The folks over at Mobinaute have learned that Orange France plans to launch six (yes, SIX) new Android-powered handsets in 2009. The lineup will include devices from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung and HTC. Orange of course already has the G1 up-and-running within France, and are apparently planning to back that up with the launch…
Samsung m540 Slyde Coming to Koodo?
Rumors within the Canadian Mobile blogosphere had been circulating for some time now that the Samsung m540 Slyde was going to show up on Koodo. Low-and-behold, an image of the phone has showed up on Future Shop’s ‘Cellshop’ Spring 2009 catalog. The image above confirms this, as the m540 Slyde is the device on the…
Samsung C3310 is a low-end slider for emerging markets
In an effort to expand its share in the emerging markets, Samsung keeps pumping low-end phones. Lately, we’ve spotted one such device marked as C3310 which brings nothing too exciting to the table — only the basic phone functions with some music playback capabilities. Rest of the specs include quad-band GSM connectivity, FM tuner, mentioned…
Images of the Upcoming Samsung Trance Emerge
Some first looks of the upcoming Samsung Trance have been leaked. The device is a slider with hidden numeric keypad and touch control pad, very similar to the LG Venus. The Trance will fall into the low to mid-level device range, and will come to Verizon Wireless in the near future (Q2). Full details on…
Streamezzo to power Samsung’s mobile web portal
Steamezzo is all proud to announce that Samsung has selected them to develop, deploy and run the electronics giant’s rich Internet mobile portal. Samsung Rich Internet application, natively embedded on multiple Samsung devices, allows subscribers to access to a large variety of free and premium services such as news, ringtones, music, video-on-demand, and games. Special…
Samsung Omnia coming to Bell next month!
Canadians fiending to get in on Samsung’s touchscreen lineup will be happy to hear that Bell is gearing up to launch the Samsung Omnia in April. Following a successful run in the US as Verizon Wireless’s Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional-powered smartphone, it seems Samsung is bringing the Omnia to Canada. Word on the street has…
Europe gets movie downloads from Samsung
The iPhone helped reshape the way consumers view their handsets, but it also changed the way manufacturers are looking at the mobile space. It’s no longer good enough to have some bang-wizz hardware mated to some funky-cool user interface. No, these days, manufacturers have to offer more value and integration with multimedia services in order…
Android-Powered Omnia HD on the Way?
Word has it that upcoming versions of the Samsung Omnia will not only be running Symbian, but Android and other operating systems as well. What about Windows Mobile, like we were expecting? Apparently that’s not going to happen, purportedly because Microsoft was taking too long with updates. Yeah, Ballmer was talking about moving more quickly…
MetroPCS bringing out Motorola QA30 Hint, QA4 Evoke, and Samsung Finesse
Rumor has it the compact QWERTY-clad QA30 and touchscreen Delve, both recently landed on Alltel will be making its way to MetroPCS next month, alongside the QA4 which made it through the FCC the other day. The Samsung Delve will take on the mantle Finesse, and just like Alltel, will come along with a microSD…
Samsung Android Phone Coming in Q3?
All of the Android users out there are no doubt excited these days, especially with the leak of the Samsung slide that featured an oh-so-blurry image of the next (and first) Android-powered device from the company. While proof of concept is always cool, today more rumor is coming out on an actual release point. DigiTimes…