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Well if all those British carriers can get the white version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, so can a Canada-based operator. Bell Mobility is Samsung’s “partner in crime” and will start selling the super-sexy smartphone on October 7th. In other words, if you live in Canada, still haven’t “pushed the button” and grabbed some…
It’s not often we get to stumble upon an iPhone 5 prototype that at least moderately looks like something built by Apple, but the fine people at Giga.de accomplished just that. They make it look similar to a mini iPad 2, which is essentially what the countless rumors have been conveying. It has a sleek…
We now have another small piece to the puzzle. AT&T has started placing orders for iPhone 5 cases as stores prepare to sell them after the big unveiling on Tuesday. Case-Mate recently posted a page on its website with some new iPhone 5 cases, but quickly took them down. Like those, these cases from AT&T also legitimately support rumors…
Some anonymous sources are suggesting that Amazon is in the lead for purchasing webOS from HP. Seeing as HP’s financials are in the crapper, it’s expected that they’re looking to offload the remnants of Palm as quickly as possible, and Amazon isn’t that surprising of a candidate – even Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s old CEO, named Amazon as…
While we’re expecting more than one device, apparently the APK list of the Nexus Prime has leaked out for the world to see. Whether or not this means that the Nexus Prime will be an exclusive Verizon device alongside the Droid Prime remains to be seen but we can only hope that the handset will…
Update: Here’s a statement from RIM! “RIM doesn’t typically comment on rumors, but any suggestion that the BlackBerry PlayBook is being discontinued is pure fiction. RIM remains highly committed to the tablet market.” John Vinh, an analyst at Collins Stewart, claims that Quanta isn’t just ramping down BlackBerry PlayBook production – they’re halting it altogether,…
Smartphones with curved glass displays are nothing new. Dell used curved glass in their Windows Phone that no one really remembers, Samsung used it in the Nexus S, the question is when the technology go mainstream? According to Digitimes, our favorite Taiwanese rumor site because they have an incredible knack for getting things right, the…
A rumor from Japanese Nikkei newspaper suggests Softbank won’t be the only carrier to exclusively offer the iPhone for so long. Starting from next year, KDDI will join the party too, offering the latest (and greatest) version of Apple’s handset – iPhone 5. KDDI is obviously super-interested in a deal with the Cupertino-based company, considering…
We’re just a few short weeks away from CTIA, we’re expecting quite a few announcements within that time. While doing some digging on the CTIA site, someone tipped off GSMArena about some interesting finding within CTIA’s Hot for the Holidays Award Finalists list, which includes two unannounced devices. Could these devices possibly be either the…
9to5Mac spilled the beans on the plentiful amount of new features coming in the iPhone 5, which they seem to have confirmed with sources. There’s a lot we already expected, but the big news of the leak this morning is a voice-controlled Assistant. Apple acquired Siri back in 2010, and up until now we haven’t heard…