T-Mobile announces new plans and tethering, to become available on November 14
T-Mobile has just unveiled two new special promotional plans, just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Even More Individual plan gets you 1,500 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited Web for $79.99/month. Even More Family doubles the minutes, and keeps the unlimited texts and Web, for $149.99/month. Also introduced were T-Mobile’s new data plans. [...]
Sprint HTC Evo 4G update may address camera bug
An over-the-air update for Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G is being rolled out. If you’re an Evo 4G owner, your phone should notify you that there’s an update available. Once you’ve installed the update, your Evo 4G will be on version 3.30.651.3. Although Sprint hasn’t issued an official change log, this update reportedly fixes a bug [...]
Android 2.2 Froyo update for Virgin Mobile’s HTC Desire now available
A long, long time has passed since the Android 2.2 Froyo update has made it onto unlocked, SIM-free, sans carrier branding HTC Desire smartphones. A long time even passed since most carriers have issued the update for the HTC Desire handsets they’ve sold. But only now do Virgin Mobile’s HTC Desire phones finally start to [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab price in the UK drops to £479
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been available in the UK from the beginning of this month, and the price almost all retail outlets seemed to settle upon for an unlocked and SIM-free Tab was £529.99. Not anymore though, for Dixons is now selling the Android-powered tablet for only £479, and that includes free shipping. Amazon [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9780 finally available at Bell
Today, Bell has finally launched the BlackBerry Bold 9780 in Canada, after the smartphone’s been delayed several times. Bell offers RIM’s new handset (which, of course, runs BlackBerry OS 6) for $124.95 with the signing of a 3-yr contract agreement. Sure enough, the handset is also available free of contract, for $499.95. You can buy [...]
Palm Pre 2 gets priced in the UK, won’t be sold by any operator
As we’ve heard before, the Palm Pre 2 is about to be launched in the UK. HP’s first WebOs 2.0-powered smartphone won’t, however, be offered by any UK operator, at least at first. Orange, Vodafone and O2 have all told Pocket-lint that they have no plans for offering the Pre 2 – which is especially [...]
Samsung’s Android Gingerbread flagship smartphone leaked (it’s not the Nexus S)
Apart from making the Nexus S for Google, Samsung should also make a high-end Android Gingerbread smartphone of its own, right? Well, it turns out that such a smartphone already exists. And although it doesn’t have a name yet, details about it have been unveiled by Engadget. Expected to be released in February 2011, the [...]
Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type available in the UK (via O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile)
Announced in September as the second S40 Touch and Type phone (after the Nokia X3-02), the Nokia C3-01 is now available for purchase in the UK. The handset can be bought both on Pay As You Go (for £149.00 – about $240) and on pay monthly. T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2 are all offering the C3-01 [...]
HTC 7 Surround, LG Quantum and other AT&T phones are only $0.01 on Amazon ’till Monday
If you’re in need of a new phone and a new 2-yr contract agreement with AT&T, check out Amazon’s current promotion. The retailer offers almost any AT&T handset for only $0.01 until Monday (November 15). I say “almost” because, for example, the Samsung Focus isn’t included in the promotion. However, AT&T’s other two Windows Phone [...]
Samsung Google Nexus S specs leak, T-Mobile confirmed as US carrier
Clearly, today is Samsung Google Nexus S day, at least in terms of leaks. After Best Buy confirmed its existence on its website, some hands-on pictures have showed up, along with the model number the smartphone will have: GT-i9020. And now it’s time for another leak originating at Best Buy. Yet this time it’s a [...]
LG GT540 Optimus gets upgraded to Android 2.1
Owners of the LG Optimus GT540 are in for a nice surprise, as LG has released an update to Android 2.1 for this phone. It’s amazing that, with Android 2.2 having already been available for many months, manufacturers are still releasing updates to 2.1, but perhaps any update will do for those stuck on Android [...]
Samsung GT-i9020 Google Nexus S hands-on pictures leak
Just a few hours ago, Best Buy inadvertently confirmed the existence of a Google Nexus S made by Samsung. The leak on Best Buy’s site was quickly followed by a render of the phone in Best Buy’s In Store web-based flier. Before that story had the time to go cold, hands-on pictures have leaked. So [...]
New, cheaper BlackBerry slider in the making?
Perhaps unhappy with how sales of the Torch 9800 are going, RIM now reportedly wants to launch a new BlackBerry slider that should be smaller and cheaper than the first one. BBleaks has it that the new slider smartphone will be “entry-level” – this means carriers could offer it for under $100 on contract. Of [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab now available from Verizon, may hit AT&T on November 21
Verizon has started selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab, just as expected. It’s available online and in stores and costs $599.99. Verizon has chosen not to subsidize the Galaxy Tab at all, a decision which will surely cost them a lot of sales – especially seeing as how the same tablet can be yours for $399 [...]
Samsung-made Google Nexus S apparently confirmed by Best Buy
Although Samsung has reportedly denied making the next Nexus smartphone for Google, lots of sources suggest the device is real and will be officially unveiled soon – or maybe not that soon, due to rumored hardware issues. The latest evidence supporting the existence of a new Nexus comes from Best Buy, which has mistakenly published [...]
Dell Opus One dual-core Android tablet in the making?
While Dell is busy launching the Streak around the world, the company is also working on new Android tablets. We’ve already heard about a 7-inch tablet that may be out before the year’s end. Now a new rumored has surfaced, claiming that Dell talked about an upcoming Opus One 5-inch tablet during a private presentation. [...]
HTC Merge to be Verizon’s first LTE handset, Incredible HD coming in early 2011?
Although Verizon will probably announce and launch some new Android smartphones later today (as we’ve previously heard), the HTC Merge might not be among them. According to a store manager at Verizon (check out all his tweets here), the Merge – pictured below – should be the carrier’s first LTE handset, and it may have [...]
Cheap T-Mobile Vibe E200 QWERTY phone available in the UK
T-Mobile has launched a new QWERTY phone in the UK: the T-Mobile Vibe E200. Manufactured by ZTE (which makes handsets for lots of companies these days), the Vibe is offered only on Pay As You Go and is really cheap: £39.99 (about €47 or $65). The new phone features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, [...]
Motorola Cliq and Motorola Backflip finally get updated to Android 2.1
They’ve certainly been a long time coming, but Android 2.1 updates for two of Motorola’s less-loved (by their maker, not by consumers) smartphones have finally arrived. 1000 Motorola Backflip owners that had signed up via Motorola’s support forums already got the update, but now it’s available for everyone. The update is waiting for you on [...]
LG Optimus One headed to India, Orange UK
The LG Optimus One will be available in India soon – where Dell has just launched two new Android handsets that aren’t really Dell’s. According to AndroidOS.in, Indian customers will be able to buy the Optimus One starting “mid-November”, thus sometime next week. The smartphone, which runs Android 2.2 Froyo and comes with mid-end features, [...]