Asus E600 with Windows Phone 7 caught on video
Asus E600, the company’s first Windows Phone 7 handset, has just been caught on video somewhere in Vietnam. The E600 doesn’t seem to be too different from other keyboardless WP7 smartphones that are currently on the market. It has a 5MP camera with LED flash, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a WVGA display that’s probably [...]
New Samsung Galaxy S2 pretty much confirmed for MWC 2011
Samsung has officially confirmed that it’s getting ready to announce a next-generation Galaxy S Android smartphone at MWC 2011. The Samsung Unpacked website is now informing us that “something big is coming” on February 13 in Barcelona. There’s a photo of the old Galaxy S on the left, and a mysterious device – which represents [...]
HTC Thunderbolt ready for Verizon employee training?
Earlier this month, during CES 2011, when Verizon announced the HTC Thunderbolt (alongside the LG Revolution and Samsung 4G LTE), it didn’t say when we should expect to see the smartphone in stores. Well, actually it did say “soon”, but that doesn’t mean much. While we’re waiting for more official details to be unveiled, AndroidCentral [...]
Verizon LG Ally Upgrades to Android 2.2 Froyo
For every 20 times we bag on Android device manufacturers for taking forever to upgrade to the next version, there’s 1 time that they actually come through by providing us with that firmware upgrade. This is the one time out of the twenty, as Verizon has now announced the LG Ally is ready to receive the Android 2.2 [...]
Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000 Android 2.2.1 update now rolling out
While there’s been absolutely no sign of Android 2.3 Gingerbread on the Samsung Galaxy S yet (even if Samsung has somewhat confirmed that it is on the way), Samsung has decided to update the international version of the Galaxy S, the GT-i9000, to Android 2.2.1. This is still Froyo, and, as its name implies, Android [...]
Akai Trio triple-SIM launches in India, yours for Rs.3295
Triple-SIM phones are a rare occurrence, much more so than their dual-SIM brethren. But leave it to the country that has put dual-SIM phones (back) on the map, India, to also get its share of triple-SIM devices. Today’s contender comes from Akai, and is the Trio. Obviously named after its most important feature, the Trio [...]
Samsung Chat 350 unveiled, it’s like a Champ 3300 with QWERTY
Samsung will announce a new QWERTY phone pretty soon – the Chat 350 (model number C3500). The Chat 350 is the third Samsung phone included in the Chat series (or Ch@t, how the company spells it). It can be seen as a QWERTY version of the cheap Samsung Champ 3300: it doesn’t look too different [...]
HP to launch two Palm WebOS tablets this year, one of them will be out in September
HP is hosting an event on February 9, and basically the entire world already knows that they’re going to announce something tablet-related, Palm-related, and WebOS-related. But until today no one knew any hard details about what’s going to be unveiled. Everyone assumed that there will be at least one HP Palm WebOS-based tablet, but it [...]
LG Optimus 2X to hit Australia in a few months
Expected to be launched in Europe this month, the LG Optimus 2X will also be released in Australia, although a bit later. Gizmodo Australia has talked with an LG official, who said that the Optimus 2X would be available to Australian customers starting March or April. Reportedly, it’s likely that the Optimus 2X will be [...]
Bell will bring the Nokia C6-01 to Canada. LG Optimus Chic already out (free on contract)
The Nokia C6-01 is reportedly headed to Canada, where Bell intends to launch it sometime in March (for an unknown price). The C6-01 is one of Nokia’s latest Symbian touchscreen smartpohnes, coming with a 3.2 inch AMOLED ClearBlack display, HSPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, Ovi Maps (free navigation included), 8MP camera with LED flash, HD [...]
T-Mobile Dell Streak 7 may launch on February 2
The Dell Streak 7 will be the first ’4G’ (read:HSPA+) tablet that T-Mobile will release. That much is clear from their promo materials. The Streak 7 was announced during CES, and back then we found out all its specs, but not its release date. Now a leaked T-Mobile document apparently shows that the date will [...]
T-Mobile to launch the Samsung Vibrant 4G on February 23
The Samsung Vibrant 4G, of which we first heard about last week, might become available at T-Mobile USA starting next month. According to TmoNews, the fourth largest US mobile carrier plans to launch the new Vibrant on February 23. The Vibrant 4G looks like the original Vibrant, but it comes with Android 2.2, a front-facing [...]
Affordable Samsung Star II S5260 officially announced
Samsung has officially unveiled its second-generation Star phone, called Samsung Star II S5260 (we knew this was going to happen at some point). Like the first Star, sold in more than 30 million units worldwide, the Star II is not a smartphone and uses Samsung’s TouchWiz UI (version 3.0). According to Samsung, the new handset [...]
India: Nokia X3-02 and C5-03 to be launched this quarter. C6-01 may not be released this month
Initially slated for a mid-November (2010) launch, the Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type is still not available in India, so there are probably many customers wondering when they will be able to buy it. Well, Nokia doesn’t provide an exact launch date, but it says (via Twitter) that the X3-02 will be available “in the [...]
Google Nexus S to be available in South Korea in February
The Samsung-made Google Nexus S is about to be launched in Samsung’s home country. So far, the Nexus S has only been available in the US, through Best Buy, and the UK, through Carphone Warehouse. However, starting in February, the second ever ‘pure Google’ phone (after the Nexus One) will start to be sold in [...]
AT&T Nokia X7 canceled, might still sell elsewhere
Remember the oft-leaked Nokia X7, that was supposedly going to be sold by AT&T starting this month? Well, according to two separate reports, the Symbian-powered smartphone will not be hitting US shores anymore. So who canceled it, AT&T or Nokia? According to PocketNow, it was the former. According to TheNokiaBlog, the latter. But, regardless of [...]
T-Mobile G-Slate sign-up page goes live
T-Mobile USA has still not announced when its LG G-Slate Android tablet would become available, but you may be happy to find out that the carrier has just launched a sign-up page for the upcoming device. The webpage, where you can sign-up to receive further information, is accessible here. Unfortunately, it doesn’t tell us much, [...]
Sprint EVO 4G Drops to $99 on Amazon
If you have been looking at getting a new phone on Sprint, now is probably the best time to do it. The price of the HTC EVO 4G on Amazon, possibly in reaction to the brand new Shift 4G, has dropped from $199 all the way down to $99.99. This is definitely a great deal, [...]
Nokia C2-01 and C1-01 will be launched by Orange UK
Orange is getting ready to bring two new Nokia phones to the UK, both affordable and both bound to be available only to Pay As You Go customers. The first phone is the Nokia C2-01, a candybar announced back in November as Nokia’s cheapest 3G handset. It comes with a 2 inch QVGA display, Bluetooth [...]
Unboxing the Samsung Nexus S
It’s not the Nexus Two. It could just be that Samsung wanted to go along the lines of its current Galaxy S series, as evidenced by how eerily similar the Nexus S was designed to that of the rest of the Galaxy S power team. It could also just be Google signifying that this was [...]