It looks like Verizon Wireless may be enabling simultaneous voice and data transmissions over 3G in addition to 4G on the carrier’s HTC Thunderbolt. According to a leaked screenshot obtained by Engadget, the carrier is telling retail employees not to advertise this feature as it may not be up to par for the network’s high [...]
Industry analyst Canalys announced today that more smartphones shipped with Google’s Android OS last quarter than did smartphones of any other OS, including long-time leader Nokia’s Symbian. While it turned out to be a fantastic quarter for Google, the surging smartphone market grew for everyone… well, almost everyone.
It looks like chip-maker Intel may have flashed a smartphone prototype sporting the company’s forthcoming Medfield mobile processor chipset on stage at a company sales conference last week. The prototype hardware may even be running the MeeGo operating system, which is jointly developed by Intel and Nokia as the two fight the smartphone war against [...]
Following on the news that we had previously reported that carrier T-Mobile USA will be reviving its Sidekick brand as the Sidekick 4G with a new device, TmoNews has now published a series of leaked photos showing the device. While the original Sidekicks were mostly made by Sharp–Motorola had made one device with the Danger [...]
According to Best Buy sources to blog Streak Smart, the AT&T-locked version of Dell’s 5-inch tablet/smartphone hybrid will be getting its upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo on February 1st, the day before Dell will be launching its 7-inch tablet for carrier T-Mobile USA. Though there was a lot of initial enthusiasm behind Dell’s entry into [...]
Gizmodo has received leaked images from an un-named mystery Android smartphone made by HTC. The tipster that had leaked the images to Gizmodo calls the handset the “Saga,” though it’s unclear if the HTC-made smartphone will get that name upon launch. The device appears to have a front-facing camera and capacitive touch buttons on the [...]
It looks like Motorola may be making deeper pushes into the space led by RIM. After Motorola had released the Motorola Droid Pro (review forthcoming) for Verizon Wireless late last year with a front-facing keyboard and enterprise enhancements targeted at business BlackBerry-toting customers, the company may be releasing a rugged follow-up to Sprint Nextel’s iDEN [...]
Motorola is expected to enable full 1080p HD video recording on the its upcoming Atrix 4G Android smartphone for AT&T’s HSPA+ network. The phone will launch with 720p HD video encoding capabilities, but will get upgraded to 1080p video encoding via a software update sometime in the future. Exact timing of when that software update [...]
Motorola’s Sanjay Jha has confirmed the company’s launch schedule for the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone as well as the Xoom tablet. The company says that the Atrix 4G and the 3G edition of the Xoom tablet will arrive at the end of February. In the Q&A follow-up, despite his confidence in the company achieving its [...]
The next-generation successors to Samsung’s flagship Android smartphone and tablet may make a debut at Mobile World Coongress according to a leaked document showing that a Galaxy S 2 and Tab 2 presentations are scheduled for the trade show in February. According to Android Central, the Samsung Galaxy S 2 would essentially replace the popular [...]
Samsung has introduced four new smartphones to its Galaxy family, which has the Galaxy S as its flagship smartphone. The four phones are the Ace, Gio, Fit and Mini. The Ace is priced at 349 euros, the Gio at 249 euros, and the Mini at 199 euros in the Netherlands according to Samsung Hub. These [...]
Taking a hardware-neutral approach, Sony will be making PlayStation games available on Android 2.3 Gingerbread (a minimum requirement to play) smartphones, tablets, and handsets. Available via the PlayStation Suite, Sony is saying that initially PlayStation One (PS One) games will be available through emulation and the company will be creating a PlayStation Certified label to [...]
In a move to comfort potential switchers who would leave AT&T for Verizon Wireless as the iPhone 4 is scheduled to arrive early next month to AT&T’s rival CDMA carrier, AT&T is bringing back its unlimited data plans, which the carrier had stopped offering to new customers, to retain its subscribers and hope to avert [...]
LG is speculated to be introducing a 3D version of its Optimus line of smartphones. In addition to the powerful LG Optimus 2X, which was shown at CES, the company may introduce a glasses-free 3D smartphone at February’s Mobile World Congress if details from the company’s invitation for an event at the trade show is [...]
Recent changes to Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G flagship Android smartphone television commercials observed by Beatweek suggests that the Now Network may be preparing itself for an iPhone launch in the future. The EVO 4G commercial was recently seen amended with the quote the EVO was a superior option to the iPhone 4 removed. Rival Verizon [...]
In spite of a prior AT&T leak that Motorola’s flagship Atrix 4G on AT&T’s network would arrive in early March, a leak was revealed that Best Buy may be carrying the unit a few weeks earlier, landing the device on February 13. According to Phandroid, February 13th marks the arrival date of the Atrix 4G [...]
The HTC Merge, an Android handset with a landscape-oriented QWERTY slider, may be launching on regional carrier Alltel’s network rather than Verizon Wireless’s national network. It’s unclear if the leaked image is indication of such change as the handset shown in the picture is still devoid of physical branding other than a wallpaper on the [...]
Verizon Wireless may be differentiating its data plan offerings to create a tiered pricing structure for 4G LTE plans, which would offer faster download and upload speeds. The company had recently revised its data plan marketing materials, to now explicitly specify that the $30 data plan refers to “3G” smartphones and feature phones. The addition [...]
