U.S. Cellular has announced a trio of HTC devices to be launched next month. The Hero S, Wildfire S, and Flyer tablet will be sold for $199.99, $79.99, and $199.99 on contract after rebates, respectively. The Hero S runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has a 4-inch 960 x 540 touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera on the…
Some Android features not making it to BlackBerry PlayBook with App Player
RIM is gearing up to show off the Android app player for their PlayBook tablet next month at BlackBerry DevCon, but that hardly means they’re adopting Android wholesale. In fact, at a Romanian developer event, RIM engineers explained just some of the Android features we won’t be seeing in QNX 2.0 for the PlayBook: live…
HP TouchPad Go is what would have been the next webOS tablet
Those of you still mourning the death of webOS devices will probably want to turn away. Some slides have leaked showing HP’s plans for their second webOS tablet, dubbed the TouchPad Go. It has a smaller, 7-inch display with a 1024 x 768 resolution, and a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor. The TouchPad Go is graced with…
Amazon Silk browser leverages cloud for Kindle Fire tablet
Today, Amazon has announced some sexy, cheap tablets, and one of them, the Kindle Fire, is running a new browser called Silk. It’s using Amazon’s extensive Web Services servers to do the bulk of the heavy lifting with CSS and JavaScript so the tablet doesn’t have to. Amazon is claiming 5 ms latency, versus the…
Rogers flips switch on LTE networks in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver
Over the summer Rogers kicked off LTE in Canada with their Ottawa network, and Bell answered with an launch in Toronto and the surrounding area. Rogers is now expanding their reach to all of the major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto can now get in on the fun. To promote the launch, Rogers is…
HTC Radar announced for T-Mobile, Windows Phone Mango in tow
Along with today’s Mango launch, T-Mobile has announced their own Windows Phone from HTC. As far as specs go, the HTC Radar has a 3.8-inch 480 x 800 touch display, 1 GHz processor, and 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. Although it’s plastered with 4G branding, the phone connects to T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network at 14.4…
Smartr Contacts for Android manages and ranks up to 10,000 address book entries
Inbox management service Xobni has been plugging away at an Android version of their app since the spring, and now it’s ready to go as a public beta, along with new branding. Much like the existing BlackBerry app, Smartr scans your phone’s contacts, Gmail and Outlook correspondence through plug-ins, and social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook,…
56% of new U.S. smartphone buyers siding with Android
While iPhone owners will be clinging to their brand until the bitter end, it looks like Android will be there to capture just about everyone else in the mobile world. A recent survey by Nielsen showed that of those that had purchased a smartphone in the last three months, 56% of Americans picked up an…
Miso adds Dexter to second screen TV experience
Recently, the Miso app for iPhone plugged in to the DirecTV set-top box, allowing you to follow shows with useful secondary info and reactions from folks who are watching the same thing. Now Showtime has enabled Dexter to play nice with Miso, so you can learn lots more about what’s going on around the famous…
BlackBerry PlayBook goes on sale at retailers, up to $200 off
Update: RIM has issued a statement, clarifying that the price hasn’t dropped, and that these are just promotional rebates. “The official retail price of BlackBerry PlayBook has not changed. However, as mentioned on the Q2 earnings call on Sept. 15th, we have a number promotional plans in place for the fall with our retail partners…