The Nokia 700, touted as the world’s smallest smartphone, is dropping as part of a trio of Nokia handsets (the 600, 700 and 701) running the new Symbian Belle interface. And it is indeed small. It’s slim. It’s quite sleek too, and many other ‘S’ adjectives as well.The thin frame holds a 3.2-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, 5MP and VGA cameras, an external speaker hugging the bottom curve, and all this in only a 92g, 9.7mm-thick phone. It’s pretty swish.The thin Nokia 700 is certainly a tiny smartphone, but is it packing much hardware in that skinny ...
HTC Looking to Buy More Patents
HTC is highly interested in increasing its patent portfolio, chairman Cher Wang told the Wall Street Journal. The company believes it can adequately defend itself against patent-related litigation, but admits that owning more intellectual property would be helpful. “There’s so many innovations out there in Silicon Valley and different places, and that’s the exuberance of the mobile experience, I would love to buy many more small companies,” she said. Though she admitted that “sometimes we get in and the price goes really high,” forcing the company out of ...
Samsung Galaxy S II for T-Mobile
T-Mobile scores the best version of the Samsung Galaxy S II with its large display, faster processor, and zippier wireless data radio. But those aren’t the only noteworthy features of this superlative smartphone. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia Maps for Android
Nokia has updated the HTML5 web app version of Nokia Maps for the Android and iOS platforms. When accessed from the browser, Android and iOS users can now use Nokia Maps even when offline, though it requires users to plan ahead by downloading and saving maps before the connection is lost. Nokia imagines this will help reduce data roaming charges. Nokia has also updated the points of interest available within Nokia Maps for Android and iOS devices with a greater selection. Last, the web app provides public transportation directions, as well. Android and iOS device users need only point their ...
Samsung Transform Ultra
Sprint today announced that it will sell Samsung’s Transform Ultra Android smartphone. The Transform Ultra is already sold by Sprint’s Boost Mobile brand. The Transform Ultra is a sideways slider that has a 3.5-inch display, 1GHz processor, and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with Sprint iD. Other features of the Transform Ultra include a 3 megapixel main camera, VGA user-facing camera, Wi-FI, GPS, Bluetooth, and microSD card support (up to 32GB). Tweet Vote on HN ...
Mango-Flavored HTC Radar
T-Mobile USA today announced via its Facebook page that the HTC Radar 4G will go on sale starting November 2. It will cost $99.99 after rebate with a new agreement. The Radar 4G is the first Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device to be sold by T-Mobile. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia Confirms U.S. Delivery of Symbian Anna
Nokia has confirmed that owners of Symbian-based smartphones in the U.S. now have access to the Anna system update. Anna will be delivered to the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7. Symbian Anna uses a new set of icons on the home screens, offers a portrait software QWERTY keyboard, and makes usability improvements to the photo gallery. Nokia targeted some of the new features towards business users, including instant messaging with Microsoft Communicator Mobile, and meeting request support and hardware-accelerated device encryption within the email program. Symbian Anna also includes the latest ...
Droid 2 Global Droid Pro
Verizon Wireless today announced that it is offering the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to the Motorola Droid Pro and the MOtorola Droid 2 Global. Both phones will receive the new Gingerbread operating system from Google (not Ice Cream Sandwich), which includes a number of new features as well as bug fixes and tweaks. The update is available for download over the air, and can be initiated via the device systems tools. Tweet Vote on HN ...
HTC Partners with Dropbox
HTC announced today via its Facebook page that it has partnered with Dropbox, which provides online storage for smartphones, tablets, and computers. According to HTC, all future HTC Android-based smartphones will come with the Dropbox application preinstalled and will have access to 5GB of cloud-based Dropbox storage. HTC didn’t indicate which would be the first phones to include this integration. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung releases images of Focus S, Focus Flash smartphones
Samsung has finally released images of the upcoming Focus S and Focus Flash Windows Phone 7.5 smartphones that will be headed to AT&T in the near future. If you were hoping to own a Galaxy S II, but wanted Windows Phone 7.5 instead of Android, then it seems like the Focus S will be your best bet, as it looks like a near clone of the Galaxy S II. The Focus Flash is attractive as well, though it obviously has smaller dimensions.As a refresher, the Focus S is powered by a 1.4GHz, single-core processor and features a 4.3-inch, Super AMOLED Plus WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) display. It measures a ...