Coming soon to Three UK: HTC Desire HD and Samsung Galaxy Europa
One of the most eagerly anticipated Android smartphones, the HTC Desire HD, will be sold by Three in the UK as well as Vodafone and T-Mobile. The Android-powered superphone can be ordered now from Three, with deliveries expected to begin on October 29. That date is clearly due to the delays the HD has seen [...]
Rogers will finally start selling the Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) on October 25
Rogers first announced that it would bring the Samsung Captivate (a Galaxy S phone) to Canada more than two months ago, back in August. However, it still isn’t available. And now we know why. Rogers today published an explanation of the delays surrounding the Captivate, and it looks like things are, yet again, related to [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9800 now available in Australia on Optus
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 has been officially launched in Australia today by Optus. As of now, it’s only available for small and medium business customers, and it’s free on a $79/month 2-year contract. There’s no information yet as to when the Torch will be available for other customers. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 has been available [...]
Verizon Samsung Continuum Galaxy S caught on video
The unannounced Samsung Continuum Android smartphone (which could be launched by Verizon on October 29), has been caught on video recently by the folks over at Android Central. As you may already know, the Galaxy S-branded handset has two displays: a large, regular one (which seems to be Super AMOLED), and a smaller one just [...]
Nokia sold more smartphones than ever in Q3 2010; plans to “unify environments for Symbian and MeeGo” and cut 1,800 jobs
Nokia has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2010. The Finnish giant reported net sales of €10.3 billion (a 5% increase compared to Q3 2009, and a 3% increase compared to Q2 2010). 110.4 million Nokia handsets were sold during the quarter. 26.5 million of those are converged mobile device (aka smartphones [...]
Acer Android tablet leaked alongside the Liquid Metal and another new smartphone?
Expected to be announced before the end of this month, the Froyo-based Acer Liquid Metal has been spotted in the wild somewhere in Thailand. More importantly, Droid Sans (the website that published the new photo of the Liquid Metal – seen below) has also unveiled what seems to be an Acer Android tablet, plus another [...]
O2 UK starts selling the HTC HD7, announces the Samsung Galaxy Tab
The HTC HD7 with Windows Phone 7 is now available in the UK thanks to O2, which is the exclusive British carrier for the new smartphone. The HD7 is the only Windows Phone 7 handset to have a 4.3 inch (WVGA) display. Other than that, its features include HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP camera, HD video [...]
T-Mobile Bestows a Ray of Windows Phone Sunshine, HTC HD7 Available November 8
Windows Phone 7 may have officially launched in parts of the world today, but the US is still waiting for the same opportunity to grace its shores. As we’re beginning to learn, however, anyone Stateside won’t have to wait very long — provided they’re okay with using a GSM carrier. Late yesterday we learned from [...]
Palm Pre 2 may be going to AT&T and Rogers as well
The Palm Pre 2 was officially unveiled by HP yesterday, and it’s going to be available in France from SFR on Friday. HP’s announcement only mentioned that the first smartphone to be powered by WebOS 2.0 will be on Verizon in the US and will also be sold in Canada – but no timelines were [...]
The Froyo update for the Samsung Galaxy S will be available in the UK in November
The tale of Samsung’s Galaxy S Froyo update just keeps on going, and going. While this update may already be available in other countries, it hasn’t hit UK-based Galaxy S owners just yet. Last we heard from Samsung UK was that the update would be out by the end of September, but that clearly didn’t [...]
The world’s first available Windows Phone 7 handset: HTC Trophy, sold by Vodafone New Zealand
A customer in New Zealand (where it’s the morning of October 21 right now) was the first in the world to buy a Windows Phone 7 handset. The handset is the HTC 7 Trophy, sold in a Vodafone New Zealand shop just a few hours ago. Vodafone NZ sells the Trophy for 799 NZD ($602) [...]
T-Mobile Motorola Defy will be available on November 3 for $99.99
We’ve known for a while that the rugged, Android-powered Motorola Defy will be headed to T-Mobile in the United States, but details about its availability were scarce. Not anymore, since T-Mobile officially announced (via a tweet) that the Defy will be available on November 3 and will set you back $99.99 (although they didn’t explicitly [...]
Nokia C7 has unused NFC chip inside
Surprise, surprise! The Nokia C7, the second Symbian^3-based device to hit the market, has an NFC (Near Field Communication) chip inside. But it lay unused, at least for now. NFC is a technology that basically allows the exchange of data between devices that are near to each other (at about 10 centimeters), hence the name. [...]
Samsung planning to bring Bada OS to TVs?
Reuters has an interesting story about Samsung currently working on a “joint software platform” that will be used both on phones and TVs. According to the publication, Kyungsik Kevin Lee, vice president at Samsung’s Visual Display Division, confirmed that the company has a “plan to have a single platform for Samsung TV and phones.” While [...]
Verizon will launch the Samsung Galaxy Tab on November 11, weeks after the iPad
Although the Samsung Galaxy Tab for Verizon was announced more than a month ago, it will only be launched on November 11 – that’s two weeks after the Apple iPad becomes available via the largest US carrier. The Galaxy Tab (Samsung’s first Android tablet) will cost $599.99 at Verizon, coming with 2.2 Froyo, a 7-inch [...]
Blackberry Bold 9780 gets semi-official thanks to Vodafone Netherlands
RIM has still not announced the Blackberry Bold 9780 (although it should have by now, give the high number of times the smartphone appeared on the web), but this didn’t stop Vodafone Netherlands to put the new Bold on its website. Apparently, the handset will be available for purchase in early November. Vodafone Netherlands will [...]
Palm Pre 2 likely coming to Canada via Rogers
Yesterday, when HP officially unveiled the Palm Pre 2, it said the new smartphone would be available in France via SFR, in the US via Verizon, and in Canada – without specifying the Canadian carrier. However, the source code of the Pre 2’s Canadian web page shows that the carrier will be none other than [...]
Lenovo’s first Android tablet made for the US may run Honeycomb
Like many other companies, China-based Lenovo plans to enter the tablet market. It won’t do it this year, though, as Lenovo waits for Android 3.0 (Hoenycomb) to be launched first. According to Lenovo USA’s CEO Rory Read (quoted by PC Mag), Android 2.2 Froyo is not “the right base to have a fully functioning pad” [...]
HTC offering TomTom maps on the Desire HD and Desire Z (scraps Google Maps?)
TomTom has announced a partnership with HTC for providing “location-rich maps” on some of the Taiwanese company’s smartphones, starting with the Android-based Desire HD and Desire Z. TomTom’s maps are included in HTC Locations, presented by HTC as being “a new differentiated online mapping experience” that lets “people have instant, on-demand mapping without download delays [...]
Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5500) launched in Australia by Telstra (on pre-pay)
Samsung Galaxy 5 (aka Galaxy i5500), one of Sammy’s low-end Android smartpohnes, is available as of today in Australia, thanks to Telstra. The largest Australian carrier has launched the Galaxy 5 on pre-pay, so customers can buy it for only $199 outright. Also available in India and across Europe, the Samsung Galaxy i5500 runs Android [...]