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It is official, the Samsung Fascinate from Verizon will make its debut tomorrow online and in stores on the 9th. As expected, the Galaxy S handset will be available for $199 after a $100 online discount/mail-in rebate and a new two-year agreement. As a smartphone, Verizon will require you to sign up for an Email and Web for…
Various members of England’s technology press core have been invited to an event hosted by HTC scheduled to take place on the 15th of September at the Hyatt Hotel in London. Rumor has it that a successor to the highly praised HTC HD2 will be announced, and that it’ll be called the HD3, run Windows…
Samsung is super optimistic about the prospects of its Android-powered tablet – the Korean company plans to move 10 million Galaxy Tab units worldwide. In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Samsung product executive Hankil Yoon talked about these plans, adding that in the U.S. the Galaxy Tab “would likely retail for between $200…
The security company NetQin Mobile released NetQin Mobile Manager 3.0 for Android mobile devices. The application comes with several handy features, all designed to keep users in control of their phone: Call Manager – enables the black list feature, allowing users to block unwanted callers – the numbers in the list will be automatically rejected…
Today, LG introduced a series of high-end smartphones powered by NVIDIA’s dual core Tegra 2 processor. As previously rumored, these Tegra 2 smartphones will be part of LG’s recently announced Optimus line of mobile devices and will start shipping in Q4 2010. The Korean manufacturer does not name the mobile OS powering these upcoming handsets but one candidate for this super-fast treatment will…
The DROID 2 launched in early August, achieved root at the end of August, and obtained its first custom ROM today. The ROM, dubbed Epic Unleashed, is an offshoot of the Epic ROM which made its debut on the original DROID. Epic Unleashed builds upon the stock Android 2.2 with MOTOBLUR that ships on the DROID…
Google, Sony, and Logitech may be hard at work to polish Google TV and launch it in time for the 2010 holiday shopping season, but that hasn’t stopped a lesser-known TV maker from Scandinavia from putting the Android operating system on their latest range of flat-screen “boob tubes”. The Lava Scandinavia TVs, from People of…
There’s no question that Android tablets were the most interesting devices to come out of IFA 2010 Berlin – and the Android 2.2 Froyo-powered ViewSonic ViewPad 7 tablet is one of the best of the bunch. It might not have the largest display, or the highest-resolution, or the most feature-packed specs-sheet, but the ViewPad 7…
UK service provider O2 had begun rolling out Android 2.2 (Froyo) to HTC Desire owners earlier today, but have paused the deployment due to some technical difficulties users are having with installation. The same update went out through Vodafone recently, including such features as Flash 10.1 and mobile Wi-Fi hotspot support. It seems like most…
Today, Vodafone UK confirmed that it will be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Galaxy Tab now has a dedicated landing page on Vodafone UK with a tentative launch date of “Coming Soon”. Vodafone UK is silent on the official timing of the Galaxy Tab’s arrival, only stating the Galaxy Tab will launch sometime in…