The promise of the Samsung Galaxy S on all four major US wireless carriers has been met, but did the carriers kill some of the experience we all hoped for with their customizations?
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Have US wireless carriers gone mad? Samsung Fascinate crippled by Verizon
If you’re a HTC Peep user everything should now be fixed and you can Tweet again. Unfortunately that’s not strictly true if you’re using a Windows Mobile user. The Windows Mobile version is still giving an error message and, from what we’re hearing from you guys, it’s now been unusable for a week.
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HTC Peep still busted for WinMo users
This HTC QWERTY device, emblazened with the Verizon logo, has just popped up on the FCC. At a guess this will no doubt be an Android device (no Windows flag in sight) and the keyboard, as you can see, is a lovely shade of red. Known as the “HTC PD42100″ it’ll be arriving on Verizon pretty soon and, we can only hope, to a European network in a slightly different guise soon
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HTC Sliding QWERTY spotted on FCC
Vodafone have updated their Coming Soon section of the website to include information on the Samsung Galaxy Tab which will be available on their network soon here in the UK. The Tab is an Android based tablet running 2.2 FroYo so you get the latest version of the OS right out of the box, it also offers a 7 inch touch screen and features like a front facing camera for video calling.
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Register At Vodafone For Galaxy Tab
DataViz makes excellent software products for mobile platforms like Documents To Go and RoadSync and has announced no webOS client is coming. They may also have been purchased by RIM.
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DataViz announces no webOS client coming, may have been acquired by RIM
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 October customers will be able to ‘opt-in’ to the service which will mean if their existing network has no coverage where you are but the other network does you will be able to use your phone as normal.
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T-Mobile/Orange Roaming From 5th October
There’s a good video on the BBC website which takes a look at the new 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab we covered yesterday. There’s a hands-on and a wry smile from Carey McGregor (Senior Product Manager at Samsung) when BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones states, “It looks lovely, but it looks just like a shrunken iPad though”. The Folio 100, from Toshiba, is also shown and comes with Android 2.2, Flash 10.1 support and a miniHDMI port
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Samsung Galaxy Tab and Toshiba Folio 100 handled
Nokia’s high end smartphone sales have been on a steady decline and it doesn’t help their standing when they keep down shutting services they actively promote and bring customers into, but they are doing it yet again.
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How do you say closed in Finnish? Nokia shuts down yet another service
Micromax, Lava, Spice, Zen, Karbonn and many other Indian handset brands are making more than a mark in the market today. They have together occupied more than 14% market share . The best part for them is that this has been at the cost of certain brands specifically Nokia losing its market share by more than 12% over the past year
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Are Indian Mobile handset brands giving their foreign counterparts a run for their money? [Telecom Tuesday]
Microsoft have pretty much stuck to their “holiday 2010″ statement when asked about launch dates for Windows Phone 7. For anyone not in the US, that can be translated at the Christmas / December timeframe. However, in a recent video Microsoft CEO Kevin Turner has said that the new OS will be available to buy.
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Windows Phone 7 to be available in just two months?
Whilst this isn’t quite news it’s still pretty funny. This guy and his wife are, we presume, having a nice shopping trip and decide to visit the Apple store. In they pop and then, armed with a camera, they turn almost every iPad and iPhone into a big advert for Android
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Apple store becomes not-quite-so Apple
LG mobile phones are among the most desirous mobile phones, because a lot of people, all over the world have a craze for smart phones. And it is believed the LG is always a way ahead than other big brands like Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Apple and many more, in making smart phones. LG mobile phones are among the most desirous mobile phones, because a lot of people, all over the world have a craze for smart phones.
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LG Viewty Snap – Shoot and View Your Snaps With LG Viewty Snap
Well, it seems that the earlier predictions were right. According to a statement from HTC, the Desire will be getting Android 2.2 in Europe from this weekend. HD video recording, the App Share facility and iTunes syncing are just some of the highlights
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Confirmed – Android 2.2 coming to the Desire this weekend
The Samsung Galaxy S series are hot right now, but many owners of the T-Mobile Vibrant are having some performance issues related to GPS, reception, speed, and battery life. These all look like software issues that appear to show the Vibrant may have been a bit rushed.
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Will a software update fix GPS and other issues with the Samsung Vibrant?
After the leaky-deaky Galaxy S Froyo update appeared yesterday there’s been a lot of interest in just when the official update will arrive on devices. Samsung now state via their Twitter feed that it’s still in development, but will arrive “for all networks at the end of September”. Link – Twitter Credit – Ken Musdan Read on and add your comments .
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Galaxy S to get Froyo at the end of September
With Apple dishing out free covers and the fallout from the iPhone 4 issues still bouncing around the web, there’s another competitor ready to take advantage. Last week Samsung poked a bit of fun at Apple with this ad and now Motorola are running this “No Jacket Required” advertisement
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Motorola target iPhone 4 issues
DataViz makes an excellent Office program in Documents To Go and today they released their Maemo 5 product with support for the Nokia N900. N900 users can now create and edit Word and Excel documents on the go.
