Elop: Rumors about Nokia selling its mobile business to Microsoft are baseless
Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, has been interviewed by CNBC yesterday, and he had some interesting things to say regarding those rumored talks between Nokia and Microsoft concerning a possible sale of the former company’s mobile division to the latter software giant. Specifically, Elop said: “Those rumors are baseless. There are no conversations”. “The rumors are baseless” is, [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9900 coming to more UK retailers. Launching in Q3?
About a month ago, Expansys was the first UK retailer to say it would offer the BlackBerry Bold 9900 (without mentioning the smartphone’s exact launch date). Now, more retailers have added the new Bold to their websites: Clove, Play, and Handtec. Only Clove says when it expects to ship the 9900: at “the end of [...]
Apple keeps multi-carrier MVNO idea alive with a new patent app
As the number of iPhones, and Apple’s influence in mobile market continues to grow, Cupertino company keeps thinking about how to get rid of the chokehold mobile operators have on the market. Since getting enough spectrum to build your own mobile network is almost impossible, the next best thing for Apple will be to establish [...]
T-Mobile’s Samsung Exhibit 4G and Gravity Smart officially announced
T-Mobile USA has officially introduced two new Android smartphones, both made by Samsung: the Exhibit 4G (t759) and the Gravity Smart. As its name clearly shows, the Samsung Exhibit 4G is yet another handset that supports T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a WVGA touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, 1Ghz single-core processor, and [...]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Android 3.1 update now rolling out in Europe
One of the more interesting Android-powered tablets that have hit the streets this year running Android Honeycomb is certainly the Asus Eee Pad Transformer with its keyboard dock that allows it to be both tablet and netbook, according to your needs. And people seem to have appreciated Asus’ thinking out of the box on this, [...]
Samsung SHV-E110S is an Android Gingerbread smartphone on its way to SK Telecom in Korea
Samsung is hard at work on yet another Android-powered smartphone, the SHV-E110S. This is a device that will show up soon in South Korea, Samsung’s home country, and will probably be launched by SK Telecom, one of the major carriers there. Samsung Hub has discovered that the SHV-E110S is currently being subjected to operator tests. [...]
LG Optimus Black landing in Australia this month (via Optus, Vodafone)
A few months after it launched the Optimus 2X in Australia, LG is now ready to release the Optimus Black there, too. Unlike the 2X, the Optimus Black doesn’t have a dual-core processor – just a single core 1GHz one. However, it’s still a smartphone that mustn’t be overlooked, especially if we’re thinking about its [...]
iPad 3 To Launch in 2012; Apple Already Certifying Components
For those hoping to get their hands on an iPad 3 by the end of this year, don’t hold your breath for too long. A new report out of Taiwan indicates that Apple is in the process of certifying component parts for its newest tablet, with an expected release date in 2012. According to the [...]
HTC Wildfire S now available at Bell in Canada
As expected, the HTC Wildfire S has now become available from Bell in Canada. This is the cheapest Android smartphone to come out of the Taiwanese manufacturer for 2011, and is obviously meant to be the successor to the original Wildfire. Moreover, it fixes all the glaring issues its predecessor had (such as the screen’s [...]
Sprint’s HTC Evo 3D to be launched on June 24?
Yesterday, Sprint announced that the eagerly anticipated HTC Evo 3D would be released with some “exciting” content, but unfortunately it still didn’t provide an exact launch date for it. Well, if we’re to believe what the Radio Shack flyer pictured below shows, the new Evo will be finally out on June 24. As previously mentioned, [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0 Beta Now Available
Research in Motion has unveiled a beta BlackBerry Java software development kit (SDK) v7.0, offering developers a chance to test their apps on their BlackBerry 7 operating systems. The SDK includes simulators for the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone devices and will allow developers to prepare their apps in time for the handsets’ launch. The [...]
Acer Liquid Mini E310 gets Android 2.3 Gingerbread, new colors
Acer UK announced that the Liquid Mini E310 smartphone “now embarks the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system”. Since the press release issued by the company earlier today doesn’t really provide meaningful details, we don’t know if this means that new Liquid Minis will be shipped from now on with Gingerbread, or if existing handsets are [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro coming to the UK this month, pre-orders available now
Although it was announced at the same time with the Xperia Play and Xperia Neo (both available as we speak), the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has not been released yet. However, it will be, soon – at least in the UK, where customers can now pre-order the smartphone directly from Sony Ericsson. The Xperia Pro [...]
New Android-based Sharp phone leaked, coming to AT&T?
We’ve just received a photo of an unannounced and previously unseen Sharp Android smartphone, and we have reasons to believe this may be a new Sidekick handset for T-Mobile USA. Yes, an Android-based Sidekick, just like the Sidekick 4G (which, of course, isn’t made by Sharp, but by Samsung). According to our source, the new [...]
Future of Nokia: Things will get much worse before (if ever) they get better
Is this beginning of the end for Nokia? Now that Finnish company announced the sales in two of it’s most important markets – Europe and China – have stalled, and Nokia has no idea what it will be able to sell until the end of this year, it certainly seems so. At the very least, [...]
HTC Sensation will be available June 12th on Walmart, 15th for T-Mobile
Great news for T-Mobile users, the powerful HTC Sensation 4G will be available on two dates; June 12th at Walmart, and June 15th at T-Mobile exclusively. The Sensation 4G features a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor, a 4.3-inch qHD display, an 8 megapixel rear camera with 1080p HD video recording, and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera. It runs on [...]