iFixit, Wired.com undress FBI GPS tracking technology
Back in 2005, an environmental activist discovered a tracking device placed on her car by the FBI. Wired.com and gadget teardown experts iFixit recently acquired and deconstructed the device, giving us a look at a highly sophisticated and secretive (though, by 2011 standards, severely outdated) piece of technology. The device consists of four main components: [...]
HTC Sensation priced in Germany: €599
Excepted to be released in the UK on May 19 (only by Vodafone for the beginning), the HTC Sensation will definitely not be cheap. Sure, you’ll be able to get it from Vodafone for free on contract (on €35 plans), but the off-contract price will be pretty high. Amazon Germany currently asks €599 for the [...]
HTC Puccini to be one of AT&T’s first LTE Android tablets?
Back in January, AT&T unveiled its intentions to introduce no less than 12 new Android devices before the end of 2011. One of them may be an unannounced HTC tablet. According to Pocket Now, the tablet is currently called HTC Puccini, and a version of it could be one of the first tablets to support [...]
New Windows Phone 7.5 Mango features unveiled
Expected to be released sometime in the second half of 2011, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango will come with lots of new features. We’ve already reported about Internet Explorer 9 and Silverlight run-time, and now we’re hearing further details on what to expect from the next version of WP. According to Windows Phone Dev Podcast, WP7 [...]
3 million Samsung Galaxy S II smartphones already pre-ordered
Samsung has recently announced that it received 3 million pre-orders for the new Galaxy S II as of the end of April. Of course, the smartphone has been released last week in some markets (including the UK), so a part of those 3 million units has been sold already. As previously reported, Samsung plans to [...]
HTC Rider, Glacier and Holiday (for AT&T) pictured?
Three unannounced HTC Android smartphones have appeared for the first time in what seem to be officially-looking renders. The first handset is the HTC Rider, which kinda looks like Sprint’s Evo 3D. Reportedly, the Rider features a 4.3 inch qHD 3D display, 1GB of RAM, dual-core 1.2GHz processor, and 1080p video recording (both 2D and [...]
LG Optimus Black officially headed to North America. Pink and white versions coming soon
LG has officially announced that its Optimus Black Android smartphone would be released in Europe later this month. Of course, we already knew this. What we didn’t know is that LG plans to introduce the Optimus Black in North America, too – sometime after the European launch. The South Korean company didn’t say which North [...]
Google Nexus S 4G launched by Sprint for $199 on contract. Best Buy sells it for $149
As expected, today Sprint released the Nexus S 4G, which has become the carrier’s first Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone. Sprint is selling the Nexus S 4G for $199.99 with a new 2-yr contract agreement. To get the handset at this price, you need to opt for one of Sprint’s “plans with unlimited data and the [...]
BeBook to drop 7-inch “Live” Android Froyo tablet in June
BeBook, an e-reader manufacturer, has announced the release of their BeBook Live, an Android tablet running version 2.2 (Froyo). A 1 Ghz Samsung Cortex A8 CPU and 512MB of SDRAM powers the device, and its 4GB of internal flash storage can be complemented by SDHC cards up to 32GB in size. Adobe Flash videos can [...]
Comcast announces $25 Novatel MiFi 4082
With Comcast’s Clearwire mobile broadband service slowly rolling out across the country since its 2009 debut, competition with Sprint’s Now Network is heating up. A few months after Sprint released their version of Novatel’s MiFi 4082 earlier this year, Comcast has released their own branded version they call their “personal 4G/3G mobile hotspot.” The hotspot [...]
AT&T to allow Samsung Infuse 4G to sideload apps
Well, this is a surprise. It seems as though AT&T has made quite a policy change for its latest Android smartphone, the Samsung Infuse 4G. This policy change is that AT&T will now allow Samsung Infuse 4G customers to sideload apps to their devices. Basically you can select the “Unknown Sources” box and you will be [...]
iPad 2 sells out in 4 hours in China
The iPad 2 was released in China earlier this morning and the guys over at M.I.C. Gadgets have reported that the popular Apple tablet sold out in less than 4 hours. Even though there are a lot of KIRF( Keepin It Real Fake) iPads in the gadget markets of China, the iPad 2 still drew [...]
Adobe Connect Mobile brings two-way video conferencing to iOS
The Adobe Connect Mobile iOS app has just been updated to version 1.5. This new version is specifically optimized for tablets and brings an important new feature, two-way video conferences. If you have not heard about Adobe Connect Mobile, it is a business app that allows users to connect to meetings. The iPad 2′s front [...]
LG Optimus Black gets priced in the Philippines, lands next week
The LG Optimus Black is about to become available it seems, after a delay. First we heard that the smartphone will be in stores in the UK next week, and now it’s the Philippines’ turn. According to YugaTech, the Optimus Black will also hit the Philippines next week, for an asking price of Php 19,990 [...]
Sony Ericsson WT18i Walkman smartphone gets unveiled for China
Sony Ericsson has officially unveiled another smartphone to sport the Walkman brand, following the recently announced W8. The Sony Ericsson WT18i is only going to be sold in China. The Walkman phone will run OPhone 2.5, an operating system developed by China Mobile. OPhone is based on Android, this version being equivalent to Android 2.2 [...]
HTC ChaCha price unveiled: €319 (in Germany)
HTC ChaCha is one of the two Facebook phones that the Taiwanese company announced back in February at MWC 2011. While HTC didn’t officially unveil the handset’s price, Amazon Germany just did. The retailer says the ChaCha will cost €319 (about $462). Sadly, it doesn’t say when exactly it will launch the device – although [...]
Dell Venue Pro for AT&T now available starting at $99.99 with contract
The Dell Venue Pro is Dell’s first Windows Phone 7 device, and the first smartphone to run Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system to have a portrait-sliding physical QWERTY keyboard. As such, it’s a rather interesting handset. In the US, it was announced in October of last year, as part of the first batch of WP7 [...]
HTC Sensation now definitely hits the FCC with T-Mobile AWS in tow
A few days ago, we told you that the unannounced HTC DoubleShot was approved by the FCC to work on T-Mobile’s AWS network. However, other websites, including Phandroid and PocketNow, reported that the device in question, model number PG58100, wasn’t the DoubleShot, but the HTC Sensation 4G. While that’s not confirmed yet, we now know [...]
Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 2 costs only $79.99 at Amazon
Launched by Verizon on April 28, at the same time with the Casio g’zOne Commando, the new HTC Droid Incredible 2 costs $199.99 on contract when you’re buying it directly from the carrier’s website (or in stores). If that’s too much for you, Amazon comes to save the day by offering the new Droid for [...]
Samsung Galaxy S 4G now free at T-Mobile USA. All black Motorola Defy launched
If you intend to buy a Samsung Galaxy S 4G from T-Mobile USA, now it’s the best time to do it, because the carrier is offering the smartphone for free with a new contract agreement. Another smartpohne that’s now free at T-Mobile is the BlackBerry Bold 9780. I guess Tmo wants to get rid of [...]