Verizon’s rugged Casio Brigade C741 already available?
Approved by the FCC in August last year and first appeared in photos in November, the Casio Brigade C741 seems to be already available in various Verizon retail stores – although Verizon didn’t announce this yet. Some users over at the Howard forums have managed to buy the Casio Brigade C741, and it looks like [...]
HTC HD2 appears on T-Mobile USA’s website, might be released on March 23
HTC HD2, one of the new smartphones that T-Mobile USA is launching this spring (alongside the Motorola Cliq XT and Nokia Nuron) is now featured on the carrier’s official website as “coming soon”. T-Mo doesn’t say just how soon is that, but, according to MobiTV (which provides one of the apps that will be preloaded [...]
Palm and O2 offer free 3D EA Mobile games for the Pre
When Palm officially unveiled the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Verizon, it also announced 3D games support for its WebOS platform. Now Palm UK offers three free 3D games from EA Mobile to anyone who owns or buys a Palm Pre with an O2 contract. The offer is available until the end of March. [...]
Sprint’s HTC Supersonic shows up on video
We still don’t know when Sprint is going to launch (or at least announce) the HTC Supersonic (which could be the carrier’s first 4G / WiMAX smartphone), but the handset has recently appeared on video Unfortunately, the video is short and blurry – but at least we can see that the HTC Supersonic has a [...]
Lip-Reading Phones May Be in Our Future
While mobile technology has made leaps and bounds this decade for anyone who is unable to speak, it’s just the beginning. It turns out some new technology is being developed which will enable people to talk on the phone without having to talk, simply by mouthing the words they want to speak. At Germany’s Karlsruhe [...]
Nokia Stealth and Nokia 82 Dragonfly concept phones
Here are two Nokia concept phones that are at least interesting: Nokia Stealth and Nokia 82 Dragonfly. The Nokia Stealth should be a mid-end phone. It has a design inspired by stealth aircraft and it reminds me a bit of the Vertu Boucheron 150 (that’s not a compliment). The designer of Nokia Stealth says the [...]
Windows Mobile gains market share… in Latin America
Although many see Windows Mobile 6.5 as an almost dead platform, it looks like the OS is actually gaining market share in Latin America. While talking about the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 Series OS in the region, Doug Smith (Microsoft’s Latin American director of mobile communications) said that two companies grew in the [...]
Nokia files patent for piezoelectric powered cell phone battery
While other big phone manufacturers (like Samsung) are using solar energy as an alternative to charge their phones’ batteries, Nokia intends to use piezoelectricity and kinetic energy. The Finnish giant has filed a patent for a “Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester” – which is actually a cell phone battery that’s “contained within a first frame that [...]
LG Cookie Fresh GS290 officially announced, will be available this month
LG Cookie Fresh GS290, the new touchscreen phone that we first saw last week, has just been officially announced. Like the LG Cookie Plus GS500, the LG Cookie Fresh GS290 builds on the success of the first Cookie phone (sold in 12 million units until now). Feature-wise, the Cookie Fresh is somewhat similar to the [...]
Rumor: AT&T Will Get Palm Elan Slate Phone, Palm and Pixi Wrap up Testing
We know AT&T is planning to bring Palm’s WebOS into its fold sometime in the first half of 2010 in the form of two devices, as announced earlier this year. What we don’t know is which devices will grace the second-largest wireless carrier in the US with its presence. The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus [...]
T-Mobile USA ditches Yahoo mobile search for Google
About a year ago, T-Mobile USA introduced Yahoo OneSearch as the default mobile search engine for its phones. But the exclusive deal with Yahoo has ended, and T-Mo didn’t want to extend it. Instead, the fourth largest US carrier has chosen Google as its mobile search provider. Moreover, it looks like T-Mobile plans to work [...]
Microsoft’s Pink phones show up again, might hit both Verizon and Vodafone
Although Microsoft hasn’t officially announced them, the Project Pink phones are almost certainly real and coming to Verizon in the near future. Codenamed Pure and Turtle, the handsets have appeared in two new leaked images over at Engadget. Manufactured by Sharp (one of Japan’s leading phone makers), the Microsoft Pink Pure and Pink Turtle seem [...]
ZTE Blade, Racer and Mercury all run Android; other ZTE phones showcased
We know that ZTE has quite a few Android smartphones, but we’ve only seen one until now (the Palm Pre-like ZTE Smooth). Well, three more have recently appeared, and although they were showcased by ZTE during MWC 2010, not many blogs have mentioned them. Let’s start with the ZTE Blade, which seems to be a [...]
Apple iPad available in the US on April 3, pre-orders start this month
If you’re hoping to buy an Apple iPad in the US this month, you’ll be disappointed to find out that the Cupertino company’s first tablet will only be available starting April 3 – so those rumors about production problems may be true. Of course, it’s only the 3G-less iPad that’s going to be available on [...]
Olive FrvrOn V-G2300 – India’s first phone compatible with AAA batteries
Olive Telecommunication, the Indian company that announced Zipbooks last year, has introduced the Olive FrvrOn V-G2300, presented as “India’s first dual powered mobile phone compatible with any AAA battery.” The FrvrOn is just a low-end handset, but the fact that you can use an AAA battery to power it certainly makes it special. The phone [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 apps won’t run on Windows Phone 7 Series
Microsoft keeps on saying that Windows Phone 7 Series is really different from the past versions of its mobile OSes – and, well, it is. In fact, it’s so different that applications compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 (or older) will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series devices. The Redmond giant is getting ready to [...]
Innocomm Announces Lineup of New Low-Cost Android Devices
Have you heard of Innocomm? Chances are it’s a name that doesn’t sound terribly familiar. That’s because it’s a fresh new smartphone manufacturer that has lofty inspirations to come out with several low-cost yet high-quality Android handsets and distribute them to carriers on a global scale. We first saw Innocomm at MWC 2010, where it [...]
AT&T Gets Greener With New Accessory Packaging, Handset Standards
Being a huge fan of gadgets and electronics in general, it’s hard to admit that in many ways the industry is very unfriendly to the environment. Countless waste from old and used electronics are adding to our landfills each and every day. That’s why it’s nice to hear announcements that companies are doing all they [...]
Rumor: Palm Getting Desperate, Ditching Mail-in Rebates?
Nobody likes mail-in rebates. They are the bane of the consumer’s existence. While we all get frustrated that they still exist, we know that these rebates are incredibly profitable for the companies that require them because consumers don’t remember to send those rebates in or use the gift card that arrives in the mail 6 [...]
Nokia launches Ovi Mail 2.0 with new features and Arabic support
Initially introduced by Nokia as Mail on Ovi, Ovi Mail has now reached version 2.0, coming with several new features, as well as with support for a new language: Arabic (the Ovi Mail UI had to be changed for this, since Arabic is a right-to-left language). With Ovi Mail 2.0, your mail contacts can be [...]