android &htc &htc hd2 smartphone &Mobile Minute &mobile phone news &symbian &verizon wireless 10 Mar 2010 02:00 pm
Mobile Phone News – HTC HD2
It’s time for your daily mobile phone news update compliments of the Morning Mobile Minute where we break down all the top news stories hitting the mobile world every Monday through Friday. Starting things off in mobile phone news this morning is Sony Ericsson’s latest Symbian S60 5th Edition handset, the Vivaz, which has just received an update that enhances the camera and core functionality. The Vivaz, which packs a 12 megapixel camera and big 3.5 inch display has had software problems since launch. All About Symbian is reporting that despite the update a number of bugs remain. You can download the update at sonyericsson.com/update.
A video explanation of the exclusive partnership between Skype and Verizon Wireless has just hit YouTube compliments of the Verizon Wireless channel. After Skype was pulled from the US Ovi Store without warning it seems that Verizon is cashing in on the news.
Once again Microsoft has confirmed the HTC HD2 will not be upgradable to Windows Phone 7 Series. This news comes after ZDnet editor Mary Jo Foley received an email from Microsoft confirming that “excess buttons” would prevent the upgrade. The official statement reads”For Windows Phone 7 Series we are enforcing a strict set of hardware requirements to ensure a consistently great experience for end-users and developers”. Unfortuantely that isn’t so great news if you own or will soon own the HTC HD2.
A new leaked OS build for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 has been released – version 5.0.0.545. As always with a leaked OS we advised you to proceed with caution. But if you do decide to take the plunge feel free to report back with any changes or improvements you find on your device.
Xbox owners brace yourselves. Gears of War is coming to the iPhone in the distant future. This news comes after Pocket Gamer dot com reported that Epic’s Josh Adams spoke of their intention to eventually bring the massively popular shooter series Gears of War to iPhone. It is unclear whether a separate higher-resoulution version will be coming to the iPad.
BGR has just published their T-mobile HTC HD2 unboxing photo gallery. For those of you that can’t wait for the March 24th release date this should calm your nerves quite well. Head over to BGR for the full gallery.
Andrew Kameka from Androinica is reporting that T-Mobile managers all over the U.S are being briefed on the new handset. Current rumors are that T-mobile USA will be released the HTC Desire, think Nexus one plus HTC’s Sense UI.
Last up this morning is news from HTC. The HTC Smart, HTC’s first Brew-based phone which is coming to India in late March has just been awarded a $1 million dollar marketing budget. HTC is banking on the concept of an ultra affordable semi smartphone running BREW and their Sense UI. The Smart packs a 2.8 QVGA display, HSDPA, accelerometor, bluetooth, push email, FM radio, 3.2 megapixel camera, 256MB ROM and RAM and microSD card support. It’s priced at about $220 USD and in April it will be heading to Europe first on the O2 network.
That wraps up the mobile phone news for Wednesday March 10, 2010.