If you’ve pre-ordered the HTC Desire HD, prepare to wait an agonising week longer, as Vodafone has pushed back its release date for the new Android super-phone. Vodafone originally set 14 October as the date for the smart phone’s launch, but you should now expect it to arrive on 22 October, according to the Desire …
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If the HTC Mozart doesn’t launch in the next few weeks we’ll devour our headgear, because Orange now has an official page on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile. We’ve seen pictures, videos and specifications leak out for the Mozart, but we didn’t know for certain whether it would come to the UK. But it appears Orange will be one …
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It perhaps won’t be the biggest surprise you have today, but the five major UK mobile networks — Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3 — will all carry Windows Phone 7 handsets. And if a statement by an HTC exec is correct, we’ll be seeing the launch as soon as October, which buttresses previous rumours. Phones have been leaking a-plenty …
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Pictures of the HTC Spark, or Trophy as it’s also known, have turned up on a developer forum. A poster called Fishawy started a thread saying his friend was playing with the HTC Spark, a phone running Windows Phone 7 we saw at the beginning of the week, but under the name HTC Trophy. He decided to take some pictures …
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As we gallop towards the launch of Windows Phone 7 next month, leaks of launch phones are springing all over the place: today it’s pictures and specs of the HTC HD7. Pictures were published by WMPoweruser, while Boy Genius Report got hold of specifications. The HD7 should more literally be called the HD3 — it’s the successor to the Windows …
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The iOS 4.1 software update, the first major update to iOS 4 since the operating system’s release for the iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G, should be out this Wednesday. We say ‘should’ because Engadget captured a screenshot of Apple’s UK website showing a September 8 arrival date, but that date has since been removed. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Apple …
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The UK will be awash with three new Samsung Wave phones in November, as Big Sam makes a big push before Christmas on its mobile platform Bada. Joining the upcoming Samsung Wave 2 and Samsung Wave 723 are three brand-new Bada-powered phones, the Samsung Wave 525, 575 and 533. The three are very similar in terms of features, all carrying …
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A full version of Firefox for mobile is a step closer to reality, as Mozilla has made a beta release of Fennec available to download for Android and Maemo. Firefox 4 Mobile is compatible with Android 2.0 and above, as well as Maemo on the Nokia N900. An alpha version of the Firefox mobile browser — named after an incredibly …
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Sony Ericsson’s new Android-based Xperia X8 has started shipping, its official blog announced — but it’s using the almost comically ancient 1.6 version of Google’s OS. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 joins the X10, X10 mini and X10 mini pro in its Android phone line, sitting between the X10 and X10 mini in size. It has a 3.2-megapixel camera, 3-inch …
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Cue the jokes about Microsoft giving away “bricked” phones. To stir the hype around Redmond’s new smart phone OS a few more degrees, Microsoft sent treasured executives a little present — a Windows Phone 7 mockup built of Lego bricks. The adorable fake phone was sent out in invites for an exclusive Windows Phone 7 shindig in November, Engadget reports. …
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