Category: Mobile News
Windows Phone 7 apppears to have broken the 1000 app mark today. Meanwhile, Android has hit a similar - if not much bigger - landmark. Google themselves now confirm 100,000 apps, a number which you may have seen some months back. That, though, was a n...
A number of phones have appeared recently so we'd just like to bring you up to speed on availability. Firstly, the HTC 7 Mozart is now available to buy on the Orange online store. It's the new Windows Phone 7 device from Orange we'll be reviewing, plu...
I've made quite a few trips down to London over these past few weeks and booked a number of trains. Usually I find a computer, check the timetables, find the best fare and then book online. However, Raileasy have now made things mobile with the additi...
The T3 Awards have been announced and, after more than three quarters of a million reader votes, plus expert judges, HTC have emerged as winners in a number of categories. They bagged "Phone of the year" with the HTC Desire. "Tech brand of the year" a...
The comScore report is out today and shows how things are shaping up in the US. Last year we saw Apple overtake Microsoft and now, just nine months later, Android has too. Google have experienced a 5% jump in smartphone market share between April and ...
Android or Windows Mobile? Well, if you don't mind having a dabble on a Chinese import site, this may solve your problem. For £153.78 you can get the Windroid Phone, which has a 624MHz CPU, 3.2" 240x400 pixel screen, GPS, WiFi, microSD and woah.. a...
HTC announced their new user website today too. I'm going to call it a "phone control portal" because that's pretty much what it is. Log in and, if you lose your phone, you can locatr it, send a message which will appear on the lock screen, wipe it …
The rather large HTC event kicks off tomorrow morning but, if you're in town there's also a party in the evening which isn't just for press. Now, due to my globe-trotting lifestyle (pah!) I'll not be in London that long but there seems to be quite a n...
Paul O'Brien from Modaco has recently reached 10,000 followers on Twitter. As a way of celebrating this he is having a charity giveaway. The aim is to get to £10,000 worth of donations for Cancer Research, once the target is reached there will b...
The new joint venture company combining Orange and T-Mobile UK, Everything Everywhere today announced the launch date of the combined network roaming agreement which will allow customers of both groups roam on each other's network. From the 5th Octobe...
Here's an interesting test, and one which becomes even more interesting when you consider that the Windows Phone 7 device shown here isn't using final software. Pocketnow turn on four phones - an iPhone, Nexus One (Android), HTC HD2 (Windows Mobile 6....
There is an interesting article on the BBC News site today on the growth of the Android Market, and more specifically the growth of pay for apps and people making a living from them. Apple have the headstart, but now Android phones are outsellin...
It was a very dark and wet day on Saturday so I went through "the cupboard". Many of you will have a special cupboard where stuff gets dumped. In my case, it's full of cables and old phones. These mobiles can sometimes fetch a few quid on eBay …
When we get an invite from HTC it's usually about something pretty special. The HTC Hero event was a big deal, as was the HTC Legend launch. Today this invite appeared in our inbox, which says.. "Come see what HTC has dreamt up. 15 September in London...
With Android tablets appearing pretty much everywhere and the iPad dominating it's good to see Microsoft finally entering the arena. Steve Ballmer has promised that getting slate devices out there was "terribly important" and that they will "push forw...
The rise and rise of Android shows no sign of slowing, with new ComScore numbers showing a 4% increase in US market share. The details show that every other OS has declined, although these stats were calculated before the iPhone 4 was released. Micros...
A range of devices have just fell out of the Omnio website with the HTC Vision (spotted earlier this week) and the HTC Ace. The rumours behind the HTC Ace are bordering on the insane, with a dual-core CPU, Android 3, 4.3" AMOLED, 8 megapixel camera an...
New Nokia head of Mobile Solutions, Anssi Vanjoki, has responded today to the loss of support in the community. He's responding to the closure of the symbian-guru website yesterday, specifically mentioning Ricky - one of the webmasters of the site. He...
The HTC Desire has been in high demand. People here in the UK are having to wait for stock to arrive and, when it does, there's even more customers waiting. It seems that the AMOLED screens have become a little harder to get hold of recently, with Sam...
With the iPhone 4 becoming available today I just couldn't help myself. I'll admit it, I went into town and came back with... a HTC Desire. ;) Which is better? Well, CNET have done a comparison between the Nexus One (which isn't a Desire I know, but i...
