Sleek Huawei Vision with Android Gingerbread unveiled
Chinese giant Huawei has announced yet another Android smartphone – the Huawei Vision. Touted as the company’s sexiest smartphone to date, the Vision comes with a uni-body design, and uses the latest 2.3 Gingerbread OS (just like the Huawei Ascend II, released not long ago in the US by Cricket). Apart from having a stylish [...]
New BlackBerry Torch 9850, 9860 and 9810 officially announced
Research in Motion has finally taken the wraps off two new BlackBerry smartphones that run OS 7: the Torch 9850 / 9860 and Torch 9810. As suggested by lots of previous leaks, the BlackBerry Torch 9850 / 9860 is an all-touch smartphone which comes with a 3.7 inch WVGA display – the largest ever found [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9810 revealed on AT&T’s website
We first saw the Blackberry Torch 9810 back in June, and we have good news for those of you interested in the successor to the Blackberry Torch. A coming soon page has just popped up on AT&T’s website revealing the Blackberry Torch 9810. The Torch 9810 will be the world’s first 4G BlackBerry according to AT&T, although [...]
Rumor: new iPhone 5 will arrive in early October in Canada (via Telus)
Although we’ve recently heard that Apple would not launch the iPhone 5 until late October, this may not be true. And, well, we’ll probably not know the real truth until the day Apple decides to officially announce its new smartphone. Meanwhile, we have enough rumors to keep us busy. The latest rumor comes from BGR, [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9900 to be launched by T-Mobile USA on August 31?
Announced by RIM back in May, the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 still hasn’t been released anywhere in the world. But it should hit the shelves this month – not only in the UK, where Vodafone and O2 are getting ready to launch the handset, but also in the US. Phone Arena has received an image [...]
White Samsung Galaxy S II headed to Vodafone UK
Officially announced for the UK market just a few days ago, the white Samsung Galaxy S II has been confirmed now by Vodafone, which may become the first British carrier to offer the handset (sometime ahead of “early September”). SoMobile has it that Vodafone will sell the white S II for the same price it’s [...]
Motorola Pax QWERTY Android phone coming to Sprint soon
Motorola recently said it would launch up to 10 devices via Sprint this year. It already introduced the XPRT, Titanium, Triumph, and Photon 4G, and now we can take a better look at what seems to be Sprint’s fifth Moto handset in 2011. Codenamed Motorola Pax (peace, bro), the new smartphone has the same from [...]
Mobile Cloud Music Showdown – Subscription Services, 5th Place: Napster
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. You may remember the Napster of yore, the little startup that turned the music industry upside down by streamlining the process by which music fans could share their collections. While [...]
Quick and easy fix for all Android patent problems. Google should buy Motorola
You may not know it from the meteorically rising device sales, but right now Google’s Android is in deep trouble. It is being besieged by various patent holders, demanding licensing fees or an outright stop of Android device sales. Furthermore, those suing Google right now are no ordinary patent trolls. The biggest challenges come from [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 launching in Germany this month
Samsung has officially announced that its new Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be available in Germany starting later this month. The Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablet will come in two color versions: soft black, and pure white. According to Samsung, its official price for the German market is 629 Euros ($892). However, Amazon Germany is offering the [...]
Nokia could show off new Windows Phone Mango handsets on August 17
Many expect Nokia to announce its first Windows Phone handsets in October at Nokia World 2011. And, most likely, that’s how it’s going to be. However, Nokia may showcase some new phones earlier than October. The Finnish giant is getting ready to host a party together with Microsoft on August 17 in Cologne, Germany, promising [...]
New info about Sony S1 and Sony S2 revealed
Great news for anyone interested in Sony’s upcoming Android tablets, the S1 and S2 tablets. The Sony S1 tablet is different than the S2 since it only features one screen as opposed to the dual-screen of the S2. Both tablets will run on the latest version of Honeycomb. The S1 spots a 9.4″ IPS LCD display [...]
HTC says the Evo 3D will be available at Vodafone after all
Last week, we told you that Vodafone UK had cancelled the launch of HTC’s Evo 3D. Now Focus Taiwan claims that the carrier – one of the largest in the world – actually will release the new smartphone. Reportedly, HTC stated in an email that its 3D Android handset “will go on sale through Vodafone [...]
Motorola XT860 4G to be launched by Bell on August 9?
Not long ago, Bell has officially announced that it would release the Motorola XT860 4G in Canada sometime “this summer.” Now Mobile Syrup claims to have the handset’s exact launch date, and that’s August 9 (next week). There is still no word on the smartphone’s price from Bell, but it shouldn’t be more than $150 [...]
Did Motorola just hint they are ready to join Android IP racket with their own patent fee demands?
Android and it’s licensees haven’t been doing too well lately in dealing with various intellectual property issues. They are being sued left and right over patents, and courts already started handing them some painful defeats. I recently calculated that, in one scenario, a typical licensee might end up paying $60 per Android device in patent fees. [...]
LG Optimus Net P699 (Gelato) for T-Mobile shows up, could be launched by AT&T, too
Officially announced a few weeks ago, the LG Optimus Net P690 will most likely have several North American versions. LG has already stated that there would be a QWERTY-equipped Optimus Net for North America, although without saying for which carrier. Now an Optimus Net (P699) with T-Mobile’s logo on it has been spotted over at [...]
Mobile Cloud Music Showdown – Subscription Services, 6th Place: Rhapsody
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. Founded in 2001, Rhapsody was purchased by RealNetworks shortly after signing deals with the major US music labels. Recently declaring independence, they’ve made a recent push to take their service [...]
iPhone 5 launch only in late October
The iPhone 5 launch guessing game continues. A few weeks ago, everyone has pegged September as a most likely release date for next generation iPhone. There were even rumors about AT&T cancelling all employee vacations for the launch. Now AllThingsD has it that there won’t be any new iPhone this September. Instead, Apple will have [...]
Nokia changes its naming conventions again. Gets back to pure numbers
When you churn out tens of different product models every year, it must be hard to keep track of their numbers. It must be even harder if you are Nokia, and have to give each of your phone model a number and/or name, that any customer will understand. At one point in time, when Nokia [...]
Nokia 500 with Symbian Anna and 1GHz processor announced (video)
Nokia has officially announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone – the Nokia 500, of which we first heard back in June. The 500 is presented as an affordable touchscreen handset – and it is, since it will cost only €150 ($215) before taxes and subsidies. It features a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 640 x [...]