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I’ve had the weekend to play with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, and am so far pretty happy with it. There’s a lot that I’ll save for the full-blown review later this week, but here’s a quick warm-up. The X10 Mini Pro’s software is miles better than the original, larger Xperia X10. It…
A trio of BlackBerry OS 6 videos got out yesterday, showing off BlackBerry OS 6.0.0.100. We’ve already seen a lot of BlackBerry 6, both officially and otherwise, but nothing wrong with a little more eye candy, amirite? Take a look below before RIM gets them taken down from YouTube. The OS is still very much…
Some fresh shots of the rumoured Motorola Droid 2 have emerged, alongside rumours of a couple of BlackBerry devices and a tablet releasing by the end of the year. The Droid 2 is supposed to have a 5 megapixel camera and 1 GHz processor; combined with the fact that a batch of press shots have…
Sprint announced that they’d be carrying the Motorola i1, a ruggedized push-to-talk Android phone about 4 months ago, and now they’re finally getting around to releasing it. Various regional carriers have been getting the Motorola i1 out much earlier, but Sprint’s iDEN network will probably be offering the widest coverage and service. We’ve known about…
Remember the first iPhone 4 controversey, before all this Antennagate stuff? Yes, the wonderful Gizmodo leak that subsequently resulted in police seizing property from Editor-in-Chief Jason Chen’s home in order to ascertain if the pre-release device they had paid for was obtained legally. What followed was a lot of resistance from Gizmodo and its parent…
Apple’s event yesterday dived into some of the nuances regarding the dreaded iPhone 4 Death Grip, and part of that statement involved spreading some blame to other manufacturers, like RIM, HTC, Samsung, and Nokia, for having the exact same problems. Apple claims that signal attenuation and dropping calls due to tightly holding a phone is…
Sony Ericsson posted their second quarter financial results today, and things are looking up, mostly to the Xperia X10 and Vivaz, says CEO Bert Nordberg. Sales were up 25% from last quarter (which was also profitable), and 4% since last year, having shipped 11 million units since April. Pre-tax income for Q2 2010 was 63…
Out with the old, and in with the new. With the Motorola Droid X and HTC Incredible filling up Verizon’s upper-tier smartphone lineup, the eight-month-old Droid and five-month-old Devour are hitting the dusty trail. Verizon’s still selling both handsets, but they won’t be recieving any more shipments from Motorola, so be sure to get ’em…
The UK is set to get an upgraded version of the HTC Desire sometime in October called the Ace, according to retailer SuperEtrader. Though there aren’t any pictures of the phone, we’ve got a handful of specs to work with: 4.3 inch WVGA Touch Screen 8 Mega Pixel Camera 1 GHZ Qualcomm Processor Android 2.2…
Apple’s on the verge of announcing something about the iPhone 4 reception problem known as the “Death Grip.” Something tells me, though, that they aren’t going to tell us that they knew about the problem all along and went ahead with production anyway, even though that was apparently the case. Senior Apple engineer Ruben Caballero…