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The HTC Hero is available from T-Mobile UK and being marketed as the G2 Touch. The device is the second Android-based HTC smartphone to be launched by the carrier and can be had for free with an 18-m... More >
LG officially unveiled its new LG BL40 Chocolate. The newest addition to LG's "Black Label" Chocolate family features a four-inch, high-definition touch-screen display with a 21:9 aspect ratio. The c... More >
During a conference call this week, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt announced the company is on track to bring mobile WiMax to its customers very soon. Britt says further details are forthcoming, b... More >
Verizon will launch its Vcast App Store in the fourth quarter of 2009. Like other major mobile application stores, developers will receive 70 percent of the revenue from each download. Consumers will... More >
Sprint and Verizon began offering Research in Motion's BlackBerry Tour July 12 . Up until now, all the news concerning the smartphone has come from Verizon. The carrier boasted more than 300,000 sa... More >
Market research from Strategy Analytics reports that shipments of smartphones equipped with GPS will grow 34 percent this year from 57 million in 2008 to 77 million in 2009. Strategu Analytics' Joann... More >
Samsung is launching an application seller site today. The Samsung Application Seller Site will allow third party developers to submit and sell applications for the Symbian and Windows Mobile platf... More >
Research in Motion's BlackBerry Curve 8530 appears headed for the Verizon network. It would be a somewhat unprecedented move for the carrier, which has typically not allowed Wi-Fi devices to be sold ... More >
T-Mobile USA announced it will carry the HTC Touch Pro2 beginning August 12. The Windows Mobile 6.1-based slider phone features 3G connectivity and Wi-Fi. The Touch Pro2 also boasts a 3.6 WVGA touc... More >
Shanghai Security News reports that China Unicom has reached an exclusive three-year deal with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, reports The Washington Post . The deal appeared to be on the horizon... More >
Apple released the beta 3 version of its forthcoming iPhone 3.1 operating system. In addition to the beta, Apple has made the iPhone OS 3.1 SDK available to developers, reports Softpedia . No... More >
Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile is officially open to developers. The company is now accepting app submissions from registered developers and is sweetening the pot by offering prizes for... More >
Verizon chief operating officer Denny Strigl confirmed that the company will begin carrying the Palm Pre early next year. Strigl made the announcement during a conference call discussing the company'... More >
A new deal has helped Google towards its goal of being more of an enterprise player. New Zealand's Postal Service Group (PSG) recently inked a three-year deal that will move the government agency awa... More >
Research in Motion has officially announced the BlackBerry Curve 8520. The 2.5G smartphone features a full QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be of... More >
Less than three months after treating its users to Cupcake , Google is serving an early version of Donut, or Android 2.0, to developers. The next version of the mobile operating system brings a bevy... More >
CNET News contributor Ina Fried notes that at Fortune's Brainstorm: Tech conference, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse made more headlines discussing Android , the mobile operating system his company chose to h... More >
Nothing lasts forever. That's the epitome of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson's address to attendees of a Fortune-sponsored conference when remarking on his company's iPhone exclusivity deal. The comp... More >
BlackBerry App World is expanding its reach in Europe. Coinciding with an update to the service on July 31, BlackBerry App World v1.1 will be made available to Austria, Belgium, the Channel Islands,... More >
Motorola is looking to lure developers with the announcement of its MOTODEV program, which encourages developers to create apps for its Android-based mobile devices. Developers that sign up for Mot... More >
Sprint Nextel has now made the Palm Pre available for sale on its Web site. Pricing for the smartphone remains at $199.99 with a two-year agreement and $100 mail-in rebate, reports SlashGear . Sprin... More >
TerreStar is looking to change the idea that satellite phones are just large and clunky with annoying antennas. The company plans to do so with its TerreStar satellite phone service and TerreStar hyb... More >
According to a study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, more Americans are accessing the Internet using wireless mobile devices such as smartphones and laptops. Fifty-... More >
Synaptics showed off its latest technology, the Synaptics ClearPad 3000 Touchscreen. The capacitive touchscreen is designed for high-end smartphones, portable gaming systems and other mobile devices,... More >
Orange UK began offering the HTC Hero on its network today. Unveiled a month ago, Orange is the first UK mobile operator to offer the smartphone, says Ubergizmo . The device is available to... More >
The third fiscal quarter came up roses for Apple . Sales for the company were up 12 percent while its profits rose 15 percent. While iPod sales dipped during the quarter, iPhone sales surged. ... More >
