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UK wireless carrier Three has added HTC’s Wildfire S, Desire S and ChaCha smartphones to its ‘Coming Soon’ page, complete with the month of release for each one. The smartphones were unveiled by HTC during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to the Three ‘Coming Soon’ page, the Desire S will be launched in April, [...]
Google started rolling out the latest version of Android Gingerbread to Nexus S and Nexus One owners this week, but it could be several more days before the update is pushed to everyone. Slashgear has uncovered the official Gingerbread download links for each device, meaning Nexus owners no longer have to wait on Google to [...]
HTC has officially announced the HTC Merge, described as the company’s first Android-based CDMA “world phone”. Based on the specifications that HTC has published, the new Merge slider phone looks somewhat comparable to the EVO Shift 4G, the slider version of the EVO 4G that Sprint and HTC announced in May of last year. The [...]
Nexus S from Google The first Gingerbread device in Ireland is on it’s way – available only with Vodafone, Home of the Smartphone Developed by Google and Samsung, the Nexus S is the first phone to run Gingerbread, the fastest version of Android yet. Gingerbread builds on some of the most popular Android features like [...]
The Wall Street Journal called Android, “the star of the show,” claiming it powered, “every significant device launched at the Mobile World Congress.” This is true. Android was here, Android was there, Android was everywhere – anything worth talking about at MWC 2011 was Android-based. Then the iPhone 4 won “Best Mobile Device” at an [...]
Google has just announced its own subscription plan for digital content, hot on the heels of Apple’s controversial announcement. Publishers can use Google’s new service, called “One Pass,” to set a price and duration for digital content. For instance, a newspaper can charge $4 for access to its digital newspaper for a week. In return, [...]
High Tech Computer (HTC) released five new Android-based devices, including two phones with a dedicated Facebook button, the Salsa and the ChaCha, at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday. It also unveiled its Flyer tablet. HTC’s Facebook phones follow on the heels of two launched by INQ before Mobile World Congress: the Android-based INQ Cloud Touch [...]
Huawei on Tuesday unveiled two Android-based devices, the Huawei Ideos X3 smartphone and the Ideos S7 Slim tablet. The company also announced a plug-and-link data card for mobile broadband and a new wireless modem with intelligent routing here at Mobile World Congress. The Ideos S7 Slim tablet includes a 7-inch capacitive touch screen with an [...]
Besides the new tablet and the Facebook-enabled phones, HTC has today announced three new Android phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phones are upgrades of the most popular devices in the company’s Android lineup: Desire S, Wildfire S and Incredible S. The Desire S is perhaps the most interesting of the three, [...]
AT&T today announced that it will offer a new social gaming platform for its Android phones, as the company cozies up to Google in the wake of Verizon’s iPhone. The Dallas, Texas-based carrier said it is working with OpenFeint, a social-gaming community, to develop a video game network that will let gamers play against each [...]