Archive for October, 2010

Amazon is making a Kindle app for Microsoft’s new smartphone operating system—Windows Phone 7 (WP7)—and an official Twitter client app has just launched. WP7 passed the 1,000 apps mark earlier this month before launch and besides just all the wonderful Xbox Live functionality in the OS, the smartphones running it are looking quite good. Now ...

The insanely popular app ‘Angry Birds’ has won the top spot in Palm’s PDK Hot Apps Competition and the $100K prize money that goes with the accolades. That’s a pretty hefty chunk of change but not really a surprise when you consider how Angry Birds has become so popular lately. Palm and HP featured the ...

  The new Dell Venue Pro might not have a US launch date yet but it is already available for pre-order from eXpansys—an online retailer—and the smartphone will officially launch in the UK on November 8th.  eXpansys is selling the unlocked Venue Pro for £499.99 including value added tax (£425.52 exc. VAT or $681.64 here in ...

Research In Motion (RIM) makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones and now has some plans for your car. I speculated earlier this year that RIM’s acquisition of QNX Software Systems from Harman signaled that the company was going start expanding into the ‘smart car’ sector. Besides being hard at work building the BlackBerry Tablet OS for the Playbook that will eventually transition to RIM’s smartphones, QNX has demonstrated a ‘Nokia Terminal Mode’ with the BlackBerry to link the phone to a car. Video after the break!

  The new HD7 smartphone from HTC uses a microSD card for its internal stroage, but it is replaceable. The existence of the use of microSD for internal storage in the HD7 was first revealed by wmpowerusers.com in late September via a leaked spec sheet for the device. While leaked document only mentioned a non-removable, 8 ...

Apple’s  iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless in early 2011 has been confirmed again—this time by Fortune. Besides the majority of the blogsphere agreeing that the coveted CDMA iPhone for Verizon will be here soon, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune , and the New York Times are all in agreement. Verizon is finally getting the iPhone. Verizon ...

HTC has accidentally leaked the name of one of its upcoming Android OS powered smartphones. The name of the new smartphone? The HTC Mecha. Mecha certainly keeps in line with HTC’s robot themed naming scheme for many of its Android smartphones. How did HTC leak this? On its HTC Sense product registration website. Sense is the ...

How is this for a rumor? The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone series—Research In Motion (RIM)—might be the target for a takeover.  Shaw Wu, an analyst for Kaufman Bros., claims that while it is a possibility that is helping fuel RIM’s stock price (RIMM) rise of 12% over the past couple of days (along with ...

You might have seen the pictures of a PlayStation smartphone powered by Android OS and built by Sony Ericsson floating around on the internet. Don’t worry; they have gotten further confirmation by Engadget’s “multiple, trusted sources.” The PlayStation phone’s codename? ‘Zeus’. So what exactly is Sony Ericsson’s Zeus? It is a smartphone merged with Sony’s PlayStation ...

PayPal accidentally leaked that Google’s Android Market will be offering PayPal as a payment option in the very near future. The leaked information came through an accidental post on PayPal’s blog that stated “Today Google announced that you can use PayPal to buy apps on their Android Market.” The post was quickly deleted and Google ...

T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G will be arriving in stores on November 3rd and go for a respectable $199 with two year contract and $50 mail-in rebate. HTC is the manufacturer for the myTouch series that is exclusive to T-Mobile and the myTouch 4G is a nicely redesigned myTouch 3G Slide. It lacks physical keyboard of the ...

The Apple iPhone saga goes for another wild ride—Apple is now rumored to be building locked iPhones using proprietary SIM cards that it will sell directly to customers in European markets. These iPhones would be activated presumably via iTunes or the Apple Store and be sold with contracts and locked into those contracts and the ...

The new BlackBerry Style 9670 has finally made its way into the wild and will be sold by Sprint starting on October 31st for $99.99 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate. Sure, the ‘clamshell’ style might look pretty funky and I’m not sure if anyone still uses a flip-phone. Except maybe when their smartphone ...

HTC’s new Desire HD has gotten its first over the air (OTA) update to fix some general problems with the smartphone. Since it seems the new trend for Android powered smartphones to go through a serious OTA update to get the bugs worked out, you can now feel semi-safe buying one. Despite all of the ...

  You probably have heard about the security flaw in iOS 4.1 that lets someone bypass your PIN security and access, call and email your contacts list. The flaw lets someone tap a few buttons to sneak past the emergency call screen that you can access even when the iPhone is locked by a PIN. Your ...