08.02.10
Want to know your phone problem before you send your Nokia phones to service center? Nokia Beta labs has introduced a new Nokia Diagnostics, letting you perform 5 different tests on your Nokia phone. Check out the software here. With Nokia Diagnostics, you can diagnose, troubleshoot and configure your device using five different tests: Network Coverage [...]
For those who need a rugged phone, Nokia is announcing a new model soon according to Nokia Conversations site. The site is previewing the rugged phone with a series of test videos: What we’ve come up with are a series of videos showing off our experiments, and the results. The first two are live today [...] Verizon Wireless and Samsung this week announced the availability of two new messaging phones – the Samsung Rogue and the Samsung Intensity. The Samsung Rogue is a full touch screen phone that comes with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and [...] With over one million accounts activated in just over six months, Ovi Mail is getting its supporter from developing countries, with top five countries in India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South Africa. Since its inception in December 2008, Ovi Mail is available in more than 180 countries and supports 20 languages. Ovi Mail is free to [...]
T-Mobile USA and HTC today announced that it will start offering the HTC Touch Pro2 beginning Aug. 12. The HTC Touch Pro2 is powered by HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface, has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, bluetooth, WiFi and built in GPS. The device is ship with Windows Mobile 6.1, though, it is not sure [...] The latest approving documents from FCC is revealing the LG GW600 Windows Mobile smartphone, which should be released on AT&T network in US according to the draft manual. The GW600 comes with 3.1 megapixel camera, built in WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and a 20-keys QWERTY keyboard. The candybar design also has a headphone jack and microSD [...]
Said to be go live on 25th or 26th, Verizon Wireless is releasing Blackberry Storm 9530 software updates through its website (www.verizonwireless.com/storm) and also your blackberry desktop manager. The software updates is fixing tons of bugs and will also include enhancements to existing application. Check out the change log below. BlackBerry Storm – MR3 (5.0) Software Release Software [...]
Ideaworks Labs announces that Airplay SDK now supports natively-compiled Android applications for all Android devices currently in the market. Airplay SDK allows developers to deploy rich connected applications across hundreds of devices by compiling their application once to native CPU instructions, then deploying with a single click to iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BREW and [...]
Sony Ericsson introduced its communicator called Aspen, an eco-friendly Windows Mobile smartphone –is made from recycled plastics and consumes less energy. Initially known as Faith, it also integrates a 2.4-inch touch screen display, built-in QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and high-speed HSDPA Internet. The Aspen runs Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 platform, allowing users to open [...] Samsung today introduced two new 1GHz ARM CORTEX-A8 based application processors, the S5PC110 and S5PV210, where the S5PC110 is targeted for small form-factor connected devices such as smartphones. Both the S5PC110 and S5PV210 are equipped with a powerful built-in 3D graphics engine to support sophisticated 3D UI and high-caliber games. In addition, the two processors [...]
Announced during the Mobile World Congress last month, the HTC Magic has been found approved by the FCC with T-Mobile branding. There isn’t an official name yet for T-Mobile but it would mostly use the T-Mobile G2. The HTC Magic has a 3.2″ QVGA touch screen display and features a trackball and navigational buttons for [...]
On a Sony Ericsson product showcase event in Taiwan, eprice has got the company’s vice president of marketing, Peter Ang, talk about the development of Android smartphone. Among the Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android, Sony Ericsson is now putting more resources on its new Android smartphone according to Peter Ang. This does not mean we will see its [...] Nokia unveils the Nokia E72 at the Nokia Connection event in Raffles City Convention Hall, Singapore, today. The slim device offers mobile email and instant messaging experience. Enjoy live pics of the company’s latest full QWERTY smartphone!
Samsung today announced its first solar powered mobile phone, the “Crest Solar” (E1107). The new handset enables its users to charge the battery anywhere the sun is shining when electricity is unavailable. The Crest Solar will be available in numerous markets including India, Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Latin America from June 2009. With an extended [...] TrinketSoftware, the software maker of my favourite Twikini twitter client, is now running a promotion for all its Windows Mobile software. Its software include the PowerSMS, FakeCall, NoCalls are now available for $0.99 each compare to a normal price of $4.95 to $9.95. Check out the promotion and software information here. The promotion will end on May [...] eBuddy today announced the launch of eBuddy for Android, a free instant messaging application that enables users with AIM, Facebook, ICQ, Google Talk, Yahoo! or MSN Windows Live Messenger to have multiple chats in one interface. eBuddy for Android features include: eBuddy ID - one log-in to access all your favorite IM networks Ability to run in the background New [...]
08.03.10
There isn’t much to go on here for rock-hard information as of yet, but there’s a few rumors flying around that a red version of BlackBerry’s 8530 could be heading to Sprint. Sure, it might not be as bold or flashy as another device we’ve seen recently, but the 8530 is one of the newer [...]
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08.03.10
We love a good codename as much as the next person, but sometimes companies just miss the mark. With some devices, the name is pretty much half the luster of owning one. Case in point, a certain product from a Cupertino-based company lives in its name. And we understand that there are just some words [...]
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08.03.10
The truth of the matter is, up until this moment right here, the Project Pink development was somewhat of a mystery. (Actually, it still is.) There hasn’t been any official word from Microsoft that the supposed devices under this project codename even exist, and even if Gizmodo has received a “stack of promotional materials,” we’re [...]
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08.03.10
We were just talking about the Turtle, the other device from Microsoft’s Project Pink, and then this happens. Gizmodo have scrounged up some live images of the Pure, the more SideKick-like device. Of course, they “hired” Mr. Blurrycam to take the still photos, so despite the fact we’re only an inch or two away from [...]
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08.03.10
Here we go again, folks. Just in case we couldn’t beat this issue to death any more, we’ve got another confirmation from Microsoft that the HD2, manufactured by HTC, will definitely not be getting an (official) upgrade to Windows Phone 7 Series. You’ll probably remember that the 4.3-inch screen, 1 GHz Snapdragon processor do “technically” [...]
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