Boost Mobile announces the flip-QWERTY Motorola Rambler and the flip Motorola Bali
Boost Mobile has announced two new Motorola handsets today, the Rambler and the Bali. The Motorola Rambler is a flip phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It will be available online on August 11th and cost $99.99 excluding taxes if you choose to order it that way. You may be able to get one sooner from [...]
iPhone 4 shunned by French consumer watchdog over antenna issues
Oh, consumer watchdogs, you all say the same things. At least in relation to the iPhone 4′s antennas. There was the US-based Consumer Reports. Along came Stiftung Warentest from Germany. And the latest watchdog to confirm the infamous death grip? France’s UFC-Que Choisir. This is a non-profit organization established in 1951 and is one of [...]
HTC Desire Froyo updates to start tomorrow
Some good news has come regarding HTC’s Froyo rollout for the Desire. The wait seems to be almost over, at least if you’re in The Netherlands, Belgium or Luxembourg. At first, there were the tweets of Mark Moons, the HTC Regional Director for Benelux. On twitter Mark Moons said (translated): Tweet 1: “Tommorow we start [...]
New TAG Heuer Meridiist luxury phones announced
Swiss watch maker TAG Heuer has announced three new models of its Meridiist luxury phone, all sharing the same features and overall design, but having different finishes. The Tag Heuer Meridiist Black Diamond is PVD-coated and is made out of 316L stainless steel, 18-carat pink gold, lizard leather, and 1.34-carat diamonds. The Tag Heuer Meridiist [...]
LG’s mobile division is losing money
It’s that time of the year when Q2 results are being posted. Apple did, Nokia did, and now it’s LG’s turn. Now, aside from mobile phones, LG also makes many more electronic products, such as TVs and home appliances. Overall, their profits fell almost 90% year-on-year to approximately $106.6 million. The handset business unit was [...]
AT&T will be “the premier Windows Phone 7 carrier”
AT&T was rumored to have already ordered a cool 8 million Windows Phone 7 devices. Whether that’s true or not is unclear right now, but it might have just been a bit of wishful thinking based on facts such as AT&T being ”the premier carrier” for Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system. Which is exactly what an [...]
T-Mobile myTouch 3G HD in the wild?
Just recently, we’ve heard about a few new HTC Android phones that should come to T-Mobile USA later this year: HTC Vizion / Blaze, HTC Vanguard and HTC Emerald. We’ve already seen the Vision, but what about the Vanguard and Emerald? Well, one of them might be this newly leaked smartphone that’s presented by Android [...]
How to flash the leaked Android 2.2 Froyo builds for the Samsung i9000 Galaxy S
The folks over at Samsung Firmwares have gotten their hands on the first two builds of Froyo for the Galaxy S. The international, i9000 version of Samsung’s flagship smartphone, that is. Now these are not custom ROMs or anything like that. These are firmware versions made by Samsung, that might at some point be released [...]
LG opens new Widows Mobile / Java Application Store. Android apps promised for later
LG has announced the launch of a “new” Application Store in more than 20 countries around the world (mostly from Asia and the Middle East). The Store contains more than 3,000 applications: half of them are made for featurephones (Java), and the other half for Windows Mobile smartphones. By the end of 2010, the LG [...]
Confirmed: Nokia OVI desktop Internet browser is for real
Remember that mysterious Ovi Browser thing that Nokia has set up a Twitter account for, and also created password protected download pages on it’s site? What the heck is it? Could Nokia be working on it’s own desktop Internet browser? And what would be the point of such browser? I can’t answer the last question yet. [...]
Modu’s tiny Android phone caught on video
Back in August 2009, Modu said it’s working on a touchscreen phone, and it looks like the company’s efforts are finally coming to fruition. The phone is an Android one and it’s really small – possibly smaller than the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, which is currently the smallest Android handset on the market. Like [...]
Cheap Samsung Champ available now in India
Samsung’s cheapest touchscreen phone to date, the Champ C3300, is now available in India, a country where demand for cheap devices is high. The Champ is not only cheap – it’s also one of Samsung’s smallest touchscreen handsets, measuring 96 x 53.8 x 13 mm and featuring a 2.4 inch QVGA display. The phone’s other [...]
Nokia C6, C3 and E5 officially coming to the US, prices unveiled
Three of Nokia’s latest messaging phones – Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 – are coming soon to the US, as they’ve appeared at the Nokia US online store. The handsets are featured on the pre-order webpage, although none of them can be pre-ordered at the moment. Unsurprisingly, the cheapest of them is the [...]
Samsung Wave 2 (525) and Wave 2 Pro (533) also announced in Germany, will cost €299 each
Samsung is launching the Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro not only in Russia, but also in Germany, where the two new smartphones will arrive starting August. Also known as Samsung Wave 525 and Samsung Wave 533, the handsets run Bada OS – just like the Samsung Wave S8500. However, the 525 and 533 are [...]
Jailbreaking may be legal, but it will still void your warranty
Well, that didn’t take long. Apple has basically turned yesterday’s great news into just moderately good news. If you remember, yesterday the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was revised and the new version considers jailbreaking a matter of fair use, thus making it legal. The question that no one had the answer to back then [...]
Orange HTC Hero finally gets Android 2.1 by the end of the week
Oh, the HTC Hero Android 2.1 update saga. It’s back, but probably living its last days. Unlocked HTC Hero devices got their Android 2.1 love last month, however operator-specific versions were (as always) left out at that point. Just a month later, Orange and HTC have announced that the much-anticipated Android 2.1 update for Orange-sold [...]
Here’s the most complete Windows Phone 7 walkthrough yet
Microsoft is hard at work on Windows Phone 7, their next-gen mobile operating system. That much we know. Windows Phone 7 is due out in October, with handsets running it to follow right after that. Of course, we’ve seen bits and glimpses of the Windows Phone 7 experience before, but never in such detail. Greg [...]
Dell Streak will cost $299 on AT&T, Dell Aero will cost $99 and launch on August 9th
Just a couple of hours ago we brought you more details on Dell’s Streak smartphone/tablet, and revealed that it will only officially run on AT&T. Two facts were missing there, though: the pricing and release date. And while the latter is still officially “late July”, the pricing has been made public. The Dell Streak will [...]
RIM, AT&T to host event on August 3. BlackBerry 9800 could be announced
RIM and AT&T are getting ready for a BlackBerry event that will take place in New York City next week, on August 3. The companies don’t say what is it that they’ll be unveiling, but the long-rumored BlackBerry 9800 slider is likely to be finally announced. We already know that there is a version of [...]
Android 1.6-running Kyocera Zio will be launched by Cricket on August 15
The Kyocera Zio, the company’s first Android smartphone, was announced a long time ago. Since then, both Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 were released. The Zio, however, wasn’t. It appears that it will finally launch, on Cricket, on August 15. It will be called the Sanyo Zio and it may cost about $249-$299, but that’s [...]