GTA III coming to select Android and iOS devices Dec. 15th
In October, Rockstar Games announced that they would bring Grand Theft Auto III to select smartphone devices. Fans rejoiced around the world as Grand Theft Auto III was the original game of the GTA series to follow the third-person sandbox experience which was set as the standard with all of the games later on. Today, [...]
Pink Samsung Galaxy S II Coming To Sweden With Three
Differently colored smartphones have proven popular with consumers. We saw iPhone sales explode when the (long delayed) white iPhone was released, and in the same vein, we have seen Best Buy and other retailers make deals to be the exclusive providers of differently colored Android devices. For those of you who like your smartphones in [...]
Blackberry Curve 9380 hits the FCC
The first keyboard-less Blackberry Curve has just hit the FCC. Two models of the Blackberry Curve 9380 were included in this filing. From this filing, we have found out that the models support WCDMA band IV, meaning that this device will likely be carried by T-Mobile. Specs wise, the Curve 9380 spots a 3.2-inch screen with [...]
HTC G1 gets its own ICS ROM
Ever since the Ice Cream Sandwich source code has been released, tons of devices have been getting their own ICS ROMs. Now, Google’s original Android device, the HTC G1, now has its own Ice Cream Sandwich ROM. Jcarrz1 from XDA-Developers has uploaded a video of his G1 running on a ICS ROM. In the past, we [...]
Asus Transformer Prime may be out in the US on November 28 or December 16, Canada on December 5
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime will hit North America soon, that much has been made clear when the quad-core Android tablet was announced earlier this month. Unfortunately though, all the manufacturer gave us back then was the pretty vague time frame of “December”. Yesterday Amazon USA started taking pre-orders for the tablet, but it [...]
Nokia Lumia 800 vs Samsung Galaxy S2 vs iPhone 4S/4 price comparison and NWP shipment expectations
So, Nokia Lumia 800 sales are disappointing, some analysts say. Perhaps. But what does it mean, really? For sales to be disappointing we first have to set some realistic expectations of what they should have been. And then see whether Nokia exceeded, met or missed them. So how many Lumia 800s and Lumia 710s can [...]
Asus Transformer Prime caught on video running Android 4.0 ICS, pre-orders and official page go live
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is set to arrive in stores in December. This will be the sequel to the original Transformer, and the Prime will be the first quad-core tablet on the market, being powered by Nvidia’s Kal-El Tegra 3 processor. As such, it’s quite understandable that people are anxious to get their [...]
Sprint iPhone 4S 16GB Now Being Offered At Radio Shack
The iPhone 4S is the hottest phone out there, and it’ll may still be hard to find this holiday season. If you’re looking for an additional place to purchase the Sprint iPhone 4S, then you’ll have to look no further than your local Radio Shack. A leaked document posted by 9to5Mac (via pocketnow) shows that [...]
Motorola Atrix Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update now rolling out in Europe
The Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update for the original Motorola Atrix has started rolling out in Europe today. That comes exactly as Motorola had promised about a month ago. If the 15th isn’t ‘mid-November’, we don’t know what is. So yeah, some good news there for Atrix owners outside the US. On the other hand, Ice [...]
Verizon announces the rugged Casio G’zOne Ravine 2, out on November 17 for $149.99
Verizon has just announced the successor to the rugged Casio G’zOne Ravine, the aptly named G’zOne Ravine 2. Just like its predecessor, this phone meets military standards for immersion, water, shock and dust resistance, vibration, humidity, solar radiation, altitude, as well as low and high temperatures. As such, Verizon thinks it’s best suited for workers [...]
Rogers Acer Iconia Tab A501 now available for $199.99 with 3-year contract
After having made its way both to the UK and the US via AT&T, the Acer Iconia Tab A501 has now landed at Rogers in Canada. Or better said, on Rogers’ network, since it’s not sold by the carrier directly. The Iconia Tab A501 is basically identical to the A500 save for the fact that [...]
Unwired View is looking for new authors
Unwired View is hiring again. We are looking for a number of a talented writers to join UV team and expand our coverage. If you are passionate about mobile tech, good at finding interesting news, have strong, well argued opinions and know how to write well, we are looking for news editors in U.S., Europe [...]
A new Nokia camera flagship with optical zoom to succeed N8 this spring. Still runs on Symbian
Here’s an interesting bit of news, that we now heard from multiple trusted sources: Nokia is working on the successor/ replacement for their N8 cameraphone. The new Nokia imaging flagship will have a bigger camera sensor (not sure about resolution), optical zoom, 3.5” WVGA Clear Black display with Gorilla Glass, 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM. And [...]
Asus Eee Pad Slider finally available in the UK for £429.99
It’s been a long wait if you live in the UK and wanted to get an Asus Eee Pad Slider tablet. Especially if you started waiting for it to hit a store near you back in January, when it was announced alongside the Eee Pad Transformer. But the good news is that it’s finally here. [...]
Nokia Lumia 710 – some thoughts and hands-on
In addition to Lumia 800 flagship, Nokia launched another Windows Phone today – Nokia Lumia 710. And even without a huge marketing budget of Nokia 800, Lumia 710 has the potential to be a rather big thing. Nokia really went out of its way to bring the price of this Windows Phone down. At EUR [...]
Nokia Lumia 800 hands-on. Launch musings, Nokia Drive & Nokia Music apps demo
It’s finally here. The first Nokia Windows Phone – Nokia Lumia 800. And it is pretty much what we expected. Not much more and not much less. It is the same Nokia N9, with Meego OS replaced by Windows Phone Mango. And this is a bit of a problem for Nokia now. We already had 3 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus/ Google Ice Cream Sandwich launch points to signs of trouble in Androidland
Ever since the first Verizon Droid with Android 2.0 launched 2 years ago, the rise of Google’s mobile OS seemed unstoppable. And meteorically fast. But trouble free Android growth days seem to be coming to the end. We all heard about the biggest threat to Google’s mobile OS – patent issues. We took a close [...]
iPhone sales fell in Q3, Apple may lose the No.1 smartphone maker spot to Samsung or even Nokia
Apple has reported its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter of this year (which is the actual third quarter in the calendar – and that’s how we’ll refer to it from now on). These results are a mixed bag, since the numbers are mostly up (and by a lot) compared to the same quarter [...]