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Spotify has announced the launch of the music service for the Symbian operating system, available on Nokia smartphones as well as phones from Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
The company says Spotify ...
Date: 23 Nov 2009 22:11
It appears that the once "harmless" Jailbroken iPhone worm that was used by a teenager to Rick Roll his friends, has become a bit more malicious, stealing banking data and other personal information.
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Date: 23 Nov 2009 19:11 | 3 comments
European users who were thinking of purchasing the Motorola Milestone (the DROID), had one large disadvantage when considering. The lack of Google Maps Navigation, the free turn-by-turn GPS ...
Date: 23 Nov 2009 19:11 | 2 comments
China Unicom, the nation's second largest mobile carrier and currently the only to offer the iPhone has said that it expects the smartphone to control one-tenth of all Chinese 3G users in the ...
Date: 23 Nov 2009 00:11 | 2 comments
South Korea is set to get the Apple iPhone this week for the first time, through the country's second biggest carrier, KT Corp.
The nation, which has 47 million mobile users, is one of the ...
Date: 22 Nov 2009 04:11
The popular French mobile gaming company Gameloft has said this weekend that it plans to move away from the Android platform, keeping most of its money in developing for the Apple App Store.
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Date: 22 Nov 2009 01:11 | 9 comments
At the Mobile Asia Congress event this week, China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou said his company is still in talks with Apple over bringing the iPhone smartphone to the nation, despite Apple's recent ...
Date: 18 Nov 2009 19:11 | 3 comments
Posted on the main screen of the Creative and ZiiLABS Showcase Green Solutions for Developers at Zii Summit 2009 in China is the interesting notion that a possible Zii Android smartphone may ...
Date: 16 Nov 2009 19:11
Samsung has launched its latest Android phone this week, the Galaxy Spica (I5700), with EU date set but no such luck for American users.
The Spica has a 3.2-inch touch screen with 320x480 ...
Date: 16 Nov 2009 17:11
Sprint has officially launched the Palm Pixi today, the entry-level webOS smartphone, and Palm's second smartphone release this year.
The phone is available from Sprint for $100 with two-year ...
Date: 16 Nov 2009 02:11
The stock price of smartphone maker Palm jumped higher on Friday on the rumor that Nokia is looking to acquire the company.
The rumor resurfaced for the first time since early September, ...
Date: 16 Nov 2009 01:11 | 3 comments
According to new data from WHERE, active users of the much hyped Motorola DROID has doubled in the last few days, suggesting that there are now about 250,000 total units now active.
The WHERE ...
Date: 14 Nov 2009 21:11 | 6 comments
Dell has officially confirmed that it will be launching the Mini 3 Android smartphone in China and Brazil, bringing the phone to over 540 million mobile subscribers.
In China, the smartphone ...
Date: 13 Nov 2009 16:11 | 2 comments
Yesterday we reported that handset manufacturer Samsung was dropping Symbian OS support and moving fully to WinMo, Android and Bada, their new proprietary smartphone OS.
Today, Samsung has ...
Date: 12 Nov 2009 18:11 | 2 comments
According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Apple has become the most profitable handset maker in the world, just two years after moving into the smartphone market.
For the Q3 2009, Apple ...
Date: 11 Nov 2009 19:11 | 3 comments
Last week we reported the rumor of Samsung preparing to phase out the Windows Mobile smartphone OS while at the same time increasing usage of Android and Bada.
Company senior vice president ...
Date: 11 Nov 2009 19:11 | 3 comments
The Motorola DROID, re-dubbed the Milestone, is headed to Canada early next year says carrier Telus, becoming the first Motorola Android phone to reach the nation.
“Teleus’ new 3G+ network ...
Date: 11 Nov 2009 04:11 | 1 comment
According to analyst Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech, Motorola and Verizon sold about 100,000 DROID phones in its first weekend of availability.
Verizon is said to have had 200,000 of ...
Date: 10 Nov 2009 20:11 | 8 comments
Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of its own mobile operating system, Bada which will "enable developers to create applications for millions of new Samsung mobile phones, and consumers ...
Date: 10 Nov 2009 20:11 | 1 comment
RadioShack announced this morning that the electronics chain would begin selling the Apple iPhone in its locations beginning in 2010.
In response, Radio Shack's stock jumped to its highest ...
Date: 10 Nov 2009 06:11
Nokia has announced today the launch of a charger exchange program after the company recalled 14 million phone chargers due to their risk of shocking users when plugged in.
The phone manufacturer ...
Date: 10 Nov 2009 02:11 | 1 comment
According to an investment note from HMC Investment Securities, Samsung is ready to deal the death blow to Windows Mobile by phasing out the mobile operating system in favor of the open source Android.
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Date: 10 Nov 2009 02:11 | 3 comments
Adobe has released the Android version of their popular free Photoshop Mobile app today, giving users a quick and easy way to edit their images.
Users can crop, rotate and flip images as ...
