It’s Google I/O week, so you know we’re going to have some cool Android news. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with the TouchWiz UX will be landing as a WiFi-only version June 8. We’ll have to see when the carriers pick it up. It’s interesting that the company will be taking a direct-to-consumer approach with…
Zen Studios bringing Zen Pinball THD to NVIDIA Tegra 2 devices
If Pinball HD wasn’t enough for you, then you may be excited to hear that another pinball game is on its way for Tegra 2 devices. Zen Studios will be bringing its PS3 game Zen Pinball to Android smartphones and tablets with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, and will be giving demos of the…
Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) to get speech to text, turn by turn navigation, and Google Goggles clone
The first Windows Phone devices shipped in October/November 2010 and since then we’ve only seen one update issued for the platform that brought copy and paste support, along with the ability to use CDMA networks. The update itself didn’t exactly go as planned, with several users finding themselves with an expensive paperweight at the end…
Sony Ericsson Xperia acro announced in Japan
Sony Ericsson is bringing its flagship Xperia arc smartphone to Japan. However, since we’re talking about the Land of the rising Sun, some tweaks here and there were required to appeal to the tech-savvy Japanese users. That said, the arc has a new name in Japan – acro, but we’re talking about pretty much the…
HTC Flyer’s Digital Pen costs whopping $79.99 at Best Buy!
Honestly folks I’m not sure why would anyone want the HTC Flyer? It’s not a Honeycomb flyer (though may get an update), lacks a dual-core processor yet it costs like it does have one. Really don’t get it. Sure it’s compact and HTC is well-known for its build quality, but I’m not sure that’s good…
Samsung Galaxy S 2 hits the FCC with AT&T bands – more carriers to follow?
The super thin, sexy, and powerful Samsung Galaxy S 2 just hit up the FCC, bringing some interesting news with it, as these filings usually do. It looks like we’ll be seeing the popular Galaxy S successor hit AT&T sometime this year, in all its dual-core, Super AMOLED Plus beauty. While the FCC filing may…
Sprint announces Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium
Sprint has just announced to Motorola devices designed for the business user – the XPRT and the Titanium. Both have physical QWERTY keyboards at the face, perfect for those who prefer a little tactile feel when banging out e-mails all day long, and the Motorola XPRT is the first “Android smartphone from Sprint to deliver…
American operators change NFC plans for Isis, look to Visa and MasterCard partnerships
Last November we reported that AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile got together and formed a joint venture called Isis that aimed to make every new mobile phone sold near field enabled, thus turning it into a mobile wallet. Along with the 3 operators, Discover and Barclays signed up to help handle the actual financial part of…
The CEOs of HTC, HP/Palm, Nokia to keynote Qualcomm’s Uplinq conference
Qualcomm has just announced that Peter Chou, CEO of HTC , Jon Rubinstein, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Palm at HP, and Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, will be giving keynotes during the two day Uplinq event scheduled to take place next month in California. What’s going to be talked…
Motorola Droid 3 spotted again with 4 inch display and front-facing camera
This may not be the first time we’ve caught a glimpse of the Motorola Droid 3, but it’s certainly one of the best photos we’ve seen so far of the handset’s face. While the Droid 2 wasn’t much of an upgrade from the original, the next generation of the Droid family will be kicking it…









