Wow – now this is an impressive leak.

This recently emerged AT&T handset supporting Windows Phone 7 is currently known at the HTC T8788, although it’s likely to be sporting a more catchy title once it hits the shelves.

The handset may be a landscape slider, but you’ll be shocked to learn that it doesn’t reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. Sorry, HTC fans. It looks like HTC have been working on something to further their media ambitions, providing you with a quirky slide-out speaker. Oh, and it’s fitted with a kickstand on the back, too.

The T8788 is certainly one of the most unusual WP7 handsets that we have seen yet, but it’s definitely the most intriguing. This could be set to revolutionize the way we watch films and listen to music on our mobile phones, and it’s fair to say, we’re very excited.

No other details have been release at the moment, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated.

Why not let us know what you think of the unusual handset in the comment box below!

[Source: Engadget]

Oh dear, it’s a very sad day for Android lovers. It looks like AMOLED display shortages have forced Bell to lay the HTC Legend to rest, moving the status of the phone to “end of life”.

Alongside the lack of AMOLED, it’s apparently been under-performing in the market, which may have pushed Bell,  Canada’s largest communication company, to make their tricky decision. Bell are encouraging their customers to look at their other Android-powered smartphones, no longer listing the Legend as in stock.

If you still desperately want to get your hands on a HTC Legend, don’t worry. It is still in stock with other suppliers, but not for much longer.

It’s a good looking phone, although I’m sure something will be along to replace it very shortly…

Source: Engadget

The HTC Legend is now available on pay-monthly deals with O2, and is currently available for order.

The HTC Legend is certainly a good-looking phone, with it’s aluminium casing and impressive high resolution 3.2inch AMOLED touchscreen display, which comes fitted with accelerometer and hand writing recognition. The handset performs brilliantly at multitasking, and comes equipped with both 3G support and WiFi connectivity. It’s built in web browser and large screen makes it very easy to browse the Internet, and also caters to all your social networking needs. The Legend is also fitted with excellent SMS and e-mail functions, making it the perfect handset for keeping in touch with your friends and family. You can also take photos with it’s 5MP camera complete with auto-focus and flash – and pop them up straight onto your Facebook page.

The HTC Legend is now available on a pay-monthly contract with O2, with prices starting from as little as £21.35/month, offering you 300 minutes and unlimited texts. The price also takes into consideration 7 months half price line-rental.

The handset is also available on pay-monthly deals with Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, each offering you the choice of choosing from automatic cash back, a free gift or half price line rental. You can also opt for a SIM Free deal, pricing the handset at £359.99.

Back in May this year, Yahoo and Nokia announced that they were joining forces to create a new global mobile partnership. Their mission statement was to “offer people rich experiences that keep them connected to others around the world”.

Here at DialToSave, we’re going to look deeper, and uncover whether the unexpected collaboration was a brilliant idea, or whether simply, nobody cares.

First off, there is certainly no doubting the sheer scale of both of these companies, but both seem to be having a bit of a hard time at the moment.

Yahoo is the third most visited website in the US, having recently been overtaken by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It’s fair to say, Yahoo just isn’t such a big deal in the UK anymore, with Google and Microsoft satisfying all consumer needs and Facebook leading as the most visited website. Yahoo, unlike it’s competitors, doesn’t have it’s own mobile phone operating  system, and they believe this is where they could be lacking.

Nokia on the other hand, are still the best selling mobile phone provider in this country with over 26.1 million handsets sold in the second quarter of 2010. They don’t share this popularity in the US however, with only 2.1 million handsets sold.  Although hugely successful, they prove to be a brand that American’s just don’t care about, which is often blamed on their lack of trends, unusual handsets and insignificant application store. Even here in the UK, Nokia are beginning to struggle against the rise of high-end smartphones.

The partnership between Nokia and Yahoo shows these two massive companies trying to increase their slowly fading popularity, but are they really going about it the right way?

They started to implement their ‘big’ ideas in July this year, aiming for global availability in 2011, but do any of us even know, or care what this means? Well, it certainly wasn’t the most exciting announcement ever made, and it seems most people have forgotten about it already.

The collaboration will basically allow all Nokia instant messaging and mail services to be ‘Powered by Yahoo’, and all of Yahoo’s maps and navigation services to now be ‘Powered by Ovi‘. I think it’s fair to say it’s hardly the news that will leave Apple, Google’s Android and RIM quaking in their boots.

In a way, I suppose the deal does make sense. Nokia lacks skill in providing decent messaging software, and their e-mail capabilities have always fell short of that offered from their competitors. With social networking continually on the rise, maybe this could help Nokia up their game. However, when choosing a mobile phone, will people really be attracted by the fact that Yahoo IM is pre-installed? Most people simply want the capability to communicate with friends and family via SMS, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter.

Yahoo’s current map services are also seriously struggling against Google Maps, and it may be good for them to pinch Nokia’s talented navigation skills, and let Ovi take control. Providing a better mapping experience may help Yahoo to boost their popularity, but it’s unlikely it will help them compete against search-engine giants Google and Microsoft, especially in the UK. Yahoo doesn’t even power their own searches any more, so it’s hard to imagine how this could help them to rise above their competition.

Although certain flaws have already been pointed out, there is part of me that simply believes this deal makes no sense at all – especially regarding Nokia’s UK loyalties.

Nokia may still reign as the best selling manufacturer in the country, but Yahoo is slowly disappearing out of the minds of us UK folk. It’s unlikely that this collaboration will entice more of the UK market into buying their handsets rather than opting for Apple, or HTC‘s latest release. On the other hand, Yahoo is still massively popular in the US, but Nokia hasn’t managed to resonate with their mobile phone consumers. Nokia have said, admittedly, that they hope the forming of this partnership will boost their popularity in the US, but surely Yahoo IM and e-mail services cannot be enough?

