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Chinese infrastructure vendor and handset maker Huawei has just announced a new smartphone called the “Vision”. It sports the Qualcomm MSM 8255 processor, which is a 45 nanometer chip that has a 1 GHz Scorpion core and an Adreno 205 GPU. It’s the same chip that’s inside numerous Android smartphones, from the HTC Desire HD,…
Apple has finally managed to balance supply and demand for the iPad 2 and now the shipping time for the popular tablet is 24 hours. In other words – if you order the iPad 2 today, it will be shipping from the factory within one day. It may take a few days longer to actually…
Sony Ericsson released small firmware updates for two of its smartphones – Xperia Arc and Xperia Play. It’s not the Android core update — two phones will keep running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread — rather it will affect Sony Ericsson’s own software that runs on top of Google’s mobile OS. More precisely, once your phones get…
T-Mobile will get its own version of the recently unveiled LG Optimus Net. While we don’t have all the details — like the launch date — we did noticed that pretty much the same device marked P699 (Gelato) got the Bluetooth certification and is now one step closer to the official announcement. If you recall,…
A week ago we told you Vodafone dropped the HTC Evo 3D from its “Coming Soon” pages. That however doesn’t mean the Big Red carrier won’t offer the 3D-enabled smartphone at all — quite the contrary, it only means that the phone is delayed for the time being. Now we have a new tidbit of…
It’s funny, HTC makes some of the best Android devices on the market, from a specification and build quality perspective, but then they molest Google’s mobile operating system with their Sense overlay because they somehow think that as a hardware maker they understand software better than Google engineers. They then reach out to the community…
It has been a huge day for Research In Motion, as the company just unveiled multiple BlackBerry 7 devices and these should land on a carrier near you within weeks (hopefully). These devices sport beefed up hardware and an updated operating system but are these enough to help RIM compete against the likes of Apple,…
Now that the BlackBerry Torch 9810 and 9860 have been announced with nary a peep about NFC, it’s looking like the Bold 9900 will have a distinct lead on features versus the other OS 7 smartphones from RIM. The downside is you might end up paying a premium, according to a leaked slide from T-Mobile.…
If you can’t wait to get your hands on some of the new BlackBerry 7 devices, then keep an eye of Sprint this Fall because the carrier just announced that it will be carrying the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and the Torch 9850 in a few months. The BlackBerry Bold 9930 and Torch 9850 both sport…
Following closely behind the rumoured launch date of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9810 on Telus, Bell may be launching the OS 7 smartphones on August 16, according to some leaked internal documents. Bell is also set to carry the Torch 9860 which was officially announced today, but there’s no date for that one included.…