UK: Orange Barcelona now available for £99 on PAYG, Orange Stockholm gets priced too
Orange UK seems clearly focused on launching as many own-brand devices as it possibly can in the near future, and one has to think that this strategy has at least something to do with the great success of the Orange San Francisco cheap smartphone launched last year. Two of those many own-brand efforts are the [...]
LG Optimus 3D now available at Carphone Warehouse
It was only weeks ago that we first found out the specs on LG’s first 3D phone, but the phone is now available for purchase through popular phone dealer Carphone Warehouse. You can get the phone for free by getting a monthly plan of £35 per month on the following carriers: O2, Orange, T-Mobile, or Vodafone. If [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Droid Bionic to be launched on August 4?
Not long ago, Motorola reassured us that Verizon’s Droid Bionic would be released “this summer.” Now it looks like we may have finally got hold of its exact launch date. The bad news is that the alleged date is exactly one month from now: August 4 – that’s according to a leaked screenshot unveiled by [...]
Canada: Virgin Mobile HTC Wildfire S may launch on July 8
We’ve known for quite a while that Virgin Mobile Canada will join Bell Mobility in launching the HTC Wildfire S. We’ve also assumed that it’s bound to happen soon, yet until today we haven’t heard anything about a possible release date. According to people tipping MobileSyrup, the HTC Wildfire S will become available from Virgin [...]
UK: Vodafone’s HTC Desire S gets a software update to fix SMS and Peep issues
In the UK, HTC Desire S smartphones sold by Vodafone are receiving a software update as we speak. This isn’t an update to another version of the operating system, after all the Desire S is already running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which is the latest version at the moment. No, this is more like a bug [...]
Red Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo now available at Vodafone UK, free from £26 per month
Just as we let you know it would, the red Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo has now become available from Vodafone in the UK, and the operator claims it’s got exclusivity on this color. So if you absolutely must have an Xperia Neo in red, Vodafone is your only option apparently. Other than the different color, [...]
Black BlackBerry Bold 9900 launches in the UK on September 15, white version a month later
The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 represents RIM’s effort to reinvent the classic BlackBerry form factor by making the display a touchscreen – just like, say, the Nokia E6. Unlike the Nokia E6 however, the BlackBerry 9900 seems like it’s very far away from hitting the streets. In the UK, for example, we’ve heard that Vodafone [...]
Verizon to cut prices on iPhone 4, HTC Thunderbolt?
While you’re waiting for Verizon to release the Motorola Droid 3 (which is still not officially announced, but should hit the shelves in a few weeks), you may want to know that the largest US carrier could cut the prices on two of its most popular handsets soon. The handsets are Apple’s iPhone 4, and [...]
Nokia N9′s camera may be slower than the HTC Sensation’s camera
Remember how Nokia said its new MeeGo-based N9 was “the fastest image-capturing phone on the market”? Well, it turns out that there’s at least one other smartphone which seems to pack a faster camera, and that’s the HTC Sensation. HTC itself claims on Twitter that “the Sensation’s camera is the quickest draw in the West [...]
Motorola Droid 3 360 degree view leaked, July 7 launch date apparently confirmed
Yes, the new Motorola Droid 3 is coming to Verizon later this month and, in case you want to see the handset in all its glory, well, we can help you. A 360 degree view of the new Droid has been uncovered by Droid-life, allowing us to check out the smartphone from lots of angles, [...]
HTC Flyer stylus now comes free with the tablet at Best Buy
The HTC Flyer has launched in the US via Best Buy, the company that sells HTC’s first Android tablet in its Wi-Fi-only version. The price being asked has so far been $499.99, but with a catch. See, one of the main selling points of HTC’s tablet is the stylus that the company has created especially [...]
Orange Stockholm (with Android) and Orange Sydney coming soon to the UK
More Orange-branded phones are on their way to the UK: the Orange Stockholm and the Orange Sydney. The Stockholm is Orange’s own version of the Huawei X1 U8180, so it’s an entry-level smartphone with Android 2.2 Froyo on board. It features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, 3G, Wi-Fi, Orange Maps support, 3.5mm headset jack, [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II: 3 million units already sold
Samsung has proudly announced that it sold 3 million Galaxy S II i9100 Android smartphones around the world since its initial launch (55 days ago). Thus, the new S II has become the fastest selling smartphone in the company’s history. The previous record was held by the original Galaxy S (i9000), sold in 3 million [...]
LG Optimus Black on its way to Sprint, Alltel, US Cellular, and Virgin Mobile
LG has officially announced back in May that its Optimus Black Android smartphone would eventually be launched in North America. However, back then we had no idea what carrier or carriers would sell LG’s device. In the meantime, Telus has emerged as one company that’s going to sell the Optimus Black, but so far there’s [...]
Huawei M835 now available at MetroPCS for just $79.99 without contract
MetroPCS has started selling the Huawei M835, a very affordable Android-powered device that’s actually a rebranded Huawei Ideos. The M835 (like the Ideos) is not a top of the line offering by any stretch of the imagination, but it is cheap. And it’s a cheap smartphone. That alone makes it a great deal for many. [...]
Vizio’s 8-inch Android Gingerbread tablet up for pre-order, priced from $379.99, ships on July 18
Vizio’s Android tablet certainly was a long time coming, but it’s now closer than ever. Closer to landing into eager customers’ arms. Hence the tablet sporting a rather unique screen size in an Android tablet world dominated by 10.1-inch offerings has become available to pre-order direct from Vizio. There are two options for you to [...]
Canada: HTC Sensation will cost $149.95 at Bell and Virgin Mobile
The story of the HTC Sensation‘s launch in Canada is about to hit its grand finale, at least where Bell and Virgin Mobile are concerned. See, Bell has already officially announced the smartphone, but in that announcement was no mention of either pricing or a release date. Soon after that, a leak brought us the [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray pre-orders start in the UK for £349.99, shipping on August 15
Sony Ericsson unveiled the Xperia Ray Android-powered smartphone not long ago, and since then in the UK Three has announced that it will carry it, and the Carphone Warehouse said it would launch the device sometime in August. So from Sony Ericsson’s initial release time frame of “in the third quarter of this year”, we [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Droid 3 is a world phone. Specs list unveiled
It shouldn’t be long now until the Motorola Droid 3 becomes available at Verizon – it could happen on July 14. In the meantime, you may want to know that the new Droid will be a world phone – a detail that wasn’t unveiled until now. So, just like the Droid 2 Global Edition, the [...]
Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPad 3 could hit the market in October
Here’s yet another round of iPhone 5 and iPad 3 rumors: according to unnamed industry sources from Taiwan, Apple’s new smartphone and tablet “are likely” to become available in October this year. DigiTimes has it that Taiwan-based component makers have already begun to prepare materials for the new iPhone and new iPad, which may be [...]