TigerText (for iPhone) to revolutionize the way we send and receive SMS
X Sigma Partners, an L.A.-based company, announced the availability of TigerText, a new application for iPhone set to revolutionize the way people send and receive text messages. Leveraging on patent-pending technology, TigerText lets you send messages that “delete off of both the sender’s and receiver’s phone after a set period of time.” You can set [...]
LG’s first Windows Phone 7 Series handset shows up
LG’s first Windows Phone 7 Series handset, which might be available as soon as September this year, has been officially unveiled by Aaron Woodman (Director of Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft) this week-end. The smartphone is a pre-production unit, doesn’t have a name yet, and it was shown this week-end at The Engadget Show. The [...]
Vodafone UK to launch the Google Nexus One in April
According to initial rumors, the Nexus One should have been available via Vodafone since late January or early February. However, Google’s first phone is not ready yet for Voda. And although there hasn’t been any official announcement about the exact release date of Nexus One via Vodafone, it looks like the carrier’s subscribers in the [...]
Samsung Corby Folder gets official. Samsung i9000 (Omnia III?) coming soon
Remember the Samsung Corby Folder W930 / W9300 / W9350? The phone is now official, as it has just appeared on Samsung’s South Korean website (which takes a lot of time to load), and it looks like it’s actually called Samsung CorbyF. The Corby Folder is a mid to low-end phone, featuring a 2.6 inch [...]
Verizon-bound CDMA Google Nexus One apparently passes the FCC
The FCC has just approved a CDMA HTC-made smartphone with the model name PB99300. Since the GSM/HSPA Google Nexus One is the PB99100, the PB99300 is likely the CDMA version of the Nexus One, which should be launched via Verizon soon (Google has officially announced that Verizon would support the Nexus One). Unfortunately, we still [...]
Nokia Image Exchange and Ovi Maps for mobile updated
The Nokia Beta Labs team has launched new beta versions of Nokia Image Exchange, for both S60 touch and non-touch devices. The new Nokia Image Exchange application lets you set a screen name from your handset, add people to the People menu, and search through images in grid layout (works only on touchscreen phones). You [...]
RIM BlackBerry slider coming soon?
It looks like RIM is getting ready to launch a BlackBerry smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard in the vein of the Palm Pre. There aren’t any official details about this at the moment, but BGR says the new BlackBerry slider will feature Wi-Fi 802.11n, and a 360 x 480 pixels display, most probably touch-sensitive. [...]
Symbian^4 UI video previews are not as fascinating as you’d think
More than a month after we saw the first Symbian^4 UI concept proposal images, here we have Symbian^4 (well, an early version of it, anyway) demoed on video. If you expect something revolutionary, you’ll be disappointed. Of course, you can see that Symbian^4 lets you freely place widgets on the customizable homescreen, but, really, the [...]
InfoSonics Verykool i270 Touch launched in Latin America
InfoSonics, a company that distributes phones mainly in Latin America, announced the availability of a new touchscreen handset called Verykool i270 Touch. The Verykool i270 Touch is a quad-band GSM/GPRS phone with a 2.4 inch QVGA touchscreen display, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth, Web browser, email, MP3 player, speakerphone and MicroSD card support. There’s also a [...]
The PSP phone is real – but it’s a Chinese knockoff
Sony Ericsson may never launch a genuine PSP phone (although the company admitted that it’s thinking about it), but there’s still hope if you really, really want such a phone. A Shanzhai PSP phone is reportedly coming soon from China. The phone looks like a regular Sony PSP console, but it has Call and End [...]
One in six iPhone owners would buy an iPad, says AdMob report
AdMob (which now belongs to Google) has issued its January 2010 Mobile Metrics report, which contains lots of interesting details about the current mobile trends. For example, 16% of iPhone users intend to buy an iPad in the future, while only 11% of WebOS users and 6% of Android users are interested in Apple’s new [...]
LG GW620 launched in Italy as LG LinkMe
Available since last month in the UK as LG InTouch Max, the LG GW620 has now been launched in Italy, too, as LG LinkMe. The GW620 / LinkMe is LG’s first Android smartphone and comes with a 3 inch HVGA touchscreen display (resistive, unfortunately), as well as a full 5-row QWERTY keyboard. The handset also [...]
Rumor: Nokia E73 to be launched by T-Mobile USA
Although Nokia will probably announce an E73 sometime in the future (as the logical successor of the E71 and E72), clear details about such a smartphone are basically nonexistent at this point. Even so, TmoNews has it that T-Mobile USA will launch the Nokia E73 sometime in June (several months after the Nokia Nuron). But [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 not good enough for Adobe Flash 10.1, but some WM 6.5 phones might be updated to WP7
Adobe has decided not to provide Flash 10.1 support for Windows Mobile 6.5, because the OS “does not support some of the critical APIs” needed. However, Adobe says it will wait until Windows Phone 7 Series is launched and then provide Flash support for Microsoft’s OS. Interestingly, Adobe mentions that the first Windows Mobile phone [...]
Samsung Caliber R860 touchscreen phone launched by MetroPCS
After launching simple Samsung handsets like the Stunt R100 and the Tint R420, MetroPCS has now released its first Samsung touchscreen phone, the Samsung Caliber R860 (which is also available via U.S. Cellular). The Caliber R860 features EV-DO Rev 0, a 3.2 inch WQVGA touchscreen display, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, GPS with MetroNavigator, full HTML web [...]
Dual SIM phone sales to double in 2010
Samsung is the only major phone maker that takes dual SIM handset production seriously – the South Korean company is constantly releasing dual SIM phones, the latest being the Duos 259 (launched in India). This year, however, global sales of dual SIM phones are expected to double according to Strategy Analytics – and lots of [...]
Windows Phone 7 LG handset coming in September?
Last week at MWC 2010, when Steve Ballmer officially announced Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 Series platform, he said that the first WP7 devices would be available in time for the holiday season this year. Usually, this is another way of saying “in the fourth quarter.” However, the first WP7 phone might be launched in [...]
Skype for Windows Mobile removed from Skype’s website
If you have a Windows Mobile smartphone and want to download Skype from Skype’s official website, you’re in for a little surprise According to Skype, “Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile are no longer available” – although, if you go here, you can still download the application to your WM phone. Reportedly, “Skype Lite [...]
Samsung Jet 2 announced in India, looks just like the first Jet
For some unknown reason, Samsung decided to launch a new Jet phone in India, called Samsung Jet 2. The problem is that the Jet 2 is just like the original Jet S8000, the only difference being the fact that it seems to have some new software features. Reportedly, the Samsung Jet 2 combines “smart features [...]
HTC Incredible shows up in Verizon’s inventory system?
Earlier this month, we saw the unannounced HTC Incredible, which is supposedly headed to Verizon Wireless as the carrier’s firs Android 2.1 smartphone made by HTC. Now it looks like the HTC Incredible is already in Verizon’s inventory system, and BerryScoop has a screenshot to prove it. Unfortunately, the release date of Incredible is still [...]