HTC has been on a tear in the smartphone space recently. The Taiwanese handset firm is now the No. 4 smartphone maker in the world, and has been enjoying decent growth. But, given the slew of new HTC models hitting market, delays in product launches and increased competition from the iPhone and Android smartphones, HTC…
Apple patches iPhone SMS text bug with iPhone OS 3.0.1 update
Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1 update that patches the iPhone SMS text message bug we reported on previously. And all it took to motivate Apple to issue the patch was for a couple security researchers to publicly announce the iPhone’s SMS bug. Find the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update in iTunes. Just connect your iPhone…
Verizon’s Motorola Sholes Android smartphone spied in the wild
The ink isn’t yet dried on the rendered images of the Motorola Sholes Android phone and we’ve already got some spy photos of the real thing. What you see here is a decidedly less glamorous look at the Sholes and it’s slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Motorola Sholes is due to hit Verizon Wireless before the…
Windows Phone to get text bubbles, courtesy Windows Mobile 6.5
In what could be it’s last official act as the moniker for Microsoft’s next major mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5’s latest leak has confirmed that Windows Phone will feature iPhone-esque text bubbles. A leaked version of Windows Mobile 6.5 build 2193 gives us a glimpse at the text-selection tool built into what will one…
Leaked HTC Mega ROM filled with TouchFLO 2D 2.0 goodness
XDA never ceases to amaze. The HTC Mega hasn’t even been announced – heck, it was barely leaked by the WiFi Alliance – and the upcoming entry-level Windows Mobile smartphone’s ROM has been leaked. What’s so great about that? Well, the HTC Mega’s ROM is packed with HTC’s latest TouchFLO 2D 2.0 UI. Like the…
Motorola ‘Sholes’ bringing Android to Verizon?
Verizon Wireless has yet to bring a serious Android smartphone into its mobile phone portfolio, but that may soon change. A new set of handset renders have surfaced today that show an Android-powered Motorola smartphone bearing some Verizon branding. The newly leaked pics of the Motorola “Sholes” could be the first images of an Android…
Motorola posts a profit, cuts mobile losses
Following too many quarters of red ink-stained balance sheets, Motorola has today posted a profit. Motorola’s Q2 2009 saw a net profit of $26 million, an increase from $4 million in the previous year’s Q2. Compared to Motorola’s Q1 loss of $231 million, the company’s fortunes seem to have come around. Part of the profits…
Apple support docs blame jailbreak for Visual Voicemail failure
The iPhone Visual Voicemail problems are apparently the fault of iPhone customers. Apple has posted a support document that blames the Visual Voicemail bugs on the iPhone jailbreak. Apple is calling the jailbreak an “unauthorized modification to the iPhone OS” (which it most definitely is), but says that jailbroken iPhones will see disruption of services:…
Microsoft kills Windows Mobile brand, births Windows Phone
Today, we learn that Microsoft is planning on ditching, nay killing, the Windows Mobile brand. What about Windows Mobile 6.5? Windows Mobile 7? Nope, it’ll be known as Windows Phone. The change also applies to past WinMo platforms. From this point forward all Windows Mobile 6.x operating systems will be referred to as Windows Phone.…
Apple releases MobileMe iDisk iPhone app for all your file-sharing needs
If you’re a MobileMe users, and you’ve got an iPhone, Apple’s got a little present for you. The iPhone-maker has just released the MobileMe iDisk iPhone application for free on the AppStore. MobileMe iDisk for iPhone allows MobileMe subscribers to view and share files stored in the MobileMe “cloud.” If you have MobileMe, you have…