Those with a flair for high-end touchscreened devices may not find it appealing, but then for those who travel a lot and don’t want to get lost will surely find the new Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition quite handy. Nokia has introduced the 2710 Navigation Edition and they claim it to be their most affordable device with Navigation
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Nokia 2710 Is Definitely The Most Affordable Phone with Navigation
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer has presented himself this new luxury device, saying that it’s “the most fashionable phone he’s ever had a chance to talk about.” This phone strongly resembles the Samsung Armani W820/W8200 feature phone, but doesn’t infact seem to have a name yet. Anyhow, apart from the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, it sports a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a GPS, 5MP camera, 8GB of internal memory, a MicroSD card slot, and a full QWERTY keyboard.
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Samsung Giorgio Armani Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone unveiled
Urban Rivals — an online trading card game where users discover, collect and play with over 500 trading cards — is going iPhone, allowing existing and potential new community members to join the community, which at the moment counts more than 7 million users. I’m not a big card game fan, hence I’m passing along an excerpt from the press release: Each character belongs to a specific clan, including pirates, gangsters, and military types, and building your deck to harness their different powers is half the fun! Players build experience to unlock more powerful abilities, and enjoy new looks as the characters blast through different levels
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Urban Rivals expands into iPhone
India’s Infosys has prepared a mobile application platform for carriers called Flypp, to allow them to launch their own app stores. In a world, where we already have quite a few similar offerings from major operators, handset makers and platform providers – we ask will anyone use this? Something tells me there is a market for Flypp
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India’s Infosys unveils Flypp mobile app platform for carriers
Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless has a new desktop software called V CAST Media Manager, which is designed to help their customers manage/transfer photos, videos, and music between phones and PCs.
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Verizon Wireless unveils desktop application V CAST Media Manager to help users manage their media
Another big win for Obopay as they push to conquer the African market. Their “partners in crime” are local telecommunications service provider Essar Telecom Kenya Limited’s yu branded mobile network and Equity Bank, who have a large countrywide network. The service is branded “yuCash by Obopay” and it’s “positioned to change the landscape of mobile money transfer” in Kenya
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Kenya’s yu unveils mobile money transfer service – yuCash by Obopay
The Mobile Premier Awards are the largest open and global startup competition in the mobile industry. Mobile startups from around the world are invited to participate for free. All they/you have to do is create a company profile on dotopen.com and select the awards they/you want to compete in
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Submit your mobile startup to DotOpen to win a Mobile Premier Award
The rumoured update to Sprint ( NYSE: S )’s BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) Tour (code-named Essex) which was to include Wi-Fi and a trackpad has shown its face. This is certainly not the first time we’ve seen the 9650 , and the CEO was already pretty open about an updated Tour , but it’s the first concrete sign of a device that was definitely built for Sprint. This particular model was running OS 5.0.0.385, and was apparently being sold privately from someone within RIM
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BlackBerry Essex 9650 Spotted With Sprint Branding
There are already a few iPhone apps that use Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )’s Bing search engine to scour the web, so it only makes sense that Microsoft launch a proper Bing iPhone app in the AppStore – nevermind the fact that Microsoft is developing mobile applications for its arch-rival’s mobile operating system. Today, Microsoft is making it easier to wade through search engine “noise” with an iPhone app that delivers relevant search results to your iPhone
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Bing goes iPhone with location-aware voice search
If you’re like me, you’re addicted to the Discovery Channel. Also, you don’t live in New York City (Manhattan). That’s a shame because neither of us will probably ever have a chance to take a ride on the Cash Cab and become the next contestant in the taxi-based quiz show
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Cash Cab for iPhone – Because we can’t all live in NYC
David White, the current Chief Financial Officer for nVidia, gave a talk at Barclays Capital 2009 Global Technology Conference. You can listen to the whole thing here , but the gist of it is that during CES nVidia will announce a new Tegra product. Netbooks, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and tablets such as this 15 inch model running Android , built on the new Tegra will be hitting the market in the first half of 2010, smartphones based on the new Tegra will hit the market in the second half
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Ultrabrief: nVidia CFO: We will be making a major Tegra announcement in 3 weeks
