A uniquely large mobile device boasting a massive 5.3-inch screen and stylus, many have doubted whether the Samsung Galaxy Note would prove a hit with customers. Samsung though says it has, citing that it moved 5 million units out the door. The company also claimed on its official Korean Web site that domestic sales achieved …
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Hot on the heels of the handset’s leaked details, Verizon just made the LG Lucid official. The modestly specked device will cost $79.99 (with a 2-year contract), run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and be powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM. The LG Lucid’s screen is a roomy 4-inch display coated by tough Gorilla Glass treatment. For one-handed …
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Looks like AT&T will have some very tempting smartphone options this spring. The carrier just confirmed with us that the HTC Titan II, a high-octane Windows Phone, will cost $199.99 and land on shelves April 8. This joins the upcoming HTC One X, HTC’s flagship Android handset along with Nokia’s premier Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900. Both the Nokia …
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Another day and the Web spits out another HTC rumor to tease us with tantalizing new handsets. This time it’s the HTC One V, kid brother to the HTC One X and One S, which will run a single-core CPU unlike its quad-core and dual-core siblings. Still, if the predictions of gadget blog PocketNow are on the money, the HTC …
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Some big news just hit our desks, folks. Official invites for a special press event hosted by HTC and Sprint is set for April 4 in New York. Headliners are none other than Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and HTC’s president, Jason Mackenzie. No details yet about what the purpose of this shindig will be; we assume it’s a party since …
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HTC did its best to wow Android fans and mobile industry insiders alike when it unveiled the HTC One X at Mobile World Congress. The company’s first quad-core smartphone, the One X, hasn’t even landed stateside, yet it’s making waves and spawning plenty of speculation. AT&T first confirmed plans to bring a version of the One X to the U.S. …
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Today is a glorious day, and I’m not talking about all that iPad nonsense. The real news for the Android faithful, and particularly Samsung Nexus S users, is that Ice Cream Sandwich may arrive in just a few short weeks. According to tech blog Engadget, sources close to the outlet have confirmed the Samsung Nexus S and Nexus S 4G …
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Aching for a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich on your HTC soul mate? Chances are you won’t have long to wait since the manufacturer named a long list of specific phones on which it plans to bestow Android 4.0 goodness. Of the 16 devices called out by HTC, major U.S. devices with ICS in the works are the Droid Incredible …
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Sony’s new Xperia NXT series of Android smartphones are distinctively styled but haven’t exactly bowled me over with cutting-edge components or software. The latest handset to join the company’s offerings also lacks quad-core processing and Android Ice Cream Sandwich but does promise a few wild mobile skills not found on other devices. The Sony Xperia Sola, just announced today, may …
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In a world in which unlimited data plans are disappearing faster than you can say 4G LTE Hotspot, T-Mobile’s possible mobile-to-mobile offer sounds pretty tempting. If a report from TmoNews is true, the carrier will launch an Unlimited Any Mobile service on April 4 that offers all-you-can eat minutes to domestic cell numbers of all carriers. Even better, at just …
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