LG to bank heavily on Windows Phone 7, says WP7 will outperform Android
LG wants to be a big player in the smartphone market, but it seems to me that the company has quite confusing plans about how to accomplish that. In early 2009, the South Koreans said they would introduce about 20 Windows Mobile smartphones that year. They didn’t. They only released a few WM devices, like [...]
Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type announced: the first S40 touchscreen phone (video)
Nokia has just announced the X3-02 Touch and Type – one of the most interesting S40 phones ever, because it’s the first to have a fully functional touchscreen display (2.4 inch, QVGA). It also has a standard alphanumeric keypad, and that makes it even more interesting. Sure enough, the idea isn’t new: Nokia has made [...]
Motorola’s Android tablet for Verizon called Stingray?
We’ve heard about Motorola’s upcoming Android tablet for Verizon more than once, and yet one detail has remained hidden until now: the tablet’s name. If we’re to believe this latest rumor showed up at Droid-life, Moto’s first Android tablet could be called Stingray. That’s a good name, I guess. After all, stingrays are really flat [...]
Nokia N8 on pre-order in the US: $549, coming in late September
Android, BlackBerry, iPhone – they rule the US smartphone market. But that won’t stop Nokia to launch the N8 (its first Symbian^3 smartphone) Stateside. The launch is scheduled for late September, but you can already pre-order the N8 at Nokia USA’s official website. The full retail price of Nokia N8 ($549) is comparable to the [...]
Verizon HTC Droid Incredible to get Android 2.2 Froyo on Wednesday
It’s Froyo update season, remember? And this time, news comes about the upgrade to the latest and greatest Android version for the oft-delayed HTC Droid Incredible for Verizon. While the Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 may have gotten more publicity lately, this is still one very capable smartphone and HTC’s flagship on Verizon right [...]
Motorola Droid Pro, Droid 2 World Edition, MZ600 Tablet found in Verizon databases
Last week we got the first glimpses into Verizon’s roadmap for the following months, and plenty of Android handsets (and tablets) were included in those leaks. Now we get some follow up details about some of those, thanks to a leak from internal Verizon systems. The Motorola Droid Pro, previously rumored to have a 1.3 [...]
Samsung i909 (Galaxy S) GSM/CDMA Android smartphone shows up
The Samsung i909 is a new member of the successful Galaxy S family and it’s the only one that has both GSM and CDMA/EV-DO connectivity. Now, before thinking this would make a great world phone for Verizon or Sprint, you should know that the i909 is destined for China Telecom (which also has a CDMA [...]
Capacitive touchscreens to take 50% of touchphone market
It’s only been what, three years, since Apple unveiled the original iPhone and changed everyone’s perception of how easy to use a touchscreen can be? That all happened thanks to capacitive touchscreen technology. Touchscreens had been around for ages before the iPhone, but the most used type were resistive touchscreens. These are more accurate, but [...]
Dell Streak could be updated directly to Android 2.2 Froyo in the US
Already available via AT&T since last Friday, the Dell Streak is a unique device for the US market. However, the fact that it was launched with Android 1.6 is far from great. Of course, an update to a newer version of Android will be released sometime soon – and it looks like it won’t be [...]
T-Mobile Vibrant (Samsung Galaxy S) review. T-Mo Vibrant vs AT&T Captivate
When it comes to the background of the Samsung Galaxy S series of phones, I’ve already had the opportunity to fill you in on the details in my Samsung Captivate review posted a couple weeks ago. The Captivate is AT&T’s member of the Galaxy S family, but there are 3 more in the series that [...]
Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Wave, SE Xperia X10 Mini and Apple iPad win EISA awards
The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) has announced the winners of its Mobile Device Awards for 2010-2011, and I think this is the first time when there are no feature phones awarded. Samsung has nailed two awards with its Galaxy S and Wave S8500 smartphones. The Android-based Galaxy S has been named the European [...]
HTC Mozart (Schubert) with Windows Phone 7 in the wild
HTC Mozart is, alongside the HTC Mondrian, one of the smartphones that’s been confirmed by HTC to run Windows Phone 7. Surprisingly or not, the Mozart has appeared in some leaked photos at the end of last week, and in even more photos today. What’s odd is that it looks exactly like the HTC Schubert [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab(let) to be launched by Vodafone UK
Expected to be announced in early September (thus in less than a month from now), Samsung’s first Android tablet will surely be sold via some mobile operators around the world. One of them seems to be Vodafone UK, which, according to Engadget, has a “Samsung Galaxy Tablet” in its systems. Since the 7-inch tablet features [...]
Unannounced LG Town C300 unveiled by Orange UK
LG has a new QWERTY phone that’s ready to be launched in the UK: the LG Town C300 (this is the second LG Town phone we’re seeing). Although it’s not officially announced, the LG C300 has showed up at Orange UK, where it will be available soon, only on Pay As You Go. Like the [...]
BlackBerry 9670 Oxford simulator now available
The BlackBerry 9670 (seen several times until now) is still not official, but if you want to find out more about it you can check out the smartphone’s simulator. BBLeaks has gathered lots of links from where you can download the BlackBerry 9670 simulator, while CrackBerry has it that the handset is also called BlackBerry [...]
Great reader comments (GRC): Motoblur, HTC Sense, and the death of custom Android skins
Damn. We, here, at UV work our behinds off trying to bring you news and occasional op-eds. We do what we can, our best. And we are ready to discuss and correct stuff in comments, as we are able to. Sometimes, movin on, on a plenty news day, takes preference. But, sometimes, among that comment [...]
Rant: Google press event – Voice Actions for Android, Chrome to phone and a big…YAWN!
C’mon Google! WTF! You send us invites for a product launch, keep us in suspense for two days, hold a major press event to announce this?! Voice actions for Android and Chrome to Phone extension? Really? Oh well. I’ll interrupt this rant to write a bit about this stuff. But I’m a bit peeved, so I’ll [...]
Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G to come on August 31st, for $249. Pre-orders start now
Ever since Sprint announced Samsung Epic 4G handset back in June, people have been itching to know when it will become available for real, and at what price. Especially those who can not live without a full QWERTY keyboard on their smartphone. Until this week, Sprint Epic 4G was the only top of the line Android [...]
N92 – CDMA iPhone 4 headed to Verizon this January?
It’s time for another Verizon/CDMA iPhone rumor round. As I promised you earlier, this particular rumor fest will only get louder this fall. It’s because this time, contrary to the wishful thinking of prior years, the release of AT&T free iPhone by early next year seems imminent. Today the confirmation of CDMA iPhone news bit [...]
Gresso Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot. A phone for a cool $1 million
Here’s another phone that you will never buy. Why? Because you won’t ever be able to afford it. This phone comes from a traditional purveyor of a luxury handsets – Gresso, and is called Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot. And this time it costs a cool $1 million. So what’s so special about Gresso Luxor Las Vegas [...]