Sprint Samsung Galaxy Tab price to drop to $199.99 on April 3
Starting this Sunday, on April 3, Sprint will make its version of the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab $100 cheaper if you purchase it while also committing to a new two-year service agreement with the carrier. In that arrangement, up until now the Galaxy Tab set you back $299.99. But, from Sunday on, it will only [...]
Samsung Droid Charge and HTC Droid Incredible 2 prices leaked?
Expected to be released by Verizon next month (alongside the SE Xperia Play and HTC Trophy), the Samsung Droid Charge and the HTC Droid Incredible 2 are certainly not going to be cheap. Droid-life claims to have an image that unveils the prices of both upcoming Droids. The Droid Charge should cost $299 – but [...]
Dell Streak 7 will be available in the UK before the end of April for £299
Dell has announced that the Streak 7, its 7-inch tablet powered by Android 2.2 Froyo and running a custom Stage UI software overlay, will become available in the UK before the end of April. Dell will start sales directly through its UK-based online store, and the asking price for the Streak 7 will be £299, including [...]
HTC Desire Android 2.3 Gingerbread update will arrive in the UK in April
UK mobile network operator Three has announced earlier, via Twitter, that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the original HTC Desire will become available for smartphones it sold sometime near the end of April, or perhaps the beginning of May at the latest. Judging by the fact that carriers usually release such updates for their [...]
Google Nexus S i9023 with S-LCD coming to India for 30,400 INR
Samsung has reportedly confirmed that it would launch the Google Nexus S in India sometime soon. We don’t know how soon, but SamsungHub has it that the smartphone – the world’s first to run Android 2.3 – will retail for 30,400 INR (about $683). Moreover, it’s said that the India-bound Nexus S is the i9023 [...]
Android-powered Samsung Gem available tomorrow from US Cellular for $29.99
The Samsung Gem is an Android-powered device that we’ve first heard of all the way back in August of last year. However, Samsung only officially introduced it this January, and thus far it’s only been available from Alltel in the US. That has changed today, though. US Cellular has announced that it will start selling [...]
HTC Pyramid appears in SFR catalog, should be launched in late May
Just yesterday, we saw the HTC Pyramid in some live photos, which confirmed its existence. Now the smartphone has appeared in a SFR catalogue, standing next to other new Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets like the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. SFR is the second-largest French mobile carrier and, [...]
HTC Merge could be launched by Verizon soon
It’s been quite a while since we first saw a Verizon-branded HTC Merge. Since then, the Merge has been announced by Alltel and Cellular South, but there’s still no official word from Verizon regarding it. However, it looks like he largest US carrier might launch the Merge after all, since a VZ Navigator app for [...]
LG Optimus 2X available now in the UK
As expected, the LG Optimus 2X has been launched in the UK, where online retailers Expansys and Clove are offering it starting today. Clove asks £444 for the Optimus 2X, while Expansys wants you to pay £449 for it. Both prices are for an unlocked unit. Expansys also lets you get the new Optimus on [...]
Sprint HTC Arrive Review
The very first Windows Phone 7 device has shown up on Sprint’s website and stores (note how I avoided the obvious pun there?), which Microsoft should consider a huge victory for its overall smartphone market share in the US. Now that WP7 is finally available on CDMA, we should see the floodgates open for multiple [...]
HTC event to take place on April 12, GSM HTC Evo 3D may be unveiled
HTC announced that it would host an event in London, UK, next month, on April 12. While the company doesn’t say what’s going to happen then, the invite for the event may give us a clue. More exactly, the invite’s 3D-ish background suggests that HTC could be getting ready to officially introduce the GSM version [...]
Verizon brings Opera Mini to its feature phones
Verizon has just announced that Opera Mini – one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers – is now available on some of its feature phones, including: Samsung Alias 2, LG enV Touch, LG enV 3, LG enV 2, Casio G’zOne Rock, and Casio G’zOne Ravine. Later this year, Verizon will pre-load Opera Mini as [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play delayed by Vodafone UK, too
Not long after O2 UK announced the delay of Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Vodafone has done the same thing now. The delay at Vodafone is not caused by a software issue (like in O2’s case), but by supply issues. According to VG247, Vodafone sent out this notice to customers who’ve pre-ordered the new Android 2.3 [...]
Elop will get 13M Euro bonus if Nokia/ Microsoft deal is a success
It’s always fun to count other people’s money, isn’t it? Especially those of the high paid CEO’s, leading the companies we love or hate. And none of the mobile industry CEO’s have been under more scrutiny recently, then Nokia’s Stephen Elop after Nokia’s tie-up with Microsoft was announced in February. Wild conspiracy theories about how this is [...]
New Samsung Galaxy S Plus i9001 to come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 1.4GHz CPU?
It looks like Samsung wants to launch yet another version of the original Galaxy S Android smartphone. This time, the new model is called Samsung Galaxy S Plus i9001. According to a LiveJournal page that seems to belong to Samsung Russia, the Galaxy S Plus will be launched with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and a powerful [...]
HTC Incredible S to cost $99.95 on contract at Bell
Expected to be released by Bell in Canada on April 4, the HTC Incredible S will be a bit more expensive on contract than other Android handsets currently in the carrier’s line-up (like the Motorola Atrix, or the HTC Desire Z). MobileSyrup has managed to obtain an image which shows that Bell’s Incredible S will [...]
Sprint starts taking pre-orders for the dual-touchscreen Android-powered Kyocera Echo
Sprint’s Kyocera Echo is the world’s first dual-touchscreen Android smartphone. Whether or not that alone will make it a best-seller is unclear at the moment, but Sprint seems to really be proud of this device. As we found out before, the Echo will become available on April 17. However, if you just can’t wait until [...]
HTC Desire S now available in the UK SIM-free for £409.99
As we’ve heard will happen, the HTC Desire S has become available in the UK in March, earlier than previously expected and only a few days after first being spotted in Europe. Well-known third-party online retailer Expansys seems to have one-upped UK mobile network operators such as Vodafone, that has only started taking pre-orders for the device and [...]
Asus EeePad Transformer prices starting at £379 in the UK, €399 in France
Unveiled back in January at CES 2011 alongside other two new Android Honeycomb tablets, the Asus EeePad Transformer is ready to hit the shelves in the UK, where it will be available starting April 6. Today, Asus has announced the prices of the Transformer for the UK market. The 16GB version will cost £379 (€432), [...]
HTC Pyramid smiles for the camera again, specs reconfirmed
The HTC Pyramid is clearly HTC’s future flagship device, at least internationally, if not in the US as well. It’s basically going to be an Evo 3D sans the 3D. We’ve seen it twice before, first in some renders, then in actual live pictures, and today the guys over at XDA-Developers have received a fresh [...]