G’FIVE Mobile has launched 4 new dual SIM feature phones, G115, G116, G233 and G505 with Dual Standby. G’Five G115 and G116 are feature rich entry level handsets and the G’Five G233 and G505 has multimedia features and comes with bigger displays. Continue reading “G’FIVE launches 4 new affordable Dual SIM phones”
LG and T-Mobile has announced an unique phone, LG DoublePlay with dual touch screen displays and split QWERTY keyboard. The phone has 3.5-inch main display and 2.0-inch sub display as well as a full slide-out split QWERTY keyboard and Swype. This would let you multitask easily by working on the 2 screens simultaneously. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and it is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Continue reading “LG DoublePlay with Dual Touch Screen Displays announced for T-Mobile”
MTS has launched International Roaming services for its prepaid subscribers enabling them to roam across 433 GSM networks in 231 countries. They have also launched a dual mode SIM card which would work both on GSM handsets while abroad and on OMH CDMA handsets while in India. MTS becomes the first telecom operator in the country to provide international data roaming for CDMA prepaid customers. Continue reading “MTS launches International Roaming services and Dual Mode SIM card”
The combined sales of Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 has crossed 30 million globally. The Samsung Galaxy S2 sales crossed 10 million this September which is quicker than any device in Samsung’s history, since its launch 5 month ago. The phone was launched in Korea this April and later launched in other Asian and European countries Worldwide. 1 million units of Galaxy S2 were sold in Korea in the first 30 days. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 sales cross 30 million”
Here is the Fonearena review of the Nokia X1-1. This is Nokia’s first Dual SIM Music phone that comes with dual standby. The phone was announced in May, and it is now available in the market in four colors, Red, Ocean Blue, Dark Grey and white. We have the red colored one. This Music phone has speaker that can produce up to 106 phon of loudness and it runs on S30 OS. Continue reading “Nokia X1-01 Dual SIM Music Phone Review”
Nokia World 2011 is scheduled for next week in London and it is undoubtedly the most hyped and the most important event in recent Nokia history. Throughout this week, FoneArena will take a look at expectations, realities and myths related to this particular year, in preparation for the big reveals that will come on October 26th and 27th. Join us in this journey, comment, share your thoughts, and feel with us the excitement as the big days approach!
One clear truth that everyone knows, regarding Nokia World 2011, is that it might be the event that makes or breaks Nokia’s future. I say “might” because there are many stories of companies sunk thousands times deeper and gone way beyond salvaging that still managed to reinvent and re-institute themselves. However nowadays, the world, especially the tech world, is less forgiving with each passing day. Hence I say “it might”, understanding the possibility of miracles, yet hoping it won’t come down to that. Continue reading “The Road To Nokia World 2011 Part 1: The Need For A Clear Future”
Samsung has filed preliminary injunction in the Tokyo District Court, Japan and in the New South Wales Registry, Australia to stop the sales of Apple’s iPhone 4S. This ban is regarding to the infringements on HSPA standard related patent and 3 user interface patent in Japan and infringements related to wireless telecommunications standards such as WCDMA and HSPA in Australia. Continue reading “Samsung seeks to stop iPhone 4S sales in Japan, Australia”
Nokia has organised shows in Singapore to highlight the release of the Nokia N9. It’s called N9 Ninjas and it is basically a competition in which you could win a Nokia N9.
Continue reading “Nokia N9 Ninjas Hit the Streets of Singapore”
The iPhone 4S hit stores in many countries across the world yesterday including the United States.FoneArena’s Sloan Bowman takes a quick look at the iPhone 4S for AT&T and unboxes the device for us. As a bonus we have a interesting comparison between the iPhone 4 and the 4S. Watch the video after the break.
Pulse , the popular news reader app now allows users to sync their current state across devices and platforms (barring Windows Phone). The syncing feature is currently supported on iOS and Android but is expected to make its way to the recently launched Windows Phone app as well.
Duke Nukem , the ever popular game is making its way to Android smartphones. The game is already available for the iPhone and iPod Touch and will soon be playable on all devices which support Android 2.1 and above.
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My Nokia Blog reports that a Nokia 710 was spotted over at Nokia Developer earlier today. The phone sports specifications which are very similar to those suggested for Mango devices. Interestingly the OS is named as Maemo Internet Tablet 2008 but that is obviously meant to cover up the presence of Windows Phone 7 on the hardware.
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Just a few days into the iPhone 5 4S release and iOS 5 roll out , a group of enterprising ‘hackers’ have already begun preliminary work on porting Siri to the iPhone 4. Understandably it is still early days for the process as the phone can be seen to be pretty sluggish with Siri onboard.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray is one of the most intriguing smartphone I have ever used. This phone goes against the current trend of expensive larger screen smartphones with high-specs or small and fat smartphones with low-specs. So I found it refreshing when Sony Ericsson announced the XPERIA Ray, a small screen smartphone with a reasonably high specifications. For all intent and purpose, the XPERIA Ray is a midget version of the rather excellent XPERIA Arc. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray review”
Samsung ChatON, cross platform mobile messaging service is now available for Android. Samsung announced the app this August and it comes pre-installed on the latest bada 2.0 devices. It supports group chat, broadcasts, animation messages, pictures, videos, audio, location info and much more. Continue reading “Samsung ChatON Messaging app now available in the Android Market”
