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So, yeah, because this was a short week with a major U.S. holiday at the beginning, it wasn’t the biggest week for mobile news. Still, we saw the introduction of a new Android handset from Motorola, rumblings that the first HSPA+ phone will be coming soon and we found a way to waste even more…
Remember back when the iPhone was annouced and how much everyone clamored for it? Well, almost everyone. Apparently folks were burned that Apple decided to chalk up an exclusivity deal with AT&T accused the two of conspiracy! A conspiracy to form a monopoly, that is. While it sounds silly, it certainly didn’t seem that way…
While it’s not the sexiest device around, nor is it something you’ve been pining over like … any other smartphone, some may be happy to hear that T-Mobile has already cut the price of the Garminfone to $129.99. While Garmin said that the Garminfone is selling as they expected it to, there has been some who…
I don’t know about you, but when I think about American Eagle Outfitters, I immediately think about high-end smartphones. Well, not really, but the company is trying to get some of that smartphone halo around its brand by giving away devices like the HTC Aria, LG Ally or BlackBerry for free when you try on…
Pre-empting the Gravity Touch coming later this month and following up on the Wave launched on Rogers, Samsung recently released the Entro Wave on Bell. We’re all pretty familiar with the Wave by now: it’s Samsung’s first Bada phone, and comes with 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, a 5 megapixel camera with flash and HD…
Well, it’s hard not to be surprised about this, but it seems like the Samsung Galaxy i9200 is likely fake. Why, you ask? According to skeptics, the specs are just too good to be true, and some of the technologies that would be seen on this device are simply unheard of. The spec rundown of…
Coinciding nicely with an ABI report last week, infrastructure giant Ericsson has revealed the the number of mobile subscribers has hit 5 billion as of yesterday. The same study claims 2 million additions are made every day, more than 500 million of those subscribers are on 3G, and by their forecast, we should hit 50…
If you were hoping to be the first non-Microsoft person to get a Windows Phone 7 handsets, you’re out of luck because the software giant has already given two teens smartphones with its upcoming mobile operating system. These kids deserved it though, as Christian Hood and Eric Lo, 17 and 16, won a developer challenge…
If you were scratching your head about the Motorola Droid X shipments that went out early, Verizon is ready to fess up. While most users weren’t scheduled to get their handsets until July 15, some lucky customers got their Droid X smartphones almost a week early. No one really knew why and it was difficult…
Apple is making moves that could cause its iPhone to be more compelling to the Chinese market, as it has been granted a license for the country’s WiFi. The country has its own security protocol for WiFi that’s known as WAPI (WLAN authentication and Privacy Infrastructure). The Apple iPhone has been on sale in China…