As reported here on Cell Phones Etc. and across the Web, here’s your daily brief on what happened in the world of mobile phones this Monday, March 28th, 2011.
Allview Announces F2 Crony Touchscreen Phone
Romanian handset maker Allview has just announced their newest dual-SIM handset offering, the F2 Crony. This baby sports a 3-inch touchscreen, a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support, and EDGE/GPRS. As for WiFi, it’s still not clear if that feature will be available on the F2 Crony. It’s set to debut in April though pricing is still yet to be known.
Softpedia
Virgin confirms HTC Incredible S will be launching “soon”
The title already says it all. Virgin Mobile will soon be adding the HTC Incredible S to their smartphone line-up. They’re still mum as to its launch date and pricing, but according to a previously leak, we already know that it should retail for $499.99 off-contract.
Mobilesyrup
American Express challenges PayPal with ‘Serve’ digital payment platform
American Express has just announced Serve, their digital payment offering. With Serve, American Express client can send money to others, pay bills, and go online shopping. Users can top-up their Serve account either from their bank account or their debit/credit card. And to make it accessible to everyone, they’ve rolled out an iOS and Android Serve app. Sure, it’s no PayPal-killer, but as they say, competition is always good, and Serve is definitely good competition.
Engadget
Ovum predicts Nokia/Microsoft will redraw smartphone market, overtake iOS by 2016
Ovum analyst Adam Leach is optimistic that the new partnership of Nokia and Microsoft will reap benefits for the Windows Phone platform. So much so that he he’s gone on record and predicts that it’ll become the second most used mobile OS by 2016 overtaking Apple’s iOS to play runner-up to Android. He cites Nokia’s huge following will help Windows Phone become a household name once again. That couldn’t be more true. The question is, will Windows Phone be up to the task? That’s a question that’ll probably only be answered in the next couple of months.
WMPoweruser
iPhone 4 coming to SaskTel
And to end our news round-up for today, Sasktel just hit us up to remind us that they’ll be soon coming out with the iPhone 4. In fact, their iPhone registration page is now live, where interested individuals can already sign-up to receive the latest info an Apple’s current iPhone. Are you one of those folks? Then head on over here to be part of their mailing list.
