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Skype headed to Verizon’s 3G network in March without worries

by on 17. Feb, 2010 9:41AM in Verizon, Web 2.0

More tasty stuff coming out of MWC 2010? Yup, and here we’ve got something exciting as well as a victory for the consumer. Soon in March you’ll be able to use Skype and its user-to-user calling features to the limit, the ability to call internationally at Skype’s cheap prices, make ulimted messages to your Skype friends, and you’ll have an always-online presence, so you’ll always know what’s going on.

So far Skype will be available on the Motorola DROID, HTC DROID Eris, BlackBerry 8530, BlackBerry 9530, BlackBerry 9550, and BlackBerry 9630. You surely have at least one of those smartphones, right? Sure you do; press release is after the jump.

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HTC HD2 caught running Windows Phone 7 Series? (UPDATE: Fake)

by on 16. Feb, 2010 10:55PM in HTC, Rumors, Windows Phone

If things at MWC 2010 can get any better than they already are, it’s having the one best smartphones — the HTC HD2, running not Windows Mobile 6.5, but Windows Phone 7 Series as seen above at Mobile World Congress. If it is true that the HD2 is given the chance to run Windows Phone 7 on an official scale via an update, then it would immediately be the flagship Windows Phone; just as it is for the current version of WinMo. We can be hopeful, otherwise we’ll have to leave this job to the — hackers. [PhoneArena]

UPDATED: Look who just posted a tweet saying it’s fake. And it is.

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RIM demos new WebKit browser for BlackBerry — looks good!

by on 16. Feb, 2010 12:42PM in Breaking, RIM, Web 2.0

There wasn’t much we were expecting from RIM, but today we’ve been proven wrong. Today co-CEO , Mike Lazaridis, and Director of Developer Relations gave us a sneak peek of what a future web browser on a BlackBerry might look like. Which is impressive; the browser had a score of 100/100 on the Acid3 Test. Hopefully that was real and not a phony, but you can decide that for yourself in the video embedded for you after the break. [CrackBerry]

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HTC HD Mini Debuts At MWC 2010; A Mini HD2

by on 16. Feb, 2010 9:50AM in HTC, Mobile, Windows Phone

Heard of the HTC HD2? Okay then, you know the Mini too. With a 3.2-inch HVGA display, it’s crisp enough to not make you feel really small against the HD2′s 4.3-inch super touchscreen. Besides the petite appearance, and usual HTC charm (HTC designs some of the best phones you’ve ever seen), you have Sense UI, and in true imitation of the HD2, it uses Windows Mobile 6.5.3, and will not get the new Windows Phone 7 Series announced yesterday. Let me rephrase that: “the disgraced Windows Mobile 6.5.3″. There, that’s better. But remember that when WM7 launches, you’ll want the best hardware you can get right? This isn’t it. Back to the drawing board HTC, you have a Windows Phone 7 smartphone to design. Oh, and it uses 7.2Mbps 900 / 2100 HSPA bands, with a European and Asia release in April. No word on real specs and carriers, but this is MWC 2010 after all, we’ll know soon enough. Promo vid is waiting for you after the jump.

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HTC Desire: The Nexus One with Sense and Flash; Your Next Phone

by on 16. Feb, 2010 9:09AM in Breaking, HTC, Mobile

Here it is folks! The HTC Desire, a Nexus One with the same specs and Snapdragon CPU, same 5 megapixel camera, except with more Sense in mind, and a little more style, only excluding the dual-mic feature that its cousin the N1 has. The same 3.7-inch AMOLED screen is also carried over, but instead of the nearly-useless trackball, you get a much cooler trackpad. Things get really cool though on the flipside with the software, where you’ll have the Weather and News widgets, as well as the new HTC Sense UI Friendstream, which allows you to stream your friends from Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Helicopter view is also present, and wait for, wait for it — Flash 10.1. So tell me what’s better on more practical here, the Nexus One or the Desire? I think I found my next Android phone, that I will buy. But review it first of course. Promo vid after the break.

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Aluminum HTC Legend Makes Its Debut At MWC

by on 16. Feb, 2010 9:00AM in Android, HTC, Mobile

The true successor to the HTC Hero, the Legend is made out of a single piece of aluminum. Running Android 2.1 with an updated version of Sense UI, a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with 320 x 480 resolution, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, 600 MHz processor and 512MB ROM (with microSD card slot), as well as 384MB of RAM. GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a 1300 mAh is also included. One smart feature that the Legend adds to the Sense UI, as well as the HTC Desire also announced today is “helicopter view”, as HTC calls it. It’s essentially like Expose on your Mac. Pinch the screen and you can see all 7 homescreens with ease. It’s expected late March/early April in Europe with a worldwide launch to be announced. Promo video after the break. [HTC]

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Official Specs/Pics HTC Bravo, Legend, and Touch HD Mini Leak

by on 15. Feb, 2010 12:19PM in HTC, Leaks, Mobile

We’ve been waiting for the Samsung Wave, Windows Phone 7 Series, and others, but now here’s one of the highlights of MWC 2010: HTC. And we have the official specs and pics for the Legend, Bravo, and Touch HD Mini. Starting with the Bravo (formerly the Desire), it will get a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen and will run Android 2.1 with HTC Sense. The eagerly-awaited HTC Legend will feature a 3.1″ HVGA screen, 5 megapixel camera,  600 MHz CPU, and HTC Sense with Android 2.1. The Mini HD finally is more like a homage to the HD2 and will run Windows Mobile 6.5 (what?), will pack a 3.2″ HVGA screen, 5 megapixel camera, and HTC TouchFlo 3D. Full specs for each smartphone are featured after the break.

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Windows Phone 7 Series Debuted, Microsoft Wants Mobile Glory

by on 15. Feb, 2010 9:44AM in Breaking, Featured, Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Series. It’s a lot to say, but brings a lot to the mobile computing scene. Windows Phone 7 will bring a Zune-influenced UI, and has completely ditched Windows Mobile touches all together. Windows Mobile is dead. Windows Phone 7 Series has come to life. Debuted at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft wants to be a major player, and partnerships with carriers and manufacturers is far and wide: AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, while hardware partners include Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm.

Third-party handsets will not appear at MWC, but Microsoft is showing off its dev units of unknown originality. A main feature that will be present in all Windows Phone 7 Series phones is a high res touchscreen, three front-facing buttons (back, start, and perhaps a Bing key), and minor additions from the handsets themselves. Besides this, there will be strict requirements for specs in the phones (CPU speed, memory, resolution, aspect ratio, multitouch, and even button placement), and 3rd party UIs no more. No TouchWiz 3.0, no Sense UI.

As for social integration, it will be like XBOX on a phone, with LIVE games, avatars, and profiles, all being present, and also things like the Zune HD’s FM Radio. Social networking will get you integrated contact pages which will be present on the new “tile” UI. These “tiles” will be widgets, shortcuts, links to contacts, and all scroll vertically. As for the Outlook email app, which of course has support for Exchange, makes Blackberry email users look questionable.

The browser is Internet Explorer, and will not be as fast as Apple’s Mobile Safari, but will have multitouch right out of the box. Last but not least, all Windows Marketplace apps from previous versions will not be compatible in Windows Phone 7 Series. Sorry devs, it’s for the better. But the new Marketplace will still be where you download apps, once they’re available.

All in all I am in awe from Windows Phone 7 Series, and now we officially have 3 main players in the smartphone market — Apple, Google, and — Microsoft. Windows Phone will debut this holiday season in handsets that support it. Press release after the jump.

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