New BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 and Motorola Flipout available at Rogers
Although RIM has not officially announced the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300, the smartphone has just been launched by Rogers in Canada. As mentioned before, the Curve 9300 is not really different from the Curve 8520 – the biggest change is that the new handset features 3G. And, by the way, it doesn’t seem to run [...]
Garmin Q2 Results Are In; Earns $27M From Smartphones
Garmin has only recently become a player in the smartphone market, and a meager one at that. Having only previously released the Nuvifone on select carriers and to rather lousy results, Garmin made a second push into this increasingly crowded market this last quarter with its Garminfone A50 on T-Mobile and Nuvifone A10 on Optus [...]
iOS Devices on 4G? Clear’s iSpot is to Thank
While there are countless WiFi hotspot hubs available on market today, only a few of them offer 4G speeds and only one of those are made specifically for devices running Apple’s iOS — in other words, iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads. And it’s cleverly called the iSpot. The concept is simple: iSpot is a portable [...]
Breaking: 200K Android devices activated daily, mobile ads easily pay for Android development
Android keeps growing, and growing, and growing. Just 7 weeks ago, Google’s Andy Rubin said that there are 160,000 new Android device activations taking place every day. Today, during the Techonomy conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that 200,000 Android phones are being activated each day. This represents a 25% increase from the number of 7 [...]
Details emerge about the next-gen iPhone and a smaller iPad
It might be hard to believe, but only a little more than one month has passed since the iPhone 4 was released. The iPad has only been available for a few months at this point. Yet the rumors have started about Apple’s next moves in the smartphone and tablet spaces. The iPhone 5 may come [...]
Sony Ericsson Vivaz for AT&T gets its own site
Back in February, a Sony Ericsson Vivaz with 3G on AT&T’s bands passed through the FCC. Nothing more was known at that point, but in June the FCC released more pictures of it and it was clear that it was going to be sold by America’s second biggest carrier. While not officially available yet, the [...]
Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) and Samsung Gem for Verizon spotted in the wild
Verizon sure planned many big smartphone releases for this summer. At first there was the Motorola Droid X. Rumors then suggested that the Motorola Droid 2 will launch on August 12th. And let’s not forget that Verizon’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S is still not available. This, the Samsung Fascinate, has just been spotted [...]
Rugged Samsung E2370 X-treme launched in Germany, costs €129
You may remember the Samsung E2370 from June, when it was officially unveiled in Sweden as Samsung Xcover. The phone has now been announced in Germany, too, where it’s called Samsung E2370 X-treme. The E2370 is the latest rugged handset from Samsung and it’s IP54-certified (dust and splash resistant). It also comes with a 2,000 [...]
Android-powered Huawei U8100 launches in Canada on Wind Mobile
The Huawei U8100 was announced months ago during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And today it has officially launched in Canada, on Wind Mobile. This low-end Android 2.1-powered device will set you back 160 Canadian dollars (approximately US$ 156), and there’s no contract involved. You can order it online or from Wind retailers. Here’s what [...]
Android overtakes RIM and becomes the best-selling consumer smartphone platform in the US
Market research company NPD has just released its quarterly report on the US mobile market, this time focusing on the quarter that ended on June 30. The numbers that follow are only for consumer purchases. NPD doesn’t track corporate/enterprise sales. This is important to keep in mind, because if you’d take those into account as [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to be launched by AT&T in the coming weeks
AT&T has had plans regarding the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 since February, but it’s only now getting ready to launch the smartphone – which, of course, is not among the newest Android devices around. According to BGR, the Xperia X10 will be available at AT&T “in the coming weeks.” Its official price is not known, but [...]
Motorola tablet for Verizon will focus on TV
It’s tablet rumor time again. And this time it’s not Samsung, LG or RIM’s Blackpad we’re talking about. It’s Motorola. And while we’ve heard of their supposed tablet efforts before, new information has surfaced. Apparently they are working on a tablet for Verizon. The USP here will be tight integration with Verizon’s FiOS digital pay-tv [...]
HTC Glacier shows up in benchmark, achieves outstanding results, will probably head to T-Mobile
A phone having the name or codename HTC Glacier has been caught in the GLbenchmark 1.1 results database. Where its performance was miles ahead of current HTC devices. The results page has since been removed, but the Glacier was almost three times better than the HTC EVO 4G in the GLbenchmark Pro ES 1.1 CPU [...]
HTC Aria not exclusive to AT&T anymore, it’s also available in Taiwan
The HTC Aria was the first Android-powered smartphone to make its way to AT&T in the USA, and it has stayed an exclusive to that network until now. HTC and FarEasTone have announced that the Aria will be available in Taiwan tomorrow. This is a midrange smartphone, and has the potential to sell very well. [...]
Motorola Sage confirmed for AT&T, will be launched with Android 2.1
First seen over the week-end, the Motorola Sage has now appeared in more photos, which confirm not only that it has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, but also that it’s coming to AT&T in the US. The QWERTY keyboard is nothing out of the ordinary, and the handset itself isn’t, either – although it does have [...]
Sharp is promising 3D smartphone by the end of the year
Sharp is reportedly planning to make a big splash in the global smartphone space later this year. Sharp is already one of the biggest phone manufacturers for the advanced Japanese market, and has recently tried to make inroads into the rest of the world by being the company that produced Microsoft’s failed Kin line of [...]
New Nokia N8 clone runs Android 2.1
It’s not the first time we’re seeing a Nokia N8 clone, but this new clone is special: it runs Android 2.1 (and I guess there are a few users out there that would have wished the real N8 to run Android, not Symbian^3). Called iZiNN CJ-3, the Nokia N8 wannabe is made in China (where [...]
Samsung Corby Touch T566 coming to Canada via Rogers
Rogers is bringing yet another Samsung Corby phone to Canada (after the Corby Pro and Corby Plus), this time naming it Samsung Corby Touch (T566). As every other Corby handset (and as the name suggests), the Corby Touch is a touchscreen device (with a 3 inch QVGA display). It doesn’t have a QWERTY keyboard, like [...]
Motorola Droid 2 seen in the wild, may launch on August 12th
The Motorola Droid 2 still hasn’t been officially unveiled, despite countless leaks over the past few months. The original Droid’s successor may finally be hitting a Verizon store near you next week, if a leaked image of what supposedly is an internal Verizon slide is to be believed. Apparently, the leftmost column features dates in [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9800 will be on Vodafone in the UK. Rogers, Bell and Telus will sell it in Canada
The just-announced BlackBerry 9800 Torch is coming to AT&T in the USA later this month. Impatient BlackBerry fans in other countries are surely asking themselves if or when RIM’s latest creation will hit their shores. While there are no hard dates yet, there is more information for those in the UK and Canada. The Torch [...]