Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Nokia Lumia 800 vs iPhone 4S Comparison/Review. Part 1 – Hardware & Performance
Choosing a smartphone to carry for the next year or two is a difficult task these days. There are tens of devices running on 7 operating systems/platforms, at prices ranging from 100 to 600 Euro. To make that choice a little bit easier we took a closer look at the flagships representing 3 smartphone platforms, [...]
UK: Acer Liquid, beTouch E110, and Tempo X960 now just £79.99 SIM-free
If you like bargain basement prices, here’s something for you. Do note though that you’ll also need to love old smartphones. Well known UK-based retailer Expansys is having a clearance sale of sorts for a few Acer smartphones. You can now get three different devices for just £79.99. SIM-free and unlocked, in case you were wondering. [...]
HTC Titan priced at EUR 512, HTC Radar at EUR 335 (before taxes and subsidies). Hands-on videos
Almost a year after the first batch of Windows Phones shipped, it’s now time for the second generation of devices based on WP 7.5 Mango. While we already have the first WP 7.5 phone- Fujitsu IS12T shipping in Japan, HTC was the first to announce European launch of WP Mango devices – HTC Titan and [...]
Compal to start delivery of Windows Phones to Nokia in September. 2 million units ordered for Q4 2011
We already told you that first Nokia Windows Phones will be made by Taiwanese Compal. Today we have some more info about them. This has still to percolate to the English speaking part of the net, but, according to Taiwan based Dan Nystedt, local media is reporting that Compal will start shipping Windows Phones to [...]
BlackBerry Storm 2, Samsung Convoy, LG Ally, Vortex, Cosmos and Fathom get discontinued by Verizon
Some phones sell well, others don’t, but they all eventually have the same fate – reaching end of life status. Or, better said, being discontinued. According to an anonymous tipster, Verizon is getting ready to do just that – remove a few phones from its lineup, alongside two Wi-Fi hotspots. The full list includes Android-powered [...]
Nokia’s woes continue as it prepares to close UK online store
Embattled smartphone giant Nokia is to close its online store in the UK, another sign that its failure over Symbian and delay in bringing forth a Windows Phone 7 is costing the company. In a brief statement, Nokia said “We are planning to close our channel structure and focus our resources on key trade customers.” [...]
Russian mobile retail boss: “We expect first Nokia Windows Phone this year”
We all know that Nokia really wants to have it’s first Windows Phone to be ready before the end of this year. We’ve heard it from Nokia execs almost every time they are asked when the first Nokia WP device will ship. But Nokia brass is also very careful not to promise anything for this [...]
Nokia to start talking to Microsoft about phone unit sale next week
Remember all those conspiracy theories after Nokia Microsoft Windows Phone deal was announced in February? That Stephen Elop – ex-Microsoft Nokia CEO, is just a Trojan Horse, sent to Finland to pillage the company and sell Nokia to Microsoft on the cheap? They sounded pretty far fetched at the time to me. Not anymore. It seems [...]
Is Microsoft too embarrassed to tell us about stalled WP7 sales?
Things with Windows Phone are not going so well for Microsoft. Redmond software giant reported their quarterly results yesterday, and it seems they were so bad for WP7, that Microsoft is too embarrassed to tell us. If you look back to last year – late in December Microsoft announced that 1.5 million WP7 devices were shipped by it’s OEM [...]
Nokia’s first Windows Phones: W7, W8, E6 successor, and more
Apart from showing off a Windows Phone concept that will likely never become a real device, Nokia has been reluctant to provide any info on its upcoming hardware made in collaboration with Microsoft. However, if these new details coming from Mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin are correct, we now have the names of Nokia’s very first Windows [...]
HTC Touch Pro 2 gets system stability update almost two years after its release
Now this is odd. While many Android fans are finding out that their beloved devices won’t receive any more software updates, sometimes before the one year anniversary of their devices’ launch, HTC has released an update for the Touch Pro 2. In case you’re not familiar with that name, the Touch Pro 2 is a [...]
Windows Phone Marketplace: Now at 13,000 apps
Windows Phone is definitely picking up the pace now. 10 days after hitting the 12,000 milestone, it’s now at 13,000. In fact, almost 1500 apps have been added in the last 2 weeks, meaning WP7 is at a pace of adding 3,000 apps to its Marketplace per month. Now if only we could convince Pandora [...]
Sprint HTC Arrive Review
The very first Windows Phone 7 device has shown up on Sprint’s website and stores (note how I avoided the obvious pun there?), which Microsoft should consider a huge victory for its overall smartphone market share in the US. Now that WP7 is finally available on CDMA, we should see the floodgates open for multiple [...]
Elop will get 13M Euro bonus if Nokia/ Microsoft deal is a success
It’s always fun to count other people’s money, isn’t it? Especially those of the high paid CEO’s, leading the companies we love or hate. And none of the mobile industry CEO’s have been under more scrutiny recently, then Nokia’s Stephen Elop after Nokia’s tie-up with Microsoft was announced in February. Wild conspiracy theories about how this is [...]
HTC Arrive is Now Available on Sprint; $199 with Contract
Yearning for the Windows Phone 7 OS but you absolutely love your Sprint network? Starting today, the best of both worlds is now available to you with the HTC Arrive, the very first Windows Phone 7 device built for a CDMA network. And it certainly won’t be the last. For more information on the Arrive, [...]
Sprint HTC Arrive Unboxing and First Impressions
Sometimes I find it too easy to make puns out of phone names. The HTC Arrive on Sprint is one of the easiest, so I will do away with the usual puns. I can understand the choice of the name this time, however, because the Arrive is the very first Windows Phone 7 device to [...]
HTC Arrive on Pre-Sale at Amazon, Will Ship on March 20 for $149
HTC has been a busy little bee on Amazon this evening. First we saw the HTC Thunderbolt show up on sale for $179.99 an hour or so before the clock struck March 17, and then we stumbled upon the pre-order site for the HTC Arrive! The Arrive, which will officially go on sale March 20 [...]
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Reaches 10,000 App Milestone
Less than two weeks ago, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace celebrated reaching 9,000 apps. As of tonight, however, a much more widely recognized milestone was reached and the Marketplace now offers 10,000+ apps for download. Though WP7 started off slow (and unsurprisingly so), it appears to be picking up some speed. It took slightly more [...]
Windows Phone 7 NoDo Update Pushed Back to End of March
Ready for a shocker? The NoDo update for Windows Phone 7, which is hugely anticipated by users of the OS because it will add copy/paste functionality, has been pushed back again. Originally in the plans to be released as early as January, it was pushed back to the first 2 weeks of March, and now [...]
Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 Phone Gets Blurrycam Pics
While Android is the preferred OS platform for Sony Ericsson, that doesn’t mean the company isn’t exploring all of its possible options. In fact, SE did mention at this year’s MWC that they aren’t tied to just one OS. So it shouldn’t come as any sort of surprise that we would find Blurrycam images of [...]