September, 2011

• 28 September

  LG Esteem brings entertainment, 4G to MetroPCS

  

  MetroPCS introduced its latest Android smartphone today, the LG Esteem, a 4G LTE device designed to entertain. Available this week in stores and online for $249, the Gingerbread-based Esteem offers access to the carrier’s MetroStudio music and video service, as well as Rhapsody Unlimited Music. For a limited time, MetroPCS will offer a 90-day complimentary …

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• 28 September

  HTC invites you to Sensation XL and XE launch

  

  HTC has a surprise for you next week. Undeterred by the expected announcement of the iPhone on Tuesday, HTC is throwing a party on Thursday to unveil something new — and you’re invited. HTC wants you to “come feel every beat” at the shindig in London on 6 October, just two days after the hotly anticipated new iPhone is set …

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• 28 September

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  T-Mobile is the latest carrier to announce upcoming availability of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. A short post on the provider’s official Facebook page indicates that full details will be coming in the next few weeks. It’s not immediately known whether this will be a Wi-Fi, 3G, or 4G model or whether it will be subsidized with a two-year …

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• 28 September

  Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet for $199

  

  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows off the Kindle Fire. Sarah Tew/CNET Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, an Android-powered tablet that acts more like a color e-reader on steroids and will retail for $199. The Amazon Kindle Fire. Amazon via Bloomberg “We’re building premium products at non-premium prices,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during the presentation. The Kindle Fire will be …

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• 28 September

  Windows Phone Mango coming to O2 and Orange now

  

  If you’re on a network that begins with O, stand by to get your Windows Phone Mango update. If you’re on Vodafone, you may have to wait. The new update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone software was unveiled to the public yesterday, but will be reaching phones on different networks in stages. Hopefully it won’t be a long wait, as Microsoft …

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• 28 September

  iPhone 5 stolen, leaked to case makers?

  

  It seems it’s not just Apple employees letting slip prototypes of the shiny new iPhone 5. Someone from the factory that makes the phone half-inched one and sold it to case makers, which would help explain all the unofficial iPhone 5 cases that keep surfacing. An accessories supplier in Shenzhen, China, told MIC Gadget that someone from Foxconn, which manufactures the handset, …

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• 28 September

  $199 Kindle Fire, $99 Kindle Touch unveiled (live blog)

  

  Media watchers gather in New York for Amazon’s event. Sarah Tew/CNET Editor’s note: We used Cover It Live to cover Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiling of new Kindle devices today in New York. If you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component at the bottom of this post. Replaying the event will give you …

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• 28 September

  Apple could kill the iPod shuffle and classic

  

  Apple might be about to give its iPod classic and iPod shuffle the Old Yeller treatment, killing off both products to give the iPod touch and iPhone more room to breathe. Rumours of an iPod massacre have been doing the rounds for a while, but now TUAW says its sources reckon Apple will indeed be retiring two of its four …

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• 28 September

  Kindle Fire sets a new (low) price point for tablets

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Amazon’s Kindle Fire has content, price to compete 1:30 commentary Well, the Kindle Fire just up and ruined it for all the other tablet makers. Amazon just put the rest of the tablet world on notice by pricing the Kindle Fire at $199, less than half of the $500 mark that the industry has gravitated toward …

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• 28 September

  More than a third of Android phones are 4G

  

  Localytics Android phones seem to have cornered the market on 4G, according to a report out yesterday from Localytics. Gazing at the smartphone landscape, the mobile analytics firm found that 37 percent of all Android phones are now 4G-enabled. That percentage is likely to surge even further as this year alone the number of 4G Android phones have jumped by …

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