Today is August 31st. And that means that a new BlackBerry device, arguably the best one ever made, has officially landed on T-Mobile. That’s right. The heralded BlackBerry Bold 9900 with 4G HSPA+ capabilities has finally landed after long last and it is now available over on T-Mobile’s website for a whopping $300 on a [...]
If you thought the first HTC Sensation was a beast, then you’re going to fall in love with the rumored HTC Sensation Special Edition that will likely include a bump in processor speed, screen resolution, and may be the first handset to feature Beats by Dre technology. The specifications match up pretty well with those [...]
CNET is reporting that Apple has apparently lost another unreleased iPhone and you’ll never guess where it was supposedly lost at. A bar. This comes just over a year after the Cupertino-based company lost an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in Redwood City, California, a prototype that eventually ended up in the hands of [...]
It might come as a surprise, but Samsung hasn’t given up on Windows 7 tablets. In fact, the company has just showed off the Samsung Series 7 Slate with Windows 7, Wacom digitizer and a dual core processor. While you may be focused on Windows 8, and how it could mark the rebirth of Windows tablets, [...]
Finally, we have something official about the Gingerbread updates for the HTC ThunderBolt and the Droid Incredible. We’re talking official official here, not just from an HTC rep. But from HTC’s Facebook page which has just confirmed that Android 2.3 or some variation of it will be arriving for both of these beautiful phones at [...]
We still don’t know what the iPhone 5 will look like, even though we have plenty of mock ups. But a new iPhone icon just popped up in a PhotoStream beta that is available to developers. The icon is small and really could just be an artist’s rendering of what they think an iPhone looks [...]
Yesterday was launch day for the Samsung Galaxy S II in the United States. We got some hands-on time with both Samsung Galaxy S II models from AT&T and Sprint and we saw the announcement of T-Mobile’s Galaxy S II device. And while Samsung may have got the branding right for these new handsets, it [...]
The Motorola Xoom‘s long awaited upgrade to 4G LTE is close. We know that for sure. Exciting times to be sure for those of you that have held onto your Honeycomb tablet since it was released in February. However, up until today, we hadn’t really had a clear glimpse of 4G LTE’s capabilities on the [...]
The Droid Bionic is almost here. With the Motorola Droid Bionic Release bearing down on us, the massive marketing blitz has started with a contest and viral augmented reality game going on at the Verizon owned DroidDoes.com domain. If you head over to DroidDoes.com’s Bionic landing page, you’ll be greeted with an odd landing page [...]
Weren’t able to get your hands on the $99 HP TouchPad the first time around? Well, then you probably were excited when HP announced that it would be bringing the canceled tablet device back for one last go round after the company’s stock was depleted because of the fire sale. Unfortunately though, if you live [...]
Sony announced another addition to its Xperia line today unveiling a new Android-powered handset called the Xperia Arc S. This device, as you can see in the name, is a more powerful version of Sony’s previous Xperia Arc smartphone with the processor speed jumping from a 1GHz single-core processor to a 1.4GHz single-core processor. It’ll [...]
Just in case you needed a reminder about the upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic‘s features, Android Central has unearthed a trove of documents that seem to come from an online training document. The manual is similar to the previous Droid Bionic manual we saw and reveals tons of Droid Bionic features only this time around we [...]
Earlier today, AT&T’s bid to take over T-Mobile USA hit its first roadblock as the United State Department of Justice filed an antitrust complaint in an attempt to block the deal from happening. The move, according to the DOJ, was done because it would “remove a significant competitive force from the market.” T-Mobile, of course, [...]
We’ve been waiting for the HTC Puccini tablet to get official for quite sometime now and finally AT&T has coughed up the goods giving us the official name, specifications, pricing, and release date. There’s good and bad news here so why don’t we start with the good news. The good news is that AT&T revealed [...]
Yesterday saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II, a device that many of you have been weighing against Verizon’s upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic. And while the Galaxy S II devices for Sprint and AT&T have firm release dates (T-Mobile’s does not), the Droid Bionic’s is still in the dark to those that are [...]
I’m sure this will be a surprise to some and not to others. When AT&T announced its intention to take over T-Mobile’s US business it caused quite a stir. At the time many thought the deal might not survive regulatory scrutiny. Well, it looks like the deal has hit its first big roadblock with the [...]
Yale Medical School greeted students this week with the best back to school gift you can give a medical student, aside from free tuition, a 64GB 3G iPad 2 to use for classes and clinical work. The school picked the iPad as a new student learning tool after a trial program last year tested well with [...]
iPhone users worried about radiation now have a solution to keep them informed thanks to accessory maker Scosche. The RDTX-Pro plugs into the dock connector on your iPhone or iPod Touch and through a free app informs you of how much radiation, if any, is present in your location. The battery powered device also works [...]