Apple released its iPhone 3G S last month and the spurt in sales has taken the company somewhat off guard. The demand for the new smartphone has left the iPhone 3G S in short supply. Apple says it ... More >
According to analyst Kevin Dede at Jesup and Lamont, Palm Pre return rates are hitting around the 40 percent mark, according to Phone Reviews . Defects have caused nearly one in three Palm Pres to b... More >
Research in Motion is notorious for offering little to no Mac support for its popular BlackBerry devices. Reportedly that will change this September with the release of its BlackBerry Desktop Manager... More >
Bitstream has released a new beta version of its BOLT mobile Web browser for BlackBerrys, reports Phones Review . The beta 3 release of BOLT for BlackBerry adds the ability to copy and past... More >
GetJar , an online mobile application store, is predicting that the groundswell of interest in mobile apps could lead the phenomenon to be as big if not bigger than the Internet, reports ITProPortal... More >
Earlier this week, a Bluetooth vulnerability impacting most Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones manufactured by HTC surfaced. The vulnerability in an HTC Bluetooth driver, obex.file... More >
It appears that the U.S. Department of Justice's preliminary investigation of exclusivity deals between major network carriers and mobile device vendors has caused at least one carrier to rethink i... More >
Mac people are known for their feverish loyalty. It appears Apple's panache for drumming up the allegiance of its consumers has translated to the smartphone market, specifically its iPhones. Analytic... More >
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, coming off a rather rough second quarter , has been pressing to have a greater presence in the U.S. market. According to Softpedia , the company is on its way to ... More >
A few new details about Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS 5.0 have emerged. Early yesterday, it was revealed that the mobile operating system will feature tabbed browsing . While still just a wo... More >
Palm finally released its long-awaited Mojo SDK for the Palm Pre to the public, reports CrunchGear . Developers downloading the Mojo SDK will be able to make use of user interface guidelines, a we... More >
According to analysts, on the first day of sale for the BlackBerry Tour, Verizon sold between 275,000 and 300,000 units, reports I4U News . The smartphone's debut compares favorably to Apple's first... More >
The Symbian Foundation announced it will launch a publishing platform designed to help developers get their applications on the Symbian mobile operating system more quickly. The Symbian Horizon progr... More >
An earlier sneak peak at BlackBerry OS 5.0 revealed that the upcoming mobile OS will continuously show the date when scrolling through e-mail and enable users to resize photos when sending pictures... More >
Mobile operator 3 UK is making its mobile broadband customer dashboard, which launches every time a user connects to the Internet via its service, available for advertising, reports mad.co.uk . The ... More >
Network carriers Orange and T-Mobile are reportedly in line to snap up rights to older models of Apple's iPhone when the company's exclusivity deal with O2 ends in September. T-Mobile issued... More >
O2's exclusivity agreement with Apple to provide the iPhone in the UK could end as soon as September, reports Mobile Today . Orange and T-Mobile appear to be positioned to begin offering the smartph... More >
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion launched a social-networking site designed to provide BlackBerry users and interested parties with an arena to share information. MyBlackBerry allows users to crea... More >
The Palm Pre is headed to a key BRIC country. Palm has a Pre product page on its Palm India Web site. The price of the phone has not been made official, but it is rumored to be between 25,000 - 30,0... More >
Europeans clamoring for the HTC Hero are going to have to wait a little longer. Initially slated for July 15, Amazon UK pushed back the release date to July 24 yesterday, reports Phone Revi... More >
Apple pushed out the iPhone OS 3.1 beta release to iPhone developers and seeded OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A411 to registered developers. The major change between the latest iPhone OS 3.1 beta and the... More >
Google is bringing Google Voice to smartphones users, specifically Android and BlackBerry users who are already Google Voice users. Owners of Android- and BlackBerry-based smartphones will be able to... More >
Microsoft will have a hard time matching the success of Apple's App Store , but the company will have a go at it anyway. Beginning July 27, Microsoft will start accepting app submissions for Windows... More >
Someone at Google has a serious sweet tooth. The company plans to update its Android platform three more times this year. The three updates have been dubbed Donut, Éclair and Flan, says TweakTown . ... More >
Electronic payment services developer Charge Anywhere has launched an updated version of its mobile card payment software for Research in Motion's new BlackBerry Tour smartphone, reports The Pay... More >
