Nokia’s road to Feb.11th – the last 18 months. Part 2
This is part 2 of my look into the situation at Nokia during the last 18 months before February 11th 2011, when it made the dramatic strategy shift, abandoning Symbian and Meego platforms in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone. In the first part I talked about how the top managers saw the company situation in [...]
T-Mobile LG Doubleplay will be out on November 2 according to leaked info
T-Mobile’s odd, dual-touchscreen LG Doubleplay side-slider was announced last week. However, as has increasingly become the case in the past few months, that announcement came with no hint about the handset’s release date or pricing. Unfortunately we still don’t have any new information about the latter (all we can say is that past rumors had [...]
Asus Eee Pad tablets to be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
If you have an Asus Eee Pad Android tablet, and are wondering whether or not you’ll get a taste of Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich, the official answer is “yes.” According to Asus Singapore’s Facebook page, the company has confirmed “support for Ice Cream Sandwich on the Asus Eee Pad Family”, and aims “to bring [...]
New Nokia 800 Sun / Searay hands-on photos leaked
Expected to be officially unveiled tomorrow during Nokia World 2011, the Nokia 800 Searay, aka Nokia Sun, has been spotted in two new hands-on photos, which seemingly confirm that the handset has a magenta version (just like the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 – which, by the way, served as a reference design for the 800). The [...]
AT&T’s Blackberry Bold 9900 to be launched “soon”
While T-Mobile USA is selling the BlackBerry Bold 9900 since August, AT&T has yet to announce an official launch date for the new Bold. However, we now know that the 9900 is “coming soon” to AT&T – or at least that’s what one of the carrier’s Twitter accounts suggests here. Most likely, AT&T will launch [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 2 Global and Droid Pro Android 2.3 Gingerbread updates finally rolling out now
Today is a big day if you own either a Motorola Droid 2 Global or a Droid Pro. The updates to Android 2.3 Gingerbread for both devices are now going out, after a few false starts here and there. The update for the Droid 2 Global was supposed to happen in September, but got pushed [...]
ViewSonic ViewPad 7e Android tablet launching in North America this month for $199
ViewSonic has officially announced that it’s bringing its latest affordable Android tablet to North America before the end of this month. Called ViewSonic ViewPad 7e, the new tablet runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and will be available for only $199. The ViewPad 7e features a 7 inch display with 800 x 600 pixels, ViewScene 3D UI, [...]
Sprint HTC Evo Design 4G now just $29.99 with contract
Last week, Sprint officially announced the HTC Evo Design 4G, the newest device to enter its Evo line of Android-powered smartphones, and the first Evo to come with ‘global roaming’. The Evo Design 4G is a midrange offering that would have been a flagship handset just last year. Sprint has started selling the Evo Design [...]
UK: 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook sees price cut to £249
The BlackBerry PlayBook may be running an entirely new, not-BlackBerry operating system, but that doesn’t mean that RIM’s first tablet is selling well. Or at least not as well as RIM would have liked it to. It’s clear that the PlayBook, at this moment, is more of a niche device than a competitor for Apple’s [...]
Samsung Transform Ultra coming to Sprint
Released by Boost Mobile a few weeks ago, the Samsung Transform Ultra will be sold by Sprint, too. Although Sprint says the Samsung Transform Ultra is a “premium Android device”, it’s just a non-4G mid-end handset. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and features a 3.5 inch HVGA display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.2MP rear [...]
T-Mobile HTC Radar 4G will be available on November 2 for $99.99
Late last month, T-Mobile announced that it would be adding a new Windows Phone to its portfolio, namely the HTC Radar 4G. This is a very similar device to the internationally launched HTC Radar, the Taiwanese company’s latest midrange WP offering. Back when the official announcement came, T-Mobile unfortunately decided not to provide us with [...]
Motorola (Droid) RAZR can be pre-ordered in Australia
Motorola’s latest and greatest Android smartphone – the Droid RAZR, simply known as RAZR outside the US – will be available in Australia soon. For the beginning, Optus will be the only Australian network to offer the Motorola RAZR. The carrier is currently accepting pre-orders for the handset online. According to Optus, “if you order [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V available in the UK
Introduced by Sony Ericsson in August as a slightly different Xperia Neo, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V is now available in the UK, where Play.com is selling it unlocked. Play is asking £259.99 (about €300 or $415) for the Neo V – a good price considering the handset’s features, which include a 3.7 inch [...]
Nokia’s road to Feb.11th – the last 18 months. Part 1
Nokia strategy shift on February 11th 2011, came as a huge shock to most mobile industry watchers. At the time many expected Nokia to add either Windows Phone or Android OS to its offerings. But the general consensus was that it will keep its own Symbian and Meego platforms too. Back then, Symbian was still [...]
T-Mobile Rapport with Android launched in the UK
First spotted by us back in July, the T-Mobile Rapport Android smartphone has been launched now in the UK. The handset – which is based on the Huawei X1 and is also offered by Orange under the name of Orange Stockholm – is sold by T-Mobile UK both on Pay As You Go (here), and [...]
Canada: LG Eye will be Bell’s Optimus LTE, coming soon
Earlier this month, LG announced the Optimus LTE, its first Android-powered smartphone to come with an HD touchscreen. Back then, the phone was said to be headed only to Korea, with two versions being created for two different carriers over there. Yet it was kind of inevitable that the Optimus LTE would slowly start to [...]
iPhone 4S pre-orders start in 22 more countries ahead of October 28 release date
The iPhone 4S is already available to buy in 7 countries, and it’s been like that since its official release date of October 14. These countries are the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK. And now the iPhone 4S can be pre-ordered in 22 additional territories, where it will be released on October [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus officially on its way to Verizon. Sprint may launch it too
Verizon has finally decided to put an end to all the speculation and announce what we’ve known for days: that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is headed its way. That said, the carrier still left two very important things in the dark – the ‘when exactly’ and the ‘for how much’. Regarding availability, the only thing [...]
Nokia 5800 and 5530 get new features via software update
Here’s some good news if you own one of two older Symbian^1 devices. The Nokia 5800 and 5530 did not and will not get updated to Symbian Anna (or Belle for that matter), so the situation for these phones can look kind of bleak. Yet it isn’t entirely so, for Nokia has been working on [...]
Samsung announces the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for the US, coming on November 13 for $399.99
Samsung has just announced the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus all over again, this time for the US market. This tablet was first unveiled by the Korean company last month. But back then there were absolutely no details about its availability and pricing in the US. That changes today, with the press release basically serving just [...]