Tesco Mobile is looking to explore the vast reach its parent company has to bring more users to the smartphone world. Their latest offering is Huawei Ascend Y201, a low-end Android device which is selling for just 70 GBP (about $113). That money gets you a single-core processor clocked at 800MHz, 256MB of RAM, 3.2-…
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RadioShack slashing prices on select Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile smartphones
RadioShack is lowering prices on select Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid smartphones at its store locations across the country. Here’s what they got: Virgin Mobile HTC One V – $149.99 HTC EVO V 4G – $229.99 Boost Mobile HTC EVO Design 4G – $229.99 ZTE Warp Sequent – $199.99 Samsung Galaxy Rush – $149.99…
Cellcom to sell the iPhone 5 on September 28th with a $149 starting price
Regional wireless carrier Cellcom announced that it will start selling the iPhone 5 on Friday, September 28. To compete with the bigger carriers, Wisconsin-based Cellcom has chopped $50 off the price of the iPhone 5 and will sell the 16 GB model for $149, the 32 GB for $249 and the 64 GB for $349, each…
With Gifts, Facebook just found a way to monetize its mobile apps
Facebook ability to make money up from its mobile services up until this point has been insubstantial. Enter Gifts. It’s a new way for Facebook users to send real gifts to each other in the mail for special occasions and it’s available on the Facebook website as well as the mobile apps. Cha-ching. Facebook Gifts work…
Deals of the Day – Sep 27: 13” Dell Inspiron 13z Ultra-thin Core i3 Laptop $500
The Dell Inspiron 13z Core i3 laptop, which measures only 0.82” thin and weighs only 3.81 lbs is on sale today starting at $499.99. This is after $39 in instant savings and a $100 coupon code that you can get here. This Inspiron 13z typically starts at $638.99, so you’ll save $139 with this deal.…
Samsung to unleash the Galaxy Note II to the US on Oct. 24
Not too long ago Samsung used IFA to announce the Galaxy Note II. This didn’t stop the Korean based manufacturer’s plans of a much grander launch of the phone-tablet in the United States. We found an invite in our inbox titled “The Next Big Thing Is Here,” which will be an event held in New…
RIM beats Wall Street estimates in Q2 2013, stock price surges
RIM announced its earnings for Q2 2013 and the company performed better than expected. RIM posted a net loss of $235 million in the quarter, which is significantly better than the $518 million loss reported in Q1. Revenue climbed slightly from $2.8 million in Q1 to $2.9 million in Q2, a 2 percent quarterly increase.…
Digitimes: Google updating Nexus 7 line for the holidays, with $99 starting price point
According to a Digitimes report, Google is working on two new versions of the Nexus 7 tablet that are expected to be thinner than the currently available model, and would launch ahead of the 2012 holiday season. The two Nexus 7 tablets would be aggressively priced at $99 and $199, with the lower price believed to be aimed…
Lumia 820 and 920 priced in Germany, Italy, and Russia
When the upcoming Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 devices were announced back in early September, the two notable pieces missing from the picture were the pricing and release date for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 headsets. Today, we’re starting to see these details emerge for some locales across Europe, with Nokia’s Germany, Italy, and Russia divisions…
T-Mobile’s HTC One X+ caught in the wild
Looks like the recently approved by the FCC HTC One X+ will be launched pretty soon as we got the first leaked image of the device, compliments of EVleaks. As far as we know, the only difference between this and the original One X model is in the faster CPU — the One X+ comes with…









