Barcelona to continue hosting the Mobile World Congress until at least 2018
Back in August of last year, we asked you where you’d like the Mobile World Congress to be held each year starting in 2013. Now if your answer was “in Barcelona”, then your wish has just been granted. If, on the other hand, you’re a someone who’s into mobile and have in one capacity or [...]
Rogers starts taking pre-orders for HTC Evo 3D and LG Optimus 3D, may ship on August 16
One week after Rogers officially announced that it will be selling both the LG Optimus 3D as well as the HTC Evo 3D, the carrier has opened pre-orders for every Canadian. Before today, you were able to pre-order either one of the two 3D capable Android smartphones only if you were already a Rogers customer. [...]
Unwired View’s Mobile Cloud Music Showdown – Locker Services, 4th Place: Best Buy Music Cloud
Ed. – This article is part of our roundup featuring all of the mobile cloud music services currently available in the US. Click here for more. When Best Buy announced their foray into the cloud music market, it came as something of a surprise. They had no significant history of providing digital media, nor did [...]
HTC Evo 3D pre-orders start in the UK, free from £33.5 per month, £499.99 unlocked
Just as the other 3D-capable smartphone, the LG Optimus 3D, has become available in the UK at Three, pre-orders have started for the HTC Evo 3D. This is also an Android-powered smartphone that aims to put 3D on the map in the mobile world, and is HTC’s response to the Optimus 3D. And quite a [...]
LG Optimus 3D now available at Three UK, free from £35 per month
A couple of weeks after it finally went on sale in the UK SIM-free and unlocked, the LG Optimus 3D is now available at Three. The Optimus 3D is the world’s first 3D-enabled smartphone, and as such may be very interesting to those who are into such gimmickry. Three offers the Optimus 3D for free [...]
Samsung SPH-M930 is an Android-powered side-sliding QWERTY smartphone for Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile is getting ready for its first Samsung slider to become available. The Samsung SPH-M930 looks like after all it isn’t, as its model number implies, the successor to the SPH-M920 Transform for Sprint. Instead, this is one Android-powered smartphone headed to Boost Mobile. An official-looking image of the device was leaked today, and [...]
Why did Nokia Symbian smartphone sales crash this year? Infographic
Nokia reported results for the second quarter of 2011, and they are terrible. As expected. Did you expect anything better? You shouldn’t. It is perfectly clear now that Nokia has been disrupted by Android and iPhone, and there’s not much they can do this year to make things any better. Competition knows about weakness in [...]
Nokia N9 and N5 approved by the FCC
Two new Nokia smartphones have been approved by the FCC recently – and before you get too excited, let us inform you that neither of them is a Windows device. The smartphones are the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 (which was officially announced last month), and the Symbian Anna-based Nokia N5, aka Nokia RM-701 (which hasn’t been [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II can be pre-ordered at Telstra now
Already released in Australia by Vodafone and Optus, the Samsung Galaxy S II is coming soon to Tesltra, too. As previously mentioned, the largest Australian mobile carrier is planning to launch the new smartphone on July 26. Until then, in case you want to be sure you’ll get your S II as soon as possible, [...]
HTC EVO 3D accessories revealed
One of the great features of the HTC EVO 4G was the built-in kickstand which allowed for the best media viewing experience. Unfortunately, the successor to the EVO 4G, the EVO 3D, is a device optimized for media with its large glasses-free 3D screen, but it does not have a built-in kickstand. HTC is looking [...]
Mysterious HTC Ruby shows up. Is it an Android or a Windows Phone handset?
A new and mysterious HTC smartphone has been spotted recently on the web – more exactly on Flickr. The smartphone is called HTC Ruby, and was used to take tons of photos of the HTC Flyer tablet (we don’t know why would anyone take so many photos of the tablet from the same angle, but [...]
Canada: Samsung Galaxy S II 4G now available at Bell and Virgin Mobile
The Samsung Galaxy S II has become available in Canada at both Bell and Virgin Mobile today, just as we knew it would. Samsung’s flagship smartphone for 2011 is one of the top Android-powered smartphones right now, so if you’re in Canada and are looking for the cream of the crop, this is probably it [...]
HTC Wildfire S with Android Gingerbread officially announced by T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA has confirmed the launch of the HTC Wildfire S, which should become available starting August 3. As I assumed yesterday, the carrier is asking less than $100 for the smartphone on contract – $79.99 (after a $50 mail-in rebate) to be exact. For that kind of money you get the latest Android 2.3 [...]
Virgin Mobile Motorola Triumph now available for $299.99
Right on schedule (well, almost), Virgin Mobile USA has started selling the Motorola Triumph. This was one Android-powered smartphone that you could have pre-ordered from Best Buy over the past few weeks. If, however, you haven’t gone that route, you can now go to Virgin Mobile’s website over here and pick up a Triumph. The [...]
Google Nexus S for AT&T launching on July 24 via Best Buy
While the world is waiting for the third-generation Nexus smartphone to be announced, Google keeps on releasing its current Nexus model – the Samsung Nexus S – via more carriers. This week, it’s AT&T’s turn to launch the Nexus S. Well, in fact it won’t launch it the same way it normally launches phones, because [...]
New BlackBerry Bold 9930 for Verizon leaked, no word on its launch date
Research in Motion officially announced the BlackBerry Bold 9930 back in May, at the same time with the Bold 9900. The two smartphones are pretty much the same, the sole difference being that the 9930 has both GSM / HSDPA and CDMA / Ev-Do connectivity, while the 9900 is a GSM / HSDPA device only. [...]
Unwired View’s Mobile Cloud Music Showdown – Locker Services, 5th Place: MP3tunes
Ed. – This article is part of our roundup featuring all of the mobile cloud music services currently available in the US. Click here for more. MP3tunes is helmed by mp3.com founder Michael Robertson. Mp3.com was an early pioneer in the digital music space, as controversial as it was groundbreaking. But now that downloading music [...]
Mobile Cloud Music Showdown: Unwired View Reviews the U.S. Subscription and Locker Services
Ever since our digital music collection first outgrew our iPod, we knew that the days of storing music locally were numbered. As bandwidth widens and server space gets cheaper, moving our music collections from Macs and PCs to the cloud was inevitable. But in 2011, it can be a bit confusing…what does it mean, exactly, [...]
Nokia Q2 2011 results: profit declines, only 16.7 million smartphones sold
As you probably already know, Nokia is currently passing through very hard times, thanks to the transition from Symbian to Windows Phone. It’s probably the sh***iest period it’s been through since Nokia was founded. And its Q2 2011 financial results (announced earlier today) come to further paint a bleak picture for the Finnish giant. Nokia [...]
T-Mobile Rapport with Android coming soon (it’s a re-branded Huawei U8180)
Already released in the UK as Orange Stockholm, the Huawei U8180 X1 will be available via T-Mobile, too. Apparently, T-Mobile will sell the handset under the T-Mobile Rapport name – that’s what the Bluetooth SIG is suggesting anyway. Now, we don’t know when T-Mobile plans to launch the Rapport. But when it will do it, [...]