Nokia and T-Mobile are proving to be quite a pair when it comes to delivering smartphones at an affordable price. First, there was the Nokia Nuron and now there’s the Nokia E73 Mode. The E73 Mode is a QWERTY messaging smartphone (Nokia’s thinnest to date) that will be available starting June 16 for just $69.99 …
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June, 2010
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3 June
Acer Liquid E comes to Canada
Acer America announced Wednesday that its Liquid E handset is now available through an exclusive deal with Rogers Wireless. Effective immediately, customers can pick up the Android 2.1 device for as low as $49.99 as long as they agree to a three-year contract. The Liquid E features a 3.5-inch WVGA touch display, a 5-megapixel camera, and support for Wi-Fi (802.11 …
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2 June
3 halves data roaming for World Cup: ‘Ere 3 go, ‘ere 3 go
3 has chopped off its data charges at the knees like a violent defender scything down a swaggering winger. To celebrate the World Cup, 3 has more than halved its data roaming prices for fans travelling to the tournament in South Africa. Data roaming now costs £1.25 per MB. Billing by the MB ensures you only pay for exactly what …
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2 June
LG and T
As surprising as it may seem, T-Mobile has never had an LG phone on its network, at least until this summer. The companies’ first-time collaboration will be marked by three new phones: the LG Sentio, LG dLite, and LG GS170. The Sentio and the dLite will have T-Mobile’s Social Buzz, an app designed to give an easy view and access …
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2 June
I want my MTV…app
If you’re over the age of, oh, 25, this may not interest you much. For you youngsters out there, however, this is, like, so totally cool: MTV just got its own app. Free but ad-supported, MTV News serves up the latest pop-culture gossip–er, news–about music, movies, TV, celebrities, and gaming. It’s available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch now; …
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2 June
Streaming video to outpace P2P traffic growth
Video is still the killer app of the Internet, but peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent will no longer account for the bulk of traffic on the Net as streaming services grow at a quicker pace over the next few years. For 10 years, peer-to-peer traffic, such as BitTorrent, which includes some video, has been the largest type of traffic on the …
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2 June
Live Ashes cricket on Vodafone, 3
Streaming video from this summer’s Ashes cricket series between Australia and England will be available exclusively to both Vodafone and 3 Mobile customers. For anyone who follows the machinations of mobile phone companies, this will come as no surprise that Vodafone and Hutchison (3 Mobile’s owner) merged in Australia last year to become VHA. According to VHA, this summer’s Ashes …
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2 June
Motorola Flipout makes official debut
We’ve already heard so much about the Motorola Flipout that at this point, the official announcement just seems like an informality, but here it is, Moto’s newest Android phone. Similar to the Nokia Twist, the Flipout sports a square design that twists open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. With its fun design and such hip colors choices as Licorice, …
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2 June
White Bold finds a home at Vodafone
With hopes of capturing the hearts of a more fashionable crowd, the BlackBerry Bold is soon to be strutting its stuff in white, and will be available exclusively through Vodafone from 6 June. Model Didier Cohen with the White Bold at its launch event. (Credit: RIM) Technically speaking, the White Bold is identical to its darker brethren, and as such, …
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2 June
Quickoffice, Docs To Go taking productivity tussle to the iPad
Quickoffice and Documents To Go have long been in lock-step as the productivity apps to beat on the iPhone. As soon as the feature set of one pulls ahead, the other is sure to leapfrog its way ahead–for a while, anyway. A few hours after Data Viz updated its Documents To Go app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, …
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