Verizon HTC DROID Eris for $99.99 After Rebate on November 6th
Image courtesy of Engadget Mobile On the same day as the launch of the Motorola DROID, HTC will be launching its DROID series device in the HTC Eris for Verizon, which will also mark the debut of the DROID branding as a series of devices on Verizon Wireless. The HTC Eris is functionally identical to [...]
Nokia to Scrap N-Gage Mobile Gaming Platform in 2010, Shifting Focus to Ovi
Nokia’s N-Gage blog has confirmed in a post that it will shutter the N-Gage mobile gaming service and community next year in order to shift focus towards gaming on its Ovi platform.
Sprint to Ban Tethering on Smartphones Next Year, Other Plans Revealed
Sprint executive David Owens has confirmed that the carrier will ban tethering on smart devices next year as a part of its future smart device development plans. The ban will be placed on smart devices activated on the carrier’s current lineup of Everything plans. Other plans include Android OS updates for the HTC Hero and [...]
Review: Motorola Droid (Verizon Wireless)
Motorola, and Google, have done something that no other phone has done before. They have built a phone better than any iPhone. Now it gets interesting. First, we’ll get the obligatory iPhone boilerplate out of the way. Yes, contrary some fist shaking, iPhone (3GS) was the phone to beat, until today. Be it in the [...]
Huawei M750 for MetroPCS Launching This Week (Updated)
The Huawei M750 touchscreen device has surfaced for MetroPCS, with launch set for today or tomorrow depending on market. The M750 was previously revealed by the FCC earlier this year and features tri-band CDMA support, Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel camera along with microSDHC expansion slot. Pricing is set at $199.99. Update: MetroPCS has launched [...]
Sprint to Eliminate Some Call Fowarding Fees in November
Sprint has announced that it will not charge customers for certain levels of call forwarding. Conditional call forwarding for busy calls or calls not answered using a Sprint phone will be free beginning in mid-November. The standard $0.20/minute charge will continue to apply for immediate call forwarding, with the change giving Sprint customers access to [...]
Sony Ericsson Announces US 3G Aino Launch at $599.99 Unlocked
Following up, Sony Ericsson has announced the forthcoming US launch of the Aino multimedia handset. The Aino features quadband GSM/EDGE, triband 850/1900/2100 HSPA support, Remote Play, Media Home, and Media Go support for streaming media from the Playstation 3 console or over a network via DLNA, Wi-Fi radio, 3 inch 432×240 resolution widescreen touch display, [...]
Verizon Announces Motorola DROID for November 6th at $199.99
Verizon has officially announced the forthcoming launch of the Motorola DROID Android smart device after months of rumor and speculation. The Droid will be the first device to feature Android 2.0 and Google’s new Google Maps Navigation service which lets Google Maps act as a turn-by-turn navigation application that uses the onboard GPS transceiver and [...]
Verizon Launches BlackBerry Storm2 9550
As expected, Verizon has launched the BlackBerry Storm2. The BlackBerry Storm 2 features a 3.25 inch 480 x 360 capacitive touchscreen display with integrated Send, End, Menu, Escape functions and new SurePress version, EV-DO Rev A/UMTS/HSPA on 2100 MHz and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks for international roaming, new Wi-Fi radio, 256 MB of RAM, 2 GB [...]
