FCC Hit By Samsung Galaxy S With AT&T Bands Onboard

This news is not even a week old that that we deduced the eventual launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S Android phone on AT&T, and now here we are looking at FCC documents confirming Ma Bell’s favorite frequencies. So much for intrigue and mystery. Of course, Samsung could have just filed the testing paperwork to cover [...]

Consternation Caused by Square Motorola Android Slider

We have definitely seen a Motorola phone that looks like this odd square thing before, but it’s also possible we’re out of brains. Either way, it looks like Moto’s working on a new Blur set running Android 2.1, and if you thought screen size and resolution issues differences were a big part of  Android fragmentation [...]

FCC Wings Bagged by T -Mobile’s My Touch Slide

HTC has recently leaked a shot of a product through a private FCC filing which is a rare but confirmed sighting, so you know how desperate we were to share this news with you. this is a smartphone running 3G on WCDMA Band IV, which — for those who don’t have their bands memorized — [...]

Nokia’s Ovi Maps Headed To Windows Mobile and Android? (update: no way)

Put your skeptic hats on kids ’cause we’ve got a juicy one for you. When Greig Williams, Nokia’s General Manager for South East Europe, was asked by the German language Die Presse whether Ovi Maps would be coming to Android and Windows Mobile he responded very simply, “That will be the next step.” Well then, [...]

Flash 10.1 might just not be a Battery Hog on Android

Looking to fight an apparent outbreak of FUD, Adobe’s Flash evangelist Mark Doherty has posted some hard numbers (and accompanying video) on the effect Flash 10.1 has on the Nexus One — and put simply, it really doesn’t appear to have much effect at all. To back up his cause, Doherty plays a 17-minute embedded [...]

Best Buy Kicks off Motorola Devour pre-sale, No Rebate Required

You’ll still have to wait until February 25th to actually get your hands on one, but those not wanting to take any chances on missing out on the Motorola Devour can now head down to their local Best Buy or Best Buy Mobile store and reserve one starting today. The only catch is that you’ll [...]

Acer’s E110 Android / P300 WinMo Phones Unearthed By Bluetooth SIG

Ah, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, our second-favorite source for mobile leaks (next to the FCC, of course). Here’s two new entries care of Acer, both touchscreen devices with quadband GSM. The Android-powered E110 (pictured, right), however, also touts the AT&T-friendly 850 / 1900 frequencies and A-GPS. As for the P300, it’s got an unknown version [...]

China Mobile’s OPhone Platform Goes 2.0, Supports WinMo API… Wait, What?

Remember the OPhone platform, Open Mobile System? You know, China Mobile’s supposedly beefed up Android? Things have become even more interesting as OMS jumps from 1.5 to 2.0 — it now supports Scalable Vector Graphics UI elements and does voice recognition, but what really caught our attention was the vague mention of Windows Mobile API [...]

Lenovo LePhone Launching In Le May

As Google and China trade blows on the global stage Lenovo just keeps on truckin’ with its plans to launch the Android-powered LePhone in China and overseas. Samsung and Motorola you’ll recall, already bent under Google’s pressure and agreed to delay the launch of their respective handsets in China last week. Lenovo execs are planning [...]

HP Compaq AirLife 100 Smartbook Hits The FCC

There’s unfortunately not much in the way of details or pictures (beyond that artful illustration above) for this one, but HP has sent a smartbook called the Compaq AirLife 100 the FCC’s way, and the bands in use suggest that it could well be headed to AT&T. As you may recall, however, HP was also [...]