HTC Evo 3D (Shooter) and Samsung Galaxy S Plus to be launched by Telstra soon?
Here’s some good news for Android lovers over in Australia: Telstra, the country’s largest mobile carrier, is getting ready to launch two new high-end Android handsets (both running Gingerbread). Firstly, Ausdroid reports that Telstra is secretly testing the so-called HTC Shooter, which seems to be that GSM edition of Sprint’s Evo 3D that we’ve been [...]
Canada: Virgin Mobile HTC Wildfire S pricing leaks, launch should happen soon
The HTC Wildfire S was unveiled in February during MWC as the successor to the original Wildfire and HTC’s main midrange Android-powered offering. Since then, it’s become available in many places, including in Canada through Bell. However, we’ve known for about a month that aside from Bell, Virgin Mobile would also launch the Wildfire S [...]
AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G will get Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread in July
The Motorola Atrix 4G for AT&T may be one top of the line smartphone, but it has one weakness – it runs Android 2.2 Froyo, an operating system version that’s been around for a year. And, in the Android world, that’s a lot. So a newer version of the OS has already become available for [...]
Rogers makes the LG Optimus Pad $150 cheaper, now $549.99 sans contract
The LG Optimus Pad with its 3D features is certainly a unique offering (at least so far) in the tablet space in general, and among Android-powered tablets in particular. However, one thing which clearly hasn’t helped this tablet sell very well has been its price – it’s among the most expensive tablets out there. Now [...]
T-Mobile Samsung Exhibit 4G now selling for just $50, Samsung Gravity Smart is free
Just on time, as previously indicated by T-Mobile, the Samsung Exhibit 4G and Gravity Smart have both gone on sale today. If you opt to get the Exhibit 4G from T-Mobile, it will cost you $79.99 with a new two-year contract. The Gravity Smart is being sold by TMo for $69.99 with the same 2-year [...]
Apple awarded touchscreen gesture patent from 2007
Apple was recently awarded a patent they filed for the original iPhone back in 2007. PC Mag’s Damon Poeter says the patent is both broad and far-reaching, and may be able to keep others out of the smartphone market. The abstract for U.S. patent number 7,966,578 outlines: “[a] computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with [...]
Nokia N9 will be available in Sweden on September 23
The Nokia N9 is a strange device. Announced just yesterday, it’s going to be Nokia’s first and last consumer-focused MeeGo device, even if purists will eagerly point out that it doesn’t technically run MeeGo (Harmattan is rooted more in Maemo than MeeGo, as far as I understand it – correct me if I’m wrong). This [...]
HTC Evo 4G+ (Rider) leaks on its way to Korea
Last month we first heard about the existence of the HTC Rider, a smartphone that was supposedly headed to KT in Korea, and we even saw a rendered image of it. And today we get more details about it, alongside another image that kind of looks like the first one, but kind of doesn’t. Anyway, [...]
Motorola reassures us that Verizon’s Droid Bionic is coming this summer
There’s been no official word from Motorola regarding its Droid Bionic since April, when the company stated that the smartphone would be released by Verizon in the summer, with an improved form factor, and enhanced features. Now – not long after we’ve seen what the new Droid Bionic may look like (check out the photo [...]
HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy Mini show up at Orange UK
It’s not like we didn’t know that the HTC Sensation was headed to Orange UK, but now the carrier has officially confirmed this by adding the smartphone to its website’s Coming Soon section. Orange doesn’t say when exactly this dual-core, Gingerbread-flavored beast will be available, but it should happen in early July (and pay monthly [...]
New iPhone 4S / 5 tipped for September launch (again)
While there’s still confusion regarding the name of Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone (will it be iPhone 5? iPhone 4S? Something else?), here’s new pseudo-evidence that the smartphone will be introduced pretty soon. Bloomberg has it that “people familiar with the plans” say the new iPhone will arrive in September. We’ve certainly heard about this before, as [...]
Best Buy quietly launches Music Cloud
While still awaiting an official announcement of its release, Best Buy’s new Music Cloud service is now live. The cloud music service acts much like Google and Amazon’s offerings, albeit with a hybrid pricing model. Users upload their music collections to Best Buy’s servers (no matching), and can then stream them from a Web interface [...]
Motorola Triumph to be launched by Virgin Mobile on July 19?
When Sprint officially announced the Motorola Triumph for Virgin Mobile, it only said that the smartphone would be available “this summer.” Now we’re hearing that the Triumph could hit the shelves starting July 19. According to the image below (taken from the July 2011 edition of the People Style Watch magazine), this is indeed the [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet will cost $499.99 at OfficeMax
It was about a week ago when we heard that Lenovo was working hard on getting its first two Android-powered tablets to market. Two, because one would be consumer-oriented and launch under the IdeaPad brand, and the other would be business-focused and sold under the well known brand ThinkPad brand. Back then we also heard [...]
Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xoom now available at some US Cellular retail locations for $599.99
Back in April we heard that the Motorola Xoom, the first tablet to run Android Honeycomb, would also become available from US Cellular sometime before the end of June. And, well, today is the big day, as the carrier itself announced via Twitter. There are some caveats, though. First of all, you have to know [...]
BREW-based Huawei U6150 QWERTY candybar will be available at Wind in Canada tomorrow
In Canada, Wind Mobile is getting ready to introduce a new affordable phone into its lineup, the Huawei U6150. And, just as you may have already guessed, one of the main selling points of the U6150 will be its affordability. That, and its full physical QWERTY keyboard which will surely attract those obsessed with texting, [...]
Nokia N9 touted as “the fastest image-capturing phone on the market”, despite not being on the market yet
As you’ve probably already found out, yesterday Nokia announced its first MeeGo smartphone – the N9. Today, on Nokia’s official blog, the new N9 has been presented as “the fastest image-capturing phone on the market.” Reportedly, you can snap a photo with the N9 in just 2.6 seconds (this includes turning the camera on, readying [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play gets price cut to £390 in the UK
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was supposed to be this revolutionary device that would be the first gaming-focused smartphone to actually be successful. Yet whether or not Sony Ericsson’s dreams about it have made it to reality is certainly up for debate, with the phone seeing price cut after price cut (which may signal that [...]
How Nokia was disrupted. Part 1
Back in 2007 Nokia was riding high. They owned well over a third of the mobile phone market, and about every second smartphone sold in the world had Nokia name on it. They set the directions for the rest of the industry, leaving competitors scrambling to catch up with every new product launch. The latest [...]
HTC Salsa gets its first software update
The HTC Salsa, one of two recently unveiled HTC Android-powered smartphones to be Facebook-focused, is not even available in all markets, yet it has already received its first software update. That’s either a good sign that HTC wants to support this device with many updates, or it’s a bad sign that the Salsa was launched [...]