Motorola Sholes to launch by holidays, along with the BlackBerry Storm 2 and Nokia Booklet 3G

Filed under: Handsets, LG, Motorola, Nokia, RIM, ATT, Sprint, Verizon Wireless

Well well, it looks like the Android-powered Motorola Sholes will be out on Verizon by the holidays. That’s at least the impression we’re getting from a bunch of leaked Verizon retailer documents posted up by Boy… Continue reading

Verizon adds Motorola Barrage today, Nokia Shade next week

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

There’s a certain joy, an undeniable stress release associated with heaving your phone directly at a wall. Of course, your average handset isn’t likely to respond favorable to that kind of maneuver, so you might want to pick up something that makes boastful claims… Continue reading

Nokia Twist for Verizon hands-on

Filed under: Features, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

We’ve got to give Nokia credit: they managed, against all odds, to come up with a truly unique form factor in creating the Twist for Verizon — a combination of shape, design, and mechanism that had never quite been seen before. Thing is, it’s the year… Continue reading

Nokia Twist given a proper photo shoot, priced $100 for Verizon

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless

Not that there was any doubt, but Nokia’s gone official with its Verizon-bound 7705 Twist, just shy of one month after its KIRF counterpart hit the market. Espoo’s released a handful of glamor shots to celebrate, and although the hardware is still crazy enough to thoroughly pique our interests… Continue reading

Nokia Twist launching on Verizon starting September 13

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

The Keepin’ It Real Fake industry has become so good, so fast, so well-tuned to market trends that we knew it was just a matter of time before it’d be consistently beating the real phones to market. What we didn’t expect, necessarily, was for Nokia to… Continue reading

Nokia 2705 ‘Shade’ lined up to replace Mirage on Verizon?

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, CDMA

It’s no Twist, but the latest Verizon-branded Nokia leak suggests that the newfound love between the two companies is showing no signs of slowing down — good news for a carrier shunned by some manufacturers for its CDMA ways. The alleged 2705 “Shade” would replace the 2605… Continue reading

Storm 2, Motorola Sholes, Nokia Twist dated for Verizon, according to leaked doc

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Verizon Wireless

We’ve heard about a good number of these phones were bound for Verizon Wireless already, but if this leaked doc via Boy Genius Report is to be believed, we now have a much better idea when they should be within… Continue reading

Oh, by the way: July 16, 2009

Filed under: Handsets, Software, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Bell Mobility, Symbian, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of mobile for Thursday, July 16th, 2009:

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Nokia’s swiveling wonder for Verizon passes FCC?

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Here’s what we know: a Nokia RM-526 (all Nokia handsets receive internal RM codes in addition to their consumer-friendly marketing model numbers) just passed the FCC, and the outline of the device pictured in the FCC ID label documentation makes it look a little… shall… Continue reading

Nokia making a crazy Sidekick-esque phone for Verizon? (Update: looks like!)

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

This rumor’s got more holes than swiss, but stranger things have happened, so it’ll be an interesting scoop to keep an eye on nonetheless. A tipster to Boy Genius Report claims that Nokia is working on a “swiveling E71-type handset” for — get this –… Continue reading