May 21, 2013

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BestBuy Mobile Offers Free “Smartphone” every day in December

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Best Buy offers ahead of Christmas, at least four free smartphones, one for each of the largest wireless carriers in the US, for every day in December. “Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) Friday said its mobile retail unit Best Buy Mobile is giving consumers a holiday event, featuring free smart phones in [...]

T-Mobile G2 Android 2.2 Handset shows off On Best Buy

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Android handsets come in all shapes and sizes but just like every type of electronic, you’re going to be paying a premium for the higher end devices. One example of this is the T-Mobile G2 – a follow up to the very first commercially available Android powered device dubbed the T-Mobile G1. Well, Best Buy [...]

Nokia to Gain Ground on RIM with Smartphone : Nokia Exe.Iluri Nurmi

Speaking with ComputerWeekly , Iluri Nurmi, the vice president of Nokia’s enterprise smartphones (also known as E series) said that Finnish mobile phone giant  is beginning to focus its efforts at mobile enterprise email to make a run at RIM. He also noted that company was working both sides of the street, making Eseries devices [...]

Acer goes ahead with Windows Phone 7 developing plans :Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci

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Although Acer has totally been under the radar in the U.S. in terms of smartphones, the company is hoping to change that with a some Windows Phone 7 handsets. And while we’ve been under the impression that the manufacturer would be building Windows Phone 7 smartphones, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci confirmed it today in an [...]

LG Shows off its New “LU-3000″ Smartphone; Faster than other Smartphone available?

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While LG has a select few Android powered smartphones available here in the United States there isn’t one device that really makes a huge impact like the Samsung Galaxy S, iPhone 4 or HTC EVO 4G does. However, the new LG LU-3000 Smartphone is expected to impress a lot when made available for purchase, as [...]

Apple iPad Price Drops to $458: Black Friday

Apple is selling all of its Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models of the iPad at discounted prices today. All iPad models are discounted by $41 this Black Friday, with the cheapest one (16GB WiFi) starting at $458. The 64Gb WiFi+3G model is $788. Free shipping is also on offer, and personal engraving if [...]

“Skype Mobile App” for 3 Verizon feature phones released

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Skype Mobile application is now supported by three of Verizon’s feature phones using the BREW platform. This application allows the users to make free calls from Skype to Skype in the U.S. while taking advantage of Skype’s low International calling rates, and allows two people to chat via IM using the app Including phones from [...]

“Tegra 2″ is to make Smartphone computer-centric:CEO OF NVIDIA

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NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsen Huang, is one of the most wanted men in the Smartphone space today. It seems that cellphone and tablet manufacturers are all pumped up about using his firm’s Tegra 2 processor to get the ball rolling on dual-core processing. Huang says that the big thing about putting the Tegra 2 under the [...]

Nokia’s Ovi Store Downloads Hit 3 Million A Day !

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Nokia yesterday announced that its Ovi Store has reached 3 million downloads per day, a milestone spurred by overall global demand and a recent update that gives users of Nokia’s new Symbian smartphone family a friendlier look and feel as well as more popular apps and games. The company is also gaining significant software developer [...]

Android 3.0 “Hneycomb” with Tegra 2 could be launched on February

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Things are moving rapidly in the Android world, this week we learned that Android 2.3 should be available in the next few weeks and now it looks like Honeycomb (Android 3.0) could be ready to go as early as February. A report in DigiTimes says that in February or March, the tablet-centric Android 3.0 or [...]

“HTC Mecha” aka Incredible HD Leaked Again

HTC Mecha Leaked on HTCSense.Com

HTCSense.com is HTC’s brand-new web-based service for the latest Android smartphones, including the Desire Z and Desire HD. Those are the only two phones that can sing along HTC’s new offering that allows users to personalize their phones, manage contacts, read, send, and search text and MMS messages, create and share Footprints and safeguard their [...]

Verizon “HTC Mecha” or Incredible HD Coming Soon

Verizon HTC Mecha or Incredible HD

HTC’s next next smartphone with Android operating system has accidently leaked. Newly leaked images indicate the next addition to Verizon’s Android stable is going to be the HTC Mecha, also known as the HTC Incredible HD.  The new smartphone will become Verizon’s second 4.3-inch Android smartphone, joining Motorola’s Droid X. The name mentioned a few [...]