Slacker Radio now available for Windows Mobile 6.5
Radio junkies, listen up. Slacker Radio has just announced the availability of their radio streaming app for Windows Mobile 6.5, and are offering it for free on their own web site at www.slacker.com. With it, you’ll be able to enjoy your favorite tunes without having to pay a cent for music that will make you [...]
Samsung r900 LTE phone announced for MetroPCS
One day after HTC and Sprint unveiled the HTC EVO 4G, Samsung and MetroPCS have announced the upcoming availability of Samsung SCH-r900 – one of the first (if not the first) CDMA / LTE phones in North America. The Samsung r900 will be available starting the second half of 2010, when MetroPCS (helped by Samsung) [...]
Nokia N8 with Symbian^3 to be announced in April?
The recently-leaked Nokia N8 (aka Nokia N98) might be officially announced as soon as next month – a few weeks ahead of Nokia’s Annual General Meeting in Helsinki (May 6). According to Engadget, “a trusted source” confirmed the N8 announcement for mid-April – although, of course, this doesn’t mean the handset will also be available [...]
Samsung Wave S8500′s price in the UK: £339.99
Samsung’s first Bada smartphone, the Wave S8500, will apparently be available in the UK starting May. Online retailer Play.com already allows customers to pre-order the handset. The Samsung Wave S8500 is “due for release” on May 17, and, unlocked, it costs £339.99 – about €380 or $510. The Wave S8500 is also featured on Amazon [...]
Samsung Metro 3G (Shark S5350) announced for India
Known in other parts of the world as Samsung Shark, the S5350 has been announced in India as Samsung Metro 3G. The Metro 3G / Shark S5350 is a good-looking candybar that measures only 11.9 millimeters in thickness and provides access to various social networking sites (like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Picasa). The phone’s other [...]
Samsung U820 coming to Verizon on April 30
The HTC EVO 4G and (to a lesser extent) the Samsung Galaxy S are the only stars of CTIA 2010 – and they have nothing to do with Verizon, the largest US mobile carrier, which announced only one new phone (the low-end LG Cosmos). Well, Verizon could have also announced the Samsung SCH-U820 which, according [...]
#CTIA 2010: Sneak Peek at the Opera Mini Browser for iPhone (video)
If you have ever used a smartphone and thought about ditching your device’s native browser, you have most likely heard of Opera Mini. This browser is well known for its easy-to-use user interface and rendering webpages at superfast speeds. It’s also known for its ability to compress large portions of data into bandwidth-friendly chunks, thus [...]
#CTIA 2010: More Time with the HTC EVO 4G (Video)
It’s not too often that I find a phone that I want to keep coming back to over and over, but a huge exception has to be made with the HTC EVO 4G, the latest Android device announced by CEO Dan Hesse of Sprint yesterday. It was love at first sight, and the infatuation continued [...]
#CTIA 2010: T-Mobile Announces Dell 10 Mini, to Launch HD2 and CLIQ XT Tomorrow
As to be expected, today has been an incredibly busy day for company announcements. Press conferences and PRs galore have been taking up most of my day. T-Mobile is one company that had a lot to announce today, and it certainly shouldn’t be overlooked. Today T-Mobile got into the netbook market by announcing the launch [...]
#CTIA 2010: Hands-on With HTC EVO 4G
Sprint had a big ol’ get-together this afternoon and graciously invited Unwired View to come be a part of it. It was widely speculated that Sprint was planning on announcing the hugely-anticipated HTC Supersonic, and fortunately Sprint did not disappoint, officially announcing the HTC EVO 4G, the very first 4G handset. While the EVO will [...]
HTC EVO 4G announced for Sprint – the world’s first WiMAX Android handset
CTIA 2010 is the place where Sprint has finally unveiled North America’s first 4G / WiMAX smartphone. Previously known as HTC Supersonic, the device is officially called HTC EVO 4G, and it seems to be the most feature-packed Android smartphone ever – even besting the Google Nexus One (which, by the way, will also be [...]
Verizon’s Skype mobile available starting March 25 to BlackBerry and Android users
Back in February, Verizon said that it would bring Skype to a range of select smartphones starting March – and, well, the largest US mobile carrier is keeping its promise. Starting March 25 (this Thursday), Skype mobile will be available to Verizon customers who have a data plan and own one of the following smartphones: [...]
HTC launches online store in the US (for smartphones and accessories)
Today at CTIA Wireless 2010 (where Samsung presented the Galaxy S Android smartphone), HTC announced the launch of an online store for the US. The new HTC store allows customers to buy smartphones and accessories, and to activate their HTC device by choosing a rate plan from one of the four major US carriers: Verizon, [...]
#CTIA 2010: Samsung Galaxy S Specs and Hands-On
We were at the Samsung Unpacked S-Life Event at CTIA 2010, and it was all about the Galaxy S. Fortunately I was able to glean some extra specs and a few live photos. I’ll add more photos and videos as they come. So here’s what we know about the Samsung Galaxy S so far. As [...]
Google Nexus One coming to Switzerland
Announced in the US for all major mobile carriers (T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint), the Google Nexus One is making its way to more countries – and one of them in Switzerland. It’s not clear yet if the Nexus One is already available in Switzerland, or if it will be soon, but French website Le [...]
More than 1 million Shazam apps downloaded via Nokia Ovi Store
Launched in August last year, Shazam for Nokia S60 phones has been downloaded more than 1 million times through Ovi Store. Also available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile, Shazam is an application that identifies music tracks and provides users with more info and links to buy and download the respective tracks. Shazam for [...]
#CTIA 2010: Samsung Announces Android-Based Galaxy S
At this morning’s keynote at CTIA Wireless 2010, Samsung Mobile President JK Shin gave us a few morsels of information to chew on about its latest handset offering, the Samsung Galaxy S. It was speculated over the weekend that the Galaxy S would be announced, and it was pretty much established that it would have [...]
#CTIA 2010: AT&T Announces Workbench iPhone App For Enterprise
This morning AT&T announced a new app available in the iPhone App Store that will more easily manage the iPhone for the enterprise. This app, called the AT&T WorkBench, enables businesses to provision and deploy enterprise web apps and do so in a very secure, manageable fashion. So what exactly does the WorkBench offer? According [...]
Yahoo launches Sketch-a-Search, Yahoo Search apps for iPhone
Yahoo, Google’s longtime rival, has just launched two new and free apps for Apple’s iPhone: Sketch-a-Search and Yahoo Search. Yahoo Sketch-a-Search allows iPhone users to search and find local businesses without typing keywords. To use the app, you have to “simply draw a boundary on your phone’s map” with your finger – you then get [...]
Live From CTIA 2010!
It’s a beautiful day here in sunny Las Vegas, NV, which means it’s a perfect day to spend inside. That’s because I’ll be wandering around the CTIA 2010 show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, looking for interesting new products and services that may be of interest to you. The show has officially begun with [...]