LG T325 touchscreen phone shows up
Apart from the Samsung i917 Cetus, the Bluetooth SIG has also outed an unassuming LG phone, the T325. This looks like it’s a featurephone and definitely packs a touchscreen of unknown size (yet it appears to be somewhere in the 2.8″-3.2″ range). It also has 3G and Bluetooth. It will be launching in Europe at [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro get root
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro are two intriguing little devices for sure. They’re not your typical huge-screened Android superphones, and it seems like their number one feature is pocketability. Sony Ericsson haven’t released any sales numbers yet, but they are slowly introducing these devices in many markets and it [...]
HTC Ace to be called Desire HD, HTC Vision will be Desire Z
Two of the upcoming Android smartphones from HTC have codenames that we’ve heard many times before, the HTC Ace and HTC Vision keep popping up in one instance or another. Now a leak from an inventory system over at Vodafone D2 Germany brings us the official names that these devices will have once they launch. [...]
Motorola Droid gets Froyo next week, Droid X in “late summer”
The Froyo update season has started. After the HTC Desire and HTC EVO 4G for Sprint, it’s Motorola’s turn. Updates to Android 2.2 for the original Motorola Droid are going to start next week, Verizon has confirmed. Don’t expect anything entirely different than what we already know Froyo has to offer. Highlights include: Flash 10.1 [...]
SE Xperia X8 to be launched by O2 UK in September
Sony Ericsson is in no hurry at all when it comes to launching the Xperia X8. When the Android smartphone was officially announced (more than one month ago), SE said it would release it in the third quarter of the year – and it looks like this actually means late Q3. The X8 has appeared [...]
Motorola Grasp WX404 eco-friendly QWERTY phone gets official
The Motorola WX404 QWERTY candybar (recently approved by the FCC) has just been officially unveiled by Moto under the name of Motorola Grasp. The phone is a CDMA/EVDO/AWS one, which means it will be released by MetroPCS in the US. Unlike other recent QWERTY offerings from Moto (Charm, FlipOut), the Grass WX404 doesn’t run Android [...]
Motorola Droid X and Milestone 2 coming to Europe (France)?
In the US, Verizon has already released the Motorola Droid X, while the Droid 2 is probably coming next month. But what about the rest of the world? Well, it looks like Moto’s two new Android smartphones are also headed to Europe. FrAndroid is reporting that the Droid X will be launched in France in [...]
Pantech makes dual SIM phones, too: P4000 and P1000 (video)
Pantech P4000 and Pantech P1000 are two new phones that, surprisingly, feature dual SIM capabilities. I say “surprisingly” because I had no idea Pantech wanted to enter the dual SIM phone market. And yet it did. Pantech Italy’s website presents both the P4000 and P1000, and they seem to be available only in Italy at [...]
RIM’s Blackpad tablet will come in November
It’s BlackBerry tablet rumor time again. We’ve heard some specs, then some more, and now we’ve even got a name and possible release month. It will be called Blackpad. RIM have recently registered Blackpad.com, which makes sense. The screen size will be similar to that of the iPad. It will have WiFi and Bluetooth, but [...]
Revisiting 50 million Nokia Symbian^3 devices and fragmentation post
My last week’s post about how Nokia’s plans to ship 50 million Symbian^3 devices can lead to a major fragmentation among Nokia devices, running 5 different OS flavors at the same time, sparked quite a discussion. A lot of Nokia experts and fans chimed in, to tell that there’s one major thing I missed, that [...]
Motorola M511 (FlipOut) launched in China
Motorola has already launched quite a few Android phones in China (including the BackFlip and the XT800), and now it announced yet another one: the Motorola M511, which is actually the FlipOut that’s available in Europe. The M511 FlipOut runs Android 2.1 with MotoBlur, features a full QWERTY keyboard and comes with integrated social networking [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro is now available on O2 in the UK
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro Android-powered smartphone has been available in the UK on Vodafone for a couple of weeks. And now O2 have stepped in and are offering the little device on bundles starting at £25/month. O2 are heavily promoting the Google Maps free Navigation for this phone, which is cool and [...]
Samsung i917 Cetus will run Windows Phone 7
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just outed one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices, the Samsung Cetus. We’ve heard of the Cetus before, but then rumor had it that it will be an Android device and its model number would be i8700. That might have changed in the mean time, or there may [...]
Sprint HTC EVO 4G Android 2.2 upgrade officially announced
News hit yesterday about Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G Froyo rollout. And, as expected then, it has been officially confirmed by Sprint this morning. There’s no word on the update being pushed today for a small batch of users for test purposes, but every EVO 4G owner will get notified that there is an update starting [...]
Samsung open sources AT&T Captivate code, custom ROMs sure to follow
Samsung have already released the code for the international version of the Galaxy S, the i9000. And today the code for AT&T’s version of the smartphone, the i897 Captivate, has also been made available. Open sourcing the full code for a handset is a very important step in Android development. Without access to these, independent [...]
Nokia C7 with Symbian^3 leaked again
Remember the Nokia C7-00, leaked last month as the first Cseries smartphone to run Symbian^3? The handset has appeared once again, somewhere in Hong Kong, and it seems to look better than I’ve initially thought. Engagdet China has it that the C7 features a 3.3 inch multitouch display, not a 3.5 inch one as previously [...]
Verizon blog sets Motorola Droid 2 release for August 12th, confirms Android 2.2 on board
One of the most heavily anticipated smartphones of this summer, if not this year, is undoubtedly the Motorola Droid 2 for Verizon. And apparently it is only a couple of weeks away from launch, if leaks of documentation from an internal Verizon blog are to be believed. The supposed release of the successor to the [...]
The first picture of the Samsung tablet in the wild
Just a few hours ago Samsung reconfirmed that they are working on a tablet device and will release it this quarter. If it will be called Galaxy Tab is still unknown. Pretty much the only things that are known at this point are that it will run some version of Android (probably 2.2) and have [...]
Official Froyo update for unlocked HTC Desire comes this weekend, brings 720p recording and iTunes Sync
The Desire may have tasted Froyo before, but this time it’s straight from HTC. It’s also not limited to Benelux anymore. HTC have officially stated that the Android 2.2 Froyo update for unlocked Desire smartphones will start arriving across Europe this weekend. Aside from the OS update, it will bring 720p recording capabilities (up from VGA) [...]
Reconfirmed: Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet coming this quarter
Samsung’s first Android tablet, possibly named Galaxy Tab or Galaxy P1000, is indeed coming this quarter, as rumored last month. Samsung has reconfirmed this to Reuters, although it didn’t unveil the exact launch date of the tablet. The company has also confirmed the tabled would have a 7 inch screen. It didn’t mention if it [...]