Location-based services provider Placecast is teaming-up with women’s specialty retailer White House Black Market (WHBM) to launch FashionAlerts and allow shoppers receive text messages from WHBM when they pass through specific geo-fenced areas. The service works with any feature phone that can receive text messages and is now running in 26 of the retailer’s locations…
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Samsung GT-P1010 is the Galaxy Tab without 3G
Guess we all knew something like this is in works. I’m talking about a version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab that lacks 3G radio, allowing users to connect to the Internet when in a hotspot, only. The model marked GT-P1010 has been leaked recently and as far as know it will keep its Galaxy Tab…
Motorola Quench XT3, Nokia C7 launched in India
Indian consumers have two new smartphones to choose from. The first one is the Android-powered Motorola Quench XT3, an all-touchscreen device that runs Android 2.1 Éclair. Rest of the features include a 3.2-inch HVGA display, 3G and WiFi connectivity, GPS, 256MB of RAM that’s coupled with 512MB of ROM, 3-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth, 600MHz…
IDC: Apple is now a top 5 mobile phone vendor [They’re number 4 actually]
The bean counters at International Data Corporation (IDC) have run the latest shipment numbers from all the handset makers and made a startling discovery. Apple, who wasn’t even making phones until just a few short years ago, is now ranked number 4 in terms of mobile devices sold. I’m not talking smartphones now, I’m talking…
Opera releases native Opera Mini client for Symbian devices [Both touch and non touch versions]
The Norwegians have given millions of Symbian device users a special gift today in the form of a beta version of the extremely popular Opera Mini application that’s written as a native application. Seems kind of backwards that the iPhone was the first platform to get a native version of Opera Mini, then Android, and…
So the Nexus Two (Nexus S) is real, eh?
We know that the Nexus 2 rumors have been around for a while, but only this week had we thought that there may be a possibility of actually seeing one at some point. Schmidt pointed out that there would not be another phone in the Nexus line, but it seems that they may have flipped…
Dell Venue Passes FCC with AT&T Bands
The Dell Venue (previously known as the Thunder) has passed through the FCC and Bluetooth Special Interest Group on its way to AT&T (considering the docs list testing for their 1900 and 850 MHz HSPA bands). The model number V03B for anybody curious. From what we know, the Dell Venue has a 4.1″ AMOLED touchscreen,…
Poor smartphone sales torpedo LG’s quarter
LG Electronics had an awful third quarter as its net profits plunged 99.2% from last year thanks to poor demand for its handsets. I hate to say it, but LG can’t blame anyone but itself. LG said it had a 32% dip in third-quarter phone sales. It did sell 28.4 million handsets during the quarter…
Official Twitter for Windows Phone App Launched
Just in time for the launch of Windows Phone 7, Twitter has announced their own dedicated app for Microsoft’s brand new mobile platform. Features include the timeline for friends you follow, suggested users you might want follow, direct messages, user-made lists, and takes advantage of the Pivots system to switch between those categories with sidewards…
HP and Palm quietly unveil a new logo- is it a winner or a dud?
HP and Palm quietly released a new logo for the merged companies. The new logo debuted on HP’s Facebook page and Palm’s website earlier this month and appeared with nary a mention from Palm or HP. The logo loses Palm’s traditional orange coloring and replaces it with a grey that matches HP’s blue. For those…