4G LTE Verizon Samsung Stratosphere with QWERTY officially announced, out on October 13
After having been leaked countless times, the Samsung Stratosphere was finally officially announced by Verizon today. This will be the carrier’s first 4G LTE smartphone to have a full physical QWERTY keyboard. So if you’re still into physical keyboards but would also like to get some of that sweet (and fast!) 4G LTE action, this [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Spyder (Droid HD / RAZR) to be announced next week
Motorola and Verizon are getting ready to announce a new product next week, on October 18. While the invitation for the event and the teaser video released by Motorola (both seen below) don’t say what exactly will be unveiled, we can see that it’s going to be a device that’s “faster, thinner, smarter and stronger.” [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus priced in Europe: €499
Officially announced at the end of September, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus should become available starting next month. Samsung didn’t say how much the Tab Plus would cost, however, according to Netbook.it, in Italy you’ll have to pay €499 (about $678) for the tablet when it’s released (in mid November). Most probably, the [...]
What does T-Mobile have to compete with the iPhone 4S?
As you’ve probably heard by now, Apple has finally decided to launch the iPhone via Sprint, too (both the 4S and 4 versions). The third largest US carrier has thus joined Verizon, which is offering Apple’s smartphone since February this year, and AT&T, which is selling the iPhone since the very first day it was [...]
T-Mobile adds Huawei Springboard with Google and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to tablet lineup
T-Mobile has officially announced that the Huawei Springboard with Google and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 are now part of T-Mobile’s tablet lineup. Although, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been out for a while now(just not on T-Mobile), the T-Mobile Springboard with Google is completely new. The Springboard, which we saw press images of leaked [...]
White Blackberry Bold 9900 spotted in the wild
The Blackberry Bold 9900 has been available for $299.99 from T-Mobile since the beginning of September, but we have yet to see a white version. The original Blackberry Bold 9000 was initially only available in black, but later was available in white. Today, a white Blackberry Bold 9900 was spotted at a technical exhibition in Dubai, [...]
Press images leaked of 7-inch T-Mobile Huawei “Springboard” tablet
In June, Huawei announced the Mediapad, a 7-inch tablet that ran Honeycomb 3.2. Last week, we saw a photo of the MediaPad that was T-Mobile branded. Today, we have discovered some press images of the MediaPad on T-Mobile’s website. The tablet’s name is the Springboard. Specs wise, the Springboard will feature a 1.2 GHz dual-core [...]
New photos of the Motorola Admiral surface, heading to Sprint soon?
We saw the Motorola Admiral in Sprint’s leaked promo video on their youtube channel the other day. Today, we have spotted newly surfaced photos of the Motorola Admiral. The Motorola Admiral will be Sprint’s second Direct Connect phone(the military-grade Motorola Titanium was introduced back in July), which allows for instant push to talk abilities. The [...]
GSM Samsung Google Nexus Prime GT-I9250 hits the FCC. Headed to Europe?
We have heard non-stop rumors about the Nexus Prime and Android ICS the past few days. We saw a possible video of ICS yesterday and the ICS versions of Google Music and Google+ were both leaked and now are available for download. The latest bit of information comes from an FCC filing of a GSM [...]
AT&T’s iPhone 4S to show “4G” in the status bar
While Apple’s new iPhone 4S looks exactly like the old iPhone 4, it comes with arguably significant improvements. One of them is the fact that it can provide faster download speeds (14.4Mbps – double the 7.2Mbps speeds the iPhone 4 is capable of offering). Last week, when the iPhone 4S was officially unveiled in Cupertino, [...]
Android ICS Google apps leak, Google Music 4.0.1 and Google+ 2.0 available for download
Android fans have hit the jackpot today. We saw our first leaked screenshots and a video of Android ICS earlier today, and now we have stumbled upon leaked versions of Google Music and Google+ for Android ICS, supposedly obtained directly from a Nexus Galaxy. Google Music 4.0.1, a step up from the market’s current Google [...]
Dell won’t release any Windows Phone Mango devices
Up until now, Dell has released only one Windows Phone device, the Venue Pro. This smartphone comes with a unique form factor in the Windows Phone world, bringing a portrait-sliding physical QWERTY keyboard to the table. So the Dell Venue Pro has been a decently priced interesting offering, yet it now seems that the company [...]
Nokia 603 leaked. Symbian Belle update to start on October 26?
It’s been a while since we last saw a leak of a Nokia smartphone that isn’t going to run Windows Phone. But today is just one of those days. Apparently Nokia is getting ready to launch at least one new Symbian Belle handset during Nokia World later this month – the Nokia 603. Nokia World [...]
Samsung Transform Ultra now available at Boost Mobile for $229.99
Right on schedule, the Samsung Transform Ultra has arrived at Boost Mobile and is now ready to be ordered. The Transform Ultra is, judging by its name at least, the successor to the Transform, and is an Android-powered smartphone that has a pretty nice price per features ratio. The Samsung Transform Ultra has a 3.2-inch [...]
Verizon Samsung Stratosphere will be out on October 13, specs leaked again
Leaks and tidbits of information about Verizon’s upcoming Samsung Stratosphere have been popping up here and there since August. However, it now seems that this device’s launch is very close indeed. The user manual for the Stratosphere has been leaked to Droid Life, alongside some more renders of the phone, and full specs. This isn’t [...]
Oct. 27th European Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch to crash Nokia World party again?
You must have heard already that Samsung has postponed their Oct. 11th event, where they were expected to announce the new Google Nexus device with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Now The Next Web reports that the event has been moved to Oct. 27th and will take place in London. Which makes absolutely no [...]
Nokia N9 launched in Australia by Telstra
Nokia N9 – the company’s first and last commercially available MeeGo smartphone – has reached Australian shores. For the moment, only Telstra is selling the N9 in Australia, but Optus and Vodafone will also do it (probably pretty soon). Telstra is offering the N9 for 849 AUD outright, or on contract, with various plans available [...]
HTC Sensation XL to be launched in the UK on October 24?
Announced yesterday evening, the brand new HTC Sensation XL (previously known as HTC Runnymede and HTC Bass) may be launched sooner than we’d hoped. While HTC said the new Android Gingerbread smartphone would be released in early November, Clove now has unveiled that it’s expecting the first stock to arrive in the UK on October [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro now finally available in the UK, SIM-free for £306
After having been announced back in February during MWC, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro was delayed in the UK until the fourth quarter of the year. And thankfully it’s now finally become available, so while indeed launching in the fourth quarter, at least it didn’t get released in December. Or, who knows, at the one-year [...]
HTC Flyer now available at US Cellular for $399.99
Late last month, US Cellular told us that it was getting ready to sell HTC’s first Android-powered tablet, the Flyer. And for those of you who’ve anxiously waited to get one, the wait is now over. The HTC Flyer is now available to order at US Cellular. The price being asked is $399.99, if you [...]