20 million Samsung smartphones sold in 2010, 60 million to be sold this year
Just yesterday, we were telling you that Samsung hopes to sell more than 50 million smartphones throughout 2011. Well, in fact it wants to sell 60 million. The Korea Times reports that the company has shipped 20 million smartphones in 2010 – which gives it confidence that it will hit the 60 million mark this [...]
LG Optimus 2X on pre-order in the UK, £499.99 unlocked
LG Optimus 2X, the world’s first dual-core Android smartphone, will be available in the UK starting February – at least that’s what Expansys says. The retailer currently lets customers pre-order the Optimus 2X for £499.99 (about €600 or $779). If you order the handset now, you should receive it on February 21. Running Android 2.2 [...]
Optimus Black and 2X to help LG ship 30 million smartphones this year
In case you haven’t noticed yet, LG has three new high-end Android phones: LG Optimus 2X, LG Optimus Black, and Verizon’s LG Revolution. The Optimus 2X is the world’s first dual-core smartphone, the Optimus Black (pictured below) is presented as the world’s thinnest smartphone (only 9.2mm), and the Revolution is LG’s first 4G handset. With [...]
Motorola ordered up to 800,000 Xoom Android tablets for this quarter?
Announced last week at CES 2011, Motorola Xoom is one of the world’s first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets. In the US, it will be available only via Verizon Wireless, so you’re probably wondering if it’s going to be as successful as Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Android Froyo tablet (available via most US carriers and sold in [...]
Sprint drops Samsung Epic 4G price to $199, but Amazon has it for $99
Sprint has announced a change in its pricing of the Samsung Epic 4G, the Android-powered smartphone that represents Sprint’s version of the Galaxy S. If you get the Epic 4G from Sprint with a new 2-year contract, it will only set you back $199.99, compared to the previous price of $249.99. So that’s a nice [...]
Android 2.4 on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was a configuration error
Last week, when Sony Ericsson officially unveiled the new Xperia Arc, the smartphone was running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. We even have proof of that, directly from CES 2011, where the Arc was announced. However, there’s a photo showing the new Xperia running Android 2.4 (see it below). So what’s the deal with that? Well, according [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro’s successor shows up in leaked images
While it looks like its software will never be up-to-date with current Android versions, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro is apparently going to get a hardware refresh by way of a successor device. A couple of pictures of this smartphone have popped up over on a Chinese forum, and they show some nice-looking [...]
Sprint HTC Evo Shift 4G now available, Amazon has it for only $119.99
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the HTC Evo Shift 4G is available via Sprint as of yesterday. When bought directly from Sprint, the Evo Shift 4G costs $149.99 on contract. If you think that’s a high price (it isn’t, but anyway), Amazon has got you covered: it offers the new Evo for only $119.99 [...]
Verizon iPhone to get unlimited data. AT&T says Verizon’s network is too slow for iPhone users
Expected to be officially announced tomorrow, January 11, Verizon Wireless’ iPhone will likely have a huge impact over the US mobile market. Especially since, according to The Wall Street Journal, Verizon wants to offer unlimited data for its iPhone customers – unlike AT&T, which currently sells the iPhone only with plans that provide limited data [...]
Samsung to sell more than 50 million smartphones in 2011, mainly Android and Bada-based
Just like HTC, Samsung has big plans for this year when it comes to smartphone sales. The South Korean company is already a major player in the smartphone market thanks to the Android-based Galaxy S (sold in more than 10 million units around the world as of the end of 2010). In 2011, Samsung hopes [...]
AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G Hands-on at CES 2011
By a large margin, Motorola Mobility stole the show at CES 2011. Though several companies like LG, HTC and Samsung stepped up to the plate and delivered some great new handsets (and tablets), Motorola not only announced several new top-notch handsets but also a tablet in the Motorola Xoom that could quite possibly be the [...]
HTC plans to ship 10 million 4G smartphones this year
HTC has announced three new 4G smartphones last week at CES 2011: Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt (pictured below), AT&T’s HTC Inspire 4G, and Sprint’s HTC Evo Shift 4G. More will surely be unveiled later this year, and that’s why the Taiwanese company hopes to sell more than 10 million 4G smartphones until 2012. Most (if not [...]
AT&T HTC Freestyle Hands-On at CES 2011
With all of the crazy 4G smartphones announced at the AT&T Developer Summit here at CES 2011, there was one smartphone in particular that will hold a large amount of significance for AT&T going forward. And if you blinked during the Developer Summit, you missed it. It’s called the HTC Freestyle, and on the surface [...]
Dell Venue Hands-on at CES 2011
One of the most aloof devices at CES 2011 is the Dell Venue, recently announced — first in Asia, now here in the US at CES 2011. Finding one to ogle over is pretty difficult because the only presence Dell has on the show floor is a dinky little booth that showed only the Streak [...]
Verizon iPhone to be finally announced on January 11 (it’s no iPhone 5)
All those who want to buy a Verizon iPhone will likely be able to do it soon, as the largest North American carrier might announce its own iPhone next week. According to The Wall Street Journal and a source “familiar with the matter”, Verizon and Apple will hold an event on January 11 in New [...]
Android-based ViewSonic ViewPad 4 phone announced
ViewSonic has announced its first phone at CES 2011: the ViewPad 4. The company says the new device is, in fact, a tablet – but since it offers “full cell phone functionality”, runs Android 2.2 Froyo, and has a 4.1 inch WVGA display, it’s pretty much just a smartphone. The ViewSonic ViewPad 4 features Wi-Fi [...]
Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G Preview and Hands-On at CES 2011
Live from CES 2011, I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the HTC crew and chat about mobile phones, our hopes and dreams, and obviously play around with some of the newest phones that were announced at CES this week. One such device I was able to play with was the HTC EVO [...]
LG Optimus Black Gets Hands-On at CES 2011
LG was able to do a great job implementing its mobile product launches at this year’s CES. The Optimus 2X was announced prior to the show as the very first Tegra2 dual-core mobile device, effectively stealing the thunder from NVIDIA and other companies also launching Tegra2 at CES; Wednesday LG launched the Optimus Black; and [...]
AT&T HTC Inspire 4G Hands-On at CES 2011
I was able to do a hands-on of the HTC Inspire 4G. The difference with this one, compared to other hands-on previews I’ve done so far, is this one was not eyes-on. Due to the Inspire and Freestyle not having reached Technical Certification, it’s still considered by AT&T to be in pre-beta and they don’t [...]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 10″ Honeycomb Tablet Shown Off at CES
Wandering around the NVIDIA booth I was delighted to find a 10″ Acer tablet on display: the Iconia Tab A500. At the time I saw it, the NVIDIA rep told me this was just a “prototype” that may or may not end up going to market, and was very vague about it. And yes, it [...]