Motorola BackFlip with Android announced for Italy
Back in January, when Motorola officially announced the Android-powered BackFlip, it said that the smartphone would be introduced not only in North America (via AT&T), but also in Asia, Latin America and Europe. The BackFlip is already on sale in China, and now it’s been announced in Italy – probably the first European country to [...]
Windows Mobile 7 to offer free navigation, while Windows Mobile 6.x becomes free?
Ready for another round of rumors about Windows Mobile 7? Well, here it is: MS Mobiles has it that WM 7 will feature free navigation – like Nokia’s new Symbian phones, and Android 2.0 (actually, Android 2.0 offers free navigation only for the US at the moment, while Nokia’s offering is available world-wide). Reportedly, this [...]
LG Cookie Plus GS500 joins the touchscreen party
One day after unveiling the LG Mini GD880 and the LG GT350, LG has now announced another new touchscreen phone – the LG Cookie Plus GS500. Presented as being “sociable, enjoyable and affordable,” the LG Cookie Plus is obviously based on the original Cookie phone (sold in more than 10 million units since 2008). Unlike [...]
Opera Mini for iPhone coming at MWC. Will Apple approve it?
Opera Mini is already available for most major mobile platforms, but not for iPhone. Well, Opera has just announced that it would showcase Opera Mini for iPhone next week at MWC 2010 – although it will not do it publicly, but in an exclusive press and partner preview. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Opera [...]
Acer E110 with Android and Acer P300 with Windows Mobile unveiled
Back in November, Acer said that its 2010 portfolio would include more Android smartphones than in 2009 (when the company launched only one Android device – the Acer Liquid A1). Well, one of the Android Acer handsets of this year is the Acer E110, which has just appeared over at the Bluetooth SIG. Probably running [...]
Google Buzz for mobile announced, integrates with Gmail, Google Maps
Google has just launched a new application/service called Google Buzz and available both for desktop computers, and mobile phones. Google Buzz for mobile integrates with your Gmail inbox and lets you easily share web links, videos, photos and other kinds of content with your contacts. Moreover, Google Buzz ca use your location in order to [...]
T-Mobile USA’s Nokia Nuron 5230 in official photos
Available in Europe since November last year, the Nokia 5230 will be soon launched by T-Mobile USA as Nokia Nuron. The Nuron has just appeared in some official photos, and it has T-Mobile’s logo on it. In case you don’t know yet, the Nokia Nuron 5230 is a touchscreen phone with mid-end features, including: Symbian, [...]
Android 2.1 Coming in March to Motorola CLIQ, HTC Hero
Now that the Nexus One and Moto DROID are starting to get Android 2.1 love, it’s only appropriate that other Android devices follow suit at a leisurely pace. After all, what’s the hurry, right? Personally I wish all Android phones could get updated much closer together, as in the same month. All venting aside, we [...]
Samsung to Unveil First Bada Phone on Valentine’s Day
As usual, Cupid is shooting his arrow on Valentine’s Day, but this year it’s at a seemingly unlikely target: mobile phones. Yes, all gadget enthusiasts everywhere may very well be lovestruck on February 14 as Samsung is most likely revealing its very first Bada OS-powered smartphone just ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We [...]
Most smartphones now have touchscreens; Android shipments grew 1074% YoY
Almost 30 million touchscreen smartphones were sold in the fourth quarter of 2009 worldwide (up to 138% year-on-year), meaning that 55% of the smartphones sold in said quarter were touchscreen-enabled. This is the first time ever when touchscreen smartphones account for more than half of the total smartphone sales in a quarter. According to Canalys, [...]
Motorola still leading the US mobile market, followed by LG and Samsung
Although Motorola is struggling for market share in Europe and Asia, it’s still the number one phone maker in the US. According to comScore, which ranked handset makers “according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older,” Motorola had 23.5% phone market share in the US between September and December 2009, while [...]
LG GT350 QWERTY phone announced as the successor of KS360
It looks like it’s an important day for South Korea’s major phone makers: after the Samsung Monte S5620 and the LG Mini GD880, now the LG GT350 has been announced as well. Building on the success of LG KS360 (also known as LG Neon and sold in more than 5 million units since August 2008), [...]
LG Mini GD880 gets official, will be available in March
The same day when Samsung announced the Monte S5620, LG unveiled a new touchscreen phone, too – the LG Mini GD880. Touted as “the smallest and slimmest 3.2-inch full touchscreen phone on the market today,” the LG Mini GD880 features textured metal accents on the sides and it kind of resembles the LG GD510 Pop. [...]
With NEC’s CE151 Chip, 13 MP and HD Video on Phones is a Reality
Yesterday NEC introduced a new camera chip optimized for use in new cell phones that will make their included cameras comparable to DSLR cameras on the market today. With the chip, the possibility of using your mobile phone to record HD video in 1080p, not to mention stills with a res of up to 13 [...]
Samsung Monte S5620 officially announced, no Bada OS on this one
The Samsung Monte S5620 (seen in some leaked photos not long ago) has just been officially announced, and it’s presented by Samsung as an affordable “full touch screen device for style-conscious mobile users.” The Monte S5620 runs TouchWiz 2.0 Plus UI (not Bada OS) and offers a set of multimedia features, as well as social [...]
ZoomIt Enables SD Card Reader in iPhones
When Apple announced OS 3.0 last summer, one of the highly anticipated features was the ability to integrate Apple-certified third-party accessories into accompanying apps, thus giving the user a lot more possible functionality. Surprisingly, however, only a handful of devs have truly taken advantage of this opportunity. One company called ZoomMediaPlus is now showing off [...]
DROID Update Brings More Multitouch Goodness to Android
Last week we heard some news we’ve been waiting a long time for: the Nexus One has finally been updated with multitouch capabilities. While we rejoiced upon hearing the news, we wondered how soon it would be before we would see it in other Android-supported devices. Fortunately the Motorola DROID, another big player in the [...]
Google Reportedly Working on Babel Fish Phone With Speech Translation
Followers of Star Trek have always been intrigued by the concept of the Universal Translator, a device that enables people who speak different languages to understand each other as if in their own native tongue. This particular futuristic idea has always felt like the technology is centuries away, but according to Google, we’re a lot [...]
New iPhone (4G) – taller than the older iPhones?
We still don’t know the final name of Apple’s fourth generation iPhone (expected to be released in June or July), so until something official comes up, we’ll call it iPhone 4G. Well, the iPhone 4G might be a bit different than the older iPhone models (including the 3G and 3GS), which all look about the [...]
Dalvik Turbo increases Android application performance by three times
Myriad Group, one of the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance, announced the Dalvik Turbo virtual machine for Android, which will replace the Dalvik engine that currently powers applications on Android phones. According to Myriad, Dalvik Turbo can increase Android application execution speed by up to three times, without significantly increasing memory requirements. The [...]