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August 24, 2007
Rumour: Google Phone is nigh
Today's rumour is one that has been presented with cast-iron certainty by the originating source, but as far as we can tell, has no more evidence to back it up than when we first reported on it.Yes, it's ...
August 24, 2007
Palm responds to Engadget's open letter
A few days ago those concerned chaps at Engadget wrote an open letter to Palm where they listed the actions that they thought the once-glorious PDA / smartphone manufacturer had to take to complete with companies like RIM, ...
August 22, 2007
Verizon disables GPS in BlackBerry 8830
Verizon has reportedly disabled the GPS chip in BlackBerry 8830 phones issued as part of contracts with the US carrier.Users have discovered that despite the fact that the maps application is still there, the GPS chip that would ...
August 22, 2007
Smartphone search just got smarter
Search engines are great tools, but there are times when they just aren't smart enough. Search for 'Prada' on any search engine and you'll find a lot of results about the Italian fashion house, but not an awful ...
August 22, 2007
Rumour: HTC Juno to be carried by AT&T
Crunchgear brings us rumours of a previously unannounced smartphone from HTC, the Juno, which will be carried on the AT&T network in the USA.With a form factor reminiscent of the HTC Fusion, the Juno is a GSM phone ...
August 22, 2007
Handango upbeat about smartphone software market
Handango has released the 2007 Second Quarter edition of the Handango Yardstick, a quarterly report on the state of the mobile content industry.For the second consecutive quarter, the Motorola Q and BlackBerry Pearl ranked first and second, respectively, ...
August 22, 2007
iSkoot's now available on new Sony Ericsson smartphone
iSkoot today announced that the iSkoot mobile software is now available on Sony Ericsson's newest handset release, the Sony Ericsson P1i, which launched recently. The iSkoot mobile software is available to Sony Ericsson P1i users via a direct ...
August 21, 2007
WiMAX smartphone hits Korea
Marvell and LG have announced the availability of the LG-KC1 smartphone with the Marvell PXA 320 application processor on Korea Telecom's high speed WiBro 4G network. The Marvell PXA 320 application processor (Internally code named Monahans) with XScale ...
August 20, 2007
Lenmar PowerPort keeps smartphones going
Lenmar Enterprises's new PowerPort is the essential power accessory for the iPhone and any other USB enabled smartphone. The slim, pocket-sized PowerPort is a powerful cordless charger that can recharge the iPhone in about two hours. As an ...
August 17, 2007
Palm describes its new smartphone
Palm has unveiled what it describes as its smallest smartphone ever. The details are still under wraps but the company released a broad overview yesterday at a Sprint conference.Firstly, the new phone won't carry the Treo name. Instead ...
August 16, 2007
Nokia N95 wins European award
The Nokia N95 has been voted 'the European Media Phone of the Year 2007-2008' by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), Europe's leading association for consumer electronics. Commenting on the award, EISA praised the Nokia N95 as ...
August 15, 2007
Epocware update software line for Nokia E90 and MOTORIZR Z8
Epocware today announced that SlovoEd multilingual dictionaries, ‘Handy' line of personal productivity utilities and game applications have been fully adapted for both Nokia E90 and MOTORIZR Z8. SlovoEd is a series of best-selling bilingual and monolingual dictionaries for ...
August 14, 2007
FCC approves HTC Iris S640
The FCC in the USA has approved the latest mid-range smartphone from HTC, the Iris, otherwise known as the S640.The phone is due to launch in the USA later in the year and comes complete with the following ...
August 13, 2007
Palm selects Wind River for Foleo Linux
Palm has selected Wind River Linux as its open standard Linux platform for future Pal Foleo software releases.Palm selected Wind River Linux for its standard development and deployment environment that will help speed applications to market, while ...
August 10, 2007
fring takes ICQ voice & chat mobile
fring today announced integration of the popular ICQ instant messaging community into its mobile VoIP platform. ICQ is yet another communication choice for fring users to meet and interact with the convenience and feature rich benefits of mobile ...
August 10, 2007
Mobilkom A1 introduces the new BlackBerry Curve 8310 to Austria
Mobilkom A1 is introducing the BlackBerry Curve 8310 smartphone to Austria today.The new BlackBerry Curve 8310 is available exclusively in Austria from Mobilkom A1 now and is packed with distinctive BlackBerry smartphone functionality, including comprehensive email capabilities, fast ...
August 10, 2007
Onset releases METAmessage Server v 55 for BlackBerry with cross-platform support
Onset Technology, one of the leading developers of software for BlackBerry smartphones, announced recently the addition of cross-platform support to its METAmessage - Emergency Communications and Paging software. This enhanced capability, designed for deployments of the BlackBerry wireless ...
August 09, 2007
Nokia tops new ABI Research smartphone vendor matrix ranking
Nokia has been ranked at the top of the latest Smartphone Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.Motorola and RIM (Research in Motion) claimed the second and third spots in the company's most recent evaluation of worldwide smartphone vendors.The ...
August 09, 2007
HTC Nike - Touch without the touch
The HTC Touch was a kneejerk reaction to the iPhone and it received mixed reviews, mainly because of the slightly unintuitive Windows Mobile touchscreen interface. The lack of a genuine keyboard, which for the iPhone was seen as ...
August 09, 2007
HTC Kaiser gets ANOTHER name
The rebranding of smartphones for each carrier is reaching epidemic proportions and one manufacturer is leading the charge - HTC.The HTC Kaiser has so far been named as HTC P4550, HTC TyTN II, T-Mobile MDA Vario III, Vodafone ...