When it comes to phones, the last few days have been particularly exciting. It seems like all the companies coordinated their leaks and rumors to be in succession or tandem. We have updates in the elusive HTC Dragon/Passion, the Sony Ericsson Kurara and even the Google Phone. Yes, apparently Google is making a phone. Plus, we have two super deals in smarpthones – Palm Pre and BlackBerry Curve on the cheap!
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The (HTC) Dragon/Passion Lives!
The HTC Dragon apparently does exist and it is undergoing testing and usage at Google headquarters. This comes from TechCrunch, who have it from a very reliable source. The top Android people are apparently using it right now. It does carry the Snapdragon inside and is said to be the next superstar Android phone. See, I told you it was real! [read]
More Google Phone Rumors
TechCrunch’s Micheal Arrington reports that they have it from a very reliable source that the Google phone is very real. Google has a vision of what an Android phone should be like and making their own phone would be the only way such a vision can be realized to its full extent. But that does not mean that they would make their own phone. It basically means that they would have someone else design a phone according to their specifications and only according to their specifications.
Google has denied the notion though, saying that they would not make a phone and compete with their own partners. So TechCrunch surmises that they could be making a mobile device that would only have VoIP and not traditional phone network support. Of of this is getting very exciting. [read]
More Details On The Sony Ericsson Kurara
Sony Ericsson’s latest phone to be leaked – the Kurara, has just received a fresh new dose of leaks. According to the owner of Mobile Review, Kurara has been gravely underestimated so far. The phone is not all that slow after all. It is powered by an ARM Cortex A8 chip and has 256MB RAM to go along with it. Not only that, it also has PowerVR graphics that is definitely going to make any old Symbian OS look like it is on speed boosting steroids. [read]
MSFT: Apps Irrelevant On (Modern) Smatphones, Us: Yeah, Rrrright
This has to be the most laughable quote in recent times, that too from someone who represents a company as big as Microsoft. Microsoft’s Chief Software Engineer Ray Ozzie was recently quoted at a developer’s conference saying that apps do not matter to modern smartphones. He also does not like the fact that people mostly concentrate on the apps and not the hardware. Okay, last time I checked Microsoft is mostly known for making software like Windows and Office suites. Saying stupid things like that just because your mobile platform has 1000 apps and Apple’s has a 100 times that, is not a very intelligent thing to do. This is akin to saying applications don’t matter on computers. So what are we supposed to do with a handheld computing devices? Play catch? [read]
Palm Pre $79.99 On Amazon
If you want a smartphone at a never before price, Amazon has just slashed the price of the Palm Pre to $79.99. This can be taken as a clear signal that the device or the market in general has not been doing very well. Still, this is an insanely low price if you are in thr market for a smartphone, especially for a certain stocking. [read]
Contract-Free $300 BlackBerry Curve 8520 From T-Mobile
Want a BlackBerry Curve but you think it’s too expensive for you? T-Mobile has just the right deal for you. They are offering a BlackBerry Curve 8520 for just $300 and get this – there’s no contract attached to it. So you can do whatever you want with it. It does come with one month’s service. Yes, this will make a great gift for someone. Pony up people, yuletide is breaking in. [read]
N900 Goes On Sale In the US Without Any Carrier Backing
Nokia failed to find a carrier for its latest smartphone – the N900 Maemo5 phone. So it has gone on ahead without them and started selling the phone for $649 without any kind of subsidy. May be this is why the gorgeous phone will fail. US is not the kind of market that will pay so much for a phone, they are too used to contracts and subsidies even if it means they ultimately pay more than they needed to. With a depressed economy, no one really has much liquidity.
But here’s the good part – the waiting list is apparently already full! [read]
Gartner Predicts Money Transfer Soon To Be #1 App
According to the analysts at Gartner, ‘Money Transfer’ applications will reign over the smartphones in the coming year. They have released a top 10 list of what they think will be the future of mobile apps. The list depends on a lot of factors such as impact on consumers, users and industries. [read]
AT&T Fights Back Verizon – The Carrier War Is Officially On
AT&T has launched an ad that lashes back against Verizon’s “there’s a map for that” and other ads. It has Luke Wilson attaching magnets to a check list that shows AT&T has faster 3G than Verizon and other points where the Blue Beach Ball complete trounces Verizon. So is it effective? Not really. Is it lame? Absolutely so. Besides, I’d rather have slightly slower connection all over the place than a faster connection at only few locations. [read]
UK Might Get Mobile TV Before The Olympics
If you are in the UK and you wanted Mobile TV yesterday, do not lose hope yet. Olympics tend to hasten up many things in host countries and it could be driving UK towards proper mobile TV in time for the 2012 Olympics. This news is courtesy the company who intends to make it happen – MediaFLO. According to PocketLint, a company official dropped quite a few broad hints that they are targeting the Olympics MediaFLO is already operating in the US. [read]
Japan To Beat Everyone Else To LTE, As Usual
NTT Docomo, Japan, has declared that they will be moving to a LTE network as soon as December 2010. LTE or Long Term Evolution is the next generation in mobile data networks, bringing with it a lack of latency and faster data speeds. The rest of the world will still be in the testing phase if Docomo really rolls it out that soon. That’s what you can expect from Japan though, they are always on the cutting edge. May be it is the Samurai in their blood. [read]
XPERIA X1 No Get Windows Mobile 6.5, X1 Be Sad
Sony Ericsson has declared that they would not be updating the XPERIA X1 to Windows Mobile 6.5. Looks like they want to get rid of those phones as fast as they can. I would do same with my embarrassing science project from the yester years. [read]
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