SRS announces WideSurround for smartphones, Verizon’s Samsung Continuum is the first to use it
SRS Labs has announced a new audio solution for smartphones that have built-in stereo speakers. Called SRS WideSurround, the new technology comes to solve the fact that “smartphones are traditionally plagued with a limited sound stage, zero surround effects, as well as little channel separation or stereo output.” According to SRS, its new solution provides [...]
More QWERTY Windows Phone 7 handsets headed to Canada (Dell Venue Pro? HTC 7 Pro?)
While announcing the availability of the Samsung Focus in Canada, Rogers has also unveiled some details about upcoming WP7 devices for the Canadian market. According Microsoft’s Mike O’Sullivan (interviewed here by someone at Rogers), new Windows Phone 7 device with hardware QWERTY keyboards are coming “in the future”. At the moment, the only Windows Phone [...]
Nokia X2-01 coming to North America?
Nokia X2-01, the newest S40 phone to feature a full QWERTY keyboard, will probably be available in the US and Canada, too – apart from being launched in Europe and Asia (where almost all Nokia phones are usually launched). According to the Bluetooth SIG, there are two versions of the handset: X2-01 (RM-709), and X2-01.1 [...]
New, simple LG S310 phone announced
LG may be selling more smartphones than ever right now, but that doesn’t mean it has quit making entry-level feature phones. The company’s latest feature phone is the LG S310, a simple candybar which, like the recently announced Samsung C3530, is made out of “premium” materials. A 176 x 220 pixels Windows Live Messenger, social [...]
Vodafone UK revamps EU data roaming pricing
Vodafone UK has announced some changes to its data roaming fees and allowances. These will go live tomorrow, December 1 and affect the following destinations: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland. For starters, the Vodafone Day Traveller plan now includes 25 MB [...]
At least 135,000 Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold so far
Although it’s been available for about a month, we still have no official sales numbers for Windows Phone 7 – or more specifically, the sales numbers for the devices that it runs on. The closest we ever got was a market research source saying that during the first day of sales in the US, 40,000 [...]
Motorola Charm launches in India with Aircel
Back in September we first heard that the Motorola Charm would become available in India at some point. And now it has. Motorola has officially launched the Charm in India with Aircel, India’s fifth largest GSM cell service provider. The Android 2.1-powered Charm costs Rs. 13990 and is available through Aircel, which also offer both [...]
T-Mobile UK: Android 2.2 update for the Samsung Galaxy S may arrive today
T-Mobile UK has just announced on its support forum that the Android 2.2 Froyo update for Samsung Galaxy S smartphones sold through TMo will go out later today. Or at least that’s the goal. The announcement is, to put it mildly, quite interesting in word choices. So, the aim is to have the update out today. [...]
Dell Venue Pro will cost $149.99 and ship on December 14
The only phone in the initial batch of USA-bound Windows Phone 7 devices that got announced last month to still not be available is the Dell Venue Pro. This device is headed to T-Mobile, as we’ve already known from that semi-announcement. And today, Dell has shed some light on what’s happening with the Venue Pro. [...]
New BlackBerry Curve 8980 unveiled by the FCC
It looks like the old BlackBerry Curve 8900 will finally get a true successor – it isn’t the Curve 3G 9300 / 9330 (already available around the world), but the Curve 8980, an unannounced smartphone that has just appeared over at the FCC. Like the 8900, the Curve 8980 doesn’t feature 3G and comes with [...]
ZTE-made Micromax Andro A60 launched as India’s cheapest Android phone
Micromax, an Indian phone maker known for launching affordable handsets, has announced the Andro 60 – a new device that will be available really soon as India’s cheapest Android smartphone. The Andro A60 (which is a rebranded ZTE Penguin) will retail for only 6,999 INR – about $152. For that kind of money, you get [...]
Acer Windows Phone 7 handsets in the making
Earlier this year, when Microsoft officially announced Windows Phone 7, it unveiled a list of hardware partners that didn’t include Acer. However, the Taiwanese company is currently working on at least one Windows Phone 7 device. Talking to All Things Digital, Acer’s CEO Gianfranco Lanci said the following: “Smartphones – we want them to become [...]
LG P990 Star appears again, bests other Android phones in benchmark test
LG Star, the unannounced Tegra 2-based smartphone first spotted a couple of weeks ago, has appeared once again, this time showing off its UI. At the moment, the LG Star – model number P990 – runs Android 2.2 Froyo, slightly customized by LG. The new photos confirm that the handset features HMDI-out, an 8MP camera [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 2 Global now available from Wirefly for only $99.99
Although it still hasn’t been properly announced (with a press release and all), Verizon’s Motorola Droid 2 Global has been available for a while now. This, in case you forgot, is the original Droid 2′s bigger brother, so to speak, which has an upgraded processor that runs at 1.2 GHz (the original Droid 2 ‘only’ [...]
Samsung R700 hits the FCC, it’s an unassuming CDMA touch phone
A new phone has hit the FCC, the as of yet unannounced Samsung R700. This is a dual-band CDMA device that supports EVDO 3G. Gathering from the pictures released by the FCC, the Samsung R700 has a touchscreen, a camera, a headset jack and dedicated camera and lock keys. It’s really unlikely that this is [...]
Acer Liquid Metal might be launched by AT&T and T-Mobile
AT&T and T-Mobile are both evaluating the Acer Liquid Metal, a new Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone announced last month. According to Brighthand, an Acer official confirmed this last week, during the company’s New Work press event where Acer unveiled a new 4.8 inch smartphone, as well as new Android tablets. So, if AT&T and T-Mobile [...]
AT&T Motorola Olympus Tegra 2-based Android superphone to be released in December or January
The AT&T-bound, Nvidia Tegra 2-based Motorola Olympus superphone has surfaced yet again. We’ve first heard of this device just a few days ago, and rumor had it that it would have a dual-core processor, and would be launched by AT&T sometime soon. Today we may have gotten a more accurate time frame for the release. [...]
“Nokia N87″ prototype shows up on eBay, costs an arm and a leg
So you walk into a bar… and find a Nokia N00 prototype device. What do you do? Sell it to a blog? Remember, this is a Nokia prototype. Who’d buy it? So yes, the logical answer is: you put it up for sale on eBay. Oh, and ask a shameful amount of money for it [...]
Lenovo S800 is a Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness wannabe
Lenovo has done what Sony Ericsson did more than a year ago with the Xperia Pureness: a phone that features a transparent display. Called Lenovo S800 (for the moment, because the name might be changed), the new transparent phone has been showcased recently during a fashion event in Beijing. The handset doesn’t look too different [...]
Win 3 AT&T LG Quantum and 2 LG Optimus 7 WP7 handsets with us
As you may have noticed we’ve been playing with LG Optimus 7 running the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS these past few days. Well, actually I had the European version – Optimus 7 and Brad had QWERTY totting U.S. AT&T version, called LG Quantum, that will be known for the rest of us as [...]