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Virgin Mobile is stepping up its payLo plans with a new $30 bundle. While it’s a step up from its $20 plans, it’s still pretty economical given its offerings. With the new payLo option, you get 1500 minutes, 500 messages and 10MB of web access. It might not seem like a whole lot to us…
Verizon was the only explicitly-named carrier partner for the launch of the Palm Pre 2 yesterday, but some digging around source code for U.S. and Canadian Palm sites, references to both AT&T and Rogers have been found. Funnily enough, the commented-out code says “The Palm Pre2 phone is available on the Rodger’s network,” so you…
It looks like Lenovo is taking a cue from LG and holding off on an iPad competitor until the Honeycomb version of Android is released. Lenovo, who doesn’t have much of a presence in the mobile market, is looking to make a splash with its very own tablet. If Android Honeycomb arrives on time, which…
Verizon may launch its new tiered data plan as early as October 28th, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The plan will be priced at $15 per month and will include 150MB of data. Unlike AT&T which abolished its unlimited data plan in favor of tiered plans, Verizon will keep its $30…
Last week, Bell officially announced that they would carry the HTC Desire Z (better known as the G2 down in the U.S.), but didn’t get specific on a release date. Luckily, a slide has leaked revealing that a launch is planned for the HSPA+ smartphone on November 3, which is coming up soon.It will be…
One of the largest poker operations in the world, Full Tilt Poker, is looking to make a splash with a dive into the Android pool. That’s right, rumor has it Full Tilt is putting together an application for Android, featuring their new ‘Rush Poker’ gameplay. Interesting. Apparently much testing of the app has been going…
Verizon confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Tab will land on November 11th for $599. The Galaxy Tab is an Android-powered tablet that includes a 7-inch touchscreen display, 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor, dual cameras (3MP and 1.3MP), 3G connectivity, WiFi, and Android 2.2. The pricing for the Galaxy Tab comes in slightly below the $629…
The Retrevo 2010 Gadget Census has been conducted, and the results are in. Very interesting results I might add. As you can see from the infographic above, the spread of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users is quite varied, with Android taking hold in the heart of the nation… and for whatever reason, the coasts seem…
British operator 3 has just completed phase 1 of their wireless network upgrade and the statistics they provide with that small bit of news are both funny and eye opening. The whole thing cost 400 million British pounds or roughly $630 million. Before the upgrade they had 7,500 cell towers, but now they have 12,400…
Samsung is reportedly working on a new platform that will power both its mobile phones and TVs. Details on the underlying OS are sparse as the platform is still under development with no target launch date. Presumably this is a proprietary OS (Bada-based?) built from the ground up by Samsung but Android would be a nice…