New Nokia Sea Ray prototype with Windows Phone Mango caught on video
If you care about Nokia’s future, you’ve probably heard of the Nokia Sea Ray, which might become the company’s first (released) Windows Phone handset. Initially showcased by Stephen Elop about a month ago, the Sea Ray has now appeared in a new video, most likely shot in a factory somewhere in South East Asia. The [...]
Samsung Galaxy R (Z) with Android Gingerbread and Tegra CPU coming to the UK this month
The new Samsung Galaxy Z, which was officially introduced in Sweden last month, is also headed to the UK. It won’t be called Galaxy Z there, though, but Galaxy R. Coming as the little brother of the Galaxy S II I9100, the Galaxy R / Z features a 4.2 inch S-LCD WVGA display, 1GHz dual-core [...]
AT&T HTC Puccini passes through the FCC
We first saw the HTC Puccini back in May. The latest info we have is that the tablet passed through the FCC today with model number PG09410. The tablet spots the normal AT&T GSM 850, 1900MHz frequencies and 3G WCDMA 850 and 1900MHz bands. The most interesting feature of the device is the LTE radios built into [...]
Sprint Motorola Titanium will be available on July 24 for $149.99
Just as a past leak said it would, the Motorola Titanium for Sprint will become available on July 24 (that’s this coming Sunday). Today this got official as Sprint finally decided to put up a press release saying so. The Motorola Titanium is an Android-powered smartphone that is certified to military spec 810G for being [...]
Pantech Breeze III flip featurephone now available at AT&T for $49.99
Aside from the HTC Status, AT&T had another phone launch today. And even if the price is identical to that of HTC’s Facebook-centric Android-powered smartphone, this is anything but a smartphone. In fact, it has to be aimed at those people who absolutely hate smartphones, or hate the idea of a phone doing anything more [...]
Verizon’s Samsung SCH-i405 (Android Gingerbread, LTE) shows up again
Last month, we’ve seen an unannounced Samsung Android smartphone that’s supposed to arrive at Verizon. Called Samsung SCH-405, the handset has appeared again now, in more photos. And, more importantly, we’ve got new details on its features. Apparently, the SCH-405 is running Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, and is an LTE device. According to Android Central, the [...]
How Social Media is Evolving Before our Eyes Thanks to Mobile Technology
If there is one phrase that is ridiculously overused on the Web, it is the term “Social media”. If you sit down and think about it for a second, “Social Media” is the same as “Web 2.0”, “New Media”, and a whole list of other catch phrases people throw around on the interwebs. Putting aside [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid 3 now just $69.99 with new contract
Verizon’s Motorola Droid 3 hasn’t even been out for a full month, yet we’ve already seen some good deals on it at third party retailers such as Wirefly and Amazon. The latter of those looks like it wasn’t satisfied offering the Droid 3 for just $149.99 with a new two-year contract (in fact $50 cheaper [...]
Archos 80 G9 and 101 G9 Android tablets get official prices, starting at $299.99
Back in June, Archos amazed us introducing its two ninth-generation tablets (G9), the 80 and the 101. These will be the first Android-powered tablets made by Archos to come with the full Google apps package, Android Market included. They will also be the first Archos tablets to run Android Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of Google’s [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini and Mini Pro up for pre-order in the UK on contract, free from £15/month
Sony Ericsson announced the new Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro (the successors to the Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro) back in May. Since then, we’ve seen the Mini go up for pre-order in the UK in its unlocked and SIM-free form for £239.99. And now both phones can be pre-ordered with contracts [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Active pre-orders start in the UK for £229.99, shipping on September 9
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Active was announced last month alongside the Xperia Ray, but while we’ve heard quite a lot about the latter, the Active has managed to keep a low profile up until now. The water-resistant and dustproof smartphone has gone up for pre-order in the UK, courtesy of well known online retailer Play.com. [...]
AT&T HTC Status now available for $49.99
Just as expected, the HTC Status has become available from AT&T. The HTC Status is in fact the US carrier’s own version of the internationally-launched HTC ChaCha. This is an Android-powered smartphone (running the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, 2.3 Gingerbread) and one of two HTC devices to come (so far, at least) [...]
ZTE Skate gets priced in the UK, pre-orders start, may ship on September 19
Ever since MWC in February, we’ve been patiently waiting for ZTE to bring the Skate to market. The ZTE Skate is a smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it comes with a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, an 800 MHz processor, and a 5 MP camera. So this phone is a midranger, with one spec (the screen) [...]
Russian Megafon posts thousands of customer SMS to the open Web
When Google was just getting started and some companies didn’t have enough experience to keep their customer data really private, all kinds of interesting things used to end up on the Web. Including personally identifiable information, medical records and credit card numbers. Eventually things did get better, but sometimes we still get an interesting data [...]
5 Steps Google Must Take Now To Bring Google+ into the Mobile Sphere
It is official; Google has made it in the world of social networks. After countless failures, the likes of Buzz and Wave, Google+ has hit ten million users in a short period of two weeks. It seems that user feedback is overwhelmingly positive once you get passed the initial “I don’t get why I need [...]
Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Within images get leaked
We’ve known for quite a while that the Samsung Galaxy S II was headed to the big US carriers. It was pretty obvious just from looking at the original Galaxy S and its distribution stateside, but we also got a leak stating as much back in May. As with its predecessor, the Galaxy S II [...]
LG Optimus 3D Android 2.3 Gingerbread update will be available in the UK in October
If you’re thinking of buying an LG Optimus 3D, but saw that it runs Android 2.2 Froyo and want to know when to expect an update to the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, here’s some bad news. LG has told The Inquirer that the Optimus 3D will be updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread [...]
The world’s first Windows Phone Mango handset could be the Fujitsu IS12T
Remember the Fujitsu Windows Phone Mango handset that Microsoft showcased a few days ago, alongside new devices from Samsung, Acer and ZTE? It turns out that this may become the world’s first available Mango smartphone. If Nikkei and Nanapho (both being Japanese websites) are correct in their claims, the handset, currently called Fujitsu IS12T / [...]
UK: Samsung Google Nexus S now just £299.99 SIM-free and unlocked
The Samsung-made Google Nexus S was launched back in December as the second ‘pure Google’ Android smartphone. Since then, it’s seen a rather cool deal in the UK in May, when its Super LCD version went for just £318. Today, however, the mother of all Nexus S deals has landed in the UK courtesy of well [...]
Refurbished Apple iPhone 3GS now only $9 at AT&T
While we post many deals, sometimes several per day, they very, very rarely involve any Apple product. Regardless of why that may be, whenever an iPhone deal is available, it almost feels like it’s something special. Today is one of those days. AT&T is now selling refurbished iPhone 3GS smartphones for just $9 a piece. [...]