Unboxing the Samsung Galaxy Tab with Sprint
Incredibly excited to see a Galaxy Tab at my doorstep, I eagerly wanted to just rip open the box and start playing with it right away. But exercising self-restraint, I waited for the opportune moment to set up the ol’ camcorder and take a few flicks as I opened it up for the first time. [...]
Verizon’s first LTE phone to be launched in February. Is it the HTC Merge, or the Incredible HD?
Although Verizon’s ready to switch on its LTE / 4G network before the year’s end, the carrier’s first LTE phones will only be available next year. According to The Wall Street Journal, which recently interviewed Ivan Seidenberg (Verizon’s CEO), the very first Verizon LTE phone should be launched sometime in February 2011. Before that, the [...]
Motorola Milestone 2 with Android 2.2 Froyo available in the UK this week
Motorola Milestone 2, the GSM version of Verizon’s Droid 2, is now available in the UK – not long after the smartphone was launched in Germany. Expansys offers the Milestone 2 for £379.99 ($605) unlocked. You can also get the new Milestone on contract, and it looks like only Vodafone offers it at the moment [...]
3 million downloads served by Nokia Ovi Store daily
Available in more than 190 countries across the globe, Nokia’s Ovi Store is constantly growing in popularity. The Finnish company has just announced that its application store is now serving 3 million downloads each day. That’s still not comparable with the 10 million daily downloads served by Apple’s App Store, but it’s an important milestone [...]
Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant and Captivate to get Android 2.2 Froyo in mid-December in Canada
The Canadian versions of Samsung Vibrant and Samsung Captivate (offered by Bell and Rogers, respectively) will be updated to Android 2.2 Froyo in mid-December. That’s what Samsung Canada recently said on Facebook – so the promised updates are pretty much official. The Galaxy S Fascinate (available via Telus as of this month) will also be [...]
Verizon relaunches Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two – now much cheaper
Verizon has done the unthinkable by re-launching Microsoft’s ex-cancelled Kin phones. The Kin ONE and Kin TWO are now called Kin ONEm and Kin TWOm and are, again, available for purchase at Verizon’s website (you won’t find them in retail stores). They’re basically the same old phones, the big difference being the prices for which [...]
LG Optimus One is now on Three UK, free on £15 per month
The LG Optimus One is slowly but surely making its way into the line-ups of many dozens of carriers worldwide. It was expected to also reach Three in the UK, and now it has. The LG Optimus One is great value for money, and Three will give it to you for free if you opt [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab now available from Bell in Canada
About five days later than originally expected, Bell has started selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Canada. Not only did Bell not make their own intended November 12 release, but even today supplies of the Tab are very limited – so if you’re after one, make sure you call your nearest Bell store and ask [...]
AT&T Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 available from Amazon for only $49.99
The Samsung Focus is part of the first batch of Windows Phone 7 devices to hit AT&T (the United States’ “premier” WP7 carrier). It was launched on November 8, the day that WP7 has officially become available in the US. This being a high-end device and all that, the price at which AT&T has been [...]
White Dell Streak is a Best Buy exclusive, now available
Best Buy seems to love exclusivities to white versions of popular smartphones. Last time, it was the Samsung Fascinate and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Today it’s the Dell Streak. Best Buy has begun selling Dell’s half-tablet, half-smartphone device in white. The price is the same $299 that AT&T asks for the black version, and a [...]
Sprint’s LG Optimus S receives a maintenance update that brings Swype along
A firmware update for the LG Optimus S, Sprint’s version of the LG Optimus One, is slowly starting to get pushed to Optimus S owners. This is an update focused mostly on fixing bugs and bringing performance improvements to the phone, and it takes the software to version LS670ZV9. The only key addition in this [...]
Spice Mobile QT-95 is India’s first QWERTY 3G Dual-SIM phone
Spice Mobile has unveiled the QT-95 mobile phone today. As with all of Spice’s models, this is an affordable handset destined for the Indian market. What sets it apart from both its Spice brethren and any of its competitors is that it’s the first 3G dual-SIM phone to have a QWERTY keyboard and be sold [...]
LG Apex has a slide-out QWERTY, runs Android 2.1 and will be on US Cellular on November 19 for $79.99
US Cellular has announced a new phone that is going to join its Android smartphone lineup in a couple of days – the LG Apex. The only thing we’ve heard of this device before was that it would launch in November. And here it is. The Apex has a side-sliding full physical QWERTY keyboard and [...]
Unboxing of the Samsung Focus on AT&T
Windows Phone 7 is now readily available in the United States, and after a hit-and-miss first day of sales it does seem to be picking up speed. On November 8 we saw the release of three different WP7 devices; 2 on AT&T and one on T-Mobile (a third on AT&T, the LG Quantum, came out [...]
Samsung to make more Windows Phone 7 handsets than Android ones next year?
Since Samsung has decided to stop supporting Symbian, it currently concentrates its mobile efforts on three platforms: Android, Windows Phone 7, and Bada OS. And although the company has more Android and Bada smartphones than WP7 ones at the moment, things may not stay like this for long. AsiaOneNews recently talked to Sitthichoke Nopchinabutr, head [...]
Mobiado Classic 712 Stealth is the latest luxury phone in town
Mobiado has announced its umpteenth luxury phone, the Classic 712 Stealth, a handset “inspired by military stealth aircrafts.” The new phone is made out of aluminum and large sapphire crystal plates, and each unit is “assembled using gun-metal black stainless steel screws.” Customers can choose to have their keypad in English, Arabic, or Cyrillic. Feature-wise, [...]
Sprint’s HTC Knight to be called Evo Shift 4G?
Expected to be officially announced on January 6, the rumored HTC Knight / Speedy may be launched by Sprint as a successor to the Evo 4G. According to Engadget, the upcoming smartphone could be called HTC Evo Shift 4G (HTC has already filed for this trademark). The Evo Shift 4G should feature a 3.7 inch [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid X now available at Costco for only $99
One thing’s for sure in the US smartphone space: all carriers seem to have agreed on $199.99 being the price for any high-end device. With very few more expensive exceptions, all top of the line smartphones that have been launched in the last few months have had that price point as their recommended retail price. [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X12 Anzu specifications leak
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X12 Anzu first leaked about a week ago, although that leak only gave us a few hands-on photos, and no hard details about the phone’s specs. Yesterday, we even got a tentative price for it: 650 euros (though it’s unclear whether that price is the recommended one, if it includes taxes, [...]
Video: RIM shows off the PlayBook’s browser against the Apple iPad
Since Apple introduced the iPad, almost all manufacturers that are somehow involved in mobile or computing or both have been scrambling to get into the newly-reinvented tablet market. One of the most important is, of course, RIM, maker of the BlackBerry smartphones. They have announced that they’re working on a tablet called the RIM PlayBook, [...]