AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G now just $99.99 with new two-year contract
It seems like with each day that goes by we report on more and more price cuts and generally great deals on smartphones. And that can only be a good thing for you, the consumer. If you don’t jump and buy something the second it becomes available, you’ll probably find a few good options of [...]
UK: Samsung Galaxy S now just £219.90 on Pay as you go
If you want to get a new smartphone that has top specs but don’t necessarily care about owning the latest and greatest (and you’re in the UK), you’re in for a big treat. UK online retailer Mobiles.co.uk has an amazing deal right now for the Samsung Galaxy S – the original, not the Galaxy S [...]
Apple unveils iOS 5, many new features you won’t actually see until “this fall”
Today is Apple day. The Californian fruit company has had its annual WorldWide Developers Conference keynote, and in it the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, was unveiled. This was of course widely expected, since Apple itself previously revealed what it will be talking about at WWDC. iOS 5 will follow iOS 4, [...]
Apple announces iCloud, iTunes Match at WWDC 2011
Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled their iCloud service today at the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The service—supported by Apple’s new datacenter in North Carolina—will be integrated into iOS 5 and feature cloud storage and automatic syncing across Apple devices. Unlike the soon-to-be-defunct MobileMe service, Apple’s iCloud is fully integrated by default, free of [...]
Apple iOS stats: 200 million devices sold (25 million iPads), 14 billion apps downloaded, and more
While announcing the brand new iOS 5, Apple has also unveiled some general iOS stats. First of all, we’ve found out that more than 200 million iOS devices have been sold until now. According to Apple, 25 million of those are iPads – so the company sold 6 million iPads since March this year, when [...]
New Motorola Droid Bionic pictured?
Verizon’s Motorola Droid Bionic is going to be released in the next few months, coming with enhanced features and a fresh design that should make us forget the way the handset looked back in January, when it was first introduced to the world. The new Bionic may look like in the photos below, which have [...]
Simfy files antitrust complaint against Apple in Germany
German company Simfy has filed an anti-trust complaint against Apple with Germany’s competition authority, The Bundeskartellamt. Simfy, a music streaming service similar to Spotify, is currently only available in the German, Swiss and Austrian markets. Simfy claims Apple is purposely holding back the approval of their iPad app as they prepare to announce their own [...]
Sony S2 Android tablet passes the FCC
We haven’t heard much about Sony’s first Android tablets since they were officially announced in April. Back then, the Japanese giant said the tablets (called S1 and S2) would be available in the fall of 2011. Now the S2 has appeared at the FCC, which approved it to work on the AT&T-friendly 850 / 1900 [...]
Sprint’s HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO View 4G officially arriving on June 24
Sprint has officially confirmed that the HTC Evo 3D and the HTC Evo View 4G would be launched June 24 (just like we’ve heard they would), with Sprint Premier customers being able to get the Evo 3D starting June 21. The third largest US mobile carrier has also announced the prices of the two new [...]
AT&T HTC HD7S Windows Phone 7 device now available starting at $99.99
The HTC HD7S for AT&T is now available direct from the carrier’s online store, or from Amazon. The HTC HD7S is AT&T’s version of the HTC HD7, one of the first batch of Windows Phone 7 devices that were unveiled in October of last year. So far, T-Mobile has been selling the HD7 in the [...]
Your Apple iMac may soon be wirelessly charging iPods, iPhones and iPads
Inductive charging stations like Palm Touchstone and Powermatts are all the rage among tech geeks these days. It looks real nice just to drop your phone on a charging pad and forget about all the cords. On the other hand, the charging pad or HP Touchstone still has to be connected to the power outlet via [...]
Red HTC Inspire 4G for AT&T now available at RadioShack for $29.99
The HTC Inspire 4G, one of AT&T’s top of the line Android smartphones, is now available in red, just as we heard it would be. RadioShack sells the red Inspire 4G, also in line with what we’ve heard late last month, however the price is even lower than the $49.99 rumored back then. If you [...]
Telus LG Shine Plus Android 2.3 Gingerbread update coming in late September
In Canada, the LG Ally that’s on Verizon in the US is being sold by Telus as the LG Shine Plus. This midrange Android-powered device has been available in Canada since September 2010, and it’s probably selling rather well if it has managed to survive in the carrier’s portfolio this long. LG Shine Plus owners [...]
HTC ChaCha gets 200 MHz processor boost
The HTC ChaCha, one of the Taiwanese manufacturer’s two Facebook-centric Android smartphones (alongside the Salsa), has received an unexpected 200 MHz processor speed boost. Up until now, the ChaCha’s processor frequency was always listed as being 600 MHz. That’s what HTC itself announced back in February when the handset was first unveiled. However, if you [...]
Samsung Trender and Android-based Motorola XPRT available now at Sprint
Sprint has introduced two new handsets over the week-end: the Motorola XPRT smartphone, and the Samsung Trender featurephone. Officially announced in early May, the Motorola XPRT runs Android 2.2 Froyo and it’s just a Sprint-branded Droid Pro (available at Verizon since last year). Sprint is asking $129 for the XPRT (new 2-yr contract agreement required) [...]
Motorola XT882 dual-everything Android smartphone goes to China this month
The Motorola XT882 is an Android-powered smartphone which is headed to the Chinese market, and will launch there later this month. It’s an interesting device because of its ‘dual-everything’ mantra. It’s dual SIM, dual core, dual mode – “the triple dual”, in Moto’s words. That, of course, comes dangerously close to the LG Optimus 3D’s [...]
Videos Of Motorola Droid 3 Leak Out On The Web
There have been rumors of a Motorola Droid 3 for sometime now, and it looks like that release date might be coming soon with new tutorial videos leaked on YouTube via German site PhonePads.com. The videos are limited on what they show, but viewers do get a glance of a five-row keyboard, Swype and an [...]
The HTC Thunderbolt Now $100 At Amazon
Amazon is now offering budget conscious shoppers the HTC Thunderbolt for under $100 at its wireless store. Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone (followed by the Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution) is powered by Android 2.2 and has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with a 4.3-inch LCD multi-touch display. It also comes with an 8-megapixel camera. [...]
Apple iOS 5 Rumored To Have Social-Network Integration Features
Making it even easier for mobile phone users to “like,” “tweet,” and “share,” there is speculation that the much-anticipated Apple iPhone 5 will have a Twitter button integrated into the phone’s platform. According to the IB Times, the rumors are coming from Rackspace tech blogger Robert Scoble’s tweets, saying, “Next week will be a huge [...]
Disney To Offer Its Own Cloud Service?
As anticipation builds around the launch of Apple’s iCloud service, there will be one content provider that will be keeping a close eye on the service, but won’t be a part of it: Disney. Apple has inked deals with Universal, Sony Music, EMI and Warner Music for a $100M licensing agreement, with the notable exception [...]