LG Town GT350 coming to Orange UK
Already available via O2 in the UK, the LG Town GT350 will also be launched by Orange sometime soon. The Town GT350 will be on sale at Orange UK only on Pay As You Go, for a price that has not been disclosed yet. Focused on social networking services, the LG Town GT350 features a [...]
Nokia intros Mobile TV (DVB-H) headset for Symbian^3 smartphones
Nokia has just announced the Mobile TV Headset (its first of this kind, as far as I know), which receives DVB-H signal in order to “turn your mobile device into a portable television” without needing an Internet connection. Of course, DBV-H is not available everywhere, but there is coverage in countries like the Netherlands, Russia, [...]
Apple selects Qualcomm baseband chip for iPhone 5, ditches Infineon/Intel?
Rumors indicate that Apple has already begun designing the next-generation iPhone, which I’ll call iPhone 5 from here on. This, of course, makes sense, as the average time from the start of the design process to market in the mobile phone business is 18 months. So even if Apple work faster, they still would need [...]
Qualcomm confirms 1.5 GHz CPU for next year
Qualcomm’s CEO, Paul Jacobs, has confirmed today that the company is working on a 1.5 GHz mobile processor that will power the smartphones and tablets of tomorrow. The chip will be commercially available in the first quarter of 2011. A 1.2 GHz version of the processor is also expected to show up in next year’s [...]
AT&T exec surprised by slow BlackBerry Torch 9800 sales
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 was supposed to be RIM’s great new entry into the high end smartphone space. With a capacitive touchscreen (a first for the Canadian company) and that trademark BlackBerry keyboard, hidden under a sliding mechanism, surely RIM thought this would be an instant hit with consumers. However, it turns out it wasn’t. [...]
Rogers’ Samsung Captivate Galaxy S to be available for pre-order soon
Although it’s been more than a month since Rogers announced that it would bring the Samsung Captivate to Canada, the carrier has not launched the smartphone yet. Even more, it’s still not clear when it will launch it. However, Rogers says that customers will be able to pre-order the Captivate “soon”, so it shouldn’t be [...]
Antennagate reportedly cost Apple about 13% of iPhone 4 sales. Verizon iPhone wanted by many users
iPhone 4’s well-known antenna issues may have negatively impacted sales more than Apple would have wished. Piper Jaffray has recently published a survey that deals with this matter. Of the 258 cell phone users interviewed (in Minneapolis, US), 177 were aware of the iPhone 4’s antenna problems. 35 (or about 20%) of those aware of [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9800 coming to O2 UK this fall?
It looks like Vodafone is not the only British mobile carrier that readies the launch of RIM’s BlackBerry Torch 9800. According to a leaked screenshot posted at iBenRowe, O2 UK will also sell the Torch, sometime in early October (a possible delivery date being October 4). No word on pricing at this moment. Vodafone will [...]
Verizon Samsung Fascinate Galaxy S launched, BOGO deal included
Available online at Verizon as of today, the Samsung Fascinate Galaxy S comes with a surprise: it’s been included in a Buy One Get One offer. This means that anyone who buys the Fascinate with a new 2-yr Verizon agreement will get another Fascinate for free (although this also requires a 2-yr agreement). As already [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab to be launched in India in October?
Expected to hit European shelves in mid-September, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will also be launched in Asia. In India, for example, the Galaxy Tab might be available as soon as October. According to NDTV, the tablet should cost between 30,000 and 40,000 INR ($642 – $857). The Galaxy Tab is Samsung’s first Android [...]
Samsung Galaxy S to launch with 3 operators in China
Samsung’s Galaxy S range of high-end Android smartphones just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Perhaps Samsung are trying to deliver on that ancient rumor that the Galaxy S will be available in 110 countries worldwide. The strategy of having a Galaxy S available for any carrier that wants one is certainly paying off. In the [...]
Nokia N8 price and shipping date confirmed for the UK (coming in late September)
Nokia has finally confirmed that it’s going to launch the N8 in the UK at the end of September – more exactly, in the last week of the month. The company has also announced the price of the Nokia N8 for the UK. Unlocked, the new Symbian^3 smartphone costs £429 (about €520 or $660) – [...]
WebOS 2.0 screenshots leak
We already know that WebOS 2.0 is coming this year. None other than former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein reportedly said so himself. So as we prepare to enter the last quarter of this year, it’s normal for us to expect that HP are hard at work preparing WebOS 2.0 for release. Also, we’ve come to [...]
IDC raises 2010 smartphone shipment forecast to 270 million
Smartphones, smartphones, smartphones. Or “converged mobile devices”, to quote analysts. That’s where it’s at in the mobile industry, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that people love smartphones. Or at least they’re buying more and more each day. In the first half of this year, 119.4 million smartphones [...]
No MeeGo Nokia N9 at Nokia World?
Just yesterday, while writing about the rumored unveiling of the Nokia E7 next week at Nokia World, I also mentioned that I expect to see the N9 officially announced there as well. It was logical. Nokia have said in the past that they are going to introduce their first MeeGo-powered smartphone during 2010, and judging [...]
BlackBerry Style 9670 clamshell appears in new videos
RIM’s upcoming clamshell smartphone, the 9670, will not be called BlackBerry Oxford, as previously believed, but BlackBerry Style. That’s what CrackBerry says – and given the website’s good reputation, I think this (Style) will be the device’s final and official name. We’ve seen the BlackBerry Oxford Style 9670 quite many times until now, but it’s [...]
Motorola Milestone 2 and Defy in live photos. Both are coming to Vodafone
Motorola’s newest Android smartphones made for Europe, the Milestone 2 and the rugged Defy, have been showcased at IFA Berlin at Vodafone’s stand – which means the carrier will launch both device. The Milestone 2 is, as you should already know, the GSM version of Verizon’s Motorola Droid 2. It runs Android 2.2 Froyo, but, [...]
Why the heck is RIM trying to patent improvements to roadside billboards?
When I skim through various patent applications, looking for interesting stuff to write about, I usually expect to see those patent applications to be at least in some remote way connected to the company business. After all, the time of the researcher in your R&D lab is pretty expensive, and the whole patent filing thingie [...]
Verizon Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) available online tomorrow, in shops Thursday – now official
Verizon has officially confirmed that the Samsung Fascinate would be available online starting tomorrow, September 8. Verizon’s retail stores will also offer the Fascinate, but only starting September 9 (Thursday). As expected, the Fascinate costs $199.99 (with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate). Like all Galaxy S smartphones, Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate [...]
Samsung Orion dual-core CPU announced. LG goes dual-core, too, with Nvidia Tegra 2 processors
Today, Samsung has announced its first dual-core application processor, the Samsung Orion. Clocked at 1GHz, the dual-core CPU is ARM CORTEX A9-based and was designed for smartphones, tablets and netbooks. The new processor obviously supports data intensive multimedia applications, like high speed 3D action games, and full HD video playback/recording. It also includes an enhanced [...]