Nokia Sabre smiles in another leaked photo. It won’t have a front-facing camera
Yesterday we showed you what was purportedly the first photo capturing the Nokia Sabre. The Nokia Sabre is a Windows Phone Mango device that will almost certainly be officially announced during Nokia World next week. It won’t be the highest-end Nokia Windows Phone, but a midranger, and, according to yesterday’s leak, should cost about €300-350. That [...]
UK: Motorola Atrix now just £291.99 SIM-free
The Atrix is Motorola’s current Android-powered flagship device outside of the USA, and it has been sold in the UK in SIM-free and unlocked form since this summer. When it launched in the UK, the Atrix was priced at £489.99, which is a rather normal price for such a high-end device. As time passes though, prices [...]
Asus Eee Pad Slider will finally be available in the UK on October 24
The Asus Eee Pad Slider Android Honeycomb tablet was announced in January alongside the Eee Pad Transformer. The Transformer has been available everywhere for many months now, yet the Slider has only gone on sale in the US about a month ago. Better late than never, right? If you’re in the UK and are wondering [...]
UK: Wi-Fi-only HTC Flyer can now be yours for just £299.95
The HTC Flyer, the Taiwanese company’s first foray into the tablet space, has been available in the UK for quite a long while now. That may be why it keeps getting cheaper as months pass. When it launched, the Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version of the Flyer was going for no less than £479.99. Since then, we’ve [...]
ZTE Memo cheap QWERTY candybar featurephone now available at Cricket
Cricket has added a new phone to its lineup. Unlike most of the devices we’re used to covering, this isn’t a smartphone. However, it is very cheap and comes with a few neat features. First things first, though. Since this is a phone that comes in a BlackBerry-esque form factor (read: candybar with full physical [...]
Telus will release the 4G Samsung Galaxy S II X on October 28
By now, the Samsung Galaxy S II has made its way to markets pretty much throughout the world, North America included. That said, not all North American carriers are already selling it. Telus, for example, was one Canadian carrier which was clearly going to get its very own Galaxy S version, that much we’ve known [...]
Nokia 700 now available at Vodafone UK, free from £26 per month
The Nokia 700 was one of three new Symbian Belle smartphones announced in August by the Finnish company. As such, it’s one of the first devices that runs Nokia’s newest iteration of its Symbian operating system. Belle includes the big UI update, so if you haven’t looked at it yet, you may not even know [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note will be available in the UK on November 1 for £594
The Samsung Galaxy Note, this niche device with a 5.3-inch touchscreen, is due to arrive in the UK soon. Over the past few weeks, its price over there kept changing, and none of the numbers popping up was low. First we were told it will go for £600, then that got changed to a whopping £670, and [...]
Porsche Design Blackberry to make its debut October 27th
We first saw leaked images and a video of the Porsche Design Blackberry back in September. The device looked like a very modified 9900/9930 and had several prototype names: 9980, BlackBerry Knight, R47, and the Porsche Proceeding. Today, we found out that the device will make its debut on October 27th after Blackberry and Porsche Design sent [...]
HTC Rezound render revealed online
A render of the HTC Rezound has just been revealed on an online store due to some of the device’s cases going up for pre-order. Just like the Sensation XE, the Rezound will also have red-glowing soft keys on the bottom of the device. Specs wise, the HTC Rezound spots a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, [...]
Samsung ships 20 million smartphones in Q3, becomes the biggest smartphone maker in the world
As we’ve already mentioned in passing in the post regarding Nokia’s Q3 results, we may very well have a new No.1 in the list of top smartphone makers in the world. From when it invented the smartphone, Nokia has held that position until the second quarter of this year, when it lost it to Apple. [...]
iPhone 4S costs $196 to make. AT&T already sold 1 million units
AT&T has announced that it has already activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S devices on its network as of Tuesday. Since the iPhone 4S only went on sale last Friday, that means that AT&T has sold a million units in just five days. An average of 200,000 per day, which makes this the most [...]
Nokia Sabre Windows Phone picture, specs, and pricing leaked
Nokia World is next week. It is during that event that we’ll finally see Nokia’s first Windows Phones. However, that obviously doesn’t stop people from leaking stuff here and there, and we’re understandably very happy about that. One of the WP devices that Nokia will announce next week has just leaked today. Picture, specs, pricing [...]
Microsoft: Windows Phone production costs will drop by half next year
Windows Phone isn’t doing well. Its market share is in the low single digits, and despite Microsoft having only good things to say about it, the truth is that so far people in the market for a smartphone only look at iOS and Android devices. Or at least those are the aspirational handsets. Some people [...]
Motorola Admiral with Android and Direct Connect announced by Sprint
Sprint’s Motorola Admiral – which isn’t at all a mystery to us, since we’ve seen it several times before – has been officially announced by the carrier. The Admiral runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and is Sprint’s first smartphone to feature Sprint Direct Connect for “instant, one-to-one push-to-talk calling nationwide.” The handset also features a full [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus possibly headed not just to Verizon, but also to AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile
Although initial rumors had it that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus would be a Verizon exclusive in the US, this may not be true. The Galaxy Nexus webpage found at Samsung USA includes a “carrier preference” drop-down menu, which shows not just the big four US carriers – Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile – but also [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus/ Google Ice Cream Sandwich launch points to signs of trouble in Androidland
Ever since the first Verizon Droid with Android 2.0 launched 2 years ago, the rise of Google’s mobile OS seemed unstoppable. And meteorically fast. But trouble free Android growth days seem to be coming to the end. We all heard about the biggest threat to Google’s mobile OS – patent issues. We took a close [...]
Nokia stops smartphone sales drop in Q3, but it’s now No.3 behind Samsung and Apple
Nokia has just announced its financial results for the third quarter of this year (the one which ended in September). Things are, of course, bad, but they’re not quite as bad as expected in some areas. Nokia’s results aren’t anything to write home about because the company is undergoing a transition. Back in February it [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 launched in the UK, coming soon to Canada (with LTE)
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 has been finally released in the UK – where it’s available only off-contract for the moment. British retailer HMV is asking £389 (about €445 or $614) for the 16GB white Wi-Fi version of the Tab 8.9, saying it can ship it in 24 hours. £389 is almost the same price [...]
Asus Transformer Prime revealed by CEO, quad-core Tegra 3 CPU and 14-hour battery life in tow
Yesterday we showed you a teaser video put up by Asus for its upcoming Transformer Android tablet. This is going to be the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer which is currently selling quite well. Asus decided that a day or so was sufficient time for a tease, and so the company’s CEO, Jonney Shih, [...]