Palm announces the launch date of GSM version of Pre in Europe.  13 October in Germany and 16 October in UK and Ireland.  It will be sold exclusively by O2 in these countries. The price published is around 483 EURO for a non-contract phone in Germany.  However, in UK, the phone will be SIM locked by O2.  Well, I guess the hacker will be busy again to unlock the phone when it hits the market. [...]

Palm is reported to have a little bit of problem getting the overwhelming submissions of applications into their App Catalog.  However, that is a good and happy problem they have. The success of a device (especially a smartphone or a PDA phone) largely depends on the number of applications available for it.  Palm has been working very hard to get more applications into their App Catalog since Palm Pre was launched.  With the opening of [...]

We must thank some of these brilliant guys.  The top secret Microsoft Pink phones images get leaked out to the Net.  Gizmodo has the images for the 2 diferent designs of the phones. The first one, Turtle, looks like a junior version of recent Palm Pre.  The second one, Pure, is a more common slider design. (Please find the images after the break) It is reported that the phones are going to be made by [...]

Singtel (Singapore) is giving big subsidy for HTC Hero.  While we did not see anything going on from them during last weekend when M1 and Starhub were having big campaign for the phone.  The phone quietly appeared on their SingtelShop web site past few days.  Well, the price: S$98 for high plan (S$82.93/month and above) S$198 for middle plan S$298 for low plan S$398 for a super low plan (S$15/month) Pretty good deal, huh.  However, [...]

As crazy as you could imagine, there have been rumours that Nokia, the Finnish phone maker, is considering making an acquisition bid for Palm.  Like Palm, Nokia has not been doing well in the smartphone market and failed to capture the market.  It has been behind Research in Motion (RIM, who makes all the blackberry phones) and Apple (who makes the famous iPhone). The “take over” could close the gap between Nokia and the market [...]

Google Sync is now able to push gmail to your mobile device via its Exchange Active Sync implementation.  Previous it was only able to push calendar and contacts.  The recent announcement from Google Mobile Blog has confirmed the addition of this feature to the service. Although in the announcement, only iPhone, iPod touch and Windows mobile devices are listed as suported platform.  However, due to the fact that it is using the EAS protocol for [...]

Android war is heating up in China.  Not long after China Mobile announced their Android-based Open Mobile System phone – OPhone, China Telecom is now unveiling their Android based CPhone created by Access. During PT & Network Comm China, hold in Beijing and ended on September 20, Access had shown off their newest creation – CPhone.  The phone comes with a cartoon style UI, according to Clone in China. The phone runs on Android 1.5, [...]

We had quite a number of blurry pictures of SE Xperia X3 posted on the net before.  And now there are new pictures (even unboxing pictures) from MobileNova which are very clear.  However, they look a bit unreal to me. Click the link to view.

Despite efforts from HTC and Motorola to add customized interface to Android, there are people out there who have different ideas of how Android phones should look like.  Larva Labs is the next contender in this market. Larva Labs had just announced the “Intelligent Home Screen” for Android based phone.  It is a home screen loaded with information in a bar lines style.   Each bar will contain different information like email, SMS messages, missed [...]

While we are still waiting for the Cliq (or Dext) to arrive, BusinessWeek is reporting that  Motorola plans to release at least 10 cell phones based on Android operating system in the next six to 10 months. The phones are to be priced from USD39 – USD399, according to the report. In the second quarter of 2009, the company has only 5.5% for mobile phone market, much lower than what it used to be which [...]