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- Is Fujitsu Prepping A Symbian/Windows 7 Dual Boot Cell Phone?
- BlackBerry Bold Touch Caught On Video
- HTC Touch Pro 2 Gets A Surprise Update (But Sadly, Not To Windows Phone 7)
- Two New Unnamed Samsung Bada Handsets Get Spec’d, Will Run Bada 2.0
- HTC Thunderbolt and EVO 4G To Get Gingerbread By End Of June?
- Study: Smartphone Users Wasting Hundreds Of Dollars Per Year On Unnecessary Contracts
| Is Fujitsu Prepping A Symbian/Windows 7 Dual Boot Cell Phone? Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:06 AM PDT Take this with a grain of salt: Japanese tech blog Juggly is reporting [JP] that Fujitsu is working on a cell phone with both the Symbian and Windows 7 OS (not Windows Phone) on board. According to the article, the handset will be released by Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo as part of its summer line up. Juggly even claims to know the name of the phone, LOOX F-07c, and also posts some specs:
Again, the existence of the phone is not confirmed by Fujitsu or Docomo (which means the pic can be real or fake my feeling is it’s real). As always, we will cover Docomo’s entire lineup when the company presents it. Via Asiajin
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| BlackBerry Bold Touch Caught On Video Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:53 PM PDT Are those leaked still shots just not sating your hunger for the still-unannounced BlackBerry Bold Touch? How about some video? The gents over at N4BB just received this video of the Bold Touch in action — and man, does it seem smooth. The video’s pretty short, but it’s enough to have definitely piqued my interest.
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| HTC Touch Pro 2 Gets A Surprise Update (But Sadly, Not To Windows Phone 7) Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT On the off chance that anyone out there is still rockin’ the two-year old Touch Pro 2, we’ve got some good news for’em: you’ve got an update waiting! Yay! Hurray! The catch: we’re.. not really sure what it does. HTC’s not exactly known for their verbose changelogs, but this one is… particularly brief. The changelog, in its entirety:
So, it uh, enhances system stability. Take it or leave it — either way, we’re just impressed to see HTC supporting a 2 year old handset.
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| Two New Unnamed Samsung Bada Handsets Get Spec’d, Will Run Bada 2.0 Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:10 AM PDT If you live in the states, chances are good that you’ve never even seen a Bada-powered phone. That’s no reason for you to not be excited about two new ones on the way though, right? Especially when Bada phones are seeing some traction elsewhere in the world, and when these upcoming handsets are purportedly rockin’ NFC support. The more handsets there are out there with NFC, the sooner mobile payment tech will become ubiquitous.
Neither handset is particularly cutting edge, though the first is a bit higher-end than the second. Unnamed Bada Phone #1: Unnamed Bada Phone #2:
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| HTC Thunderbolt and EVO 4G To Get Gingerbread By End Of June? Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:33 AM PDT As of April 6th, Android v2.3/v2.3.3 (Gingerbread) — the latest version available for phones — has been available for 4 whole months. Care to take a guess at what percentage of the Android phones out there are running it? 20%? 10%? Maybe just 5%? The answer: just 2.5%. Fortunately, that number should be going up soon, with two more handsets getting the upgrade treatment before too long: the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, and the just-released Verizon HTC Thunderbolt. Word of the update schedule comes from an e-mail supposedly sent from an HTC customer service rep to a TalkAndroid reader. We generally tend to take everything that CS reps take with the finest grain of shenanigans-salt — but from what we’ve seen, it seems like HTC actually keeps most of their CS reps in the loop. According to them, both the EVO 4G and the Thunderbolt are scheduled to get some Gingerbread goodness by the end of Q2. In other words, sometime by the end of June. The e-mail:
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| Study: Smartphone Users Wasting Hundreds Of Dollars Per Year On Unnecessary Contracts Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:45 AM PDT A new study says that smartphone users are overpaying for their service by several hundred dollars each and every year. The study, put together by Billmonitor, notes that people are overspending primarily because they’re on contracts that wildly overshoot their needs. People have a habit of signing up for contracts with far more voice minutes than they use, and it’s primarily for this reason that smartphone users are paying much more than they need to. In other words, double-check your statement to make sure you’re on the right contract. But it’s not only that smartphone users are paying for more voice minutes than they use. Now that data-heavy services (the usual suspects like Spotify, etc.) are commonplace, smartphone users often go over their monthly data limit. Pass the limit, per per megabyte. It’s a cruel world. The study found that the average smartphone user eats up some 133MB of data per month. That, of course, will only increase as users discover and use more data-heavy apps like the MLB app. The study also says that people are afraid of "bill shock" (freaking out at the unexpectedly high cost of your monthly bill), hence their tendency to overshoot their contract requirements.
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