Luxurious iPhone 4 Amosu Diamond Spider lets you access the “inaccessable”
Wondering what’s the latest luxury iPhone that you can throw your money away on? Well, wonder no more and check out the Amosu iPhone 4 Diamond Spider. This new limited edition iPhone 4 comes “with 846 VVS1 F color diamonds totalizing 5.66 carats” – and you get to choose the diamonds’ colors. Only 10 iPhone [...]
LG’s Optimus One line apparently won’t get Android Gingerbread
The LG Optimus One is currently among the best Android Froyo smartphones that you can get for less than $300 – so it’s no wonder it was sold in more than 1 million units in a record time. But there’s some bad news for those hoping that the handset will receive an update to the [...]
Sprint’s HTC Knight / Evo Shift 4G appears again
A set of new photos of Sprint’s upcoming HTC Knight Android smmartphone has appeared on the Web, confirming that the handset looks a lot like the HTC Evo 4G (although it’s smaller) – that’s why it might be called Evo Shift 4G. Unlike the Evo 4G, the new device has a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Other [...]
Nokia X7 headed to AT&T (new photos show up)
Although Nokia has not confirmed the existence of the X7 yet, the smartphone is real and it’s probably going to be launched soon. Mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin has posted two photos that show an AT&T-branded Nokia X7 – so unless the second largest US carrier cancels the launch in the last minute, the device will certainly [...]
LG Optimus U with Android Froyo arriving at U.S. Cellular next week
The LG Optimus One is slowly but surely conquering the US: it’s currently available – in different versions, under different names – at Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and MetroPCS, and it will also be launched by U.S. Cellular next week. U.S. Cellular’s handset is called LG Optimus U and it will be available starting December 13 [...]
Upcoming iPhone launch impeding Verizon’s phone sales?
Apple’s iPhone is almost certainly going to be launched by Verizon in early 2011, possibly in January. Until then, though, it seems that lots of Verizon customers are holding off on new phone purchases and contract upgrades – according to The Street, this is likely because they’re waiting for the iPhone to arrive. “Upgrades at [...]
BlackBerry 9570 Storm 3 confirmed by Best Buy, still no word on its launch date
The existence of RIM’s BlackBerry 9570 Storm 3 seems to be confirmed now by Best Buy, which lists the unannounced smartphone among other RIM handsets that are already available. Unfortunately, there are still no details regarding the new Storm’s launch date – we’ve even heard that it may have been cancelled (although, of course, we [...]
Rumor: Sony Ericsson PSP phone available in March next year
Although we’ve heard it could be officially unveiled this Thursday (on December 9), the Sony Ericsson PSP phone, aka Sony Ericsson Zeus Z1, may not hit the shelves until March next year. ITProPortal claims to have spoken to someone at Sony Ericsson, who “confirmed” that the PSP phone would be launched in March. It’s said [...]
Apple iPad 2 shipments may start in February
There’s no doubt that Apple will launch a new iPad sometime next year – most likely called iPad 2. We’ve recently heard that the new iPad would feature a retina display, dual cameras and 3-axys gyroscope, and it might be available in April 2011. Now DigiTimes is reporting that Foxconn – the Taiwanese company that [...]
T-Mobile Motorola Defy Review
From budget to high-end, Android devices are beginning to dominate the mobile market in a big way. It’s almost impossible to walk around town without bumping into somebody who’s peering deep into their Android, blissfully unaware of life happening around them. Because of the absolute market saturation of Android, it’s very easy to not be [...]
Google Nexus S to feature Super Clear LCD in Russia (and likely in other countries, too)
Yesterday, when Google officially announced the new Nexus S with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, it only unveiled the smartphone’s launch dates for the US and the UK. However, the Nexus S will certainly be available in other markets, although not this year. For example, Samsung Russia says the Nexus S will be available to Russian customers [...]
Dual-core LG Star to be launched in Korea soon (no Google branding)
LG Star, which seems to be LG’s first dual core Android smartphone, might be launched in South Korea first. According to Cetizen, the Star will be available via SK Telecom (Korea’s largest mobile carrier) sometime soon – although it’s not clear if this means before the end of this year, or in 2011. Although it [...]
Here’s What Copy and Paste Will Be Like on Windows Phone 7
If you’re following the latest news in the Windows Phone 7 launch, chances are you have been told that copy and paste was not included in the original release but will be the main feature in a new update coming in early 2011, possibly as early as January. Up until yesterday, it was still a [...]
Nokia E7 coming to Canada (Rogers) this spring?
Nokia’s newest Eseries flagship, the E7, might be released in Canada in spring 2011. More exactly, Mobyle Syrup has it that the Nokia E7 is bound to hit the shelves in “early spring” – so Canadian customers could be able to buy it as soon as March next year. It’s said that Rogers will be [...]
Android 3.0 Honeycomb Previewed on Mysterious Motorola Tablet
Andy Rubin just wrapped up at the All Things D conference, and proceeded to blow our minds with something completely unexpected: a mysterious new tablet made by Motorola that so happens to be running Android 3.0, which is commonly referred to as Honeycomb. Certainly there are a lot of features in Honeycomb that are still [...]
Google Maps 5 Coming to Android Very Soon, Runs 3D Graphics and Offline Cache
Andy Rubin, mastermind of Android and VP Engineering at Google, just had a very enlightening sitdown interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at All Things D and did not disappoint at all. Rubin snuck in a prototype tablet made by Motorola that runs Honeycomb, presumed to be Android 3.0 and is set to be [...]
LG Cookie T310i comes with Wi-Fi (unlike the original T310)
LG has recently launched a new version of its T310 Wink touchscreen phone: the LG T310i. The only difference between the two models is that the T310i features Wi-Fi, while the T310 doesn’t. The new phone also has a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, Cartoon UI, quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity, 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, FM [...]
3D Android smartphone from HTC arriving next year?
HTC could be the first in the world to launch an Android smartphone with a 3D display – sometime next year. Techradar is quoting anonymous HTC insiders who “claim that we might see a 3D Android superphone before the end of 2011.” It’s said that the Taiwanese handset maker is already looking for engineers familiar [...]
Consumer Reports survey shows AT&T is the worst carrier in the US
Consumer Reports has conducted an online survey among 58,000 readers to rate the US carriers. According to the survey’s results, AT&T is not only the lowest-scoring carrier, but also the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction. Over half of the respondents who have AT&T as their carrier are using iPhones, and they were [...]
Samsung Google Nexus S UK pricing revealed, Android 2.3 user manual now available
Today in the mobile world is, for all accounts and purposes, Nexus S and Android 2.3 Gingerbread day. Now that the official announcements have been made, the small details are starting to become available. A short while after the Nexus S was unveiled, its pricing for the US market was made public, and you can [...]