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Have Wi-Fi connectivity problems with your Dell Venue Pro? Soon you’ll have no reasons for worry with Dell’s Lionel Menchaca tweeting the update is on the way to address the issue and also bring some other feature and performance enhancements to the phone. Here’s what he said: The #dellvenuepro firmware update starts rolling out today…
After being available for pre-order through Best Buy, Motorola TRIUMPH can now be bought directly from Virgin Mobile USA for $299.99. As you may recall, we’re talking about an Android-powered smartphone with a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera on the back, front-facing VGA camera, 1GHz processor, HDMI out and a memory card slot. In addition,…
Nokia has just published their Q2 2011 financial results and there’s a lot of data to parse through here, so let’s start with the big numbers: 9.275 billion Euros worth of sales were made in Q2, which sounds impressive, but it isn’t because the Finnish handset maker failed to make a profit and instead managed…
Chinese infrastructure vendor and handset maker Huawei is known for undercutting their competition in terms of price, and according to a recent teardown of one of their more popular modems that price erosion will soon come to handsets. The folks at ABI Research tore apart a Huawei E173, a very popular USB modem, and found…
If you recall, Puccini is the codename for HTC’s upcoming 10-inch tablet. The news is that it has been spotted at the Federal Communications Commission and as far as we can tell it’s heading to AT&T — at least the presence of 3G radio that sings along 850 and 1900MHz bands suggests so. However, it…
HTC Desire HD is getting a small firmware update as we speak. This “after Gingerbread” firmware changes are said to bring “Wi-Fi performance improvements” though we guess some other things under the hood will be impacted as well. After all, 19.8MB is kinda big download for such a minor improvement (at least the way I…
Sony Ericsson’s two mid-range Android smartphones, Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro, are now available for pre-ordering in the UK through BuyMobilePhones. The phone retailer is offering both devices with a number of plans from all major British carriers, excluding Three. The good news is that you can get any of the two phones for…
Thanks to the “always ahead of the game” SamFirmware website, Samsung Wave II owners can try out the Bada 2.0 before its official launch. This may not be the final build, but should give you an idea what to expect in the coming months. From what we can tell, Bada 2.0 looks much better, with…
Almost missed this. Samsung unveiled a new Android smartphone Galaxy R, which as far as we can tell is identical to the Galaxy Z model. That said, we’re talking about a device which sits somewhere between the original Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, rocking a 4.2-inch WVGA touchscreen and 5-megapixel camera. In addition, this…
Back in February of this year, when Sony Ericsson took the veil off their terribly leaked “PlayStation Phone”, which we now know to be the “Xperia Play”, we questioned what the long term viability of such a niche smartphone would be. There’s no doubt in our minds that several of our readers are hardcore gamers,…