Sony Ericsson’s 2011 Xperia line will get Android Ice Cream Sandwich
If you’ve bought (or will buy) an Xperia smartphone released this year, you won’t have to worry about software updates for a while. Not long after announcing that the 2011 Xperia line would receive Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread updates, Sony Ericsson has now told SoMobile that all its Xperia devices made this year will also be [...]
Motorola Droid Bionic now available on Verizon for $300
Have you been eager to hop aboard Verizon’s LTE bandwagon but were patient enough to wait for the Motorola Droid Bionic to get released? If so, it’s time to receive your reward. After nine painful months riddled with delays and design changes, you can now jump over to Verizon’s site and grab the latest 4G [...]
BlackBerry Curve 9360 to cost $230 at T-Mobile USA (off contract)
Officially announced at the end of August alongside its 9350 and 9370 CDMA versions, the BlackBerry Curve 9860 will be released by T-Mobile USA soon. Rumor has it that it’s going to happen on September 14, but we can’t be sure of that just yet. What we can tell you is that the new Curve [...]
Android Ice Cream Sandwich will be launched in October or November, says Eric Schmidt
During a recent conference held in San Francisco, Eric Schmidt has confirmed that the next iteration of Android – Ice Cream Sandwich – will be released in October or November this year. The confirmation has been caught on video – we’ve embedded it below. The video is an hour long, so you may want to [...]
AT&T announces the Huawei Impulse 4G, its cheapest 4G Android phone ever
Huawei is not a brand you’d expect to find when checking out smartphones offered by major US mobile carriers. And yet AT&T has just announced the Huawei Impulse 4G – its first handset that’s manufactured by the Chinese company. The Impulse 4G will be available starting September 18 for only $29.99 on contract. And yes, [...]
Motorola Droid Bionic officially hits Verizon tomorrow for $300
Verizon and Motorola have finally announced the launch date of the uber-delayed Droid Bionic. And, as expected, it’s September 8 (yes, that’s tomorrow). Measuring 127.5 x 66.9 x 10.99 mm, the Moto Droid Bionic is Verizon’s thinnest LTE smartphone. It obviously runs Android Gingerbread (2.3.4), and features a 4.3 inch qHD display, Wi-Fi, GPS, ZumoCast [...]
Google Nexus Prime name confirmed by Samsung
Samsung has (accidentally?) confirmed the name of Google’s next Android smartphone – which, as previously heard, will be called Nexus Prime. The company has posted an User Agent Profile for the Nexus Prime on its official website, also confirming that the handset’s model number is GT-I9250. What’s weird is that, according to Nexus Prime’s UAProf [...]
Samsung Stratosphere hits FCC, confirms LTE support
The following image below may only be a sketch of the Samsung SCH-i405(commonly known as the Samsung Stratosphere), but more importantly it came from an FCC filing, indicating that the device is in fact on its way to Verizon and will arrive at some point in the near future. The documents have confirmed that the Samsung [...]
Vodafone’s Blue Facebook phone launched in India
Less than a month after introducing its Blue Facebook phone in the UK, Vodafone has now announced the handset in India, too – where the carrier is serving more than 100 million customers. The Vodafone Blue will cost 4,950 INR (about $107), and should become available to Indian customers later this month. The handset has [...]
Verizon officially intros the BlackBerry Torch 9850
Verizon Wireless has confirmed the launch date of its BlackBerry Torch 9850 (already available at Sprint and US Cellular): September 8. Starting this day, customers will be able to buy the 9850 online. The handset will also be available in stores, but only after September 15. Verizon will ask $199.99 (new 2-yr contract required) for [...]
Sources: If T-Mobile’s value drops, so could AT&T merger’s “break fee”
Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Mobile’s parent company that is trying to sell the US division to AT&T, could miss out on the substantial fee they stand to collect if the merger is not approved, sources tell Reuters. The German telecommunications giant negotiated a $6B “break fee”—comprised of cash and other assets—that they would collect if regulators [...]
AT&T’s HTC Holiday LTE Android phone appears in new photos
Although it hasn’t been officially announced yet, we know that the HTC Holiday is going to be one of AT&T’s first 4G LTE smartphones (if not the first). We’ve seen the handset a few times until now, but only in rather blurry photos, so you may be interested to see the Holiday in a set [...]
Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman launched by Vodafone UK
Sony Ericsson’s first Walkman-branded touchscreen phone, the Mix Walkman, is now available for purchase at Vodafone UK. The British mobile operator asks only £80 (€91) for the handset on Pay As You Go. Although it doesn’t run Android (like the SE Live Walkman), the Mix Walkman seems to be a nice (albeit little) music phone. [...]
Sony Tablet S to hit the US on September 16
Sony USA is now taking pre-orders for its very first Android tablet, the 9.4-inch Tablet S, and promises to ship it “on or about September 16.” Interested customers can order both the 16GB and the 32GB versions of the new Honeycomb device. The Tablet S 16GB costs $499.99, while the Tablet S 32GB costs $599.99. [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9860, Torch 9810 and Curve 9360 show up at O2 UK’s website
We’ve already told you that O2 UK would release the BlackBerry Torch 9860, Torch 9810 and Curve 9360, but now we know when exactly it’s going to happen. According to O2′s Coming Soon webpage, the new RIM smartphones will be launched later this month. All of them run BlackBerry OS 7, and are made for [...]
Verizon’s Samsung Stratosphere SCH-I405 pictured
Although it’s not quite a Galaxy S II, as believed back in August, the Samsung Stratosphere SCH-I405 will most probably be seen as a great smartphone by lots of Verizon customers. The Stratosphere has just appeared in officially-looking images, allowing us to check it out both closed, and with its (nice?) QWERTY keyboard out. Feature-wise, [...]
BlackBerry Torch 9810 now up for pre-order on contract in the UK, free from £31 per month
If you’re in the UK and are lusting after RIM’s new BlackBerry Torch 9810, you now have one more opportunity to pre-order one such device. You have been able to do just that for a while now, but only if you wanted a SIM-free, contract-free, unlocked handset. If, however, you don’t mind signing a long-term [...]
UK: Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi now just £329.99
Motorola’s Xoom Android Honeycomb tablet doesn’t look like it’s selling too well in the UK. And if you consider that it launched with the pretty outrageous (at least for non-Apple products) price of £499.99 for the Wi-Fi-only version, you may know why. Granted, in the meantime we’ve seen its price cut once, and by a lot, [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 now available at Vodafone UK from £229
Apparently not at all influenced by Samsung’s legal troubles in other European countries, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has become available at Vodafone in the UK. This is Samsung’s newer, slimmer 10.1 model, and not the 10.1v that was first announced in February, which Vodafone decided not to sell after all. The Android-powered tablet can be [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note and SE Xperia Arc S can be pre-ordered in the UK
Samsung Galaxy Note and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S (two of the new Android Gingerbread devices announced last week) can be pre-ordered now in the UK thanks to Clove. The Xperia Arc S – which bests the original Arc with a 1.4GHz processor and a 3D-capable camera – costs £349.99 (about €400), and should become [...]