Verizon’s Pantech Breakout LTE Android phone officially announced
Verizon has finally acknowledged the existence of the LTE-capable Pantech Breakout, a handset that we’ve seen quite a few times until now. The largest US mobile carrier has announced that the Breakout would be available starting September 22 (this Thursday) for $99 on contract after a $50 mail-in rebate – thus becoming the cheapest 4G [...]
ViewSonic V430 is the company’s third Android handset
ViewSonic has announced its third Android smartphone (after the ViewPad 4 and the V350) – the V430, a fairly large handset that sports a 4.3 inch WVGA display, and makes use of ViewSonic’s ViewScene 3D interface. Unfortunately, unlike the ViewPad 4 (which runs Android Gingerbread), the V430 comes with Android 2.2 Froyo. Other features include: [...]
Acer C6 Liquid Express (E320) coming to Orange UK
Orange UK is getting ready to launch another Android smartphone, namely the Acer C6 Liquid Express. Also known as Acer E320, the C6 Liquid Express runs Android Gingerbread, and is a mid-end device. It features a 3.5 inch HVGA display, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP camera, and an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM Turbo processor. Orange [...]
LG announces the Optimus Q2, confirms upcoming HD Android smartphone
LG has officially introduced a new QWERTY Android handset: the LG Optimus Q2. Coming as the successor to the first Optimus Q (announced in 2010 and only released in South Korea), the Optimus Q2 runs Android Gingerbread, and is one of the thinnest QWERTY sliders ever (12.4mm). The new smartphone features a bright 4 inch [...]
Samsung Wave 3 to be launched in October
Samsung’s newest Bada flagship smartphone, the Wave 3 S8600, will reportedly become available starting October. According to SammyHub, Samsung has confirmed this during a Bada event held in India. The South Korean company didn’t unveil the first markets to get the Wave 3 (and neither its price), but it did mention that the handset would [...]
AT&T Samsung Focus S hits FCC
If you are interested in AT&Ts fall Mango lineup, you’ll be excited to hear that the Samung Focus S has just hit the FCC and is currently on its way to AT&T. The Samsung Focus was one of three phones introduced in AT&T’s fall lineup: the Samsung Focus S, the HTC Titan, and the Samsung [...]
Verizon’s Samsung Stratosphere to arrive at RadioShack on October 6, HTC Vigor on October 20
The upcoming Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon was first leaked last month alongside the HTC Vigor. The Stratosphere is going to be a decently-specced (but not high-end) Android-powered smartphone with a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard and 4G LTE support. It will in fact be Verizon’s first LTE slider. The Stratosphere was pictured once before, and it even [...]
Nokia 700 and 701 to hit stores soon
Nokia 700 and 701 handsets running Symbian Belle will be available in stores any day now, company Tweeted today . This happens only a month after the devices were formally introduced, which is surprisingly prompt for Nokia. Looks like the Finnish company will deliver according to plan, as the devices, including a still unreleased Nokia 600, were lined up [...]
Canada: cheap Nokia X2-01 with QWERTY on its way to Fido
In Canada, Fido is getting ready to add another affordable phone to its roster. This time, it’s what the carrier understandably chose to call the Nokia X2, even if the device’s actual model number is (convoluted, as has been the norm with Nokia’s previous naming scheme) X2-01. Anyway, this is a cheap phone which has, [...]
Huawei U8520 (Android with dual SIM) unveiled by the FCC
Huawei introduced lots of Android phones until now, but none of them feature dual SIM capabilities. Well, the new Huawei U8520 does. Unveiled by the FCC recently (User Manual included), the U8520 runs Android 2.2, and comes with a HVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3MP camera, and a 1GHz processor. Only one of the phone’s SIM [...]
Samsung leaks a picture of the Illusion for Verizon
Earlier this month we first saw a leaked render of the Samsung Illusion, which was supposedly a new Android-powered smartphone headed to Verizon. Back then an image of the Pantech Breakout also leaked, and we’ve since heard a lot more about that device than the Illusion. But Verizon does seem set to launch the Illusion [...]
Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch now available to order online
After a long, long wait Sprint’s very own version of the highly successful Samsung Galaxy S II is now available to order online from the carrier’s website. The Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (it does sometimes seem that there’s a ‘longest and most convoluted name ever’ contest going on between carriers without our [...]
Verizon’s Pantech Breakout gets photographed out and about
The Pantech Breakout will probably be Verizon’s most affordable 4G LTE phone to date. We’re expecting its price to be one of its main features, considering that, while it is a pretty decent Android smartphone, it’s in no way a high-end offering with its single-core 1 GHz processor, 5 MP camera, and 4-inch WVGA touchscreen. [...]
Samsung’s Focus S and Flash Windows Phone Mango handsets not coming to the UK?
Announced by AT&T last week, the Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash (the first two Windows Phone Mango handsets from Samsung) may not be released in the UK. According to SoMobile, “a representative from Samsung Europe has confirmed that the company currently has no plans to bring either of these phones to the UK.” However, [...]
Unlocked Nokia E7 now just $404 at Amazon
The Nokia E7, arguably the company’s last Symbian flagship device, has been available in the US since April, although how well it has sold so far is anyone’s guess. Ours is that whoever buys one of these in the States is either a die-hard Symbian fan, only buys stuff based on looks, or simply likes [...]
Verizon’s HTC Vigor may launch on October 13 as the Droid Incredible HD
Yesterday a press shot of Verizon’s upcoming HTC Vigor got leaked, and along with it came information that ‘Vigor’ will be the device’s final name, and not a mere codename. However, here we are not one day later and new information seems to claim that’s not the case. Droid Life has received the image you [...]
LG LU6200 with HD display, Android and LTE coming soon
LG is getting ready to launch its first smartphone to feature an HD (1280 x 720) display: the LG LU6200. Expected to be released in South Korea on September 26, the LU6200 seems to be LG’s next flagship smartphone. The HD screen (4.5 inches) is obviously not the only high-end feature of the handset, as [...]
Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 receives a minor software update
If you have one of Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 units, here’s some good news. Samsung and the carrier are busy pushing out a minor (yet not unimportant) software update to your device. The new software is version I905.EH04 and updating is obviously recommended. It’s always good to run the latest software, and if you’ve [...]
HTC Vigor press shot leaks, launch may happen any second now
The HTC Vigor is an oft-leaked Android superphone that’s supposedly headed to Verizon. According to previous rumors, it should have a 4.3-inch 1280×720 HD display, a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, and an 8-megapixel camera. It’s also said to come with Beats audio, just like the recently announced Sensation XE. After a MAP listing leak here [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 now up for pre-order at Best Buy, priced from $469.99
Almost six full months after it was announced, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 still isn’t available to buy anywhere. But it does now feel like there’s some progress being made towards this tablet’s release. In the US of A, Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for the Galaxy Tab 10.1′s smaller sibling. Unfortunately the retailer [...]