Kentucky-based Bluegrass Cellular, which is a rural wireless carrier most of us haven’t heard of before, announced it has entered into an agreement with Verizon Wireless to participate in the LTE in Rural America program. The mentioned program is created by the Big Red carrier in an effort to jumpstart the delivery of LTE services…
Kin One and Kin Two headed back to Verizon for an encore performance?
This is a bit of a shocker but apparently the ill-fated Kin ONE and TWO are slated to re-launch with Verizon in Q4 2010. This rumor arose from PPC Geeks and was reportedly confirmed as legitimate by Engadget’s sources. If you don’t believe it, take a look at leaked slide deck above which lists the Kin…
HTC Mecha/Incredble HD spotted: Android 2.2, LTE, 4.3-inch screen
We all knew that Verizon would be landing an EVO-like device sooner or later but this latest leaked shot of a device being called the “HTC Mecha” shows off that the smartphone will run Android 2.2, have a 4.4-inch screen and it will be capable of LTE. Are you excited yet? If you look very…
Android 2.2.1 FRG83 leaked for the original Motorola Droid
The rate at which Android handsets are being announced and released might make last week’s model seem like ancient history. But just because you bought the first Droid one year ago, you shouldn’t have to feel like you’ve been forgotten and unloved. As a matter of fact, the Android 2.2.1 FRG83 build has been leaked…
Deal Alert: Blackberry For a Buck This Weekend at Best Buy
It looks like that time of year is upon us. The time when big name retailers offer insane prices for products for early Christmas shoppers, although if you’re anything like me, you just end up buying these things for yourself. Regardless of who the product goes to, you have to admit this time of year…
Verizon pushes Motorola Droid 2 Global video ad [video]
The Motorola Droid 2 Global was released just yesterday, and now we have a pretty nice video ad showcasing some of its great features. The Droid 2 Global is essentially just regular Droid 2, only with a beefier CPU and global roaming capabilities (it has a SIM card for international roaming). Still, that may be…
Palm Pre vanishes from Sprint and Verizon’s web sites
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…
Quick Hands-On with the Samsung Continuum [Update: Now with Video]
Samsung announced the Continuum today and we gave a quick run down of the handset and its features during our live blog. Afterwards, we got some quick hands on time with the new Android device. It’s very much like other Samsung handsets of late: thin and light, fingerprint-magnet back casing and a relatively solid build.…
Enterprise-Ready Motorola Droid Pro Shipping Early From Verizon
The Motorola Droid Pro is shipping a little ahead of its planned November 18 release from Verizon. The new Motorola touchscreen candybar has a physical QWERTY keyboard, 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, 5 megapixel camera, 3.1-inch HVGA display, 8 GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi with DLNA support, GPS, and 3G over EV-DO. The…
Samsung sells 3 million U.S. Galaxy S smartphones
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…