RIM PlayBook with 4G (WiMax) announced for Sprint
Back in December we were telling you that Sprint might launch a 4G / WiMax version of RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook – and it turns out we were right. RIM has just announced that a 4G PlayBook would be available via Sprint “in the summer.” Running the new BlackBerry Tablet OS, the PlayBook features a 7 [...]
HTC Inspire 4G will be on Telus in Canada
The HTC Inspire 4G, this Evo or Desire HD for AT&T that was officially unveiled yesterday, won’t be sold only in the United States, it seems. By HTC’s own admission, the Inspire 4G will be making its way up North and hitting Telus in Canada. An HTC support document that’s already up on HTC’s site [...]
Motorola Atrix and its qHD screen coming to Orange UK, Bell Canada
AT&T isn’t the only carrier that’s going to launch the new Motorola Atrix. Well, it is – if we’re talking about the US only, but we’re not. Motorola has announced that Orange would offer the Atrix in the UK starting the second quarter of the year (April, May, June). In case you don’t know yet, [...]
No CPU requirements for Android 3.0 Honeycomb? Yeah, right…
Google is such a tease, at least as far as Android 3.0 Honeycomb is concerned. Yesterday, a video went out on the Android Developers’ YouTube channel that, well, teased some of the new stuff that will come in Honeycomb. And, at some point after that, Google’s head of Android, Andy Rubin, decided to write a [...]
T-Mobile Motorola Cliq 2 with Android 2.2 officially unveiled
Since the original Motorola Cliq is no longer available at T-Mobile USA, the carrier had to announce a successor to it – and it just did. The successor is, of course, the Motorola Cliq 2, an Android 2.2 smartphone with MotoBlur. Weighing 175 grams (rather heavy, right?), the Moto Cliq 2 comes with a nice-looking, [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc announced, runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread; or is it Android 2.4?
Initially known as Sony Ericsson Anzu, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has been officially announced at CES 2011, where SE presented it as the “most exciting Xperia product yet.” The Arc features a 4.2 inch FWVGA (854 x 480 pixels) multi-touch Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine for delivering “exceptional visual brilliance and a crystal [...]
LG G-Slate for T-Mobile with Android 3.0 Honeycomb gets official (video)
As expected, LG’s first Android tablet has been officially announced at CES 2011: it’s called LG G-Slate and will be available via T-Mobile USA sometime later this year. Like Verizon’s Motorola Xoom, the LG G-Slate runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb – the first version of Android that’s truly optimized for tablets. Details on the features of [...]
Motorola Xoom Hands-On at CES
Greetings from Las Vegas, everyone! This is Brad reporting from CES, as I wander the halls of the massively huge Las Vegas Convention Center. Today was press day, the big day in which all the major announcements are typically made, and I certainly spent a lot of time going back and forth to see as [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid Bionic First Hands-on at CES 2011
Also at the Motorola event, staff members were on hand to give us some play time with the Droid Bionic, the latest in the Verizon Droid series and one of the very first that will feature Verizon’s LTE 4G network. That in and of itself is enough to be impressive, but let’s show off the [...]
Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview teases, leaves us with even more questions
It finally happened. Today we got a first peek at a long rumored Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. And the first preview left me with even more questions about it, then I had before. But let’s start from what we learned. First, we got the stupid rumor about which version of Android Honeycomb is settled. There were [...]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 is one of Verizon’s first 4G Android tablets
Apart from readying the launch of new 4G smartphones (like the HTC Thunderbolt, LG Revolution and Samsung i520), Verizon is also preparing for unveiling its first 4G LTE tablets. One of them has just been announced by Acer – it’s called Acer Iconia Tab A500 and runs the “latest highly intuitive Android OS”, which I [...]
Bell will launch the LG Optimus Chic Android smartphone on January 14
LG has announced and then re-announced the Optimus Chic Android smartphone at the same time as the Optimus One, but for one reason or another, the latter has been launched in dozens of markets worldwide, while the former has only made it to Europe and South Korea thus far. That’s about to change, as the [...]
New Samsung SCH-i520 for Verizon’s 4G network apparently pictured
Since today AT&T announced three new 4G smartpohnes (which aren’t really 4G, they’re HSPA+, but whatever), Verizon may want to do the same thing tomorrow. Two of Verizon’s 4G handsets are almost certainly the HTC Thunderbolt and the LG Revolution. The third one might come from Samsung and might be the SCH-i520 (pictured below). The [...]
AT&T HTC Freestyle non-smartphone shows up unannounced
Aside from the Inspire 4G (which, let’s face it, is just a rehashed Evo 4G/Desire HD), AT&T looks like it’s prepping to launch yet another HTC handset. This though is no smartphone. It is in fact the second ever non-smartphone that HTC has made (the first being the not so well received HTC Smart). Meet [...]
AT&T intros HTC Inspire 4G and dual-core Motorola Atrix 4G
Shortly after unveiling the Samsung Infuse 4G, AT&T has announced two other new Android smartphones at CES 2011: the Motorola Atrix 4G and the HTC Inspire 4G (pictured earlier today next to Verizon’s Thunderbolt). Previously seen as Motorola Olympus, the Atrix 4G packs a dual core processor and 1GB of RAM, this allowing AT&T to [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is the official name of the Anzu, specs reconfirmed, new pics show up
The Sony Ericsson Anzu has leaked a couple of times, but never before did we know anything other than its codename – for Anzu, like Idou, and other similar names used by Sony Ericsson, was clearly just a codename. Today Russian site Gagadget has unearthed the name under which this phone will be selling: Sony [...]
AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G with 4.5 inch display and Android announced
AT&T has just announced its first 4G smartphone, which doesn’t come from HTC, as expected, but from Samsung. Called Samsung Infuse 4G (mode number SGH-i997), the new handset runs Android (2.2 at the moment) and comes with a huge 4.5 inch Super AMOLED display – yup, it’s bigger than the screens of Motorola Droid X [...]
LG Optimus Black with Android (upgradeable to Gingerbread) announced
LG has officially unveiled a new Android smartphone at CES 2011 – the LG Optimus Black (seen earlier today), which promises to offer a “one-of-a-kind user experience unlike anything before.” The Optimus Black measures only 9.2mm, so it’s the world’s thinnest smartphone at the moment, dethroning Apple’s iPhone 4 (which is 9.3mm thin – yeah, [...]
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt 4G in new photos; some specs unveiled
Expected to be announced by Verizon tomorrow at CES 2011, the HTC Thunderbolt 4G has just appeared in a new set of hands-on photos. The folks over at AndroidSpin have managed to spend some time with Verizon’s new 4G smartphone, confirming that it currently runs Android 2.2 with Sense UI. Apparently, other specs and features [...]
Unwired Views 2011: Android #1 or #2? WP7 hit or fail? Nokia WP7/Android? Honeycomb, iPad, WebOS and more
Yesterday, we the Unwired View editors set out to, as best we could, take our chances at predicting what 2011 will hold for the mobile industry. Thus, four separate posts were born, each carrying in itself the weight of one man’s thoughts about the year that has just begun. If you haven’t done so yet, [...]