T-Mobile Pulse Mini does cheap, tiny, prepaid Android for Europe

Although in the US we’ve yet to see a prepaid Android phone, this offer will be available in Europe soon, through T-Mobile Pulse Mini. The T-Mobile Pulse successor is smaller and it’s made by Chinese company Huawei, providing Euro HSDPA and running Android 2.1.

The device replaces its predecessor’s HVGA display with a QVGA one, it comes with a Qualcomm MSM7255 processor, a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, WiFi and a 3.5mm audio jack. The above-mentioned screen is a 2.8 inch display and we also found out that T-Mobile Pulse will be available starting April for $155, without contract (UK and Germany first).

HTC Desire leaked and rom ported to Nexus One

For those of you who think that HTC Desire and Nexus One are very much the same thing, know that the Desire is a tad better than Google’s handset. However, this can be fixed, since that bit of customization brought by HTC can now be found in a ROM that was ported to Nexus One.



This process was done thanks to Paul from MoDaCo, who discovered the ROM and started playing with it, in order to create a port for the Nexus One. We remind you that HTC Desire isn’t even available yet, since it’ll go live in April and already people are messing with its software.

The purpose of the port was to get the new phone’s goodies to the Google Phone, stuff like the HTC Sense UI and camera apps with face recognition, but we’ve also found out that Flash in the browser is working and bugs are being corrected as we speak. More info on this beta ROM and download links for it can be found here.

Meebo iPhone App to Chat With Friends on AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN

Meebo is integrated, all-in-one instant messaging that connects you with your friends everywhere. Meebo supports all the major IM networks: AOL / AIM, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger, Gmail / Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, and 100+ other networks!

Reliability / Connectivity

- Push notifications even when the app is closed

- Stay connected as you move from Edge to 3G to WiFi

- Meebo’s proven multi-network access protocols

- Automatically reconnect if you lose coverage so you don’t miss a message

Access / Integration

- Searchable, synchronized chat history on your iPhone and meebo.com

- Get Meebo on the web, your desktop, or your iPhone

- Tap any links to open the built-in browser

- Advanced chat session management lets you go seamlessly back and forth between Meebo on the iPhone and meebo.com

Chat features

- Swipe to switch between multiple conversations

- Rotate for landscape mode and a wider keyboard.

- Message preview from the Chats List

- Full Meebo emoticon support

- Push notifications

- Searchable Chat History

- Sort chats by most recent or full view

- Support for all the major IM networks, and many more

Account features

- Buddylist search as you type

- View profile info, status messages, and buddy icons

- Add/Remove individual buddies

- Add/Remove network accounts

- Open and close buddy groups in your Buddy List

- Set custom status messages

- Sign on/off individual accounts

- Set presence to Available/Invisible/Away for individual accounts, or all at once

Name: Meebo | Download from: App Store | Price: Free

Recognizr: Face-Recognition Software for Android [Video]

Want an app that connects facial recognition to your social networking profiles and adds a dose of augmented reality in the mix? Enter Recognizr, an app created by The Astonishing Tribe and used to recognize a person simply by photographing it with the handset’s camera. Afterwards, the photo will be connected to the person’s social networking profiles.

The image will also link to the contact’s address, phone number, name and everything you need to know about it, as shown in the demo video below. Recognizr was demoed at MWC 2010 and Dan Gärdenfors, head of user experience at The Astonishing Tribe mentioned that the company will launch the app via Android Market.

It would be nice to see the software on the iPhone as well, unless Apple has a problem with this app

Nokia Beta Labs Introduces The Ovi Mail Setup Application

Nokia Beta Labs today introduced S60 setup support for Ovi Mail. The Ovi Mail Setup application is available for a wide range of S60 devices (see Download and Installation for supported devices).

The setup application allows you to sign-up for an Ovi Mail account directly from your S60 device. If you already have an Ovi account it will provision Ovi Mail and configure the email client on the device. And it installs an icon in the Installations folder for easy access to Ovi Mail. This is not an email client. You will have to continue using the existing email client on your device. If you’re already successfully using Ovi Mail on your device you don’t need to install this.


Nokia Beta Labs also launched an update to their webmail interface. The navigation have been simplified on the left and it has been made more consistent from page to page. 4 additional languages have been added to Ovi Mail which includes Thai, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Finnish.

