Following hot on the heels of the HTC Dream video showing the new HTC-made handset running the oft-speculated Android OS, we’re hearing that T-Mobile is gearing up to offer their customers the HTC Dream on September 17 through pre-sale channels. The pre-sale window falls in line nicely with the expected HTC Dream’s rumored arrival. The HTC [...]

CDMA carriers are definitely wising up to their network standard’s doomed fate. While the likes of Verizon, Alltel, and MetroPCS will have their customers believing that their CDMA-based network is superior to the GSM standard that is used in ubiquity throughout the world, it’s an inevitable fact that CDMA’s days are numbered. As such, MetroPCS has [...]

So, where will the Sanyo Katana Eclipse first launch? Nope, it’s not Sprint. Turns out, the newest clamshell from Sanyo will be offered first in Canada through Bell Mobility. The Sanyo Katana Eclipse has been getting some disproportionate press recently, considering its mid-range feature-set, but there’s no doubt that the affordable flip-phone will find plenty [...]

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Just when we reported MetroPCS is getting Samsung’s full QWERTY-keyboard equipped feature phone, Messager, we caught Cricket saying they’re on board, too. Again, the Samsung Messager is a heavy texter’s dream device, featuring a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 plyayer, stereo Bluetooth, and a microSD memory card slot. Pre-installed apps and games include Rabble Social Networking, Are [...]

Nokia Email service/app is now available as an early release through Nokia Beta Labs. The application is designed to help users easily manage their emails on the go. Supported email services include GMail, Yahoo! Mail and “thousands of personal email accounts offered by other ISPs.” Unfortunately, at this stage corporate email and MSN Hotmail are [...]

Samsung today introduced software to optimize flash memory in smartphones. The software optimizes data transactions as they interact with operating systems. By boosting performance through faster booting, downloading and searching, it improves multimedia intensive operations. The embedded-flash software is comprised file systems and supportive flash drivers. The file systems, UniFS, PocketFS and RFS, execute typical operations like creating, removing, reading, and writing files. The flash driver...

Sure you can grab the Motorola ROKR E8 through Best Buy in Canada, but that doesn’t stop the country’s leading mobile operator, Rogers Wireless, to officially announce the device. That’s exactly what they did, and now Canadians can grab the dual-mode ROKR E8 for CA$99 on an always-too-long 3-year plan. As for the device itself, we’ve [...]

As Sprint is approaching the Motorola RAZR VE20 launch, we caught the first batch of leaked photos of the device. Earlier approved by the FCC, the VE20 sports a 2 megapixel camera, QVGA main screen, a touch sensitive strip on the outer display (just like the V9m), Bluetooth, and a microSD slot. As for the pre-installed [...]

Today Best Buy announced that it will be able to offer the Apple iPhone 3G to its customers starting on September 7th. Read the full story here.

Late yesterday Samsung unveiled a new software package for use with its NAND flash memory chipsets that will increase throughput speeds in smartphones. Read the full story here.

Truphone, a VoIP service for Nokia's S60-powered smartphones and Apple's iPhones, has introduced Tru Saver, a new calling package that lets users call anywhere in the U.S. or Canada cheaply - from anywhere in the world. Read the full story here.

Today Alltel Wireless posted its financial and performance figures for the second quarter of the year. The company added subscribers, but finished the quarter posting a financial loss. Read the full story here.

EA mobile has confirmed that it will be offering its mobile games library directly to consumers through Handango soon. Read the full story here.

Jabra's new BT530 Bluetooth headset is the first to offer GN Netcom's Noise Blackout technology using a combination of dual-microphones and DSP technology. Read the full story here. <

Owners of the Nokia N78 for North America, which offers support for AT&T's high-speed HSDPA network, are reporting that an over-the-air (OTA) firmware update is now available. Read the full story here.