Unboxing the Moto Droid Pro on Verizon
There’s a lot of buzz circling the upcoming release of the Motorola Droid Pro, the latest in the Droid series for Verizon Wireless. Currently available for pre-order, the Droid Pro will officially be hitting store shelves on November 18. Today it’s our pleasure to unbox the Droid Pro and find out what’s inside and what [...]
Panasonic Android phones to be available starting early 2011
It’s not the first time we’re hearing about Panasonic pondering the launch of Android phones, but now we’ve got some clearer dates for when this will happen. Reuters has it that the first Android handsets made by Panasonic will be released in Japan, sometime early next year. Starting 2012, the company will also introduce Android [...]
LG’s dual core Android smartphone with Nvidia Tegra 2 chip pictured?
Remember how LG said it would launch dual-core smartphones based on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform? Well, apparently one of them has been let loose on the web today. According to Engadget, the handset (codenamed LG Star at the moment) should be out in early 2011. Reportedly, this will be the world’s first dual-core Android smartphone. [...]
Google Maps 4.7 and Google Shopper 1.3 for Android out now
Google may be buys with the upcoming launch of Android Gingerbread 2.3, but it still finds time to update and enhance its services. For example, Google Maps for Android has now reached version 4.7 (about two weeks after version 4.6 was released). The new version of Maps for Android comes with Hotpot, Google’s latest “local [...]
LG sells more than 1 million Optimus One Android smartphones
Samsung isn’t the only South Korean hardware maker that sells millions of smartphones. LG has just announced that the affordable Optimus One – launched worldwide last month – has been sold in more than 1 million units until now (40 days after launch). I don’t remember LG selling over 1 million units of a single [...]
Nexus S showed off by Google CEO. Android Gingerbread to arrive in the coming weeks
Although it’s still unannounced, the Google Nexus S is not only real, but it’s also really, really close to being launched. Just yesterday, Google’s CEO – Eric Schmidt – showed off the smartphone during the Web 2.0 summit in New York. The Nexus S was running on T-Mobile (so T-Mo should be one of the [...]
Samsung Wave 723 launched in Germany, kind of expensive (€349)
When Samsung announced the Wave 723, it said the smartphone – its fourth based on Bada OS – would be available in Germany starting September. However, that didn’t happen, and it’s only now that the Wave 723 can be purchased in Deutschland. The handset doesn’t cost €250, as initially rumored. At least not in Germany, [...]
LG Quantum Windows Phone 7 device now available from AT&T
AT&T had three smartphones in its initial lineup of Windows Phone 7 devices – the Samsung Focus, HTC Surround and LG Quantum. However, the LG was the only one that didn’t become available on WP7 launch day in the US (November 8). In the mean time, the LG Quantum showed up at Amazon in a [...]
New Samsung-made Giorgio Armani phone looks a lot like AT&T’s Captivate Galaxy S, costs way more
Samsung is preparing the release of yet another phone that carries the Giorgio Armani brand front and center. For the first time ever though, this will be a smartphone. An Android-powered smartphone, to be precise. You’d then assume that this is something entirely new and exciting, hardware-wise. And you’d be wrong. This, it turns out, [...]
Verizon’s first Windows Phone 7 device might be the HTC Trophy
Already available in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the HTC 7 Trophy is reportedly making its way to the US, too (where AT&T and T-Mobile are selling Windows Phone 7 devices since November 8). Engadget has managed to obtain a brochure which informs “Microsoft employees” that they can buy the HTC Trophy for $199.99 (on [...]
Android 2.2 Froyo update is out for Vodafone’s and Virgin’s HTC Legend
HTC has been ignoring the Legend, in terms of keeping its software up-to-date, for quite a while (at least compared to the Desire), but earlier this month they promised they would have an update to Android 2.2 soon. Naturally, everyone expected this update to become available for unlocked, sans carrier branding Legends first, as always [...]
LG Versace Unique to be launched in India for almost $10,000
Remember the Versace Unique, the luxury phone made in collaboration with LG and ModeLabs and announced back in May this year? The handset will be launched in India soon, where, according to CellPassion, it will cost a little fortune: 450,000 INR – meaning almost $10,000 ($9,964 to be exact). The Unique is Versace’s first phone [...]
Dell Streak Android 2.2 Froyo update has started rolling out
Dell has announced that the update to Android 2.2 Froyo for its Streak tablet/smartphone has started rolling out for owners of unlocked devices. The update is over-the-air, meaning that if you have an unlocked Streak, it should notify you to download and install it. If you’re impatient, you can also manually check by going to [...]
LG Vortex and LG Cosmos Touch launched by Verizon
Verizon has officially announced two new phones today – the Android-powered LG Vortex and the low-end LG Cosmos Touch featurephone. We’ve seen the LG Vortex before, last time in a comparison chart, and now Big Red has decided it was time to launch it. As we found out from that chart, the features put the [...]
7 inch Google Motopad to be the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet?
Here’s a very interesting rumor coming – as many other rumors – from Mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin: the first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet will be launched by Google in collaboration with Motorola, and it will be called Motopad. Unfortunately, details about the Motopad are scarce, but it’s said that it will have a 7 inch display [...]
Nokia E7 to be available in India in January 2011
Although Nokia said the E7 would ship starting December, the new Symbian^3 smartphone won’t actually be available in all markets next month. Nokia India has just tweeted that Indian customers should expect to find the E7 in stores starting January next year. No word yet on the handset’s price in India, but it should be [...]
More on Sony Ericsson’s H1 2011 plans; Xperia X12 to cost €650
Last week, when reporting about the unofficial unveiling of the Xperia X12 Anzu, we’ve also talked about some of Sony Ericsson’s plans for the first half of 2011 – including the fact that the company wants to release refreshed X10 Mini and Vivaz models running Android. Now we’ve got more info on what SE wants [...]
Samsung Galaxy S 2 i9100 seemingly confirmed by Eldar Murtazin
There’s no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S i9000 is one of the most successful Android smartphones of this year, being sold in more than 7 million units worldwide (3 million units only in the US). This being said, no one should be surprised if Samsung plans to launch a successor to the Galaxy S. [...]
Google teases with Android Gingerbread 2.3 again, still no word on a launch date
It’s been three weeks now since Google let the world know about the imminent release of Android Gingerbread – and yet the big G has still not announced an exact launch date for the new version of its OS. However, less than 24 hours ago, Google tweeted that “our cafes are baking something sweet”, showing [...]
Affordable Cricket TXTM8 3G messaging phone launched in the US
Cricket TXTM8 3G A410, a phone first seen in a leaked Cricket roadmap back in March, is now available for purchase via the regional US carrier. The TXTM8 3G is Cricket’s first device “with high-speed EVDO capabilities” priced at under $100 – not well under $100, of course, since it costs $99.99. The new phone [...]