Nokia enhances Ovi Browser for S40 phones
Nokia has released an updated version of its Ovi Browser for Series 40 phones (both touchscreen and non-touchscreen models). The new Ovi Browser – currently in beta – comes with a fresh look, and quick links to relevant websites based on your location (including Twitter, Orkut, Yahoo, Amazon and Photobucket). The browser now supports 85 [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play coming to France in late March (via Virgin Mobile)
Just as promised at MWC 2011 earlier this month, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will be commercially available starting next month. In France, Virgin Mobile will be among the carriers to offer it, sometime in late March. According to Les Mobiles, Virgin will be the first to sell the Xperia Play on contract to French [...]
AT&T will start selling Amazon Kindle 3G next week
AT&T has announced today that it will start selling the Amazon Kindle 3G e-book reader starting next week. Coincidentally, you can win a Kindle 3G if you enter our competition here. The Kindle is Amazon’s best selling product ever, and it will now be sold by a carrier in the US. AT&T will have Kindles [...]
Rugged Motorola WX450 headed to AT&T
Motorola has a new rugged QWERTY phone (in the vein of Sprint’s Clutch i465) that’s bound to be released in the US. The phone is called Motorola WX450 and, as this FCC filling points out, is AT&T-branded – which, of course, means the carrier will start selling it at some point. Feature-wise, the WX450 offers [...]
Verizon is happy with iPhone 4 sales, 60% of them sold online, on track to sell 11 million this year
Verizon’s iPhone 4 launch, the first in its history, went through without any of the staggeringly long lines usually seen in front of stores with any new Apple product’s unveiling. Hence, many people thought that sales of the Verizon iPhone were not that good. And even if the company did mention that the iPhone launch [...]
New 8.9 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab (with Android Honeycomb) to be unveiled at CTIA 2011
Less than a week ago, we’ve informed you that Samsung’s getting ready to announce a new Galaxy Tab Android tablet. Now we know when exactly this will happen: on March 22. Samsung has scheduled yet another one of its Unpacked events for this date. The event will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, during CTIA [...]
HTC Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z, and Incredible S will get Android Gingerbread in Q2
An HTC spokesperson has recently confirmed to SlashGear that the HTC Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z, and Incredible S will all receive updates to Android Gingerbread in the second quarter of this year. That’s gotta induce a sigh of relief for owners of these devices, as they’re all stuck on Android 2.2 Froyo at the [...]
Motorola Xoom will be launched in Germany and Japan in April (via T-Mobile, KDDI)
Already available in the US via Verizon Wireless, the Motorola Xoom Android Honeycomb tablet will hit other markets soon. Two of them – Germany and Japan – will get Moto’s first tablet in late April. In Germany, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) will be the Xoom’s exclusive carrier for the first three months. T-Mobile doesn’t say how [...]
Verizon’s HTC Trophy shows up in hands-on photo
Although Verizon hasn’t officially announced it yet, the HTC Trophy will be available via the largest US mobile carrier soon – in late March, if the latest rumors are to be believed. Until then, in case you want to know what Verizon’s Trophy looks like, Engadget has a hands-on photo of it. Save for the [...]
Apple’s new iPad 2 to come in white?
In just two days from now, Apple will announce a brand new iPad, most probably called iPad 2 – since the Cupertino company doesn’t really like surprises when it comes to naming its products. What would be surprising, though, is if the new iPad had a white version (we all know Apple had and still [...]
iPhone 5 front panel allegedly pictured, suggests larger display
Expected to be officially announced sometime this summer, Apple’s new iPhone 5 may be the first to feature a screen larger than 3.5 inches. As some rumors have pointed out, the iPhone 5 could have a 4 inch screen. A recently leaked photo, which reportedly shows the new iPhone’s digitizer panel, seems to confirm the [...]
XCom Global Provides International Data on the Cheap
A few weeks ago, our team here at Unwired View was completely perplexed. We were just a couple weeks away from traveling to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, and had no inexpensive solution to having data access while there. International prices for data usage is insanely high on most carriers when you head to other [...]
White Samsung Galaxy Ace announced (in South Korea)
Samsung has announced that its new Galaxy Ace has been launched in South Korea – and the important part here is the unveiling of a white version of the smartphone. Previously, Samsung said that the Galaxy Ace only has a black version. Now both the black and white ones can be purchased in Korea, via [...]
Win a Free Amazon Kindle 3G From Tanga!
We’re proud to team up with Tanga.com to sponsor this week’s contest. This week, you’ll have the great opportunity to win an Amazon Kindle 3G + Wifi(valued at $189) for your e-book reading pleasure! So what is Tanga, exactly? Tanga.com has 24-hour daily deals in electronics, magazines, t-shirts, games, toys, jewelry and more. Each night [...]
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt priced: $699 at HTC’s official store
We still don’t know exactly when Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt will be launched, but we’ve got news regarding the new Android smartphone’s price. HTC USA’s official store lists the Thunderbolt as costing $699.99 without contract. This makes the upcoming device one of Verizon’s most expensive smartphones (only the iPhone 4 32GB costs more without contract – [...]
Samsung Galaxy Ace and Galaxy Mini will bring more Android to O2 UK
In search of an affordable Android 2.2 smartphone that’s bound to be released in the UK by O2 soon? Look no further than the Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570, which will be available via said carrier starting next month. As its name suggests, the Galaxy Mini is a quite small handset. It features a 3.14 inch [...]
AT&T HTC Aria Finally Gets Froyo Update
We mentioned yesterday that the Android 2.2 update was going to be coming to the HTC Aria on AT&T, and it indeed showed up as promised. But have you, overjoyed HTC Aria user, updated yet? If not, this will be a fun weekend diversion for you. To get Froyo on the Aria, all that’s involved [...]
Samsung Galaxy S i9000 getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread in March?
Samsung Galaxy S i9000 owners may have been frustrated with the slow roll-out of Android 2.2 updates, but it looks like they’ll be among the first to receive 2.3 Gingerbread updates. According to SmartDroid.de and Twitter user Frank Feil, someone at Samsung Germany declared that the Galaxy S i9000 would get Android 2.3 starting March. [...]
Microsoft ups Windows Phone 7 free app submission limit from 5 to 100
Microsoft has decided to give developers of free apps for its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system a hand. Up until now, as a developer for Windows Phone 7, you could only submit a maximum of five free apps to the WP7 Marketplace for free. After you submitted five free apps, you’d have to pay [...]
Verizon HTC 7 Trophy Windows Phone 7 device may come in March
Windows Phone 7 is slowly but surely making its way onto the CDMA carriers’ networks. First announced was the HTC Arrive for Sprint, which is due out on March 20. However, up until now we haven’t heard anything conclusive about any specific Windows Phone 7 device being headed to Verizon, after all the USA’s biggest [...]