Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v pre-orders start tomorrow at Vodafone Australia, pricing info now available
Pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v are set to start at Vodafone Australia tomorrow, on April 20 (that’s in just a few hours Down Under), as we found out a few days ago. Those who pre-order the tablet will start receiving it on May 1, three days before the device will become available to [...]
HP Veer will be available from O2 Germany in June, reserve yours now
The HP Veer is certainly a slick looking little smartphone (even though it may be a bit too tiny for the average human being). We’ve known for a while that it was headed to O2 in Germany, with the carrier previously announcing that it would become available in May. Apparently something came up, since O2 [...]
Sony Ericsson sold about 5 million smartphones in Q1 2011, mostly Androids
Sony Ericsson has announced its financial results for Q1 2011 (ended March 31). The company sold 8.1 million handsets during the quarter – 3.1 million less than in Q4 2010 when it shipped 11.2 million units). The interesting part is that more than 60% of the handsets sold in the last quarter were smartphones – [...]
HBO Go app to allow streaming to iPad, iPhone, and Android devices
HBO Go is a service that allows HBO subscribers unlimited access to their awesome shows and select movies on your PC. Well, if you love HBO and are an HBO subscriber, you are going to be pretty happy about the news we have for you. HBO gave everyone a sneak peak of their newest service [...]
Dual SIM Nokia C2-06 leaked – new Touch and Type S40 phone
Nokia is getting ready to introduce another dual SIM phone – this time it’s an S40 handset that should be launched under the Touch and Type brand (if that’s a brand at all). The phone’s called C2-06, it has a resistive touchscreen display (probably QVGA) and, when closed, it looks a lot like a C5-03 [...]
Apple sues Samsung for imitating the iPhone and iPad designs
It seems like everyday we hear about a new lawsuit being filed against one of the big mobile companies, and we got yet another one. All things D has news that Apple is suing Samsung Electronics for imitating the “look and feel” of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. This lawsuit mostly pertains to the Samsung Galaxy [...]
Angry Birds Seasons updated with Easter Eggs (iOS, Android, Symbian, WebOS)
Since Easter’s coming soon (in about a week), Angry Birds Seasons has been updated by Rovio with a special Easter Edition. The update brings 15 new Easter Eggs levels filled with… eggs, and pigs wearing bunny ears. You can download the update starting today on iOS, Android, Symbian, and WebOS devices. Apart from updating the [...]
Motorola Xoom will be available from US Cellular before the end of June
The Motorola Xoom has been available in the US for a while now, though only from Verizon in 3G-capable form, a Wi-Fi-only version being for sale elsewhere. Even Cellular South, a carrier, is slated to start selling the Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xoom sometime in the future. It’s then no surprise that yet another US carrier, namely [...]
AT&T Motorola Bravo Android 2.2 Froyo update now available
The update to Android 2.2 Froyo for the Motorola Bravo is now available. Exactly ten days after Motorola had solicited help from 1000 eager Bravo owners to beta test the Froyo release, it’s here for everyone. And it looks like there weren’t that many issues with the beta release, since they got rectified in just [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 shows up at O2 UK’s website
Earlier this month, Samsung has officially announced that the Galaxy S II would be available in the UK starting May 1, via all major British carriers. Now O2 has added the new Galaxy to its website’s coming soon section, confirming that it would offer the handset next month (although it doesn’t specifically say it will [...]
Windows Phone 7 deal: AT&T Samsung Focus and Sprint HTC Arrive now only one cent at Amazon
AT&T’s Samsung Focus (one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices ever launched) and Sprint’s HTC Arrive (the latest WP7 device to be released in the US) are now both available from Amazon for just one cent. Yes, $0.01 for either of these high-end smartphones. The catch is, as always, that you’ll have to have [...]
Verizon Droid Charge may arrive on April 28, Motorola Droid Bionic’s fate still uncertain
Until Verizon officially announces the launch dates of its upcoming Android smartphones, we have to keep on digging for leaked details, roadmaps, rumors and so on. The latest rumor has it that the Samsung Droid Charge will be released by Verizon on April 28 – thus next week, at the same time with the HTC [...]
HTC Sensation could be launched in India as soon as May
Since the Sensation is HTC’s flagship smartphone of 2011, it shouldn’t come as a surprise the fact that the Taiwanese company plans to launch it in India – the world’s second largest mobile market. While there’s no official word on then the Sensation will be available to Indian customers, The Mobile Indian has it that [...]
Motorola Atrix launch date announced by Orange UK: early May
Already available in the US (via AT&T) and Canada (via Bell), the Motorola Atrix will also hit the UK soon. Orange UK (of which we knew it would offer the smartphone) has announced hat the Atrix should be exclusively available to its customers starting early May. Orange’s Atrix will be free on contract, on plans [...]
Apple’s white iPhone 4 may be released on April 26 (in Italy)
In case you’re still waiting for the white iPhone 4 to become available, we may have good news for you. A “reliable source” told iPhone Italy that the white version of Apple’s latest smartphone will be “almost certainly” launched on April 26 in Italy. Assuming this is true, the white iPhone 4 will likely hit [...]
First Samsung Galaxy S II TV commercial reminds us that the smartphone is not waterproof
Expected to be released in Korea later this month, and in other markets starting May, the Samsung Galaxy S II has appeared for the first time in a TV commercial. The commercial doesn’t say anything about the smartphone’s speedy dual-core processor, and neither about Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Instead, it concentrates on the vivid, “too realistic” [...]
Dual-core 2GHz smartphone coming from Samsung next year?
For now, Samsung and HTC are the only companies that announced smarthpones with dual-core 1.2Ghz processors: the Galaxy S II (pictured below) and the HTC Sensation, respectively. After their launch (scheduled to happen quite soon), these will, theoretically, be the fastest smartphones on the market. But that just won’t be fast enough for 2012, right? [...]
Verizon Droid Incredible 2 User Guide and full specs leaked
Further evidence that Verizon’s (still unannounced) Droid Incredible 2 is coming soon has hit the web this week-end. More exactly, the smartphone’s full specs and its User Guide have been uncovered by Droid-life. Since the Incredible 2 is just Verizon’s version of the HTC Incredible S, there are no surprises when it comes to its [...]
HTC readying a 16MP Windows Phone 7 handset?
At the moment, HTC is the company that launched the highest number of Windows Phone 7 devices (five of them – if we don’t count the HTC Arrive and the HD7S, which are merely variations of other models). More HTC WP7 handsets will be certainly released soon, and one of them may have a 16MP [...]
Samsung Replenish announced as Sprint’s first green Android phone
Sprint has officially announced the Samsung Replenish SPH-M580, a device that comes as the carrier’s first environmentally friendly Android smartphone. The Replenish “is partially built with recycled plastics and recyclable packaging”, this “making it the ideal choice for the environmentally conscious consumer who needs the latest technology.” Among its features, we must mention a 2.8 [...]