Google to exclude games from the Android Market in South Korea
Last month we’ve heard that Google’s Android Market might be blocked in South Korea because it contains games that have not been reviewed by the Korean Game Rating Board. Well, Android Market won’t be blocked after all – however, Google has decided to exclude all games from the Korean version of its app store. According [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on preorder at Rogers. BlackBerry Pearl 9100 coming to Telus?
As previously reported, Rogers will launch the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for $150 on contract – and it looks like the Android 1.6 smartphone will be available to Canadian customers starting April 15. You can already preorder the X10 from Rogers, in both black and white. Customers who preorder the handset until April 14 will [...]
Samsung Corby gets new Spring colors (in Korea)
Samsung launched the Corby SCH-W900 / SPH-W9000 / SPH-W9050 in South Korea last November, and until now the phone was sold in more than 500,000 units (via all major Korean mobile carriers). So it should come as no surprise the fact that Samsung has now introduced new color versions of its Korean Corby, as part [...]
Apple schedules iPhone OS 4.0 event for April 8
Apple, which sold 300,000 iPads in only one day, announced that an iPhone OS 4.0 event would be held on April 8 (this Thursday) at 10AM Pacific Time. The company promises a “sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software” – which probably means it will showcase most of the new features iPhone [...]
Apple iPad sales pegged at 300,000 for day one
It was obvious, from the excitement all over the Web, and the lines found in Apple stores all over the U.S., that many people wanted an iPad and have gone out to buy it. Today, Apple announces their total number of sales and it turns out to be 300,000. So 300,000 units of Apple’s much-hyped [...]
Swedish company to launch world’s first Android-based TV
A company in Sweden called “People of Lava” are about to let loose the world’s first Android-based TV set, blending the openness of Google’s open-source operating system with Internet and good, old-fashioned television entertainment. Currently, the final tech specs of these Android TVs are still unknown or uncertain. But the company behind it has at [...]
iPad users deal with Wi-Fi issues one day after official launch
While many of the iPad’s early adopters have walked out quite happy with their $500 purchase from the Apple store yesterday, some have found themselves frowning over what could possibly be a major defect that seriously cripples the device’s functionality. iPad users are finding that their devices either have no Wi-Fi signal at all or [...]
HTC Incredible shows up on Verizon’s website, sort of
We’ve seen Verizon’s HTC Incredible in photos several times until now, but we still don’t know when exactly the carrier plans to announce the new Android smartphone. Rumors have it that the Incredible could be available starting April or May – and this just might be true, as the handset’s now listed on Verizon’s InfoManager [...]
New Samsung Bada phones with QWERTY keyboards coming
Back in November 2009, when Samsung announced its new Bada OS, the South Korean company said that it expects devices based on the new platform to “become a significant force in the market in 2010.” But for this to happen, Samsung needs more smartphones that just one (the Wave S8500), right? Well, four of the [...]
iPad’s A4 SoC benchmarked against iPhone’s Cortex A8 and Nexus One’s Snapdragon
While some would have you believe that the iPad is nothing more than an oversized iPhone (minus the phone part, as well as a few other things), one important difference between the two lies in the mobile processor making them tick. While the iPhone uses a Cortex A8, the iPad is the first device to [...]
‘MMS Bomber’ mobile virus for Symbian spreading fast in China
Will malware writers ever run out of business? According to Cellular News, a recent report on Beijing Business News talks about how a recent mobile virus called the “MMS Bomber” has been spreading quite rapidly in China, affecting millions of Chinese mobile phones running Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS. China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response [...]
Apple’s iPad jailbroken in no time
The Apple iPad which recently went on sale has already been jailbroken by the same team that has been doing the same thing to the iPhone and iPod touch for years. So is anyone surprised? I’m sure at least some of the people who’ve never owned iPhones before will be surprised with the difference jailbreaking [...]
Yandex Russia launches modded version of Opera Mini 5
Russian search engine company Yandex has released a modified version of the popular mobile Web browser Opera Mini 5 with several improvements to the unmodified version. They’ve also added these improvements to version 4.2. The modified version’s improvements include a new interface with visual bookmarks to open pages in separate tabs, search history, and a [...]
LG GB280 launched with Lady GaGa pre-loaded in Brazil
LG Electronics has launched a new music phone in Brazil and they are hoping to boost sales with the help of one of today’s most famous pop stars — Lady GaGa. While her quality as an artist still remains in question for some, there’s no denying that she is very popular right now. So anyway, [...]
Sprint order forms show evidence for BlackBerry 9650, BlackBerry 8230, Motorola ES400 and more
BlackBerry users on Sprint’s network should be able to get their hands on at least a couple of new BlackBerry phones and a new Motorola smartphone pretty soon, if BGR’s scoop based on new Sprint order forms turns out to be true. These Sprint order forms list the following smartphones and sort of confirm that [...]
Acquasys launches free Boxee Remote for WinMo smartphones
For those of who enjoy using Boxee on your home theater PCs, developer and self-proclaimed Boxee fan Acquasys have come up with an easy-to-use remote control app for Windows Mobile smartphones. The best thing about it is, they’re offering it for free. You can download it on their web site right now. It offers several [...]
Microsoft drops “Series” from Windows Phone 7 Series
Long names are annoying, you can’t argue with that. And perhaps that’s why Microsoft is renaming its new and long-awaited Windows Phone 7 Series OS. In fact, it’s not a renaming in the true meaning of the word – they’re just dropping the “Series” part, so the OS is now called Windows Phone 7. Period. [...]
Apple iPad gets Yahoo! Entertainment, Shazam, EA games
Although it’s not yet available in the US (it will be starting tomorrow, April 3), Apple’s iPad is already getting applications from third-party developers. For example, Yahoo has just announced that Yahoo! Entertainment for iPad is now available in the App Store. Yahoo! Entertainment for iPad features an “intuitive and rich design” and provides users [...]
Motorola Titanium (XT800) to be launched in Korea with Android 2.0
Motorola is getting ready to launch its second Android phone for the South Korean market, the Motorola Titanium. The Titanium is actually the Moto XT800 (pictured below), which is already available in China. There will be two versions of the Motorola Titanium in Korea: the XT800C (a 2G CDMA handset) and the XT800W (which also [...]
Skyfire browser for Android coming soon, alpha testing starts now
While Android users are (probably) expecting Mozilla’s Firefox to be available to them as soon as possible, here’s another third-party browser that’s coming to Google’s mobile OS: Skyfire – which is already available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60. The Skyfire team is currently looking for users to test the Alpha version of Skyfire for [...]