Leaked HTC Windows Phone 7 Device

July 26, 2010 |  by Sidharth  |  Phones  |  Comments Off

HTC’s mysterious Windows Phone 7 device was spotted by an anonymous under what might be running the technical preview of Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS. Interestingly enough, this hardware-ready device doesn’t feature the HTC Sense user interface, but has an high-eng configuration that includes: 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.7-inch SLCD touch screen display and a snappy 8MP [...]

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Sprint Motorola i1 Phone: A Pre-Launch Look

July 26, 2010 |  by Jay  |  Phones  |  1 Comment

The Motorola i1 phone goes on sale on July 25th and will be available through direct channels until it reaches retailers in early August. This phone is eagerly awaited thanks to its tag as the ‘Worlds first Nextel direct connect smartphone powered by Android’. So, before you shell out $149 (which is its price after [...]

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BB takes on Apple With BlackBerry Death Grip App

July 24, 2010 |  by Jay  |  Phones  |  2 Comments

What’s the problem with smartphones and antenna reception these days? Recently Apple called a press conference to address reception issues on the iPhone where they basically ended up saying that incorrectly gripping the phone leads to signal loss, and it affects the BlackBerry too. And it did not go down well with people at RIM [...]

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Oh, No! Apple Testing Droid X Death Grip [Video]

July 24, 2010 |  by Sidharth  |  Phones  |  Comments Off

Apple are now testing smart phones for signal strength and as Steve jobs addresses: most of the smart phones available are bound to drop bars — and the reception issue is not something new for Smart Phones like Blackberry, Droid X, HTC and Samsung phones. In order to prove that Apple iPhone 4 is not [...]

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How to Root Droid X [Video Tutorial]

July 23, 2010 |  by Sidharth  |  Phones  |  Comments Off

This is a follow up of the recent post: Guide to root Droid X Safely. While this is the exact same tutorial as mentioned in the previous post, but due to the users request the creators of this rooting came up with a video guide as text version seemed too geeky to follow. Follow this [...]

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Motorola Droid 2: Launching in 3 Weeks | Droid 2 Features

July 22, 2010 |  by Jay  |  Phones  |  8 Comments

Okay, for all Droid lovers out there is some really good news. The highly anticipated and equally kept-under-wraps Motorola Droid 2 is expected to be launched commercially within three weeks! This should really ease worries concerning the Droid, which has been marked as an ‘end-of-life’ device by Verizon, which basically means that new units will [...]

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Droid X Self Destruct Mechanism After Jailbreak Attempt

July 17, 2010 |  by Jay  |  Phones  |  8 Comments

For all you folks who love to hack, jailbreak, mod and tweak your smartphones (and take a fair bit of joy in doing so!) here’s a real dampener. Hope this doesn’t spoil your day, but fiddling with the Motorola Droid X software can destroy your phone for good. This, due to the eFuse tamper-defense mechanism [...]

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The Boldest Black: BB 9650

July 2, 2010 |  by Jim Roberts  |  Phones  |  Comments Off

The recent BlackBerry tour have launched not only the latest gizmo but complaints pertaining to that of the unfriendly trackball and Wi-Fi absence — features that have been the topics of numerous blogs and online forums. With this, Sprint affirmed that a newer version of the said tour will definitely have Wi-Fi as one of [...]

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