SprintFeed got a tip that Sprint plans to raise their early terminations fees (ETF) from $200 to $350 for smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks. These fees apply when you decide to leave your (usually) 2 year contract with a carrier and is supposed to compensate for the amount your device was subsidized. This new fee [...]
The CyanogenMod Team, those wonderful hackers who help to make Android so much better on dozens of devices, turned their attention to the HP Touchpad. Their work brings new life to a previously “sort of dead” device by porting Android to it. Thanks to a $2,300 reward by HackNMod, there are plenty of people working [...]
Back in 1997 when Steve Jobs first came back to Apple, after he being pushed out in 1985, he clearly explained the wildly successful strategy that progressively pushed the company to regularly compete with big oil company Exxon Mobil as the largest US company in terms of market cap. At a Worldwide Developers Conference that [...]
While tablets are stealing the show these days, there is still a place for the netbook in your mobile arsenal, especially with these deals from Dell which give you a full-fledged business class notebook and a business class netbook for those times when you need to go more portable. These dell deals come from Dell [...]
Though the Motorola Pro+ is an attractive evolution of the original Droid Pro (and the GSM Motorola Pro and Sprint MOTOROLA XPRT) design, the device still lacks the ease of use to attract BlackBerry users to switch. Unlike BlackBerry smartphones, which used to use the ‘pearl’ or trackball and have now switched to a trackpad, [...]
There is now at least one rugged Android smartphone on every major U.S. carrier today for those who are clumsy with their phones or work in harsh environments, and now we’re beginning to see rugged tablets hit the market. The first of which may be a 10-inch Honeycomb slate from Fujitsu with a model Arrow [...]
SamFirmware, which has been a reliable source of pre-release Samsung products in the past, has tweeted that Samsung’s Windows Phone mango device, the Omnia W, will come with a 1.4 GHz processor as well as near field communications (NFC) support. The processor would be a Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm as Microsoft standardizes on Qualcomm processors [...]
In an effort to attract users to premium GPS navigation, Garmin, the GPS navigation leader, is wooing customers to its new Garmin Street Pilot onDemand iPhone app, which works much in the same way as Google Maps with Navigation on Android or subscription-based TeleNav, for a low entry price point of just $0.99. The $0.99 [...]
Earlier this week, it was reported that AT&T had turned on its LTE network, though an official announcement was not yet made, in the Chicago, IL area with speeds that were a bit lackluster especially when compared against Verizon’s 4G LTE network. However, there are now reports that AT&T is also turning on its 4G [...]
With the U.S. release of the Galaxy S II, Samsung finally nails down branding of its flagship dual-core smartphone with its carrier partners. Rather than releasing the product under different variants and branding, like what happened under the original Galaxy S 1, the Galaxy S II maintains its global brand under all three launch carriers [...]
Earlier this week, we had reported that a Samsung-made smartphone with the model number SCH-i515 for Verizon Wireless may in fact be the Nexus Prime and was seen passing through the Bluetooth SIG for certification. Now, we know that either that model is the Verizon-exclusive variant called the Droid Prime, or that may be yet [...]
At Samsung’s Galaxy S II launch event in New York City I spent some time with the Sprint and AT&T versions of the phone (T-Mobile’s was under glass) and came away with very positive first impressions. It’s no shocker why this phone has done so well overseas — it’s slick, slim, and super fast. Samsung [...]
Leaked pricing suggest that Motorola and Verizon Wireless may be pricing the unique LapDock laptop dock accessory at $300, a far cry from affordability considering that users can get a full netbook that is capable of so much more for the same price. The LapDock garnered a lot of attention at CES earlier this year [...]
It won’t be packing the Hercules name but the Samsung Galaxy S II for T-Mobile will indeed be packing 4G connectivity, a 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus Display and a dual-core processor. Unlike the models on AT&T and Sprint, T-Mobile has yet to divulge any more details other than those bits and the generic specs that [...]
Unlike Sprint, AT&T is going to be keeping the Samsung Galaxy S II name when its device arrives on September 18th. Another difference is that the AT&T model is going to be the only Galaxy S II sporting a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display which should please those of you who are weary of a [...]
Tonight is the big night and it has started off with an absolute bang. All three major U.S. carriers that were expected to announce the Samsung Galaxy S II did announce the Samsung Galaxy S II and Sprint will be taking the cake as the first provider to launch the device. The Galaxy S II [...]
You may have heard. There is a Samsung event planned for this evening where Sammy and three major U.S. carriers will announce the Samsung Galaxy S II devices that will launch in the United States. Notice how I said three. That’s because Verizon will be absent from tonight’s event after confirming that it will be [...]
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