Best of SPE, 26 April 2009

We're pretty sure that if you're reading this, you're the sort who likes exclusive, breaking details on Smartphones. We had that ample this calendar week. Nokia Experts got the full skinny on the AT&T Nokia E71x in the form of PDF guides and a confirmation of a May fourth release. PreCentral.net scored an internal caput-to-head between the iPhone and the Palm Pre. CrackBerry.com saw even so some other Storm OS leak.

Nosotros're too pretty certain you like free stuff. So you'll want to check out the What Would Y'all Do for a Palm Pre Giveaway. We're too incredibly proud that CrackBerry.com reached - wait for it - One Meg Members! They'll be tossing out celebratory gifts to them this week. WMExperts will be giving away a phone (bank check in that location on Mon). As well, did you know that The iPhone Blog is approaching their 1 twelvemonth ceremony in a couple weeks? Wait some fun to happen there soon, besides!

Much more than more happened in the smartphone world, then every bit usual, nosotros bring y'all our "Best of SPE roundup." Come up take a look at what's news!

Android Central

This week at Android Central, we detailed a lot of the new features that are going to come with Android one.5. You can read about onscreen widgets, soft keyboards, and future-proofing Android applications. But as rosy equally things are for Android, T-Mobile posted some dour financial results for Q1.

One milestone to celebrate: the T-Mobile G1 hit 1 million units sold!

CrackBerry.com

It was a fun and eventful week at CrackBerry.com. 9530 Storm owners were happy because a new operating system leaked. The Skyfire web browser debuted in individual alpha way, which looks to bear witness a ton of potential and feature improvements over the native web browser. The BlackBerry 9630 as well may have a name - the BlackBerry Tour. And last but not least, CrackBerry.com hit a huge milestone on Friday - One Million registered members! You'll want to check into CrackBerry.com this calendar week for chances to win some not bad prizes in honor of the occassion.

Nokia Experts

A tipster sent in all of the PDF documents for the upcoming AT&T Nokia E71x, that included an image showing a 4 May release date. The Nokia Experts accessory store launched this by week then come visit if you take any accessory needs for your Nokia device. The Nokia 5800 was a pop device this week with another review and thoughts on why information technology is a fabulous Amazon Video On Need portable thespian that makes it a standout from all other mobile operating systems. Don't forget to download the free Nokia Messaging client for your 5800 too.

PreCentral.net

Possibly y'all haven't heard, PreCentral.net is giving away five Palm Pre Packs to the v people who submit the best "What Would You Exercise for a Palm Pre?" entries! The Pre Packs include the Pre itself, a $100 Amazon gift card, a Touchstone charger, a case, and a pair of Motorola S9-HD headphones. If you oasis't entered your thought, go do so now!. Of course, outside of our competition, we also bankrupt the big story that AT&T is training their employees on how to knock the Pre downward a peg. We saw the Pre appear in Playboy magazine and in the easily of Angelina Jolie, and another shot of the Pre in the wild showed a new YouTube app for the webOS.

The iPhone Web log

Previously on theiPhoneblog.com: Apple pwns the app market. 35,000 potent now, and over 1 BILLION App Store downloads. To celebrate, Apple tree gave abroad over $x,000 in prizes to... well, you'll encounter. With a total of 37 million iPhone OS devices (including iPod touches) now on the marketplace, 3.viii meg iPhones sold just last quarter, 1.6 one thousand thousand of those activated on AT&T, 40% new to carrier, accounting for 75% of new monthly billings, there's only one thing Apple pwns more than apps: AT&T.

Meanwhile, Apple but said "NO!" to cramped, terrible, junky netbooks and confirmed once more Steve Jobs volition exist dorsum at the end of June -- which is not in time for the WWDC keynote.

TreoCentral

Checking in over at TreoCentral we learned that Palm has just lowered the price of the unlocked GSM Palm Centro to $199. You tin can get information technology in iii colors: Cherry Red, Glacier White and Colbalt Blue. In other Palm news, their stock broke $ten on a day that the market was downwards, and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Vivek Arya upped his rating on Palm to Buy from Hold. Plus Arya thinks that Palm could ship up to ii.5 million Pre smartphones in the 2nd half of 2009 and as many equally 6.2 million phones in 2022. We likewise learned this week that the Treo Pro is now bachelor in Mexico through Movistar, Telefonica United mexican states'southward local carrier brand.

WMExperts

It was some other relatively dull week in the Windows Mobile world. The HTC Touch Diamond got a couple of hotfixes, we saw a cool ultrasound-Windows Mobile rig, learned Swift and Swivel may one twenty-four hours come up, saw the release of SPB Mobile Vanquish 3.0, and a couple of peachy reviews of the Bear on Diamond ii. We also got a sneak peek of possible Toshiba phones and the Touch Pro 2.