LG Optimus 7, Quantum, and Optimus 7Q welcome Windows Phone 7 to the fold
LG was naturally expected to show up for today's announcement seeing how the company has been a longtime "strategic" partner of Microsoft's -- and indeed, they're bringing two models into the fold. First up is the Quantum (known as the Optimus 7Q in markets outside the US, pictured right) that we broke as the C900 back in August, a landscape slider equipped with quadband EDGE and triband HSPA (850 / 1900 / 2100MHz), 16GB of storage, a 5 megapixel camera with 720p video capture, a 3.5-inch WVGA display, and an all-too-familiar 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon core; as you might have guessed from the 3G bands, this puppy will be coming to AT&T
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: americamovil, breakingnews, c900, europe, Fold, markets-outside, microsoft, optimus 7q, quantum, qwerty, spain, wp7launch
Samsung Mobile Spain pegs Galaxy S update for late October
Samsung's indicated in the past that all versions of its ubiquitous Galaxy S would be getting Froyo upgrades in harmony (more or less) -- and it had also indicated that those updates would be happening in September . Well, you know how these things tend to go: plans change, bugs crop up, engineers go on vacation at inopportune times, and delays happen. On that note, Samsung Mobile's Spanish division is now saying that the Galaxy S will be getting Froyo in "late October" through the Kies desktop app, though we don't know whether Espa
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bad, days, entry, froyo, galaxy s, Harmony, its-ubiquitous, mobile, more-or-less, plans-change, samsung, spain
Samsung Galaxy S coming in white?
It looks like Samsung might be getting ready to do something that Apple's having an awful time with : produce a white version of its latest, greatest smartphone. GSMArena happened across a tiny, blurry image of a particularly pale Galaxy S on the website of Spain's The Phone House -- a Carphone Warehouse company -- where it's identified as an exclusive
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, carphonewarehouse, engadget-mobile, mobile, phone-house, result, samsung-galaxy, spain
LG’s Application Store launches in places you don’t live for devices you don’t care about
LG's official Application Store -- not to be confused with an App Store , App World , or App Catalog -- just went beta is 23 countries with the aim of serving up 4,000 apps to 33 countries (including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) by the end of the year. Sorry US netizens, you're seemingly out of luck for 2010. It launches with significantly less than 4,000 apps today (about 3,000) targeting LG feature and smartphones in countries that you, dear reader, likely don't care about.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: aim, application, application store, applicationstore, engadget, france, result, seemingly-out, smartphones, spain, store
Google Maps Navigation comes to Canada and mainland Europe, remains free as a bird
Patience has had to be your foremost virtue if you were eager to use Google Maps Navigation outside the US or UK , but you might be in luck today as a sizable new batch of countries is getting the free turn-by-turn nav service activated. Googleites in Canada and most of mainland Europe will now be able to hear their Android (version 1.6 and above) giving them voice directions, and as an extra bonus, some nations are also seeing voice search activated, with Canada and German-speaking countries among them. Google's clearly not sitting on its laurels here, so why not power up your phone and let us know how well it finds its way around De Wallen?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: austria, denmark, directions, entry, europe, freenavigation, google-maps-navigation, googlemapsnavigation, netherlands, patience, satnav, spain, voicesearch, wallen
Telefonica gets behind MeeGo, says ‘smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs’ are possibilities
Virtually all of the MeeGo buzz since Intel and Nokia's tie-up back in February has been focused on high-end smartphones, tablets, and netbooks, but Telefonica reminds us that there's another potential target for the platform, too -- connected TVs.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buzz, cable, entry, fixed-internet, intel, meego, POTENTIAL, spain
BlackBerry Bold 9650 hits Verizon tomorrow for $150 after contract
...and it's official! The BlackBerry Bold 9650 will be available for online ordering from Verizon beginning June 3rd (that's tomorrow) and in Verizon stores starting on June 10th. This is the company's first global handset with GlobalAccess Connect tethering, and in keeping with the "global" theme transnational road warriors can look forward to worldwide VZ Navigator (including Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and of course ol' Blighty).
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-bold, BlackBerry, blackberrybold, bold 9650, engadget, france, global, norway, spain, sweden, verizon, verizonwireless
Official: Apple now offering iPhones contract free (updated: not unlocked)
We heard from 9 to 5 Mac that Apple was due to begin selling a contract-free variant of the iPhone in the near future "at list price." And guess what happened when we inquired to an Apple store? That's right folks -- you can now pick one up for $499 (3G), $599, or $699 (3GS). We've confirmed this info at no less than five stores, so you should be hearing the same message at your local Appletorium
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, apple employees, apple-store, breaking-news, breakingnews, iphone, iphone 3g, iphone3gs, iphoneunlocked, no contract, spain, store, unlock, unlocked iphones
HTC Desire shows up in slinky silver (video)
Here's another thing the Desire has that the Nexus One doesn't: a second color option. We're told our Dutch buddies will soon be able to skip the default gunmetal paintjob that's shared by HTC's twin brothers and opt into the silvery casing you see above. This will be exclusive to BelCompany in the Netherlands, though sadly we don't know how things will shake out elsewhere
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: another-thing, color, desire, entry, netherlands, nexus, spain, thing
HTC Legend will be exclusive to Vodafone in UK, coming in April together with Desire
Vodafone has today announced that it will be the exclusive UK carrier of that aluminum-clad successor to the Hero : the HTC Legend . Advance registration pages for it and its family mate, the Desire, have gone live today and indicate an April launch date -- something we'd already expected thanks to Amazon's delivery estimates for unlocked handsets. The two HTC devices are flanked by Sony Ericsson's long awaited X10 and the Nexus One , with the latter lacking a release date
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: desire, htc-legend, htclegend, its-precursor, legend, result, spain, the-exclusive, vodafone, vodafoneuk