Palm shares dip 25 percent after disappointing earnings call
Palm’s latest earnings call, in which the company announced a very disappointing $22-million loss during its fiscal Q3, has led to a 25% dip in shares. Palm stock in turn has dipped below $5 for the first time since the Palm Pre was first announced a bit over a year ago. Morgan Joseph analyst Ilya [...]
Malware-infected memory cards affect up to 3,000 Vodafone HTC Magic Android smartphones
Late last year, the Mariposa Working Group (comprised of Defence Intelligence, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Panda Security, and other international security experts and law enforcement agencies) worked together to bring down what is considered to be the largest botnet in history. This botnet, called “Mariposa”, wreaked havoc on up to 12,000,000 individual computers [...]
Gresso lets you personalize luxury phones for as low as $2,200
Gresso, the Russian manufactured of luxury candybar phones, has announced that it now allows customers to personalize their phones. The company says there are “almost 40 combinations available” – customers can choose the case model, keyboard design, and the type of leather decoration (including Cayman leather). Moreover, a personalized text can be engraved on your [...]
Android 2.1 coming to Sprint’s HTC Hero and Samsung Moment in April?
Sprint’s only Android smartphones, the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment, will be soon upgraded to Android 2.1. Launched last year with Android 1.5 on board, the two handsets are currently available at Sprint for $99.99 (Samsung Moment) and $149.99 (HTC Hero). Sprint didn’t mention when exactly the Moment and the Hero will get Android 2.1, [...]
Purple Nokia E72 to become available soon
The Nokia E72 is currently the must-have Nokia Eseries business phone, but so far, it’s been limited to only three rather plain and overused colors (except for the last one): black, gray and topaz brown. However, it looks like things are about to change very soon, and those who would like to express themselves through [...]
LG Banter launched on Koodo Mobile
If the best things in life are free, can you imagine what no-so-great things would cost? Certainly not much more than free, right? Well, the LG Banter is one simple mobile phone with a short list of features and a rather unattractive design, but somehow it costs at least $125 USD from Koodo Mobile. But [...]
MOSeco ES905 universal charger will power up your devices day and night
Ever gone fishing, hunting, on a journey or on a picnic trip and thought of charging your gadgets but there were no power outlets in sight? Have you wished you could carry around a portable charger, digital alarm clock and temperature indicator in one? Now you can! Enter the MOSeco ES905 universal charger. It doesn’t [...]
Bharti Airtel and Apple agree to sell iPhone 3GS in India
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has finally struck a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone 3GS in India, stating in its own web site that the handset will be available at Airtel Authorised Stores very soon. While they haven’t specified just how soon, you can expect the iPhone 3GS to appear at their stores within [...]
Orange UK launching white Xperia X10, HMV mobile games store
Orange is the last major UK mobile carrier to announce the upcoming availability of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 (which will also be launched by O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Virgin). Unlike the other British carriers, Orange will sell the Xperia X10 in black and, exclusively to Orange, also in white. As you most probably already [...]
LG Velvet is Italy’s Cookie Plus GS500
After the LG LinkMe, Italy now gets yet another LG phone that has a changed name: the LG Velvet, which is actually the Cookie Plus GS500 (officially announced in February). The LG Velvet / Cookie Plus is only 11.5mm thick and features: a 3 inch WQVGA touchscreen display, Flash UI, accelerometer, HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), Bluetooth, [...]
Samsung Diva S7070 Luxury Gold edition spotted
Available only in white and black for now, the Samsung Diva S7070 will soon come in a new color version: Luxury Gold. We’re not sure if this version of the Diva S7070 has real gold on it (which would make it quite expensive), but the phone doesn’t look bad in the new color. Together with [...]
Telstra prepares to roll-out 4G / LTE trials in May
Telstra, Australia’s largest mobile operator, announced that it plans to start LTE (Long Term Evolution) trials as soon as May this year. The Australian carrier has teamed-up with Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei, which will all provide equipment for the 4G / LTE trials. Although “LTE will be an important evolution” for Telstra’s Next [...]
Motorola Milestone, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to be launched in India next week
Two new Android smartphones will be launched in India next week: the Motorola Milestone and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Reportedly, Moto’s Milestone will be available starting March 22 as India’s first Android 2.1 device. The smartphone will cost about 30,000 INR ($660) unlocked, coming with features like: a 3.7 inch WVGA touchscreen display, full [...]
Opera Mini for iPhone to be showcased at CTIA 2010, still no word on availability
Opera Mini for iPhone was first demoed at MWC 2010, but back then Opera didn’t say when it will be available to end users. Now the Norway-based software company is announcing that it will demo Opera Mini for iPhone again, this time during CTIA Wireless 2010, on March 23 (when it will also showcase Opera [...]
Google intros Orkut, Google Buzz widget for Android
Shortly after announcing Google Maps 4.1 for Android, Google has now introduced two new applications for its mobile platform: Orkut and a Google Buzz widget. Orkut (which, by the way, is owned and operated by Google) is one of the world’s most visited social networking websites – it’s especially popular in Brazil and India. The [...]
China Mobile wants both Apple’s iPad and iPhone
Although China Mobile was the first Chinese mobile carrier to negotiate an iPhone launch with Apple, it’s China Unicom that eventually released the smartphone (in October 2009). Even so, China Mobile has not lost its iPhone-related hopes. AFP is reporting that the carrier’s chairman still wants to sign a deal with Apple. Even more, China [...]
Virgin UK launches 4 Android phones: HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy Portal, Xperia X10 and LG InTouch Max
Virgin Mobile UK has announced no less than four new Android smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG. Two handsets are already available: the LG InTouch Max GW620 (free with an 18-month contract of at least £22 per month) and the Samsung Galaxy Portal – which is actually the soon-to-get Android-2.1 Galaxy Spica i5700. [...]
Nokia Comes With Music to be launched in India before mid-2010
Although Nokia wanted to launch its Comes With Music service in India since 2009, this didn’t happen – however, Nokia hasn’t given up and it plans to introduce CWM in the country in the first half of 2010. According to PC World, a Nokia India spokeswoman declared that Comes With Music would be available on [...]
India’s G-Fone G588 is like a dual SIM BlackBerry
Users in search of a dual SIM BlackBerry smartphone will probably not have one too soon – not an original one and not from RIM, anyway. But if you’re in India, you can get the G-Fone G-588, which looks like a BlackBerry Curve 8900 with a d-pad instead of a trackball. The G-Fone G-588 is [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro prices in Europe: €300, €330
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro will be released in France and Belgium starting late May (the Mini) and June (the Mini Pro). According to FrAndroid, Sony Ericsson has confirmed the prices of the two new Android smartphones: the Xperia X10 Mini costs €300 ($410), while the Xperia X10 Mini will [...]