Motorola Xoom will be available via Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy in the UK, T-Mobile in Europe
Only several days after announcing that it would bring the Xoom to Europe in the second quarter of the year, Motorola has now unveiled more details on the tablet’s European launch. In the UK, the 3G/Wi-Fi Motorola Xoom will be sold by The Carphone House and Best Buy. There will also be a Wi-Fi only [...]
New York Times Says Apple Not Planning on iPhone Nano
This is certainly becoming quite hard to keep track now. We just don’t know who to believe. We first heard last week from Bloomberg that Apple had developed a prototype of a smaller iPhone that’s a third smaller than the current iPhone 4. Then Wall Street Journal came out shortly afterward and confirmed a smaller [...]
Apple Hopes to Squeeze More Battery Life Out of iOS Using Dense Lithium Cells
We like seeing that Apple is looking into ways to get longer battery life in its iOS device lineup, considering it can be absolutely dreadful at times. It becomes a difficult situation to run into because the most popular option of increasing battery capacity is to make the battery itself larger, which Apple doesn’t go [...]
Angry Birds Coming to Windows Phone; 3D Version in the Works
Your favorite lovable vengeance-seeking birds have dominated iOS, Android, Symbian, and WebOS. The two major OS platforms it has yet to reach is Blackberry and Windows Phone 7. While there are no major plans as of this moment to develop for Blackberry, it turns out that Rovio is keeping busy by getting a Windows Phone [...]
Samsung Epic 4G, Sanyo Zio Updating to Froyo Feb 21
We hope you’re ready to get your Froyo on, Sprint lovers: many of you have patiently waited for a Froyo update on the Samsung Epic 4G, looking longingly at the other Samsung Galaxy S kids get Froyo while wondering when it’s going to be your turn. Same with those of you with a Sanyo Zio. [...]
Cheap Nokia X2 QWERTY phone launched by T-Mobile USA
Just as rumored not long ago, T-Mobile USA has launched the Nokia X2. Available to prepay customers for just $79.99, T-Mobile’s X2 is, in fact, the X2-01 – announced by Nokia in November last year as one of the company’s cheapest QWERTY phones. Besides having a full keyboard, the Nokia X2 also features a 2.4 [...]
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt launch delayed until February 28
While AT&T’s Motorola Atrix 4G is set to arrive earlier than expected, Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt just got itself delayed. The HTC Thunderbolt is the Verizon-branded and customized rehash of the international HTC Desire HD, and it was going to arrive in stores on February 24. Not anymore though, since a (presumably reliable in the past) [...]
AT&T HTC Inspire 4G only $59.99 at Amazon
Among all the recently unveiled smartphones that are 4G-branded, AT&T’s HTC Inspire 4G has always been one of the most affordable. Even direct from AT&T, the price for this repackaged HTC Desire HD is just $99.99 with a new two-year contract. That’s still a very good price, especially considering that similarly-specced handsets are usually (literally) [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo to be released by Telstra in Australia
The brand new Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo – announced by SE at MWC 2011 alongside the Xperia Play and Xperia Pro – will be available in Australia before the end of June. Telstra has announced that it would be the exclusive carrier of the new Xperia, but it didn’t say how much the smartphone would [...]
Confirmed: AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G will be available on February 22. Pre-orders ship a day earlier
A few hours ago a leaked memo first alleged that the Motorola Atrix 4G would launch on AT&T early. It was originally supposed to hit the shops on March 6, but the memo claimed that the date had been pushed to February 22. And now we have official confirmation that the above is true, and [...]
HTC Desire S will be available from Amazon UK on April 18 for £419.99
It’s been just two days since HTC has officially announced the Desire S, the successor to the HTC Desire, and already we have a projected release date. While HTC has only said that the smartphone will be in shops sometime in the second quarter of this year, Amazon UK already has a page up for [...]
HTC Desire, Desire HD and Desire Z will get Android Gingerbread after the Desire S hits the shelves
As we’ve already reported, HTC has announced a new Desire smartphone that runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread at MWC 2011: the HTC Desire S. But if you’re one of the many users who own an older Desire, you’re probably wondering when the new version of Android will be available to your handset. Well, Cnet UK has [...]
Enter to Win an AirCurve Play from Griffin Technology
Have a hankerin’ for free stuff? I hope you’ve been tuned into our weekly Facebook Giveaway, because this is — and will continue to be — a great way to get what you’re looking for. Our sponsor this week is Griffin Technology, a company that makes iOS device accessories galore from cases to chargers to [...]
Motorola ATRIX 4G May be Launching Feb 22, 2 Weeks Ahead of Schedule
There’s not a lot of confirmed information here, but a leaked memo to customer care representatives appears to reveal a new updated launch day for the Motorola ATRIX 4G. Even though pre-orders are currently taking place, the anticipated launch date wasn’t supposed to be until March 6, but the memo indicates this has changed and [...]
Sony Working on S1, a 9.4-inch Android Tablet with Honeycomb?
Sony Ericsson, now claiming the honor of being the only major Android OEM that doesn’t have a tablet announced, may actually have something up its sleeve after all. Engadget published an exclusive earlier today that reveals a Android Honeycomb tablet is in the works for Sony Ericsson and is codenamed S1. According to the rumor, [...]
UK: HTC Desire S, ChaCha and Wildfire S headed to Vodafone, Orange and Three
Three of HTC’s new Android smartphones – the Desire S, Wildfire S, and ChaCha – are headed to three mobile operators in the UK: Vodafone, Orange, and Three. And yes, I know I’ve used the word three three times in a (let’s call it) sentence. Only Vodafone UK, which will also launch the Samsung Galaxy [...]
Dell tablet roadmap also leaks, shows four Android and two Windows tablets
The smartphone roadmap for 2011 was not the only Dell-related leak of the day. In fact, this was a pretty bad day for those in charge of corporate secrets over at Dell, since their tablet roadmap for this year and the first quarter of next year has also made it onto the interwebs. In it [...]
Dell smartphone roadmap leaks, powerful new Android and WP7 handsets on the way
Dell has big plans for this year, plans that involve some interesting smartphones, running either Android or Windows Phone 7. And today Dell’s smartphone roadmap for 2011 has leaked, bringing us the first glimpse into what Dell has in store for us. At the beginning of the leaked shot we see the already familiar Venue [...]
T-Mobile will launch two affordable Android smartphones, the Move and the Samsung Galaxy Mini
The recently unveiled Samsung Galaxy Mini has gotten picked up by T-Mobile for the US market, alongside another affordable Android smartphone which will be sold under the name T-Mobile Move. The Samsung Galaxy Mini (pictured below) has a 600 MHz processor, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, about 150 MB of user-accessible internal memory (expandable up to 32 [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 show up on Vodafone UK’s website
The brand new Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 (announced at MWC 2011) are bound to hit the UK, and Vodafone seems to be the first carrier to sell them. Both the Galaxy S II smartphone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet are now featured on Vodafone UK’s website – you can see [...]