After a long series of leaks, BlackBerry Curve 8520 has just come alive officially, courtesy of its maker, Research in Motion. The phone should hit T-Mobile USA and Vodafone UK next month for a pretty decent price. In the UK, Vodafone will sell Curve 8520 for free, with a £25 or more monthly plan, while the US users will get the handset from T-Mobile...
HTC got great press coverage thanks to Mark Cavendish, the first British cyclist to win the final stage of Tour de France. You can see why HTC got the hype in the picture below and, coincidence or not, there’s also a HTC Hero ad in the same paper. Go figure! Meanwhile the web is abuzz with the huge numbers of handsets leaked by the company, from...
This is the third concept phone that Cyrene Quiamco designed and certainly one of her best, so after seeing the Kard and Dot Phone in action, what more could stun us? The Stix concept phone is a device for active and health-conscious people, wiling to exercise a lot and charge their handset via kinetic energy. It’ll be enough to run, walk or...
Best Buy must be starting to feel the heat, not of its competition, but the genuine heat of the July sun, since they’ve just made a little error, by pricing Palm Pre at $99, with a 2 year contract. The price is back to $199 and one could only have dreamt about that reduction for a few hours. This price drop would have made the Pre once again...
After finding out last week that HTC is readying the Click, Rome, Leo and Mega phones, plus the mystery Firestone handset, here’s another bunch of phones leaked by the Taiwanese manufacturer: HTC Vigor, HTC Tattoo, HTC Interlude, HTC Imagio and HTC Dawn. These devices were revealed thanks to a HTC Trademark application to the USPTO office, but...
There’s a new slider in town, Samsung T659 aka Scarlet, that just passed the FCC and gets ready for a T-Mobile USA debut. The device comes with 3G support and it just got pictured below. Scarlet supports Bluetooth with EDR, packs a 2 megapixel camera, quad band GSM support, dual band WCDMA 1700/2100, an MP3 player and a microSD card slot. We...
How about a high end smartphone from Sony Ericsson with cool navigational features? Too bad it’s only a concept we’re talking about, the one designed by Shane A. Bygrave and pictured below. Known as Sony Ericsson G819 Compass, the handset is an Android 2.0 device with an ARM Cortex-A12 1GHz CPU. There’s also a 3D graphics HW accelerator...
After the disappointment from WWDC 2009, that lacked what we wanted most, an Apple tablet announcement, we found out that the device is coming after all, but not this year. It should be launched in early 2010 and it might change the portable electronics market, as we know it. Rumour has it that this tablet with be a 10 inch device with 3G support,...
Motorola has just made an important step towards becoming an important player among the Android OS adopters, by launching advanced development resources for this operating system. The company’s resource bundle is called MOTODEV and it includes a new App Accelerator Program and MOTODEV Studio, for Android Beta. MOTODEV provides developers with...
If you’re looking for a free GPS navigator, Navit might be the answer. This is a car navigation system with a routing engine and a modular design, that relies on vector maps in all sorts of formats. You’ll even be able to use multiple maps at one time and you should know that Navit relies on GTK+ or SDL user interfaces, perfect for touchscreens....
