In addition to the Galaxy Y DUOS, Samsung has announced the dual SIM Galaxy Y Pro DUOS. The Y Pro DUOS adds a QWERTY keyboard to the touchscreen/dual-SIM combination. ...
Monthly Archives: December 2011
RIM denies report about BlackBerry 10 troubles
RIM has issued a statement concerning a report from earlier today that suggested that the company’s BlackBerry 10 devices were being delayed because of problems with its core functionality. The smartphone maker categorically denied the report and reiterated the original reason it gave for why the first BlackBerry 10 devices won’t arrive until late 2012. ...
Samsung withholds Android 4.0 ICS upgrade from Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab due to TouchWiz
Samsung has revealed some disheartening news for owners of the original Galaxy S smartphone and 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet, as it will not be upgrading those devices to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Samsung cites hardware constraints paired with the necessity to include its custom TouchWiz interface as the reason why it will not be upgrading the smartphones and tablets. ...
RIM sued over use of BBM trademark
A Canadian broadcasting company has filed a lawsuit against RIM over the use of the BBM name for the BlackBerry Messenger service. The Bureau of Broadcast Management was established back in 1944, and it has been using BBM Canada for much of its existence. ...
Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY game controller now supported by OnLive
Owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY smartphone, the world’s first PlayStation-certified smartphone, have something new to play with, as OnLive has announced that it has built compatibility with the PLAY’s game pad into the latest version of its Android app ...
C Spire picks up Motorola Milestone X2
C Spire Wireless has announced that is now offering the Motorola Milestone X2 smartphone. The Milestone X2 is a re-branded version of the DROID X2 that Verizon Wireless released earlier this year. ...
Dell Streak 5 updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread
The Dell Streak 5, Dell’s original smartphone/tablet hybrid, may be discontinued, but the company is doing good to support its customers, as it has just released the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the 5-inch devices. We will excuse the tardiness of the update since the Streak 5 is dead product. The update offers version 1.5.1 of Dell’s Stage UI interface and version 2.27 of the Swype keyboard. Owners can head to Dell’s website to download the update now. ...
LG to upgrade high-end Optimus smartphones to Android 4.0 ICS starting in Q2 2012
LG already revealed that it plans to upgrade its high-end Optimus smartphones released in 2011 to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but now we have a more concrete time period that users can expect to get the upgrades delivered to their phones. ...
Samsung expects to sell 374 million mobile phones in 2012
According to the Korea Economic Daily, citing industry officials, Samsung expects to sell 15 percent more mobile phones in 2012 than it did in 2011. The company projects that it will move 374 million cellphones next year, 49 million more than its projections for 2011. ...
Samsung reportedly reevaluating Android 4.0 ICS upgrade plans for Galaxy S, Tab
Last week, Samsung caused quite a ripple in the blogosphere when it announced that it would not be upgrading the original Galaxy S smartphone or the 7-inch Galaxy Tab to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich because of hardware constraints. Now reports are coming in from Korea stating that Samsung is reevaluating its position, and that it is going back to the drawing board to see if it can make the upgrade work on the older hardware. ...