Android 2.1 update for AT&T’s Motorola Backflip begins
In a world that anxiously awaits the release of Android Gingerbread (possibly numbered 2.3), it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are phones out there that aren’t even on 2.1. Such is the case of AT&T’s Motorola Backflip, a device sporting a strange (some would say innovative) form factor and that has been waiting for [...]
Froyo update for the Samsung Galaxy S finally starts rolling out in the UK
The story of the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update for the Samsung Galaxy S is, well, quite a story. Samsung’s flagship Android device launched with Android 2.1 on board, and immediately everyone started wondering when an update to the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system would become available. In the UK, the first promised date [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 2 Global may launch on November 11 in blue
Details about the upcoming Motorola Droid 2 Global for Verizon keep leaking. A couple of days ago almost all its specs were made public, and today’s leak comes to confirm a previous leak that had its release date pegged for November 11. And at this point, it seems almost certain that the Droid 2 Global [...]
Motorola Milestone 2 now available to order from Amazon Germany, will ship on November 9
The Motorola Milestone 2, the GSM version of the Droid 2, is finally about to become available in Europe. And a great timing it is, considering its main competitor, the HTC Desire Z, has just started to be sold too. Amazon Germany has the Milestone 2 up on its site and ready to be ordered. [...]
LG Optimus S with Android Froyo available at Sprint this Sunday
Sprint’s first LG Android smartphone, the Optimus S, should have been launched on October 30. That didn’t happen, of course, so now you may wonder when is the handset going to be available. Well, Sprint has just announced that the Optimus S would go on sale starting this Sunday (November 7). Just like T-Mobile’s LG [...]
AT&T Samsung Solstice II a817 announced, will be launched on November 7
AT&T and Samsung will launch a new touchscreen feature phone soon: the Solstice II a817. Like the Samsung Solstice a887 (introduced more than a year ago), the new handset has a 3 inch WQVGA touchscreen display and uses Samsung’s Touch Wiz UI. It also features HSDPA, A-GPS, Vlingo Speech-to-Text functionality, Video Share, Mobi TV, Mobi [...]
JCB Tradesman is the world’s first “floating phone”
JCB, a UK-based maker of rugged phones, has announced four new handsets: JCB Tradesman, JCB Toughphone Sitemaster, JCB Toughphone Pro, and JCB Toughphone Pro-Talk. The most interesting of them is the JCB Tradesman, which has received the “world’s first floating phone” title from the Guinness Book of Records. The Tradesman is IP67 certified (waterproof and [...]
Nokia C6-01 starts shipping, hits the FCC (with North American 3G)
Nokia C6-01, one of the world’s newest Symbian touchscreen smartphones, is now shipping and it should be available in the coming weeks via retailers and mobile operators around the world. Unlike the C6-00, the C6-01 doesn’t have a sliding QWERTY keyboard and comes with a dual-LED 8MP camera, and 720p video recording. Other than that, [...]
Will iPhone/iOS 5 get real world multi-player gaming APIs?
Multiplayer real life/augmented reality gaming on mobile devices is not a very new thing these days. Foursquare started it’s business on it. There are also quite a few iPhone games, like Gunman, that let’s you do some sort of Augmented Reality gaming with your mobile device. But Gunman, and other games like this have to rely on their own [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid Pro will launch on November 18, presale starts on November 9
Verizon’s Motorola Droid Pro has been officially unveiled about a month ago, but no details about when it will ship or how much it will cost have been made public on that occasion. In the mean time, rumors about the latter have surfaced and pegged it at $299, though how credible those rumors are remains [...]
Sony Ericsson LiveView will hit the UK on November 19
Back when Sony Ericsson first announced the LiveView gadget/accessory/watch, they left out pricing information and a shipping estimate. The latter because its release was dependent on Sony Ericsson’s Android-powered smartphones finally being updated to Android 2.1 Eclair – because the LiveView only works with phones on Android 2 or newer, and it would have been [...]
LG announces the C320 InTouch Lady in the Netherlands
Earlier today at an event in Utrecht, LG has unveiled a new featurephone in its InTouch series – the InTouch Lady (which may be sold in some markets as part of the LG Town series – LG Town Lady perhaps?). This phone has the model number C320 and is a vertical slider with a full [...]
HTC 7 Surround and LG Optimus 7 with WP7 available in Canada (Telus) on November 8
We knew that Telus was going to bring two Windows Phone 7 handsets to Canada, but we didn’t know when exactly. Well, the carrier has just announced it would sell the the HTC 7 Surround and the LG Optimus 7 starting November 8 (the same date when AT&T and T-Mobile will launch their first WP7 [...]
Get the T-Mobile myTouch 4G for only $80 (with new contract agreement)
Today, T-Mobile USA has launched the myTouch 4G, its latest Android smartphone made by HTC. The carrier directly sells the myTouch 4G for $199.99 with a 2-yr contract, but you can get it for much less. Wirefly, RadioShak and Target Mobile are all offering the new Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone for only $79.99 to customers [...]
Samsung Messager III r570 launched by MetroPCS
MetroPCS has just launched its third Samsung Messager phone (coming after the Messager I and Messager II). The new handset is the Samsung Messager III r570 – also available at Sprint as Samsung Restore m570. The Messager III offers a sliding QWERTY keyboard, alphanumeric keypad, 2.4 inch QVGA display, threaded messaging, widget support, “updated social [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Fashion Edition offered by Orange UK
Orange UK has announced it’s exclusively selling the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Fashion Edition – a black X10 Mini that comes with two “free fashion covers” (in white and pink). Clearly targeted at all the British ladies who may want to get a chic taste of Android, the X10 Mini Fashion Edition is, apparently, [...]
HTC Desire HD available at Vodafone Australia this Friday
The HTC Desire HD is finally arriving in Australia this week, where Vodafone will offer it starting Friday (November 5). The Desire HD will be $0 upfront on Vodafone’s $69 cap (a 24-month contract agreement is obviously required). Running Android 2.2 Froyo, the new Desire features a 4.3 inch WVGA S-LCD touchscreen display, enhanced Sense [...]
8.9 inch LG Pad tablet with Android Honeycomb arriving early next year?
It looks like LG’s first Android tablet won’t run Gingerbread, as rumored not long ago. A senior official from LG told MK News that the company’s tablet, likely called LG Pad, will be launched around the world (including Europe and North America) in the first quarter of 2011 with Android Honeycomb on-board. The tablet should [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab to be updated to Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb at some point
If you have a Samsung Galaxy Tab and you’re wondering if it will be updated to newer versions of Android, the answer is “probably yes.” According to SamsungHub, an official at Samsung India recently said that the Galaxy Tab would get both Android Gingerbread (supposedly version 2.3) and Android Honeycomb (supposedly version 3.0). A specific [...]
LG Optimus One coming soon to Three UK with free car mount and charger
While trying to make good on their promise to launch the Optimus One on 120 different carriers in 90 countries, LG will be making the Optimus One available on Three UK later this month. The LG Optimus One is a midrange Android smartphone running Android 2.2 Froyo and it comes with a 3.2-inch 320×480 capacitive [...]