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AT&T is doing the unthinkable and raising its smartphone early upgrade cost to $200, or $125 higher than the original fee. This means if you want to upgrade your smartphone before you’re eligible for a full upgrade, $200 will get tacked onto the fully subsidized price (e.g., the BlackBerry Torch, which sells for $199 with…
Cricket Wireless will begin offering an entry-level Android device by Huawei later this month, dubbed the Ascend. It’ll sit alongside the Kyocera Zio as Cricket’s second Android phone, and cost $150 off contract after rebates. You get what you pay for, mind you: it has a 3.2 megapixel camera that shoots CIF video, 3.5″ HVGA…
HTC has spiced up its Android handset offering by adding that sexy Sense UI, but not it’s going a little further with HTCSense.com. The new site is a little portal that works sort of like MobileMe for your iPhone. HTC users can now register for the service and get all the benefits from the new…
The 7-inch iPad rumor rises again, but this time it’s not just talk of a mini USB port. According to component makers in Taiwan, the new Apple iPad will have a retina display and 128GB of internal storage – all in a little 7-inch package. Additionally, the new iPad will be coming with a camera,…
Vlingo’s voice control application for Android has expanded their SafeReader message dictation feature by now offering outbound communication too. Once paired via Bluetooth, you initiate the app by saying “Hey, Vlingo,” after which you can read out text messages and e-mails, which are then read back to you to confirm sender and accuracy. When texts…
Yahoo made a series of improvements to its search engine today and those have trickled down to its mobile search products. I’ve played with the new Yahoo mobile search and I think it’s actually cool. If you don’t know, Microsoft’s Bing is actually doing the heavy lifting on the back end for the searches but…
It looks like Motorola’s Android handsets have been doing pretty well, as the co-CEO Sanjay Jha said the impending split could happen early next year. This isn’t much of a surprise, as we already know that Motorola planned to turn its handset division into an independent company for a while now and the first quarter…
It looks like a new version of Bada OS and a firmware update for the Samsung Wave is around the corner. SamsungFirmwareWorld has found a leaked build of Bada OS 1.2 (S8500XXJID) which is made for the Samsung Wave (S8500). From what we’ve read, the Wave users can expect few things, including: Nuance’s T9 Trace…
In case today’s release of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 hasn’t gotten you excited for SEGA’s mobile games offerings, I’m sure this preview will get you even more pumped, especially if you were a Dreamcast owner. Chu Chu Rocket will be making its way to both the iPhone & iPad this month and we were able…
Verizon is pushing its Droid series once again in a new commercial that shows off the always expanding Android Market. In it, we see the Droid 2 and the Droid X, along with a free application called Lookout Mobile Security – a security app that lets you back up data, remote wipe a lost phone,…