Samsung and T-Mobile have gone official with the Samsung SGH-T539 – the Samsung Beat. We had leaked info on this quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) clamshell phone a while back, and it’s finally hit the market – although it’s really no cause for celebration. That is, unless you like slightly awkward-looking flip-phones with illuminated green-ring speakers on…
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RIM announces CDMA BlackBerry Pearl 8130 – the BlackBerry Pearl 2.0 with GPS
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry lineup of smartphones, has finally announced their anticipated BlackBerry Pearl 2.0 as the CDMA BlackBerry Pearl 8130. The update to the Pearl lineup is the first BlackBerry Pearl for email addicts on a CDMA network (Verizon/Sprint). We’re expecting the BlackBerry 8130 to bring some updated software…
Finland’s Nokia will buy US-based Navteq for $8.1 billion
It looks like Nokia’s push to expand their online services is about to get a big boost in the GPS navigation department. Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia has just announced their plans to buy US-based navigation map-maker Navteq for a reported $8.1 billion. The buy-out has been approved by both companies’ board of directors and will…
HTC Juno coming to US as T-Mobile Shadow
We gotta hand it to BGR. The HTC Juno hasn’t even been announced yet and Boy Genius got his hands on a T-Mobile-branded T-Mobile Shadow – in its retail box. It seems that the T-Mobile Shadow may be coming to the US with a VGA screen and we hear that the display is clearly visible…
HTC gets official with HTC Touch Dual (Slide), S730, P6500
Just like we expected, HTC’s press event in London today took the official wraps off their HTC Touch Dual (which we’ve been expecting to have been called HTC Touch Slide), HTC S730, and HTC P6500 Sedna. Europeans can revel in the privilege of getting these slick, new smartphones before everyone else (Japan notwithstanding). As you…
No surprise here: novelists find a new medium in Japan
When you practically depend on your mobile phone, it doesn’t surprises that you’ll actually start reading novels on it. That’s exactly what young Japanese people are doing nowadays… Apparently amateur writers in the Land of the rising Sun have found a new convenient medium — the so called mobile novel — in which to loose…
Domino’s Pizza expands its mobile ordering system beyond SMS
This isn’t the first time we’re writing about Domino’s Pizza going mobile. Earlier, we wrote about how they’ve enabled pizza ordering by SMS, and now they’re expanding their service with “optimized for mobile” website using which people can order pizza from their mobile phones. At the moment of this writing, nearly 2,500 of Domino’s 5,128…
Adobe launches Flash Lite 3 with Flash video (FLV) support
Today Adobe announced the availability of the “so much needed” Flash Lite 3 to bring Flash video (FLV) support to the mobile devices. Initially, two of the Adobe’s large partners, Nokia and NTT DoCoMo, committed to release devices with the support for the new technology in the not-that-distant future, and I guess other players (both…
The first Chinese phone with haptic touchscreen feedback
It’s kinda amazing how Chinese handset makers are implementing some of the coolest technologies (@LINK0@) before major brands in this business. Now we have them releasing the phone with haptic touchscreen feedback, which they call “special tough feeling.” The device has some very impressive specs that include 3.2″ QVGA 1.6 million color screen, 3D sound…
Asus P750 coming in December?
In July we wrote that Asus is preparing the baddest Windows Mobile smartphone ever – P750. In the same article, we’ve mentioned the it will most likely be launched in October. Now, we have a new bit of information suggesting Asus will be rolling out the P750 in Singapore and other Asian countries starting from…