Nexus S UK launch bumped back to December 22nd, price cut affirmed
Those cursed limited supplies of the Nexus S have forced the Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy's UK outlets to push back the phone's retail debut by a couple of days . The Gingerbread flagship will now be sailing in on the 22nd of December and even then it'll be available only in "key" stores
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: carphone, carphone-warehouse, carphonewarehouse, couple, cursed-limited, hands-on-one, limited, nexus s, nexus's, outlets, retail, warehouse
LG Optimus 2X: first dual-core smartphone launches with Android, 4-inch display, 1080p video recording
That's right, it's official. Needless to say, that LG Star we recently got our paws on is very real, though it won't go by that name at retail -- just as LG's own release materials had suggested , this monster has picked up the Optimus 2X name as it morphs from a prototype into brutally fast, overpowered reality. At the phone's heart beats a dual-core Tegra 2 processor running at 1GHz, the first such configuration to be officially announced by any smartphone manufacturer (though we're expecting others any day now).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, core, europe, froyo, gingerbread, microsd, optimus, press, prototype, retail, star, starters, storage, Units
T-Mobile drops the official word on Even More Plus: gone from the website, still available elsewhere
We're happy to finally be closing the loop on T-Mobile's Even More Plus situation -- and the story ends on a happy note, which is nice. As we said yesterday , the carrier's contract-free discounted plans aren't going away, but you'll no longer be able to select any of them from the website.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: contracts, evenmoreplus, experience, mobile, online-purchase, plan, pricing, Purchase, retail, select-national, word-on-even
White HTC EVO 4G leaves the Best Buy nest, migrates to Sprint stores
Once a Best Buy exclusive , the white version of HTC's still-badass EVO 4G is finally making its way into actual Sprint retail locations, the carrier's website, and other third party stores for the same $199 on contract after $100 mail-in rebate as usual. Gives us a good opportunity to levy the same complaint we'd levied before -- that the front of the phone should be white, not just the back -- but hey, at least passers-by will know you're stylin' when you've got it held to your face. White HTC EVO 4G leaves the Best Buy nest, migrates to Sprint stores originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:25:00 EST
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buy, Carrier, engadget, entry, evo4g, finally-making, htc, leaves-the-best, party, phone, rebate-as-usual, retail, sprint, the-carrier
Google Nexus S is the Samsung GT-i9020?
We've already established that the Nexus S is almost certainly a Samsung -- but what else do we know about it? Well, a quick search for pictures taken with a Nexus S on Flickr and Picasa produced some 5 megapixel results, believe it or not, and some of those users' albums had been using a Samsung handset with model number GT-i9020 just a few days earlier
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: code, entry, flickr, from-the-code, gingerbread, google-nexus, interestingly, result, retail, rumor, samsung, sharing, switchover
iOS 4.2 goes gold, available now to developers
The iPad's ticket to multitasking freedom -- better known as iOS 4.2 -- has moves past the beta phase and onto GM, which means retail units should be seeing it soon. Besides the iPad, Apple is also providing builds for the second, third, and fourth generations of the iPod touch, along with the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4..
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3gs, apple, breakingnews, engadget, ios, ios 4.2, ipad, phase, retail
Intel says no MeeGo phones until first half of 2011, Nokia just shrugs
While Nokia remains mum about the status of its first MeeGo handset, Doug Fisher, Vice President of Intel's Software and Solutions Group and General Manager of Systems Software Division, is being decidedly more talkative. According to an interview published by Forbes , MeeGo phones and tablets are in the works but we'll have to wait until 2011 to handle them
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: annoucement, chance, delay, fisher, general-manager, intel, internet, mobile, retail, user, windows, world
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, entry, gallery-below, inside-the-box, launch, leader, multimedia, nokia n8, nokian8, result, retail, section, unboxing
T-Mobile G2 pre-orders starting tomorrow for current customers, it seems
T-Mobile has had a longstanding tradition of giving current customers first dibs on pre-orders for hot products, and it looks like the upcoming G2 will be no exception. TmoNews has a rather telling screen shot suggesting that T-Mobile subscribers will be able to sign up for the Android-powered QWERTY slider starting tomorrow through October 4, with retail availability following a couple days later on the 6th; we've already had that date on lock through Best Buy Mobile, so it comes as no surprise
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: buy, couple, customers-first, days, dibs-on-pre, giving-current, mobile, pre-order, preorder, qwerty, result, retail
Windows Phone 7 dev tools go gold September 16, Marketplace taking submissions in October
Microsoft's held the line since its February announce that Windows Phone 7 is going to be ready in time for the holidays this year -- and from what we've seen recently , we believe it -- so today they're announcing another small step in the process by finalizing the dev tools that first bowed at MIX in March. Specifically, the gold build will be hitting streets on September 16, just a little under a month from today, while the Marketplace will start accepting apps sometime in early October
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, healthy-catalog, hitting-streets, holidays, microsoft, phone, retail, shelves, windows, windows-phone, windowsphone7sdk, wp7