Samsung Jack Gets Dressed up in WM 6.5
Samsung announced this morning that one of its existing smartphones will be getting a tuneup. If you own a Samsung Jack you will now be able to upgrade your phone to Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard.
To be honest, we weren’t expecting to see the Jack to be one of the first 6.1 phones pushed through to [...]
HTC HD2 starts shipping in Europe and Asia, will hit the US in 2010
HTC’s latest flagship Windows Mobile phone, the HD2, is now shipping in Europe and Asia (Taiwan will be the first Asian country to get it, in mid-November).
Moreover, HTC and Microsoft have also unveiled that the HD2 would be available in the US in early 2010, offered by a “major carrier”. Verizon? AT&T? T-Mobile maybe? We’ll [...]
Bell’s Samsung Omnia II is the Official Mobile Device of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Bell Canada announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Omnia II, which will hit the shelves in November, after the carrier launches its brand new HSPA network.
The Omnia II was designated the Official Mobile Device of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games (held in Vancouver between 12 and 28 February next year), and Bell will offer it [...]
Motorola to Launch 20+ Smartphones in 2010
So it appears the Motorola Droid is just the beginning of the company’s rebirth back into mobile phone prosperity, as indicated by a statement by CEO Sanjay Jha during the press announcement of the Droid yesterday.
At first Sanjay mentioned the number of new smartphones would be in “multiple tens”, before clarifying that at least 20 [...]
HTC: No Android HD2 For You!
Yours truly reported a rumor circulating a few days back that the HTC Passion, the CDMA equivalent of the Dragon, would be coming to Verizon as Android’s version of the HD2. According to a recent interview however, that rumor has been dispelled by HTC’s CEO.
Peter Chou conducted an interview with Forbes yesterday and talked about [...]
Sprint readies lots of HTC Android phones, BlackBerries, WiMax phones and more
Sprint announced quite a few interesting phones lately, including the Palm Pixi, Samsung Instinct HD, Samsung Intrepid, Samsung Moment and HTC Hero.
Well, the third largest US carrier prepares even more surprises for 2010.
According to GearLog, Sprint executive David Owens has just unveiled some of the carrier’s plans for next year.
Reportedly, Sprint plans to launch [...]
HTC Touch Diamond2 is Next to Get WinMo 6.5 Treatment
Just a couple nights ago we reported that Windows Mobile 6.5 has finally been getting some love by current 6.1 handsets such as Vodafone’s version of the HTC Touch Pro2. Now that love is starting to spread to other HTC products.
This particular update will be available for the Touch Diamond2, and not for just one carrier; [...]
Vodafone Updates Touch Pro2 to WinMo 6.5
Any of you who have a HTC Touch Pro2 with Vodafone, we know you have been patiently waiting for your handset to get Windows Mobile 6.5. And finally Vodafone has an update ready for you to download.
What you’ll need to do to download 6.5 on your Touch Pro2 is follow this link leading you to [...]
Ballmer: Zune is Coming to Next Windows Mobile
Farewell, Windows Media Player; hello Zune?
We have a pretty good feeling that the guys and gals over at Engadget had a great day, if nothing else than for the fact they interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and got some useful tidbits from him besides the usual CEO-speak. And now all of the blogs are abuzz [...]
Samsung launches mobile app contest for the Omnia II
Samsung has kicked off a new Mobile App Contest targeted at global developers and looking to generate new applications for the Omnia II Windows Mobile smartphone.
Samsung will offer up to $330,000 in prize money. Two top winners will receive $100,000 in cash, each. There will also be smaller prizes: $10,000, $5,000 and $2,000.
All winning applications [...]