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US Cellular has just launched their first Android-powered Galaxy S device, the Samsung Mesmerize. You can grab this phone now for $199 on a new two-year contract, a standard price for the Galaxy S line of Android smartphones. The Mesmerize joins the HTC Desire and Samsung Acclaim in the US Cellular line up, and is…
Acer is ready for the tablet wars, and is readying multiple tablets to launch on November 23rd at a press event in New York. Last we heard, the company was going to release three Gingerbread tablets, but that could have changed, or the company could simply have increased the number of devices available at launch.…
The just officially released HTC Desire HD has just received its first OTA update to help iron out some of those first run-time bugs. It’s a minor update, yet the file is rather large, so you’ll likely want to be on WiFi when downloading the thing. While we don’t know exactly what the update does,…
Smartphone adoption is growing rapidly if you hadn’t noticed. In fact, smartphone adoption is growing so rapidly that 19% of all phones shipped today are smartphones. This is expected to grow even more, and much faster than it took to get where we are today. Smartphone shipments have gone up 12% since the first quarter…
We have yet to see many compelling Android applications made with Adobe’s Air yet, but a new app called Skytunes might just change our perspective on that. Skytunes is a new Android app that allows you to listen to your home music collection from your PC to your phone from anywhere. There are a few…
If you’re sporting an Android phone with version 2.1 on it, you may have been a little annoyed that the new YouTube application update didn’t initially make it to your particular version of Android OS. Luckily, the guys over at XDA have worked some magic and made the updated available to 2.1 devices! In order…
Garmin and Asus are calling it quits next year, and that may allow Asus to revisit Android to make a smartphone worth buying. According to rumors, Asus may be putting Windows Phone 7 on the back burner to focus on Google’s mobile OS. We know Asus has been working on a Windows Phone 7 device…
Here we go again with Nexus Two rumors. Fresh rumors of a Nexus Two have resurfaced, but this time around it won’t be sold exclusively from Google. Carphone Warehouse and Google have allegedly inked a deal to sell the Nexus One follow-up, running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and will be available for the holidays. I find…
It looks like Verizon may be trying to refresh their entire Droid lineup with an HTC Droid Incredible HD offering, as we’ve already seen the Droid 2 Global, the Merge, and the Droid X SE. We may be looking at a Droid Incredible HD — possibly the HTC Desire HD for Verizon — right here,…
We’re well aware that Best Buy intends to have a rather decent selection of Android tablets available for the holiday season, and we knew that the Samsung Galaxy Tab would be one of them. What we didn’t know is that starting today you can pre-order the Galaxy Tab as well as the Huawei S7 tablet.…