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Rumor: HTC Desire To At&t, HTC Hero2 To Sprint?
Earlier this month, we reported on some new HTC devices hitting the market this year, which included the HTC Desire and HTC Legend. BGR is reporting, from a source close to HTC, that the HTC Desire is headed to At&t while Sprint is getting the Hero2.
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Android Market offers highest percentage of free apps
Recently, at the Mobile World Congress, Dutch analytics company Distimo gave a special presentation called “Mobile Application Stores – State of Play.” Distimo tracks and trends app purchases and downloads from app stores for the six largest mobile operating systems.
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Motorola Devour Coming To Best Buy Thursday
Earlier this month we reported on the Motorola Devour coming to Verizon Wireless. Also, remember the Super Bowl commercial where Megan Fox gave you reasons to get a Devour with MOTOBLUR? The day has finally come, and you can get it at Best Buy for the low, low price of $99.99.
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PocketGear Acquires Handango
Today, PocketGear announces its acquisition of Handango, making it the world’s largest cross-platform app store. It now supports over 2,000 devices and every major OS platform. It reaches users in over 175 countries with over 140,000 free and paid apps.
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Sprint Expands Buyback Program
Today Sprint announced that its expanding its Buyback program to include cell phones from all carriers, not just Sprint. Previously, you could only trade in your old Sprint phones for a credit, but now you can turn in almost any phone from any carrier. You can get a point of sale credit anywhere from $5…
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Google Shopper: Android for Frugal
Google Shopper is the recently unleashed shopping application from Google Mobile Labs for Android-powered phones. It promises to easily lookup specifications, find reviews and compare prices based on product searches.
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MS Marketplace Updated
Didn’t you hate how the Microsoft Marketplace always forced you to install apps to the internal memory instead of giving you the option to install them to an external storage card? Well now you have the option! Microsoft has updated their Marketplace app to allow SD installation and the ability to select different regions.
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Facebook 1.2 Officially In Marketplace
In the first week of February, Facebook 1.1.0.14 from the smartphone Marketplace was pulled by a XDA user and made available to us touchscreen users. Well now Microsoft has made this app officially available for touchscreen devices. The blogosphere is calling it v1.2, but its really 1.1.0.17 on the About screen.
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Review: Mobi Products ‘Protector Case’ for MotoDroid
The ‘Protector Case’ from Mobi Products is a good fit and a great price. It has the potential of being a very nice looking case but the white plastic seams become the defining characteristic of this product.
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Sprint to Offer First WiMax 4G Device by Summer 2010; Could it be the Supersonic?
Together with their 4G partner Clearwire, Sprint has been hard at work since 2008 slowly rolling out the first 4G wireless network in the United States. But the question has always remained: what good is a 4G network if there are no 4G devices available to use with it? According to an article on Forbes, Sprint has now…
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Leaked Windows Phone 7 Series Development Docs
After reviewing the documents, you’ll see that Windows Phone 7 Series is capable of multi-tasking. Most developers won’t get complete access to native APIs, probably for security reasons. The main developer tools will be Visual Studio and Expression Blend for the XAML UI. Silverlight will also be support, as well as XNA, which is the…
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Motorola Backflip Hits At&t March 7th For $100
We already reported on the Motorola Backflip Android phone back in December, but now its officially coming to At&t on March 7th. This also starts At&t’s rollout of 5 Android phones in the first half of 2010, as promised at the At&t Developer Summit. With a two-year contract and smartphone data plan, the price will…
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MWC10 – Puma Phone
At the Mobile World Congress a new phone pounces into action called the Puma Phone. Yes, just like the shoes you once use to wear. The handset itself is manufactured by Sagem and has a 2.8-inch, 240×320 capacitive touch screen and built-in solar charger on the back. The quad-band GSM device also includes Bluetooth, 3G,…
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MWC10 – SIMFi Brings MiFi Capability to All SIM Cards
More news from the Mobile Word Congress, Manufacturer Sagem Orga has teamed up wuth Telefonica to develop a product called “SIMFi”, essentially its a SIM card with a WiFi module embedded, that has the potential to bring WiFi access to non-smartphones that may lack the WiFi hardware and could also bring MiFi features to turn almost any…
