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The HTC EVO Shift 4G was recently spotted at the FCC and now we have a purported shot of the handset that exposes its landscape keyboard. The image was posted up by a Sprint employee on the SprintUsers forum and is assumed to be the real deal. The EVO Shift 4G has the standard 4-row…
The saga of Aron Embry, who will aways be known as the man with the exploding DROID 2, continues to develop. A statement from Motorola given to an employee at PC Magazine claims the explosion was a misunderstanding on the part of Embry. The DROID 2 in question did not explode, it was dropped prior to…
A report out of Digitimes suggests HTC is planning to ship 60 million handsets in 2011, a three-fold increase over 2010. In a summit held in Taipei, the Taiwanese manufacturer reportedly informed the executives of over 100 parts suppliers of this manufacturing goal. The suppliers were warned in advance that they should be prepared to deliver the…
Pricing wars on the Apple iPhone 3GS may be heating up with Best Buy possibly beating Radio Shack’s $25 deal with a deal of its own. According to a rumor out of BGR, Best Buy is pulling out the stops on this promotion and is reportedly offering the 8GB version for free with a two-year…
The latest Android 2.2.1 update for the original Motorola DROID is rolling out now, according to reports from users that have received the update. This update is presumably the last Android 2.2 Froyo version that will hit the original DROID. The next update should bring Gingerbread, Android 2.3, to the handset sometime in the future.…
Regardless of the fit and finish that Apple applies to both their hardware and software, you’ve got to admit that the user interface of products running iOS is a bit long in the tooth. A new patent discovered by Unwired View shows that the Cupertino based company is looking into radial menus, both for iOS…
Late last month we brought you some photos and a short video of an unannounced Nokia handset dubbed the X7. Today, courtesy of Eldar Murtazin, the infamous Russian journalist who writes for Mobile Review and seems to have unlimited access to prototypes, we’ve got a few more photos of the X7, but this time the…
If you’re a MobileMe customer, you’ll be happy to know that Steve Jobs himself is allegedly promising that it will get “a lot better in 2011.” A MacRumors reader supposedly sent the Apple CEO some e-mails complaining about some of the usability problems and asked if the service will be improving in 2011. “Yes, it…
LG has sent some people into a buzz with their recent comment on Facebook regarding Android 2.3 Gingerbread not coming to the Optimus Android smartphone lineup. While responding to a question as to when the Optimus line would be receiving the Gingerbread update, LG, likely only for the sake of keeping things as simple as…
The rumors about the Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread have steadily been flowing out and the latest ones pegs the release date in March 2011. According to ITProPortal, the PlayStation Phone will launch in March after being officially debuted in February at the Mobile World Congress show. This does seem to make…