Samsung Galaxy S II launching on April 25 (in Korea)
Despite rumors to the contrary, the Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 will be available starting this month, as reported yesterday. Unsurprisingly, South Korea is among the first countries where the new Galaxy will be released. According to Reuters, KT (South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier) will launch the Galaxy S II on April 25. For [...]
Windows Phone Marketplace: Now at 13,000 apps
Windows Phone is definitely picking up the pace now. 10 days after hitting the 12,000 milestone, it’s now at 13,000. In fact, almost 1500 apps have been added in the last 2 weeks, meaning WP7 is at a pace of adding 3,000 apps to its Marketplace per month. Now if only we could convince Pandora [...]
Android Hacks and ROMs available this week
It’s time to start a new feature here on Unwired View. Recently I’ve been paying more and more attention to the hoardes of official and unofficial Android ROMs, roots, source code leaks, and other forms of Android hackery, and realized how hard it is to keep track and make sense of it all. So, I’d [...]
Motorola Enlists 1,000 Bravo Owners to try out Froyo First
Motorola wants YOU to test out its new pre-release software! Yes, I’m looking at you, Mister Motorola Bravo owner. Here is the perfect opportunity to get your hands on Android 2.2 Froyo for your phone before anyone else can. My friends, that is a golden opportunity that does not come around very often. Offered earlier [...]
Verizon 86′s the One-Year Contract Option, effective April 17
One thing consumers treasure more than anything is the opportunity to have choice, regardless of whether the options are good or not. In addition to the New Every Two program getting flushed down the toilet earlier this year, now the one-year contract option is on the chopping block. These moves are part of a large [...]
Screenshots of WebOS 3.0 Leak, Show off HP TouchPad
We’ve seen pictures taken of HP’s new version of WebOS before, but now we have actually found some screenshots, courtesy of PreCentral. These shots show a few aspects of the OS, as if it were on the HP TouchPad. We still don’t know when we’ll actually be able to get some hands-on time with WebOS [...]
Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 2 press photos leaked
We’ve seen Verizon’s HTC Droid Incredible 2 quite a few times before, but now it’s the first time we can take a look at some press images of it. Of course, these press images don’t offer anything new. We already know that the Droid Incredible 2 is Verizon’s version of the HTC Incredible S, which [...]
Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab gets software update. Not Honeycomb
Just to make this clear from the get-go: this isn’t Honeycomb. In fact, it’s possible that the Samsung Galaxy Tab will never receive an update to Android 3.x. It’s also possible that the international version will, while carrier-specific versions won’t. Anything is possible at this point, but if you are expecting a Honeycomb update for [...]
Some more pics of Verizon’s Motorola Droid X2 leak, it still looks exactly like its predecessor
The Motorola Droid X2 for Verizon just keeps on leaking, and Verizon just keeps postponing an official acknowledgement of this smartphone. It all started with some blurry pics in February. Then we saw some non-blurry images a month later, and finally got some of the device’s specs from a benchmark yesterday. What that confirmed was [...]
Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xoom now available in Canada
After having already been released in the US, the Wi-Fi Motorola Xoom has made it up north, and it’s now available in Canada. As expected, the Wi-Fi-only version of the first ever tablet to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb will set you back no less than $599.99. You can already order it online from Best Buy [...]
HTC Desire II, Wildfire S, and 7 Pro headed to Cellular South
No less than three new HTC smartphones are headed to Cellular South sometime in the near future. Thanks to a leaked roadmap we now know that the carrier plans to stock the HTC Wildfire S, the HTC 7 Pro, as well as a mysteriously named HTC Desire II. The Desire II may just be the [...]
Packard Bell Liberty Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet coming soon
Packard Bell is the latest company to join the Android tablet bandwagon, with a high-end device called Packard Bell Liberty. Of course, Packard Bell belongs to Acer now (since 2008), hence it’s no surprise that the Liberty resembles the Acer Iconia 500. In fact, I think it’s simply the the Iconia 500 re-branded. Just like [...]
Motorola Milestone X, HTC Merge, LG Axis, and Samsung Gem now available at Alltel
Alltel has put out a press release today bragging about adding no less than four Android-powered smartphones to its lineup, yet two of those phones have already been available at Alltel for a while. Perhaps they thought that in such cases, the strength is in the numbers, who knows. Anyway, the LG Axis has been [...]
T-Mobile LG Optimus T coming soon to RadioShack for just $174.99 sans contract
The LG Optimus One is an affordable, yet rather feature-packed Android smartphone with which LG hoped to achieve the same worldwide ubiquity as Samsung’s much more expensive Galaxy S line. And, for the most part, LG has succeeded in doing that. In the US, almost every carrier has its own version of the Optimus One [...]
Dell Venue Pro is finally in stock in the UK
After many, many months of endless waiting and numerous delays, the day has finally come. The Dell Venue Pro is finally available and confirmed to be in stock in the UK, at least from independent third-party retailers such as Expansys and Clove. So if for some reason you’ve been waiting for this Windows Phone 7 [...]
T-Mobile G2X priced, will be out on April 15. Sidekick 4G coming on April 20
T-Mobile USA has officially announced the launch date and price of the G2X (aka LG Optimus 2X), which will be one of the carrier’s hottest Android smartphones this year. The T-Mobile G2X will be available starting April 15 (next Friday) for $199.99 on contract, after a $50 mail-in rebate. That’s the price everyone has been [...]
HTC Desire S and Samsung Galaxy Pro coming to India this month
The HTC Desire S has been officially announced in India today, not long after the HTC Incredible S was launched there. The new Desire should be available to Indian customers sometime later this month, for 25,490 INR (the price is lower than the one of the Incredible S – 28,900 INR). Running Android 2.3 (unlike [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II will be released this month after all
Although yesterday we’ve reported that the Samsung Galaxy S II would be delayed until June, this doesn’t seem to be true. According to one of Samsung’s official Twitter accounts (see here and here), the new Android 2.3 superphone will be released in April, “as planned.” The company doesn’t say where exactly we’ll be able to [...]
AT&T’s LG Optimus One (Optimus A?) pictured
Back in December 2010, LG announced that AT&T would also release a version of the quite popular Optimus One smartphone. Since then, we haven’t heard anything from AT&T regarding the handset. However, it looks like the carrier may want to launch it soon. An image of an AT&T-branded Optimus One has appeared over at Pocket [...]
Nokia E7 also available in the US at Amazon for just $649
Yesterday was the day when the Nokia E7 finally became available in the US, from Nokia’s online store. However, the price that Nokia asks for its flagship business-oriented Symbian^3 smartphone is a bit steep at $679. Luckily, Amazon will help you easily save $30. The Nokia E7 has also become available at Amazon in the [...]