1 million Galaxy S phones already sold, Samsung wants to sell 9 million more
Samsung’s first two smartphones to feature Super AMOLED displays, the Wave S8600 and the Galaxy S, are both hot sellers. We’ve already reported that sales of Bada-based Wave have surpassed 1 million units globally, and now we’re hearing that the Galaxy S has also passed this milestone. That’s not at all unexpected, since 300,000 Galaxy [...]
Microsoft pays mobile developers to create apps for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has a lot of cash lying around. Or so it may seem, judging from their latest efforts to lure developers to their brand new mobile platform, Windows Phone 7. Microsoft is now investing heavily in making sure that Windows Phone 7 will see many apps already available when it launches in October, so that [...]
Motorola to lock Droid X and Droid 2 bootloaders
The upcoming Motorola Droid X and Motorola Droid 2 will be different from the original Droid not only because they have improved features, but also because their bootloaders will be locked. What does this mean? For the majority of future Droid X / Droid 2 owners, it will probably mean nothing at all, but for [...]
Acer is working on 7″ and 10″ Android tablets to be released in Q4
What was it, yesterday, that we got the latest on the BlackBerry tablet? Well, today is a new day, and this batch of tablet news comes from Acer. The Taiwanese giant is reportedly also hard at work designing not one, but two tablets, a 7-inch model and a 10-inch one. They will both feature ARM processors [...]
Bellperre launches new “affordable” ultra slim luxury phone
Luxury phone maker Bellperre has announced it’s launching a new handset that has a price level meeting “sincerely wider audience compared to current luxury phone brand offerings” – and I assume it’s referring to Mobiado and Vertu. The phone is an “ultra slim”, highly customizable candybar: you can choose from brushed steel, polished silver, 24K [...]
Official Microsoft Bing app for Android in the making
If for some reason you want an alternative to Google’s search and other services that come with your Android phone, Microsoft will soon have something for you: an official Bing app for Android. As Cnet reports, the company confirmed that it’s working on Bing for Android, and PCMag says the app will be launched in [...]
HP no longer a Windows Phone 7 launch partner? Palm’s webOS might be to blame
Earlier this year, when Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7, it also unveiled a list of hardware partners, which included HP, LG, Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Dell, Toshiba and Garmin-Asus. Fast forward to now, when Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2010) is underway in Washington. Yesterday, Steve Ballmer held a speech there, flavored with some PowerPoint [...]
Android Market welcomes Opera Mini 5.1
Officially announced last week, Opera Mini 5.1 has now been launched for Android smartphones, too. Of course, Opera Mini 5 was already available for Android, but it was in beta. The non-beta Opera Mini 5.1 doesn’t bring too much newness, but it’s obviously a more stable build. It also provides improved page layout for Android [...]
Samsung C3300 Champ and Monte Slider E2550 coming to Orange UK on PAYG
Two new affordable and 3G-less Samsung phones will be available at Orange UK soon: the C3300 Champ and the E2550 Monte Slider. The Samsung C3300 is one of the cheapest touchscreen phones ever, featuring a 2.4 inch QVGA display, accelerometer, social networking integration, Samsung Apps, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm headset jack, FM radio with RDS, 1.3MP [...]
How Much Could an iPhone 4 Recall Cost Apple?
The highly unlikely probability of a recall on all faulty iPhone 4 devices was the talk of everyone tech yesterday. Apple’s stocks fell in reaction to Consumer Reports’ non-recommendation of the iPhone 4, threads on Apple’s forums referencing the article just seemed to vanish, and as the day progressed, more articles discussing a iPhone recall [...]
Facebook Like buttons coming to mobile apps
Know those Facebook Like buttons that seem to show up everywhere you go online? Well, get ready to see them in mobile apps as well. At an event called MobileBeat 2010, Facebook’s head of mobile products (and a former product manager of the Google Nexus One), Eric Tseng, has announced that Facebook’s Open Graph, the [...]
Google Nexus One will finally get FM radio, if developers decide to include it in custom ROMs
Google clearly doesn’t care about the integrated, but not-software-supported FM radio in the Nexus One. They’ve made that very clear during Google I/O this year, and let it all in the hands of the developer community. Months later, user intersectRaven over on XDA Developers has finally cracked it and made available a kernel that includes [...]
T-Mobile rolling out HSPA+ to 19 US cities on July 21st
Reports indicate that T-Mobile will bring HSPA+ awesomeness to additional markets starting on July 21st. Why should you care? Well, T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network will enable theoretical maximum download speeds of 21 Mb/s. And while you won’t ever be able to reach that exact threshold, you can come pretty close. Keep in mind though that today’s [...]
Leaked Verizon summer catalog shows Motorola Droid 2 alongside the Droid X
While everyone may have been focused on the Droid Incredible shortages or Droid X release stock, let’s not forget that there’s another hot Droid coming to Verizon soon. That is, of course, the still-unannounced Motorola Droid 2, the successor to the very well-selling Droid. And now a leak of Verizon’s summer catalog all but confirms [...]
AT&T’s Samsung Captivate and T-Mobile’s Samsung Vibrant can now be rooted
The Samsung Galaxy S is one smartphone sold in many different versions across the world. There’s an international one, one for Korea, and one for each of the main US carriers. Well, two more can now be rooted. Following in the footsteps of Samsung Galaxy Spica-hacking legend LeshaK, who had released the first root for [...]
Death grip hits Apple stock price and Apple support forum threads. iPhone 4 recall possible?
Steve Jobs has to know by now that this story won’t die until Apple comes up with an actual fix for the well-documented iPhone 4 reception issue. That’s doing a bit more than just stating that, all these years, they’ve been displaying signal strength based on a flawed formula. Some PR experts now predict a massive [...]
Verizon: don’t worry, we’ll likely have enough Droid X phones for everyone at launch
The Motorola Droid X is going to be available at Verizon in two days from now, starting July 15, and we’ve been hearing some rumors implying that initial stock might be limited. Since there is already a precedent for this (with the HTC Droid Incredible being quickly sold out), lots of Verizon customers are probably [...]
iPhone 4 jailbroken and unlocked. For real.
It’s the one event that even people who are holding it the wrong way are looking forward to. Yes, the (in)famous jailbreak of a new Apple iPhone. A magical moment for the many people who are into this kind of thing. It has arrived. For the iPhone 4. Now, over the past few days, George [...]
Low-end Android-based Alcatel OT-980 shows up in France, launch may be imminent
The Alcatel OT-980 is gearing up to be one of the cheapest Android-based devices on the market. The company’s first foray into the Android space has still not launched, but it’s expected in the UK in August and now it seems its launch in France may be imminent. This will be a very low cost [...]
T-Mobile’s Motorola Charm possibly delayed?
Motorola Charm was officially unveiled last week as T-Mobile USA’s first Android phone with a vertical QWERTY keypad. In the press release announcing the new handset, Motorola only said that the Charm would be available “this summer.” Now we’re hearing that the Charm’s launch date might be August 25 – which, according to TmoNews, is [...]