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…
HTC EVO 4G Announced – WiMAX, 4.3″ Screen, 8 Megapixel Camera, HDMI-Out
Sprint and HTC just announced the EVO 4G, a beast of a device that we had seen glimpses of under the monicker Supersonic. The overall package is extremely impressive: 4.3″ display, 8 megapixel primary camera with a secondary 1.3 megapixel video conferencing camera, 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor, Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, HDMI-out, GPS, and…
Samsung Galaxy S Announced – Android 2.1, 4″ WVGA Screen, 1 Ghz Processor
The Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) has been announced at CTIA, rocking an impressive 4″ WVGA touch display, Android 2.1, 5 megapixel camera and a 1 Ghz processor. The crux of the Galaxy S revolves around a home screen called Smart Life, which will provide a user-defined daily briefing with pertinent data (news, weather, meetings, maps,…
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…
Yap’s speech cloud solution used in Microsoft’s Talk to Text app for Sprint
Provider of automated cloud-based speech recognition services Yap announced that is has been selected by Microsoft to provide speech-to-text capabilities in its Talk to Text mobile application for Sprint. Initially, the new application is available for all Blackberry devices, allowing users to speak their text messages and emails. The Yap speech cloud provides fully automated,…
Orange to exclusively offer Motorola Milestone in Spain
Motorola announced that it will start offering its flagship Android-powered Milestone smartphone in Spain exclusively through Orange. This is the second time we see the American handset maker issuing the “Milestone comes to Spain” press release. Previously, we saw them announcing the unlocked device for the Spanish market during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.…
AT&T unveils Global Messaging 50, $10 add-on plan
AT&T has unveiled a new add-on plan for budget-conscious globetrotters called Global Messaging 50, allowing them to send both text and multimedia (image and video) messages while travelling abroad. As you can guess from its name, the plan includes 50 messages, which could be sent for $10 a month (on top of your existing monthly…
Orange scores hat-trick at the Mobile News Awards 2010
Orange swept the board by winning three industry gongs at the prestigious Mobile News Awards 2010 this week. In the first win of the evening, it scooped the coveted Large Retailer of the year category. For the first time, the category was judged by the cumulative scores from Mobile News’ ‘Mystery Shopper’ series, with Orange emerging…
National Trust iPhone app now available
The National Trust has launched a free iPhone app to help you find your nearest place to visit, wherever you are in the country. With hundreds of properties and many of the UK’s favourite coast and countryside locations in our care, the app gives you the chance to find basic information about places, opening times,…
Electric Pocket’s BugMe! Brings Sticky Notes to the iPhone – Even on the Home Screen
Electric Pocket have kindly told us they are introducing BugMe!, the popular note-taker and reminder application, to iPhone users. For well over a decade, PDA and smartphone users have been using the App to create notes and set reminder alarms to keep them on-task and on-time. “BugMe! for iPhone brings the classic app to a…