Dell Streak now available in Canada from Rogers for $149.99
Just one day after Dell started selling the Rogers version of the Streak directly, sure enough, Rogers has officially announced the 5-inch Android tablet/smartphone. Not only that, but the Dell Streak is already available from the Canadian carrier. And, as expected, you can get the Streak from Rogers with a hefty subsidy if you decide [...]
Dell launches XCD28 and XCD35 Android smartphones in India
Dell just did something weird: it has rebranded two affordable ZTE Android handsets and launched them in India as Dell devices. Said handsets are the ZTE Racer and the ZTE Blade (also know as Orange San Francisco), which are marketed as Dell XCD28 and Dell XCD35, respectively, in India. Of course, it’s not uncommon for [...]
Android has become the No.2 smartphone OS worldwide
Research firm Gartner has published its quarterly analysis of the worldwide mobile phone market. The data available today covers the third quarter of 2010. During this quarter, 417 million mobile phones were sold, a 35% increase from the third quarter of 2009. Smartphone sales grew 96% year-on-year and almost one in five phones sold in [...]
Only 40K Windows Phone 7 handsets sold in the US in the first day?
Windows Phone 7 debuted in the US this Monday (October 8 ) via two major mobile carriers: AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T currently sells the Samsung Fascinate and the HTC 7 Surround, while T-Mobile only sells the HTC HD7 (each of the handsets cost $199 on contract). I can’t know how many WP7 devices Microsoft had [...]
Verizon Motorola Citrus will be available tomorrow for $49.99
It looks like the rumors were true – the Motorola Citrus will be available from Verizon tommorow, November 11. Big Red themselves have confirmed it. It will be waiting for potential customers both online and in Verizon stores, and can be yours for a cool $49.99 (after a $100 mail-in rebate that comes in the [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X12 Anzu with Android Gingerbread to be launched in 2011
Since Sony Ericsson dreams of becoming “the global number one handset provider on the Android platform”, it’s utterly safe to assume that the company’s currently working on at least a few new Android smartphones. One of them seems to be the Sony Ericsson Anzu, recently appeared over at the Unofficial Xperia X10 blog. As you [...]
Motorola Defy and white Samsung Galaxy S now available in the UK from Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse has announced that it’s stocking two new Android-powered phones. One of them is just a regular Samsung Galaxy S with a white back cover and is free on contracts priced at £30 per month or higher. Aside from the different color on the back cover, the white Galaxy S is identical to the [...]
Motoroi X (aka Droid X) will be Mexico’s first Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone
Motorola has announced the launch of the Droid X in Mexico, where it will be called Motoroi X – which makes sense, since the original Motorola Droid (Milestone) is known as Motoroi there. The Motoroi X will be the country’s first smartphone to come with Android 2.2 Froyo. Its features obviously don’t differ from the [...]
Palm Pre 2 will hit the UK SIM-free on November 12
When the Palm Pre 2 was officially announced, the release only named three countries as having the honor of receiving HP’s new smartphone: France, the US and Canada. But rest assured, for it looks like the Pre 2 will definitely be coming to other territories as well. Today HP has confirmed to Pocket-lint that the [...]
Dell now sells the Streak for Rogers
If you’re in Canada, your carrier of choice is Rogers, and you’d like to get your hands on a 5-inch Android tablet/smartphone, good news! Dell is now selling a version of the Streak tailor-made for Rogers. Granted, it isn’t every day in North America that a manufacturer will sell you a mobile device made for [...]
Nokia N8 has received the highest number of pre-orders in the company’s history
Available around the world as of last month, the Nokia N8 (the world’s first Symbian^3 smartphone) will probably become one of the company’s best-selling high-end handsets in the near future. In fact, Nokia has just announced (via Twitter) that the “N8 has received the highest amount of consumer pre-orders” in its history. Sadly, Nokia doesn’t [...]
Verizon intros new Samsung Zeal phone with e-ink keyboard
Samsung Continuum isn’t the only new Samsung handset available at Verizon starting November 11. The Samsung Zeal will be launched that day, too. The Zeal replaces the Samsung Alias 2, and it seems that it doesn’t bring any new features other than a different paint job. The handset has a dual-hinge flip design and comes [...]
3 million Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphones sold in the US
While announcing the new Samsung Continuum for Verizon, Samsung has also unveiled that it sold more than 3 million Galaxy S handsets in the US – where all four major mobile carriers are offering different versions of the device. The news comes one month after the South Korean company announced it has shipped 2 million [...]
Android-ready Opera Mobile 10.1 beta now available
Opera Mobile has kept its promise made last month by releasing, today, Opera Mobile 10.1 for Android. Although it’s still in beta, Opera Mobile 10.1 for Android offers full functionality and comes with lots of features, including: Opera Turbo for “better browsing on slow or congested networks”, Speed Dial, and geolocation support. Opera also promises [...]
Verizon announces the Samsung Continuum, launches Motorola Droid 2 Global Edition
Samsung and Verizon Wireless have officially announced the Continuum Galaxy S (no Nexus Two yet, as expected). The Continuum “is the world’s first smartphone designed with a dedicated ticker display, which provides users with up-to-the-minute news, sports, finance and social networking updates for maximized multitasking.” Both the 1.8 inch ticker display and the 3.4 inch [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now only $99.99 from AT&T
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is currently RIM’s flagship device and the first one to have launched running the new BlackBerry OS 6. Yet its sales in the US are reportedly underwhelming, so much so in fact that they surprised even an AT&T exec. In what probably is a (late) move to address its measly sales, [...]
HTC Desire Z coming soon to Vodafone UK
The HTC Desire Z is already available in the UK unlocked, and soon you’ll also be able to buy it on contract, thanks to Vodafone. Vodafone will offer the Desire Z for free to Business customers who sign a 2-yr agreement and choose a monthly plan of £30 or higher. The Desire Z runs Android [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 2 Global will only arrive in stores on November 29
One of the more interesting devices that Verizon will launch soon has to be the Motorola Droid 2 Global. Sure, it looks like a plain old Droid 2, but that 1.2 GHz processor sounds pretty sweet. As does this smartphone’s ability to pick up a signal pretty much globally – a feat that Verizon customers [...]
Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate will be available from Telus on November 10
We’ve heard before that the Samsung Fascinate, the Galaxy S variation sold in the US by Verizon, was headed to Telus in Canada. Back then, no more details were available other than the fact that Telus will release the Fascinate soon. Today more details have finally emerged, courtesy of a leaked internal memo. The Fascinate is [...]
Nokia E7 to ship starting December 10
Announced at the same time with the C6-01 and the C7, the Nokia E7 is he last of the three new Symbian^3 smartphones to hit the market (both the C6-01 and C7 are currently available – not in all markets, of course). According to Nokia’s official Twitter account, the E7 will start shipping on December [...]