Dell Thunder Android handset shows up in video
I am not sure what Dell was thinking with it’s 5”, old Android running Dell Streak, but as their second try at Android smartphone, it looks rather odd and hopeless. Dell’s underpowered Dell Aero/Mini 3 first Android smartphone also wasn’t a raging success. But Dell’s third time looks like a charm. It has finally come up with [...]
Palm is working on a palmtop with detachable cellphone
This winter/fall Palm has been in some dire straights. With hugely disappointing Palm Pre sales, dwindling cash reserves and knowledge that company won’t be able to survive on it’s own. Still, Palm R&D department hasn’t been sitting on it’s hands even during the tough times. And they’ve come up with some interesting ideas of how to improve [...]
Sony Ericsson is working on Android 3.0 PSP phone
The Sony Ericsson PSP phone is probably the only mobile product in history to have been rumored for a longer period of time than the Apple iPad. That’s no small feat to accomplish. And while the PSP phone of 2007 is clearly a dead project, the rumors have started again. This time, there are many [...]
Motorola Droid X custom recovery image booted, custom ROMs on the way
Well, well, well. Motorola may try to do whatever it takes to prevent you from loading custom ROMs on their latest and greatest Android devices such as the Droid X, but no matter what they do, a hacker will find a way, it seems. The Motorola Droid X and the upcoming Droid 2 have locked [...]
Sprint does Samsung Epic 4G vs. HTC Evo 4G video comparison
Sprint is gearing up to launch the Samsung Epic 4G, their version of the Galaxy S, which, unlike any of its brethren, sports a side-sliding full QWERTY keyboard. An exact release date is still anyone’s guess, with the most recent rumors pointing towards August 21st. In the mean time, Sprint have released a promo video [...]
T-Mobile Project Emerald: HTC Desire HD to be sold as MyTouch HD and HTC Vision as G1 Blaze?
We’ve heard a little bit about T-Mobile’s elusive Project Emerald before. Details were scarce back then, but today we may have more information. It looks like it definitely won’t be a reboot of the Sidekick brand, but it is connected to the previously rumored HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z, also known by their codenames HTC [...]
Leaked Nokia X3-02 goes to China
You may have heard of the Nokia X3 before, which is a music-focused midrange slider running S40 (Nokia’s featurephone OS). You may even have heard about the candybar CDMA Nokia X3 that was headed to China. However, you probably haven’t seen or heard of the X3-02 until now. This is a candybar device and looks like [...]
Sprint HTC EVO 4G: Froyo update going out, Android 2.2 source code released
There were quite a few rumors spreading around about the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the HTC EVO 4G for Sprint and when it might go out, until Sprint decided to officially announce it on July 30th. The update has been rolling out just fine, however there were a batch of owners (mostly power users) [...]
Vodafone runs out of free data PAYG iPhone 4s
Wow. Apparently, people love free data. Just yesterday we reported that Vodafone have started selling pay as you go iPhone 4s with a very tempting offer for those who bought them: free data for a year with no minimum top-ups required. And people liked the offer so much, that there’s no iPhone 4 to be [...]
AT&T Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) overclocked to 1.2 GHz
The 1 GHz ‘Hummingbird’ processor inside all the Galaxy S versions is a pretty good mobile processor, if not the best out there at this time. This goes for AT&T’s Samsung Captivate too, naturally. If you have the Captivate and somehow think that 1 GHz simply isn’t enough for you, there’s now a way to [...]
Motorola Ming A1680 with Android gets official
Motorola’s first Android phone from the Ming series is not the MT820 (seen back in April), but the A1680, which has recently appeared at Motorola’s developer site. Like other Ming phones, the Motorola A1680 is a clamshell with a transparent flip. It features a 3.1 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, 3G, WAPI and Wi-Fi, GPS, [...]
LG projector phone with remote touch operation
Mobile phones with pico-projectors are still a bit of a novelty. Yes, we do have a few of them, like LG Expo or Samsung Beam , but they certainly are not mainstream yet. But the company which was one of the first to get a projector equipped phone on the market- LG- is already thinking [...]
Cricket MSGM8 II launched, Kyocera Rio E3100 coming soon
US-based mobile carrier Cricket has launched a new messaging phone dubbed Cricket MSGM8 II. The MSGM8 II is a candybar with a full QWERTY keypad and a 220 x 176 pixels landscape display. It also features “one touch Web access via MyHomeScreen”, voice recognition, Bluetooth, microUSB, and a 1.3MP camera. You can buy the Cricket [...]
LG streamlines its portfolio, boosts smartphone target to 6 million, 70% of them Android-powered
LG’s mobile division hasn’t been doing well lately. They lost money in Q2 and have almost no visible smartphones on the market. That may all change in the coming months though. A senior LG executive who wishes to remain anonymous said earlier today that their target for 2010 is to sell 6 million smartphones. LG [...]
Twitter upgrades SMS functionality: Fast Follow, alerts and more
Before it was the world-famous social network that it is today, Twitter started out as a service based solely on SMS. Those roots still show in the 140 character limit per message (the character limit for one SMS is 160 characters and Twitter needed some space for the intended username of a reply or direct [...]
HTC Wildfire is Telstra’s first pre-paid Android phone
We knew that the HTC Wildfire was coming to Australia, and now Telstra has made it official: the Android smartphone will be available to Australian customers starting August 24, in two color versions: “pure white” and “phantom black”. Telstra will offer the Wildfire to both post and pre-paid users, thus making it its first Android [...]
Leaked manual shows that the Nokia 5250 might be the cheapest Symbian^1 device yet
You gotta hand it to Nokia. They may not be at the top of everyone’s high-end wishlist right now, but they sure know how to produce cheap, mass-market touchscreen phones. It all started with the 5800, which brought a solid feature set alongside a touchscreen to the midrange. Then the 5530 and, most notably, the [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 edition will be previewed this week at Star Wars Celebration V
Now that the Motorola Droid 2 has finally been officially announced, you would expect the leaks surrounding this device to stop. Well, no. A while back we brought you news of a possilbe R2-D2 edition of the Droid 2, and that was confirmed during its launch event. However, when exactly this version will be available [...]
AT&T Dell Streak preorders start on Thursday, availability on Friday
Well it wasn’t “late July” after all. Dell have officially announced that preorders for the Streak for AT&T will start this Thursday. Dell’s Android-powered smartphone or tablet (depending on how you want to look at it) will be available on Friday. Pricing is as we previously reported: $299 with an AT&T contract, or $549 without. [...]
Vodafone PAYG iPhone 4 to come with 12 months of free data
Vodafone have announced their pay as you go pricing for the iPhone 4. Buying an iPhone 4 on PAYG from the big red will set you back £480 for the 16 GB model and £570 for the 32 GB model. These prices are lower than what you get if you want to buy SIM free [...]