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Cricket will soon add a new Android smartphone to its portfolio – ZTE Engage. The soon-to-be-launched device will be available for $249.99 at Cricket stores, dealers and mycricket.com beginning Tuesday, October 2, 2012. We’re talking about a low-to-mid range Android phone that comes with a 4-inch WVGA touchscreen, 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm MSM8655T Scorpion processor, 8-megapixel…
Sprint is preparing one of those hard-to-refuse offers for the upcoming Black Friday. The Now Network will sell the Samsung Galaxy S III for $50! Yes, that’s just fifty bucks for what’s still the best Android smartphone out there (until LG Optimus G starts selling, that is). Of course, you’ll still have to put your…
T-Mobile’s HTC One S is getting a software update as we speak, bringing Android OS version to 4.0.4 (from 4.0.3) and HTC Sense to 4.1 (from 4.0). In addition, the 150MB heavy download also packs a number of changes and bug fixes, including: Data connection delay fixes Signal fluctuations fixes Help with Wi-Fi dropping connection…
It looks like Samsung will launch a music-centric Galaxy Music smartphone soon. The rumor is that the device will be catered toward first-time smartphone buyers who don’t want to spend a small fortune on their handset purchase. As far as I’ve understood, it should be unveiled any day now, packing an 850MHz processor, 512MB of…
Tesco Mobile is looking to explore the vast reach its parent company has to bring more users to the smartphone world. Their latest offering is Huawei Ascend Y201, a low-end Android device which is selling for just 70 GBP (about $113). That money gets you a single-core processor clocked at 800MHz, 256MB of RAM, 3.2-…
Facebook ability to make money up from its mobile services up until this point has been insubstantial. Enter Gifts. It’s a new way for Facebook users to send real gifts to each other in the mail for special occasions and it’s available on the Facebook website as well as the mobile apps. Cha-ching. Facebook Gifts work…
Not too long ago Samsung used IFA to announce the Galaxy Note II. This didn’t stop the Korean based manufacturer’s plans of a much grander launch of the phone-tablet in the United States. We found an invite in our inbox titled “The Next Big Thing Is Here,” which will be an event held in New…
According to a Digitimes report, Google is working on two new versions of the Nexus 7 tablet that are expected to be thinner than the currently available model, and would launch ahead of the 2012 holiday season. The two Nexus 7 tablets would be aggressively priced at $99 and $199, with the lower price believed to be aimed…
Looks like the recently approved by the FCC HTC One X+ will be launched pretty soon as we got the first leaked image of the device, compliments of EVleaks. As far as we know, the only difference between this and the original One X model is in the faster CPU — the One X+ comes with…
Not that we’re surprised or something – Boost Mobile officially unveiled LG Venice, which it their version of the Optimus L3 aka Splendor (for US Cellular). The mid-end device runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, packing a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 3G and…