Sprint’s HTC Knight / Evo Shift 4G shows off its keyboard
We’ve seen the HTC Evo Shift 4G (aka HTC Knight) a couple of times before, but it’s only now that we get to take a look at its sliding QWERTY keyboard, thanks to a photo that showed up over at the Sprint Users Forum. Like in the previously-leaked images, the Evo Shift 4G appears dressed [...]
Dual SIM Gigabyte Gsmart Rola with Android Froyo coming soon
Dual SIM Android handsets are quite rare, and maybe that’s why Gigabyte is readying the launch of one. Called Gsmart Rola, the upcoming dual SIM devices is a mid to entry-level smartphone that features a 3.2 inch WQVGA resistive touchscreen display, Android 2.2 Froyo, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.2MP camera, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, [...]
Dual core LG Star P990 previewed, Nvidia’s Tegra 2 seems awesome
Although LG has still not announced the Star P990, the smartphone has been previewed this week-end – and it looks like it will be one of the best Android devices of next year. According to Engadget, the LG Star feels like the HTC Droid Incredible when held in hand – it’s bigger, though, since it [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab Luxury Edition unveiled, costs almost $1,000
The Samsung Galaxy Tab – sold in more than 1 million units as of last month – now has a luxury version. Unsurprisingly called Samsung Galaxy Tab Luxury Edition, the tablet was unveiled by Samsung at the Millionaire Fair (in Amsterdam). The Luxury Edition is not different from the regular version of the Tab, so [...]
Acer beTouch E140 with Android Froyo gets official in the UK
Acer has officially announced the beTouch E140 – a new Android smartpohne that we first saw several weeks ago. The handset has been announced in the UK, so it will likely be available there soon – apart form being launched in Italy this month (like we’ve previously heard). The beTouch E140 runs Android 2.2 Froyo [...]
HTC plans to ship 60 million smartphones next year
Samsung is not the only Asian phone maker that has big plans for next year. Reportedly, HTC also wants to considerably increase the number of handsets sold throughout 2011. According to DigiTimes, the Taiwanese company will sell a total of 20 million smartphones this year and it “will eventually” ship up to 60 million units [...]
AT&T Samsung Focus Review
When the brand new Windows Phone 7 OS came to play in the US, only 3 phones showed up for the launch party. Arguably, as the mobile history books are written, these could be remembered as the most important phones that ever use the platform; if they are a letdown or failure of any kind, [...]
Samsung Google Nexus S up for pre-order at Carphone Warehouse, £549.99 SIM-free
The Samsung-made Google Nexus S is going to be sold in the UK by Carphone Warehouse, as Google announced back when it unveiled the device. Mere hours after the announcement of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Google Nexus S, we found out that the smartphone would cost £549.99 in the UK, if bought SIM-free and [...]
Best Buy offers free AT&T BlackBerry Torch from tomorrow, free T-Mobile Curve 9300 starting on Sunday
If you thought that offering the iPhone 3GS 8 GB for free today was all that Best Buy had up their smartphone-filled sleeves for this weekend, you would have been very wrong. It turns out that today’s promo was just the start of a three-day event that spans from now until Sunday, and will bring [...]
Exploring Dublin with LG Optimus 7 ScanSearch
LG Optimus 7 and Quantum Windows Phone 7 handsets come with quite a few exclusive apps preinstalled by Korean Vendor. One of the more interesting among them is Augmented Reality/Search app, called ScanSearch. For now, this LG exclusive seems to be the only Augmented Reality app available for Windows Phone 7 OS. ScanSearch takes your position from GPS [...]
Apple iPhone 3GS free at Best Buy, today only
Best Buy has confirmed a rumor that was making the rounds yesterday, that it will offer the Apple iPhone 3GS for free today. So, today only, Apple’s iPhone 3GS 8 GB will cost you a very cool $0, if you choose to get it from Best Buy. You’ll still need to sign a new 2-year [...]
Sprint 4G tablet to be launched next year, might not run Android, might be RIM’s PlayBook
Sprint is offering 4G (WiMax) services for quite a while now, and yet its first tablet – the Samsung Galaxy Tab – is limited to using 3G. However, a 4G tablet will be launched by Sprint soon. According to Forbes, Sprint’s President of Business Markets recently said that their first tablet to support 4G will [...]
LG Optimus One sales top 2 million units. AT&T will launch the smartphone, too (LG Optimus A?)
LG has just announced that it sold over 2 million Optimus One Android smartphones worldwide – less than one month after announcing it shipped 1 million units around the globe. 1.3 million handsets have been sold in the US – where the Optimus One has been picked up by most major carriers and renamed to [...]
Nokia E7 announced by Three UK, will be available in Q1 2011
We already know that the Nokia E7 will hit the UK in January next year, when Expansys should offer it for a hefty £499. But if you want to buy the new Symbian^3 smartphone on contract, Three is one of the UK carriers that will let you do so. The company has just announced it [...]
Huawei Ideos X5 and X6 with Android Froyo officially announced (in Australia)
First seen at the end of October, the Huawei Ideos X5 and Ideos X6 are now official, as Huawei has announced them in Australia. Both smartphones run Android 2.2 Froyo at the moment, but they’ll most likely be updated to Gingerbread after launch – since Gingerbread’s hardware requirements are similar to Froyo’s. The Huawei Ideos [...]
Google Instant for mobile available globally. Gmail for Android updated
Launched last month only in the US, Google Instant for mobile (Android and iPhone) is now available in 40 countries around the world, supporting 28 languages – though Google doesn’t say which ones exactly. You need to have a device running iOS4 or Android 2.2 (or newer) to use it – just go to google.com [...]
Vodafone Google Nexus One gets Android 2.2.1 update
The Google Nexus One smartphones sold in Europe by Vodafone have started receiving a minor software update. This will take them to Android version 2.2.1, up from 2.2 previously. This update is mainly a bug fixing release, as its name implies. If you haven’t already received it, your phone should prompt you that there’s an [...]
Sony Ericsson Zeus Z1 PlayStation Phone gets benchmarked on video
Ah, it’s the Sony Ericsson PlayStation/PSP Zeus/Z1 phone in the news again. This time, the side-sliding gamepad-enhanced Android smartphone stars in a video of a benchmark running on it. Qualcomm’s Neocore app is what’s running here, and the Z1 managed 24.4 fps on average. To put that into perspective, the Samsung Google Nexus S managed [...]
GoldStriker’s iPhone 4 History Edition has a T-Rex tooth in it. Literally
When you buy yourself a luxury phone, you probably don’t expect / want it to contain any teeth, right? Well, this new luxury iPhone 4 has a tooth in it. Called iPhone 4 History Edition, the phone is designed by GoldStriker’s Stuart Hughes – the same man who made that 8 million iPhone earlier this [...]
Confirmed: LG Gets Official, Says it Will Upgrade Optimus Series to Gingerbread
We now have some closure on the LG Optimus Gingerbread issue. First the Optimus lineup wasn’t going to get Gingerbread due to mysteriously unannounced hardware requirements made by Google, then it was plausible because there actually is no requirement (yet). Now, to close the chapter in this book, LG has issued another press release, this [...]