LG Optimus U hitting US Cellular on December 13th, free on contract
LG's well-received Optimus line of budget Android sets continues to expand, impress, and go gentle on wallets around the world -- and the latest to launch will come from US Cellular in the form of the Optimus U. First mentioned last month during the Apex's release , the phone hits next Monday, December 13th -- and once you take the mail-in rebate of $80 into account, you won't pay a dime for it on a new two-year contract.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apex, budget, cellular, engadget, engadget-mobile, froyo, mentioned-last, mobile, phone, sets-continues, storage, uscellular
Samsung ships 3M Galaxy S devices in the US, becomes top Android supplier in the country
You know what happens when you manage to launch essentially the same high-end smartphone on every national carrier in the US plus the top regional? Well, this happens: Samsung has just proudly announced that it's pushed some three million Galaxy S models in the US -- sold as the Fascinate , Captivate , Epic 4G , Vibrant , and Mesmerize on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular, respectively -- which gave it 32.1 percent of the US Android market in the third quarter according to Gartner, enough to vault it to the number one position
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: att, captivate, galaxy, mesmerize, mobile, motorola, plus-the-top, the-country, us cellular, uscellular, verizon-wireless
US Cellular rolls out trio of new prepaid plans with unlimited messaging
Texting fanatic? Are your poor, overused thumbs calloused beyond recognition? Well, friend, US Cellular has some new prepaid plans that might be right up your alley
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: buckets, entry, mobile, new-prepaid, plan, prepaid, prepaid plans, prepaidplans, release, sweet, us cellular, uscellular
LG Apex with Android and QWERTY hitting US Cellular this week for $80, Optimus U in December
Between the Desire , the Mesmerize , and the Galaxy Tab , US Cellular's already made it clear that they're pretty committed to Android , and the latest evidence of that comes this week in the form of the LG Apex. The QWERTY slider features a 3.2-inch display, 3 megapixel autofocus camera with flash, and Android 2.1 -- hopefully with a Froyo or Gingerbread upgrade in the works -- for $79.99, launching this Friday in US Cellular stores. Kind of looks a little bit like a keyboard-equipped version of the Optimus One , doesn't it?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bit, cellular, desire, friday, keyboard, latest-evidence, mobile, optimus, result, sprint, uscc, uscellular
Galaxy Tab coming to AT&T November 21st for $650, US Cellular on the 19th for $399 / $599
So, AT&T, it's true : you're charging $50 more for the Galaxy Tab than everyone else in the States off-contract. That's a pretty gutsy sense of entitlement, though you're bundling $50 in Samsung Media Hub credit -- and, of course, no other Tab has access to AT&T's $15 and $25 pay-as-you-go data plans at 250MB and 2GB, respectively. Pick your poison, we suppose.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, breaking-news, breakingnews, entry, plans-at-250mb, price-schedule, pricing-on-uscc, samsung, samsung-media, states, telling-the-tab, us cellular, uscc, uscellular
US Cellular: LTE trial in late 2011, full deployment in 2012
Though fellow regional carrier MetroPCS has been arguably the most aggressive carrier in all of North America in getting LTE live , it looks like US Cellular is taking a slightly more laid-back approach. At a conference in New York today, USCC's CFO announced that they're looking at deploying one LTE test market in the latter part of 2011, moving on to a full-force launch in 2012.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, cellular, force, full-deployment, lte, metropcs, most-aggressive, north, result, uscellular, words, york
Samsung Galaxy S meets US Cellular: Mesmerize coming on October 27 for $200
Samsung had promised a US Cellular -branded version of its wildly ubiquitous Galaxy S line... and here it is. The so-called Mesmerize name fits in appropriately with some of its contemporaries -- Vibrant , Fascinate , Captivate -- and looks very much the same, too, featuring the usual 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera with 720p capture, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, and both WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: camera, cellular, contemporaries, engadget, entry, galaxy, hummingbird, mobile, result, superamoled, us cellular, uscellular
US Cellular teasing ‘The Belief Project,’ unbelievably
Hard to say exactly what these guys have in store, but mega-regional US Cellular is chatting up a grandiose new marketing campaign entitled "The Belief Project" this week, promising a full unveiling of the details on October 1. From what we can see on USCC's teaser site, it'd seem that the promotion is going to revolve around contract-free plans, possibly tied in somehow with fast and frequent discounted hardware upgrade pricing and unlimited data and texting...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: campaign, details, marketing, mobile, polls, result, the belief project, unveiling, upgrade, uscellular
HTC Desire hits US Cellular today for $200
Right on time , US Cellular's CDMA-flavored version of the HTC Desire is now available for a nickel under $200, making it the undisputed big dog in the regional carrier's lineup (its first Android device, the Samsung Acclaim, launched a few weeks back). What you get for your hard-earned money here is a surprisingly accurate recreation of the GSM Desire the rest of the world has been enjoying for much of this year, with the same optical pad, 3.7-inch display, 5 megapixel cam, Sense, 1GHz Snapdragon core, and identical industrial design (which, considering how good the original looks, is just fine with us)
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, money, press, regional, right-on-time, samsung, the-undisputed, uscellular, verizon
HTC Desire launching on US Cellular August 27, ups 2010 Android total to five devices
Like many carriers these days, US Cellular is looking to go all-in on Android -- but it's just getting started, having launched only the Samsung Acclaim so far.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, cellular, press, release, samsung, sense, Ups, uscc, uscellular, usctrojans