Verizon HTC Touch Pro 2 Outed in Spy Shots!

August 11, 2009 by 2 Comments

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Now that T-Mobile’s Touch Pro 2 is on sale today, Verizon beautiful version, complete with 3.5 mm jack is in tow. These photos leaked by the forums of PPCGeek show the Verizon branded handset in all it’s HTC WinMo glory. Compared to the horrendous color of the T-Mobile handset, which is also missing the 3.5 mm jack and comes with a LARGE dongle, the Big Red’s version is a much more attractive phone. Now that we know Sprint is launching their best looking version of the handset September 3rd, AT&T may not be far behind either. Packing a 528 MHz Qualcomm 7600 processor and sporting 480 X 800 screen resolution with bluetooth, you have a very nice looking phone on America’s network. Just don’t forgot the bloatware that comes with Verizon phones.

Bestofthemall

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Blackberry 9700 with Trackpad, 3G, 3.2 MP Camera is Coming to T-Mobile

August 11, 2009 by 1 Comment

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The Blackberry 9700 comes with a trackpad which is probably one of best hardware moves recently made by RIM. Too bad this wasn’t included in the Blackberry Tour. But alas, one of ultimate Blackberry’s in a small form factor packing a huge punch with 3G, Bold battery life, 3.2 Camera and a Tavor processor, means this is one of the hotest new RIM phones coming to market soon. With T-Mobile at the helm of the release of this new model, this could make a lot of converts over to T-Mob’s network if the pricing is right.

  • 3G device – GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS (Bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
  • 480 by 360 display, beveled edges
  • 256 megabytes of internal memory (same as Curve 8900, 8520)
  • 1550mAh M-S1 battery (same as Bold)
  • 3.2 megapixel camera, with flash and auto focus
  • Processor: Not 100% sure actually, but am hearing its a Tavor processor that may be running even a bit quicker than the Bold’s 624MHz processor (definitely seems snappy)
  • GPS, WiFi (UMA capable but we’ll see what happens there), and all the normal stuff you’d expect on a BlackBerry smartphone

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POLL: How many of you are going to buy the HTC Touch Pro 2?

August 11, 2009 by 1 Comment

HTC Touch Pro 2

We all pretty much know that the HTC Touch Pro 2 is coming out on T-Mobile (Tomorrow), AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. We wanted to do a poll and see how many of you were planning on purchasing this hot new WinMo device and how many weren’t. So vote away readers!

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HTC Touch Pro 2 Pricing Only $279? Earlier Pricing Was Wrong?

August 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment

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Yesterday, reports started to surface the T-Mobile pricing for HTC’s Touch Pro 2 could be had on a two year contract $349.99. Today we find that this pricing could be wrong. Could it be from the backlash of customers who looked forward to buying the premiere WinMo device the Touch Pro 2 until they found out the price? Or was it that T-Mobile got some feedback about the pricing and decided since AT&T, Sprint and Verizon are all going to get the same phone in different variations, they had better become more competitively priced to get some new subscribers first?

For whatever its worth, we hope that the $279.99 on a two year contract is more in line with subsidy (we hope) T-Mobile plans to implement.

[via TMobNews]

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HTC Leo (Firestone) Running Snapdragon Photo Leaked

August 11, 2009 by 5 Comments

HTC-Leo

The peeps over at HTCPedia got their hands on snapshot of what looks to be the purported HTC Leo running a Snapdragon processor. Although no leak dates are confirmed, other reports and leaks are starting to validate the claims here and here. If this is any indication, HTC may have just built the best phone yet to date with the Leo/Firestone handset.

htc_leoMore Specifications:
* 4.3 inch WVGA (480 x 800) capacitive touchscreen display
* 5MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash
* Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity and dual-band HSDPA connectivity (900/2100 MHz)
* WiFi
* GPS, A-GPS
* Accelerometer with light & proximity sensors
* 3.5mm headset jack
* 1GHz MSM 8250 Snapdragon CPU with 512MB flash memory, 320MB RAM
* MicroSD card support
* 1230 mAh battery
* 121 x 67 x 11 millimeters

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Is Nokia Dumping Symbian for Maemo?

August 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment

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Considering Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian was completed just three months ago for $410 million, this may not be true. We do know that Nokia is deploying the Maemo Platform software stack for Nokia’s Internet tablets. The Maemo Platform is based on open source and has been developed by the Maemo Software department within Nokia in collaboration with other open source projects like the Linux kernel, Debian, and GNOME.

