The Android rumor mill kicked into overdrive last week with chatter of a Nexus One follow-up. According to the latest dish, Samsung will be making what’s been unofficially dubbed the “Nexus Two.” The first signs of the handset came October 26 when City A.M. claimed there would be a new Google-branded device out in time …
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Sprint took a break from a string of Android announcements today by unveiling its new Samsung M360. The midrange flip phone is available today for free with a two-year service contract and a $50 mail-in rebate. Like last year’s Samsung M330, the M630 doesn’t go out of its way to impress. On the outside it has a simple flip phone …
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India has canceled a ban of BlackBerry services that was scheduled to occur at the end of October. A press release from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday confirmed the news, saying that discussions with RIM had led to an interim agreement under which BlackBerry Messenger services could continue. This agreement provides the Indian government with access to the …
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Many iPhone owners had an unwanted extra hour of sleep this morning, due to a bug in iOS4 not resetting its alarms properly after the clocks went back. Early on Sunday morning, the clock on the iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G automatically — and correctly — made the change from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time. Unfortunately, it didn’t …
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November 3 is going to be a busy day for T-Mobile. That’s the day the carrier will launch the LG Optimus T and the Motorola Defy, and now, a third device called the T-Mobile Comet has been added to the mix. The T-Mobile Comet is actually a rebranded version of the Huawei Ideos and will be offered as a prepaid …
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More photos of the Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone have emerged. The snaps suggest the phone is code-named Zeus, and show that it sports a solid chrome exterior that’s reminiscent of the BlackBerry Torch 9800‘s. Engadget, which posted the photos, also mentioned a few other titbits. There are apparently multiple handsets in existence, running different versions of the Android operating system. It seems …
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Apple has released the final testing version of ira next update to iOS–iOS 4.2 Gold Master–to developers for a final look before public consumption. The update to iOS promises to catch iPad users up to the features that have existed on iPhones and iPod touches running iOS 4 for the last several months. Highlights of the expected update include Multitasking, …
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Halloween wasn’t just a day when the ghosts and ghouls came out to play — Sony Ericsson finally started rolling out its long-awaited Android 2.1 upgrade for the Xperia X10 phones. After several delays, Sony Ericsson confirmed that Android 2.1 updates for the Xperia X10, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro started yesterday evening. The very first updates hit the …
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Facebook is holding a mobile-themed press conference this Wednesday. Journalists have been invited to the social network’s command centre in California, for what could be the announcement of a Facebook-branded mobile phone. The invitation shows a string and cup phone, suggesting a phone-related announcement. Could it be the Facebook phone that set the Web’s rumour mill spinning like a Catherine …
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News of the weird: Remi Denis-Courmont, one of the developers of the VLC Media Player app, has apparently sent Apple a “formal notification of copyright infringement” and asked that the app be removed from the App Store. Yes, we have apparently crossed over into Bizarro World. Better get VLC Media Player before it’s gone. The developer says Apple’s use of …
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Facebook has invited press to its Palo Alto HQ in the US on Wednesday to unveil some big mobile news, with some speculating that this might be when the social-networking company introduces the world to a Facebook-branded smartphone. (Credit: CBSi) At first blush this may seem like an ill-advised move in a market where renowned manufacturers, like Nokia and Sony …
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Apple has sued Motorola over multitouch patents in two separate lawsuits. The complaints, first reported by Patently Apple, were filed Oct. 29 and cover six patents. In the first complaint, the main document is only 9 pages, but one exhibit–patent 7,479,949–is broken into two parts and weighs in at a whopping 362 pages. Motorola on Oct. 6 sued Apple for …
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A Samsung-made Google Nexus Two will launch on 8 November and be sold exclusively through the Carphone Warehouse, if various reports this week are to be believed. The first suggestion of a sequel to the Google Nexus One was from London free paper City AM, which reported an ‘industry source’ saying the second Google phone will hit the UK before …
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So far Sprint ID (review) has been available on only a trio of Android phones, but CEO Dan Hesse announced at a Sprint developer conference early this week that Sprint ID is spreading to two more high profile devices, the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Samsung Epic 4G. In addition, Notre Dame University is a launch partner for the Galaxy …
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If you live in the United States and have used your cell phone on a European holiday, it’s very likely you became acquainted with Orange. I’m not talking about the color or the fruit, but rather the cell phone carrier. Incorporated in 1994 and now a division of France Telecom, Orange is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world …
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