2 September 2010, 2:09 pm by: Brad Molen
Apple developers have discovered a need to become more and more innovative in designing apps for iOS as time goes by. It seems as though most of the good ideas are taken, and if they haven’t been taken already it’s because Apple rejected those id...
2 September 2010, 1:36 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
Verizon has announced that it will start offering prepaid 3G data packages. These will be available today in Verizon Wireless Communications Store and online from September 28th. There are two plans, one of which is only meant for ‘multimedia p...
2 September 2010, 8:48 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
Tired of all the leaks surrounding the Samsung Fascinate, Verizon’s Galaxy S? Hang in there just a bit longer. The phone is currently on pre-order at Best Buy, and it was rumored to launch on September 9th. That seems very plausible, as today a...
2 September 2010, 8:11 am by: Brad Molen
Here we are, finding ourselves in part three of our four-part (we assume) series of Samsung Galaxy S phones. Each carrier in the US is coming out with its own flavor, and UnwiredView has been given the wonderful opportunity to scoop each one and give...
2 September 2010, 8:01 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
As was previously rumored, Huawei have just officially unveiled the Ideos, their first smartphone to come with Android 2.2 preinstalled. Some live pics of the device are already available, along with an official promotional video. The Ideos is not a...
2 September 2010, 7:33 am by: Florin
While officially announcing the Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet, Samsung has also unveiled some details on its future smartphone-related plans. The South Korean company told Reuters that Android and Bada will be its key software platforms – which...
2 September 2010, 7:13 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
Aside from the G2, T-Mobile has another high end Android smartphone that it needs to launch in the near future. This is the MyTouch HD. And just like the G2, which is TMo’s version of the HTC Vision/Desire Z, this will be their version of the D...
2 September 2010, 6:16 am by: Florin
We’ve received an official email fro Nokia announcing that the company is discontinuing Ovi Files – the service which allows you to remotely access files on your PC or Mac computer. The service will be discontinued on October 1, but Nokia already...
2 September 2010, 5:34 am by: Florin
T-Mobile USA has posted some official info related to the HTC G2 – the carrier’s first HSPA+ smartphone. T-Mo has confirmed that the G2 is running Android 2.2 Froyo, and also that it’s powered by an 800MHz Qualcomm Scorpion processor – not a...
2 September 2010, 4:27 am by: Florin
HTC Smart2, the second Brew-based phone from HTC, has appeared in a couple of live photos which confirm the handset looks like in that render we saw last week. Also called HTC F8181, the Smart2 is (according to Engadget) coming to AT&T in the US....
2 September 2010, 3:41 am by: Florin
At last, the Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000) has been officially announced. It’s the first Android tablet made by Samsung and, as expected, it runs Android 2.2 Froyo. Designed by Samsung “to enable consumers to maximize their online experience wher...
2 September 2010, 3:02 am by: Florin
The HTC Trophy was first mentioned back in December 2009. It should have been a Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard on the front. HTC should have launched it in May this year, but that obviously didn’t happen. Now we’re hear...
1 September 2010, 2:25 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
In February, when Windows Phone 7 was announced, all Microsoft would say about availability was “in time for the 2010 holiday season”. Since then, there have been many rumors and quite a lot of speculation about when WP7 will be finalized...
1 September 2010, 1:57 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
The leaks, they just keep on coming. Especially regarding T-Mobile’s planned successor to the G1, the first Android smartphone. We’ve seen the G2 in live pics, in official pics, we know pretty much all there is to know about its specs (qu...
1 September 2010, 1:17 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
Today during a press event, among other things, Steve Jobs announced that iOS 4.1 will be officially out next week. This, as its name suggests, is a minor release, and is meant only for devices that are already able to run iOS 4. The most important b...
1 September 2010, 12:15 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
The day when Windows Phone 7 devices will be available to buy is fast approaching. And while we wait for Microsoft to finalize the WP7 bits, more and more leaks of upcoming WP7 devices are starting to show up. We’ve had the Samsung i917 Cetus,...
1 September 2010, 11:22 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
Sony Ericsson has a dream. They’ve probably been looking long and hard at Motorola’s Android-fueled rebirth, and thought they’d be next. And now they’re starting to talk big. They want to be the world’s No.1 vendor of An...
