The official launch date of BlackBerry Tour via Verizon will be July 12th and this is official info we’re talking about. The handset will be available for $199 both online and in stores with a 2 year contract. Pre-orders for the phone have already started and we remind you that Tour comes with 3G support, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 256MB of internal...
In spite of the fact that it hasn’t reached the Chinese market yet, the iPhone is selling like hot cakes in this country. Some even say that it has already reached 1 million sold units and there’s more to come. Ovum, a telecommunications consulting service company has just recently released a report, stating that over the course of one year,...
AdMob has just released its March 2009 Mobile Metrics report, analysing the monthly trends in the AdMob Network. You can check it out for yourself, by downloading this PDF report and we have to say that the most important aspect of this document is the growth of Android. HTC Dream (G1) generates 2% of AdMob’s US requests and is the fourth placed...
The European Parliament voted just yesterday a new law regarding cuts in the data and services roaming prices. The 60% cuts will have effect starting July 1 2009, much to the discontent of the European carriers. Starting this summer, the prices of text messages will drop to 11 eurocents, from 28, the current price. Meanwhile, the new regulations will...
Who would have thought that at some point in time we’d be able to divorce via SMS? This is possible right now in Saudi Arabia, a country where women have almost no rights at all and men can legally split from them through a text, that’s even legally correct. So, if you’re a Saudi husband, things get very easy when the marriage starts...
For those of you who felt shivers up their spine yesterday and thought that Sony Ericsson had broken up and Nokia + Ericsson made Nokisson we have great news: it was a prank! As you may know, April 1st is April’s Fools but there were quite a bunch of people/sites who fell for this modern fairy tale. We’re sorry if we spoiled your day and...
How cool is that for a Sunday story? UK paper the Sun reports that Andrew Cheatle lost his Nokia handset near the water, while playing with his dog, only to get hold of it later, with the aid of a fisherman. The fisherman caught a giant cod who had swallowed the phone and called Cheatle from his very own SIM card, inserted in another handset. According...
Mobile World Congress 2009 wrapped up last week, but we continue to learn new stuff about the handsets shown by major manufacturers in Barcelona. Now it’s safe to say that we can pile up all the info and decide which phones and companies disappointed us and which have what it takes to becomes hits. Misses: 1) Nokia N86 The biggest disappointment...
The week that precedes Mobile World Congress 2009 is always full of neat handset launches and announcements, so if Samsung and Sony Ericsson can have a go at these, why shouldn’t Nokia do it too? Enter Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, a sibling to Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, that’s more than the average music phone. This is a Series 60 device that’s...
What’s smoking hot and coming to the UK in March? Well, it might be one of the million cool rock bands out there or Nokia N97, available for preorder right now. It’ll come SIM free on March 31st for $696 so better start pre-ordering, before they run out of units. Let us remind you that Nokia N97 is the Finns’ first touchscreen smartphone,...
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