Sony Ericsson Xperia Play on sale for $99.99 at Verizon
If you happen to like the Android operating system and playstation games, you’ll probably like the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. You’ll be even more ecstatic to hear that you can get the device for half of its original price from Verizon. Verizon claims to be selling the device for $99.99 with a new two year contract for [...]
T-Mobile HTC Marvel to be launched as Wildfire S after all?
Although it was supposed to arrive at T-Mobile USA on July 15, the HTC Marvel hasn’t been released yet, and there’s no official word on when this could happen. However, there is a new rumor regarding it: TmoNews has it that the device won’t be called Marvel at launch, but HTC Wildfire S – which, [...]
Samsung Galaxy Q with Android Gingerbread headed to Rogers
Rogers is getting ready to launch another Samsung Galaxy smartphone – although not a high-end one, like the Galaxy S Infuse 4G is.The new handset is called Samsung Galaxy Q, and seems to be an entry-level device with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. According to Mobile Syrup, the Galaxy Q should feature a 3.2 inch screen [...]
Motorola Droid Bionic to have Netflix support at launch
About a week ago, Verizon Wireless put up a Droid Bionic page on its website, hinting at an imminent release of the uber-delayed new Moto smartphone. While we still cannot say when exactly the Bionic will hit the shelves (it should happen sometime in August), we have a piece of info that may please some [...]
Lenovo officially intros the ThinkPad and IdeaPad K1 Android Honeycomb tablets
Lenovo has officially announced the launch of three new tablets, two running Android 3.1 Honeycomb (Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet and Lenovo IdeaPad K1), and one running Windows 7 (IdeaPad Tablet P1, which isn’t of interest to us). The two Android tablets will be available in the US, the UK, and Germany – and most likely in [...]
Australia: HTC Wildfire S now available at Telstra
The HTC Wildfire S has finally made its way to Telstra in Australia, a couple of months after we first heard it would. The HTC Wildfire S is the Taiwanese manufacturer’s lower-midrange Android offering for 2011, and it comes with some pretty decent specs and is generally quite affordable (at least compared to HTC’s other [...]
Why Millions of People are Hating the Google+ iPhone App Right Now
It has been over three weeks since Google launched their first ever successful social network. How do I know it is a success? Because for starters, everyone is raving about it. Sure, there are some kinks that need working out such as random people showing up in my stream despite the fact that they are [...]
Rogers Samsung Galaxy S Infuse 4G will cost $149.99 with three-year contract, $549.99 outright
Last month we first heard that Rogers was getting ready to release the Samsung Galaxy S Infuse 4G, which is its version of AT&T’s Infuse 4G, an Android superphone that comes with a mammoth 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen. Since the original announcement in June though we haven’t heard a thing about Rogers’ Infuse 4G. [...]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer goes to India, priced at Rs. 32,999
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer has so far been one of the best selling Android Honeycomb tablets, if not the best selling, and that’s thanks in no small part to its price, which is more affordable than the competition. After becoming available in the US, the UK, and in many other territories, the Eee Pad [...]
HTC ChaCha launches in India, will cost Rs. 15,990
After its Facebook-centric sibling, the HTC Salsa, was officially launched in India last month, the QWERTY-packing HTC ChaCha has been announced today too for the Indian market. The recommended retail price will be Rs.15,990 and Tata Docomo customers who get one will receive some benefits, regardless of whether they’re using Tata’s 2G or 3G network, [...]
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Android 2.3 Gingerbread update starts today, rolls out until the end of the year
If you own a T-Mobile myTouch 4G Android-powered smartphone, here’s some good news and some bad news. The good news is that T-Mobile will start rolling out the update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread for your device today. So after many months of waiting, the update is finally ready for the myTouch 4G. The bad news [...]
Samsung says the Galaxy R hasn’t been confirmed for the UK
Yesterday we got word that a new Samsung Android-powered smartphone would become available in the UK later this month – the Galaxy R. This in fact is just another name for the Galaxy Z that we’ve already seen pop up in Sweden, which itself is just a Galaxy S II spinoff, so to speak. Why [...]
Nokia Sea Ray has (some of) its specs leaked
Sea Ray is the codename (or perhaps the actual shipping name, it’s unclear at this point) of the first Nokia Windows Phone 7 device, that will be out before the end of this year. We’ve seen the Nokia Sea Ray in a leaked video yesterday, and today a purported list of (some of) its specs [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II will be launched next month in the US, says Samsung exec
We already know that the new Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 will be available in the US soon. But when exactly? Well, according to Shin Jong-kyun, president of Samsung’s mobile business, the new Android Gingerbread handset should hit the US market “sometime in August.” Shin Jong-kyun didn’t provide more details, but we’ve heard that most [...]
Google+ app now available for iPhone users
The Google+ mobile site was just updated to fix the IE compatibility issue for Windows 7 users and as previously promised, the iOS app of the popular Google+ service is now available in the app store. Unfortunately, it is only available for iPhone users in the US and will not work with an iPad 2 [...]
Motorola Dinara Android superphone arrives this winter with 13 MP camera and HD screen
The rumor mill is at it again. Today’s rumored device is what Motorola will launch after the mythical Droid Bionic. The next Android-powered flagship device to come out of Moto has the codename Dinara for now. That may or may not end up being the name of the handset in one market or another. The [...]
Apple posts another record quarter, new iPhone confirmed to come before the end of September
Apple has reported its results for the second quarter of this year (which, confusingly, is Apple’s third fiscal quarter – yet I will refer to it as Q2). That’s the April-June quarter for you and me. Records have been broken yet again. Apple certainly looks like it’s on a roll lately, reporting record quarter after [...]
HTC Hero 4G to be the final name of Sprint’s HTC Kingdom?
Last time we heard about it, the HTC Kingdom had passed the FCC, and was on its way to Sprint (with WiMax connectivity in tow). Now, new details have been uncovered, suggesting that “Kingdom” will not be the smartphone’s final name. Say, how do you like the “HTC Hero 4G” name? This has appeared on [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray coming to O2 UK in September
As (probably) expected, Three UK isn’t the only British mobile carrier that will release the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray in September. O2 will also do it – and we know this because the carrier has just added the Ray to its website’s Coming Soon section (where it joined the Xperia Mini Pro, and the Sony [...]
ViewSonic’s ViewPad 4 and V350 (dual SIM) Android phones to be launched in India
In Q1 this year, ViewSonic announced its first two Android smartphones, the ViewPad 4, and the V350. Neither of them seem to be available for purchase right now, though. However, if The Mobile Indian‘s report is correct, both handsets should be launched in India sometime soon. Running Android Gingerbread, the ViewPad 4 features a 4.1 [...]