May 19, 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 [...]

Apple’s Embedded SIM card-Europian carriers go on “war”

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While Apple hasn’t officially announced intentions to use an embedded SIM in its iPhone, some European carriers are already such a move could put too much control in Apple’s hands. Apple recently started working with the wireless security company Gemalto, whose programmable over the air SIM card solutions are used in big pilot projects for [...]

Android 2.2 Froyo Update for “Samsung Galaxy S” Releases

Android 2.2 Froyo

According to numerous threads and forum posts over at xda-developers’ I9000 section, Samsung has finally released an official Android 2.2 update for the Galaxy S In South Korea, the company’s homeland country, the software update was expected to become available for download ever since last week, but it appears that things were delayed a little [...]

Android Powered Motorola Milestone XT720 Phone Heads to US also to India

Motorola Milestone XT720

Cincinnati Bell has become the first US based mobile service provider to offer Motorola Milestone XT720 to their customers. The Motorola Milestone XT720 is a talked about device. It features a 3.7-inch FWVGA 854×480 multitouch capacitive touchscreen display, has a 720MHz TI OMAP3440 processor under the hood, and is running Android 2.1 for good measure. [...]