Virgin Mobile, a pre-paid wireless subsidiary of Sprint, will be following its mothership in adding another smartphone to its lineup. Like Sprint, which has offered the Android-powered Samsung Intercept, Virgin Mobile USA will be taking another page from Sprint’s playbook by bringing the Optimus One to its lineup. The Optimus V (V for Virgin Mobile) [...]
With rumors that Nokia will be announcing its first MeeGo-powered smartphone, which has been referred to as the Nokia N9 on the Internet so far, at Mobile World Congress, we are now glimpsing an image of what is believed to be Nokia’s 4.5-inch tablet/smartphone hybrid. Previous leaks of the device shows a form factor similar [...]
After T-Mobile USA had announced that it will be delivering its Android 2.2 software update to its Galaxy S variant, called the Samsung Vibrant, rival carrier Sprint has tweeted that it will soon deliver an update to Froyo for its own variant of the Galaxy S called the Epic 4G with a sliding keyboard. IntoMobile [...]
Motorola’s Atrix 4G for AT&T, which made waves during its unveiling at CES as being a pocketable, portable mini-computer, has just received the FCC’s seal of approval. With the model number MB860 going through the FCC getting approval for AT&T’s 3G HSPA bands–which will get a speed jump to 14.4 Mbps theoretical download speeds by [...]
Leaked images of Research in Motion’s unreleased BlackBerry Curve smartphone, codenamed Sedona, reveals that the device maintains the Curve’s beloved keyboard while taking on some higher-end specs once reserved for the higher-end enterprise-driven Bold series. Known internally as R010, the Sedona’s overall aesthetic is similar to the Bold series, though significantly thinner than the Bold [...]
With reports of an ‘evolved‘ next-generation Galaxy S successor around the corner with a potential announcement from Samsung at February’s Mobile World Congress, we’re hearing more information about the Android super-phone’s leaked specs. According to TechRadar, the Galaxy S’s successor will be named the Galaxy S2 and will come with a dual-core processor, either from [...]
At a press event, PC Mag is reporting that the nation’s fourth largest carrier has confirmed that it plans to release a Sidekick 4G and Galaxy S 4G (also dubbed the Vibrant 4G) “coming soon.” Slides of the devices were shown in a presentation by CEO Philipp Humm. The revival of the Sidekick brand will [...]
According to T-Mobile USA’s Chief Marketing Officer, the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the carrier’s Galaxy S variant dubbed the Vibrant will be officially unleashed starting tomorrow. The roll-out will occur in batches, so if you’re a Vibrant owner and don’t see the firmware update immediately, don’t fret. According to the carrier, the update was [...]
Now that T-Mobile has retired the Sidekick devices, which was powered by Danger’s proprietary OS (Danger has since been acquired by Microsoft), rumors are once again circulating that the U.S.-based carrier may revive the Sidekick moniker and may release a device by the name of the Sidekick 4G. Rumors about a Sidekick revival had been [...]
While the Nokia X7 multimedia-centric Symbian-based handset was rumored to come to U.S. carrier AT&T, the Finnish handset-maker had voluntarily cancelled the launch according to the Wall Street Journal. The handset would have have been announced with AT&T prior to the commencement of Mobile World Congress, but Nokia had decided to cancel the phone’s launch [...]
The concept flip phone designed by Kristian Ulrich Larsen isn’t your mother’s flip phone. Rather, this Android-powered smartphone utilizes three screens where the displays, functions, and features of the screens change organically based on the mode, use, and application of the phone. It’s a pretty neat concept that extends Microsoft’s Courier tablet design concept from [...]
At its teaser site for Samsung’s CTIA press event where the Galaxy S smartphone was unveiled, Android Central is reporting that the page has been updated to reflect a February 13th event for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Not a lot of details were garnered from the site, except that “Something big is coming” and [...]
Sony Ericsson is highlighting some of the new camera features and user interface behind the company’s XPERIA Arc Android smartphone, which was announced at CES but hasn’t been released yet. Highlighting hardware, such as the Exmor R sensor from Sony which allows for better light sensitivity and an aperture value of f/2.4, the video also [...]
Apple’s elusive white iPhone was recently spotted on German carrier Vodafone’s inventory systems and now the paler shade of Cupertino, California’s flagship smartphone has made an appearance on Best Buy’s computer inventory system. The leaked screenshots of Best Buy’s inventory system shows the SKUs for the 16 GB and 32 GB white models according to [...]
The elusive white iPhone 4, which has been delayed by Apple multiple times, is finally making an appearance on German carrier Vodafone’s inventory system in both 16 GB and 32 GB variations. Most recently, Apple had said that it would be delaying the white iPhone until Spring. It’s unclear though when the phones would ship, [...]
The Android-based Galaxy S Mini that we had reported on earlier will not be launching with that moniker. Instead, the miniaturized Android handset will be launching as the Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830. While not a power house, the device’s more compact size will attract users who may not need all the features from the Galaxy [...]
Research in Motion had announced its WebWorks SDK to give developers the tools necessary tio easily create apps for the company’s line of BlackBerry smartphones and its tablets. While smartphones still operate on the BlackBerry operating system, RIM had switched to a BlackBerry Tablet Operating System for its BlackBerry PlayBook enterprise-driven slate, which will be [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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