Well, well, well. Look who came crawlin’ back.
Well, not really crawling; it’s awesome having Stefan back. This week we’ve managed to wrestle time zone issues down and got the prodigal son, Stefan Constantinescu, to get on the weekly podcast. Considering his time at Nokia, we go over the N97 a fair bit in preparation for our head-to-head review with the Touch Pro 2. The Android-powered Hero gets sufficiently gushed over, as well as the introduction of HTC’s Sense user interface.
We’ve got a fresh giveaway this week – you might have seen Ben writing about Vuzix here, there and everywhere, and now we’ve got a pair to give away! These glasses work with iPhones, computers with S-Video and any mobile phone with video out to provide an immersive multimedia experience. This particular model, the AV310, usually retails for $249.95, so it’s well worth your while to drop a comment for a chance to win ’em.
Music by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, as featured on Tap Tap Revenge for the iPhone.
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Headlines
Sprint BlackBerry Tour Launch Date and Price Gets Official: July 12, $199
Palm Pre Sales Top 300,000 in June
HTC Hero: Android, 3.2 inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, Teflon coating, coming out late summer
HTC Sense UI – Taking Android to the next level
Rumors
BlackBerry 8520 Curve (Gemini) Passes FCC
Blurry Video: Nokia 6790, the Surge, assultued with multiple branchs from the ugly tree
TerreStar’s Windows Mobile Satellite Phone Counting Down to Launch
Bell BlackBerry Tour 9630 Arriving July 17th
BlackBerry Tour 9630 Coming to Alltel
LTE-Ready LG Device Passes FCC
HTC Firestone Release Bumped up to August?
Don’t Call it a Comeback… Call it a Samsung Comeback
Nokia 3720 leaks: Espoo’s first water and dust proof mobile, due in September
Video: Sony Ericsson Satio hands on, will cost less than €600, and come out in October
Android-Toting Motorola Morrison Spotted?
Releases
US Census survey to use Sprint’s wireless network for census-ing
Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 Coming July 12th for $199
Sprint launches the Motorola Clutch i465 as first QWERTY iDEN messaging phone
Four Low-End Samsung Phones Revealed
Businessy Samsung C6625 Hits Vodafone UK
Nokia 7510 Comes to Rogers, offers TalkSpot Support
Virgin Mobile Canada Release Samsung Vice & LG Rumour 2
TELUS Launches Samsung M220 Flip Phone
HTC Ozone Announced by Verizon
Samsung i7500 Galaxy available from O2 Germany for 69.99 EUR
Sony Ericsson T715: 3.2 megapixels and not much else
Dual-Sliding Samsung Exclaim Available on Sprint
Rogers Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 and C510a Now Available
HD Video: Tour of the new AT&T Motorola Karma QA1, the hockey puck that makes calls
T-Mobile myTouch 3G Available for Pre-Orders July 8th… Launching in August!