PayPal is launching a new application that lets you send cash from your account to whoever you want right from your BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ). It integrates with the native contact list for added convenience, and also has access to your account balance and transaction history. These two companies have been cozy ever since the BlackBerry App World launched, since RIM chose PayPal as the exclusive payment method (although carrier billing is apparently on the way)
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PayPal Announces “Send Money” BlackBerry App
If I asked a wide range of people what they they think the best user interface is, most would respond Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT )’s Windows 7, some will say Mac OS X 10.6, the people who spend their entire day glued to their laptop will say either Firefox, Chrome or Safari, but what if I told you that this was the best interface today, the one everyone uses multiple times a day, and may not even realize it even fits into the category of “user interface”, is Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s search box? Take a look at Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s iPhone, and then take a look at any user interface created in the past two decades, and you’ll realize that a cluster of icons representing applications that do different things is the one thing that has remained consistent and has not evolved over all these years. The same can be said about Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Symbian
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Mission Impossible: Creating the perfect smartphone: Episode 03: It’s time for applications to die
It’s been a little while since the last T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) 3G network update… Thankfully I have a few more locations to tell you about today. Looks like T-Mobile has turned 3G speeds on in Grand Rapids, Michigan… and Tulsa, Oklahoma…
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T-Mobile Goes 3G in Grand Rapids, Michigan… and More.
Just when you thought there could be no more BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) love via Bell before the new year… New word has leaked that this may not be the case. Rumor has it (via MobileSyrup ) that big blue will launch the BlackBerry Curve 8530 on December 26th.
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BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming to Bell December 26th
TAG Heuer, the popular Switzerland-based luxury watch maker who are famous for their chronographs and sports watches, has announced the release of their new Limited Edition Luxury phone, dubbed TAG Heuer MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini. The new phone, just as the name suggests is made in collaboration with ‘The Lamborghini’.
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TAG Heuer MERIDIIST Lamborghini Luxury Phone
A couple of quick OS updates BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) today. First comes an official release (yes, it’s legit) for the Bold 9700 via T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) Germany.
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OS Updates Available for the Storm2 (Unofficial) and Bold 9700 (Official)
Alright, Canada, here are your new options from wind Mobile: $15, $35 and $45 a month, with add-ons available for international calling and voicemail. The catch? Many of the features depend on you being in a wind home zone, the details of which are still hazy right here . wind ’s coverage isn’t going to be crazy great at the beginning, so presumably the majority of their service will depend on using your phone in a metropolitain area, currently Calgary and Toronto, and at a later date, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Edmonton.
Yep, new Canadian service provider wind Mobile was not joking around when they said they wanted to launch this week . They have gone official with the BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) ( NSDQ: RIMM ) Bold 9700, announcing that no contract will be required to pick one up, no minimum voice plan, and have rates available as pre-paid or post-paid options
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WIND Getting Real: Pre- And Post-Paid BlackBerry Bold 9700, No Contract
Swype, the new rapid touch screen input method developed by the guy who invented T9, recently recieved some funding from Nokia and Samsung . Swype only works on one device right now, the Windows Mobile powered Samsung Omnia II on Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ), but Greg Kumparak from Mobile Crunch managed to get his hands on a beta copy for Android. His brief video demo is below, and you can read his review here .
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Brief: Video: Swype For Android
Sony Ericsson’s all-new Idou will probably generate as much hype as the original XPERIA. Not only Idou is the first 12 megapixel GSM cameraphone, it’s also the very first device to ever feature the brand new open source Symbian user interface which is still being developed by the Symbian Foundation. Additional boastworthy features of the phone include a 3.5-inch crisp looking touchscreen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels, a GPS, Wi-Fi and most important of them the phone is relatively compact and is quite ergonomic to use.
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Sony Ericsson Idou
Bellperre has announced the launch of a new series luxury phones which are made out of “the very finest authentic materials”, including fine quality hand-crafted wood . The new Bellperre luxury phones weigh just 120 grams and measure 100 x 44 x 15,3 mm, and the best part is that they can be customized with a choice of hand-polished Steel, Yellow Gold, Rosé Gold or Platinum
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Bellperre Finest Woods luxury phone series launched