News tagged "Misc"

SatNav manufacturers have surely sweat up when the big G announced Google Maps Navigation. But it was Android 2.0 only for use in the US. Now Google is cranking up the dials in the sauna and are letting Navigation loose on Android 1.6 (or Donut in...

We've seen quite a few of our camera samples taken with HTC HD2 getting an annoying pinkish tint in the center. It seems we're not alone and if you're planning into getting one of those you'd better read this. HTC support acknowledge the issue...

We have some great news for the owners of Samsung S8000 Jet: there is a new firmware update for the Jet bringing lots of goodies for your phone. As it turned out it's been a while since it first showed up but most probably many of you (we as well)...

Just a couple of days ago Maemo team suggested Nokia has plans to ditch Symbian as an OS of choice for its N-series devices in favor of Maemo. Nokia however have something to say on the matter as well. At a Maemo event in London, on November 18...

GSMA announced the winners of the Asia Mobile Awards and the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix - Asia Tournament. Uh, they aren't really tournaments. they are Awards that seek out the best products and showcase new and upcoming companies with innovative...

The latest and greatest Opera Mobile 10 beta has been around for Symbian OS for a couple of weeks now, but it's only now that it's available to the Windows Mobile crowd as well. You can download it for free as we speak. Windows Mobile users would...

It makes Sense that HTC would come to their Senses and started rolling out update for the HTC Magic that brings it the coveted Sense UI. It's just Hong Kong for now, but we expect updates for other countries to become available soon too. In a Sense,...

Today, one year after the initial Google Earth release into the App Store, Google's one and only Google Earth for mobile app has been updated to ver. 2.0. The new features include access to the custom maps you've created on your computer,...

Almost every OS has them - application stores that is - but now owners of Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 phones also get in on the action with Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Installing the client is a straightforward affair and so is downloading new...

The ITG xpPhone that we already told you about is going to come in more than one flavor. The future users will be able to pick the OS, CPU, storage and RAM memory as well as the display to create a device that suits their needs the best. The...

It seems that the launch of the Bada OS hasn't spelled doom for the Samsung Symbian / WinMo portfolio after all. The company has contacted us and denied the claims made by HMC Investment Securities about Samsung leaving only Android and Bada as...

Just by reading our articles you may or may not have noticed that we, the GSMArena team members, are as passionate about other high-tech stuff as we are about cellphones. Well, we are... So starting from today, we will materialize our interest...

The guys over at Mozilla are organizing a contest for Maemo mobile browser add-ons and are willing to award the top 10 developers with a new Nokia N900 each. If you're a developer, you can participate in the contest by submitting your add-on for the...

Eight months after the Google Latitude launch it's now time for its first major update. Thanks to location history you can now keep track of the places you've been at and thanks to smart alerts you will get notified when one of your pals is around....

Certain Nokia-branded chargers from a third-party manufacturer sold after April are defective and Nokia started a free of charge exchange program. These chargers were either included in the box or sold separately. The issue affects chargers...

While some companies make their way to the top using others' achievements, there are still ones that are willing to pay for patent licenses without mumbling too much. Like Samsung who have just signed an agreement with Qualcomm, according to which...

What a lovely end of the business week: we’ve just found out that Nokia are giving away 100 000 pedestrian navigation licences. And what is even better, they are all free and valid for use in the whole world. It almost sounds too good to be true but...

A new intriguing mobile form factor concept comes from the Brazilian designer Fabio Dabori. The so-called HOOK promises to innovate the keypad locking mechanism and push the future mobile designs to a new direction of smaller, more compact...

Opera portfolio is definitely a one-stop-shop for finding a proper mobile web browser whether you're on a smartphone or a feature phone. The Opera Mobile browser has reached the beta stage of version 10 and is now available to Symbian S60 devices -...

Orange officially announced that the launch of the iPhone 3G and 3GS will be on 10 November. Their future iPhone plans are absolutely identical to those of O2 ones and you can have the 3GS free for 44 GBP on a 24-month contract. Much like...