Good news for our readers in the UK. The Samsung Galaxy Tab will be available for less than 600 GBP (599 to be more precise) as we previously reported. Carphone Warehouse — one of the companies vowed to start selling the device on November 1st — is offering the Android tablet for 529.99 GBP. That’s…
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Samsung E1252: Use two SIM cards simultaneously in a device that’s only $45
The market for dual SIM card enabled mobile phones may not be that big in America, but in Europe, Russia, India and certain parts of Asia, it’s practically a necessity for daily life. From having two numbers, each for a different set of friends, to saving money by using one operator at a certain time…
Microsoft’s Fable III Kingmaker is a Foursquare-like location game for Android and iOS
Microsoft has launched a Foursquare-like location game called Fable III: Kingmaker for the Android and iOS platforms. The game is envisioned as a free companion to the forthcoming Xbox 360 title and apart from promoting it [Xbox game], I don’t see some other reason why the Redmond giant is committing its resources on other (non…
Motorola, Nokia announce 4G licensing agreement
Motorola and Nokia jointly announced that the companies have entered into a 4G license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies have extended the companies’ existing intellectual property licensing agreement to include 4G technologies, such as LTE, WiMAX and LTE-Advanced. The terms of the agreement are confidential. Plus we have comments from…
Nokia Mobile Communities updated once again
The team behind Nokia Mobile Communities keeps listening to the users and as a result they’ve launched another update to the social networking app. Here’s what the latest version brings: Ability to share the Nokia Mobile Communities app with your nearby buddies via Bluetooth. Full editing support that uses T9 and dictionary. Ability to flag…
ING DIRECT USA launches two Android apps
ING DIRECT USA launched their Android mobile banking and ShareBuilder mobile investing applications, allowing users to conduct both banking and investing while on the go. The news comes on the heels of ING’s earlier iPhone and Blackberry apps and Android ATM locator app, which were launched earlier this year. Here’s what each of the two…
Viaero Wireless unveils new Nationwide Plans With carry-over minutes
Fort Morgan, Colorado-based Viaero Wireless unveiled new Nationwide Plans with carry-over minutes, as well as affordable messaging and data plans. As you may know, plans with carry-over minutes allow users to accumulate unused minutes from a given billing cycle and pool them with unused minutes from previous billing cycles. Viaero users can accumulate minutes for…
WillowTree Apps, Well and Lighthouse team-up to make iPhone apps for political campaigns: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid first on the list
Run to the hills. Apple’s AppStore is about to get flooded with iPhone apps for political campaigns. As if it weren’t already hard enough to avoid political messages, WillowTree Apps is teaming up with Well and Lighthouse (a political media and strategy firm) to develop mobile apps and mobile web applications for political clients. Their…
UK’s Vectone Mobile offers 10 MB of data per day to its PAYG customers
Offering mobile data to prepaid users was never a popular move among mobile operators. Sure, there are quite a few companies that provide such a service, but they are still in minority. That said today we bring you the story involving a small UK operator, Vectone Mobile, and their mobile data offering for PAYG (Pay…
MyTouch 4G ad found in leaked ROM
The leaked ROM for the upcoming MyTouch 4G had a few more goodies in it than we expected, like a video ad of the device itself. It looks like T-Mobile will officially tack on the “4G” to the title and it makes sense since the original was the myTouch 3G. The ad is everything you’d…