June 1st, 2011

Huawei Teases Small Form-Factor "MediaPad"

Huawei will be showing off a new tablet at Communicasia later this month, and they sent along a couple pics just to make us curious. There’s not much to say other than that it looks a bit like an iPad squashed down to a… what is that, a 7″ screen? It’s hard to say. The watch looks small but that’s one big cup of tea. Here’s another pic showing the side view… → Read More

April 29th, 2011

Nokia Siemens Closes $975M Acquisition Of Motorola Solutions' Wireless Network Assets

Nokia Siemens has closed the acquisition of the wireless network infrastructure assets of Motorola Solutions today. The company reports that it paid $975 million in cash for the assets and approximately 6900 employees will transfer to Nokia Siemens Network from Motorola. The finalization of the deal come after China regulators approved the acquisition a last week. The full release is paste… → Read More

April 13th, 2011

Motorola And Huawei Settle Patent Lawsuit

In case you hadn’t heard, Motorola Solutions and Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies have been embroiled in a nasty patent lawsuit. In January, the Chinese company has filed a lawsuit to prevent Motorola from giving Nokia Siemens (which acquired Motorola’s wireless network for $1.2 billion last year) Huawei’s IP information. Today, Motorola and Huawei have issued a joint→ Read More

January 24th, 2011

Huawei Sues Motorola Over Patents Disclosed To Nokia Siemens-Acquired Wireless Network

The drama continues between Chinese company Huawei Technologies and Motorola. The company has filed a lawsuit to prevent Motorola from giving Nokia Siemens (which acquired Motorola’s wireless network for $1.2 billion last year) Huawei’s IP information.

Essentially, Huawei is saying that because Motorola and the company has a previous licensing relationship, Motorola’s wireless networking unit was… → Read More

December 10th, 2010

Huawei announce two new Android phones: the Ideos X5 and X6

Huawei, makers of the super cheap Ideos U8150 (aka T-mobile Comet) Android phone, announced this week two new (and likely cheaper than you’d expect) Android handsets: the Ideos X5 and Ideos X6.

First up, the Ideos X5 comes with a 3.8″ capacitive screen, 5MP camera with LED flash, WiFI b/g/n, GPS/A-GPS, and HSPA/HSUPA.

Playing the roll of big brother, the Ideos X6 packs a beastly 4.1″ screen… → Read More

November 23rd, 2010

T-mobile announces BOGO promotion for Black Friday

If there’s a special someone in your life that’s into smartphones as much as you are, then you should have a gander at this:

Starting this Black Friday, T-mobile are including their entire line of Android devices (including the Galaxy Tab), as well as the WinPho7-powered behemoth that is the HD7, in a buy-one-get-one-free promotion.

Jump on past the break for all the grisly details. → Read More

September 3rd, 2010

T-Mobile In Talks For A Sub-$200 Android Phone

Who says Android phones need to be expensive? The Wall Street Journal reports that T-Mo is working with Huawei to add an inexpensive Android phone to their product line up, the Ideos.T-mobile would be the first carrier to have a phone made by Huawei, and the Ideos would be available for less then $200, vs. the $500 most Android phones cost without a contract. The Ideos does have a smaller screen… → Read More

February 15th, 2010

Huawei makes the U8100, U8110, U8800 and U8300 with Android official

Looking at the image above, I know what you’re thinking, but look on the bright side: you’ll be much safer crossing the streets at night with that thing plastered to your ear. Huawei has just announced a number of colorful handsets that don’t look like your average Android handsets. → Read More

August 21st, 2009

Rumor: T-Mobile Pulse (Huawei 8220) details revealed?

Oh, Internet. You give it a little bit of information and a reason to dig, and some super sleuth will uncover all there is to know. Such is the case with the Huawei 8220 Android phone; once it was given a name and a carrier by the Wi-Fi Alliance’s filing for the “T-mobile Pulse”, the Android detectives were off. The latest bit of information they’ve uncovered comes from a… → Read More

March 31st, 2009

Review: T-Mobile webConnect USB laptop stick

Let’s just cut to the chase, folks. T-Mobile’s first USB dongle is a welcome addition to the big magenta, but it has its flaws. However, as a long time T-Mobile customer I’m just happy to have a broadband dongle at all. My speed tests in the Bay Area (CA) were quite good both in San Francisco and around the Bay. I was averaging between 700 and 800kbps down and around 300kbps up throughout… → Read More

February 16th, 2009

Expect 2-3 Android handsets from Huawei this year

Huawei has big plans for 2009. The OEM handset maker plans to launch two to three different Android phones and maybe even a Symbian and LiMo handset all this year. Even with the global economic doom and gloom? Wowzers! → Read More

January 22nd, 2009

Huawei's Android phone to be shown next month

Huawei’s Android handset might drop during the original first half of 2009 time slot instead of the 3Q 2009 some reported. The maker will at least show it off at next months Mobile World Congress, with production hopefully starting shortly there after. *fingers crossed* We don’t have any other details including if the phone will be a touchscreen-only, keyboard-equipped, or the price, but at least… → Read More

January 22nd, 2009

Huawei's Android phone to be shown next month

Huawei’s Android handset might drop during the original first half of 2009 time slot instead of the 3Q 2009 some reported. The maker will at least show it off at next months Mobile World Congress, with production hopefully starting shortly there after. *fingers crossed* We don’t have any other details including if the phone will be a touchscreen-only, keyboard-equipped, or the price… → Read More

December 17th, 2008

Huawei Android phones coming later than previously expected

Wuh oh – Looks like China’s Huawei Technologies might have spoken too soon when they announced that they’d have an Android-powered phone ready in the first half of 2009. According to CNET, a Huawei spokesman has confirmed “that their first Android smartphone is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2009.” → Read More

July 23rd, 2007

Synaptics MobileTouch Lands In Huawei U550 Phone

If you’ve never seen Synaptics MobileTouch technology in action, pop over to their site and watch the demo video. But basically it takes all the fun touchpad technology you find on laptops using the company’s products and applies them to smaller mobile devices — in this case, the Huawei U550 flip phone. The backlit three-button MobileTouch interface acts as the MP3 player… → Read More