Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jul 3, 2009 3:04 pm
Filed in 1xRTT, BlackBerry, CDMA, EV-DO, HTC, Handsets, News, RIM, Telus, Windows Mobile
It’s been a while since we talked about these devices coming to TELUS, but the BlackBerry Tour, HTC Snap and Touch Pro2 are front and center in our minds today, having just popped up in a new Best Buy Mobile flyer. TELUS has yet to officially announce the two HTC handsets (the Tour popped up [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jul 3, 2009 10:38 am
Filed in Android, HTC, Handsets, Retail, Rogers
Though they have only been on sale in Canada for one month, Rogers Wireless has just lowered the 3-year contract price of both the HTC Dream and Magic by $50. This means anyone who wants to pick up either device will be able to do so for $99.99, a very good price for such capable [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Jul 2, 2009 5:06 pm
Filed in Android, HSDPA, HTC, Handsets, News
Right now at BGR headquarters, one of the phones on our “want list” is definitely the HTC Hero — especially after checking out all that delicious HTC Sense UI goodness. After getting some of that typical Europeans-get-it-first jealousy out of the way, we were happy to hear the device is headed stateside later this year [...]
Folks who scooped up the HTC Ozone from Verizon Wireless or the HTC Snap from Sprint may be pleased to learn that an official upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 may be in your future. According to documents published on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group’s website, a Windows Mobile 6.5 variant of the HTC Cedar, codename [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jun 29, 2009 12:55 pm
Filed in AT&T, Apple, BlackBerry, Features, HTC, Handsets, Palm, RIM, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Over the past few month, we’ve seen several sites run cost comparisons on the latest and greatest smartphones from each of the top four carriers in the US. Good — presenting readers with cost analysis is always a good idea. We’re finding that just about all of these comparisons do so on the high end [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 29, 2009 9:43 am
Filed in 1xRTT, AT&T, CDMA, EDGE, EV-DO, GPRS, GSM, HSDPA, HTC, Handsets, Motorola, Retail, Verizon, Windows Mobile
Two new low cost handsets are now available for your budget-minded buying pleasure. This weekend AT&T debuted its teen and tween texting machine, the Motorola Karma QA1. The quad-band EDGE/dual-band HSDPA handset features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 2.5-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSDHC expansion and, most [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 27, 2009 12:32 pm
Filed in HTC, Handsets, Rumors, Windows Mobile
Sure TouchFLO 3D 2.5 is looking pretty amazing, but the future of HTC’s WinMo UI may be headed elsewhere. Despite the muddled availability of the new HTC Sense UI on Android devices, it appears as if its presence on Windows Mobile devices at some point in the future is a bit more cut and dry:
The [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jun 27, 2009 8:44 am
Filed in HTC, News, Software, Windows Mobile
HTC’s TouchFLO 3D UI manages to make Windows Mobile hip but after HTC unveiled its Sense UI for the Hero, we’re sure that more than few of the WinMo faithful were tempted to switch over to Android to get in on all of the new hotness. But to the fanboys who dare not think of [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 26, 2009 11:02 am
Filed in Android, HTC, Handsets, Rumors, T-Mobile
Some keen observation and javascript sleuthing may have uncovered the in-store launch date for T-Mobile’s second Android-powered handset, the myTouch 3G. Announced earlier this week by T-Mobile USA, the myTouch 3G will be available for pre-order on July 8th with an in-store release of the Android handset to follow sometime in “early August”. Now according [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Jun 26, 2009 9:33 am
Filed in Android, HTC, News, Software
It was pretty much expected that T-Mobile USA’s Android phones would be passed over where HTC’s Sense UI is concerned, but we still got our hopes up just a little when HTC CEO Peter Chou said the UI would be hitting current handsets. According to some statements reportedly made by an HTC representative, Android devices [...]
One of our T-Mobile ninjas gave us a heads up about some business events that T-Mobile will be holding in July. T-Mobile reps will apparently be on hand in seven cities to show off the HTC Dash 3G and Touch Pro2, two devices T-Mobile is hoping will strike a chord with both business users and [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jun 25, 2009 2:43 pm
Filed in 4G, Android, HTC, Handsets, Rumors, Samsung, Sprint, WiMax
Now before you get too excited about this, Sprint subscribers, know that we have to throw some annoying words/phrases at it first. Rumor, possible, unconfirmed, skeptical, grain of salt and so on. Right then… According to PhoneNews.com, Sprint finally has Android positioned squarely in its sights. First up, the company is allegedly in the midst [...]
Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jun 25, 2009 10:26 am
Filed in 1xRTT, CDMA, EDGE, EV-DO, GPRS, GSM, HTC, Handsets, Verizon, Windows Mobile
No surprises with this one as our leaked spy shots, release date, pricing details and specifications were all spot on. Today, Verizon Wireless made all that we already knew about the HTC Ozone official. Those looking for a basic Windows Mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard will only have to shell out a meager $49.99 [...]