US Cellular BlackBerry Torch 9850 will be available on August 26 for $199.99
Just like we heard before, the new BlackBerry Torch 9850 is headed to US Cellular. Today, the carrier has decided to make this official, and thankfully it didn’t hold off any important details such as the release date or pricing information. So, the new Torch 9850 will be available from US Cellular both in stores [...]
Motorola Fire will be available in the UK next month
Last month, Motorola first unveiled the XT316. It’s already selling in China, and it’s also headed to Europe as the Motorola Fire and Latin America as the Spice Key. Today, Motorola has officially given us a time frame for the Fire’s release in the UK. The smartphone will be available over there towards the end [...]
Nokia 600, 700, and 701 announced, all running Symbian Belle and coming before the end of September
Remember how around the end of June there was a leak which brought us rough specs for four new Symbian smartphones? Well, since then, one of the devices on that list was already made official – the Nokia 500, which was the first handset to sport Nokia’s revised-yet-again naming system. And today the other three [...]
HTC Puccini caught in wild, coming to AT&T with LTE
We’ve heard a lot about the HTC Puccini in the past few months; mostly rumors and some FCC filings, but nothing really concrete. Today a picture has surfaced of the HTC Puccini confirming that the tablet is indeed coming to AT&T and will run on AT&T’s upcoming LTE network. Sources indicate that the Puccini is [...]
New Samsung Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro announced
Remember how we told you that Samsung was getting ready to rethink the naming strategy for its Galaxy smartphones? Well, today the South Korean giant has officially announced this. From now on, any new Galaxy handset will bear one of these five letters: S (Super Smart) – obviously, as the already-available Galaxy S i9000 and [...]
White HTC EVO 3D available exclusively at RadioShack starting September 9th
The HTC EVO 3D is already a pretty awesome phone, and it looks even more awesome now that it comes in a slick white color. This white EVO 3D will be heading to Radio Shack and will be exclusively sold starting September 9th. If you are unfamiliar with the HTC EVO 3D, it spots a 4.3-inch [...]
Sprint iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 expected to be released in October
Sprint might become the third US mobile carrier to officially offer Apple’s iPhone, following AT&T and Verizon (which started selling a CDMA version of the smartphone earlier this year). According to The Wall Street Journal, “people familiar with the matter” (yes, those proverbial and always anonymous people) said the iPhone 5 would become available at [...]
Verizon LG Enlighten images leaked again, release imminent
At the beginning of August, a render of what’s going to be Verizon’s LG Enlighten leaked, alongside a few details about its specs and a purported August 25 release date. Since we’re nearing that exact day, new images depicting the LG Enlighten have leaked. This time, it’s a full promotional set, and they allow you [...]
Sony S1 Android tablet will be called Tablet S when it lands in early September
Sony’s S1 Android-powered tablet is a device we first heard about in February. Since then, more details have popped up a few times, yet the tablet has so far remained quite elusive. That’s set to change since, according to Engadget, Sony will make it available in the US in early September. That’s not all. It [...]
BlackBerry Curve 9360 headed to O2 and Vodafone in the UK, Telus, Rogers, and Virgin in Canada
Here’s another bit of RIM-related news. As you may already know, the Canadian company has announced three new BlackBerry Curve smartphones today, the 9350, 9360, and 9370. The former of those is already on its way to Sprint, as we reported minutes ago. The Curve 9360 is headed to Bell in Canada and possibly T-Mobile [...]
Verizon Motorola Droid Bionic shown with September 8 release date and $299.99 price once again
The Droid Bionic saga is about to end, apparently. That doesn’t mean the phone was cancelled or anything like that, it just means that it may finally see the light of day, and, as such, all the leaks surrounding it are bound to stop. In a couple of weeks, it seems. See, a few days [...]
Samsung Impulse 4G – AT&T’s first LTE Android smartphone?
We’ve already seen two of AT&T’s upcoming (and still unannounced) Samsung Android smartphones in the last few weeks, so I’m surprised that we now have details on yet another one. Called Samsung Impulse 4G, this new device “could” become AT&T’s first LTE-capable smartphone – that’s that BGR is claiming anyway. Reportedly, the Impulse 4G looks [...]
Sprint’s BlackBerry Curve 9350 will be available on September 9 for $79.99
Earlier today, RIM announced its new BlackBerry Curve trio, and Sprint hasn’t wasted any time in letting us know that it will officially launch one of those devices, namely the 9350. So far, we already knew that Bell and T-Mobile will launch the Curve 9360, and it looks like all three handsets unveiled today will [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad tablet now ready to order starting at $499, ships on August 29
After about a month since the official announcement, Lenovo’s second Android-powered tablet, the ThinkPad, is now available to order from the manufacturer’s website. Lenovo has previously launched the IdeaPad tablet in the US, which is aimed more at ‘consumers’, according to the company – while the ThinkPad tablet is more for ‘professionals’. The ThinkPad tablet [...]
Redesigned Samsung Galaxy S II (for the US) shows up in promo video
Samsung Mobile USA has posted a new promo video on its official YouTube channel in order to inform he world that its flagship Android smartphone – the Galaxy S II – will be released Stateside soon. While we already knew that, there’s still a surprise in the video: it shows a different Galaxy S II [...]
Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T, the world’s first Windows Phone Mango device, launches on August 25
The world’s first smartphone to run the latest version of Windows Phone, called Mango, is ready to start selling. The Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T will be sold by Japanese carrier KDDI starting on August 25, which is in just a couple of days. So the wait for Mango, which was many months long, is almost finally [...]
Motorola Xoom Android 3.1 update now out in Canada
The Android 3.1 update for the Motorola Xoom is now rolling out in Canada, the company has announced via Twitter earlier. It’s unclear why it took this long for Motorola to release an update that’s been available in the US since May. What’s more, in the US the Xoom has already been updated to Android [...]
Rumor: iPhone 5 will be a dual-mode CDMA+GSM device
Ready for some more iPhone-related rumors? Well, here you go. Apparently, the iPhone 5 will have dual-mode (CDMA+GSM) connectivity, which would make it a ‘global roaming device’ or ‘world phone’, as they say. TechCrunch spoke to a prominent (but unnamed) iOS developer who saw app usage logs from the same device, but with two different [...]
Nokia C3-01 Gold Edition gets unveiled as a budget gold-plated featurephone with 1 GHz processor
Nokia has announced and released a new phone today, the C3-01 Gold Edition, a budget gold-plated S40 featurephone. First off, let’s get something straight. This isn’t a (true) budget featurephone. There are many other featurephones a lot cheaper than this. However, it is a budget gold-plated featurephone. You’ll be hard pressed to find a cheaper [...]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 and A501 Android 3.2 update now rolling out (at least in Poland)
Following in the footsteps of the Motorola Xoom and the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Acer’s two 10.1-inch Android-powered tablets, the Iconia Tab A500 and the Iconia Tab A501 are apparently now getting their Android 3.2 update. Android 3.2 is still classified as Honeycomb, and it brings a few enhancements alongside what’s probably a slew of [...]