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U.S. Cellular is adding the low-end Alcatel ONE TOUCH Shockwave to its portfolio. Available for $49.99 from the carrier’s stores and online, this little fella’ offers quite a bang for the buck, including an 800MHz processor, 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, while Android 2.3 Gingerbread is running the show. It’s also a shock…
AT&T has just announced that it will launch the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note II on November 9th for $299.99. The Note II features a 1.6 GHz quad-core Exynos processor, a 5.5″ Super AMOLED display, an 8 megapixel rear camera and support for Samsung’s S-Pen. The device runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, runs on AT&T’s…
As noticed by MacRumors, Apple has added a new Apple Events application to the Apple TV that’ll offer a live stream of today’s iPad mini event. This will be the first live stream since the 2010 Back to the Mac event which was used to unveil OS X Lion and a new version of the…
MetroPCS is joining few other carriers which support the Google Wallet service. The mobile operator turned to Facebook to share the good news, saying that the Samsung Galaxy S III will be their first device to allow for contactless payments, “enabling consumers to carry their credit cards, debit cards and offers, so they can pay…
The rumored Nokia Lumia 510 has been officially announced. As you can imagine, it’s a fairly low-end Windows Phone device, packing an 800MHz single-core processor, 4-inch WVGA screen, 5-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM and just 4GB of built-in storage without the possibility to add extra gigabytes with a microSD card. The Lumia 510 will ship…
Almost missed this… Canada’s Rogers Wireless and Microsoft jointly announced new Windows Phone 8 offering. We’re saying “new,” cause we already know they’ll get to sell the Nokia Lumia 920, as well as the HTC 8X with 8 and 16 GB of built-in storage. The Samsung ATIV S will join the party, and so will…
Just recently, Sony posted an article on its official blog saying which phones will get the Jelly Bean update and which will be left out. The new models, Xperia T and Xperia TX, as well as the Xperia V will get Android 4.1 at some point in mid-Q1 2013. As usual, availability and rollout timing…
Oppo Find 5, the Chinese company’s upcoming phablet, has been caught in the wild. As you probably already know, we’re talking about a powerful device that rocks a 5-inch HD screen with 1920×1080 pixels resolution, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 12-megapixel camera on the back and so on. In other words,…
Struggling BlackBerry handset maker RIM suffered another blow when the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said it would end its contract with the Canadian company. ICE officials plan to replace 17,000 BlackBerry handsets with iPhones in a deal that is worth as much as $2.1 million. The agency used RIM’s handsets for eight years,…
No, it might not be the LG Optimus G, but T-Mobile is set to get the lower-end Optimus L9 on October 31st for a mere $80 on a new two-year contract. So after you’ve taken the kids out trick or treating on Halloween, you can treat yourself to a new phone. Or not. While it…