Just a few days after the first anniversary of Apple's App Store , LG will join the international app store fray. Beginning tomorrow, LG will launch the LG Application Store in Australia, Malaysia a... More >
When Skyfire released the full version of its mobile Web browser in May, the company was already working toward making its mobile Web browser compatible with the BlackBerry platform. Less than two ... More >
Details are beginning to emerge about the BlackBerry 9550, Research in Motion's follow up to the BlackBerry Storm. The BlackBerry 9550 will feature CDMA 1xRTT/EVDO Rev. A, Quad-band GSM/EDGE, 2100MHz... More >
Apple has reportely applied for a Chinese network license for the iPhone and is close to reaching an agreement with China Unicom to launch the smartphone there. Despite aiming to release its iPhone i... More >
According to research firm iSuppli, accelerometers will appear in one-third of cell phones shipped in 2010, up from one in five in 2009 and one in 11 in 2008. Like its App Store , Apple's iPhone h... More >
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Apple's App Store . In its first year, the App Store has amassed over 55,000 applications and more than a billion downloads, reports examiner.com . The co... More >
According to tipsters, Palm is gearing up for a major update to the Palm Pre's webOS software, reports InformationWeek . The webOS 1.1 update is expected to arrive within the next 30 days and bring ... More >
Sprint Nextel will launch Research in Motion's BlackBerry Tour on its network this Sunday, but the carrier is already planning to deploy an updated version of the device next year. The refreshed ve... More >
T-Mobile USA announced that it was not planning to make the HTC Hero part of its lineup , but T-Mobile UK confirmed that the Android-based smartphone is in its plans and will be launched on its netw... More >
Vodafone research director Michael Walker, speaking at the Wireless 2.0 summit, said that 4G cellular data based on long-term evolution will not be deployed on its network until 2012. Walker went so ... More >
Yesterday T-Mobile announced the availability of pre-orders for the T-Mobile myTouch 3G for its existing customer base. The carrier also disclosed that the HTC Hero is not in its plans. Like the ... More >
At an event in New York, T-Mobile announced that pre-orders of its previously announced myTouch 3G device would be available starting today for existing customers. FierceWireless reports that exi... More >
According to ABI Research, the future of smartphone and mobile applications lies in cloud computing . The research firm anticipates that the architecture in which cloud computing applications are ba... More >
While it still has a long way to go before catching up with the iPhone App Store's 50,000, Research in Motion is making headway. BlackBerry App World has doubled its application offerings in the near... More >
According to the latest numbers from Gartner, the soaring use of location-based services will lead to a doubling of subscribers and revenues by the end of 2009. The growth of location-based services ... More >
O2 is quickly becoming the dominant wireless carrier in Europe. The company is the exclusive UK carrier of the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S and has garnered a deal to carry the Palm Pre in th... More >
Télefonica's O2 and Movistar have won exclusive rights to carry the Palm Pre smartphone in a handful of European countries. PC World reports O2 will exclusively sell the Palm Pre in Germany, Irelan... More >
Research in Motion is reportedly developing an Enhanced Gmail Plug-in that will add functionality to Gmail integration. The plug-in is rumored to include functions that allow users to view Gmail-base... More >
According to Consumer Reports' latest smartphone rankings, Apple's iPhone 3G S claims the top spot, amid its overheating issues . Palm's Pre and Research in Motion's Storm were not too far behind, s... More >
Google's Android operating system has been tapped for monumental growth this year with several releases from major vendors, including Motorola , Toshiba , and Huawei , expected before the end of... More >
Apple has responded to user complaints of overheating and discoloration of the white iPhone 3G S. Apple has assigned blame for the issues on consumer behavior, sunlight and the seasons, repo... More >
SoftSailor reports that Palm has announced that it has agreed to an exclusive deal with O2 regarding the Palm Pre. The carrier successfully outbid Orange to offer the smartphone exclusively in the U... More >
Earlier this week it was speculated that Verizon would launch Research in Motion's BlackBerry Tour 9630 on July 12 with Sprint to follow on July 20. Yesterday, Verizon confirmed the July 12 relea... More >
The Palm Pre launched 25 days ago here in the United States. But UK consumers are still clamoring to learn which network will carry the Pre, how much it will cost and when they can get their hands o... More >
Hot off the release of the iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3G S , Apple has now made the iPhone OS 3.1 beta available to developers, reports Phone Reviews .The beta is for development purposes only and can... More >
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Dell is in the process of developing a pocket-sized Internet device that will run on Google's Android operating system. The device would not be a c... More >
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