Posts Tagged ‘Smartphones’

Verizon drops pricing on almost all existing smartphones to under $99

Well, hear us out. We’ve had a flurry of tips sent in today that Verizon Wireless has dropped the prices of almost all existing smartphones they offer to only $99 with a two-year agreement. This obviously signifies one thing and…

Changes afoot at T-Mobile; smartphones to require data plans, family messaging rate hike

There has been quite a bit of movement recently as far as T-Mobile’s plans are concerned and if you haven’t been keeping your eye on the ball, you probably missed something. For the most part, T-Mo has added plans and…

Smartphones escape Pwn2Own unhacked

Hackers taking part in a friendly competition aimed at highlighting OS and software vulnerabilities did some real damage to a variety of computer-based web browsers — including Safari, which took all of 10 seconds to bust on a MacBook —…

Sprint’s Q1-Q3 2009 device roadmap leaks

When it rains, it pours — and if this newly leaked deck turns out to be the real deal, it’s definitely pouring over at Sprint right now. Phone News claims to have gotten its hands on a roadmap revealing the…

Acer to offer free smartphones in the US

If you followed our coverage of MWC this past week, odds are you were just as unimpressed with Acer’s showing as we were. To recap quickly, the company announced a handful of Windows Mobile handsets that were decent efforts but…

Nokia allocates $150 million for Nseries advertising

Sure, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see Seinfeld score another easy $10 million like he did from Microsoft but it would definitely be an interesting ad run. Nokia is a big company with a big budget and even bigger problems.…

Nokia internal smartphone roadmap revealed

Well hello there – Nothing quite like a leaked internal roadmap to cure even the most dire case of the Mondays. This table is chocked-full-o-goodies but don’t get too excited just yet. What we have here is reportedly an internal…

Apple steals number 2 spot from RIM in smartphone battle

The results are in and news now hitting the smartphone world is that Nokia is slipping down from the peak of the mountain while Apple and RIM work their way to the top. With only the iPhone and iPhone 3G,…

Palm Treo Pro Quietly Gets Official

After Palm’s mishap last week, it apparently decided to take the quiet route in announcing its upcoming Treo Pro handset. Very odd – it’s not even up on Palm’s site yet. Hopefully Palm won’t pull a Nokia and the actual…