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Aside from the Motorola Electrify, U.S. Cellular will be adding another Android smartphone to its offering in the next couple of days (or weeks). It’s the HTC Hero S, which as far as we see is the carrier’s version of the Kingdom (EVO Design 4G). If that’s true (and we think it is), expect a…
Remember the not-so-loved Pierre Cardin’s 7-inch tablet? When we talked about it, it was shipping with Android 2.2 Froyo on board. No more – the PC-7006 got “G” at the end (so it’s PC-7006G now), which stands for… (guess)… Gingerbread. What’s more, the price went down, from 274.99 GBP (about $438) to 224.99 GBP (about…
Thieves stole some 2,700 BlackBerry Torch 9810 devices from a Mississauga warehouse between August 19th & 20th. The three skids with all those phones, valued at about $1.1 million, contain 900 grey and 1,800 white Torch 9810 units. At the moment, Police has no clue who the thieves are though they have the device ID…
Sony Ericsson announced that Yoshihisa (Bob) Ishida will be joining the company as Deputy CEO and Executive Vice President with effect from 1 September. At the same time, Rikko Sakaguchi will be leaving Sony Ericsson to take up a position at Sony Corporation. Bob will be based at Sony Ericsson’s R&D facility in Lund, Sweden…
T-Mobile Google has dropped the upgrade price of the Nexus One to $279, which is $100 cheaper than the previous price of $379. Google and T-Mobile have been hit with some harsh criticism from Nexus One customers upset over slow-to-respond customer service and unreliable T-Mobile 3G service leading up to T-Mobile’s not-so-coincidental decision to slash…
Things are bad in Haiti, but help is coming from a group of independent iPhone developers who are banding together to donate app sales to help relief efforts. The devs will be giving revenue from their iPhone apps to charities that are working to help relief efforts on the ground in Haiti. It’s called the…
AT&T’s been under some heavy fire from rival carriers and iPhone customers alike. On one side, the carrier is dealing with Verizon’s onslaught of TV commercials that point out AT&T’s spotty 3G coverage maps. On the other side, AT&T is feeling the heat from iPhone customers in SF and NYC who are complaining about service…
In the mobile phone biz, product cycles are measured in months. On that scale, it’s easy to see how one of the hottest handsets to launch last year is struggling to stay relevant among the big-hitting smartphones that have surfaced recently. HTC managed to ship over 2 million of their HTC Touch smartphones with less…
If you’re the proud owner of a new Palm Treo 800w, then you might be feeling a bit let down at this point. Aside from the fact that the Palm Treo Pro has just surfaced as the latest must-have Palm Treo smartphone, Palm has acknowledged problems with the software controlling the Palm Treo 800w’s USB…
If you have been wanting to get your paws around a Nokia N95-3 but you couldn’t come up with the cash, this deal is for you. Amazon has dropped their price on the red Nokia N95-3 to $504.99! The N93-3 denotes the US version (with support for US 3G frequencies), while the European version is the…