It's iPhone 4 launch day, but something has occurred to us. Apple seem to have dealt a bit of a blow to Windows Mobile 7, purely through releasing SOMETHING this summer. With all the buzz an Apple product launch generates, all the networks now do...
Vodafone PR were kind enough to loan me a Google Nexus One and a Vodafone 845 for a few weeks which arrived yesterday and, as with any new Android device, the first place you visit after the initial sync is the Android market. However what did h...
There's a fairly big football thing happening soon and, if you're lucky enough to have and Android phone with Beebplayer still installed you'll be able to watch it when the BBC shows a match (see here for a list of what channel is showing what). But.....
The T3 Gadget Awards are here again and this year the contenders for "Phone of the Year" include five Android phones and one Windows Mobile device. On the Android side the choice includes the HTC Desire, HTC Legend, Google Nexus One, Motorola Mileston...
No, I'm not dead. I just have an annoying combination of exams and parents to deal with, although not for much longer. Additionally, I can now be reached at
[email protected], in case anyone actually wants to talk to me It's been a little ov...
Smartphone sales have continued to explode with analyst firm Gartner reporting an almost 50% increase in the first quarter of 2010. Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, also states that.. “Android’s momentum continued into the fi...
Apple are suing HTC, you knew that already, but just in the last hour we're learning that HTC is to counter sue Apple. They want to stop the import of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the USA. HTC say that Apple have infringed five of their patents, …
The other night, completely sober, I dropped my HTC Hero. It bounced down the stairs, hitting pretty much every step and came to a stop against the stair-gate. I feared the worst, but after finding the battery and cover it all seemed to power on just ...
Palm have produced some rather nice Windows Mobile handsets over the years. We particularly liked the Palm Treo 750v. Now they're under new ownership after HP announced the purchase of the company for a cool $1.2 billion. HTC were previously rumoured ...
Micrsoft has just announced that it's entered into an intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement with HTC. This will let HTC use Microsoft's patented technology in Android mobile phones. No financial details have been disclosed but the agreement s...
We've covered this over on iPhoneBANG but now things have taken an even stranger turn with that unreleased iPhone. So, the story so far. A poor Apple employee went out and had a few too many German beers. In his pocket, an all-new unreleased iPhone di...
It was a possibility but, according to Reuters it's now not going to happen.. "The world's No. 5 smartphone brand and one name associated with a possible offer, was approached about making a bid but decided to pass after reviewing Palm's books, a sour...
A recent survey by Appcelerator last month has shown what we all kinda knew. Developer interest in Windows Phone isn't as high as it could be. The full survey, which is available for download, involved 1028 developers and shows that 87% are "very in...
Palm is now up for sale. The company once made Windows Mobile handsets and likely bidders include HTC and Lenovo. Palm have posted 11 straight quarterly losses with the Pre and Pixi handsets failing to rescue the sliding share prices. Palm saw its sha...
What's this ? The o2 April catalogue? What's this I spy inside ? Well I'll be, it's the Android-powered HTC Desire and the Windows-powered HD mini. The HD2 is in the middle, this is a phone that's already out on o2 and may get a sales boost thanks …
Ok, so you're on a site called "coolsmartphone.com". It's possible that you're a friend of mine that I've linked to this trying to show off, and it's also possible that you're just very, very lost and you're looking for directions back to Google, but ...
HTC have just put out a press release in response to the Apple lawsuit. The response puts a heavy emphasis on the history of HTC and the many awards that HTC have received. HTC completely disagree with the Apple claims and they intend to fully defend ...
The comScore MobiLens service reports on trends in the US mobile industry. In the three months between October 2009 and January 2010 their stats, which come from Smartphone subscribers aged over 13 years old, show that Microsoft appear to have lost gr...
Some months ago I blogged about how the Google car had snapped pictures of my entire family. Today the journey is complete and all those millions of photos are online. Google Street View has expanded to cover most of the UK and it's available right no...
I posted this originally in my blog but I feel it deserves space here too. Sometimes whilst travelling you can overhear discussions which are really interesting. I’m in one of those situations right now. I’m at an airport somewhere in the world an...
