Posts Tagged ‘breakingnews’

Samsung Captivate coming to AT&T on July 18 for $200

We've just gotten official word that the Captivate -- AT&T's rendition of Samsung's global Galaxy S line of high-end Android phones -- will be available starting Sunday, July 18 for $199 on contract with no rebate required. That pricing is more or less what we'd expected considering that T-Mobile priced the Vibrant the same way -- and if rumors of T-Mobile's launch date bump are true, the Captivate won't be the first kid on the block.

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AT&T identifies Alcatel-Lucent as slow upload culprit, fix in the works

As we'd suspected, AT&T isn't intentionally limiting upload speeds on iPhone 4s in some markets where things suddenly got slow over the weekend . Or that's the company's claim, anyhow -- and seeing how they're actually calling out a supplier in the process, we tend to buy it.

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Introducing review scorecards!

As you may have noticed, here at Engadget we've stepped down hard on the gas pedal when it comes to reviews.

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RIP: Emblaze kills First Else

Hate to say it but we were right : Emblaze just announced that it's shutting down the First Else handset. $40 million dollars and the hopes of many (ok, a few) gone in an instant

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Samsung Vibrant is official on T-Mobile, coming July 21 for $200

When it rains, it pours, ladies and gentlemen -- and tonight, it's pouring high-end Android phones from Samsung. Hot on the heels of the Epic 4G for Sprint and a dash of preliminary official info on T-Mobile's flavor of the Galaxy S , the Vibrant is now 100 percent official with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor and 4-inch Super AMOLED display

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Samsung Captivate is AT&T’s version of the Galaxy S, launching ‘in the coming months’

So much for the "AT&T refuses to release high-end Android devices" conspiracy theory, eh? T-Mobile had been widely pegged as Samsung's launch partner for the Galaxy S in the States, but AT&T stole its thunder this morning by announcing the Captivate featuring a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, Android 2.1, 7.2Mbps HSPA, and a 1GHz Hummingbird processor

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AT&T suspends iPhone 4 pre-orders altogether, says they were ten times 3GS’ numbers

AT&T just kicked things up another notch, going from a launch day pre-order sellout for the iPhone 4 to... well, a total pre-order sellout.

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Motorola, Verizon announcing ‘next generation of Droid’ on June 23

We don't know whether this is going to be the Droid 2 , the Droid X , or both, but Motorola, Google, Verizon, and Adobe -- yes, Adobe -- are all getting on stage out in New York on the 23rd of the month to announce some new Android gear. Should be exciting, so keep it locked -- because naturally, we'll be on-hand for all the festivities. Motorola, Verizon announcing 'next generation of Droid' on June 23 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:18:00 EST.

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Verizon down in Southern California?

"Preparation is key to building the most reliable network," says Verizon's last tweet, but we hear the company wasn't prepared in Southern California -- reports are trickling in about a multi-county voice outage. Since that new Droid's not so Incredible when it can't make calls, here's hoping Verizon fixes the issue soon. We'd hate to have to call out a different carrier's name the next time someone botches a phone demo

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iPhone OS 4 renamed iOS 4, launching June 21 with 1500 new features

We knew it had to happen eventually -- iPhone OS has been renamed to iOS with the bump to version 4. Some 1500 new features are coming along with the name change, including biggies like multitasking, a unified inbox, app folders, and data detectors.

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