Samsung just unveiled their latest Android smartphone, and it’s a doozy. The Samsung Galaxy S is being promoted as the company’s highest-end Android phone, and with whiz-bang features like its 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 1Ghz processor, Android 2.1 OS, S Life UI, and the ability to stream videos to your DLNA-enabled TV, the Galaxy…
Hands on the Motorola i1 – Sprint Nextel’s first Android iDEN handset
Sprint Nextel has just launched the first iDEN smartphone to run the Android OS, and we just had a chance to play with the rugged “push to talk” Android phone. It’s called the Motorola i1, and it isn’t just the first Android device to support Sprint’s Nextel PTT technology, it’s actually one of the very…
HTC Desire shows its dark side
Smartphones, nay mobile phones in general, are personal devices. So, if you’re a smartphone manufacturer, it’s important to make sure that your headlining handsets are available in a variety of color variants. The Nexus One-esque HTC Desire is no exception – it was recently spotted with a Silver color scheme. Well, today we get to…
T-Mobile HTC HD2 gets sold early, gets unboxed
The March 24th launch date for the US variant of the HTC HD2 is closing in and we’re just days away from seeing the king of all Windows Mobile phones hitting the streets in all its big-screened glory. That also means T-Mobile stores across the country have already begun to stock HD2 inventory. For most…
Microsoft gets official on Windows Phone 7 cut-and-paste and unlocked emulator goodies
There’s a lot of chatter going on right now about whether or not cut-and-paste and true multi-tasking will ever make it into Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series platform. Well, today Microsoft themselves are getting a little more official – if just as vague – on the whole issue of which features may, or may not,…
Bet you can’t type this fast on your iPhone
Think you can type fast on your desktop or laptop computer’s keyboard? Well, chances are pretty good that the iPhone user in the video below can tap-type significantly faster with his two thumbs than you can with eight fingers helping your two thumbs. According to an iPhone typing speed test, YouTube user “konceptzoflife” can hit…
China Mobile asks Apple to make iPhone variant for its home-grown 3G network
China Mobile has yet to bring the Apple iPhone under its wing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not trying. Following years of butting heads with Apple over revenue-sharing negotiations, China Mobile is apparently crawling back to Steve Jobs in hopes that the iPhone Godfather will give the wireless network an iPhone variant that’s compatible with…
Apple sends select iPad devs tablet ‘tester’ under strict security
It’s not Apple’s standard M.O to give out pre-release test devices to just anyone. But, if you happen to be considered one of Apple’s partner developers, you get some preferential treatment. The iPad, for example, has been reportedly sent out to a select group of iPad devs ahead of the tablet’s launch next month. The…
New Apple patent hints at iGroups location-based social network
Location-based social networks are all the rage these days. Any mobile app worth its salt has some sort of tie-in with geo-location data. Apple may soon be jumping into the social networking waters themselves. A new patent application hints at Apple’s plans for a new type of location aware social network that gives groups of…
Windows Phone 7 Series to get cut-and-paste, eventually
When Microsoft mentioned that the near ubiquitous cut-and-paste smartphone feature would not be available on Windows Phone 7 Series, folks around the blogosphere threw up their arms in frustration at Microsoft’s seeming oversight. But, as we mentioned a couple days ago, Microsoft was merely referring to the lack of cutting and pasting in the initial…