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
It’s getting late in the day, but we’re happy to say that we’re making good on our promise of kicking off our Holiday Giveaway Blowout today. It’s been an incredible year in the mobile space, and we’re celebrating the end of 2009 by giving away more prizes than you can count on your fingers and toes! Starting today, you can enter in IntoMobile’s Holiday Giveaway Blowout for your chance to win.
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IntoMobile’s Holiday Giveaway Blowout – Free Stuff For All!
I would be sick of all of these Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) announcements if they weren’t all so unanimously cool. Google Maps for Android is getting a few extra goodies, starting with “What’s nearby?” As you might expect, it shows all of the Google Maps listings closest to your GPS location. Simple, and an effective way of knowing what’s nearby without actually having to look away from your phone (heaven forbid)
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Google Maps for Android Shows What’s Nearby, Plus New Maps Labs
Motorola will soon be pushing their Android wares in China. According to a new report from IDG, Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) will soon send the Motorola MT710 Android smartphone to China as a keyboard-less variant of Verizon ( NYSE: VZ )’s Motorola DROID. Starting December 28th, China Mobile ( NYSE: CHL ) will offer the Motorola MT710 as part of their OPhone Android lineup, which offers Android phones running a special version of Android customized by China Mobile
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Motorola’s DROID-ish MT710 Android phone headed to China soon
The Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) N900, which started shipping recently , doesn’t come with built in support to view office documents. DataViz, makers of the awesome Documents To Go software, has just announced that you’ll be able to download a free 30 day trial of their viewer software, or purchase the program outright for $10
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DataViz Documents To Go Viewer available for Maemo now, 30 day free trial, $10 after that
In the flurry of Google announcements yesterday, one story made it through the cracks: real-time search results for Android and iPhone. In short, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is including a little ticker in searches for hot, current topics that includes super-recent content from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca. This can be great for breaking news that will come from on-the-scene sources before it gets chewed through bigger media and eventually indexed
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Google Real-Time Search Results Coming to Android and iPhone
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) has just announced a new version of the 13 month old 5800, the new Navigation Edition, and it will go on sale in the USA immediately for $299 at nokiausa.com and various other online shops. Way down, at the very bottom of the press release , they sneak in this nugget of gold: “Through December 31, Nokia is offering a 50 USD Visa prepaid gift card for customers who buy the device and activate an account with Ovi Store, Nokia’s marketplace for mobile applications, videos, games and more.” That’s right, Nokia will give you $50 to sign up for Ovi.
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Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition: Please sign up for Ovi, we’ll give you $50 if you do!
Namco is bringing its successful Pac-Man Championship Edition to the iPhone / iPod Touch this Thursday. Pac-Man Championship Edition was originally released Summer 2007 on the Xbox Live Arcade with a positive response from reviewers. In Pac-Man Championship Edition, Namco takes the classic gameplay mechanics of Pac-Man and adds a fresh coat of updated graphics and two game modes, Mission & Championship, with an additional Challenge mode that can be purchased through an expansion pack. Mission mode challenges players to complete a specific task such as collecting 3 pieces of fruit, or eating a specific number of ghosts in order to complete the mission. Players can revisit a mission to attempt to complete it at a different difficulty level. Championship mode feels more like the traditional Pac-Man game, but instead of progressing by way of eating all the pellets in a level, this mode requires you to beat the top score within a time limit. There are four different control schemes to play Pac-Man Championship Edition so anyone should be able to find a way to play comfortably. The only thing I wish Namco would have included were leaderboards so I can compare my score with my friends. Hopefully Namco offers something in the future (might i suggest Facebook integration?) because as of now, Pac-Man Championship Edition has a lot going for it. There’s no word on pricing, but the XBLA retails for $10.
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Pac-Man Championship Edition for iPhone Will Cure Your Pac-Man Fever on Thursday
In an effort to get some additional exposure for its brand and its newly announced handset – eXpo , LG Mobile Phones — in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment — has created a multi-faceted marketing campaign for the highly anticipated epic adventure film – Avatar.
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LG Mobile Phones creates marketing campaign for James Cameron’s Avatar to promote the eXpo
By now, you’re probably aware of questionable practices involved in Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s iPhone application approval process. Apparently, there are quite a few apps that were rejected by Jobs & Co, hence a dedicated website was created to share the pain and, I guess, help in lobbying for more open procedure. The site is called “ Apple Rejected Me ” (ARM) and it’s main problem is that anyone can add his or her two cents anonymously
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Apple Rejected Me gathers iPhone app developers rejected by Cupertino
The massive HTC roadmap leak that occurred over the weekend was nice, but the pictures could have been a bit less grainy. A new photo of the HTC Bravo, posted below, has just managed to find itself on the internet. The specifications, in case you need to drool again at this lovely piece of smartphone scheduled to be released in April 2010, include a massive 3.7 inch WVGA (800×480 pixel) OLED display, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband (900/2100 MHz) 7.2 Mbps HSPA, 5 megapixel camera, 720p video recording, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 1400 mAh battery, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack, all powered by Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM )’s powerful 1 GHz Snapdragon processor.
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Brief: Better photo of HTC’s Android flagship device for 1H 2010 leaks [Bravo]
The LG Cookie, which first started shipping during in November 2008, is a low end touch screen device created for the masses. In July Dusan reported that it took LG just 9 months to sell 5 million , well here we are in December, a little over a year since the Cookie first hit the shelves, and the South Korean company has just announced that they’ve shipped their 10 millionth unit. “The sales record adds credence to our philosophy of studying consumer demands and offering a full touchphone that balances premium features with sleek design
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LG has just sold their 10 millionth Cookie in a litle over a year
As far as rumors and speculation are concerned, we had our sights set on AT&T ( NYSE: T ) as the carrier of choice for Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X10 Android phone . But, new revelations gleaned from Sony Ericssons’ own X10 whitepaper suggest that we might see T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) offering an XPERIA X10 in the near future. It’s not clear if the X10 will be a T-Mobile exclusive or if Sony Ericsson ( NYSE: SNE ) will be selling their latest XPERIA smartphone through both AT&T and T-Mobile USA
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 to get picked up by T-Mobile?
With something like 100,000 apps now available for the iPhone, the AppStore is a solid target for iPhone developers without scruples looking to scam the system. The good news is that Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) isn’t going to stand by and allow these kinds of iPhone devs to sully the AppStore’s good name.
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Apple bans iPhone developer and pulls 1000 apps for faking app reviews on AppStore