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Yesterday, Virgin Mobile announced that it would be offering the HTC Wildfire when it launches although as of yet, they have no pricing details available.

Today, T-Mobile in the UK also announced availability of the HTC Wildfire and have also included pricing for the new smartphone.

T-Mobile will launch the HTC Wildfire on June 14 in it’s UK stores as well as making it available online to purchase. When launched the Wildfire will cost £20/month on the network although it isn’t clear if that’s an 18 or 24 month contract and if there is anything to pay upfront for the smartphone. [Read more…]

Just yesterday a new Android OS smartphone was announced called the HTC Wildfire. The Wildfire is a budget handset that has slightly lower specs than the high end phones such as a slower Qualcomm processor running at 525MHz rather than the Snapdragon 1GHz chips we see in the high end phones.

Virgin Mobile in the UK has announced today that it will be offering the HTC Wildfire on it’s network in the UK. The message came from the official Virgin Media Twitter account where the company announced it is to get the new Wildfire smartphone, but prices are to be announced at a later date.

Right now we can speculate that the handset will be free, or very cheap on quite low plans such as the £20/month or £25/month contracts. We also expect a PAYG version will be launched also on the network. [Read more…]

HTC has announced the launch of a new Android based phone called the HTC Wildfire. The first and last time we heard of the Wildfire was when HTC ran a poll on a Facebook page to let users choose the name of the device.

‘Today’s social networks provide an essential forum for friendship with more than 400 million users many of whom are young adults actively sharing their lives with their friends through Facebook, said Florian Seiche, Vice President, HTC EMEA. ‘HTC Wildfire makes the HTC Sense experience available to young mobile users for the first time. It brings all your communications into one place, whether it’s through Facebook, Twitter, text messages, images or email, ensuring that you are never far away from the conversation and always close to your friends.

The HTC Wildfire has a 3.2 inch QVGA screen. The screen is capacitive touch as we normally expect on this class of smartphone. A 5 megapixel camera is found on the back and all the usual connectivity is thrown in there such as WiFi, Bluetooth as well as GPS for tracking your current location. [Read more…]

Just a few weeks ago we came across a guy who successfully loaded up an Android OS build on to an iPhone 2G. Shortly after the same happened to the iPhone 3G. We now heard that the iPod Touch is now running Android.

The iPod Touch used here is the first-gen model and although the port is currently working, there are still a few loose ends that need closing off.

Meanwhile, I am working on some stuff that is slightly more fun. Last night, I brought openiboot for the first-generation iPod touch up to scratch so that it supports all the features the other ports of openiboot support: sound, multitouch and SDIO (for WLAN) are the notable things I had to fix. Earlier today, I figured out how to drive the piezoelectric tweeter on the iPod touch.

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When Google [GOOG] launched the Nexus One back in January, the company took a unique path to selling the smartphone. Instead of selling it through the various networks, Google decided to create their own online store at google.com/phone where you could pick up a handset and theoretically choose the network you wanted your phone to be on although not many networks actually accepted it.

This method led to a low amount of sales which probably came due to the lack of marketing that Google did vs what the networks would do if they could sell the phone direct.

We now hear direct from Google that they are now going to be selling the Nexus One through the carriers retail channels…

as with every innovation, some parts worked better than others. While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not. It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters, but it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from.

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RadioShack has announced that you can now pre-order the HTC EVO 4G from any one of it’s 4000 US stores ready for connection on to the Sprint network when the phone launches June 4. Pre-orders open today where you can purchase a $50 gift card that will secure your HTC EVO 4G for when it launches on June 4. The $50 gift card will be applied to your purchase on the day of launch.

The phone it’s self is very impressive in the features it has. The device has a 4.3 inch screen along with an 8 megapixel camera on the back that is capable of capturing HD video.

The phone has mobile hotspot functionality that allows you to to connect up to 8 devices at once through the phone on to the Sprint 4G network. When launched, the HTC EVO 4G will run Android 2.1. [Read more…]

Last week we came across information indicating that Vodafone in the UK could be getting the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini. This has now been confirmed by a coming soon page on the Vodafone online store.

The X10 Mini from Sony Ericsson is an Android OS phone that has a small 2.5 inch screen (hence the Mini name). It has a 5 megapixel camera on the back and also has a built in GPS. For connectivity it will connect to 3G and HSDPA networks and also has Bluetooth and WiFi available for connections to the web if needed. [Read more…]

As well as launching the Samsung Wave on to the Vodafone network in the UK, Vodafone is also bringing the Samsung Galaxy S 16GB to the network as well.

The Samsung Galaxy S was also announced several months ago and runs a very powerful GPU capable of moving a high amount of triangles on screen. The phone it’s self runs Google Android 2.1, it has the Samsung Super AMOLED screen to provide a HD resolution. It is also exclusive to Vodafone.

The Super AMOLED screen measures 4 inches. The camera on the back is capable of capturing pictures at 5 megapixels. Other features of the phone also include GPS, WiFi for connectivity as well as 3G and HSDPA. [Read more…]

We are hearing today that Skype will not be creating a version of it’s VoIP software for Windows Phone 7 devices that will launch later this year. Instead, the company will focus their efforts on iPhone OS, Android OS and Symbian based devices.

Right now the reasons are unknown for this decision, but perhaps it’s due to restrictions that Microsoft [MSFT] have put in place for developers where Skype might feel they cannot do enough. Alternatively they might have just lost a bit of faith in the platform.

Although they have said no to creating a WP7 VoIP app at an event in Sydney Australia, this could change closer to the time and we’ll never know for sure until Skype make an official announcement – or, when Skype never appears for WP7 devices. [Read more…]