in live photo, T-Mobile UK to launch it soon
HTC Bravo, the high-end Android smartphone that resembles the Google Nexus One in many ways, has appeared (for the first time) in a live photo. Unlike the Nexus One, which features a traditional trackball, the Bravo comes with a rather weird optical trackpad. Other than that, the unannounced device has Nexus-like features, including a 3.7 [...]
Sony Ericsson Vivaz (Kurara U5) gets official earlier than planned
We don’t know when Sony Ericsson intended to announce the Sony Ericsson Kurara U5, but the smartphone has just been fully unveiled (with press shots and even a video preview), so it’s safe to say that it’s now official. The website that published all the info available below has almost immediately retracted the article, but [...]
Apple in talks with UK carriers to offer subsidized iTablet / iSlate?
A full week ahead of the grand Apple event set for January 27, rumors about the company’s iTablet / iSlate are showing up from all over the Web. For example, Guardian.co.uk is implying that Apple has “approached” UK operators in order to negotiate a possible release of its upcoming tablet. Orange – which will likely [...]
New Apple iPhone 4G concept is fairly realistic
Whether it will be called iPhone 4G or not, a new Apple iPhone is almost certainly going to be released this year – most probably in June or July, although, who knows, maybe Apple will surprise everyone and unveil its new smartphone during the January 27 event in San Francisco. But before this to happen, [...]
Ericsson, 3 Scandinavia to launch the world’s first 84Mbps HSPA network
While TeliaSonera already offers LTE / 4G services, Ericsson and 3 Scandinavia announced that they’ll be the first in the world to upgrade a 3G HSPA network from 21Mbps to 84Mbps. The two companies have singed a 3-yr agreement and they plan to start the rollout in the first half of this year. The 84Mbps [...]
Opera buys AdMarvel (mobile advertising company) for $8 million
Not long after Google acquired AdMob and Apple bought Quattro Wireless, Opera Software announced that it’s buying a mobile advertising company, too. The company in question is AdMarvel, a California-based startup established in 2006 and led by Mahi de Silva, a former Apple and VeriSign employee. By acquiring AdMarvel, Opera wants to “include highly scalable [...]
Apple might make Microsoft’s Bing the default search engine for iPhone
Back in December, when Microsoft launched a free Bing app for Apple’s iPhone, most iPhone users probably didn’t care too much about it. One month after, we’re now hearing that Apple might be in talks with long-time rival Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for iPhone, instead of Google’s search engine – which [...]