Mobile phone technology is continuously developing, and becoming more and more advanced. Consumers won’t be looking for which phone has tools powered by Yahoo, they’ll be looking at the camera, the video software, it’s applications, and so on.

For Nokia to maintain their success in the UK, making a deal with Yahoo certainly wasn’t the best way to go about it. It may boost their sales in the US, but could also alienate some of their already loyal customers. Google, RIM and Apple probably haven’t stopped laughing since the announcement was made.

Oh, and I did try to get a response from both companies, but both have failed to comment. If they do get back to me, I’ll keep you updated!

Leave your opinions on the collaborating in the comment box below!

The HTC Desire is now available on Pay As You Go deals with both Orange and O2, and is confirmed as being in stock.

The HTC Desire is one of the most sought after smartphones of the moment, exuding fashion appeal alongside a multitude of features. The handset comes equipped with a 3.7 inch AMOLED display with an impressive 480 x 800 pixel resolution. It is also fitted with a 5MP with flash and autofocus. The screen quality is also apparent when using it’s built in web browser with both 3G and WiFi support, allowing users to hop from one site to another. The Desire also provides you will all the tools for communicating with your friends and family, though it’s e-mail program, instant messaging service and SMS and MMS.

The newly announced Pay As You Go contracts from O2 and Orange are both offering you the handset for £409.95.

The HTC Desire is also available on pay-monthly contracts with 3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone. You also have the option to select from automatic cash back, free gifts and half price line rental.

Click to check out all HTC Desire Deals.

Windows are beginning to lose their mystique, as yet another of their upcoming handsets has been leaked. First an ASUS device, then the HTC Schubert, and now a Samsung prototype has found it’s way onto the internet, via Twitter.

It’s rumoured to be the Samsung Cetus which is expected to be released by AT&T later this year, with Windows 7 launching in the UK in October.

Although no official specifications have as of yet been released, it is claimed to feature a 4-inch AMOLED display, 5MP camera, FM radio, Bluetooth connectivity and a I’m sure a host of other features we’d be sure to expect from this highly-anticipated release.

No official information or pricing has been released as of yet, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted. Chances are it won’t be too long before we find out, as it seems Windows are struggling to keep things under wraps…

Source: Engadget

With the Windows Phone 7 launching in Europe later this year, we’re all itching to find out what handsets will be on offer. Luckily, thanks to some sneaky internet spies, the much anticipated smartphones are beginning to leak online, including the HTC Schubert - again.

Although the picture isn’t very clear – and it clearly has HTC Mozart labelled on it’s casing, Engadget have assured us that it is actually the Schubert, which has already been victim to online leaks. They also claim that the phone will be a ‘one day’ device – which means that it will be available on all networks on the day of its release.

Sadly, we can’t tell you much more than that about the mysterious prototype. The image on offer shows a HTC Legend-style handset – coated in aluminium and featuring a camera with flash on the back. Not very exciting, I know – but Windows are just too good at this.

As soon as we know more about it – we’ll let you know.

HTC have done it again, and have managed to leak another one of their handsets. The latest of their mishaps is evidence that HTC are about to raise their game with new and improved QWERTY keyboard options.

The phone may not look at it’s best just yet – and its bold red keyboard may upset some of the manufacturers loyal fans.

It has been reported that the HTC was found fitted with a Vodafone SIM card, so a European release is expected. The reports also claim the device is one of HTC’s smartphones set for 2011, so things could easily change. Fingers crossed they ditch the red keyboard…

Source: Eurodroid

Earlier this week owners of the Google Nexus One received their Android 2.2 Froyo update. The Nexus One is actually an HTC-made device, considered very similar to the HTC Desire. So it makes sense that an HTC spokesman confirmed that the Desire, Legend and Wildfire will be among the 2010 handsets receiving Android 2.2 in updates from Q3 2010 (July onwards).

Froyo is probably the most anticipated Android update to date, because it makes significant speed improvements, has a more refined user interface (although how different it looks with HTC Sense over the top is yet to be seen) and support for Adobe Flash. Check out this review at Gizmodo.

Source: Recombu

The HTC Wildfire is the HTC Desire‘s little brother and we’re really excited about it. An Android 2.1 smart phone with a 3.2 inch touch screen with multi touch capability. It has a standard HTC 5 megapixel camera and an incredible 20 day standby battery life. The most exciting part is that contracts are expected to cost at least £100 less than the HTC Wildfire.

Now on May 18th T-Mobile announced on Twitter that they would be releasing the Wildfire on 14th June (this Monday) with a free handset available on tariffs as low as £20 a month. Since then there has been no word from T-Mobile and their registration page on T-Mobile.co.uk just states that it’s due in June 2010. As yet, none of the Wildfire deals advertised by third party retailers include any deals from T-Mobile, only Vodafone. It all just seems a bit quiet but who knows, maybe on Monday morning it will be released as advertised.

Now Vodafone‘s pre-order page does state that the phone is expected to arrive on 15th June. So it’s almost certain that the Wildfire will be reaching some people on Tuesday.

The third network to have announced their plans to offer the HTC Wildfire is Three. Now that announcement was made on 19th May with a promise to announce dates and prices shortly, and we’ve heard nothing yet. Virgin Mobile will also be stocking the Wildfire, but with nothing mentioned on their website as yet.

So check out our HTC Wildfire deals page on Monday morning to see what, if anything, is available.