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 Is your Motorola Droidphone hungry for some Gingerbread? Well, the lucky little guy can now get its taste with the recently released Android 2.3 builds for Droid X and Droid 2 from My Droid World . . . → Read More: Droid X and Droid 2 get unofficial Android Gingerbread 2.3  We’ve had an affinity for INQ’s Cloud Touch since we Poked and prodded the little device back in February , and now thanks to Carphone Warehouse we’ve got the all important pricetag to accompany the specs. Starting April 6, you’ll be able to pick up the Facebook-ified device in the UK completely SIM-free for . . . → Read More: INQ Cloud Touch gets priced in the UK, still MIA in the USA  If you happen to reside just north of the American border, you might have heard that Canadian carrier Bell is now offering the Motorola Atrix from $169.95 on a three year commitment, all the way up to $599.95 sans contract. While this groovy smartphone is a welcomed addition for local Android fanatics, the early adopters have learned that — much like its AT&T counterpart — it lacks HSUPA . This is confirmed by xda-developers members who see a mere 400kpbs upload speed on their maple syrup-flavored Atrix, which is bad news for YouTube celebrities and the likes on Bell Mobility . . . → Read More: Bell’s Motorola Atrix also has HSUPA disabled, Canadians frown upon 400kbps uploads  Nokia on Wednesday released an update to its Nokia Software Updater client for the Macintosh platform via its Nokia Beta Labs portal. The new bits will allow Mac users to update their Nokia phones’ firmware directly from their computers — as opposed to over-the-air. Nokia warns that the software is still in the development phase and that it will keep the trial going until further notice . . . → Read More: Nokia Software Updater for Mac launches in beta  It’s officially official, folks. . . . → Read More: HTC ThunderBolt officially launching March 17 on Verizon for $249  Okay, okay, €7,250 (about $10,150) sounds positively exorbitant for a phone with a microscopic 2-inch display that dares to boast of “200 calendar entries” as a “feature,” but hear us out — that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the €42,000 ($58,800) you’ll pay for the gilded version. . . . → Read More: Æsir’s Yves Béhar-designed phone starts at just €7,250, plenty left for mortgage on the summer home  U.S. wireless carrier Sprint has launched a new promotion that aims to ease the financial pain of cellular defectors. . . . → Read More: Sprint offers $150, $50 to wireless defectors  A few days ago Google was made aware that there were over 20 apps in the Android Market that were up to no good. These malicious apps gained system-level access to your handset when downloaded and would intercept and covertly transmit private data to 3rd party servers. Some of these apps have been downloaded more than 50,000 times. . . . → Read More: Google uses Android kill switch to eliminate malicious apps on phones  We’re not sure why HTC decided to change the name of its ChaCha handset in Spain. Maybe it’s the fact that ChaCha is already the registered trademark of a mobile search engine? . . . → Read More: HTC CHAnges name of ChaCha; to be known as ChaChaCha in Spain  Another day, another Linux mobile platform launched. The latest flavor hails all the way from China Unicom — Apple’s sole iPhone partner in China thanks to its WCDMA network — who’s just announced the WoPhone platform to, ironically, “break up the foreign smartphone platform monopoly.” Of course, this isn’t the first time that a Chinese carrier has pushed out its own OS — TD-SCDMA operator China Mobile already has OPhone , though it’s really just a bastardized Android; whereas China Unicom claims that WoPhone’s an entirely new OS built around the Linux core. . . . → Read More: China Unicom launches WoPhone Linux platform, because the world can’t get enough of Tux |
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