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Six months ago, AT&T confirmed it would carry the Acer Iconia Tab A501 on its HSPA+ network. Well, AT&T over the weekend finally announced the tablet’s long-awaited launch. The LTE “4G” Android Honeycomb tablet is set to arrive on September 18th for the price of $480, but if you decide to sign your life away…
HTC, maker of some of the most popular Android smartphones and designer of Sense UI, is considering purchasing its own mobile OS. No hard decisions have been made, but it is interesting that it is under consideration, especially with the ease with which Android can be slapped onto any of its future smartphones. (Of course,…
The LG Optimus One is arguably the most successful Android device that no one knows about. For good reason too, it’s a midrange smartphone, so most of you guys probably don’t care about it. That being said, for the millions that currently are enjoying the Optimus One, you’ll be pleased to know that LG has…
Amazon is rumored to be coming out with a 7 inch tablet later this fall that’ll run a completely custom version of Google’s Android operating system. Said tablet will primarily be used as an electronic book reader, but it’ll also play movies, music, and even browse the web. The best part is, it’s supposed to…
New numbers from the bean counters at IDC have been released and they show that finally, after the first smartphone, the Nokia 7650, was introduced in Q2 2002, the smartphone category has ended the reign of the dumbphone. The defeat wasn’t really a landslide, 21.8 million smartphones versus 20.4 million million dumbphones that shipped in…
HTC has been sending various members of the press an invite for an event that’s due to take place on the 20th of September in New York City. The invitation reads “Come celebrate in style with HTC“, which makes us think that they’re going to show off the long awaited “Bliss” smartphone. When we first…
Want to grab the Samsung Galaxy S II from AT&T? You still can’t do it, but you can at least sign-up from a dedicated page and be notified when it starts selling. The carrier is obviously pressured by Sprint which got the head start for the device, hence they decided to do something about it.…
And we thought that Wirefly’s deal for Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G Touch was smoking hot. $150 certainly sounded great considering that the carrier itself will ask $50 more right from the start, but now Walmart Wireless has an even better offer – $100 ($99.99 to be more precise)! Of course, putting your signature on a…
Of all the new Android smartphones Samsung announced recently, the Galaxy W was the one that grabbed instant attention, with Three and O2 lining up to start offering it later this month. Vodafone seems to care more about its little (and less powerful) brother – Galaxy Y, which got a spot in the Big Red…
It’s good to see more and more companies launching special version of their apps for the growing army of Android Honeycomb users. NFL is joining this trend and its NFL ’11 is readily waiting in the Android Market. Available as a free download, the application comes with access to video on demand from the NFL…