Google Suggest for mobile comes with universal search features
Google has recently announced that it’s now offering Google Suggest for mobile phones. Coming with universal search features (already available for desktop computers), Google Suggest for mobile allows users to get answers faster while on the go. When you’re searching for various info on your phone (like weather, unit conversion, current time, stock quotes and [...]
Square Motorola slider with Android and MotoBlur coming soon?
Since Motorola plans to launch up to 30 Android phones by the end of this year, we’re expecting new phone announcements to come every month or so. One of Moto’s upcoming Android phones could be a square Android slider that recently appeared over at DroidDog. In the meantime, the photo has been removed “at request [...]
China 3G standard phone sales expected to skyrocket this year
Research firm Strategy Analytics says that sales of phones compliant with China’s own 3G standard, which is TD-SCDMA, will experience a strong boost due to China Mobile’s push for new products and services throughout this year. The research firm even went as far as to say that sales will grow 7-fold. I’m sure that’s the [...]
Report: Palm Puts Itself Up For Bids This Week
Palm’s been falling on hard times lately, which comes as no news to anyone. In fact, there has been an incredible amount of speculation and rumors floating around pointing to a company buying out Palm sometime in the near future, Lenovo being the most recent rumor. Thus, news that Palm has officially put itself up [...]
Nokia N8 (Vasco?) might be announced on April 13
Last month we’ve heard that Nokia might officially announce the N8 (possibly codenamed Nokia Vasco) in mid-April – which is about now. Well, Nokia is holding a press event on April 13 (this Tuesday) under the tagline “everyone connect”, so I assume the Finnish company will finally announce the Nokia N8 then. As you probably [...]
Vertu Ascent X photos and specs show up
Vertu (one of Nokia’s wholly-owned subsidiaries) is getting ready to launch a new luxury phone called Vertu Ascent X. The Ascent X was recently approved by the FCC, and today we even have two photos of it, as well as some of its specs. Apparently, the new phone features a 2 inch QVGA display, A-GPS, [...]
Future Samsung Android phones (including the Galaxy S) will feature font changing app
A range of future Samsung Android phones will come pre-loaded with FlipFont, an application that allows you to download fonts and use them on your phone to personalize your mobile experience. The recently-announced Galaxy S i9000 will be Samsung’s first Android phone to come with FlipFont pre-installed (when it becomes available, in the next few [...]
Nokia buys geographic intelligence solutions provider MetaCarta
Nokia announced that it has acquired MetaCarta Inc., a Massachusetts-based company that presents itself as a “leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions.” MetaCarta was founded in 2001 and it currently employs more than 30 people. Its technology combines geographic tagging and geographic search capabilities, allowing users to “find content about a place by viewing results [...]
Triple SIM phone to be launched in India by Olive
Olive Telecommunication, the company that launched India’s first Zipbook and India’s first AAA-compatible phone, is getting ready to launch a triple SIM phone. Called Wiz V-GC800, the triple SIM handset is reportedly capable of handling one CDMA connection and two GSM connections at the same time. The phone features a full QWERTY keypad, social networking [...]
Nokia X3 coming to Verizon?
A few days ago, the FCC approved a mysterious Nokia phone (RM-687) which features CDMA and EV-DO connectivity. Naturally, Engadget suggests that this phone could be released by Verizon in the US (of course, it may also come to Sprint – although, for some reason, Sprint never launches Nokia phones). According to the Bluetooth SIG, [...]
62 Symbian apps running at the same time – true multitasking demo on the Samsung i8910
The Samsung i8910 Omnia HD isn’t exactly the newest phone around, but it’s still a really good device. In fact, it’s so good that it can run no less than 62 applications at the same time. Andy HyperX has been releasing custom firmwares for the i8910 for some time now, and the latest firmware, called [...]
Android 2.1 for Sprint’s Samsung Moment available now (unofficially)
If you have a Samsung Moment and can’t wait until Sprint decides to release the promised Android 2.1 (Eclair) update, you can go ahead and install the update by yourself. The folks over at SDX-Developers have released a zip file with two Android 2.1 ROMs for the Moment. The two builds are ECLAIR.DC23 and ECLAIR.DD03 [...]
Verizon HTC Incredible user guide leaked, shows 8MP camera, UI shots
While Verizon still hasn’t announced the HTC Incredible, the smartphone is 100% coming to the largest US mobile carrier. The HTC Incredible’s user guide has just appeared over at Android Forums in PDF format (you need an account to download it), confirming most of the rumored features of the handset, and even more. The Incredible [...]
Apple iPhone OS 4 gets official, multitasking included; will be out in the summer
Just as expected, today Apple has officially introduced iPhone OS 4, which comes with more than 100 new features, some important, others not that important. But before unveiling iPhone OS 4, Steve Jobs mentioned that there are more than 185,000 apps in App Store, which served more than 4 billion downloads worldwide. He also talked [...]
Nokia Messaging debuts on S40 phones, only in Ecuador for the moment
Initially launched for Nokia’s Symbian S60 smartphones, Nokia Messaging will be available for S40 phones, too. Nokia is launching Messaging for S40 in Ecuador first, where it will be preloaded on select new entry-level phones. Nokia doesn’t mention which phones exactly, but I assume handsets like Nokia 2690, Nokia 7230 (pictured below) and even Nokia [...]
Smaller, cheaper Apple iPad to come in 2011?
Apple sold 300,000 iPads in only one day, and this clearly shows that its tablet is a successful product. However, for some, a 10 inch tablet might be a bit too big. But would Apple (which will unveil iPhone 4.0 OS later today) want to make a smaller tablet? According to DigiTimes, it just might. [...]
Rogers launching the Nokia N97 mini in May?
This is not officially confirmed, but Rogers might bring the Nokia N97 mini to Canada as soon as May. More exactly, Mobile Syrup has it that Rogers will launch the N97 mini “in the first or second week of May”. Unfortunately, pricing details are currently missing. Announced by Nokia in September last year, the Nokia [...]
Sagem Puma 2 and Sagem Netribe to run Android
Earlier this year, Sagem announced that it would make Android phones, and it looks like one these handsets will be part of the Puma series. According to SlashGear, Sagem plans to launch a Puma 2 phone in 2011. The Sagem Puma 2 should run Android and use a customized Puma UI, providing easy access to [...]
Apple is working on its own mobile P2P payment service for iPhone and iPad
Mobile micropayments through your smartphone is emerging, and, most likely, soon to become pretty hot category. Nokia is looking how to introduce mobile payments to developing world with its Money service. Meanwhile, startups like Square and established companies like VeriFone are working on ways to bring personal mobile transactions to your iPhone, and, hopefully, any other [...]
Nokia launches DRM-free Comes with Music service in China
Whether the big music companies like it or not, DRM is the bane of many people’s lives. It’s just not helping the music industry the way it’s supposed to. In fact, it may be the one causing more trouble. So Nokia made a very smart move today in China by launching their Comes with Music [...]