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2010 Metal Monsters: Nokia N97 mini and Motorola Milestone

"Maybe I've got a metal fetish, but there's just something about handling cool metal that makes me fall in love with a phone. I started with the Nokia N93, then (in approximate order) Nokia E90, Nokia E61i, Motorola Z10 and now the N97 mini, built to Eseries standards by those nice folk in the Nseries team. And, as part of my attempt to do real world comparisons between the best the Symbian world has to offer and the best of the competition, I've matched up the N97 mini with the slightly ...

Blackberry Curve 530 hits Alltel, SE Vivaz gets official, Tetris hits 100 million mobile downloads

Alltel customers that have been wishing for a new smartphone will be happy to hear a new Blackberry has hit the network. Alltel is now offering the Curve 8530 for $49.99 after a $100 rebate and a new contract. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz smartphone has gone official. The device was previously called the Kurara and will hit sometime this quarter with an 8.1MP camera and HD video capability. Tetris has hit a milestone with 100 million sales on mobile phones of all types. The milestone makes it the m...

Motorola MILESTONE Review

You´ve probably noticed that Motorola has not been doing great in financial terms lately, registered record-breaking losses and has been slowly, but steadily, losing ground on the cell phone market and the major winners that cashed in on the weakness of the former leader turned out to be Samsung and LG. The company decided to cast its lot in with Android, the young operating system that is picking up speed as we speak and gaining popularity incredibly rapidly. By the time of the curren...

Preview of GSM UMTS smartphone Motorola Milestone DROID

"Launching Motorola DEXT (codenamed Morrison, also know as the CLIQ in the US), Motorola had a global task in mind - they were targeting the top-tier as well with their brand-new Anroid-based line-up. The first flagship device in this range they're releasing into the wild is the Droid, although in reality this handle is employed by Verizon Wireless for a whole plethora of phones from various manufacturers they are distributing, for example, they'll launch an HTC-branded device as "Droid" too. I...

Motorola MB300 Backflip leaks, Milestone multi touch in DROID hack, iPhone overtakes WinMo

A new device from Motorola called the MB300 Backflip/Enzo has leaked. The device is a folding handset and features MOTOBLUR along with a 5MP camera and QWERTY keyboard that folds against the screen. A hack has put multi-touch from the Motorola Milestone on the DROID. The Milestone firmware is worked over somehow to support the DROID and the ROM should be ready in a few days. ComScore reports that the iPhone has overtaken Windows Mobile in market share for the first time in the US. RIM is still...

Android Market hits 20,000 apps, over 60 percent free

"While it’s still not on par with Apple’s App Store the Android Market has today reached a notable milestone: 20,000 apps. Of those 20,000 apps, 62.2% of them are free and 37.8% of them cost moneyTo put that into perspective, the App Store has over 100,000 apps with 77% of them costing money, 23% of them free.So who will reign supreme? Well, we’ll have to see how it plays out but with Apple’s lead over Google, it’s going to hard for the Android market to catch up." via mobilewhack.com  

Motorola milestone hits UK, HTC HD2 cam update lands, Tesco gets iPhone on 12/14

The Motorola MILESTONE running Android 2.0 is now on sale in the UK. The device is on Expansys for the equivalent of $732. Yeah, it’s expensive. An update has landed for the HTC HD2 that fixes the camera distortion issue. The update is a new firmware that promises “digital picture enhancement” to remove that pinkish distortion some users see at the center of photos. We have already heard that the iPhone is heading to Tesco stores, which are sort of like the Walmart Super Cent...

Droid sales are robust, Samsung favors Android, and Milestone heads to Telus

Last weekend was the first weekend that the Motorola Droid was available to purchase on the Verizon network. Official sales figures are not available, but analysts predict about 100,000 Droids were sold opening weekend. The boxy Motorola Milestone is certainly not as sexy as the new Droid, but may be more to some users liking. The Milestone is set to hit the Telus network in Europe in early 2010. Rumors are swirling that Samsung may be looking to drop Windows Mobile in favor of Android. Analys...

TAG Heuer MERIDIIST Lamborghini phone, MILESTONE gets official, and Dell Mini 3iX

The Dell Mini 3iX has broke cover and has the same 3MP camera found in the Chinese counterpart. The main difference between the two is that the US version of the device has support for 850/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA connectivity. The European version of the DROID called the MILESTONE is now official. The device will sport multitouch, but will not get that sweet Google Maps Navigator app that the US DROID gets. We aren’t sure exactly why the MILESTONE gets multitouch and the DROID doesn’t at th...

Nokia scraps N-Gage, Motorola Droid becomes Milestone in Europe, and Bell to get Omnia II exclusive

Nokia has unveiled that it will stop producing games for its N-Gage devices next year with the date set for the month of September. Users will be able to continue downloading new games for the platform through September 2010 and all social aspects of games will cease to function then. The slick Motorola DROID is making big waves in the US with some saying the device is the best Android phone yet. The DROID is set to hit Europe with a new name called MILESTONE later this month. The device will ...