Sprint announces the Samsung Transform Ultra for Boost Mobile, available on October 7 for $229.99
Sprint’s no-contract brand, Boost Mobile, has added a new Android-powered smartphone to its roster today. The Samsung Transform Ultra apparently “complements the existing Samsung Galaxy Prevail“, which has, in just four months since its launch, become the best-selling no-contract smartphone in Samsung’s history. Boost Mobile obviously hopes the Transform Ultra will do just as well. [...]
Canada: Wind Mobile launches the affordable, Android-powered Alcatel One Touch 908s
If you’re in Canada and Wind Mobile is your carrier of choice, listen up. If you’d like to get an affordable Android-powered smartphone, even better – Wind Mobile now has something for you. The carrier has made the Alcatel One Touch 908s available today. This is an Android smartphone, but not in any way a [...]
Acer Iconia Smart finally available in the UK for £389.99
Remember the Acer Iconia Smart? This oddity was first semi-announced during MWC in February, when Acer claimed it’s both 100% smartphone and 100% tablet. Logic-defying arguments aside, the Iconia Smart is certainly no ordinary smartphone with its 4.8-inch 1024×480 touchscreen. However, many months have passed since February and the rest of this device’s specs don’t [...]
The Vodafone Smart makes it to India, can be yours for Rs. 6,695
The Vodafone Smart is the operator’s own-branded budget Android-powered device that was announced back in May and went on sale in the UK in June. The Smart was always supposed to be headed to almost all the countries where Vodafone has a presence, and that rollout is still ongoing apparently. The Smart has now made [...]
Asus Eee Pad Slider will finally be available later this month, priced from $475
The Asus Eee Pad Slider was announced in January alongside the Eee Pad MeMo and the Eee Pad Transformer, yet somehow only the latter of those devices got launched so far. Eight months is a lot of time in the mobile world, although Asus looks like it’s finally ready to unleash the Eee Pad Slider [...]
Telus will launch the 4G Samsung Galaxy S II X soon
As the Samsung Galaxy S II slowly makes it to North America, many carriers are getting ready to offer it to their customers. Of course there will be many different versions of this device, each tailored to one specific carrier, just like what happened last year with the Samsung Galaxy S. In Canada we’ve known [...]
White HTC Sensation and Sensation XE will be available in the UK on October 1
HTC announced the Sensation XE yesterday. This will certainly be the company’s flagship smartphone for the remainder of this year. The bumped-up Sensation will become available shortly. In the UK, we’ve already heard that the launch date is set to be October 1. When HTC showed us the Sensation XE yesterday, only one color scheme [...]
Verizon’s affordable Pantech Breakout with 4G LTE will be available on September 22
Being able to surf the Web at 4G LTE speeds on your smartphone is nice and all, but not everyone has $300 lying around to buy one of Verizon’s current 4G LTE-enabled devices. For those who’d like to get some LTE love but simply can’t afford the high-end handsets that Big Red has offered so [...]
HTC Runnymede to be launched as HTC Bass?
Since the “HTC Runnymede” name doesn’t really make sense for HTC’s latest (and yet to be announced) Android smartphone, I’m expecting the company to officially introduce it under a different name. And if we’re to believe UK retailer Handtec, the new moniker is HTC Bass – not an impressive name, but it surely fits with [...]
HTC Bliss(Rhyme) press shot leaked, headed for a September 20th launch date?
The first press shot of the rumored HTC Bliss has just been leaked on the German site HTCInside. The guys over there are calling the Bliss the HTC Rhyme, which may be the name at launch, although this just could also be an international name. The press shot is likely off the international version due [...]
HTC ChaCha is Facebook-less in China, comes with QQ button instead
Just like it did with the HTC Salsa before launching it in China, HTC has ditched Facebook from its ChaCha smartphone, too, in order to ready it for a release in the world’s largest mobile market. Instead of a Facebook button and Facebook integration, the China-bound ChaCha comes with a QQ button, and various QQ-related [...]
UK: Sony Ericsson Xperia Active now delayed until September 30
The Xperia Active is Sony Ericsson’s contender in the still quite small rugged Android smartphone space. Judging from the ruggedness perspective alone, the Xperia Active is Sony Ericsson’s answer to Motorola’s Defy and Defy+ and Samsung’s Galaxy Xcover. That said, these devices do differ quite a bit on raw features, so pick wisely before you [...]
HTC Titan pre-orders start in the Netherlands for €508, shipping on October 7
If you like Windows Phone and think that bigger is always better, you probably already love the HTC Titan. If you enjoy actually seeing each individual pixel in your phone’s display, then you may just adore HTC’s new flagship WP offering. And if you’re in the Netherlands, here’s some good news. If you want to [...]
HTC Kingdom may hit US Cellular as the Hero S
The HTC Kingdom is a device we’ve been hearing about for months. ‘Kingdom’ is, of course, its internal codename, and this Android-powered smartphone will arrive on the market (hopefully pretty soon) sporting a number of other monikers. Last month we found out two of those. According to information leaked back then, the HTC Kingdom would [...]
New BlackBerry Curve 9380 poses alongside the Torch 9850
Not long after we’ve seen the BlackBerry Bold 9790 in a set of leaked photos, now we have the chance to take a look at yet another unannounced RIM smartphone, namely the BlackBerry Curve 9380 (also known as BlackBerry Orlando). The 9380 is not a high-end device, but it’s certainly interesting: it is the first [...]
Samsung Galaxy R goes to Taiwan, will be in stores this month
The Samsung Galaxy R is the Galaxy S II‘s smaller and less capable brother, yet not by much. In fact, size-wise, it’s almost identical to its sibling. The main feature here though will be the fact that it will be cheaper than the Galaxy S II, while obviously forgoing some of that model’s perks such [...]
Sprint LG Optimus S gets updated to Android Gingerbread too
US Cellular’s HTC Merge wasn’t the only Android-powered smartphone to get its slice of Gingerbread today. It’s been joined by Sprint’s LG Optimus S, which is the Now Network’s own version of the internationally-launched Optimus One. This was a rather capable midranger when it launched, but has always been hampered by the fact that so [...]
Sony offers free Bravia TVs to early Tablet S adopters (in the UK)
Sony will launch its first Android tablet – the Tablet S – in the UK this Friday, September 16. To make sure customers will show a high interest for the device, the company has announced that it would offer free 32-inch Sony BRAVIA TVs to the first 100 customers who are buying it at the [...]
US Cellular HTC Merge Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update now available
Good news if you own an HTC Merge bought from US Cellular. The update to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread has finally been made available by US Cellular and HTC, and that means you’re no longer stuck running a version of the operating system that’s more than one year old. Not that Gingerbread has just been launched [...]
HTC Sensation XE to hit the UK on October 1, should cost £492 unlocked
Officially announced earlier today, the HTC Sensation XE will not be available in the UK this month, like in other markets, but only in October. The good news is that British customers will be able to get the new Sensation on the very first day of October. According to EuroDroid, Phones4U will sell the XE [...]