1 September 2010, 9:57 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
It’s only been what, three decades since the Nokia N8 was announced? Ok, maybe not, but that’s what it feels like anyway. It looks like the flagship Nokia Symbian device for this year could launch on September 23rd in the UK via NokiaR...
1 September 2010, 6:53 am by: Florin
Already available for some Android and Windows Mobile devices, Swype has been launched for Symbian touchscreen phones, too – although only in a beta version for now. Swype’s virtual keyboard should allow users to input over 40 words per minute, t...
1 September 2010, 6:04 am by: Florin
Samsung is getting ready to announce a new “Android-powered device” on September 16 in New York. The invitation that Samsung sent for the event suggests this will be a new Galaxy S device, so it’s probably not the Samsung Galaxy Tab, as PocketN...
1 September 2010, 5:07 am by: Florin
The same day the Motorola Milestone 2 was officially announced, Motorola UK has also unveiled the Motorola Defy – the company’s second rugged Android smartphone (after the Moto i1). The Defy runs Android 2.1 (why not Froyo?), uses MotoBlur 1.5, l...
1 September 2010, 4:22 am by: Florin
Not long after we saw the LG E720 Optimus Chic and the LG E900 in videos, it’s now time for the LG C900 to be examined closer. The C900 could be called LG Pacific at AT&T and, like the E900, it runs Windows Phone 7. It features a 3.2 inch capac...
1 September 2010, 3:18 am by: Florin
The rumored Motorola Milestone 2 has just been officially announced – and, as expected, it’s the European version of Verizon’s Droid 2. Like the Droid 2, the Milestone 2 runs Android 2.2 Froyo. In addition, it comes with the latest version of M...
31 August 2010, 12:21 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
One of the most rumored and leaked smartphones of the past few months has to be T-Mobile’s G2, previously known by its codename HTC Vision. The Vision turned out to be the successor to the T-Mobile G1, the first Android smartphone. In the US, t...
31 August 2010, 9:55 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
At Dealer Days 2010 in Brussels, LG sort-of announced its upcoming tablet. As we already found out some time ago, this will be running Android. It now has a name too. It will be called the LG Optimus Pad. So at this point it seems pretty clear that L...
31 August 2010, 9:33 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
T-Mobile is well known for its Buy One Get One free (BOGO) promotions that it likes to run from time to time. And they are a good opportunity for, say, a family, to get two phones while only paying for the more expensive of them. However, up until no...
31 August 2010, 8:38 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
You have to get used to the fact that Motorola seems intent on doing whatever they can to stop people from tinkering with their Android-based devices. There’s that little thing about the locked bootloaders, and now there’s this. If you...
31 August 2010, 8:22 am by: Florin
Sony Ericsson has announced its first TD-SCDMA smartphone, the A8i, which runs China Mobile’s Open Mobile System 2.0 (based on Android). The A8i looks like an Xperia X10 (or an X8 – there’s no big difference anyway). The handset features a 3.5...
31 August 2010, 7:53 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
As expected, the Samsung Epic 4G is now available from Sprint. So if you’ve always wanted your very own Galaxy S on Sprint, the time has come. What’s more, as a Sprint customer, you even get something no other Galaxy S version offers: a p...
31 August 2010, 7:18 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
Remember LG’s claims that it will sell no less than 5 million smartphones by the end of the year? Well, to be able to match that target, they have to launch many new smartphones in the following months. And that’s just what they seem to b...
31 August 2010, 5:56 am by: Florin
ViewSonic, a company mainly associated with LCD and plasma displays, has officially unveiled the ViewPad 7, its first Android tablet. ViewSonic presents the ViewPad 7 as the first in the world to come with a 7 inch (800 x 480) display, Android 2.2 Fr...
31 August 2010, 4:05 am by: Florin
Expected to be officially announced on September 2, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet has been spotted in Verizon’s internal systems, so its upcoming launch via the largest US mobile carrier seems to be confirmed. Since the Froyo tablet appears...
31 August 2010, 2:27 am by: Florin
Everyone probably expects Verizon to launch the Samsung Fascinate Galaxy S on September 9, but the smartphone may be available a day earlier. Phandroid has some images showing the Samsung Fascinate Equipment guide. In it, it’s mentioned that “the...
30 August 2010, 2:06 pm by: Florin
India is one of the first countries where customers will be able to buy Nokia’s first dual SIM phones – the C1-00 and C2 – as the handsets have just been launched there. Both phones should be available pretty soon in India at really low prices....
