LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone review
I’ve been using LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone and sharing impressions here for about a month now. But now, as I’m moving on to my next smartphone it’s time to do a full review of this device. By now everybody knows that Microsoft completely bungled it’s smartphone OS strategy a couple of years ago, when [...]
Samsung Suede SCH-r710 announced for Cricket’s Muve Music service
Samsung has unveiled a new touchscreen phone for the US market – the Suede SCH-r710. Made for Cricket Wireless, the handset will be available starting January, at the same time with the carrier’s new Muve Music service. The Suede features a 3 inch WQVGA touchscreen display, 3G, accelerometer, Samsung Widgets, social networking integration (Facebook, Twitter, [...]
HTC Wildfire getting Android 2.2 Froyo this week in Europe
The Wildfire is one of HTC’s cheapest Android smartphones, but that doesn’t mean the company doesn’t care about it. And to prove this, HTC has just announced (on Facebook) that the Wildfire would be officially updated to Android 2.2 Froyo this week – in fact, Vodafone UK is rolling out the update today. Only users [...]
Google Nexus S price cut to £429.99 at Carphone Warehouse UK
Today is the day when the Google Nexus S should become available in the UK via Carphone Warehouse – not long after it was launched in the US. Although the smartphone doesn’t seem to be in stock yet (things will hopefully change in a few hours), we still have good news: Carphone Warehouse now asks [...]
Holy crap! Nokia is in talks with Microsoft about Windows Phone devices?!
Holy crap! I don’t believe I’m writing this, especially after publicly ridiculing even idea of such a thing for a year now. But given the source of the info… Here it goes– in his weekly op-ed Mobile-Review’s Eldar Murtazin just posted that during the past month, Nokia has started talks with Microsoft to expand their cooperation. The [...]
LG Optimus 2X Star to cost about €555?
Expected to be hit the market starting January, the LG Optimus 2X / Star seems to be already on pre-order in Sweden. CDon, one of the most popular online retailers in the country lists the Optimus 2X as being available soon both on contract (with prices starting at 3,099 SEK – about €345 or $450) [...]
Travelling with LG Optimus 7
When I go about my life with a smartphone in my pocket, I already have the usual routine of how I use it. Some surfing, calls, occasional SMS, e-mail, checking Twitter and Facebook updates, and that’s about it. Even when testing a new smartphone for review for a few days, doesn’t give you a full [...]
MetroPCS Samsung Craft Review
Up until recently, it’s been rare to find a whole lot of reviews on MetroPCS phones. Though it’s the fifth-largest carrier in the US, it’s still only available regionally and isn’t large enough to get the necessary leverage required to get the top of the line phones. Thus, MetroPCS tends to stay out of the [...]
Sony PlayStation app for Android, iPhone launching soon
While we’re still waiting for the PSP phone to be officially unveiled, Sony has announced that an official PlayStation App for Android and iPhone would be released soon. The PlayStation App will allow users to check out their PlayStation Network trophies, stay up to date with their friends’ games, find the latest games (for PlayStation [...]
Samsung Wave Bayern Munchen Limited Edition launched
Samsung has teamed up with FC Bayern Munchen (or Bayern Munich, if you will) and launched a limited edition of its first Bada-based smartphone, the Wave S8500. Called Samsung Wave Bayern Munchen Edition, the handset comes with a pre-installed Bayern Munich app, and free access to T-Mobile’s “LIGA total!” mobile TV service for three months. [...]
LG B to be the thinnest Android phone ever (it’s thinner than iPhone 4 anyway)
Back in June, when Apple officially announced the new iPhone 4, Steve Jobs presented it as the thinnest smartphone ever. Well, it looks like it won’t be for long – because LG seems to have one that’s even thinner. Codenamed LG B for the moment, the smartphone is not yet officially announced, but it has [...]
RadioShack offers free Android smartphones
Just in time for the holidays, RadioShack has a great offer for you. Starting today, and up until December 24 (that’s next Friday, and also Christmas Eve), you’ll be able to grab not one, not two, but three different Android-powered smartphones for free from RadioShack. One of the three smartphones is T-Mobile’s LG Optimus T [...]
Google Maps 5.0 for Android launched, brings 3D maps, offline reliability
Google Maps 5.0 – we first heard of it last week – is now available for Android smartphones, bringing two new and important features. The new version of Maps uses vector graphics, which allows it to display 3D maps – including 3D buildings for more than 100 cities around the world. You can rotate, tilt [...]
Google Nexus S now available in the US, ninjas have already unboxed it
For those in the US, today probably deserves to be called Google Nexus S day. As has been announced back when Google unveiled the new device, today the Nexus S has become available throughout the US at Best Buy retail locations. In case you forgot, the price if you get the Nexus S with a [...]
Smartphone use survey and LG Quantum/Optimus 7 giveway results. They ain’t smart”phones” anymore
Our LG Optimus 7/Quantum giveaway contest and smartphone use survey is now over, and it brought quite a few interesting insights of how people are choosing and using their smartphones. According to your responses to the survey – 3 most important criteria when you chose a smartphone are it’s battery life, operating system, and intuitive [...]
Motorola Quench XT5 with Android launched in India by Aircel
Not long after introducing the Quench XT3 in India, Motorola has now launched the Quench XT5 there, too. The XT5 is not too different from the XT3 – it looks pretty much the same, it runs the same version of Android (2.1, unfortunately) and it has most of its features: 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen display, [...]
Samsung Google Nexus S musings. Why the heck did Google even bother to launch it?
When Google announced Nexus S we all went giddy with anticipation here in techland. Another Google’s own flagship device! With 1GHz Hummingbird CPU, 4″, curved Super Amoled Display, NFC, running new Android 2.3, etc; etc; Such a great device for a new Google flagship! Or is it? When Google launched their first flagship – Nexus One – [...]
Nokia says Apple also infringes patents in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands
Nokia has sued Apple three times until now (see here, here and here), all complaints being filed in the US. Today, the Finnish company announced it has filed new claims against Apple, this time in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. According to Nokia, the new claims add other 13 patents to the 24 that [...]
New Windows Phone 7 devices, including Asus E600, to be launched at MWC 2011
Microsoft is reportedly getting ready to officially unveil the second batch of Windows Phone 7 devices this February at MWC 2011. According to DigiTimes and some anonymous sources, one of the new WP7 handsets expected to be announced at MWC is the Asus E600 (which is pictured below and will likely be available in the [...]
Dell Venue with Android Froyo gets official in Korea
Initially known as Dell Thunder, the keyboardless version of the Venue Pro has been officially announced in South Korea as Dell Venue. Unlike the Venue Pro, the Venue is an Android smartphone – it doesn’t come with 2.3 Gingerbread yet, but with 2.2 Froyo. The new handset features a 4.1 inch WVGA AMOLED Gorilla Glass [...]