Motorola Shadow specs; details on Motorola Droid 2 for Verizon
Just a few hours ago, we were telling you that the Motorola Shadow might be the Moto MB810, which recently received a Wi-Fi certification. We now have more news on the Shadow. According to this post at Mobile-review, the Shadow doesn’t have a QWERTY keyboard, and the QWERTY device that we’ve presented as being the [...]
MeeGo-based LG GW990 won’t be commercially available
First showcased by LG in January this year, the LG GW990 will apparently not hit the market, ever. LG initially said that the GW990 would be launched in the second half of 2010. When the handset was unveiled, it had Moblin on it, and it was LG’s first device to be powered by Intel’s Moorestown [...]
Samsung Monte S5620 Iron Man 2 edition launched by O2 UK
Already available in the UK (as well as in India), the Samsung Monte S5620 will be soon offered in a special edition, launched to celebrate the release of Paramount Pictures’ Iron Man 2 movie. The Samsung Monte Iron Man 2 edition will be exclusively available at O2 UK, starting May 1 (tomorrow). The handset looks [...]
Motorola no longer in top 5 phone makers, RIM takes its place
Research in Motion has managed, for the first time in its history, to enter the top five phone makers. The Canadian company sold 10.6 million BlackBerry devices in the first quarter of 2010 – more than Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Sony Ericsson is now the world’s fifth largest phone maker, while Motorola is no longer [...]
Motorola MB810 (Shadow?) gets a Wi-Fi certificate
It’s been quite a while since we last heard about the Motorola Shadow (which, by the way, might become the Google Nexus Two). Now the handset is back in the news with the Wi-Fi approval of the Motorola MB810. Ameblo.jp and Mobile01 suggest that the MB810 could be the Motorola Shadow, and that it might [...]
Samsung Galaxy 3 (i5800 / i5801) with Android in the making?
The Samsung i5800 / i5801 is coming soon, and we have reasons to believe that it will be a member of the Galaxy series, possibly called Samsung Galaxy 3. According to the i5801’s UA profile, the handset features an Android browser, so it will obviously run Android. The display resolution appears to be 240 x [...]
LG Aloha (Ally) and LG Fathom coming to Verizon in May. Sprint might get the Aloha, too
Verizon readies the launch of two new LG smartphones, the LG Aloha and LG Fathom. The Aloha will be LG’s first Android handset for the US. It should be a North American version of the LG SU2300, featuring Android 2.1, a WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP camera, and 1GHz Snapdragon [...]
BlackBerry 9670 to be launched only via Verizon and Vodafone?
BlackBerry 9670, RIM’s second smartphone to come in a clamshell form factor (after the Pearl Flip 8220 / 8230), might be exclusively available at Verizon and Vodafone. According to Fudzilla, the BlackBerry 9670 is a clamshell just because Verizon asked RIM to do it in this form factor. Reportedly, the carrier also “supplied the specs”, [...]
Chinese phones banned in India for security reasons
After the banning of IMEI-less phones last December, India’s government has now decreed the banning of all phones produced by China-based companies. According to Global Telecom Business, the Indian government is concerned about the fact that phones from China could come with “spyware or malware that offers intelligence agencies across the border access to telecom [...]
Microsoft to get $20 to $40 from every HTC Android phone sold?
Yesterday we’ve reported about the HTC – Microsoft agreement according to which HTC has agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft, because it turned out that the Taiwanese company’s Android phones use some technology patented by the Redmond giant. While HTC and Microsoft have not disclosed the financial aspects of the agreement, it looks like HTC [...]
Verizon Droid Incredible available now, but not really – it’s already sold out online
Today, unsurprisingly, Verizon announced that the HTC Droid Incredible is available for purchase, both online and in the carrier’s stores across the US. However, if you want to buy the Incredible online, you simply can’t – Verizon must have received tons or pre-orders, and it looks like the smartphone is already out of stock. According [...]
Anti-malware solution for Android announced by McAfee
McAfee, one of the world’s most well-known antivirus software providers, announced the availability of McAfee VirusScan Mobile technology for Google’s Android platform. For some unknown reasons, the anti-malware Android solution from McAfee is currently available only in South Korea, only for the Motorola XT720 (pictured below), and only to SK Telecom subscribers. Users can download [...]
LG Cookie Fresh GS290 launched in the UK (via Vodafone, Virgin)
Shortly after officially introducing the Optimus G540, LG has now launched another new touchscreen phone in the UK – the LG GS290 Cookie Fresh, which should be available soon at Vodafone, Virgin, Phones4u and Tesco. Unlike the Optimus, the LG Cookie Fresh is not an Android handset. In fact it’s not even a smartphone, since [...]
Cheap Nokia X2 announced, will be launched in India first
Since Nokia unveiled the Symbian^3 based N8 this Monday, I didn’t expect it to announce another new phone this week. And yet it did – the Nokia X2 is now official (we told you it’s coming). The new Xseries phone was announced in India, where it should be available starting June. The X2 features a [...]
Google intros new Image Search for Android, iPhone (video)
Android and iPhone users now have a redesigned Google Image Search page on their smartphones. Google has tweaked Image Search for mobile so that users can see as many image thumbnails as possible on a single page. The image thumbnails are square, and you can either swipe to go to the next or previous page, [...]
HP gets back into smartpone biz with a vengeance. Buys Palm for $1.2 billion
It finally happened! Palm has finally threw in a towel in it’s desperate struggle, and gave itself up to HP for a cool $1.2 billion. Last year Palm bet the company on it’s new WebOS smartphone platform. And lost. So, despite management’s assurances to the contrary, it became clear recently that Palm has no chance of [...]
Spotify integrated into SE Xperia X10′s Mediascape and Timescape
Sony Ericsson announced via its product blog that it has integrated Spotify into Xperia X10‘s Mediascape and Timescape. This allows users to easily access Spotify via their X10 Android smartphone, as the service “appear as an online music service in Mediascape and songs played through Spotify shows up as event tiles in Timescape” The Spotify [...]
Apple schedules WWDC 2010 for June 7, iPhone 4G / HD expected
This year, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will take place between June 7 and June 11. Since the iPhone 3GS was announced at WWDC 2009, the fourth generation iPhone (4G or HD or whatever it will be called) will likely be announced at WWDC 2010. That’s sooner that expected – the previously-rumored announcement date was June [...]
HTC promises Windows Phone 7 handset for late 2010 (again)
About a month ago, HTC’s CEO Peter Chou stated that the Taiwanese company expects to launch a Windows Phone 7 device before the end of 2010. Now HTC (which agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for some patents used in it Android phones) has reconfirmed this plan. So it looks like we will surely see [...]
Vodafone 845 (with Android 2.1) and 7 other new “Vodaphones” announced (video)
Vodafone has officially introduced no less than 8 new phones, all included in its own-branded series of devices. The most interesting of the new handsets is the Huawei-made Vodafone 845, which is the carrier’s first own-branded Android device. The Vodafone 845 runs Android 2.1 and features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, 3G, Wi-Fi, Vodafone [...]