But the German edition newspaper, Financial Times reports that Symbian cannot keep up with Apple, RIM and the new Palm webOS in User Interface category. According to the report, Nokia is going to equip several devices in the near future with the Maemo platform.

“Symbian is far too cumbersome to work with modern operating systems keep up,” said the environment of the Finnish group. “Symbian is far too cumbersome to work with modern operating systems keep up,” said the environment of the Finnish group. “We must react.”  Officially wanted to Nokia on Monday will not comment. “We do not comment on speculation,” said a spokeswoman.

Nokia had to compensate with Symbian this year with their release of the flagship device the N97 by adjusting the OS to be more iPhone like. “Nokia has identified that it is a problem with Symbian,” said analyst Tony Cripps by British consulting firm Ovum. The long term outlook is Mobile handsets, Netbooks and computers will be merging together. This would allow Nokia to propagate the use of the new technology to take advantage of the changing industry.

Perhaps Symbian will become the lower end handset mainstay OS and Maemo will become the standard for Nokia’s  high-end handsets. Symbian still leads all others in mobile phone OS sales.

[graph via Gartner]

Worldwide: Preliminary Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System, 2Q08 (Units)

Company

2Q08

Sales

2Q08 Market Share (%)

2Q07

Sales

2Q07 Market Share (%)

2Q08- 2Q07 Growth (%)

Symbian

18,405,057

57.1

18,273,255

65.6

0.7

Research In Motion

5,594,159

17.4

2,471,200

8.9

126.4

Microsoft Windows Mobile

3,873,622

12.0

3,212,222

11.5

20.6

Linux

2,359,245

7.3

2,816,490

10.1

-16.2

Mac OS X

892,503

2.8

270,000

1.0

230.6

Palm OS

743,910

2.3

461,918

1.7

61.0

Others

352,679

1.1

349,501

1.3

0.9

Total

32,221,175

100.0

27,854,586

100.0

15.7

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Blackberry Launches Own Developer Blog

August 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment

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Seeing that the PreDevCamp meetings did very well this past weekend, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile development center calling on iPhone developers to make apps for WinMo, Google’s own I/O event in May was a sold out success and now Blackberry is trying to court it’s own group of developers by starting their own development blog.

Considering the craze of apps being built for all platforms and salaries ranging from $90K to $120 for an experienced iPhone developer, RIM is trying to get into the game as quickly as possible by sponsoring a one-stop-shop information hub for interested development groups. Called the Blackberry Development Zone, the blog will feature three distinct areas that will be covered on the RIM platform:

  • Technical Discussion and Insights – Including best practices for BlackBerry development, code snippets, and general technical information on how to make applications users will come back to time and again.
  • Market Insight – Discussions of trends and opportunities in mobile development and mobile applications that RIM sees from breathing the mobile industry every single day.
  • Developer Engagement – We have substantial plans to get more engaged with our regional and local developer communities all around the world, from Australia to Argentina and everywhere in-between.  We will be using the BlackBerry Developer’s Blog to communicate events in your region and opportunities to meet other BlackBerry developers.

So if you are interested in writing apps for the Blackberry OS, better head on over to their site and register.

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Asus & Disney’s Netpal Netbook Book Coming To A Store Near You

August 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Asus Disney Netpal MK90H

Asus Disney Netpal MK90H

The Asus Disney Netpal EeePC model number MK90H is going to start hitting the store shelves this coming week. Drivers have been available for a little while and that is a good sign for this 8.9 inch netbook. Toys R Us has begun taking pre-orders for this EeePC already. It’s an overall great netbook for your kids and the price is right.

Some features are:

  • Display: 8.9 inch LED-backlit WSVGA screen (1024×600).
  • Memory: 1GB DDR2 SO-DIMM 1GB.
  • Storage: 16GB SSD.
  • Processor: Intel®ATOM N270.
  • Operating System:Genuine Windows®XP Home.
  • WiFi
  • Intel®ATOM™Processor
  • Kid Friendly Software
  • 24+ Robust Parental control options
  • Rugged and durable, with a spill-proof keyboard to protect against liquid spills.
  • ShockShield data protection guards against data loss during impact.
  • Parents – create a web-safe computing environment with control options by limiting websites kids visit and who they can correspond with via email.

Easy-to-use:

  • Set-up is simple. Takes minutes to set preferences / controls.
  • Graphic user interface is easy for kids to navigate.

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