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Earlier today Phandroid seemed to have off-contract pricing information on the upcoming T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant – the T-Mobile variant of the Samsung Galaxy S – as $329 without contract. Sounds great right? Well, that was taken down from the T-Mobile site promptly – turns out the actual off-contract pricing is set at $450. T-Mobile contacted…
Last night, members of the media were invited to the Skylight West in New York City to be properly introduced to the Samsung Galaxy S, or rather, the US variants of the device. Not only did we have a chance to see wireless industry big wigs on the keynote stage, but we also had a…
Alongside the equally low-end dLite and GS170, LG and T-Mobile have teamed up to launch this dirt-simple slate called the Sentio. It packs a 3″ touchscreen, GPS, a 3 megapixel camera, 3G, and not much else. In terms of style, it reminds me an awful lot of the HTC Magic in its simplicity, and it…
The last we had seen of the BlackBerry Curve 9300, code-named Kepler, it was happily bearing a T-Mobile logo, the first concrete sign of carrier support. There are a few new pictures bubbling up, showing an alternative purple paint job to the silver 9300 we had seen previously. The source of the picture and previous…
The announcement that all Samsung Galaxy S smartphone variants will be getting Android 2.2 Froyo OS updates may not be surprising, but confirmations of this sort are always welcomed. During their Galaxy S launch party in NYC today, Samsung confirmed that all of their recently announced Samsung Galaxy S devices will receive the Android 2.2,…
A new Android handset from Motorola is finding its way to T-Mobile, according to a collection of screenshots from web-based training. The Motorola Charm is a rather wide candybar with a full QWERTY keyboard, running Android 2.1 and an improved version of Motorola’s user interface and services, Blur. The new features, which will come to…
It’s not much of a surprise, but Samsung’s Android-powered Vibrant will be coming to T-Mobile July 21 for $199 with a new, two-year contract. The handset is a Galaxy S phone, so it will sport a 1 GHz processor, a 4-inch Super AMOLED display and a 5-megapixel camera. The handset will rock Android 2.1 but…
The as-yet unreleased BlackBerry Curve 9300 has already been caught in still pictures, and now there’s some new hands-on video to go with it. T-Mobile branding is bright as day, providing us with at least one carrier who we know will pick it up. That’s about the only new thing we learn from the video;…
With the launch of the Sprint HTC EVO 4G well underway, you’ve got to wonder what else the king of Android smartphone makers has up their sleeve for this holiday season. With devices like the Samsung Galaxy S (Vibrant), and Motorola Droid X almost upon us, is HTC just going to sit on it’s EVO…
Well, it looks like we were right for predicting the Samsung Galaxy S would land on T-Mobile as the Vibrant, as the fourth-largest U.S. carrier has just thrown up a mysterious teaser page for the new Android handset. The teaser page has a countdown clock (about two days left, folks) before we get some more…