AT&T to roll out LTE to 5 cities this summer
Although AT&T has had its own version of “4G”for a few months now with its HSPA+ network, it is now looking to bring real “4G” to 5 lucky US cities this summer. AT&T will bring LTE to the following cities: Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, and San Antonio. AT&T initially planned last year to have its LTE [...]
T-Mobile G2X pulled from website due inventory shortages
The T-Mobile G2X may be one of the most popular phones on the market right now, but there have been some quality issues that were rumored to have caused the phone to be taken off the site earlier this morning. T-Mobile responded to these rumors on their twitter account: “The T-Mobile G2x has been very [...]
Sprint might announce the high-end Motorola Photon 4G on June 9
Sprint is apparently gearing up to have a high-end Motorola Android offering of its own, not wanting Verizon to get all that action. Phandroid has heard that the device will be called Photon 4G, and will resemble the Droid X and Droid X2 for Verizon, which probably means it will have a 4.3-inch touchscreen. Expect [...]
LG Optimus 3D now up for pre-order in the UK, free with contracts starting at £25 per month
The LG Optimus 3D is fast approaching availability in the UK, or so we hope. More than three months after being officially unveiled during Mobile World Congress, you still can’t buy it in any shop, however we’ve heard recently that it’s finally going to become available on June 6, in SIM-free and unlocked form. If [...]
Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 now available in the UK for £161.99 SIM-free and unlocked
Back in February, during Mobile World Congress, Samsung unveiled an entire family of Android devices other than the Samsung Galaxy S II. And while the high-end offering clearly gets all the attention, the other smartphones will (read:should) sell a lot better. One such handset is the Galaxy Gio. This is a very interesting midranger, if, [...]
HTC Wildfire S to cost $249 at Bell Canada. Virgin Mobile will launch it, too
About one month ago, we told you that Bell would launch the HTC Wildfire S in Canada sometime in June, and it looks like we were right. According to Baka Wireless (a Bell authorized dealer), the new Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset could hit the shelves starting the very first day of June. Bell’s Wildfire S [...]
Verizon: Motorola Droid X Gingerbread upgrade will be out this Friday
In case you own an old Motorola Droid X (and don’t want the new Droid X2), we’ve got great news for you: Verizon will start rolling-out an Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade for the Droid X this Friday, May 27 – a bit later than initially expected, but anyway. The upgrade (software version 4.5.596) will bring [...]
New BlackBerry Curve 9350 / 9370 (Sedona / Apollo) leaked in video tutorials
Two of RIM’s new BlackBerry smartphones that weren’t announced at the same time with OS 7 and the Bold Touch are the Curve Sedona and Curve Apollo. They’re basically the same, they just have different radios inside: the 9350 Sedona is a CDMA device (headed to Verizon), and the 9370 Apollo is a GMS one [...]
Verizon’s LG Revolution officially launching tomorrow, $250 on contract
It’s finally official: LG Revolution, Verizon’s third 4G LTE smartphone, will be available starting tomorrow, May 26 (online and in stores). Verizon will sell the Revolution for $249.99 on contract. This makes it the carrier’s cheapest LTE handset, since both the HTC Thunderbolt and Samsung Droid Charge were priced at $299 at launch (sure enough, [...]
Luxurious Nokia Oro announced. No, it doesn’t run Windows Phone (video)
While being busy testing Windows Phone Mango handsets, Nokia has found the time to introduce yet another Symbian Anna-based smartphone, namely the Nokia Oro (“oro” means gold in Italian). The Oro is nothing more than a luxury edition of the Nokia C7, so it has the same features: 3.5 inch AMOLED display, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II coming to Vodafone India on June 3
Although it won’t be released in India this month (as previously reported), the Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 is coming to the world’s second largest mobile market really soon. Samsung has officially announced that the S II would be available at Vodafone India starting June 3 – that’s next week. Vodafone will sell the handset [...]
Federal judge orders Samsung to turn over next generation phones, tablets to Apple lawyers
Claiming that “Apple has demonstrated good cause for some, limited expedited discovery,” U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh ordered Samsung to deliver samples of five Samsung devices currently in development to Apple’s lawyers. Samsung has 30 days to produce product samples, packaging and package inserts for the upcoming smartphones Galaxy S2, Infuse 4G and Infuse [...]
Pantech Vega No.5 Tabletphone has a 1.5 GHz dual core processor
We found out the other day about Pantech’s 1.5 GHz dual core beast, the Vega Racer. Today, we found out about Pantech’s newest addition to the dual-core family, the Pantech Vega. The Pantech Vega is a 5-inch tabletphone. It runs on Android 2.3.3 and spots Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8660. Apart from the extra real estate you get, [...]
iOS 5.0 won’t work on iPhone 3GS?
With Apple’s WWDC conference coming in June, we can expect to find out more about iCloud, OSX Lion, and the new iOS 5. Of course we hear plenty of rumors in the upcoming weeks leading to the conference. The latest rumor was said by analyst and Mobile-Review.com editor, Eldar Murtazin. He wrote the following comment on his twitter [...]
LG Revolution promo materials show up in Verizon stores
Last week, we’ve heard that Verizon’s LG Revolution would be released on May 26 (meaning this Thursday), and it looks like this is indeed going to happen. Promo materials, plus a dummy LG Revolution unit, have been spotted in a store just recently, so Verizon is most likely all but ready to launch the new [...]
US Cellular HTC Merge dummy units arrive, launch imminent
If for some reason you were still doubting whether the HTC Merge would finally make its way to US Cellular, well, the time has come to doubt no more. It was just yesterday when we found out that the Merge will (apparently) become available on May 31. It was also yesterday when official press shots [...]
Report: Google set to announce NFC payment system May 26
Bloomberg reports that Google plans to announce a mobile payment service on May 26. The Nexus S on Sprint will be the first device to take advantage of Google’s NFC-based technology that allows compatible mobile phones to make payments at physical retail stores. When Google added NFC support to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) earlier this year, [...]
Red HTC Desire S now exclusively available at Vodafone UK
Vodafone has announced that it has started selling a new, exclusive version of the HTC Desire S. However, the only thing that’s different here is the color. Yes, Vodafone now sells you a ‘red’ version of the Desire S, and apparently this color is an exclusive to the operator (at least in the UK). So [...]
Nokia Windows Phone 7 Mango handsets already exist, no launch date given
Earlier today, when announcing the brand new Windows Phone Mango, Andy Lees, President of Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, made an interesting (but perhaps not surprising) remark: “We already have Nokia handsets that run Windows Phone Mango in our labs.” Unfortunately, no other details about this were given. However, Nokia itself has acknowledged that Mango [...]
Microsoft Windows Phone Mango officially announced, brings IE 9, Groups, Threads and more
The newest iteration of Windows Phone 7, namely Windows Phone Mango, has been officially announced by Microsoft. As expected, WP Mango includes more than 500 new features, although not all of them have been unveiled today. Available starting “this fall”, Windows Phone Mango will reportedly “push the boundaries of the smartphone experience around communications, apps [...]