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When Microsoft announced the Kin One and Kin Two in the Spring of this year, I had my doubts about its ability to succeed as a Windows Phone device for the younger crowd. It didn’t have a dedicated app store, there were no pre-loaded games and the cost of owning one included the same data…
Three UK announced that it will start selling the Nokia E7 in January next year. Price was not unveiled, but we think the phone will be available starting from free on a two-year 35 GBP a month contract — which is the price of its all-touchscreen brother, Nokia N8. The Nokia E7 is arguably the…
If you’ve been thinking to jump ships and sign-up for a smaller carrier, Cricket Wireless may have an offer for you. As part of its holiday season promotion, the carrier is offering the following three smartphones for less: Sanyo Zio by Kyocera for $149.99, after $50 instant rebate and $50 mail-in reward card Huawei Ascend…
The Google Nexus S is one of the most anticipated handset launches of 2010, and we managed to get our hands on one of these Samsung-made superphones to put it and its new Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS through its paces. But, before we give the handset the flogging of its life, we figured we’d unbox…
It looks like we’ll be in a for a bunch of 4G tablets in 2011, as T-Mobile quickly chimed in to say that it, too, will have tablets next year which will be able to utilize its HSPA+ network for high-speed mobile data. In a message sent to us, a T-Mobile spokesperson said: “T-Mobile is…
The saga of Aron Embry, who will aways be known as the man with the exploding DROID 2, continues to develop. A statement from Motorola given to an employee at PC Magazine claims the explosion was a misunderstanding on the part of Embry. The DROID 2 in question did not explode, it was dropped prior to…
Since October 2009, BlackBerry has slowly but steadily been losing sales on America’s top carrier, Verizon Wireless, to Android handsets (mostly Motorola, but also LG and Samsung). This probably isn’t a huge surprise to anyone who has seen Verizon’s aggressive (and awesome) Android marketing; in fact, Verizon would go so far as to say as…
A handful of Motorola Droid users were seeded with Android 2.2.1 the other day, and despite some difficulties pushing it out on the Droid X due to the night-time battery manager turning off the radio, Motorola has sorted out the deployment and will be unleashing the update tonight. Froyo officially hit Droid X handsets in…
Nexus One owners who bought their device via Vodafone may be getting the Android 2.2 update as we speak. It’s not a full Gingerbread upgrade, but something worth looking forward to, nevertheless. The process is conducted over-the-air, requiring no software installed on your PC or Mac. Here’s what Vodafone had to say about it: Google…
Good news for those of you in the coverage are of Sprint/Clearwire’s WiMAX network. Sprint will be launching a WiMAX (they would call it 4G) enabled tablet at some point next year. The news comes from the carrier’s president of business markets, Paget Alves, who missed to mention which company will make the device. Samsung…