Nokia and T-Mobile issued a release today saying that they’ve agreed to promote together their respective offering for widgets, applications and other content. There are some things I don’t quite understand. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: The customer can browse and download widgets from both the T-Mobile widget gallery and Nokia’s Ovi Store…
Nokia announces new partnerships with Qualcomm and Broadcom
Today Nokia announced two partnership agreements. The first of the two involves Qualcomm, along with whom the Finnish giant will work together to develop “advanced UMTS mobile devices,” initially for North America. The idea is to use Nokia’s S60 platform and leverage Qualcomm’s advanced Mobile Station Modem MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series chipsets for “cutting-edge processing performance…
HTC Magic Launch Video at Mobile World Congress 2009
Here’s the quick hype video Vodafone showed us at their press conference, showing off all the snazzy utilities of Android running on their new Magic device. While I haven’t had the chance to try it hands-on just yet, a fellow blogger has assured me that it stands very separately from the G1. Honestly, I’ll believe…
Palm shows off UMTS version of the Pre; Announces webOS development book
Palm is showing off the UMTS version of its Pre smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Not much is known at this stage, but some rumors suggest the Treo maker is in talks with Vodafone, which would certainly help the company access many European markets. As for the release date, we’ve only heard…
Vodafone Announces Android-Powered HTC Magic
We had seen a few pictures of the next Android handset informally dubbed the G2, but now Vodafone and HTC have gone official with the European launch of the Magic. During Q&A they were rather mum about North American availability, but we do have some hard and fast specs. Really, it just boils down to…
SEVEN brings its mobile messaging solution to Android
SEVEN announced that it will bring its award-winning mobile messaging solution to the Android platform. According to the official release, “SEVEN is the first Android solution to address both personal and business mobile email — along with calendars and contacts — on one intuitive and integrated client interface.” Some of the SEVEN for Android features…
ZTE announces new data cards, mobile broadband support for Windows 7
With over 10 million units shipped last year, China-based ZTE is the world’s second largest supplier of HSPA data cards. Now at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona they are announcing the launch of two such products: First comes the MF662, which was specifically designed to work with the HSPA+ networks. Even though it measures…
Orange at MWC: LG Touch Watch phone, Orange Care, new widgets, app store goes multi-platform and more
French mobile operator, Orange, announced some interesting stuff at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Let’s briefly go through their news, shall we: First and I guess the most interesting news item is that they’ve managed to score the exclusive launch rights for the highly anticipated LG Watch Phone in Europe. We’ve seen LG’s cool product…
Live from Mobile World Congress: Hands-on with the 8MP Nokia N86
Nothing compares to actually putting hands on a new handset. No matter how much you read about a new piece of mobile hardware, there’s just no substitute for getting up close and personal with a new device. At a Nokia press conference held this morn, the Finnish cellphone maker unveiled their new Nokia N86 8-megapixel…
Microsoft scores LG’s commitment for Windows Mobile
LG and Microsoft announced an expanded alliance to increase the number of Windows Mobile-powered LG phones. As part of the agreement, LG wowed to make Windows Mobile the primary operating system for its smartphones and to increase both the number of Windows Mobile phones in its portfolio and the total volume of such devices it…