Google Nexus S lands in Italy in February, EUR 549
The Samsung-made Google Nexus S, the latest ‘dev phone’ to have the pure, unaltered Google experience on it, is headed to Italy. After having been available in Europe only in the UK since its launch, the Android Gingerbread-powered smartphone will be in stores in Italy next month. The Google Nexus S will cost EUR 549. [...]
Samsung launches new La Fleur collection in Russia: Wave 525 and 723, C3530, E2530 get flowered up
Samsung has launched a new iteration of its La Fleur collection of phones that are targeted towards women. In Russia, the 2011 La Fleur line will feature the Wave 525 and Wave 723, the C3530 and E2530. All of these phones have been already launched in various markets, but sans La Fleur branding. The La [...]
Samsung Wave II with Bada 1.2 comes to South Korea this month
Samsung will launch the Wave II, also known as the SHW-M210S, in South Korea later this month, according to The Chosun Ilbo. The phone has, until now, been sold in Germany. The Wave II, not to be confused with the Samsung Wave 2, is a smartphone powered by Samsung’s own Bada operating system. The Wave [...]
Apple iPad finally arrives in India on January 28
Apple has plans to finally bring the original iPad to India, just when the tech rumor mill is getting more and more filled with news about the upcoming iPad 2. Make of that what you wish, but the iPad is going to become available in India this Friday, on January 28. It will only be [...]
Huawei Ideos with Android 2.2 available now in India (via Aircel)
The Huawei Ideos should have been available in India since December last year, but it’s only now that Indian customers can actually buy it. The new Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone has been released by Aircel, India’s seventh largest mobile carrier, and is available as of today for 8,499 INR (about $186). Aircel’s postpaid customers who [...]
LG Optimus One arriving at Virgin Mobile USA as Optimus V
Already available via most major US mobile carriers, the LG Optimus One will be launched by Virgin Mobile, too. According to Android Central, Virgin’s Optimus One is called LG Optimus V – which does make sense, considering the fact that the smartphone is called Optimus S at Sprint, Optimus T at T-Mobile, Optimus M at [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Xoom won’t have MotoBlur, could land at BestBuy on February 17
MotoBlur may make sense on some of Motorola’s Android smartphones, but would it be useful on a Honeycomb tablet like the Motorola Xoom? No, it wouldn’t. That’s why Motorola has confirmed to IntoMobile that the Xoom would not be launched with MotoBlur – thus it will be a Google Experience tablet with stock Android 3.0 [...]
Nokia MeeGo tablet leaked?
It’s not the first time we’re seeing a MeeGo tablet, but it is the first time a tablet that runs MeeGo shows up with Nokia’s logo on it. Apparently, the photo of the new tablet (seen below) has initially appeared over at bugs.meego.com – which would mean it is an official Nokia device. Unfortunately, there [...]
Samsung Gem SCH-i100 Android phone gets official, Verizon might launch it soon
Samsung USA has officially unveiled a new Android handset called Samsung Gem SCH-i100. We’ve previously seen the device bearing Verizon’s logo, so the carrier will probably launch it sometime soon. Since we’re in 2011, you’d expect the Gem to run Android 2.2, or 2.3. Well, it doesn’t. According to Samsung’s website, the smartphone runs Android [...]
Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G Review
While it is not completely yet clear as to what Sprint’s roadmap looks like over the coming year, I have a feeling there may be several EVO phones included. The EVO Shift 4G is the second device under that name, suggesting Sprint is trying to mimic Verizon’s DROID series. Just like the Droids, I predict [...]
Motorola may not lock bootloaders for the Atrix 4G and future Android phones after all
Yesterday we reported on the answer that a Motorola employee gave a concerned citizen with regard to Motorola’s intentions about locking bootloaders for upcoming Android smartphones. And, needless to say, the image that painted of Motorola wasn’t too good. In case you forgot, here’s the full text of the reply, given in the comments for [...]
Verizon iPhone 4 ad implies that “millions of customers” have waited for the CDMA iPhone
Verizon Wireless has unleashed the first ad that promotes its iPhone 4 – announced on January 11. There’s not much to see in the ad (the iPhone itself doesn’t show up at all), but Verizon wastes no time informing the world that “millions of customers” have waited for this day to come – and it [...]
Live images of the upcoming BlackBerry Curve leak
About a week ago we saw the first leak of the upcoming BlackBerry Curve. Along with details about its specifications came an image that was of the ‘officially rendered’ type. But in the mean time live images of the new Curve have leaked at N4BB, and they say that the codename for this model isn’t Apollo, [...]
Google Nexus S goes to Canada in March
The Samsung-made Google Nexus S is slowly starting to become available in more and more places worldwide. And, since its predecessor, the Nexus One, has been sold in Canada, it was expected that it would too. Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin sat down with a few members of Howard Forums and basically outright stated that they [...]
T-Mobile HTC HD7 now only $99.99 with 2-year contract
Periodic price cuts for Windows Phone 7 devices are nothing new in the US, but this may just be the first one to hit T-Mobile’s highest-end WP7 handset – the HTC HD7. HTC’s Windows Phone 7 flagship, and the only WP7 device to have a 4.3-inch screen (yet) is now available from T-Mobile for just [...]
LG Optimus Me P350 is a low-end Android smartphone
As Mobile World Congress 2011 is fast approaching, leaks of devices that are supposedly going to be announced there are intensifying. Today, LG decided to semi-announce (which is becoming something of a tradition with LG) the Optimus Me (P350) on their Facebook page. ‘Semi-announce’ because only some of the specs are known, and pricing and [...]
HTC Q4 2010 results: 9.1 million smartphones shipped. 163% YoY growth. Live CC coverage
It’s now that fun time we get every three months, called the earnings season. It’s the time when companies start reporting their numbers and we get the idea of how they did during the last 90 days. This month it’s even more fun since they are also reporting the results for all of the 2010. [...]
LG Optimus 2X will be free at Vodafone UK (on contract)
Vodafone will be among the first UK carriers to offer the LG Optimus 2X on contract. We’ve already seen the new smartphone on pre-order at Expansys UK, which initially offered it only SIM-free (for £499). Now the retailer also lets customers choose a Vodafone data plan with the Optimus 2X. The handset is free on [...]
Samsung Star II officially priced (in Germany): €199. Amazon has it for only €113
Earlier this week, when Samsung unveiled the new Star II s5260 touchscreen phone, it didn’t say how much the handset would cost. We’ve heard its price would be around €125, but it looks like Samsung disagrees. The company has just announced that the Star II would cost €199 in Germany. However, like in the case [...]
New HTC Android smartphones leaked
HTC has already announced a few new Android devices this year (like Verizon’s Thunderbolt and AT&T’s Inspire 4G), but more are definitely going to be unveiled soon. Among the company’s upcoming handsets we’ll likely find some of the ones seen below, which have appeared over at PocketNow. The first handset seems to be a next-generation [...]