Date: 9 Nov 2009 06:11
The Apple iPhone has its first virus, a wonderful Rick Rolling worm that has been infecting jailbroken phones in Australia this week.
The worm, dubbed Ikee, changes the wallpaper of the ...
Date: 9 Nov 2009 05:11 | 14 comments
Verizon Wireless has announced plans to double the early termination fee for users of smartphones, from $175 to $350 USD for those that cancel their contracts early.
Verizon spokesman Jim ...
Date: 8 Nov 2009 08:11 | 12 comments
According to new CTIA figures, American mobile phones users send 4.1 billion texts per day, adding up to 740 billion for the first six months of 2009.
The numbers show that about 14 texts ...
Date: 8 Nov 2009 02:11 | 6 comments
According to new IDC figures, RIM BlackBerry has once again surpassed Apple for smartphone market share, moving 30 percent for the quarter to 19 percent, above Apple's 17.1 percent.
The report ...
Date: 7 Nov 2009 07:11 | 1 comment
This is a short blurb and is to be considered speculation for the time being, but BoyGeniusReport is reporting today that two separate "inside sources" have told the site that Apple and AT&T ...
Date: 7 Nov 2009 05:11 | 4 comments
Following the gigantic hype of the Motorola DROID Android phone, Verizon has launched their second Android device, to much less fanfare.
The phone, the HTC Droid Eris, is very significant ...
Date: 6 Nov 2009 01:11 | 2 comments
T-Mobile, which exclusively has the G1 Android phone as well as the MyTouch3G and Cliq, has released some Android stats this week, including its forward plans for the Android Market.
According ...
Date: 6 Nov 2009 00:11
Although Android 2.0 will not be officially released until Friday, it appears the Google team is already at work on Android 2.1, which should fix a number of bugs and streamline 2.0.
The ...
Date: 5 Nov 2009 22:11 | 1 comment
The highly secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has been drafted under non-disclosure agreements and given to different nations with watermarks in case they choose to "leak" ...
Date: 5 Nov 2009 03:11 | 149 comments
Last week China Unicom began selling the Apple iPhone officially in China for the first time ever, making the smartphone available to over 200 million subscribers.
Unicom is seemingly fighting ...
Date: 4 Nov 2009 22:11 | 8 comments
Apple has announced that the extremely popular App Store has reached 100,000 apps today, a new milestone for the service.
“The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is ...
Date: 4 Nov 2009 22:11
Sony Ericsson has released the full spec sheet and pics and videos for the upcoming Xperia X10 smartphone with Android and the phone is extremely powerful.
The phone will feature a 4-inch ...
Date: 3 Nov 2009 17:11 | 7 comments
For what seems like the millionth time, Nokia has announced it will be killing off the N-Gage gaming platform, moving its focus to the Ovi mobile store instead.
The phone manufacturer has ...
Date: 2 Nov 2009 19:11 | 3 comments
The newly launched Motorola DROID will hit Italy and Germany in the next month, says Motorola, bringing a GSM version of the smartphone to the continent just days after the release of the CDMA ...
Date: 2 Nov 2009 18:11
Apple has officially begun selling the iPhone smartphone in China, marking the first time the smartphone has been available in the nation with the world's largest amount of mobile subscribers.
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Date: 1 Nov 2009 21:11 | 3 comments
Google has officially denied that the company is planning to build their own Android-based phone, saying instead they will continue to improve the new operating system so others can build excellent ...
Date: 1 Nov 2009 19:11
The infamous Apple iPhone jailbreaker Geohot, who recently released Blackra1n jailbreaking software for the iPhone firmware 3.1 has now released an updated baseband unlock software dubbed blacksn0w ...
Date: 1 Nov 2009 19:11 | 1 comment
The long hyped (and rightfully so) Motorola DROID is finally official today, heading to Verizon on November 6th with a $200 USD price tag with two-year contract.
The phone has a 3.7-inch ...
Date: 28 Oct 2009 17:10 | 37 comments
Android fans long awaiting the next best firmware update can rejoice. Android 2.0 (Eclair) has been officially unveiled by Google, and it includes a good set of new features.
The full new ...
Date: 27 Oct 2009 19:10 | 2 comments
In an interview with GigaOM's Om Malik, Lee Williams of the Symbian Foundation accused Google of using Android to collect user data for questionable purposes.
Symbian is the mobile phone ...
Date: 27 Oct 2009 08:10 | 9 comments
According to new research from firm DFC Intelligence, games for the iPhone/iPod Touch will take a large 25 percent of the portable gaming market in 5 years as the Nintendo and Sony handhelds ...
Date: 26 Oct 2009 17:10 | 5 comments
Sprint and Palm have announced today that the Palm Pixi smartphone will be available on November 15th with a price tag of $100 after $100 mail-in-rebate and two year contract.
The phone, ...
Date: 26 Oct 2009 16:10 | 1 comment
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a body of the United Nations (UN), has approved a universal mobile phone charger that will work with all future handsets.
The body says that ...
Date: 25 Oct 2009 22:10 | 5 comments
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