LG Optimus 2X Gets Hands-on Preview at CES
You may remember hearing about the Optimus 2X, even if it got completely lost in the woodwork once CES officially began and the LG Revolution and Optimus Black were introduced. The Optimus 2X is still highly regarded, since it is going to be one of the first phones that come with a Tegra2 dual-core 1 [...]
Acer liquidmini is a smaller Liquid, will be available in the UK on April 11
Aside from the beTouch E210, Acer has also announced another Android-powered smartphone during this year’s CES: the liquidmini. The Acer liquidmini is a smaller, more rounded version of the original Liquid, and is going to become available in the UK on April 11. Pricing will be announced at a later date, but rest assured that [...]
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt Hands-on Preview at CES 2011
Yesterday Verizon announced 10 different devices that would be launching on its brand new LTE network no later than this summer, and I was able to play with all of the new Verizon LTE smartphones. The HTC Thunderbolt is a solid introduction to the new network, complete with 4.3″ WVGA display, Android 2.2 with new [...]
Rogers Samsung Focus WP7 only $69.99 at Best Buy until February 3
Probably inspired by one (or all) of the countless price-cut promotions that the US-bound Windows Phone 7 devices have seen over the past couple of months, Best Buy has decided to make the Samsung Focus for Rogers cheaper for about a month. So, if you get a Rogers Samsung Focus from Best Buy before February 3 [...]
Acer beTouch E210 is an Android-powered touchscreen QWERTY candybar, will hit the UK on March 11
If you have gotten a bit tired of the onslaught of slab/slate-type full-touchscreen-and-that’s-it devices that have been announced seemingly one per hour at CES 2011 in Las Vegas, the Acer beTouch E210 might be a phone to consider. It does have an interesting (yet not unseen before) form factor, it runs Android (was there any [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia PlayStation phone previewed in China
Although we haven’t seen it at CES 2011 (where the Xperia Arc was showcased), the Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone is coming soon – most probably, it will be officially announced at MWC in February. Until then, Chinese website IT168 has managed to get a good look at the handset and, in consequence, it published a [...]
Unlocked Dell Venue with Android 2.2 coming soon to the US
Apart from officially unveiling the Dell Streak 7 tablet for T-Mobile at CES 2011, Dell has also announced that it would launch the new Venue Android smartphone in the US. It didn’t say when, and neither for what price, but it did mention that the handset will be sold unlocked – so there will be [...]
T-Mobile Dell Streak 7 Hands-on at CES 2011
You ought to admire Dell’s tenacity. Here we are, seeing the computer giant launch a new larger version of the tablet/smartphone hybrid Dell Streak we saw soft-launched on AT&T with rather paltry results. None of the ingredients seemed to work with the original 5-inch option, but with a little tweaking here and there Dell may [...]
Blackberry Playbook Hands-On at CES 2011
Certainly the Blackberry Playbook, the very first venture for the Canadian company out into the tablet world, had some of the most hype going into the CES 2011 show. After all, for a company that has spent the last 2 years stuck in the past, it’s good to see RIM starting to branch out and [...]
LG Revolution Hands-On at CES 2011, Netflix Spotted
I was able to get some good quality time with the LG Revolution, one of 10 wireless devices announced by Verizon at today’s press conference at CES 2011, and found a few goodies. Most of the specs have been made public now, but one that appeared to slip out of the woodwork is the presence [...]
Verizon Samsung 4G LTE Smartphone Hands-On at CES 2011
When I watched the Verizon CES press conference and the Samsung LTE smartphone was announced, I strained my ears to hear exactly what it was called. All I got was “Samsung LTE *mumble mumble*”. I couldn’t understand what was being said, and as it turns out, whatever was said isn’t the actual name of this [...]
Confirmed: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will not get updated to Android 2.2 Froyo
Back in September of last year, a nasty rumor made the rounds, substantiated by a leak of what supposedly was an internal Sony Ericsson update roadmap for its Xperia line of Android smartphones. According to that document, the Xperia X10, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro, as well as the X8, would all be forever [...]
Verizon LG Revolution gets unveiled too
Verizon has just had its CES press conference, where it has introduced everything it felt was important for this beginning of the year. Following the Droid Bionic, the Samsung 4G LTE phone, and the HTC Thunderbolt, it is LG Revolution’s turn. The LG Revolution has amazingly only ever been leaked once, and that happened yesterday. [...]
4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab coming to Verizon
Verizon’s second 4G LTE tablet isn’t a completely new one, like the Motorola Xoom is. It’s an upgraded Samsung Galaxy Tab, which will be launched “by mid 2011” with support for Verizon’s new and speedy network. Other than featuring support for 4G, the new Galaxy Tab is enhanced with a 1.2GHz processor (instead of 1GHz [...]
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt officially announced
The long-rumored HTC Thunderbolt has finally been made official by Verizon today at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. And it’s called Thunderbolt, not Incredible HD as was rumored at many points in the past. This looks like it’s a slightly-rehashed Desire HD for Verizon, just like the Inspire 4G is for AT&T. However, it does [...]
Verizon intros Samsung 4G LTE SCH-i520 Android smartphone
You didn’t though Verizon’s going to launch only one 4G handset (Motorola Droid Bionic) at CES 2011, did you? Meet the Samsung 4G LTE (yeah, that’s exactly its name), a handset that we saw yesterday as the Samsung i520. The 4G LTE smartphone from Samsung runs Android 2.2 Froyo and has a 4.3 inch Super [...]
T-Mobile Dell Streak 7 gets official, supports T-Mobile’s 4G
The Dell Streak 7 has popped up here and there in a couple of leaks before, but today marks its official announcement. The Streak 7 is the first 4G tablet for both Dell and T-Mobile, though do take into account that T-Mobile insists on calling HSPA+ ’4G’. That said, they have announced a plan to [...]
AT&T iPhone 3GS only $49 as of tomorrow. Verizon iPhone launch inevitable?
AT&T has just announced that, starting tomorrow, January 7, it will be selling the iPhone 3GS for only $49 on contract (to both new and upgrade-eligible existing customers). That’s $50 less than the smarptohne’s current price on AT&T ($99). What could this mean? Well, apart from the fact that more customers will afford to get [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Hands-On, Confirmed Not to Have Android 2.4
I just spent some time over with the folks at the Sony booth who were showing off the newly-announced Xperia Arc, the latest in a lineup of okay phones. The Arc certainly has a lot of promise, being 8.9 mm thin and running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, not 2.4 as previously rumored. In looking through each [...]
Huawei Announces Ideos X5 at CES; We have Hands-On
The existence of the Ideos X5 by Huawei has been known for quite some time, but here at CES we were given the opportunity to get some real hands-on time with the device and learn about what’s under the hood. So let’s hop to it! Specs of the Huawei Ideos X5 include: Android 2.2, upgradeable [...]