A new Android handset from Motorola is finding its way to T-Mobile, according to a collection of screenshots from web-based training. The Motorola Charm is a rather wide candybar with a full QWERTY keyboard, running Android 2.1 and an improved version of Motorola’s user interface and services, Blur. The new features, which will come to…
Archives for 2010
Ultrabrief: Apple sells over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units in 3 days
Apple, iPhone 4, new sales record. Thats the story today, as Apple announces that it took the Cupertino-based company less than a week – well, only 3 days – to sell over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units. That’s means the company sold more than half a million iPhone 4 units every day in the first…
Nokia pokes fun at the iPhone 4 reception issue by highlighting the only thing they still do right
The iPhone 4 has a bit of a problem if you hold it with your left hand. You go from full bars, to no bars, and it’s caused by Apple thinking up the concept of making the antenna the actual frame of the device. Problem with this is when you touch two points of the…
TELUS Nokia E72 Pricing Details Emerge
Not so long ago we mentioned that TELUS announced the Nokia E72. From what we know thus far, the device is slated for a July 11th release, but we’ll wait to see for ourselves. These rumored launch dates sometimes have a way of changing on us. We’ve also heard some new pricing information. At first,…
Sudoku Uno 1.3 for iPad
New from the good folks at Houdah Software is Sudoku Uno for iPad. Yes, I had to write about this because puzzle games on the iPad are fast becoming one of my vices. In fact, Scrabble is probably at the top of my list these days… The tablet form factor simply lends itself to games…
Rugged Samsung Xcover (E2370) launched in Sweden
It’s not like every day that we see a rugged Samsung handset. The Xcover (E2370) is more of an exception than the rule and it’s the same device we’ve seen at the Korean company’s portal during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now it’s officially launching in Sweden with other countries (I guess) to…
Virgin Mobile USA to launch prepaid MiFi
Apparently, Sprint don’t want to sell MiFi to prepaid users directly, hence they’re using its subsidiary Virgin Mobile for such an offering. According to Gearlog, the MVNO is set to start offering the prepaid MiFi at some point this week, most likely later in the day. The device will cost $149 and will be available…
Nokia enhances developer offerings
It seems Nokia has finally understood that it needs to take a good care of developers in order to get them to make apps for their platforms and eventually make Nokia-branded device more appealing to the end users. That said, the Finnish company has issued a number of announcements for developers. Here’s what they got:…
ABI Research: More than 55 million smartphone shipments Q1 2010
ABI Research is out with a new report talking about smartphone shippments. From their press release, we learn that the market continued to build on the strong fourth quarter of 2009 in the first three months of 2010. ABI’s data suggests that a little more than 55 million smartphones were shipped during the period, which…
Gamevil brings Baseball Superstars 2010 to the Android platform
After releasing few titles for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Korean publisher Gamevil is looking towards Android users for growth. That said, they’ve launched Baseball Superstars 2010 for all the users with smartphones running Google’s mobile OS. Personally I’m not a big fan of baseball, but with the first Superstars game hitting the Android Market, I’ve no…