Nokia’s Chairman, Jorma Ollila, may also step down. In 2012
Nokia’s top level changes just keep going on and on. First there was the announced firing of CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, whose replacement is going to be Stephen Elop, formerly head of Microsoft’s Business Division. Then Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s head of Mobile Solutions, chose to resign, a decision that was publicized just this morning. And now [...]
Motorola Defy with Android officially headed to T-Mobile USA
Motorola has just announced that the Moto Defy is coming to T-Mobile USA, so it’s not made for Europe only, as previously thought. The Defy will be presented in the US later today during the 25th season premiere of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. It will be on sale at T-Mobile in time for the holiday [...]
T-Mobile myTouch HD features leaked, Froyo and video chat included?
Expected to be launched on November 3, the T-Mobile myTouch HD will be T-Mo’s third HTC-made Android smartphone introduced this year, after the myTouch 3G slide and the recently-announced G2. TmoNews claims to have a document that unveils some of the myTouch HD’s features. Reportedly, the myTouch HD will run Android 2.2 Froyo (no surprise [...]
Nokia’s doing OK in smartphones. It’s superphones, where Apple and Google Android is winning
Ever since Apple, and later Google started the smartphone revolution we are in the middle of right now, one thing has been bugging me. It’s the way the smartphone market trends are tracked, described and discussed. You know the drill – mobile upstart (iOS and Android) camps crowing how they have already won the smartphone [...]
Nokia’s head of Mobile Solutions (Anssi Vanjoki) resigns
Three days after Nokia announced it has replaced CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with ex-Microsoft man Stephen Elop, the Finnish giant has unveiled that it’s changing its head of Mobile Solutions, too. Anssi Vanjoki took over Nokia’s Mobile Solutions back in May, saying this was “one of the most exciting jobs in the business”, and promising to [...]
Full Version of Angry Birds for Android Out in 2-3 Weeks
Perhaps you have heard of a small game called Angry Birds. It’s only the craze that’s sweeping the iOS and Android world like none other before. While the full version of the game has been available through iOS for several months now, the free beta version for Android was only released a mere two weeks [...]
Gartner: Android will be #2 OS this year, will rule the world with Symbian by 2014
Analysts tend to agree that Android will move past BlackBerry OS and become the world’s second smartphone operating system. Canalys hinted to it, IDC outright said it, and now Gartner confirms it. It is, however, just stating the obvious. With the tremendous growth that Android has seen in the past year, and only about one [...]
Verizon Samsung Fascinate known issues document leaks
Verizon’s version of the almighty Samsung Galaxy S, the Fascinate, has only been available in stores for one day and online for two. Yet some bad news for Fascinate owners (or prospective buyers) has already surfaced, in the form of an internal Verizon document that lists all the current known issues. Bugs, for you and [...]
Acer Liquid Metal Android Froyo smartphone coming soon?
Acer is getting ready to launch a new Android smartphone from its Liquid series, namely the Acer Liquid Metal. There are no official details about it at the moment, but the Liquid Metal has appeared over at a Russian website, alongside some of its features. Reportedly, the smartphone runs Android 2.2 Froyo and uses a [...]
Dual SIM Motorola EX115 and EX128 to hit Europe in October
European retailer Germanos will launch two new dual SIM Motorola phones in October: Motorola EX115 and Motorola EX128. Both handsets are unannounced, and they’re the first dual SIM Motorola devices to be available in Europe. Germanos Romania says that the EX128 and EX115 will be launched on October 18. Customers can already pre-order the two [...]
Nokia fires CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, hires ex-Microsoft president Stephen Elop instead
Nokia has started looking for a new CEO since July, and now the company has finally found one. The really interesting part about this is that the new CEO is not from Finland, and not even from Europe. He’s Stephen Elop, a Canadian-born computer engineer who, until now, was President of Microsoft’s Business Division. As [...]
T-Mobile G2 available at Best Buy starting October 6 for $200, pre-orders start today
Yesterday, when T-Moible USA officially announced the HTC-made G2, it didn’t say when customers will be able to buy the new smartphone. Luckily, Best Buy has unveiled the date when the G2 will be available (in its stores at least): October 6. Starting today (September 10), users can even pre-order the T-Moible G2 at Best [...]
Apple relaxes app development guidelines
In a surprise move, Apple have decided to relax iOS app development guidelines. A while ago, they forced every would-be iOS app developer to use only Apple’s own development tools, basically excluding many cross-platform development kits from ever being used to develop apps for the iDevices. At that time, there was some outrage from developers, [...]
First pictures of the Samsung GT-i8700 WP7 phone leak
Windows Phone 7 is coming. Microsoft has released the code to device manufacturers, and the latest rumor has it that the official launch event will take place on October 11th in New York, with the first devices becoming available later in October. One of those devices will surely be the i917 Cetus from Samsung. This [...]
Acer founder compares iPhone and iPad to mutant viruses and promises immunity from them soon
Acer’s founder, Stan Shih, has made a few statements regarding Apple yesterday. He noted that Apple’s popularity is mainly due to products such as the iPad and iPhone (while perhaps forgetting about the iPod), and that these Apple devices are like mutant viruses. Difficult to find a ‘cure’ for in the short term, but in [...]
ARM unveils Cortex-A15 MPCore architecture, 2.5 GHz mobile processors coming soon
It looks like it may be processor news week. After news about Qualcomm’s upcoming 1.5 GHz beast, today ARM, the company that designs pretty much all the application processors found in phones, smartphones and tablets, have announced their next-gen design. Previously known by its codename, “Eagle”, this processor architecture now has an official name: Cortex [...]
Verizon Samsung Fascinate unboxing
When Samsung puts out four iterations of virtually the same exact phone over the course of two months, it’s rather mundane to rehash all the same stuff. We all know that the Samsung Galaxy S line all keeps the same specs and very similar designs, so what can I do to make things a little [...]
Android in Canada: LG Shine Plus (Ally) available at Telus, Samsung Galaxy Apollo coming soon
Telus has launched a new Android smartphone in Canada, and it’s getting ready to introduce yet another one soon. The smartphone that’s been launched is the LG Shine Plus (available in the US via Verizon as LG Ally). The Shine Plus seems to run Android 2.1 and features a 3.2 inch WVGA touchscreen display, full [...]
HTC T-Mobile G2 officially announced, pre-orders will start this month
T-Mobile USA has finally made the HTC G2 official, announcing that the smartphone would be available for pre-order later this month (September). The G2 is T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ smartphone and is the true successor of the legendary G1 – the world’s first Android handset. The new smartphone features: 3.7 inch WVGA multi-touch display, Android 2.2 [...]
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 to be launched on October 11 in New York?
Recently released to device manufactures, Windows Phone 7 might be officially launched on October 11, during an even held in New York. Pocket-lint has it that trustable and “multiple sources” have confirmed this, as well as the fact that WP7 devices would be on sale later in October. We’ve previously heard that Windows Phone 7 [...]