#MWC10: Huawei T-Mobile Pulse Mini and ZTE T-Mobile Variy Touch II coming soon
T-Mobile UK is getting ready to launch two new affordable touchscreen phones – one made by Huawei and another one made by ZTE. The Huawei-made phone is called T-Mobile Pulse Mini and it will be available starting April, for only £99.99 on pay as you go – coming with Android 2.1 from start. The features [...]
#MWC10 Garmin Asus nuvifones. M10 – Windows Mobile 6.5.3 in action and some A50 custom Android goodness. Hands-on videos
As more and more mobile phones are getting GPS sensors, and navigation services on them become better and cheaper (or even free), the life for a stand-alone GPS/Navigation device makers is getting harder and harder. Every one of them is choosing their own strategies to cope with the mobile onslaught. Seeing the writing on the [...]
Microsoft: something involving HTC HD2 and Windows Phone 7 may be announced soon
That photo of the HTC HD2 allegedly running Windows Phone 7 Series caused mixed reactions – including damn funny posts – across the Web. I already said the image might be fake, and it probably is. But does this mean the HD2 will be forever deprived of running Windows Phone 7? Well, here’s what Microsoft [...]
Nokia Money pilot to debut in India with the help of YES BANK
Back in August 2009, Nokia said that it would launch Nokia Money in select markets starting early 2010. Well, now we know the first country where Nokia Money will be available: India – the world’s second largest mobile market. A Nokia Money live commercial pilot will be rolled-out in Pune (one of India’s largest metro [...]
Verizon, China Telecom, KDDI join the GSMA preparing for LTE commercial roll-out
Verizon Wireless, China Telecom and Japan’s KDDI au (which, as you probably know, are CDMA mobile carriers) have joined the GSM Association – confirming, once again, their plans to launch commercial LTE / 4G networks by the end of 2010. As GSMA’s Alex Sinclair puts it, LTE (capable of providing peak rate speeds of up [...]
AT&T “definitely” launching the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10?
AT&T has already announced that it would launch lots of Android smartphones this year – including the Motorola BackFlip and the Dell Mini 3i – so it should probably not come as a surprise that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 might make its way into AT&T stores, too. I say “might” – but Boy Genius [...]
#MWC10: Verizon brings unlimited Skype calling to 3G smartphones starting March
Big (if not huge) news for Verizon’s subscribers who own 3G smartphones: the largest North American carrier has just announced that it would provide Skype calling on smartphones starting March – that’s next month. If you have a Verizon data plan, you’ll be able to make and receive unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls – not only [...]
Telus’ Motorola Milestone available now, $199.99 on contract
Announced in November 2009, Telus’ Motorola Milestone is now finally available for purchase. Coming as the GSM/HSDPA version of Verizon’s Droid, the Milestone can be bought from Telus for as low as 199.99 Canadian dollars – a 3-yr contract agreement is required, of course. The no contract price is $599.99. The Motorola Milestone from Telus [...]
#MWC10: HTC HD2 caught running Windows Phone 7 Series?
There’s no way to confirm this at the moment, but it looks like the HTC HD2 was spotted running Microsoft’s latest and greatest Windows Phone 7 Series. The HD2 can certainly support Windows Phone 7 Series, since it has a 1GHz CPU, a WVGA capacitive display and so on. There’s only one photo with the [...]
#MWC10: Sagem Puma Phone officially unveiled
After announcing the Cosyphone for the elderly yesterday, Sagem has now introduced the youth-oriented Puma Phone. The Puma Phone is actually presented as an “active smartphone”. It boasts an interesting design that’s “engineered to facilitate and encourage an active way of life”, and a “unique user interface”. Moreover, the phone provides access to various Puma [...]
#MWC10: Omnifone brings MusicStation music service to Android
Omnifone, the UK-based provider of music services for Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, HP and BSkyB, announced that it would bring MusicStation to Google’s Android OS. As you probably already know, MusicStation is Omnifone’s “award winning digital music service” that includes a catalogue of more than 6.5 million songs – which will all be available for Android [...]
#MWC10: T-Mobile USA’s HTC HD2 will feature Blockbuster app, MobiTV and more
We already know that T-Mobile USA’s HTC HD2 is different from the European HD2 (it has 1GB of ROM and more RAM), and now T-Mobile has announced that the smartphone will come with even more unique features. More exactly, the HTC HD2 will have “a complete entertainment package”, including: MobiTV mobile application (for live and [...]
#MWC10 Nokia’s Ari Jaaksi talks Maemo, MeeGo, shows how to enable portrait mode on N900 browser
After yesterday’s big announcement that Nokia and Intel are merging their mobile platforms (Maemo and Mobilin), I got a chance to sit down with Nokia’s VP for Maemo Devices – Ari Jaaks- and talk about it. We talked about how the sales of the first Maemo device going, new N900 firmware updates, what MeeGo means for [...]
#MWC10: HTC Desire (Bravo), Legend and HD mini officially announced
HTC has just unveiled its first products at MWC 2010 – three new smartphones: two based on Android and one based on Windows Mobile (not Windows Phone 7 Series, unfortunately). The smartphones are: HTC Desire (previously known as Bravo), HTC Legend and HTC HD mini. As its name suggests, the HTC Desire is, indeed, a [...]
#MWC10 Motorola QUENCH/ CLIQ XT hands-on video
When Motorola said that from the end of last year they are getting serious about Android, they really meant it. In about four months since the launch of their first Moto Cliq/Dext handset, Motorola now has 8 Android devices in its portfolio. The latest handset, announced yesterday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – is Motorola Quench or [...]
HTC Bravo Probably Coming to Verizon; Specs and Pics Shown Off
In anticipation of a press conference later today at MWC 2010 that will supposedly announce this device officially, we have discovered some leaked specs and photos of the HTC Desire. If the Desire sounds familiar, don’t be shocked; it should sound familiar. It originally was anticipated back around the time the Droid and Droid Eris [...]
Rumor: Apple iPad Will be Sold in AT&T Retail Stores
Ever since the announcement of Apple’s new iPad device, there have been several unanswered questions lingering. One such question is exactly how will the iPad be distributed? It’s obvious they will be sold in Apple online and brick-and-mortar stores, but what about on AT&T’s side? Since they will be sold without contract, it’s been largely [...]
#MWC10: Huawei U8800, U8300, U8100, U8110 and SmaKit S7 are all about Android
Earlier today, we were telling you about 5 new ZTE Android handsets. As it turns out, ZTE is not the only Chinese company that has lots of Android devices prepared for MWC 2010. Huawei has some, too: Huawei U8800, Huawei U8300, Huawei U8100, Huawei U8110 and Huawei SmaKit S7. Huawei U8800 is touted as the [...]
Ericsson eStore is yet another mobile application store
While Sony Ericsson has teamed-up with Samsung, LG and 24 major carriers to form the Wholesale Applications Community, one of its parent companies – Ericsson – has just announced its own application store for mobile phones, called Ericsson eStore. The Ericsson eStore is directly targeted at mobile operators rather than at end users – it [...]
HTC HD Mini (Photon) leaked before the official announcement
The first day of MWC 2010 is pretty much over now, and HTC didn’t make any announcement. But worry not — the Taiwanese company will probably unveil the HTC HD Mini (aka HTC Photon) tomorrow. Until tomorrow comes, however, it seems that the HD Mini has already appeared in an image – which does look [...]