Android Motorola Ming MT820 emerges in live pics
It looks like Moto ain’t done churning out handsets with that eye-catching transparent outer flip yet, as evidenced by these recently leaked live pics of the still unannounced Motorola Ming MT820, a clamshell phone that’s coming to China with TD-SCDMA 3G network support. Its design is nothing unusual for Motorola, which has produced similar-looking phones [...]
Nokia N8 with T-Mobile 3G passes through FCC
Following that poor first impressions story and the leak of its full specifications, Nokia’s upcoming N8 is in the spotlight once again, this time due to it having been approved by the FCC. While the leaked spec sheet might indicate that only a Chinese version of the phone is certain, the FCC approval definitely makes [...]
Motorola drops Google’s location services in favor of Skyhook wireless
Motorola has earned quite reputation for doing somewhat… remarkable things. The Motorola ROKR, Motorola RAZR V3, and Motorola DROID are just a few examples of them doing things that make you go, “What?” and “Wow.” at the same time. This time Moto has done it again, in the software department for all their current and [...]
Nokia Ovi Movies On-Demand service coming this fall
While reading through that Nokia N8 spec sheet we published earlier, I noticed an interesting bit of info there. It seems that Nokia is finally getting ready to launch it’s own movie service. The possibility that Nokia/Ovi Movies are coming has been rumored for quite a while now. After all, it’s the next logical step [...]
Nokia and Pepsi launch Ovi Store football channel
Nokia (which should launch its new N8 smartphone in a few months) announced that Ovi Store now includes an “Ovi Store football channel”, where football fans can find exclusive Pepsi content, including games, applications and free themes and wallpapers Moreover, Nokia Music Store will start selling Pepsi’s charity football anthem “Oh Africa,” performed by Akon, [...]
Klausner sues HTC for Visual Voicemail patent infringement
HTC has just been sued by Klausner Technologies, a company that holds several Visual Voicemail patents in the US. Klausner claims that HTC is infringing its patents since the release of T-Mobile MyTouch 3G. However, not all of HTC’s smartphones that use Visual Voicemail in the US are involved. For example, HTC devices launched via [...]
Samsung Exec i225 Windows Mobile smartphone launched by U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular (which will launch the HTC Desire later this year) announced the availability of Samsung Exec SCH-i225, a new smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 (no word yet if it’s upgradeable to WM 6.5.3). The Samsung Exec is a BlackJack-like handset with a full QWERTY keypad and a QVGA landscape display. The Exec features [...]
Google suggests Verizon customers to buy a Droid Incredible instead of a Nexus One
While confirming the fact that Vodafone will launch the Nexus One starting May 30, Google has also unveiled more details regarding the arrival of the Nexus at Verizon. By the looks of it, the smartphone may actually not come at all to Verizon. Google now says that customers who have been waiting for the Nexus [...]
Samsung Galaxy S i9000 on pre-order in the UK for £549.99
When Samsung announced the Galaxy S i9000, the South Korean company said that the new smartphone would be available sometime in the second quarter of the year (thus in June the latest). Well, it looks like the Galaxy S will be launched in the UK in early June. Expansys has the smartphone on pre-order, saying [...]
Nokia N8 full spec sheet leaks
Update: Nokia N8 has been officially announced. And it seems that the leaked spec sheet was legit. Still, now that we have official announcement, the final specs, official pics and release videos for Nokia N8 are here. Even a day hasn’t passed since the scathing first impressions on Nokia N8 flagship, and the details about [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9650 coming to Sprint on May 23 for $200
BlackBerry Bold 9650, one of RIM’s newest smartphones, will be available via both Sprint and Verizon in the US. While Verizon said nothing about the handset (yet), Sprint has just announced that it’s launching the Bold 9650 on May 23. Sprint will sell the BlackBerry Bold 9650 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and [...]
Pantech launches SKY Check Mate IM-S610K for Korea Telecom
While inches and megapixels get superseded pretty fast in the upgrade-crazy technologically advanced world of today, Korean mobile phone maker Pantech knows one thing that never gets old: style. That’s what its newest phone, the SKY Check Mate IM-S610K made for Korea Telecom, brings to the table. It may not be oozing in sex appeal [...]
Samsung Android and Bada phones will have pre-loaded Yahoo services
Yahoo and Samsung have announced the signing of a new partnership that will bring Yahoo services to new Samsung handsets, including Android and Bada smartphones. Starting May this year, select Samsung phones will be pre-loaded with services like: Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Finance, [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G get official
After a fairly long time of being in the rumor mill and spending a bit of its unofficial life in the wild, the BlackBerry Bold 9650 has finally been launched officially. Well, RIM was planning on revealing it some time later today but were beat to the punch by the guys over at The Street. [...]
Google Nexus One available at Vodafone starting April 30
Vodafone has finally announced the dates when its customers will be able to buy the Google Nexus One: April 30 (this Friday) in the UK, and May in Germany, France (via SFR), the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. As previously reported, the Nexus One will be available at Vodafone with various data plans – and it’s [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro coming to Rogers for under $70 on contract?
After launching the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, Rogers is now getting ready to introduce the Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro, too. Both the X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro might be available at Rogers starting May or June. According to Mobile Syrup, Rogers could sell the X10 Mini for $49.99 and the [...]
Japanese consortium to launch new mobile app platform for Symbian and Linux smartphones
At least six Japanese companies have teamed up to create a new mobile application platform targeting Symbian and Linux mobile operating systems. The group consists of NTT DoCoMo, Renesas Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic Mobile and Sharp. As to why these six particular companies decided to work with each other, it’s still not clear. But current [...]
Taiwan likely to assign 700MHz band for future LTE operation
Officials of Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) are looking at LTE (Long Term Evolution) as the upcoming global mainstream 4G standard for mobile communications. This is turn makes the Taiwanese government more likely to assign the so-called 700MHz band section, a frequency band between 698MHz and 806MHz, for use in future LTE operations. This is [...]
Windows Phone 7 devices to have reduced crapware due to added restrictions
Smartphones and even feature phones released through mobile operators have traditionally had a set of carrier-specific pre-installed apps on them, which some users ignore or don’t even notice while reviled by others as unnecessary bloatware. Windows Mobile phones running version 6.5.3 and below have been victims of this, and in the end it doesn’t really [...]
Palm Pixi available for free through Sprint’s web site
If you’ve been waiting for the longest time to get the Palm Pixi on the third largest network in the U.S., Sprint, well now you can. And not only can you purchase the webOS smartphone off Sprint’s web site quite easily, you can do it without paying for the phone at all because it’s being [...]