Archive for October, 2008

Samsung Delve Dives Into Alltel

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

The Samsung Delve is now available for pre-order on Alltel’s Website and come November 6th will be found in retail stores. The Delve’s touch screen, virtual QWERTY, tactile feedback, TouchWiz Interface and widgetized home screen come with a $199 pricetag after a $100 mail in rebate.
Alltel sweetens the deal with a few extras:

MP3 Player & [...]

Nokia N96… Yours For $900 at BestBuy

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

We know that Nokia’s N-Series devices are the bomb-diggity and that the N96 in specific is all that bomb-diggity and a bag of izzles, but would you pay almost a thousand bucks for it? If you want it unlocked from BestBuy that’s what you’ll have to do… plopping down $899.99 + tax for handset.

It doesn’t [...]

The $99 iPhone… The Free iPhone… The What?

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

Hold your horses holiday shoppers. For those AT&T discount seeking late year fanatics that are mulling over whether or not to buy the Apple iPhone, you may want to wait until 2009. Speculation has it that the price on the most affordable iPhone will drop to $99 and a brand new “high end” model will [...]

Sony Late To The Kegger with Xperia X1 Contest

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

Perhaps a commenter at the Boy Genius Report put it best:
“god dammit sony! i was excited about this phone for so long, but now you’re like the guy that shows up to the kegger at 4 am ready to start a beer pong tourney! where the bleep were you 6 hours (read months) ago!”
So true… [...]

Dell’s New Smarts Look Confused

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

World reknowned computer manufacturer Dell is trying their hand in the mobile phone market again… this time releasing two phones known by “Pharos Traveller” that look like they might stop and ask YOU for directions. Dell was at one point rumored to be working on an Android Phone but it looks like they just had [...]

Bang Gets Olufsened: No More Phones

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

We were going to make the title “Olufsen Gets Banged” but it sounded like a cheap porno movie gone wrong (is there any other kind?). High-end luxury tech manufacturer Bang & Olufsen, citing the economic downturn, is cutting all non-core competencies out of its product line. TV & Sound = In while phones, DVD players [...]

Google Mobile Tool Encourages Voters in US Election

by Rob on October 30th, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, in a few short days citizens of the United States of America will elect a new president. Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat makes no difference to us… either way, we want you go get out there and VOTE. Google does, too.
On their Official Mobile Blog, Google announced a mobile tool that [...]

AT&T Branded HTC Fuze Makes Brief Show on eBay

by Elias Chiddicks on October 30th, 2008

Want to see the HTC Fuze on eBay? Yeah, so did we. Faster than you can say “you just got caught sucka” the auction and accompanying pictures of what is surely an AT&T branded HTC Fuze were off the popular auction site. Fortunately, a stealthy blogger was able to snatch the photos up before they [...]

Dual SIM Luxury Samsung Joins the Ranks

by Elias Chiddicks on October 30th, 2008

Not wanting to give Motorola and its Aura the entire spotlight in the luxury phone arena Samsung has just released their latest kick at the rhodium-plated can, titled, rather oddly, the Samsung S9402 Duos. Yes, we agree—it just rolls off the tongue.

What’s the big selling feature? Well it’s the fact that you can stick two [...]

All T-Mobile Data Plans To Soon Follow G1 Structure

by Rob on October 29th, 2008

It seems that the T-Mobile G1 data plan – $25 for unlimited data and another $10 for unlimited texting – has ushered in a new era of data plans at T-Mobile as a whole. Rumor has it that ALL devices will follow this guideline (including BlackBerries) with a 10GB softcap at which point the user [...]

BlackBerry Bold: $149 To Make, $491 to Troubleshoot

by Rob on October 28th, 2008

Gizmodo has Maxwell Smarted the BlackBerry Bold, putting together 2 recent news announcements whose combined synergy leaves us saying WTF? Those two announcements? iSuppli has determined the cost to manufacture the BlackBerry Bold is probably about $169 while BestBuy just announced the non-contract price is $600.

That leaves us no choice but to assume that the [...]

Sony Ericsson’s President Announces Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes

by Elias Chiddicks on October 27th, 2008

Sony Ericsson’s President, Hideki ‘Dick’ Komiyama has spilled the beans on there plans for 2009. Looks like SE wants to shrink its three different Research & Development sections into one so that they don’t spend a whole bunch of time and money developing the same products. In addition they are likely to release fewer products [...]

White HTC Touch Diamond Calls iPhone its Biznatch

by Rob on October 25th, 2008

This is a live photo of the White HTC Touch Diamond, a device that looks like it could make the iPhone scream “Uncle” while retaining the elegance, style and class that phone snobs demand. I hate to use bad language but… this thing looks bad ass!

So it appears as thought the Touch Diamond will be [...]

Samsung Omnia, Saga and HTC Touch Pro To Verizon in November

by Rob on October 25th, 2008

It looks like Verizon-Claus is filling up their Big Red Mobile Phone bag with a bunch of shiny new toys for holiday shoppers: the Samsung Omnia, Samsung Saga and HTC Touch Pro will all be available on Verizon Wireless at some point in November.

Those are 3 pretty awesome catches when you factor in the fact [...]

Details on the Nokia E63 Surface

by Elias Chiddicks on October 25th, 2008

Looks like we have even more of the all too rare Nokia + QWERTY combination headed our way, in the form of the mysterious E63 device. Without a side-by-side, the E63 would be hard to tell apart from the E71, which we would consider to be a good thing.

The main difference between the two is [...]

Motorola i9 Sprinting Towards Release, Stops to Pose

by Elias Chiddicks on October 25th, 2008

Yeah, I went there.

We’ve got a new one here for you folks, the Motorola i9, headed straight for Sprint service. Its good to see Motorola keeping the product flow steady, and we here at Mobile Roar hope its an indication of Motorola being on the up and up.

The i9 itself turns out to be a [...]

RIM Releases Blackberry Web Signals

by Elias Chiddicks on October 25th, 2008

There are two things you should know about Blackberry users:
1.    When we are using our Blackberry’s but aren’t typing, we are probably playing Brick Breaker and,
2.    We like receiving information more from our Blackberry’s then from, say, the rest of the world.
So it seems in good taste that RIM has announced a new way to [...]

Sprint’s HTC Touch Pro Coming October 26th!

by Rob on October 24th, 2008

Plenty of people have been salivating over both the beauty and functionality of the HTC Touch Pro, the Diamond variation that offers a full slideout QWERTY keyboard among other upgrades. Sprint customers can tuck their napkin into their shirt because on October 26th they’ll be able to purchase the Touch Pro for $299.99 with a [...]

New Palm OS: ALP 3.0

by Rob on October 24th, 2008

This is big, big news folks. While the mobile industry seemingly zooms right past PALM, their faithful followers have been wondering when their increasingly clunky mobile OS would finally receive an update. And now it will with the advent of Access Linux Platform 3.0, or ALP 3.0 for short.

Access purchased PalmSource and this operating system [...]

BlackBerry Bold On AT&T – Nov. 4th at $299.99

by Rob on October 22nd, 2008

The title says it all, folks. The BlackBerry Bold will finally, finally, FINALLY be hitting the market just in time for not as many people to really care considering the release of the T-Mobile G1 and upcoming BlackBerry Storm. At $299.99 you’ve got to wonder how many people will pick this up over the alternatives… [...]