About a month ago, I decided to take the plunge for a new Android device. My choice boiled down between the HTC Desire Z and the Motorola Milestone 2 that we reviewed earlier, as I want or more accurately need, a physical QWERTY keyboard on my phone. I eventually went for the Desire Z as the Milestone 2 wasn’t yet available in Lebanon, and I have always wanted to own an HTC device.
Here is a hardware tour gallery of my HTC Desire Z’s Super-LCD touchscreen, metallic clad and Qwerty goodness.
Welcome to a new interview series here on Fone Arena, something we wanted to do for quite some time now. We invite you to (virtually) meet the team working behind the scenes, we invite you to meet the Fone Arena Team! Each week I will conduct a new interview with one of our authors, in which youâll get to know us a bit better.
This week, we’d like you to meet Rita El Khoury! You don’t know Rita El Khoury? Oh it seems like you have spent the last few years on the moon then .. đ Continue reading “Meet the Fone Arena Team – Rita El Khoury”
Looking forward to the latest version of Adobe Flash Player for Android? Then stop wasting your time and head over to Android Market to download the latest version of it. Continue reading “Adobe Flash Player updated to 10.2, now available for Honeycomb too”
Few days ago, we saw first shot of successor of Motorola Droid 2, which is most probably known as the Motorola Droid 3. Droid 3 comes with the same traditional Motorola Droid form factor, but there are some changes in the design. You may have seen the front display of Droid 3, but now itâs time to check out the keyboard of Droid 3. Continue reading “Motorola Droid 3 Leaked once again, keyboard unveiled”
AT&T USA is the largest GSM mobile operator in USA and 2nd largest carrier after Verizon Wireless. T-Mobile USA is the 4th largest carrier and is owned by Deutsche Telekom Germany. Today, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have announced that AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for a price tag of USD 39 billion in cash and stock. This is totally shocking news because both these companies were competing with each other for quite some time. The deal will take the usual legal process and might take about a year to be approved. I don’t know any GSM carrier in USA apart from T-Mobile and AT&T. Now this deal means that there is going to be monopoly in the US GSM market and regulators might really not like the idea. Good luck to AT&T and Deutsche Telekom !
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Introduction
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to choose between sound quality or portability while travelling? If yes, then this review is meant for you. We discuss how the Skullcandy Lowrider is the ideal and economical travel headphone.
Spice PopKorn – Watch Movies by Projecting them from your Phone.
Spice PopKorn is the latest handset from Spice Mobiles. The PopKorn (similar to PopCorn ) is a Projector phone with the model number M-9000. The most unique feature of this phone is the Built-in projector which lets you watch movies and documents on a large screen.
Sprint is expected to unveil some amazing Android smartphones and tablets, next week at the CTIA show. check out the leaked specs of HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO View 4G.
Sprint is expected to unveil some amazing Android smartphones and tablets, next week at the CTIA show. HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO View 4G, Motorola Atrix 4G, Motorola Xoom, Samsung Nexus S 4G are some of the devices, which are expected to be announced next week by Sprint. Recently, the leaked specs of HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO View 4G has been emerged. HTC EVO 3D is the company’s first 3D phone, which can record 3D videos in 720p. This handset is also said to be thinner than the LG Optimus 3D. Check out the leaked specs, after the break.
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INQ has launched its first Facebook Android phone, the INQ Cloud Touch in UK. The phone is now available for pre-order, and comes with built-in Facebook app, that updates all your Chat, Friends, Messages, Wall and Notifications on the phone’s home screen.
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FoneArena was the first place on the whole internet where you might have heard about the LG Optimus Me aka P350 . It’s an affordable entry-level Android phone running Android 2.2.1. It supports 3G networks and packs a QVGA display
Taiwanese handset maker HTC said that it’s business has not been impacted by the major natural disaster in Japan which has impacted many manufacturers including Sony Ericsson , Canon , Panasonic , Nikon. Continue reading “HTC says it’s unaffected by Japan Earthquake”
After being hit by the largest earthquakes ever recorded followed by a deadly tsunami that slammed into the Japan’s east coast, leaving a huge swath of devastation, Sony Ericsson is one of the companies which has been affected by the disaster, since Tokyo has been the their hub from the beginning. The company has been closely following the situation in Japan and has been doing all that is needed for the safety of their employees. There are approximately 1100 employees (including consultants) working at both the offices in Tokyo, and confirms that no employee was injured, and no major damage  has been done to their offices. The affected area in northern Japan supplies a large portion of the worldâs electronics industry with components, and the current situation also seems to impact Sony Ericssonâs business. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson affected by Earthquake in Japan”
Over the past 4 years and more than 40 review and trial phones that have passed in my hands, there are barely a few experiences I can count as terrible. One of the most recent ones though occurred just a couple of weeks ago and it made me see things in a different perspective. See, my luck had it that I received a faulty Nokia E7 unit, which had software glitches from the first time I turned it on and then hardware issues as well. While this was bound to happen, as there will always be that one unit that runs away from quality control in production plants, it isn’t the problems that arose that annoyed me, but the fact that Symbian’s only way of fixing them was Restoring and starting from scratch.
Here is a recount of my adventures with the Nokia E7 and the glitches I started noticing as I went along battling it to get it to a working state.
Continue reading “Nokia E7 Griefs Shed A Light On Some Important Symbian Glitches”
Nokia India in collaboration with the Union Bank today launched a slew of mobile based banking services. Primarily aimed towards Tier 2 cities where internet banking has not achieved much growth , the mobile banking service will allow consumers to deposit and withdraw cash from select Nokia outlets in collaboration with Union Bank.
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Here is the FoneArena Motorola Milestone 2 Review, the latest version of the handset that saved Motorola in the past. It is unbelievable that barely two years ago, Motorola was on death knell. Then the company announced and release the Droid/Milestone, a high-end Android smartphone that was well received by smartphone enthusiasts. It was a remarkable comeback for Motorola and the rest, as they say, was history. Continue reading “Motorola MILESTONE 2 Review”
