Vodafone UK now selling HTC Desire Z, can be had for free if you play your cards right
Of course, the fact that a high-end smartphone can be scored for free on a European carrier should come as no surprise to anyone -- but in the case of the Desire Z on Vodafone in the UK, you'll be looking at a minimum monthly spend of
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: cards, desirez, Hinge, htcsense, mobile, sense, surprise, vodafone
White iPhone 4 evidence shows up in Apple Store app’s update?
So, you may or may not have noticed that this morning, Apple updated its own Apple Store app for the very first time, and version 1.1 has a little surprise.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-store, cellphones, engadget, entry, evidence-shows, Glitch, iphone, phones, smartphones, surprise, white
OTI report finds US and Canada have the most expensive cellphone plans, India and Hong Kong the cheapest
It's far from the first study to compare the cost of cellphone plans around the world, but this new report from the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (which counts Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a board member) does look to be a bit more thorough than most, which might help to dissuade some of the criticism levied at past studies from the likes of the CTIA.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: america, board, cellphone plans, entry, from-the-likes, oti, preset, result, source, study, surprise, united, world
Samsung Focus and Omnia 7 are ready to rock with Windows Phone 7
Samsung's i8910 HD -based Windows Phone 7 prototype has probably been the single most publicly-recognizable face of the platform this year, so it should come as little surprise that the Korean giant has come out swinging with production hardware today -- and fortunately, the pair of retail models look nothing (well, very little) like the proto. The Focus is the phone we've been calling the i917 Cetus in leaks , a curvy, glossy slate with a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display (presumably ripped right out of the Galaxy S line), a 5 megapixel camera, and support for microSD expansion up to 32GB; it'll be hitting AT&T in the States.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breakingnews, deutsche-telekom, deutschetelekom, face, omnia 7, sfr, surprise, windows
Virgin Mobile rolls out Android-based Samsung Intercept: $249 prepaid
Not much of a surprise here, but Virgin Mobile has just officially announced that it's now offering the Samsung Intercept -- the carrier's first Android handset. Running a reasonable $249 prepaid -- and exclusive to Target for the next few weeks -- the phone boasts a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keypad, a 3.2-megapixel camera, and all the basic Android amenities you'd expect (it's shipping with Android 2.1 )
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: gallery, images, intercept, pair-the-phone, pre-paid, press, release, samsung, samsung-intercept, surprise
Steve Ballmer and AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega to headline Windows Phone 7 launch event in NYC on October 11 — we’ll be there live!
Horror, shock, surprise! Microsoft CEO and prime fanboy of all things Windows and developer-related, Steve Ballmer, will be the keynote speaker at Microsoft's New York launch event for Windows Phone 7 . He'll be joined on stage by AT&T's Ralph de la Vega and when the pep rally is over, we're promised opportunities to finally handle the official incarnations of retail Windows Phones for ourselves. We know all this because Microsoft has just dropped a kind little invite into our inbox urging us to attend its October 11 get-together.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: fanboy, Keynote, launch-event, launchevent, microsoft, newyork, ralphdelavega, Steve, steveballmer, surprise, windows phone 7, windows-phones
BlackBerry messaging shut down in Saudi Arabia, users feel early withdrawal pains
We can't say this is exactly a surprise , but we are rather saddened to learn that Saudi Arabia has apparently carried through on its threats to shut down all BlackBerry messaging services functionality due to "security concerns." Users there are reporting that they are no longer able to use their keyboards for the jobs they were intended, forcing them to actually call friends -- with their voices. Saudi Arabia has threatened $1.3 million fines for any wireless provider that does not play nicely and, until those threats are lifted, we're thinking BBM is down for the count out there
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, concerns, fri, keyboards, rim, saddened, saudi arabia, saudiarabia, security, surprise, voices
Motorola mini Droid slider caught by Mr. Blurrycam
Okay, this one's a complete and very welcome surprise -- some extremely blurry pictures and a quick video of what appears to be a smaller Motorola portrait QWERTY Android slider for Verizon just popped up on the Chinese Hiapk forums -- and yes, it's got the glowing red Droid eye.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, blurry-pictures, droidslider, form, midrange, motorola, portraitqwertyslider, result, slider, slider-caught, surprise, verizon
iPhone 4 coming to Canada and 16 other countries July 30th
Not much of a surprise here, but Apple has now finally revised its previous "by the end of July" iPhone 4 launch timeframe for some of the remaining international countries to a specific date: July 30th. That includes Canada, a whole host of European countries, plus Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Absent from that list, however, is South Korea, which had been among the "end of July" group, but has apparently been pushed back to an unspecified date due to a delay in receiving government approval
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: iphone, kong, launch, other-countries, south-korea, southkorea, specific-date, surprise
HTC pulls sideload-capable Sync app for AT&T’s Aria
We suppose this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but we're still disappointed to see that HTC has pulled the version its Sync app that had been posted late last week with support for sideloading of Android apps on AT&T's Aria , seemingly by mistake. Given that the new version of Sync had never been accompanied by an over-the-air firmware update to enable non-Market app installations from the phone itself, this seems to totally confirm what had been suspected all along: it was nothing more than a mix-up, and AT&T hasn't approved any sweeping changes in its branded Android philosophy.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, att, firmware-update, from-the-phone, htc, surprise, Sync, the-excitement, thing-generated