Samsung Galaxy Tab may launch on Sprint on November 14th, cost $399
The Samsung Galaxy Tab will launch on Sprint on November 14th, according to one of the Boy Genius‘ sources. The same person said that the Android-powered tablet will set you back $399 if you opt to sign a new 2-year contract with Sprint, or $599 contract-free. That certainly isn’t a big subsidy, and is nowhere [...]
HTC Mondrian render (AT&T-branded) shows up
We already know that the HTC Mondrian will be launched by AT&T sometime soon. The new Windows Phone 7 handset has appeared more than once on the Web, and even in two AT&T commercials (which, unfortunately, aren’t available anymore). Now the Mondrian has showed up again, this time in a render that has AT&T’s logo [...]
Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type coming to Orange UK on PAYG
Orange UK is getting ready to launch the “impossibly thin” Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type, and it will probably do it this month, just like T-Mobile UK. The X3-02 is Nokia’s first S40 phone to come with a touchscreen display (not a large one, though – it’s just 2.4 inches, QVGA). The handset also features [...]
Samsung Wave 575 (GT-S5750) with Bada OS announced
Only several days after officially presenting the Wave II S8530, today Samsung has unveiled yet another new Bada smartphone, the Samsung Wave 575 (GT-S5750). Like the Wave 525 and 533 (also announced today – re-announced, actually), the Wave 575 features a 3.2 inch WQVGA TFT touchscreen display, TouchWiz UI, Wi-Fi, 3.2MP camera, 100MB of internal [...]
More pictures of the Verizon HTC Merge/Lexikon leak
The HTC Merge, or HTC Lexikon, or whatever its final retail name will be, sure is one of the most leaked devices in the past few weeks. We’ve seen it in the wild, then its user guide leaked, and just a few days ago it got previewed and benchmarked. And if you were hoping you’d [...]
Canada: Samsung Galaxy 5 exclusive to Virgin Mobile, launches on November 12th
The Samsung Galaxy 5, better known as i5503 or i5500 in some parts of the world, is a low-end Android-powered smartphone that is now headed to Canada. Virgin Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of the Galaxy 5 in Canada, and the device will be available to buy on November 12th. Specs of the Galaxy [...]
BlackBerry Storm 9570 may have been cancelled
The BlackBerry Storm 9570 has appeared in some photos a couple of weeks ago. This device may or may not have been the BlackBerry Storm 3. Probably not though, as alleged pictures of the Storm 3 from a another leak clearly showed a different device. The Storm 9570 looked like (and was rumored to be) [...]
T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) GPS-fixing OTA update on the way
Just before the end of last month an update for T-Mobile’s Samsung Vibrant made its way to Samsung’s Kies desktop software and was then promptly pulled. T-Mobile advised against people updating to that, and subsequently told us that they’ll have more news about an over the air update for the Vibrant this week. And that [...]
Gresso Luxor World Time unveiled as the world’s first phone with world time function
Yes, the title of the news is a bit redundant, but I couldn’t help it. In a press release that would make any Engrish speaker proud, luxury phone maker Gresso has announced its latest creation: the Luxor World Time – which, as you’ve surely noticed by now, comes with a “world time function.” More exactly, [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab ships with “Porn” button in Romania
If you speak English, one of the perks of living in a country where English isn’t an official language is laughing (sometimes uncontrollably) at translations of various things from English into your mother tongue. This is especially true of tech terms, software and manuals of different electronic equipment. It sometimes seems like companies rely on Google [...]
Sony announces 16 Megapixel Exmor R camera sensor for mobile phones
Sony promises to “dramatically improved photographic performance” with its latest Exmor R back-illuminated CMOS image sensors that will be integrated in two new lens modules made for mobile phones. One of the new sensors, called Sony Exmor R IMX081PQ, is capable of providing 16.41 Megapixel photos, adopting “the industry’s smallest 1 unit pixel size of [...]
Rugged, IP-68 rated Sonim XP1300 Core officially announced, costs $399
Remember how we told you that the Sonim XP1300 Core would be announced in early October? Well, the new rugged phone has been officially unveiled yesterday as “the world’s first IP-68 rated GSM handset that’s fully submersible in 2 meters of water.” The handset comes in a “dual injected shell” that includes hardened rubber and [...]
Motorola says iPhone and iPad infringe some of its patents, sues Apple
Not long after being sued by Microsoft, Motorola has announced that it’s suing Apple for the same old reason most companies in the mobile industry are suing each other: patent infringement. Motorola (actually its Motorola Mobility subsidiary) claims that the “iPhone, iPad, iTouch and certain Mac computers” infringe a total of 18 patents. Said patents [...]
Sprint intros Android-based Samsung Transform, LG Optimus S and Sanyo Zio
Since AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all announced new phones at CTIA, it’s no surprise that Sprint has also unveiled new handsets there. The new handsets (Samsung Transform, LG Optimus S and Kyocera Sanyo Zio) are Android-based and come with Sprint ID, which “allows users to quickly download ID packs that deliver a predefined experience, [...]
T-Mobile announces the LG Optimus T, an affordable Android smartphone
As this year’s end comes closer, LG is making inroads into the smartphone market in hopes to deliver at least in part on their claims about smartphone launches in 2010. A big part of LG’s strategy relies on Android, and more specifically on the LG Optimus One, a device that will presumably launch with 120 [...]
US Cellular gets its own Galaxy S, the Samsung Mesmerize – available October 27th
Samsung has provided all the big four Tier 1 US carriers with customized versions of its Galaxy S Android smartphone, and now it looks like it is starting to focus on smaller and/or regional carriers. As such, US Cellular have announced today that they are launching their very own Galaxy S device, the Samsung Mesmerize [...]
Verizon will launch LTE in 38 cities and more than 60 airports by the end of the year
Verizon is busy investing in and developing its next-generation LTE network across the United States. LTE is a technology that will allow for faster data speeds than current generation 3G or WiMax networks, and also, perhaps even more important for some use-cases, significantly lower latencies. Verizon’s LTE will initially see speeds ranging from 5 to [...]
Verizon iPhone to enter mass production by year’s end
There have been so many rumors of a CDMA iPhone headed to Verizon over the past few years that at this point it could be really tough to believe that it may actually be happening. But the sudden increase, over the past couple of months, in chatter indicating that a Verizon iPhone is imminent, does [...]
AT&T announces its first LTE-compatible device and new Pantech Laser QWERTY phone
AT&T has yet to roll out its LTE/4G network, but that doesn’t mean it can’t announce LTE-compatible devices, right? The first AT&T device capable of supporting LTE is the LG Adrenaline USB dongle – which will receive a software upgrade to work on the carrier’s 4G network when this launches (sometime in 2011). Until then, [...]
Samsung i5510 Galaxy 551 official details emerge
Samsung has prepared a new member for its Galaxy line of Android-powered smartphones. And while this is no Galaxy S, it still is a solid contender. Meet the Samsung Galaxy 551, otherwise known by its model number i5510. This is a midrange Android device with a side-sliding full QWERTY keyboard and not without its shortcomings. [...]