September, 2011

• 1 September

  Apple iPhone 5 prototype left in tequila bar. Again

  

  An Apple employee has left his prototype iPhone 5 in a tequila bar in San Francisco, proving once and for all that lightning does indeed strike twice, after an identical situation arose with the iPhone 4 last year. Our buddies over at CNET.com explained the “phone went missing in July, sparking a scramble by Apple …

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• 1 September

  Sprint to increase upgrade fees to $36

  

  Yesterday we reported that Sprint is raising its ETFs to a whopping $350 for advanced devices, though it will be prorated based on the remaining months of your contract. Well, perhaps to ready itself for the incoming deluge of customers who want to upgrade their handsets to the Samsung Epic 4G Touch or the rumored iPhone 5, Sprint will also …

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• 1 September

  Verizon offering $100 to smartphone upgraders

  

  Verizon iPhone Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless is offering some incentives to convince basic feature phone owners to upgrade to a smartphone. Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney told CNET that customers with basic phones who are eligible to upgrade between now and the end of the year can currently upgrade to a smartphone. Such customers have until September 30 to make the …

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• 1 September

  Lenovo’s A1 tablet goes cheap, stays classy

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo IdeaPad A1 0:50 Lenovo’s A1 Android tablet isn’t setting out to change the world, but it is hoping to raise your expectations of budget-priced Android tablets. The A1 is a $250 7-inch Android 2.3 tablet in the same vein as 2010’s Samsung Galaxy Tab. Unlike most Android tablets in this price range, the A1 is …

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• 1 September

  Sony’s noise cancelling headphones and speakers tackle the tunes

  

  Sony has taken the covers off of a bunch of audio peripherals including two sets of noise cancelling headphones — one in-ear, one on-ear — and a pair of speakers that are just aching to link up to your smart phone to play some Bluetooth tunes. Both the in-ear MDR-NC100D headphones and the on-ear MDR NC200D on-ear ‘phones clearly hate …

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• 1 September

  HTC Titan, Radar to serve up Windows Phone Mango this fall

  

  Though not much of a surprise, HTC fans were among the first to get a look at the company’s new Windows Phone Mango handsets today. The HTC Titan and the HTC Radar were introduced at meetups held in England, France, Spain, and Germany, with both smartphones expected to be available in Europe in October. Pricing, as well as U.S. availability, …

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• 1 September

  Samsung Galaxy Note: Big phone or tiny tablet?

  

  BERLIN–With its new Galaxy Note, Samsung is adding another size category to its already broad range of Android devices. The company already had more conventionally sized Android smartphones with its Galaxy S line, larger tablets such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, and intermediate ones such as the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab and the new Galaxy Tab 7.7. The …

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• 1 September

  Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, Note and Wave 3 could be ‘something big’

  

  Update: As predicted all three products launched at IFA and we got hands-on with them. Check out our Samsung Galaxy Note preview, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 preview and Samsung Galaxy Wave 3 preview. Original article continues below. Samsung’s Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Wave 3 look set to be the ‘something big is coming‘ it promised earlier this week. …

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• 1 September

  Why companies test phones in the wild

  

  As CNET reported yesterday, a second unreleased Apple iPhone has gone astray. The secret device was lost at a San Francisco bar in late July, CNET reporters Declan McCullagh and Greg Sandoval wrote, and Apple quickly conducted an aggressive campaign to find it. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Remember that last year, an Apple computer engineer accidentally …

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• 1 September

  How HTC’s new Windows Mango phones stack up

  

  Ever since Microsoft took the wraps off of Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named Mango), we’ve been wondering how phone-makers would update the first crop of phones to carry the new operating system. HTC gave us its answer with the announcements of the HTC Titan and HTC Radar, both available in Europe starting in October. Both handsets bring hardware improvements in the …

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