Official Twitter app for BlackBerry exits beta
We’ve got more BlackBerry-related news today, and this time Twitter is involved, too. RIM has announced that the official BlackBerry Twitter application is no longer in beta, and a full launch is prepared for later today. The Twitter app for Berry users comes with features that include: geodata functionality, ability to edit retweets, autocompletion for [...]
Motorola FlipOut to be launched by Orange UK. Motorola Charm in the wild
Say what you will about the Motorola FlipOut, but you can’t deny that it’s quite an interesting Android phone. Already announced for O2 and Vodafone Germany, the FlipOut will also be released in the UK, and it looks like Orange is the first carrier to offer it. According to an image found at Cool Smartphone, [...]
BlackBerry 9800 slider (AT&T), 9300 (T-Mobile) and 9670 clamshell in new videos
BlackBerry 9800, BlackBerry 9670 and BlackBerry 9300 are three of RIM’s unannounced smartphones that appeared until now in several leaked videos and photos. Most of the previously published videos have been removed. However, thanks to Salomondrin, we now have new videos that show each of RIM’s upcoming devices. The BlackBerry 9800 slider seen here is [...]
BlackBerry Pearl 3G (9100) coming soon to AT&T?
An online retailer is selling BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 bottom covers with AT&T’s logo on them – so the new Pearl might be introduced by the second largest US carrier soon (we’ve actually heard last year that the smarthpone would be launched by AT&T). There’s still no word on when exactly AT&T’s customers will be [...]
Sprint’s HTC Hero gets its first taste of Froyo via CyanogenMod 6 Alpha
The CyanogenMod team is at it again. This time, they have an Alpha release of CyanogenMod 6 (that’s based on Android 2.2 or Froyo for you and me) for the HTC Hero. Only, unlike in the past, this build is meant for GSM Hero devices as well as the CDMA Hero in Sprint’s portfolio. This [...]
How to replace the “not user replaceable” battery in the Nokia N8
Back when the Nokia N8 was announced, it seemed to have a ‘feature’ that most Nokia users have been mocking Apple for – a battery that isn’t “user replaceable”. A few days later, the truth started to come out – unlike Apple’s products, this battery wasn’t soldered onto anything, it was just that the construction of the [...]
White Sprint HTC EVO 4G shows up at Best Buy early. Latest Sprint EVO OTA update rooted
Remember those white Sprint HTC EVO 4Gs, that were exclusively promised to Best Buy for July 11th. Have you been waiting for one? If so, we have some good news for you. Engadget reports, that white HTC EVO 4Gs started arriving to Best Buy whole five days early. After all those delays HTC has been facing in [...]
Silverlight for Symbian^1 devices exits beta, enters Ovi Store, Bing and HSN web apps available
It seems that while everyone was preoccupied with Adobe’s Flash making inroads into the mobile space, Microsoft was quietly at work developing their oft-forgotten Flash alternative, Silverlight, into a runtime for Symbian^1 (formerly known as S60 5th Edition) devices. There was a March beta release, and today the final version is available to download in [...]
HTC hopes to be done with Android 2.2 Froyo updates before Christmas
We all know that HTC will update its 2010 smartphones to Android 2.2 Froyo, but “when exactly?” is a question that still has no answer. We’ve heard that the HTC Desire could get Froyo in August, but other smartphones (like the Legend, Wildfire, Incredible and Evo 4G) might not be that lucky. Eric Lin, global [...]
About Nokia’s “Fightback starts now”. My rants, frustrations and hopes
Last week Anssi Vanjoki took over the Mobile Solutions unit of Nokia. And he’s off to an interesting start. On his first day on the job, Anssi penned a rallying cry to Nokia fans and employees, called “The fightback starts now” . Here’s some interesting newsbits from it. It looks that all that “Nokia NSeries going exclusively Meego, [...]
Bluetooth 4.0 Core Specification formally adopted
More than a year since launching Bluetooth 3.0, the Bluetooth SIG has now announced that it has formally adopted Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. The hallmark feature of Bluetooth 4.0 is the low energy technology that will enable even devices requiring low cost and low power wireless connectivity to use the new Bluetooth standard. Such [...]
Samsung i8700 Cetus, Nokia E7, HTC Gold, Vision and Ace headed to the UK?
A bunch of unannounced smartphones from different manufacturers have appeared in a list of devices that are reportedly coming soon to the UK. We have three handsets from HTC, one from Nokia and one from Samsung. According to Omio (the source of the mentioned list), HTC Vision and HTC Ace will be launched in the [...]
AT&T to launch two Windows Phone 7 devices as soon as September?
AT&T was among the carriers that supported Windows Phone 7 right from the beginning, and it will certainly be among the first to launch a WP7 handset in the US. Microsoft repeatedly mentioned that the world’s first WP7 devices would be out “in time for the 2010 holiday season”, but this might happen a bit [...]
HTC Droid Incredible shipments pushed back to August
Although Verizon will not phase out the HTC Droid Incredible, the smartphone’s shipping date is being continuously pushed back. Right now, Verizon says the Incredible will be “shipped by August 3.” That’s way later than the launch date of Motorola Droid X – this means trouble for HTC, because Verizon allows users who pre-ordered the [...]
Nokia’s wireless modem business sold to Renesas for $200 million
Usually, Nokia buys businesses, but today the company announced the opposite: it’s selling its wireless modem business to Renesas Electronics, a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer formed in April this year after the merger of Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics. The deal is part of an alliance between Nokia and Renesas – they’re “forming a strategic business [...]
Flash 10.1 demoed on Verizon’s Motorola Droid X (video)
When Verizon, Google and Motorola announced the Droid X, they said the smartphone would get Adobe Flash 10.1 in “late summer”, at the same time with an update to Android 2.2 Froyo. This probably means the Droid X will be Flash-ready sometime in August – although it seems that it can already run Flash 10.1 [...]
Samsung dethrones Nokia in featurephone sales (in Western Europe)
Samsung has threatened Nokia’s leading position in Europe since last year, and now things are getting really serious: in the first quarter of 2010, Samsung sold more featurephones than Nokia in Western European markets. The South Korean company managed to sell 12.2 million featurephones in the region in Q1 (a growth of 18%), while Nokia [...]
There might never be a Google Nexus Two, or any other new Nexus phone
If you’re waiting for the Google Nexus Two, Google Nexus Three or any other new Nexus, you’re probably waiting in vain. Google’s Eric Schmidt has recently suggested that the company isn’t interested in making own phones anymore – despite previous rumors about a possible Nexus enterprise handset. In an interview with Telegraph.co.uk, Google’s Chairman talked [...]
Nokia C5 available in India for $175
Nokia’s first Cseries handset, the C5 candybar, is now available in India (where the Finnish company should also launch the ultra-cheap X2). The C5 runs Symbian S60 3rd edition FP2 and is touted by Nokia as a “smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing” (Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, hi5 and Friendster apps are integrated). The handset [...]
Samsung i9200 Galaxy S2 details leak
A picture and specs of the second generation Samsung Galaxy S device – i9200, started circulating around Russian internets. So far this goes into a completely unconfirmed rumor category, and the rendered picture of the device raises some doubts. But, knowing Samsung’s nack for the high specc’ed devices, rumored specs sound quite believable for a Samsung flagship [...]