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Samsung Galaxy Beam hits Singapore shelves on 17 July

Samsung Galaxy Beam hits Singapore shelves on 17 July

09 July, 2010 | comments (38)

Is the rise of pico-projector phones starting? Samsung is having a second go at it with their Android-powered Samsung I8520 Galaxy Beam, which is going on sale in Singapore starting next Saturday (their first attempt was the Samsung i7410). The...


Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) coming to AT&T on 18 July

Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) coming to AT&T on 18 July

09 July, 2010 | comments (22)

Here's they come, the Galaxy S phones. AT&T just announced pricing and target availability for their version, the Samsung i897 Captivate, and it will beat the T-Mobile version by a few days and will probably become the first Galaxy S to hit the...


Behind the scenes: Damian Dinning talks Nokia N8 camera

Behind the scenes: Damian Dinning talks Nokia N8 camera

08 July, 2010 | comments (126)

Mobile camera guru Damian Dinning shares some behind the scenes information on the fine tuning on the 12 megapixel camera on the Nokia N8. He also shares one stunning camera sample along with a few crops, that illustrate the approach they've taken...


HTC Mondrian and Mozart officially confirmed… kinda

HTC Mondrian and Mozart officially confirmed… kinda

08 July, 2010 | comments (17)

HTC's first Windows Phone 7 devices have been confirmed for the first time. Their MMS profiles in XML have been found on the official HTC website, which means Mondrian and Mozart are for real. Not that we had any doubts about it. It's only natural...


Opera Mini 5.1 out now, recommended for all S40 devices

Opera Mini 5.1 out now, recommended for all S40 devices

08 July, 2010 | comments (62)

Today Opera released an update for their Opera Mini mobile web browser. Opera Mini 5.1 brings better memory management, new optimized skin with support for multiple pages and overall performance improvement. Opera Mini 5.1 is recommended for all...

Tags: S40, Misc


YouTube Mobile website finally gets an HTML5 treatment

YouTube Mobile website finally gets an HTML5 treatment

08 July, 2010 | comments (45)

The mobile version of the popular YouTube website just got faster and touch-friendlier. It also got the HTML5 treatment all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users have been waiting for so long. What this means is YouTube videos will be of highest-quality...


Motorola CHARM unveiled, brings SNS-minded Android 2.1

Motorola CHARM unveiled, brings SNS-minded Android 2.1

07 July, 2010 | comments (22)

Motorola obviously got tired of all those leaks and decided to step up and tell all there is to be told about the CHARM. The T-Mobile-exclusive smartphone will bring a mid-range set of features, focusing on social networking. Motorola CHARM will...


BlackBerry 9800 Slider and 9670 clamshell caught on video

BlackBerry 9800 Slider and 9670 clamshell caught on video

07 July, 2010 | comments (15)

Yet another leak of the BlackBerry 9800 slider, Curve 9300 and 9670 clamshell - this time they are posing in front of a video camera. The videos are quite thorough and demonstrate both the hardware and software sides of the...


Bluetooth SIG adopts Bluetooth 4.0 low energy technology specs

Bluetooth SIG adopts Bluetooth 4.0 low energy technology specs

07 July, 2010 | comments (28)

The Bluetooth SIG has just announced that it has officially adopted the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. Low energy consumption is just one of the major improvements of v4.0 over the v3.0. Having made that step, the Bluetooth SIG (short...

Tags: Misc


Motorola CHARM shot in the wild, arrives at T-Mobile in late July

Motorola CHARM shot in the wild, arrives at T-Mobile in late July

07 July, 2010 | comments (9)

The T-Mobile-loving Motorola CHARM, a.k.a. the Motorola BASIL Project, showed up once again. The device should be officially announced later this month but at this rate we aren't sure if there will be any specs left unknown by then. This is the...


Major UK roadmap leaks - HTC Gold, Ace and Vision, Nokia E7 and Samsung Cetus on the way

Major UK roadmap leaks - HTC Gold, Ace and Vision, Nokia E7 and Samsung Cetus on the way

06 July, 2010 | comments (25)

Today we stumbled upon a major UK roadmap leak, bringing bringing some juicy information. HTC Gold, Ace and Vision, Nokia E7, and Samsung i8700 Cetus and brand-new BlackBerry Curve 9300 - they're all unannounced and they will all star in this year's...


HTC profits skyrocket, surpass all expectations

HTC profits skyrocket, surpass all expectations

06 July, 2010 | comments (60)

HTC has recorded yet another amazingly successful quarter, according to their financial results report. The Taiwanese company exceeded its expectations achieving a thirty-three percent growth in profits compared to the same period of last year....


White iPhone 4 Diamond Edition surfaces, yours for 20K US dollars

White iPhone 4 Diamond Edition surfaces, yours for 20K US dollars

06 July, 2010 | comments (77)

The white version of the iPhone 4 isn't available just yet but its first luxury edition has already surfaced. Covered with a handful of shiny diamonds, only fifty of those will be made so you better hurry up if you want to get one. The black...


LG announces Optimus One and Chic, Froyo upgrades on the way

LG announces Optimus One and Chic, Froyo upgrades on the way

05 July, 2010 | comments (38)

LG will expand their Optimus range with two entry-level smartphones - Optimus One and Optimus Chic. They will both run on the latest Android OS v2.2 Froyo, while the current Optimus Q and Z will be granted Froyo upgrades in the coming months. LG...

Tags: LG, Android, Touch UI


200,000 Samsung Glaxy S phones sold in South Korea in 10 days

200,000 Samsung Glaxy S phones sold in South Korea in 10 days

05 July, 2010 | comments (75)

The Samsung Galaxy S is selling very well - in South Korea. Samsung says it's because the Galaxy S is better tailored to the South Korean market than some of its competitors, like, say, the Apple iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 3GS has sold 800,000 units...


QWERTY-enabled Android smartphone HTC Vision spotted

QWERTY-enabled Android smartphone HTC Vision spotted

05 July, 2010 | comments (30)

The QWERTY-fied HTC Vision has not been officially announced by the company yet but if you're too eager to get yourself one of those Android-powered smartphones you can do it straight away. The phone has just been spotted selling on a Croatian...


Yet another video of  Symbian^3- based slider Nokia N9 appears

Yet another video of Symbian^3- based slider Nokia N9 appears

04 July, 2010 | comments (126)

While the name of the rumored Symbian^3-running Nokia slider (a.k.a. Nokia N9) is still a mystery, it's hardware and software are already pretty familiar to us. After all, the device appeared on numerous videos and images. And today we get to see...


Apple finds iPhone 4 signal bars misleading, hiding poor signal

Apple finds iPhone 4 signal bars misleading, hiding poor signal

02 July, 2010 | comments (740)

Apple just issued their official statement on the non-existent iPhone 4 reception issues. What iPhone 4 users are experiencing when they grip the lower left corner is just their real signal, poor as it seems. Their poor signal has so far been...

Tags: Apple, Touch UI


More details on the Android 3.0 a.k.a. Gingerbread requirements

More details on the Android 3.0 a.k.a. Gingerbread requirements

02 July, 2010 | comments (46)

Gingerbread, the next level of the Android OS, will show up on time for the Christmas shopping but details on it have already started to surface one by one. However, yesterday's rumors of Gingerbread's requirements are actually not completely...


European Union welcomes new even lower roaming charges

European Union welcomes new even lower roaming charges

02 July, 2010 | comments (17)

As promised, as of yesterday the citizens of the 27 EU countries are paying less for calls and data while travelling across the European Union.This is the second step in the EU Parliament program for cutting the roaming charges, which started last...

Tags: Misc