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DataViz brings Office support to the Nokia N900 Maemo 5 device
Biffing busily about Beijing on a bike: Explaining the journey from pictograms to ideograms to the modern and simplified Chinese characters That’s enough brushes, ed. Where the brushes are made … Goodness … Brushes in a calligraphy shop … Beijing Centre for the Performing Arts – again taken from a car
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Beijing 22nd July 2010
Welcome The hooplah that surrounds the release of a new Apple product is enough to make many otherwise calm and balanced adults froth and jigger. That some froth with excited happiness and others with outraged contempt is almost irrelevant, it is the intensity of the response that is so fascinating. For the angry frothers all are fair game for their fury – the newspapers, the blogosphere, the BBC and most certainly people like me for acting, in their eyes, as slavish Apple PR operatives
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iPhone 4: a Welcome and a Warning
Residents and businesses on Telstra’s copper and cable networks will be effectively pushed to the National Broadband Network (NBN) under the $11 billion Financial Heads of Agreement deal between the telco, network wholesaler NBN Co and the Federal Government. The telco’s CEO, David Thodey,… Computerworld – Telstra-NBN Co deal: Opposition slams Telstra and NBN deal Computerworld – Telstra-NBN Co deal: Telstra share prices on the up Computerworld – New company to deliver USO if Telstra does deal with NBN Co
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Telstra-NBN Co deal: Telstra plans phased copper decommission
The open-source content management system WordPress turned seven years old last month. In its lifetime, it has attracted a devout following: More than 28,000 people download WordPress every day, with over 11.4 million active installations, including news outlets and corporate sites.
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WordPress 3.0 adds better customization
Microsoft will unveil new features next week to enhance the Bing search engine’s capabilities to search for entertainment-related content, specifically in areas such as music, television, movies and online games. The announcement will be made on Tuesday by Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of… Computer World – Microsoft to boost Bing’s music, TV, movies, game search Computerworld – Microsoft to boost Bing’s music, TV, movies, game search
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Microsoft to Boost Bing’s Music, TV, Movies, Game Search
June 20 (Bloomberg) — Walt Disney Co.’s “Toy Story 3” was the top movie at U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend with $109 million in ticket sales, a record opening for its Pixar studio.It’s Pixar’s 11th debut at No. 1 and the second-highest opening for an animated feature, falling..
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‘Toy Story 3’ Has $109 Million Debut for Pixar Record (Update2)
Dell’s Inspiron line has never been stodgy, exactly. They’re steady, workaday notebooks that you’d take to college or have kicking around the living room. And that’s been just fine! The R series, though, seems determined to give Inspiron some flair.
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Inspiron R Series: Dell’s Razzle Dazzle Everyday Laptops [Laptops]
Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android smartphones are getting set for another epic battle next week as these two titans of the smartphone industry show off their latest devices. First, on June 23 the Axis of Don’t Be Evil composed of Google, Verizon, and Adobe will announce the next wave of… eWeek – Motorola Droid X Braces for Launch Amid Apple’s iPhone 4 Woes International Herald Tribune – Who Needs A Mirror When You Have A Cell Phone
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Android vs. iPhone: 5 Battlefields
The Federal Communications Commission announced that it would release a portion of the 2GHz S unleashes additional spectrum for use by mobile wireless services. But the decision is just one step in a long and complicated program to bring broadband wireless data services to business and… FierceBroadbandWireless – FCC looks to MSS spectrum for broadband CNET News – FCC sets sights on satellite spectrum
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FCC Takes Small Step Toward National Broadband Plan
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Supporters of the two candidates in Colombia’s presidential run-off flooded the Internet on Saturday with urgent appeals for voters to cast ballots in an election that could suffer from low turnout.Technology Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos won a first round in May… BusinessWeek – Uribe’s Heir Santos Seeks Landslide Win in Colombia Election Toronto Sun – Colombians vote, Santos seen winning presidency
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Colombians turn to Facebook in final vote push
June 20 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has struck an A$11 billion ($9.5 billion) deal with Telstra Corp., removing a lingering obstacle to the creation of the government’s national broadband network.State-owned NBN Co., which is building the network to provide a…
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Australia, Telstra in $A11 Billion Broadband Deal (Update2)
Google has introduced a command line utility for accessing various Chocolate Factory services, including YouTube, Blogger, Google Docs, Calender, and Contacts. And an army of text-interface obsessives have responded with glee. “I love you!!” one coder told Google
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Google hits coder G-spot with Linux command line tool
While most of the week’s news has been focused on the forthcoming iPhone 4, in the security space it has been a relatively quiet seven days, with Apple issuing more updates and yet more Facebook clickjacking woes. First up, UK security firm Veritape released a new device which it claimed can… IT Business Edge – Apple Patches OS X, iTunes V3.co.uk – Apple issues security updates
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A week in security: Apple releases slew of fixes