Wonga iPhone app lets you borrow money wirelessly (in the UK)
Wonga, a London-based company that offers short-term loans online, has just launched the Wonga iPhone app. With the Wonga app, iPhone users in the UK can borrow money wirelessly – up to £1,000 (about $1,630). The application seems really easy to use – you just enter the amount you need to borrow and the number [...]
Verizon announces new (and cheaper) unlimited voice plans
Verizon Wireless, the largest North American mobile carrier, has just announced new and more affordable unlimited voice plans. Effective starting January 18 (only for new contract agreements), the new and cheaper plans include: Nationwide Unlimited Talk plan for $69.99 per month, Nationwide Unlimited Talk & Text plan for $89.99, Nationwide Unlimited Talk Family SharePlan for [...]
Nokia shows off Symbian^4 UI concept proposal
Although Symbian^3 isn’t released yet, Nokia is already working on Symbian^4, and it recently presented a UI concept proposal for it. Based on a Qt framework, Symbian^4 should simplify the S60 user experience by bringing renewed layouts, “free placement of Homescreen widgets”, “context menu support for list items”, four user-facing libraries (Contacts, Applications, Music and [...]
T-Mobile and Eric Clapton launch the myTouch 3G Fender Edition
Announced in October last year, the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Edition is now finally ready for launch. The customized Android smartphone will be on sale starting January 20, and T-Mobile USA has teamed up with legendary guitarist Eric Clapton to promote it and appear in commercials that will air on national TV. Featuring “a Fender [...]
Google Mobile App for BlackBerry updated with email and contacts search
BlackBerry owners who frequently use the Messages and Contacts apps preinstalled on their smartphones should be happy to find out that there’s a new version of Google Mobile App for BlackBerry – which helps you search (by type or voice) through your emails and contacts and quickly find the desired results. The email and contacts [...]
New iPhone to have Magic Mouse-like touch-sensitive case
As the summer of 2010 gets closer and closer, more and more speculations and rumors about Apple’s new iPhone show up. The latest rumor comes from Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Chen, and implies that the fourth generation iPhone (possibly called iPhone 4G) will feature a touch-sensitive case, somewhat similar to the case the [...]
Forget WM 7, Windows Mobile 6.6 Maldives may come first
Not long after those rumors about Windows Mobile 7 being delayed to 2011 appeared, here we have some rather confusing info coming from Taiwan: Microsoft may launch Windows Mobile 6.6 in February this year (possibly at MWC 2010). Reportedly codenamed Windows Mobile Maldives, the 6.6 version of the OS should bring full support for capacitive [...]
Hisense HS-E90 is the company’s first Android phone
Hisense is yet another electronics manufacturer that jumped on the Android bandwagon, as it recently announced the HS-E90 – its very first Android phone. The Hisense HS-E90 features CDMA / EVDO Rev.A connectivity, a 3.5 inch HVGA touchscreen display, music and video players, Bluetooth, FM radio, 5MP autofocus camera, MicroSD card support, and a 1500 [...]
HTC Bravo may be launched in March
First appeared in December last year (without being officially announced), the high-end HTC Bravo might hit the market sooner than expected. According to 3 Sweden’s Facebook page, the Swedish carrier could launch the HTC Bravo in March. Knowing this, other European markets will probably have the Bravo at about the same time. The features of [...]
Samsung Shark S5350, S5550 and S3550 announced
Samsung has just announced a new range of phones called Samsung Shark. Targeted at “active, multimedia-hungry users who value style and design as much as they value constant access to their social networks, friends and family”, the new range includes, for the beginning, three phones: Samsung Shark S5350, Samsung Shark 2 S5550 and Samsung Shark [...]
Samsung Corby Folder W930 / W9300 / W9350 coming soon
Samsung plans to expand its Corby phone line-up with the addition of a clamshell called Samsung Corby Folder. The phone’s model numbers (SCH-W930, SPH-W9300 and SPH-W9350) suggest that it’s made for South Korea’s three mobile carriers (SKT, KT and LG Telecom), although we might see a version of it outside Korea, too. Unlike the older [...]
Motorola Backflip Launching March 7 on AT&T?
Mark this date on your calendar, Android fans: March 7. Phandroid is reporting from the infamous “anonymous tipster” that we’ll be seeing AT&T, the 4th and last major US carrier to sell Android, launch the long-awaited Motorola Backflip on that particular date. The Backflip, a rather unique and crazily-designed reverse flip touchscreen phone that was [...]
Gigabyte to make Android phones, too?
While reporting about the launch of A688 – a new Android handset made by Foxconn for the Taiwanese mobile carrier Vibo – DigiTimes has also implied that computer maker Gigabyte may be interested to manufacture Android smartphones, too. Of course, Gigabyte already has smartphones, but all of them run Windows Mobile (the latest-announced being the [...]
Motorola to put multitouch in most of its future phones?
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has recently praised multitouch technology and, in an interview with Laptop Magazine, he stated that he thinks most of the company’s upcoming phones will “deliver multitouch”, mainly due to the fact that “the user feedback on multitouch is very good.” As you may already know, Motorola’s latest flagship Android phone, the [...]
Vodafone’s Nexus One to cost €150 on contract
We’ve already heard that the on-contract price of Google’s Nexus One for Europe might be under €200, and it looks like this is true. A new leaked document shows that Vodafone Germany will sell the Nexus One for €149.90 with a contract agreement (presumably for 2 years), so we should expect the smartphone’s price to [...]
Samsung’s Diva phones (S7070 and S5150) will be advertised by Carmen Kass
Samsung Diva S7070 and Diva S5150, the two new fashionable phones announced by the South Korean company at the end of 2009, will be advertised with the help of international model Carmen Kass. Starting February this year, the Estonian-born model will appear in “Samsung Diva Collection 2010” TV commercial and print ads – first in [...]
Samsung intros new 32GB MicroSD card, 64GB moviNAND flash memory
Samsung has just announced two new 30nm-class storage solutions designed for mobile devices: a 32GB MicroSD memory card, and a 64GB moviNAND memory chip. The 32GB MicroSD memory card is only 1mm thick and it will enter mass production next month, so it should be available for purchase sometime later this year. The Samsung 64GB [...]
Only 20,000 Google Nexus Ones sold in the first week?
Although some analysts predicted sales of 5 to 6 million units for the Nexus One until the end of 2010, it looks like Google’s first phone is not quite the success the company would have wanted it to be. According to Mobile-ent.biz, which relies on data gathered by app analytics firm Flurry, only about 20,000 [...]
Sony Ericsson Faith, the first WM 6.5 Green Heart phone
A new member of Sony Ericsson’s Green Heart family has just appeared on the Web – and this time it’s a Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone called Sony Ericsson Faith. The Sony Ericsson Faith is certainly different from what SE has launched until now, looking like the child of a Nokia E71 and an LG GW550. [...]
ZTE C76 (for MetroPCS) and Huawei G7600 pass the FCC
The FCC has recently approved two new phones from ZTE and Huawei, namely the ZTE C76 and Huawei G7600. The ZTE C76 is a simple candybar that’s headed to MetroPCS, the regional US carrier that just announced it has added 1.3 million subscribers in Q4 2009 (now serving more than 6.6 million customers). Feature-wise, the [...]