Altek’s 14MP Android phone to be available this month
Taiwan-based Altek (best known for making digital cameras) is getting ready to launch its first Android smartphone: the A14 Leo. What’s noteworthy about the Altek A14 Leo is that it has a 14MP autofocus camera with Xenon flash and 3x optical zoom – it’s the first Android handset with such a camera. The Leo also [...]
Samsung Factor is a cheap low-end clamshell now available at Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile has added a new, unassuming featurephone to its lineup. The Samsung Factor is a cheap clamshell, certainly not meant to be bought and used by smartphone fans. No, this is for those who either don’t get what this whole smartphone craze is about, or simply can’t afford the price premiums they’d need to [...]
Nokia C6-01 to cost $279.95 at Bell (off contract)
As rumored back in January, Bell will release the Nokia C6-01 in Canada. When exactly will it do it? Well, it looks like March 30 is the launch date. Besides that, we’ve got some info on the price of Bell’s C6-01. According to Mobile Syrup, the Canadian carrier will offer the smartphone for only $279.95 [...]
Green Nokia N8 only $329.99 sans contract at Dell, until March 14
In the world of smartphone sales, there are deals, good deals, and then there are great deals. For Nokia products in the US, Dell is usually the retailer to have the latter, and it’s done it once again, this time for the N8. You can get a Nokia N8 in the US, from Dell, for [...]
HTC Thunderbolt promo app available in Android Market
While we’re sorry to report that the launch date of Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt has still not been unveiled, we’re more than happy to inform you that an official Thunderbolt promo application has been released via Android Market today. This may mean we’re very close to seeing the new LTE Android handset hitting the shelves (maybe [...]
iPad 2 launch details revealed by Verzion, AT&T
Tomorrow, March 11, is a big day for Apple, as the company will launch its second iOS tablet – the iPad 2, which comes with a dual-core processor, a thinner design, dual cameras, and so on. Verizon and AT&T will offer the new iPad in the US, and both carriers have just announced more details [...]
What Happened to MobileMe Last Week?
Last week’s Apple event announced the upcoming iPad 2, which was no surprise to anyone. Apple refreshes their devices once a year, and enough leaks and rumors were aired to indicate the next iPad was inevitable sometime in March or April. When the press invite came for the March 2 event, an iPad was clearly [...]
This Week: Enter to Win MacX DVD Ripper, Worth $50
For our contest this week, our friends at MacX DVD are giving away 100 COPIES of MacX DVD Ripper Pro: 50 copies for Mac and 50 copies for Windows. The crazy thing is, this software normally costs $34.95 on a special limited time offer (regularly $49.95)! And there’s only 2 days left to enter, so [...]
White iPhone 4 to be finally released next month?
Now that Apple announced it would ship a white version of the iPad 2 starting March 11 (tomorrow), maybe it’s time for the white iPhone 4 to be finally released, right? According to Apple Insider and Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s hardware partners are ready to start producing white iPhone 4 units this month. [...]
Verizon Samsung Stealth LTE Phone Gets Pictured, Coming Mid-April
When we were introduced to the full lineup of Verizon’s LTE 4G phones at CES in January, the HTC Thunderbolt, LG Revolution and Droid Bionic received all of the attention and hype, even though there were technically 4 LTE handsets announced. There was one LTE phone made by Samsung that got shown off but was [...]
Windows Phone 7 NoDo Update Pushed Back to End of March
Ready for a shocker? The NoDo update for Windows Phone 7, which is hugely anticipated by users of the OS because it will add copy/paste functionality, has been pushed back again. Originally in the plans to be released as early as January, it was pushed back to the first 2 weeks of March, and now [...]
Samsung Galaxy S, I5500 and I5800 to Get Updates in Romania by End of Month
It’s been confirmed by Samsung Romania’s Facebook page that two separate Android updates will be coming to three of its Galaxy phones by the end of March: the Galaxy S, I5500 Galaxy Europa and I5800 Galaxy Apollo. According to the post, the Galaxy S will first receive the 2.2.1 update by March 20 and 2.3, [...]
Announcing the Finalists For the Kindle, Courtesy of Tanga!
Thank you so much for your patience as we have pored through the hundreds and hundreds of entries sent in for last week’s Kindle contest. With over 600 entries, the Kindle contest has definitely been our most popular giveaway so far, and we definitely would like to thank our sponsor Tanga.com for putting it on. [...]
New flyer says Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt is available “now.” Of course, that’s not true
Judging by this new flyer – which seemingly comes from a Verizon authorized dealer – the HTC Thunderbolt should be available right now in some stores. Sure enough, the truth is that the LTE Android smartphone is not launched yet, and Verizon hasn’t even unveiled an exact release date for it. So what’s the deal [...]
Verizon Palm Pre 2 now free on contract
Although the HP Pre 3 has been announced recently, Verizon has only gotten around to starting selling the Palm Pre 2 in the second half of last month. Having the newer model announced while trying to sell the older model can clearly hurt sales, and Verizon’s decision to stock the Pre 2 so late (after [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook will have 7digital’s Music Store pre-installed
Expected to be released in the US before the end of this month, the BlackBerry PlayBook will come with a little musical surprise: RIM has partnered with 7digital and will pre-install the British company’s Music Store on the tablet. This means that PlayBook owners will have access to more than13 million high-quality MP3s included in [...]
New Nokia E6 image leaks, shows new Symbian with 4 homescreens
The E6 looks like it will be Nokia’s highest-specced QWERTY candybar smartphone for the foreseeable future. Once it’s announced and released, that is. The E6 first had its specs leaked in January, and then was seen in the wild (but not turned on) last month. Now a new image of the E6 has leaked, and [...]
Canada: Bell’s Motorola Atrix now on pre-order at Best Buy
The Motorola Atrix is headed to Canada. We’ve already found out that the dual-core Android smartphone will become available from Bell on March 17, which is next week. And now Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for Motorola’s latest flagship Android device. There’s no info yet on the pricing, so presumably it will be identical [...]
iOS 4.3 Makes Grand Entrance 2 Days Early
Today is a time for rejoicing, Apple lovers everywhere, because the latest update for iOS is now ready for download through iTunes. iOS 4.3 thankfully is available 2 days before the iPad 2 comes out (and the mad dash for everyone to get home and activate their iPads through their computers will begin), so it [...]
FCC confirms the Nokia C7 for T-Mobile USA
While T-Mobile USA hasn’t announced anything regarding the Nokia C7 yet, it looks like the carrier does plan to launch it sometime soon, as rumored a few days ago. An AWS (1700 MHz) variant of the C7 has been approved by the FCC recently, and its User’s Manual suggests that the Symbian handset is, indeed, [...]