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It is the end of an era for webOS fans as the original Palm Pre has disappeared from Sprint’s website. After being on sale for over 1.5 years, the Palm Pre is no longer available online from the nation’s #3 wireless carrier. References to the handout are still interspersed throughout the carrier’s website but this…
According to the TheStreet, a market research source crunched the estimated sales numbers for Windows Phone and came up with the shockingly low figure of 40,000 as the final tally of handsets that were sold on launch day. This number is based on estimated sales only and was not confirmed by Microsoft, who refused to comment.…
GetJar confirmed that it is bringing its catalog of 75,000+ free applications to the AT&T AppCenter. AT&T becomes the third major wireless carrier North America to offer GetJar to its customers. Earlier this year, GetJar partnered with Sprint in the US and with Rogers in Canada. In addition to Rogers, AT&T, and Sprint, GetJar has…
Samsung had a monster quarter with more than 71 million phone shipped and it looks like it is gaining traction in the U.S. market because it has sold more than 3 million Galaxy S smartphones in the United States alone. Unlike Apple and its exclusive iPhone 4, Samsung took a shotgun approach and brought its…
The Samsung Focus may be running into some issues with microSD cards as AT&T employees are allegedly being told not to install the external memory for customers in store. Now, when the chassis criteria for Windows Phone 7 devices was first announced, microSD cards and external storage slots were not in the cards. We were…
Ah, the HTC Paradise, it’s been so long since we last caught wind of this Android-powered QWERTY slider phone. Last time we heard of this handset, someone had actually bought the device, along with another unfinished HTC Android device, from Craigslist. We haven’t heard much since. Well, the FCC has outed this bad boy, and…
Today is the big day that Windows Phone 7 is launching here in the US and in Canada. A bevy of handsets will debut on 5 carriers including all three major carriers in Canada (Bell, Telus, and Rogers) and on AT&T and T-Mobile here in the states. The handsets that will be available starting today…
Two Motorola smartphones that were announced during this year’s CTIA, Bravo and Flipside, are now available at AT&T. The first of the two (Bravo) is an all-touchscreen device with a 3.7-inch 854×480 pixels touchscreen, HSPA and WiFi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera, 800MHz CPU and a microSD memory card slot. AT&T is asking $129.99 for…
The BlackBerry Torch didn’t make as big a wave as RIM had hoped when it was first released, so to spark new interest in an aging gadget is to release new colors. If you’ve been getting tired of staring at silver gadgets all day long, and you’ve been wanting a new Torch for AT&T, you…
Well, what the heck is going on? First, we hear that T-Mobile is stocking iPhone docking cables and now we’re seeing evidence that T-Mobile is sending customers microSIM cards. Does this mean that an Apple iPhone 4 or iPad is on the way for the nation’s fourth-largest carrier? The parent company of T-Mobile has said…