Build 21169 of Windows Mobile 6.5 has made it through the cracks, primarily featuring stability improvements, but also the new Internet Explorer. This was one of the big selling points touted at Mobile World Congress, but we’ll have to try out this build to see if WinMo 6.5 was all it was cracked up to…
Expansys shows Nokia N97, HTC Touch Diamond2 release dates, pricing
Good ol’ Expansys is always there to get us some solid info before other mobile phone stores or, in some, cases even handset makers themselves. This time around, their websites have information regarding the release dates and pricing of the two highly anticipated smartphones – Nokia N97 and HTC Touch Diamond2. First we’ve learned that…
AT&T Prepping a Trade-In Program For Launch This Summer?
Classify this one as rumor and speculation only please…But BGR has blogged about some new details they’ve received on a ‘Phone Trade-in’ program that AT&T is working on. The program would launch in the summer, probably around June. Here are the details as BGR has received them so far: The phone being traded in in…
Fresh BlackBerry Niagra Info Leaks
Some additional information about the CDMA BlackBerry Bold has trickled out, including a model number: 9630. Currently packing OS 4.7.1, the Niagara should be landing on Verizon and be dual-mode (running on both EV-DO rev. A networks and UMTS). Bad news? No Wi-Fi. Ugh, that’s just plain silly. The Storm really sucked it up for,…
Hyundai Dolphin Phone Does Flips and Stuff
Hyundai has found some inspiration for their next handset from marine life, apparently. The MB-490i, slated for a May launch, has a 240 x 400 touchscreen, a secondary swipeable touchscreen, and speakers by Yamaha. All NSFW pop culture references aside, this one should be going for €250. What do you guys think of the design?…
Sony Ericsson to make TD-SCDMA handsets?
Sony Ericsson is evaluating the possibility to start making TD-SCDMA handsets for the Chinese market. According to Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and CEO of Ericsson who also serves as a director at Sony Ericsson, it is expected that 3G handsets will see an increase in sales now that the government has released 3G licenses. Apparently, China…
First Motorola i465 press image is here
Remember that Motorola i465 iDEN phone, the one with kinda smallish screen and full QWERTY keyboard? Well, the first official image of the device is here, thanks to the always highly informed Russian website – Mobile-Review. Now you may think we’ve also heard something regarding release dates, but unfortunately that’s not the case. Nextel will…
T-Mobile Germany first to get HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2
Of course they are. Following on HTC’s official unveiling of the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2, the overhauled successors to the popular Diamond and Pro smartphones, we’re hearing that T-Mobile Germany is preparing to launch the new pair of Windows Mobile smartphones in the first half of 2009! As two of the highest-end…
RIM Axing BlackBerry Professional Software and Unite?
Beginning July, BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Unite! will be phased out, and all customer support ended by 2010, according to carrier communications. Both are very promising apps that were never implemented as well as they should have been. Unite! is a free offering that brings some enterprise-style functions to small groups, although it is…
Motorola Q9 Napoleon Cut from Verizon Lineup?
Did those pictures of the Motorola Q9 Napoleon yesterday catch your eye? Sad times, because the word is that even though there was a limited run made for government trial, the Q9 Napoleon will not see a full-fledged commercial release on Verizon, and some say that it will actually be the last Q coming out…