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The device was unveiled in all its glory last week but as always, HTC and T-Mobile failed to announce a proper release date for the beefy Sensation.  Which leaves us to nitpick every minute detail that is available on it right now.  TMo News was apparently thinking along the same lines when it did a simple search on “HTC Sensation” and guess what popped up – a Google Adword ad stating the release date as 8th June (Google has now changed it “Coming Soon”).  Solidifying this little detail furthermore is the product mockup on the Sensation’s showcase webpage, which shows […]

For no apparent reason, Google has decided to pull the plug on the Gingerbread rollout which started yesterday for the Samsung Galaxy S, and Vodafone UK users who haven’t updated already will no longer find it waiting on Kies.  The decision seems to have been made solely by Google, as Vodafone UK denies any performance issues.  The news was posted on the carrier’s support forums and further states that it will work with Samsung to rectify the situation as soon as possible and get the Android 2.3 update rolling out again. Stay tuned and we’ll keep you posted further as

T-Mobile has today announced a date and a price for the 3D-enabled LG tablet, the G-Slate.  The company has revealed on its blog recently that the G-Slate will be available beginning tomorrow, April 20th, and will run interested T-Mo customers up to $529.99 (just as we reported at the beginning of this month).  The price is after a $100 mail-in rebate and there is a two-year lockdown clause to agree to. Compared to the $729.99 iPad2 and the $599.99 Motorola Xoom, the G-Slate seems to be sensibly priced, especially considering the features that it comes with against the competition.  If

While the update was rolled out last month for the rest of the world, AT&T customers were left high and dry with no news on when the NoDo will land on their WP7 devices.   The carrier seems to have decided that the time now is right enough and has started releasing the update to its WP7 devices slowly.  Soon, AT&T users with the Samsung Focus, HTC Surround, and the LG Quantum will be able to copy/paste on their mobile like the rest of the world and have a few other tweaks that were overlooked when the WP7 was originally released.

If you haven’t flashed the leaked ROM already and have been waiting for the official word, this is it.  Samsung has now started rolling out the long-awaited Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Galaxy S I9000 across Europe beginning today.  The update is initially available for unlocked Galaxy S users and will be available to network-locked devices once the carriers have had a chance to tinker with it.  As a matter of fact, Vodafone UK seems already done with tinkering and has announced the availability of Gingerbread for the Galaxy S devices on its network today. Feel free to use

Barely 10 days ago, Motorola was out there hunting for prospective Bravo owners to test the raw Android 2.2 operating system on the said phone.  It seems that the efforts have paid off early and Bravo users across the world have now started getting the much awaited Froyo update. With Froyo come features like WiFi tethering, native browser Flash support, auto-update of apps, and many other features unavailable on the Bravo before.  Users will also now have the option to move their apps to the SD card, just in case the onboard 1.3GB proves inadequate. The update is rolling out

The ROM for HTC Pyramid aka the Sensation has wormed its way on to the net and with it comes HTC’s latest Android UI skin, Sense 3.0.  The Android 2.3 ROM is the Asian version for the upcoming device and with no actual Sensation around, there’s not much use it could be put to right now, but of course, it’s only a matter of time before some of our enterprising devs find a way to port that gorgeous and spanking new Sense UI to older Android devices. For now, the dump has yielded a few nice wallpapers which can be

It’s no Gingerbread, but it does does bring a few minor improvements to the QWERTY-toting Motorola Droid Pro on Verizon.  Weighing in at 43.8MB, the update (ver. 3.8.7.XT610) brings much better syncing, preloaded Verizon VCAST  apps, WiFi access to external corporate networks, and other fixes on the MotoBLUR side of things. As for the Droid Pro getting updated to Gingerbread, word is that Verizon was pondering over the idea around December last year along with other devices on its network, but almost four months down the line now, nothing further has been revealed. Source

The idea of a rugged tablet is laudable and we could think of many situations where such a device would be a boon.  Motorola, according to the latest rumors, is working on just the kind of device and marrying the processing power of the Xoom and the immunity to withstand the rigors of nature as well as harsh human treatment seems like a great idea.  And with the sturdy Defy under its belt, Motorola is definitely equipped to apply the same (if not better) principles to the rumored tablet. Apparently, the damage-proof device will feature a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB

The press event yesterday revealed that the Vodafone UK will have first dibs on the newly announced Android phone from HTC – the Sensation – before it’s set loose across the Europe among various carriers.  The said various carriers have now spoken and announced their respective dates for the “superphone” and here they are: Orange UK – June T-Mobile UK – June Three UK – Some time in summer O2 UK – Not specified Vodafone will still have a two-week lead-in on the heavy specced device before the other carriers, but the announcements should come as good news for non-Vodafone

Barely a week after the news broke that there is such a device, the Xperia Mini Pro 2 has surfaced again, with more pictures this time and a few more specs to boot.  The snaps were leaked by a Sony Ericsson employee from its Shenzhen, China factory, and we get to see the smartphone in its various poses. The Mini Pro 2 supposedly runs on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, which could change before the release, and a confirmed 5MP lens slapped on to its rear to record 720p HD video recording.  There’s at least a 3-inch touchscreen display with a

Samsung’s handsets with Bada OS don’t make as big a splash as their Android/WP7 counterparts, but the operating system is definitely not something to be pushed to the back.  The platform currently comprises about 20.1% market share with Apple’s iOS sitting above it snugly with 20.5% while Android rules them all with a heavy 31.3%.  The numbers haven’t gone unnoticed by the Korean giant and sure enough, is making further plans to milk this cash cow.  The Bada ecosystem currently has a few thousand apps to its name, but Samsung promises to remedy that with the addition of more than

The wait is over and people who’ve been looking for the Galaxy S II anxiously now have a solid date to look forward to, at least the ones in the UK can.  Samsung has officially confirmed the device to land in the country on May 1st and as we reported earlier, comes with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor.  The press release says that the much awaited Android handset will be available via major carriers and retailers and we should know more on exactly who that is later on this month. If you didn’t know already, the Galaxy S II is Samsung’s

Sprint users may know it as the Samsung M910, but on Virgin Mobile it’s called the Intercept.  The CDMA Android 2.1 device was released in October 2010 and Virgin Mobile thinks it’s finally time to dole out some 2.2 grade pastry to its Intercept users.  Numerous users on the network have been getting texts on the subject and it may not be long before the update actually falls into their laps: The Froyo Update for the Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept is finally coming out on Monday the 11th! VMFreeMsg: Starting 4/11/11, you will be notified of a phone software upgrade