30 August 2010, 1:35 pm by: Vlad Bobleanta
Motorola’s intentions in the mobile space seem to be quite clear: bet everything on Android. And it’s been working very well for them until now, so why not continue pushing smartphones running Google’s mobile OS? Yet another upcomin...
30 August 2010, 10:10 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
It’s been a very long time coming, but the Samsung Epic 4G, Sprint’s version of the ubiquitous Galaxy S, will be available starting tomorrow. Sprint is busy preparing for the big launch of its second “4G” capable smartphone,...
30 August 2010, 10:05 am by: Florin
The LG E720 that has recently appeared over at a Polish website is not a previously unseen smartphone, as all the blogs currently reporting about it want you to believe. Just because the name is new, it doesn’t mean the device is, too. The E720 is...
30 August 2010, 9:39 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
First, it was said that there will never be any custom ROMs for Verizon’s Droid X. Then, a custom recovery image was booted and there was still hope. And what we have here today is a video of a custom ROM booting on the Droid X. Well, that may...
30 August 2010, 9:28 am by: Florin
Just as expected, Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate can now be pre-ordered at Best Buy – although you can’t do it online (yet), but only in Best Buy Mobile stores. Best Buy still doesn’t say how much you have to pay for the Fascinate, however, th...
30 August 2010, 8:22 am by: Florin
Launched by O2 in the UK back in June with Android 1.6 on-board, the Dell Streak will receive an OS update on September 1. Unlike in the US, where the Streak could be updated directly to Android 2.2 Froyo, the device available in the UK will apparent...
30 August 2010, 7:21 am by: Florin
T-Mobile USA has unveiled the launch date of the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300: September 8. The new Curve (the first to feature 3G connectivity) will cost $79.99 with a new 2-yr contract agreement, coming in two color versions: silver and lavender. The s...
30 August 2010, 6:41 am by: Florin
Motorola has launched not one, not two, but three new Android smartphones in China, all part of the Ming series and all coming with “Ming styling” (thus being touchscreen devices with transparent flip covers): A1680, MT810 and XT806. Motorola MT8...
30 August 2010, 5:22 am by: Florin
I had no doubts that the Samsung Galaxy S would be a hit in the US, and now Samsung (which has just introduced the Wave 723) officially confirms its success by saying it sold more than 1 million units until now. Available only via AT&T and T-Mobi...
30 August 2010, 4:34 am by: Florin
Samsung has officially unveiled it fourth Bada smartphone, the Wave 723 (GT-S7320E) – a full touch device that promises to bring “a remarkable smart phone experience to a broader demographic of users.” The Wave 723 comes after the Wave S8500, W...
30 August 2010, 3:39 am by: Florin
First appeared in July, the unannounced Nokia C6-01 may have more new stuff to offer than we initially thought. We already know that the C6-01 has an 8MP camera with dual LED flash (instead of a 5MP camera with single LED flash, like the C6). Another...
28 August 2010, 5:53 am by: Florin
If you want to buy Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G right now, you can’t, because both versions of the smartphone (black and white) are out of stock – about 200k HTC EVO 4Gs were sold in the first week-end of availability only. But there’s good news for t...
27 August 2010, 4:39 pm by: Florin
Although the HTC Droid Incredible has been in the news lately thanks to an official update to Froyo, Verizon’s Droid brand is now mostly associated with Motorola, which recently launched the Droid X and the Droid 2, raising the number of Moto Droid...
27 August 2010, 9:35 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
Remember that rumor from yesterday, that Verizon’s HTC Droid Incredible would get Froyo starting today? Well, it turns out it was true. Verizon confirmed as much via Twitter. So, all those of you who somehow managed to buy a Droid Incredible de...
27 August 2010, 9:16 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
The Nokia C6 is now available in the UK from Vodafone. Not long ago, it started to be available from Nokia, and now it’s Big Red’s turn to sell this midrange side-sliding QWERTY packing touchscreen smartphone. It’s free on new 24-mo...
27 August 2010, 8:40 am by: Vlad Bobleanta
The Samsung Epic 4G is Sprint’s version of the Galaxy S and the penultimate smartphone in the line to launch (the last will clearly be Verizon’s Fascinate). Sprint have officially announced it a couple of months ago, and pre-orders have s...