We got our first glimpse at the Samsung Wave at Mobile World Congress 2010 back in February and now, the first smartphone to run Samsung’s Bada mobile operating system is finally available in select European countries. Those countries include the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, and Samsung plans to bring the Wave to Southeast Asia, …
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24 May
Game trailers that work: Daredevil Dave (iPhone)
Think about some of the best movie trailers you’ve ever seen; the ones that made you sit up and say, “I gotta see that!” (For my money, they don’t get any better than the trailer for Cloverfield.) A good game trailer can have the same impact. For example, I just got my first look at Daredevil Dave: Motorcycle Stuntman! Immediate …
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24 May
MeeGo: Intel and Nokia’s new mobile operating system revealed
Like the hamster we got when we were ten, we instantly fell in love with Maemo, the Linux-based operating system on the Nokia N900. But like that hamster, Maemo is destined for a life that is brutish and short — not because of a wayward hoover nozzle (sob), but because it’s been subsumed into Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo platform, seen …
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24 May
U.S. Cellular announces the Samsung Messager Touch
Despite our disdain for the bad spelling, Samsung has decided to go ahead with its third Messager phone for U.S. Cellular. It’s called the Samsung Messager Touch, and as the name indicates, it’ll have a 2.6-inch touch screen in addition to a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Features include Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface, a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder, 16GB of microSD memory …
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24 May
Huawei’s LTE rides the ultra
Representatives from network gear supplier Huawei demonstrated last week the company’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband running on the super-fast “maglev” train. The train runs on a magnetic levitation track that stretches for about 19 miles from the center of the Shanghai district of Pudong, China, out to Pudong International Airport. The train reaches a maximum speed about 267 …
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24 May
Verizon iPhone: Sooner or later?
At least once a week I get an e-mail from a friend or reader asking me whether I think a Verizon iPhone will be announced on June 7 when Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the fourth-generation iPhone at Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference). A lot of the folks who e-mail me have fulfilled their contracts and are free to …
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24 May
LG Fathom brings new Windows world phone to Verizon
Though Windows Phone 7 devices will be on their way in a few months, Microsoft’s still supporting and cranking out Windows Mobile 6.5 devices and the latest to join the family is the LG Fathom for Verizon Wireless. Designed for business users, the Fathom runs Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and has dual-mode GSM/CDMA functionality so you’ll be able to use the …
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24 May
Yahoo and Nokia extend partnership
NEW YORK–Web portal Yahoo and cell phone maker Nokia announced Monday that they will extend their partnership, giving Nokia greater access to Yahoo’s e-mail and messaging services and Yahoo access to Nokia’s Navteq mapping technology. CEOs Carol Bartz and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Nokia The two companies have had a partnership since 2005. Yahoo services have already been preloaded on some Nokia …
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24 May
LG Vu Plus to support AT&T Mobile TV
As we’ve heard rumblings that AT&T may be discontinuing the LG Arena soon, it’s good to see AT&T releasing yet another device that’s capable of supporting AT&T Mobile TV, the carrier’s live television service. The LG Vu Plus is an update to the LG Vu from two years ago, and features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, an HTML browser, up to …
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24 May
Motorola plans to update Droid to Android 2.2
We already know that the Nexus One and other HTC phones will get a Froyo update, but what about other phones? Well, Motorola Droid owners wondering if their beloved handset will be getting Android 2.2 need not worry. The handset-maker already plans to make Froyo available via an update before too long. Slashgear reached out to Motorola over the weekend …
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