Verizon Wireless has finally announced their new smartphone lineup that we’ve been expecting for some time now. The US CDMA carrier has gone official with four new smartphones – the Samsung i760, Verizon XV6800, SMT5800, and Palm Treo 755p. The Samsung i760 will be hitting the No. 2 carrier’s network through online sales on October…
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Microsoft applies for mobile interface patent
Microsoft isn’t known for having the most user-friendly mobile UI in their Windows Mobile OS. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the WinMo platform, but there’s just a non-intuitive, corporate feel to the Window Mobile UI. Well, it seems Microsoft sees things the same way. They’ve applied for a patent of a new user…
Video: S60 Touch, high quality
I’m still trying to find the right guy to send me the raw feed of the above video, but here is a link to the raw MP4 file (62 MB) that popped out of my N95. Here is that same video encoded by Blip, instead of youtube: Play
Ambrosia Software releases iToner v1.0.3, compatible with iPhone v1.1.1
Coming back from the dead, Ambrosia Software has revived its popular iToner software to work with the newest iPhone firmware – iPhone v1.1.1. Apple effectively killed the previous version of iToner by effecting file-system changes to the iPhone’s v1.1.1 OS. As you probably already know, iToner allows you to upload custom music ringtones to your…
Samsung G800 review with image samples posted, better than the N95?
When I say better than an N95 I’m strictly talking in terms of image quality. A lot of people will buy the Nokia N95 just for the camera alone so it is important to talk about that devices’ competitors: Samsung’s G600 and G800 and Sony Ericsson’s K850i. Take a look at some of these image…
Brief: Nokia E90 finally gets AGPS and a bunch of other features with new firmware
Full change log over here on Symbian Freak. You can bet your buns that Steve Litchfield is going to thoroughly review this new firmware revision, he is the definition of an E90 addict. For those who don’t know what AGPS is: GPS chips by themselves take several minutes to find your location, yet a data…
General Dynamics’ Sectera Edge uber-secure smartphone green-lighted by NSA
Remember that super-secure smartphone that General Dynamics’ C4 Systems was working on for government agencies? No? Well, we don’t blame you, but we did mention the General Dynamics Sectera Edge a few months ago. The NSA was courting two vendors, General Dynamics C4 Systems and L-3 Communications, to supply an uber-secure smartphone that could access…
Video: Samsung SGH-i620 Preview
From the folks at Expansys: Full specifications from GSM Arena can be found here. Notice how you can use the scroll wheel to navigate thru out the entire OS? Can’t do that with the Nokia N81 naviwheel and it is driving me absolutely insane. Insane.
Verizon Wireless intros over-the-air mobile phone updates
In a move that is sure to make very little difference to the average user, Verizon Wireless has introduced their over-the-air mobile phone firmware update service. The new service will give Verizon Wireless customers a heads-up when new firmware updates are available for their Verizon-phone – at which point the firmware can then be downloaded…
Nokia Q3 2007 Conference Call: 85% increase in profit from a year ago plus other good news
Just got finished listening to the Q32007 Nokia Conference Call, some interesting bits of information here: The Nokia 6300 is the number one revenue generator for Nokia and the device has sold 6 million units this quarter. Over 9 million Nseries devices have been sold, the majority of them being the N95, N73 and N70.…