Motorola i1 officially coming to Sprint on July 25 for $149.99 on contract
Sprint has finally announced the date when the Motorola i1, the world’s first Android iDEN smartphone, will be available to its subscribers: July 25. Only direct ship sales channels will offer the push-to-talk handset on this date, though, with the rest of the channels to offer it starting August 8. The Moto i1 will be [...]
Nokia Siemens buys Motorola’s Networks business for $1.2 billion
Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola have just announced they’ve entered into an agreement for Nokia Siemens to buy “the majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets” (i.e. Moto’s Networks business) for $1.2 billion in cash. By acquiring Motorola’s Networks business, Nokia Siemens will strengthen its presence in countries like the United States and Japan (two [...]
Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone coming to Orange UK
Sony Ericsson’s latest Walkman slider phones, the Spiro and the Zylo, are both coming soon to the UK. We’ve already told you that T-Mobile is going to offer the Spiro, and now we’ve also spotted the Zylo on Orange’s coming soon web page. Orange’s Zylo will be available in silver, featuring 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, [...]
BlackBerry Storm 3 and Curve 3 to join the Droid 2 on Verizon?
Verizon has yet to officially announce or confirm the Motorola Droid 2, but the smartphone is surely coming soon to the largest US carrier to make a great pair with the Droid X, and to replace the original Droid. Two new images of the Droid 2 have appeared over at Engadget, and although they unveil [...]
About Nokia, nostalgia, and dwelling on the glories past
Yesterday Mobile Review’s Eldar Murtazin made an interesting post on his personal blog about how Nokia today seems to be more focused on the glories of the past, then shaping of the future. The post was in Russian, and I didn’t think Google Translate can do it justice, so I did the loose translation into [...]
Verizon’s LG Ally. Quick review
It seems as though every summer we see a major motion picture come out with wayyy too many advertisements and promotions to go along with it; so much so that we become sickened whenever we hear the name of the movie. LG always seems to be at the forefront of these promotions with a premier [...]
Motorola Milestone XT720 will be available in the UK on July 19th
The Motorola Milestone XT720, also known as MOTOROI in some markets, is a keyboard-less successor to the Motorola Milestone (the GSM version of the original Droid), and will bring a very interesting design and a great specsheet to the high-end Android smartphone market. It will also be a very good competitor, spec-wise, for the upcoming [...]
Nokia says they prioritize antenna performance over design
Hot on the heels of Steve Jobs’ claims that all (smart)phones are equally affected by reception issues when held in a certain way, Nokia decided to release this statement: “Antenna design is a complex subject and has been a core competence at Nokia for decades, across hundreds of phone models. Nokia was the pioneer in [...]
Want to buy a Nexus One from Google? Move fast.
About two months ago, Google announced that it will no longer be selling the Nexus One directly, through its specially-made online store. And today we’re moving one step closer in that direction. Google have received the very last batch of phones that they’re planning to sell, so if you wanted to buy a Nexus One [...]
Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 won’t brick themselves after all, they’ll just get stuck in Recovery Mode
A couple of days ago we let you know just how serious Motorola is about not letting you run any custom ROMs on their Droid X and Droid 2. Not only were these phones confirmed to have locked bootloaders, but it appeared that they were also employing a technology called eFuse, that would effectively brick [...]
Free bumpers for all iPhone 4 buyers, white iPhone 4 to come at the end of July
So there it went. The big iPhone 4 press conference. If you were expecting for Steve Jobs to issue a recall, tough luck. What did happen was an intricate defense of the iPhone 4′s antenna design, even spiced up with tests on other (obviously carefully selected) phones, to show that the reception issues everyone’s been [...]
New pictures of the Symbian^4 homescreen surface
In the past, we’ve seen some demo videos of the new UI in Symbian^4, there was also Nokia’s UI concept proposal before that, and now new pictures of the Symbian^4 homescreen have surfaced on the Symbian Developer Wiki. These are built in an emulator, using the Qt for Windows SDK. Symbian^4 will feature a complete [...]
Mozilla Firefox Home for iPhone available in App Store
No, Mozilla’s browser isn’t coming to iPhone (yet), but the company has just announced the availability of a new (its first?) product for iOS, called Firefox Home. Available for free in the App Store (iTunes link here), Firefox Home syncs with your desktop Firefox and lets you access history, open tabs and bookmars – all [...]
Sony Ericsson happy with Xperia X10 and Vivaz sales, posts small profit for Q2 2010
Sony Ericsson has just announced its second quarter results for this year, and although things are far from being as great as they once were, the company could say it had a decent quarter. Income (before taxes and excluding restructuring charges) was €63 million, while net income was €12 million. Sony Ericsson sold 11 million [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Droid and Devour to be discontinued soon?
With the Droid X having just been launched and the Droid 2 coming soon as well, it makes a fair amount of sense for the original Motorola Droid to be discontinued in the near future. According to a leaked Verizon document appeared over at Droid Forums, it’s not only the Droid that’s nearing End of [...]
On Droid X and Samsung Vibrant launch day, Sprint announces HTC EVO 4G accessories (the phone itself is still sold out)
Seeing how Verizon and T-Mobile launched the Motorola Droid X and the Samsung Vibrant, respectively, Sprint said: “hey, we want to be in the news, too!” And since it didn’t had any new hot phone to launch (the release date of Samsung Epic 4G is still not certain), yesterday the carrier announced it’s offering a [...]
Android Market “only” has 70,000 apps, daily Android device activations still at around 160,000
Well, it may appear that AndroLib was way too enthusiastic about estimating the total number of apps in the Android Market. They expected the 100,000 threshold to be crossed this month. That now seems rather unlikely, in light of information made available by Google during their Q2 earnings conference call. The Android Market officially has [...]
Motorola Droid X already selling out? Activation issues reported
Although Verizon said it has done everything possible to ensure there would be Droid X smartphones for everyone at launch, it looks like there are still not enough units to meet the demand. BGR and PhoneArena are both reporting that most Verizon stores are starting to deplete their Droid X stock, with some being already [...]
HTC Desire HD specs leaked
Turns out the “Ace” in HTC Ace may just be a codename, and the finished product might be marketed as HTC Desire HD. Looks like HTC wants to bank on the Desire’s brand awareness. A spec sheet for the Desire HD has been leaked and, sure enough, it contains many upgrades compared to the vanilla [...]
Nokia C6-01 officially shows up, has 8MP camera
Nokia’s stupid odd way of launching slightly different versions of the same phone under slightly different names is in the news again. This time we’d like you to meet the Nokia C6-01, which is pretty much like the Nokia C6-00, but its camera has 8MP instead of 5MP, and dual LED flash instead of a [...]