UK: Nokia N8 available online on October 15th, in stores October 22nd
The Nokia N8 will finally become available in the UK on October 22nd. Prior to that, you will be able to order it online (but only from Nokia’s own store) starting on October 15th. This is the phone that was announced many months ago and that has started shipping on September 30th, though not to [...]
Huawei Ascend low-cost Android phone announced by Cricket
Regional US carrier Cricket has just announced its second Android phone, the Huawei Ascend. Like the Kyocera Zio (released by Cricket in August), the Ascend is a low-cost Android handset. Available starting mid-October, the handset will cost only $149.99 free of contract. The new Huawei phone runs Android 2.1 and features a 3.5 inch HVGA [...]
HP confirms Palm WebOS phones for early next year (CES 2011 launch?)
Palm hasn’t introduced a single new device since April this year, when the company was bought by HP – which now also owns WebOS. So if you’re wondering when new Palm handsets will be introduced, it looks like the answer is “early next year.” HP’s Senior Vice President Eric Cador recently said so, unfortunately without [...]
Microsoft’s futuristic Wearable Electromyography-Based Controller
While I didn’t like Minority Report as a movie per se, it’s visions of the future and various human/computer interfaces still fascinate me. Most of them will require technologies way beyond of what is available today, but getting from here to there has to start somewhere. And quite a few companies are already working on [...]
Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type, Sony Ericsson Yendo coming to T-Mobile UK
Nokia X3-02 and Sony Ericsson Yendo are both coming to T-Mobile UK this fall to complete the carrier’s line-up of new handsets (which will also include the Nokia C7, HTC Desire HD and LG Optimus One). The X3-02 Touch and Type will be available starting later this month, featuring Nokia’s new S40 Touch UI, an [...]
Motorola Spice XT300 also announced. Moto Defy going to Brazil
Motorola Spice is the sixth new Android smartphone that the company has announced at CTIA this fall, after the Motorola Droid Pro, Motorola Citrus, Motorola Bravo, Motorola Flipside and Motorola Flipout. The Spice is a vertical slider (like the now-outdated Palm Pre) with a 4-row QWERTY keyboard and a 3 inch QVGA touchscreen display. Like [...]
LG Optimus 7 E900 WP7 handset appears in press photos
Although LG has officially announced the Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 handset last month, it didn’t provide any official photos of it (the QWERTY smartphone seen in the press release talking abut the Optimus 7 was actually the GW910 Panther). Luckily, BestBoyz.de has just unveiled some press photos of the Optimus 7 E900, showing it [...]
Verizon Announces Motorola CITRUS, to be Light on Wallet
This particular handset will be overshadowed by the Droid Pro when CTIA officially begins tomorrow, no doubt. It just doesn’t have all the same bells and whistles, but the newly announced Motorola Citrus will be geared toward the entry-level Android crowd, or anyone who is looking to get into their first smartphone but wants to [...]
Droid Pro, Meet World; World, Droid Pro.
CTIA is like Christmas coming twice a year because of all the goodies that come out of the show itself. CTIA is officially opening the show floor later today but we’ve seen plenty of pre-conference meetings and announcements showing up already. This one is the Droid Pro, which looks absolutely nothing like any of the [...]
Samsung Omnia 7 i8700 caught on video, Windows Phone 7 obviously included
It looks like the Samsung Omnia 7 is, indeed, the same device as the i8700 (appeared on the Web more than once until now). The smartphone stars in a newly-leaked video, which shows its Windows Phone 7 UI (in Italian) and the Omnia 7 label at some point. It looks like Samsung, like HTC, is [...]
GetJar starts giving premium mobile games away for free
GetJar, the world’s second biggest mobile app store, have just announced that they will be giving certain premium mobile games away for free. The games are developed by Glu Mobile and will be available across several mobile platforms including Android, BlackBerry and Java (GetJar caters to all major mobile platforms). This is a pilot program [...]
Motorola Defy to be launched on October 21 in Europe?
Motorola Defy, the company’s second rugged Android smartphone, was officially unveiled in early September. At that time, it was only mentioned that the handset would be available in the fourth quarter of the year, so no exact launch date was given. Well, the launch date (in France, at least) might be October 21. MobiFrance discovered [...]
Sprint Samsung Transform comes with stock Android 2.2
Last week when we first heard of the Samsung Transform that’s headed to Sprint, it appeared to be a keyboardless Galaxy S. Well, apparently it isn’t keyboardless, and it doesn’t have Galaxy S branding. That much is clear from today’s leak of this device’s manual. The Samsung Transform has the same form-factor as the Epic [...]
Ballmer confirms Windows 7 tablet, it may come from Acer
The tablet space (re)invented by Apple’s iPad is heating up. For months after the iPad’s release and great sales success we’ve heard that many competitors will start showing up sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. But while the Samsung Galaxy Tab was already unveiled and is expected to ship soon, RIM’s PlayBook and [...]
Australia’s Telstra launching T-Touch Android tablet in November (is this the Huawei S7?)
If Telstra’s commitment to Android wasn’t obvious yet, here’s an official confirmation that the carrier intends to launch its own Android-based tablet as soon as November (to compete with Optus’ Dell Streak and the Samsung Galaxy Tab). Called Telstra T-Touch Tab, the device is a mystery for now, although we can see a bit of [...]
Android becomes No.1 in the US
Nielsen have released some more proof of Android’s unstoppable growth. According to Nielsen’s August data, Android is now the No.1 smartphone operating system in the US among people who’ve bought a smartphone in the past six months. This data covers a full month of iPhone 4 availability, which obviously includes the record sales right after [...]
Nokia C3 available on PAYG at AT&T. T-Mobile’s Nuron soon on pre-pay, too
Already available at Nokia USA’s online shop, the Nokia C3 has also been released on Pay As You Go by AT&T (which, by the way, has just announced three new Motorola Android handsets). The AT&T Nokia C3 costs $79.99 on PAYG, and, apparently, it’s only available in Wal-Mart stores (for now, at least). $79.99 is [...]
Skype is now available for Android 2.1 and 2.2
Skype for Android is no longer limited to a few phones on Verizon – or a Lite version. The full Skype experience is now available for those who have smartphones that run Android 2.1 and 2.2. The application allows you to IM, make free calls to other Skype users or call phone numbers via Skype’s [...]
AT&T goes Android crazy, intros Motorola Bravo, Flipside and Flipout. No love for Froyo though
Well, what do you know, AT&T didn’t kill off the Motorola Flipout after all. Even more, it has just announced two other Moto Android smartphones: the Motorola Bravo and the Motorola Flipside. Before you get too excited, we need to tell you that all three devices will be launched with MotoBlur and Android 2.1 on-board [...]
Nokia C7, C6-01 and X3-02 Touch and Type launch dates for India revealed
If you’re in India, wondering when Nokia will launch two of its its newest Symbian^3 smartphones (the C7 and the C6-01) there, we’ve got answers for you. According to Nokia India, the Nokia C7 will be available before the end of this month (October), while the Nokia C6-01 should be out by mid-December. No word [...]