INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G coming to India via Aircel
Already available in the UK, the INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G are now being launched in India, where they should be available starting this week. The phones will be sold via Aircel (which, although it has more than 30 million customers, it’s only India’s seventh largest mobile carrier). Both handsets have integrated Facebook, [...]
Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 now out of beta
Available in beta versions for quite a while now, Opera Mini 5 for Java and BlackBerry and Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian and Windows Mobile have finally graduated to final versions. The final versions of Opera’s mobile browser should obviously be more stable than the betas. They bring all the features that users are already [...]
Samsung Diva S7070C and S5150 launched in China
Officially announced in December last year, the fashionable Samsung Diva S7070 and S5150 have been launched in China, where they should be available starting “early spring” – which is about now. The Diva S7070 is actually called Samsung Diva S7070C in China and it’s a touchscreen phone with features that include: 2.8 inch QVGA display, [...]
Confirmed: HTC HD2 won’t be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 series
For some, one of the biggest show-stoppers of MWC 2010 was a photo of the HTC HD2 smartphone running what looked like Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series OS. Not a full day after this first leaked to the Web, Microsoft mentioned the HTC HD2 in the same sentence as Windows Phone 7 Series in a [...]
Samsung Corby Pro coming to Rogers for $70 on contract
Not long ago, we told you that Rogers is getting ready to launch the Samsung Corby Pro B5310 in Canada, and it looks like this will happen really soon. According to Mobile Syrup, the Corby Pro has started shipping to Rogers locations, so it might be available as soon as this week. Unsurprisingly, Rogers will [...]
Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 Series handset shows up
Until now, Microsoft showed only two Windows Phone 7 Series devices, one made by Asus and one made by LG (possibly called LG Panther). Well, today a Samsung WP7 handset has also been showcased, during MIX10 – where Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone Marketplace and other details on its new mobile platform. The Samsung Windows Phone [...]
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone Marketplace, Windows Phone 7 Series dev tools and more
During the first day of its MIX10 conference, Microsoft has announced more detail on Windows Phone 7 Series. When launching WP7, the Redmond giant will rebrand the Window Mobile Marketplace and call it Windows Phone Marketplace. The Windows Phone Marketplace will have “a panoramic design and active merchandising”, coming with support for operator billing, one-time [...]
TomTom for iPhone 1.3 comes with Google local search, pinch to zoom and more
About four months after introducing TomTom for iPhone 1.2, TomTom has now announced the 1.3 version of its iPhone app. TomTom for iPhone 1.3 obviously comes with some new features: Google Local Search (including listings to various points of interest, “from restaurants to flower shops”), real time traffic compatibility, pinch to zoom (to make us [...]
Nokia announces Design by Community project
Nokia has announced a new project called Design by Community, which asks phone users to help the company create a “smartphone concept device of the future.” The idea behind Design by Community is that anyone can choose how a future Nokia smartphone could look like. You can choose the screen size, the OS (Symbian or [...]
HTC Touch Pro3 coming this summer?
There’s not a lot of verified info on this one, but it looks like a HTC Touch Pro3 could be released this summer (or in September the latest). According to someone who claims to have talked with the main distributor for HTC in Europe, the Touch Pro3 is “much smaller and thinner” than the Touch [...]
Motorola i890 iDEN clamshell now available at Sprint
Sprint has launched a new iDEN phone which is, unsurprisingly, made by Motorola: the Motorola i890. First mentioned in that leaked 2010 Sprint roadmap (which also included the Motorola i1), the Motorola i890 is a clamshell that looks quite nice for an iDEN device. Like the Motorola Stature i9, the i890 has an external display [...]
AT&T intros Samsung Strive, Samsung Sunburst, Pantech Link, Pantech Pursuit, new services
AT&T has just announced its 2010 spring portfolio of “quick messaging devices” (which includes two phones made by Samsung and two made by Pantech), as well as new cloud-based services for them. Let’s talk about the new services first. AT&T Mobile Share provides users with their own web-based storage locker called “AT&T Locker”. This enables [...]
Nokia C6 allegedly shows up – it’s a QWERTY touchscreen phone
Less than two weeks ago, Nokia officially introduced the Nokia C5 as its first Cseries phone. The second Cseries handset might be the Nokia C6, which has allegedly appeared in a rendering suggesting that it’s definitely not the Nokia Mystic, as initially believed. Said rendering shows a touchscreen phone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard – [...]
Qualcomm patents mobile device with multi-fold display
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a mobile device that should feature a multi-fold display. The device should allow users to fold and unfold it, transforming it from a phone into some sort of a tablet, and even into a TV-like set. Qualcomm’s multi-fold device features a “processor configured to execute at least one software [...]
Cheaper version of Google’s Nexus One to be launched in India?
Here’s a rumor that, if true, might make a lot of customers happy: a cheaper Google Nexus One could be in the making for India and other emerging markets. According to Techtree, the cheaper Nexus One will be slimmer than the original (which is really thin itself at only 11.5mm) and it should obviously have [...]
First Nokia vs Apple trials to take place in 2012. Nokia apparently wants $1.3 billion from Apple
The Nokia vs. Apple legal battle over patents won’t be over anytime soon. It looks like the first actual trials will start only in 2012, when a U.S. court should decide which company infringed which patents. According to Reuters and some unmentioned analysts, Nokia seeks damages in cash of up to $1.36 billion from Apple. [...]
Google Nexus One shows up at Vodafone UK’s website
Last time we’ve heard about Vodafone UK’s Google Nexus One, the smartphone was scheduled for an April release. However, it looks like Voda’s British customers might be able to buy the Nexus One starting this month, as the handset has just appeared on the carrier’s official website. Of course, the Nexus One isn’t yet available, [...]
iPhone 4.0 OS to finally enable multitasking?
Apple is expected to introduce iPhone 4.0 OS sometime this summer – when a new iPhone model (possibly called iPhone 4G) should also be launched. We’ve already reported about some features that might come with iPhone 4.0 OS, like new syncing capabilities, “multi-touch gestures OS-wide” and graphical enhancements. But one of the most important new [...]
Facebook and Google sued for mobile social networking patent infringement
Both Google and Facebook were recently sued by a New York-based company called Wireless Ink Corp. The company (owner of Winksite) claims that Google and Facebook are infringing one of its patents related to software that allows users to access social networking sites on their cell phones. The patent in question is US Patent No. [...]
LG launches stylish GD350 clamshell phone in Russia
LG Electronics has just introduced a stylish new clamshell phone for the Russian market, and it goes by the name GD350. While it doesn’t have much to show in the features department, it can certainly hold its own in the looks department. With an all-black exterior and gold accents, the LG GD350 has every right [...]