Well look here! You can have your cake and eat it too — and by cake we mean that landscape QWERTY smartphone known as the Nokia E7.
The latest and greatest Communicator has caught up with its European twin and is shipping unlocked and contract-free from Amazon right now.
It can be yours for $649, which is somewhat cheaper than the $679 pre-order price we mentioned last month.
This buys you a 4-inch 640×360 ClearBlack AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, an 8 megapixel EDoF camera with dual-LED flash, a pentaband 3G radio, and the coolest hinge mechanism on the block.
So visit the source link, and get your Symbian on.
Teased since Microsoft’s launch event for Windows Phone 7 back in October of last year and recently launched in Europe as the 7 Pro, HTC’s Arrive today becomes the very first CDMA device for the platform to be announced with a date and a price.
Sprint picks up the QWERTY tilt-o-matic this coming March 20th for $199.99 on a two-year contract after $100 mail-in rebate, featuring a 3.6-inch WVGA display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 5 megapixel camera with flash and 720p video capture, 16GB of internal storage, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi – oh, and Sprint is quick to remind us that the phone will be launching with Microsoft’s anticipated copy and paste update, too.
In-store pre-orders begin today with the purchase of a $50 Sprint gift card; follow the break for the full press release. Read the rest of this entry »
Turns out Amazon’s upcoming Appstore for Android – which has been in the works for some time – will allow you to purchase apps even before you receive the device you intend to install them on, presumably so that you’re stocked up and ready to go by the time the phone (or tablet, or whatever miscellaneous gizmo) arrives on your doorstep.
As AllThingsD points out, the concept appears to go partway toward mimicking Amazon’s Kindle business model, which does a decent job of decoupling content (which is associated with your Amazon account) from the actual hardware you’ve got it installed on.
We still don’t know exactly when the Appstore is launching, but considering Amazon’s retail chops, these guys might actually stand a chance at cutting into the Android Market’s revenue by some noticeable margin.
We’d raised our own concerns in interviews with both Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman in the past week that Nokia could have difficulty pushing the Windows Phone platform low enough to fill the holes left by Symbian’s departure in the bottom rungs of the market, but the Nokia CEO is making it very clear that he thinks that won’t be a problem.
In a talk with Finnish journalists on Friday, Elop said that it has become “convinced” that it can hit “a very low price point” and do it “very quickly,” a strategy that will be key to converting significant swaths of Symbian market share into Windows Phone market share without losing it to other manufacturers or platforms.
Of course, something tells us the leaked design concept (pictured right) doesn’t represent the types of hardware Nokia has in mind for those low price points — but no single device or market segment is going to take Espoo to the promised land here.
Nokia’s fighting an uphill battle to retain its community of developers as it switches focus to Windows Phone and Microsoft’s Windows Phone Developer Tools from what was a joint Symbian / MeeGo smartphone strategy unified under the Qt development framework.
As such, Espoo just notified its Launchpad members that they’ll be receiving about $1,000 in free hardware in the form of Nokia’s new flagship E7 QWERTY slider and a “Nokia WP7 device” just as soon as it’s available.
Nokia’s also tossing in a few other incentives like free access to the next Nokia World / Nokia Developer Summit, three months free tech support for all Nokia technologies (limited to 10 tickets), a free User Experience evaluation for one app, business development assistance, and help publishing apps on the Ovi store.
This is also great news for us as the chance of seeing leaked pics of that first Nokia WP7 device have just increased dramatically.
In a world of 10-inch dual-core Androids, HTC has opted to tread its own path by cranking up processor speeds, sticking to a 7-inch form factor and eschewing the latest Honeycomb build for a Gingerbread version it could customize more comprehensively with Sense.
All that’s well and good, but sometimes all it comes down to is how these gadgets look and feel.
In today’s society, mobile phones have become a neccessity in our lives as it’s an important tool of communication.
With the number of mobile phone users on the rise, companies are racking their brains on phone designs to attract customers. Two great examples would be the popular Apple’s iPhone and Blackberry which are packed with rich and useful features.
There are many concept phones out there created by designers around the world that come with sleek designs and state-of-the-art technologies.
Even though these concept phones may attract the eyes of users, but phone companies such as Nokia and Samsung are unwilling to bring them to commercial purposes due to the hefty production cost. Read the rest of this entry »
We get it AT&T, your iPhone can do voice and data at the same time, and Verizon’s can’t.
Big Red’s Test Man proved that calls aren’t always doomed to drop on the iPhone, but AT&T’s firing right back and saying how you could be doomed in certain social situations, like forgetting to make a dinner reservation on your anniversary.
Props for creativity here, but now that both sides have fired a shot across the other’s bow, can’t we all just get along? Yeah, probably not.
The Verizon iPhone 4 is an interesting product for Engadget to review. Firstly, it’s not exactly a new device (not in any outwardly noticeable way).
From design, down to its CPU, RAM, and even cost, this iPhone is the same as the AT&T model… save for that one small but really important thing: it’s got a CDMA radio inside. The device is also somewhat tricky to review based on its software, since we’ve all been using (and even took a deep look at) iOS 4.2 for quite some time.
So for us the task is to make clear the differences between these two devices and their networks. Now that’s a little easier, because we’re sure you have the same questions as us. What are calls like? How are the data rates? Is service notably improved or different than AT&T’s? Read the rest of this entry »
A flurry of rumors circulated today about HTC launching Facebook-branded phones. Considering the source is a British financial rag handed out for free at train stations with no proven record of tech-exclusives, we cry foul.
Why this rumor doesn’t make sense
• CityAM didn’t quote any sources, instead relying on old favorites “City A.M. has learned” and “it is understood…”
• As aforementioned CityAM is hardly known for breaking tech news. Not to discredit a publication for never having made a scoop, it’s unlikely that a free financial paper—in England, no less—that’s handed out for free at train stations has the necessary contacts to dig up a story of this size. Read the rest of this entry »
No Android device? No problem!
We’d raised our own concerns in interviews with both Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman in the past week that Nokia could have difficulty pushing the Windows Phone platform low enough to fill the holes left by Symbian’s departure in the bottom rungs of the market, but the Nokia CEO is making it very clear that he thinks that won’t be a problem.
