Acer's Stream Android 2.1 smartphone went into a stealth mode of sorts after its official launch at the end of May, but UK retailer Expansys has just announced that the handset should be arriving on August 3rd. They'll be the exclusive source of the Stream, in fact, priced at £399.99 ($610).
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It's only just been on sale for a week - and has spent the past few days out of stock - but already the Motorola DROID X has been rooted. The handiwork of Droid X Forums, the root looks to be a relatively straightforward twelve-step process; the bootloader is still locked down, however, and Motorola certainly hasn't made it easy to install third-party ROMs.
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While our opinion of Windows Phone 7 was somewhat mixed, it looks like AT&T are a whole lot more enthusiastic about the new smartphone OS. According to Altimeter Group analyst and SlashGear columnist Michael Gartenberg, a trusted source has revealed that AT&T has apparently signed up for eight million Windows Phone 7 devices ahead of its holiday season launch.
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Nokia's financial results for the second quarter of 2010 are out, and it's a mixed bag. Despite the doomsday predictions, sales of Nokia devices - both smartphones and mainstream handsets - are up, with 111.1m units shipped (an increase of 8-percent compared to the same quarter twelve months ago, and up 3-percent from Q1 2010); smartphones in particular (or "converged mobile devices" as Nokia refers to them) saw volumes rise 42-percent year-on-year to 24m units. However, the flip side is a reduced average selling price per device, which cut into Nokia's profits; Devices & Services' operating profit was down to €643m ($820m), a 16-percent fall in comparison to the same three month period a year ago, while overall net profit was €221 ($282m), down from €380m ($485).
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You can't accuse Microsoft employees of not drinking the Kool-Aid, or at least their employer making sure there are plenty of jugs of it about. According to a senior marketing manager at Microsoft, every employee will be getting a Windows Phone 7 handset.
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Lashings of Froyo rumor over the past twenty-four hours, with talk of Android 2.2 headed to various high-end handsets. First off, spyshots have tipped the Motorola DROID 2 as launching on Verizon with Froyo preloaded according to Droid-Life, rather than the Android 2.1 OS we've seen on the DROID X, while elsewhere there's talk of Android 2.2 updates for existing devices.
That includes a Froyo update for the Vodafone Google Nexus One as early as next week, with the carrier-branded device finally getting what unlocked users have been enjoying for a few weeks now. Handy, since Google has announced that they'll soon not be offering the unlocked version themselves, leaving it up to carrier partners to supply the phone.
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Nokia may rue the day they jumped on the Antennagate bandwagon and pointed out that they'd always prioritize signal performance over aesthetics. The company's N97 mini has joined the BlackBerry Bold 9700, Samsung Omnia II, HTC Droid Eris and iPhone 3GS on Apple's antenna testing page of shame.
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"You snooze, you lose" may not be the most eloquent way of putting it, but Sprint CEO Dan Hesse knows that the longer it takes to get customers onto shiny devices like the EVO 4G, the more chance his carrier rivals have to overtake him in high-speed mobile networks. T-Mobile USA has just announced that their HSPA+ network is now the most pervasive in the country, currently covering more than 85m people and on track, the carrier promises, to offer HSPA+ to over 185m people by the end of 2010.
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Oh, the irony. Verizon, having offered HTC Droid Incredible customers the chance to switch their order of the short-supply smartphone to the new Motorola DROID X and hopefully get a new Android smartphone sooner, now find themselves lacking in DROID X stock. According to the carrier's webstore, neither handset is currently available.
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Nokia could be looking for a new CEO, according to the latest rumors finding their way to the WSJ, with current exec Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo tipped to be undermined by the Finnish company's troubles in taking on the iPhone. Quoting "people familiar with the situation", the paper says that the Nokia board are "supposed to make a decision by the end of the month."
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Sprint has finally announced availability and pricing for their new, ruggedized Android smartphone, the Motorola i1. Set to land on the Nextel network come July 25th, the i1 packs a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 3G EVDO Rev.A, all in a chassis that's resilient to dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain.
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