Sony Ericsson Xperia Play can be pre-ordered in India
Not long ago, we’ve informed you that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play may be available in India as soon as April. Well, it looks like this is true, as the new smartphone can now be pre-ordered via online retailer Flipkart, which promises to ship the device starting the second week of next month. The retailer [...]
Samsung Infuse 4G passes the FCC, AT&T could launch it soon
Earlier this year, AT&T announced three new 4G (HSPA+) Android smartphones: HTC Inspire, Motorola Atrix, and Samsung Infuse SGH-i997. The Inspire and the Atrix are already available for purchase, but what about the Infuse? Well, the Samsung handset has just passed the FCC’s tests, so it shouldn’t be long until it hits the shelves, too [...]
iPhone 5 may not have NFC. White iPhone 4 re-confirmed for this spring
Until now, we’ve heard quite a few rumors about the upcoming iPhone 5, and one of them refers to the fact that Apple’s new smartphone would have an NFC chip inside. It looks like this is not true, though. According to The Independent (via 9to5Mac), Apple told UK mobile carriers that the new iPhone won’t [...]
HTC: the launch date of Verizon’s Thunderbolt will be announced “soon”
Answering to all those who’ve been wondering when exactly the long-awaited Thunderbolt would be launched, HTC has stated the following: “HTC and Verizon will officially and publicly announce the Thunderbolt launch dates soon.” The statement was made yesterday (March 12) on Facebook, and is the latest official piece of news we have regarding the Thunderbolt. [...]
Verizon Droid Incredible 2 shows up in new photos
The Incredible S that HTC announced last month at MWC 2011 will be released in the US by Verizon. Unsurprisingly, the largest North American carrier will include the new smartphone in the Droid family, naming it HTC Droid Incredible 2 (or Droid Incredible 2 by HTC – same thing). AndroidSpin has some live photos of [...]
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Reaches 10,000 App Milestone
Less than two weeks ago, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace celebrated reaching 9,000 apps. As of tonight, however, a much more widely recognized milestone was reached and the Marketplace now offers 10,000+ apps for download. Though WP7 started off slow (and unsurprisingly so), it appears to be picking up some speed. It took slightly more [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Neo will come with free access to Canal+ in France
Sony Ericsson announced that its new Xperia Arc and Xperia Neo Android smartphones would come pre-installed with a Canal+ application in France. Starting April, both handsets will allow French customers to access Canal+ TV programs for free, directly from the homescreen. Sure enough, there’s already a Canal+ application that’s available in Android Market, and anyone [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play to be released in the UK on March 31
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play can be already pre-ordered in the UK, but there are still a few weeks left until it hit the shelves. We’ve previously said that the new Android smartphone would be available to British customers starting March 28. However, that’s not exactly accurate. Sony Ericsson’s marketing director for UK and Ireland [...]
Wi-Fi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab will be available on April 4 for $399
Remember the elusive Wi-Fi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab? We’ve seen it all the way back in October of last year, and then nothing. It’s like Samsung forgot to release it. And time passed, and many newer Android-based tablets have been announced, almost all of which run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of Android, unlike the [...]
LG Optimus 3D will only arrive in the UK in late May
The LG Optimus 3D is, as the name implies, the world’s first Android-powered smartphone to have an auto-stereoscopic 3D display (that means that it doesn’t require any glasses for viewing), alongside dual 5 MP cameras for 3D recording. Even leaving the 3D aspects aside, this is a high-end device, and one that’s sure to be [...]
Samsung i9003 Galaxy SL will launch in Singapore this Saturday, March 12
The Samsung i9003 Galaxy SL is a slightly modified version of the now-ubiquitous Galaxy S i9000, the Android smartphone that was sold in more than 10 million units last year. The SL has a 4-inch Super Clear LCD screen instead of the i9000′s Super AMOLED. Like the i9000, it has a single-core 1 GHz processor, [...]
Mobile hotspot tethering coming in BlackBerry OS 6.1
Now that even the iPhone got native support for mobile hotspot tethering in iOS 4.3, this is becoming a feature rather taken for granted in today’s advanced smartphones. Android of course pioneered the addition of this feature to the OS itself, with version 2.2, also known as Froyo. And now it looks like RIM wants [...]
Google Nexus S now just $99.99 (with contract) at Best Buy, until March 23
Best Buy has been selling the Samsung-made Google Nexus S since its release back in December. Up until now, you had a choice between purchasing the device without any contract for $529.99, or getting it with a new two-year T-Mobile contract for $199.99 (the usual asking price for any high-end smartphone in the US). Now [...]
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt to be launched on March 17, or 21?
As we’ve anticipated earlier this week, Verizon Wireless launched Apple’s iPad 2 without providing any update on the availability of the HTC Thunderbolt, which is expected to be the carrier’s first 4G LTE smartphone. So when will the Thunderbolt be launched after all? Well, according to BGR, “two independent sources” are saying that the handset [...]
This is what Apple’s iPhone 5 may look like
Like it happens every year (since 2007), rumors about a new Apple iPhone are starting to appear way ahead of the new device’s official announcement. Now, it’s not the first time we’re taking a sneak-peek at what the upcoming iPhone 5 might look like. But this time iDealsChina claims to have “mold engineering drawings for [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II and i708 (with AT&T and Verizon 3G) hit the FCC
The FCC has just approved two interesting Samsung phones, an announced one, and an unannounced one. The announced device is the Galaxy S II i9100 – Samsung’s newest Android flagship smartphone. It was approved to work on the 850 and 1900 MHz WCDMA bands, so it’s compatible with AT&T’s 3G network. Certainly, this doesn’t mean [...]
New Nokia X3 Touch and Type slider leaked?
Until now, Nokia announced only two Touch and Type phones: the C3-01 and the X3-02. Well, a new one seems to be ready to hit the market, as it has just appeared in a leaked photo somewhere in France. The new phone looks like a Nokia C5-03 with a vertical sliding keyboard (standard, not QWERTY). [...]
And the Winner of the Kindle is…
A special thank you to everyone who participated in the Kindle contest, sponsored by Tanga.com! Without all of your support we wouldn’t be able to hold these contests, so please keep entering to win all of our weekly contests in the future. We definitely appreciate the response we received in the Kindle giveaway. But out [...]
Motorola Xoom Getting Flash 10.2 Support Today (Update)
We’ve all become a little grumpy about the Flash-less and LTE-less Motorola Xoom, worried that it would be weeks before we would be able to take advantage of these updates and finally get the true Honeycomb tablet we’ve been really waiting for. We finally got word that today is the special day that Xoom early [...]
Sprint’s Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android smartphone hits the FCC – launching soon?
About one month ago, Sprint announced its very first dual-screen Android handset: the Kyocera Echo (model number M9300). Back then, Sprint said that the Echo would be available “this spring.” While we don’t have an exact launch date for the smartphone yet, it’s worth mentioning that the FCC has just approved it – so Sprint [...]