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Deutsche Telecom just made traveling in Europe a whole lot easier by announcing a new flat rate data plan for the European Union. The new plans will be available starting March 1, 2011 in Germany and will extend across much of Europe by July. The “Travel & Surf” plans will start with a 10MB day pass…
Deutsche Telekom will launch an NFC-based “Mobile Wallet” in 2011, the international carrier confirmed today at Mobile World Congress. The payment program will use NFC technology to enable wireless payments from a mobile device. This payment system could be extend to store purchases, event ticketing and passenger rail tickets. This international program will be developed…
Huawei unveiled its suite of products at Mobile World Congress including an Android Smartphone, an Android tablet and a mobile hotspot device. The Chinese handset manufacturer introduced the IDEOS X3. The IDEOS X3 improves upon the IDEOS lineup by offering a 3.2-inch display, 3.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and Android 2.3. The handset is advertised as the…
Taiwanese website Apple.pro has been correct with its rumors in the past and it is now stating that Apple is testing three different iPhone prototypes. One model reportedly incudes a side-sliding keyboard, a feature that has been hinted at in the past, but has never come to fruition. Other prototype models include variants of the…
HTC introduced the Wildfire S, an entry-level Android handset that will replace the Wildfire in HTC’s lineup. The Wildfire 2 was recently spotted in an HTC advertisement and bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor. The most notable difference is the lack of the optical trackpad on the front, a cosmetic change hat gives the Wildfire…
HTC brought its popular Incredible handset back to life with the newly announced Incredible S. The Incredible S features a unibody aluminum design that formally debuted in HTC’s handset lineup with the Legend. Also included is a 4-inch WVGA Super LCD screen, 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calling, 1GHz Qualcomm 8255 processor, 768MB of…
HTC announced its new handset lineup at Mobile World Congress today and, as expected, the Taiwanese manufacturer introduced two Facebook-centric handsets. This pair was spotted in a late-breaking leak that hit the wire Monday and now we have all the nitty-gritty detail on the touchscreen Salsa and the QWERTY-packing ChaCha. Rather than keep you waiting, here…
What do we have here? It looks like some, if not all, of the devices HTC will announce at Mobile World Congress today have been detailed ahead of HTC’s press event. As expected, the lineup includes two Facebook-centric handsets, a 7-inch tablet , an updated version of the Wildfire and a new handset that is supposedly…
HTC kicked off its press event at Mobile World Congress by announcing the HTC Flyer. As expected, the Flyer is a 7-inch tablet with a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor, 32GB of storage, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and HSPA+ connectivity. Sleek in design, the tablet includes an all-aluminum housing. Harkening back to the days…
The folks at Pocketnow scored press photos of two Facebook handsets rumored to be under development by HTC. The two handsets seem to be entry-level Android handsets with deep Facebook integration. At the time of the earlier leaks, the Taiwanese handset maker declined to comment and Facebook towed the company line by confirming it opens…