Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro delayed until Q4. SE TXT Pro priced
If you were hoping to get your hands on a Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro this quarter, it looks like it’s not going to happen. Sony Ericsson has reportedly confirmed to SoMobile that the Xperia Pro will not hit the market until the fourth quarter of the year. Furthermore, The Carphone Warehouse says the handset will [...]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android 3.1 update has started rolling out
Before Google gets round to releasing Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of Android which will be one and the same for both tablets and phones, there still are updates coming in for Honeycomb, the company’s current tablet-optimized OS release. Such is Android 3.1, the minor update to Android Honeycomb that was announced back in [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Droid Bionic “coming soon” at Best Buy, new design and all
While it may or may not be released on August 4, the Motorola Droid Bionic is definitely going to hit the shelves sometime this summer. Until we find out its official launch date, you might want to know that the Bionic has been spotted in a leaked Best Buy promo material, which lets us take [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II officially arriving at Telstra Australia on July 26
Telstra has officially confirmed that it would launch the Samsung Galaxy S II in Australia later this month, more exactly on July 26. The new Android Gingerbread smartphone will be available on a variety of plans (starting at $59 per month). Those who want to buy it off-contract wil have to pay $840 for it. [...]
Sprint’s Motorola Photon 4G and Samsung Conquer 4G to be out this month?
Sprint’s two upcoming 4G Android smartphones, the Motorola Photon and the Samsung Conquer, may both become available starting this month. The handsets appear on a leaked screenshot which suggests that the Samsung Conquer will arrive on July 24. We can’t see any specific launch date for the Motorola Photon, but the image shows it should [...]
AT&T-friendly Samsung Galaxy Z i9103 hits the FCC
Remember the Samsung Galaxy Z, the slightly downgraded version of the Galaxy S II seen at the end of last month? It turns out that the Z’s model number is i9103 (since GSM Arena says so), and it also turns out that the smartphone has been approved by the FCC just recently. According to the [...]
Nokia 700 Zeta press photos appear, don’t impress
While Nokia hasn’t confirmed the existence of the 700 Zeta Symbian smartphone yet, the handset is certainly real, and now, not long after we saw it in some live images, press photos of it have appeared on the web. The official-looking Nokia 700 obviously resembles the device seen in said live images. It has a [...]
Apple and Google blow away RIM in US market share
The future looks dark for Research in Motion in the US, as statistics indicate that Android and iPhone devices top BlackBerry in terms of market share. According to Comscore, Google and Apple have the top smartphone platforms in the US, with 38.1 per cent and 26.6 per cent share. RIM lags behind in third with [...]
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide to be released July 27th?
We have heard a lot of rumors lately about the T-Mobile myTouch 4G slide. The latest rumor reveals a possible release date for the myTouch 4G Slide. The picture below indicates that a device named “Doubleshot,” or commonly known as the myTouch 4G has an expected release date of July 27th. The myTouch 4G spots a 3.7-inch [...]
AT&T’s LG Thrill 4G and HTC Status could be launched this month. BlackBerry Torch 4G coming in August?
The LG Thrill 4G and the HTC Status have been recently announced by AT&T, and yet we don’t know when exactly they will be available, since the carrier has failed to provide details on their launch dates. Well, if the leaked image seen below is to be believed, both the Thrill 4G and the Status [...]
Apple ordered 15 million iPhone 5s, report says
New reports from Taiwan are coming in, claiming that Apple has placed an order for no less than 15 million new iPhones (it’s still not clear if the new smartphone will be called iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, or who knows what else). According to DigiTimes, Pegatron Technology is the company that will manufacture the upcoming [...]
New Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 headed to Vodafone Australia
Just like it did in the UK last month, Vodafone will replace the old Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v with the newer Tab 10.1 in Australia, too. The old Tab 10.1v isn’t available anymore, so the new Tab 10.1 could be released by Vodafone Australia as early as this month. Ausdroid received an image from Vodafone’s [...]
Toshiba Thrive Android Honeycomb tablet already available at some Best Buy locations
Last month, when Toshiba announced that its Thrive Honeycomb tablet would be officially released in the US, it said customers should expect it to become available in mid-July. However, now it looks like some Best Buy locations are already selling the Thrive. According to a thread found over at the Thrive Forums, the tablet is [...]
Nokia cutting prices on N8, C7, E6 and other smartphones
Only a few days after closing its online stores in the UK and US, Nokia has decided to cut prices on some of its smartphones across Europe – which certainly makes sense, not just because Symbian is a platform with no future, but also because the Finnish company has been losing market share for quite [...]
6 iOS Twitter Apps That Truly Stand out from the Crowd
If there is one category that is oversaturated in the App Store, it is Twitter apps. There are hundreds of apps out there that allow you to send tweets of 140 characters, reply to your followers, search keywords in real time, and share media with your Twitter network. Of course, the most popular iOS Twitter [...]
Sprint Samsung Galaxy Tab Android 2.3 Gingerbread update now rolling out
Sprint’s version of the original, 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab launched last year is finally being upgraded to Android 2.3 Gingerbread starting today. That’s what we were expecting of course, ever since we first found out about this last week. And while it is undoubtedly disappointing for Galaxy Tab owners to not get their devices updated [...]
Bell HTC Sensation 4G now available for $149.95 with 3-year contract, $549.95 without
The HTC Sensation 4G has become available today at Bell in Canada, just as expected. The Sensation 4G, as you may know, is one of the two devices that aren’t 3D-enabled to be the absolute cream of the crop right now in the Android world (the other one being the Samsung Galaxy S II). And [...]
Nokia X7 now available at Three UK, free from £30 per month
The Nokia X7 is one of the newest Symbian-powered devices around, alongside the E6. They both run Symbian Anna, which is the latest version of the operating system, a version that so far has been exclusive to these two devices. The Nokia X7 was eventually going to be sold by Three in the UK, we’ve [...]
Vodafone UK Google Nexus One Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update now available
Vodafone UK has officially announced earlier today that the update to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread for Google Nexus One smartphones it has sold is now available. The update has of course been out for a long while for those of you who bought their Nexus Ones direct from Google, so this only applies to whoever purchased [...]
HTC Flyer and Sensation coming to T-Mobile UK this month
Both the HTC Flyer and HTC Sensation are already available in the UK, however, if you want to buy them whit a T-Mobile contract you can’t. But you will be able to do it soon, as the carrier is getting ready to include the tablet and the smartphone in its lineup of Android devices. T-Mobile [...]