Rumor: HTC HD3, new HTC Desire (HD?), HTC Android tablet to be announced on September 15
HTC has scheduled an event for September 15 in London, where it might unveil no less than three new devices. According to Smartphone House, the Taiwanese company will announce “a new HD3 Windows Phone 7” – which should, of course, come as the successor of the HTC HD2. Last week, we’ve heard that the successor [...]
BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 will hit Verizon soon
The GSM (9300) version of the BlackBerry Curve 3G is already available in Canada and the UK, and will also be sold in Australia and Malaysia shortly. Stateside, the version for T-Mobile will hit the shops on Wednesday, September 8th, for $79.99 with a new 2-year contract. And of course, we do expect it to [...]
O2 UK releases, then pulls Froyo update for HTC Desire
Unlocked and unbranded HTC Desire smartphones have started to receive the much-awaited update to Google’s latest mobile OS version, Android 2.2 Froyo, about a month ago. Vodafone’s roll-out of Froyo for their branded HTC Desire devices started a couple of weeks ago. O2, however, only decided to send the Android 2.2 bits to their customers’ [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 2 gets custom ROM, Droid X Froyo upgrade delayed
Now don’t get your hopes up too high. That pesky Motorola Droid 2 bootloader is still untouchable, but one resourceful developer has released a custom ROM nevertheless. As with previously seen news about a custom ROM for the Droid X, this may not exactly meet the purists’ definition of a custom ROM. Because of that [...]
Verizon’s upcoming HTC world phone shows up at FCC
A few weeks ago we reported on a leak of an upcoming beast of an HTC smartphone coming to Verizon. Surprisingly this one, unlike almost all other leaked HTC devices over the years, didn’t sport a codename of any sort. Well, it still doesn’t, but it has just hit the FCC. The impossibly named (for [...]
Samsung wants to sell 10 million Galaxy Tabs. Vodafone UK confirms it’s launching the tablet
Samsung product executive Hankil Yoon has recently declared that the company hopes to sell 10 million Galaxy Tab Android tablets (worldwide). This comes not long after Sammy said it expects to ship the same amount of Galaxy S smartphones. Mr. Yoon also declared to The Wall Street Journal that the Galaxy Tab “would likely retail [...]
Nokia will officially unveil the E7 next week during Nokia World
September is for Nokia what June is for Apple. The month when their most important event takes place. In Nokia’s case, this is Nokia World, and it will happen next week, on September 14th and 15th in London. It is there that Nokia’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will have a keynote speech on the morning of [...]
Nokia N8 available around September 30 in Europe?
Less than a week ago, we’ve heard that the Nokia N8 would be launched on September 23 in the UK, where the Symbian^3 smartphone should be exclusively available at Nokia’s online store for the first week. Now Finnish website Kauppalehti reports that, according to Tapani Kaskinen (Senior Communications Manager at Nokia), customers who’ve pre-ordered the [...]
LG Optimus 7 (E900) with Windows Phone 7 now official
LG has just pre-announced its first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the LG Optimus 7 (also known as LG E900). The Optimus 7 will come with a DLNA-based multimedia sharing feature that lets users send multimedia files (720p HD videos, music, photos) to compatible Wi-Fi devices (including TVs and home theater systems), “directly from the phone’s [...]
Sprint Samsung Epic 4G fails to break HTC EVO 4G’s first day sales record
Sprint may have opened their stores early for the launch of the Samsung Epic 4G, but that didn’t help it break the HTC Evo 4G’s first day sales record. Sprint have a press release out claiming that the Epic 4G had “One of the Best First-Day Sales for Any Sprint Device”. As in, not the [...]
Verizon Samsung Gem seen in Best Buy guide
There’s another Samsung Android-powered smartphone headed to Verizon apart from the Fascinate. We’ve seen the Samsung Gem in the wild before, and now its existence (and perhaps imminent release) has been confirmed by the September edition of Best Buy buyers’ guide. This may indicate that, like the Fascinate, the Gem may be released later this [...]
Verizon Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) gets priced, extended battery, TV ad
Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate is now officially the last to launch of the Galaxy S versions tailor-made for the big four carriers in the US. And while a release date or price still haven’t been discussed by Big Red, there have been countless leaks involving details about this handset. After these, the date that the Fascinate [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab rooted, priced, may be headed to Sprint in the US
As you probably know by now, the Samsung Galaxy Tab was only officially unveiled yesterday. And very important details such as pricing and exact release dates were left out of that announcement. We know it’s supposed to come “to Europe” (whatever that means) in mid-September, and that’s about it. In the mean time, mobile operator [...]
BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 is now available from Three UK
Three UK have just started selling the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300. So far, we’ve only seen this phone launch in Canada, on Rogers, Bell and Virgin, and now it seems to have made its way across the pond. This is basically a Curve 8520 with 3G support. This is not at the high end of [...]
LG Optimus Chic shows up in the wild again, this time joined by the Optimus One
LG’s hard at work delivering on their smartphone-related promises. They’ve already sort of announced two upcoming Android devices (without actually revealing any specs, the price or release date – way to go LG!), the Optimus One and Optimus Chic. The latter has even been spotted in the wild before. And now it has showed up [...]
iOS App Review: Air Display Becomes Your Extra Computer Monitor
Apple developers have discovered a need to become more and more innovative in designing apps for iOS as time goes by. It seems as though most of the good ideas are taken, and if they haven’t been taken already it’s because Apple rejected those ideas. Avatron is one of the latest developers to demonstrate a [...]
Verizon introduces prepaid data packages for Droid Incredible, Droid X, Droid 2 and other smartphones
Verizon has announced that it will start offering prepaid 3G data packages. These will be available today in Verizon Wireless Communications Store and online from September 28th. There are two plans, one of which is only meant for ‘multimedia phones’. This costs $10 per month and gets you 25 MB of traffic. Any additional traffic [...]
Verizon Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) arrives in stores
Tired of all the leaks surrounding the Samsung Fascinate, Verizon’s Galaxy S? Hang in there just a bit longer. The phone is currently on pre-order at Best Buy, and it was rumored to launch on September 9th. That seems very plausible, as today a Verizon insider leaked the information that Verizon stores are beginning to [...]
Sprint Epic 4G- Samsung Galaxy S (Pro) Review
Here we are, finding ourselves in part three of our four-part (we assume) series of Samsung Galaxy S phones. Each carrier in the US is coming out with its own flavor, and UnwiredView has been given the wonderful opportunity to scoop each one and give you the lowdown on what’s great, not so great, and [...]
Huawei Ideos officially announced. Live pics, promo video
As was previously rumored, Huawei have just officially unveiled the Ideos, their first smartphone to come with Android 2.2 preinstalled. Some live pics of the device are already available, along with an official promotional video. The Ideos is not a high end device by any stretch of the imagination, but aims to cater to the low [...]