Motorola Ruby V13 Passes Bluetooth SIG

A new Motorola handset has been spotted at the Bluetooth SIG here and it’s actually the Ruby that could get launched as the Motorola V13. Although it did make its rounds in press photo circles after that, The Motorola Ruby clamshell was thought of to be canceled. The specs listed by the Bluetooth SIG includ : 2.2 inch QVGA internal display, 2 inch QVGA external touchscreen display, CDMA/Ev-Do connectivity, Bluetooth and 5MP camera with autofocus and flash.Sadly, there is no info on a release date concerning that phone as of now

Pantech Showcases Crystal IM-S500K

A brand new handset for the female gender from Pantech has just been announced. Pantech’s latest ladies phone, the Crystall IM-S500K, is designed to please women and only women. The new IM-S500K Crystal has a diamond pattern plate located on the front, which is covered by lights and icons
Its features list is pretty average, since the feminine phone packs a 2 megapixel camera module, a 2.4 inch QVGA LCD, an MP3 player, a dictionary and a subway map. Among others, The new IM-S500K Crystal has an interesting feature, it will have a biorhythm calculator which displays the user’s current mood on the cover itself .



Pantech Crystal IM-S500K will be available in three colors: pink, silver and black. It is no words about price.

Windows Mobile to reach 15% of smartphones in 2013?

In spite of common perception, Windows Mobile could take second place in the smartphone market in as little as four years, an iSuppli study predicted today. Analysts estimate that the phones shipped will triple from 27.7 million by the end of this year to 67.9 million in 2013, or enough to give it 15.3 percent of the industry behind Nokia's predicted 47.6 percent. Microsoft is expected to slip to third this year but to recover over time.

The return to form is founded in a belief that Microsoft has the "major cards" needed to have a successful mobile platform. Windows Mobile is already well established with carrier support and a substantial app library, while it now also has an app store (Windows Marketplace for Mobile).

Its age is considered a problem, as its interface is harder to use than an iPhone's and doesn't support the capacitive touchscreens needed for multi-touch and other more intuitive finger input. However, senior analyst Tina Teng believes the launch of Windows Mobile 7 in 2010 will render Microsoft "much more competitive" precisely because it should solve both of these problems. She also dismisses the losses of Motorola and Palm as clients for Windows Mobile, saying that neither were significant enough to make an impact while the recent addition of LG will be much more important. Windows Mobile has more licenses than anyone with 14 versus Symbian's 10.

The study doesn't address Nokia's own falling market share or outside factors, such as the maturation of younger platforms like Android and iPhone. Android has often been cited as the most direct competitor to Windows Mobile as it can be licensed by nearly any developer but is significantly less expensive to license and develop than Windows Mobile.

Nokia's 6350 handset coming to AT&T on October 4th

Nokia on Thursday launched the 6350, a flip phone specific to AT&T. The simple handset will be available in red and graphite and carry dedicated external music keys. Data over 3G and a 2-megapixel camera put it closer to the mid-range.

The higher-speed access gives it support for e-mail, one-way video sharing and the web, as well as a boost for AT&T's subscription mapping service. Talk time is rated at four hours. The Nokia 6350 will be available from AT&T online starting on October 4th and should cost just $30 with a two-year AT&T contract and after a mail-in rebate.

T-Mobile G1s get Android 1.6 update today, myTouch 3Gs tomorrow?

T-Mobile may be on the verge of updating its Android phones with the 1.6 update with "Donut" features, a last-minute leak has confirmed. Starting today, the carrier is reported by TmoNews to be giving both G1 and myTouch 3G users the upgraded features, which are known to include device-wide search, gestures, text-to-speech and likely the redesigned Android Market. A handful of G1 owners have had the update as of midnight; 24 hours from that point, some myTouch 3G owners should also get the update barring technical issues found in the test rollout.

The release will follow the approach T-Mobile took for the 1.5 update and stagger the update over coming days across all Android phones on the network rather than patch all of them at once. T-Mobile hasn't yet confirmed the update plans, but a small number of G1 owners report already receiving 1.6 on their phones and haven't mentioned issues that would preclude the myTouch update this evening.