Virgin Mobile intros cheap LG 200 QWERTY phone
Virgin Mobile USA has added a new phone to its line-up of QWERTY devices: the LG 200. The phone is a candybar with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2.2 inch display of unknown (probably low) resolution, Google Maps, Opera Mini, email, Bluetooth, voice dialing, and a VGA photo camera. The battery of LG 200 can [...]
Pantech has the world’s first 1.5 GHz dual-core phone, only available in Korea
If you are interested in dual-core smartphones, you’ll be excited to hear about the latest superphone from an unexpected manufacturer. Pantech may not have a very large presence in the smartphone market in the US, but it does pretty well back at home in Korea. The latest addition to their roster is the Vega Racer, [...]
Boost Mobile launches Sanyo Innuendo, $129.99
Boost Mobile has launched an interesting looking phone that Sprint has been selling for a long while – the Sanyo Innuendo. This is the successor to the Sanyo Incognito, which was Boost Mobile’s best selling handset. So while the Incognito is a tough act to follow, the Innuendo looks like it could replicate its predecessor’s [...]
LG Optimus 2X available now in India
Starting today, you can buy yourself an LG Optimus 2X in India. Although it was reported that the new Optimus would cost about 30,000 INR, its price is actually lower: 25,990 INR, meaning about $577 or €405. Online retailer Flipkart is selling the Optimus 2X for that price. It won’t ship it right away, though, [...]
INQ Cloud Touch now available in the UK for free on £12 per month plan with unlimited data
The INQ Cloud Touch, one of the first smartphones to incorporate Facebook features everywhere, is now available for free on contract in the UK on TalkMobile. It’s quite an affordable contract too, for it will only cost you £12 per month (for 24 months). It includes 200 minutes, 200 texts, and unlimited data, and will only [...]
T-Mobile USA 2011 roadmap leaked: myTouch 4G Slide, BlackBerry Monza, LG Optimus II and more
Before the merger with AT&T gets to be completed, T-Mobile will still be the fourth largest mobile carrier in the US. So it’s more than obvious that it still has to launch handsets of its own. While we’ve already reported about some of T-Mo’s upcoming handsets, now an almost exhaustive list of devices that will [...]
Verizon announces the Motorola Droid X2, available starting tomorrow
Verizon has officially announced the launch date of the Motorola Droid X2, its latest Android smartphone included in the Droid series. The X2 will be available online starting tomorrow, May 19, and in stores starting May 26 – the same day the Xperia Play and LG Revolution will be out. As expected, the Moto Droid [...]
HTC Sensation launching tomorrow in France via SFR
After an unexpected delay, SFR, France’s second largest mobile carrier, has unveiled that the HTC Sensation would be available to its customers starting tomorrow, May 19. Thus, France will become one of the first countries where the Sensation is available for purchase, alongside the UK – where Vodafone should introduce the new smartphone tomorrow as [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro and Huawei G7010 show up at O2 UK
While you’re waiting for O2 UK to finally launch the Xperia Play, you may want to know that the carrier is getting ready to introduce another new Android smartphone from Sony Ericsson, namely the Xperia Mini Pro. Just like the Xperia Play, the Mini Pro runs the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It’s not a high-end [...]
AT&T Sideloading is now official starting with Infuse 4G
Today is a good day for AT&T Android users. AT&T announced in March that it would allow future phones(starting with the Infuse 4G) to sideload apps. The main reason AT&T finally said it would change its policy was to allow users to download the Amazon App Store and gain access to some of the sweet deals that Amazon [...]
Report: 99 percent of Android phones vulnerable to “impersonation attacks”
Researchers from the Germany’s University of Ulm have discovered that the vast majority of devices running Google’s Android operating system are vulnerable to “impersonation” attacks. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to steal credentials used to access calendars, contacts, and other data stored on Google’s servers. The culprit of the vulnerability is an improper implementation of an [...]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer to get Honeycomb 3.1 in June
Google announced the Android 3.1 Honeycomb update last week at Google I/O. The Motorola Xoom was first tablet to get the update since it was the first tablet to run on Honeycomb and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will ship with the update already loaded. Now, the update is ready to head to other available Honeycomb [...]
Otellini: No Intel-driven smartphones until at least 2012
At Intel’s annual investor’s meeting today, CEO Paul Otellini admitted to further delays of their smartphone debut. Otellini now says the first smartphones with Intel processors will ship in early 2012. The new timetable marks a departure from the ballpark figure tossed around at February’s MWC, when they said they’d be out before the end [...]
Samsung Hercules heading to T-Mobile?
AT&T may have the giant 4.5-inch Samsung Infuse 4G, but the latest rumor indicates that T-Mobile will be getting a smartphone that is twice as powerful and just as big. The Infuse 4G features a single core 1.2 GHz processor and runs on Froyo. These specs are pretty standard for smartphones and the elite phones [...]
Micro-SIM still isn’t small enough for Apple as it plans to go nano
Remember when the original iPad launched, Apple introduced a new SIM card size to the world? The micro-SIM. Apple then used the same minuscule card in the iPhone 4, as well as the iPad 2. Why? Because it (obviously) allows the SIM card slot to be smaller, and that leaves more room for other components [...]
Verizon LG Revolution will launch on May 26
Verizon’s LG Revolution, yet another 4G LTE capable Android smartphone to join Big Red’s portfolio, will be launched on May 26. That’s what documentation obtained by Droid-Life clearly shows, and it makes next Thursday a day of big launches for the carrier. Alongside the LG Revolution, May 26 will be the first day in stores [...]
HTC EVO 3D gets Radio Shack preorder; still no release date
3D fanatics who prefer HTC to LG can now get one step closer the object of their desires. Preorders have started at Radio Shack for the HTC EVO 3D. To reserve the phone you’ll need to purchase of a $50 Radio Shack gift card, and since there is still no official release date yet from [...]
Nokia N9 official video teaser leaked, MeeGo UI included
Nokia’s first MeeGo smartphone – the N9 – may be indeed ready for a launch (or an announcement) next week, as the Finnish company has already finished an official video prmo for it. Although it wasn’t released by Nokia, the promo video has appeared on YouTube thanks to PocketNow. Yes, the video doesn’t say much [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play launch date announced by Verizon: May 26
Verizon Wireless has finally announced the official launch date of its Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The new Android smartphone will be released later this month, starting May 26 (with pre-orders available from May 19). It will be “exclusive for a limited time for Verizon”, costing $199.99 on contract (a Verizon Nationwide Talk plan and a [...]
LG P930 to be a new Android tablet. Or maybe a phone with a 1280 x 720 display?
Until now, LG has officially introduced only one Android tablet – the Optimus Pad. Known in the US as T-Mobile G-Slate, the Optimus Pad runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb and features an 8.9 inch screen with a 1280 x 768 pixel resolution. Like all the other companies that entered the tablet market, LG is certainly not [...]