Shazam iPhone and Android apps now integrate Spotify
Shazam has announced that its premium iPhone and Android apps have been enhanced with a new “Play in Spotify” feature, which allows you to immediately play and buy songs previously discovered with Shazam. The feature is currently available to paid Shazam apps for iPhone and Android users in the UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, [...]
Sharp Alice SH0037D and Tango SH6017D launched in India with Opera Mini pre-installed
Sharp has recently released two new phones in India: the Sharp Alice SH0037D and the Sharp Tango SH6017D. Both handsets come with Opera Mini pre-installed, so users will have a quick way of accessing the web while on the go. Apart from featuring Opera Mini, the Sharp Alice has a 2.8 inch WQVGA (400 x [...]
Cheap Alcatel OT-355 QWERTY phone coming to Orange UK
Orange UK will soon launch a new affordable phone made by Alcatel. The handset is called Alcatel OT-355 (just like another Alcatel phone released in 2004) and is a QWERTY candybar with a really small display and no 3G. Other features include: MP3 player, FM radio with RDS, VGA photo camera, MicroSD card support (up [...]
HTC HD7 to bring more Windows Phone 7 goodness to Bell Canada
Bell is reportedly getting ready to launch its second Windows Phone 7 handset in Canada, after the LG Quantum. The new WP7 smartphone is the HTC HD7, which, according to Mobile Syrup, may become available through Bell starting February 10. Unlike the Quantum from LG, HTC’s HD7 doesn’t have a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and features [...]
Nokia E5 available SIM-free, unlocked from Dell for only $149.99
Nokia’s newest Symbian-powered candybar QWERTY smartphone, the E5, is now available in the US from Dell for the very low price of $149.99. That’s $149.99 without any contract signing involved – the phone is SIM-free and unlocked. Considering that the phone’s price when it launched was $259, this is quite a good deal. To take [...]
Acer Liquid Mini E310 hits the FCC (with AT&T 3G)
Announced last week at CES alongside the beTouch E210, Acer’s Liquid Mini E310 is the company’s latest full-touch Android 2.2 smartphone. The FCC has just approved a version of the Liquid Mini that supports North American 3G (850 / 1900 Mhz), so it might be launched by AT&T in the US, or by Rogers in [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9780 on its way to Wind Mobile in Canada, will cost $450
Wind Mobile is getting ready to launch the BlackBerry Bold 9780 for its customers. The smartphone, which has already seen releases on other Canadian carriers such as Rogers, will cost only $450 from Wind Mobile, and that’s a contract-less price. This will be the cheapest one can get the BlackBerry Bold 9780 sans contract in [...]
Rugged Motorola i886 Android smartphone with two keyboards now available at Sprint
The Motorola i886 is the first iDEN phone to have two keyboards – one is a ‘normal’ T9 numpad, and there’s also a side-sliding physical QWERTY keyboard. This phone is also rugged, and runs Android. We’ve first seen the i886 all the way back in September when it passed through the FCC, and after months [...]
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace now offering 6,000 apps
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is still very young: it’s only three months old (it was launched in early October 2010, when the world’s first WP7 devices became available). That’s why you can’t expect it to host a colossal number of applications just yet. However, the number of apps is constantly growing. There were about [...]
New Samsung Star II S5260 touchscreen feature phone leaked
Samsung is readying the launch of a second-generation Star touchscreen phone – not long after announcing it has sold more than 30 million units of the first Star model (S5230). The new handset is called Samsung Star II S5260 and, apart from a different design and Wi-Fi, it doesn’t seem to bring too many novelties. [...]
Samsung Vibrant 4G to hit T-Mobile with Android 2.2, front-facing camera
Currently available at T-Mobile USA for $99.99 on contract, the Samsung Vibrant is about to get an upgraded successor, which, apparently, will be called Samsung Vibrant 4G. Needless to say, the new Vibrant will support T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network, providing download speeds of up to 21Mbps. The Vibrant 4G will also feature a front-facing camera for [...]
Three AT&T Windows Phone 7 devices free at NewEgg, LG Optimus 7 now only $49.99 from Telus
It’s price cutting season for Windows Phone 7 devices in North America, or so it would seem. If for some reason Amazon’s offering of the AT&T Samsung Focus, LG Quantum and HTC Surround for one US cent seemed too expensive for you, NewEgg has done one better and outright offers the same three devices for [...]
Ericsson: Mobile broadband will have 1 billion users by the end of this year, almost 4 billion in 2015
According to a report released by Ericsson, 2010 saw more than 500 million mobile broadband users. And this year, they predict that the number will double – we’ll have a billion users of mobile broadband internet by the end of 2011. 400 million of those are expected to be in the Asia-Pacific region. North America [...]
INQ Cloud Touch Android phone with “Facebook built into its core” coming
It’s been quite a while since we last heard about a “Facebook phone“, isn’t it? There haven’t been any new details on the alleged handset since September last year, when TechCrunch first published this story about a secret Facebook phone, and Bloomberg then reported that there would actually be two phones, both manufactured by INQ. [...]
Samsung Galaxy S2 to feature Super AMOLED Plus display. LG readying sub-$200 smartphones for MWC 2011
Since it plans to sell more than 60 million smartphones this year, Samsung needs to introduce at least one true successor to the Galaxy S (launched last summer and sold in more than 10 million units around the world). The successor might be the Samsung Galaxy S2 – we’ve previously heard that it would feature [...]
It finally happened. Verizon iPhone 4 is here!
When the outside temperature rises And the meaning is oh so clear One thousand and one Big Red Apples Begin to dance in front of you – oh dear Are they trying to tell you something? You’re missing that one final screw You’re simply not in the Red my dear To be honest you haven’t [...]
Samsung SCH-R910 4G / LTE Android phone coming to MetroPCS
Back in December, we’ve reported that MetroPCS would launch its first 4G / LTE Android smartphone sometime in early 2011. The handset might be the Samsung SCH-R910, which has just appeared in a photo over at BGR. The R910 comes with CDMA and LTE connectivity, and seems to have most of the features the Galaxy [...]
Dell Venue Pro delayed till mid-February in the UK
The Dell Venue Pro, Dell’s first smartphone running Windows Phone 7, was at first supposed to become available in the UK in November. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Furthermore, the device still isn’t available in the UK, even after it was said to be ready to buy on January 6. And it looks like [...]
Nokia E6-00 specs to include VGA screen, QWERTY keyboard, 8MP camera?
If you’ve never heard of the Nokia E6-00 before it’s because the handset has not been announced yet. However, it does exist, and Nokia could officially unveil it soon – maybe at MWC 2011 in February. Until then, this XML file found on Nokia’s website reveals some of the new Eseries smartphone’s features: VGA (640 [...]
HTC 7 Pro with Windows Phone 7 comes to O2 Germany next week for EUR 569
As they said in December that they would, O2 Germany are prepping to launch the HTC 7 Pro, the Windows Phone 7 device with a full physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. According to a tweet from the German operator, the smartphone will become available at some point next week, and its price has also been announced: [...]