U.S. Cellular has just announced the PCD Wrangler, which isn’t as exciting as its name makes it out to be. This basic clamshell phone won’t wow anyone with its features and design–it only has a 2.2-inch QVGA display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a microSD card, a speakerphone, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, and not much else. But it …
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While the RIM BlackBerry Curve 9360 is a decidedly lower-end phone than RIM’s Bolds and Torches, we think it’s a great option for those still loyal to the BlackBerry brand. It comes with the company’s latest mobile operating system, BlackBerry 7 OS; it has a decent physical keyboard; and it’s definitely an improvement over the previous Curves with its faster …
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T-Mobile has announced that its new MyTouch and MyTouch Q handsets will be available online starting November 2 and in retail stores starting November 9. They will be $79.99 each after the usual two-year service agreements. A departure from previous MyTouch handsets like the MyTouch 4G Slide and the MyTouch 4G, the new MyTouch phones are made by LG instead …
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One of the first things we noticed about the Nokia Lumia 800 is that it looks strikingly like the Nokia N9, which runs Nokia’s soon-to-be-extinct MeeGo OS. Indeed, it has a similar unibody polycarbonite shell along with the same curved AMOLED display. But on probing further, we found that the differences between the two go far beyond just operating systems. …
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.–Mere hours after Nokia launched the Lumia 800 and its lower-end sibling, the Lumia 710, in London, we headed on over to the Nokia offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., to get a hands-on look at the new devices for ourselves. (Read Jessica Dolcourt’s take on the Nokia Lumia 710 here.) Check out CNET UK’s full review of the Nokia Lumia …
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The Motorola Atrix 2 is, on the surface, a rather incremental upgrade over the original Atrix. It has the same slab design, and since it still has a 1GHz dual-core processor and HSPA+ speeds, it’s not that much faster. Yet, it does offer a number of improvements that should make Android fans happy. It ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and …
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It was a crazy week in cell phone land, what with the Droid Razr and the Galaxy Nexus making their worldwide debut on the same day. And it’s not over yet, as Nokia and Microsoft have an announcement of their own coming up this week. Is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? We also talk …
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HTC announced a partnership with Dropbox today via its Facebook page that would provide its Android user base with 5GB of online storage. The Dropbox app will come preinstalled on all Android phones going forward, and the 5GB of storage is presumably free. Dropbox is a company that provides online storage, typically for a fee if the customer wants more …
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T-Mobile has released pricing and availability of the HTC Radar 4G via its Facebook page–it is slated to be $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year service agreement, and will be available starting November 2. Now playing: Watch this: HTC Radar 0:49 As the “4G” moniker suggests, the Radar will be compatible with T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network. It …
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The big, robust Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS that Google announced in Hong Kong last night makes Android 2.3 Gingerbread look like an old, stale cookie. We first heard about Ice Cream Sandwich back in May at Google I/O, and even though there have been feature leaks leading up the big unveiling, there was a lot we didn’t see …
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