UK: Huawei Ideos can now be yours for only £139.99 SIM-free
The Huawei Ideos, the original one, not the more recently-unveiled X5 or X6, is now on sale at UK online retailer Play.com. This Android 2.2 smartphone can now be yours if you decide to part with only £139.99 of your hard earned cash. The Ideos is quite a capable device for the price, but it’s [...]
LG Optimus Pad will launch in Japan first, on March 31
The LG Optimus Pad (also known as the T-Mobile G-Slate in the US) is finally going to start shipping later this week. The tablet will first become available in Japan from NTT DoCoMo, a carrier that will launch it even before T-Mobile in the US (that has yet to even confirm a release date). NTT [...]
AT&T Windows Phone 7 devices on sale yet again, $50 on contract
AT&T has kicked off another limited time offer that has cut prices for a few of the smartphones that the carrier currently sells. Most notably, two Windows Phone 7 devices that AT&T carries have seen their price dramatically cut, all the way down to $50. Keep in mind that both the Samsung Focus and the [...]
Nokia T7 leaks, will run Symbian and have 360×640 screen, new browser
Just when you thought Nokia’s phone naming scheme couldn’t get any more confusing (dashes, Nokia? seriously?! dashes?!), Nokia’s apparently set to prove you wrong by introducing a whole new ‘series’ at some point in the future. Right now we have the Nseries, Eseries, Xseries, and Cseries. Those will apparently be joined by the Tseries, and [...]
HTC Droid Incredible might get Android 2.3 Gingerbread in late Q2
It looks like the HTC Thunderbolt isn’t Verizon’s only smartphone that will be upgraded to Android 2.3 Gingerbread in the second quarter of this year. According to Droid-life, an HTC rep confirmed via e-mail that the Droid Incredible would also get Android Gingerbread before the end of Q2 – thus in June the latest. Needless [...]
Mobilicity’s Samsung C414Y is a flip-featurephone that’s only $109.99 off contract
Let’s take a short break from all the smartphone-infested news that’s literally everywhere across the blogosphere, and focus on a simple device with a simple design and absolutely no smartphone ambitions whatsoever. Meet the Samsung C414Y. This is a flip phone (remember those?) just launched by Mobilicity, and, arguably, it did deserve a better name, [...]
LG Optimus 2X launched in Australia, it’s not cheap
LG Optimus 2X, one of the world’s first dual-core smartphones, is now available in Australia – not long before it’s set to hit the UK, and the US (where T-Mobile rebranded it as T-Mobile G2X). The handset hasn’t been launched by any carrier yet, so it can be bought only unlocked, from MobiCity, which offers [...]
Verizon 4G LTE Review: the Good, the Bad and the Weird
I love to review products whilst travelling. I find that when I’m not at home, I rely much more heavily on the products I review and thus can give a unique perspective on those products. It’s not until you’re away from the comforts of your home and your own surroundings that you realize how much [...]
iPhone 5 likely to be announced on June 6 (at WWDC 2011)
Just like it did last year, Apple will probably announce a new iPhone – iPhone 5, assuming this is its real name – during the Worldwide Developers Conference, in San Francisco. We now know that WWDC 2011 will kick off on June 6, thus this is the date when iPhone 5 should be officially unveiled. [...]
LG Optimus Big with 4.3 inch Nova display coming soon?
A new Optimus Android smartphone may be announced by LG soon. If we’re to believe this Korean website, the smartphone is called LG Optimus Big, has a 4.3 inch Nova display, and a single-core 1GHz processor. Reportedly, the LG Optimus Big will be released next month in South Korea by LG Telecom (aka LG U+). [...]
Contest: Win a Wrapsol Ultra Screen Protector for iPhone 4!
Ready for the next contest? What, you’re always ready for the next contest? Then let’s get to it! This week our contest is focusing on a screen protector. But not just any screen protector — we’re talking the super-durable Wrapsol Ultra screen protectors here, not the dinky plastic films that try to pass as screen [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo revisits the FCC, this time with AT&T 3G
Xperia Neo – Sony Ericsson’s cheapest Android smartphone from the 2011 line-up – has not been officially announced for North America. However, the FCC has just approved the Neo to work on the UMTS II and UMTS V bands (1900MHz and 850MHz), which means the handset could be launched by AT&T in the US, or [...]
Google Nexus S to be launched in Canada on April 14
March is coming to an end and the Google Nexus S has not been released in Canada, as initially expected. In fact, it looks like it won’t be released this month at all. MobileSyrup has reportedly “confirmed” with several sources that the Samsung-made Android 2.3 smartphone would hit Canada on April 14. There’s no word [...]
HTC Scribe Hands-on and First Impressions at CTIA 2011
“Wait – a tablet is coming out with a stylus? In 2011?” I asked myself that question upon hearing the announcement of the HTC Flyer, an Android Gingerbread-powered 7” tablet at MWC 2011 last month. I couldn’t bring myself to accept the idea that HTC actually expected anyone to use a pen this decade, but [...]
Google Nexus Tablet with Android 3.x to be made by LG. Android 2.x tablets won’t upgrade to 3.0?
2011 was supposed to be the year when Google will finally tweak it’s Android up to par to be able compete with iOS. And it might still happen, just not right now. Unfortunately, just like with all first major Android releases (1.0, 2.0), 3.0 Honeycomb turned out to be much less then a finished market ready [...]
HTC Flyer to be launched by T-Mobile USA?
Already announced for the US market by Sprint (which rebranded it to HTC Evo View 4G), the HTC Flyer may be also released by T-Mobile USA. There’s nothing official about this at the moment, but Pocket Now has managed to obtain some images which suggest that T-Mobile intends roll-out a campaign on YouTube to promote [...]
HTC Thunderbolt to Get Gingerbread Update This Summer
The HTC Thunderbolt, the very first 4G LTE handset on Verizon, was launched 10 days ago with Android 2.2 aka Froyo in tow. We have learned that HTC is beginning to get the word out that we should expect to see 2.3 Gingerbread showing up sometime in Q2, which means we’ll see the update happen [...]
Report: iOS 5 Postponed Until Fall?
Add this to the rumor list, but TechCrunch is throwing its two cents into the iPhone and iOS rumor pot. They are reporting that the next-generation version of iOS will not be coming out this summer as originally assumed, but is being pushed back to sometime in the fall for release. If this is the [...]
The Worst of CTIA Spring 2011: 4 Losers Below the Rest
Earlier I covered the best of CTIA Wireless Spring 2011, and where there are winners, there must be losers. Today let’s discuss the companies that definitely did not bring their A-game to this week’s show. 1. AT&T/T-Mobile Merger This was the big elephant in the room for the entire show, so let’s get it out [...]
Solar-Powered Screens May Soon Charge our Phones
Until this week, French startup Wysips was not well known to the general public. They sure made their mark at this year’s CTIA Spring show by showing up to one of the show’s big press events with a very intriguing prototype in hand. Wysips has found a way to shrink a solar panel into a [...]