Are you reading?

Announced by HTC in only two color version, HTC Hero (the company’s third Android smartphone) will have a pink version too.

The pink Hero was spotted at The Carphone Warehouse, and it looks like it will be available in the UK starting this month.

The retailer doesn’t say how much the handset costs, but interested customers can pre-register here to find out when it will be available.

Most probably, Carphone will sell the HTC Hero unlocked, so you should expect to pay about €500 for it.

In case you don’t know yet, the Hero is HTC’s most advanced Android device.

Its features include: 3.2 inch WQVGA touchscreen display (fingerprint-resistant), 5MP autofocus camera, HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3.5mm headset jack, and the brand new HTC Sense User Interface.

Via Pocket-lint

Related posts

• HTC Hero costs €99 in Spain with an Orange contract (0)
• LG InTouch Max GW620 launched in the UK (via T-Mobile and Virgin) (0)
• Verizon’s Motorola municipality in springy photos, MotoBlur confirmed (0)
• Verizon’s Motorola municipality in springy photos, MotoBlur confirmed (0)
• Sprint makes the HTC Touch Pro2 officially expensive (0)

Although Orange UK offers the HTC Hero for free on select plans, Orange Spain has announced that its Hero will be sold for prices starting at €99 (with a contract agreement and a monthly plan of €29).

The new Android smartphone will be available in Spain starting next week, and it looks like customers can already pre-order it online, with a €10 discount – thus for only €89.

As a reminder, HTC Hero is HTC’s third Android handset (after the G1 and the Magic). Its features include: 3.2 inch fingerprint-resistant touchscreen display with 320 x 480 pixels, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP camera, and the brand new HTC Sense User Interface that runs on top of Android 1.5 OS.

HTC Hero will also be available unlocked in Spain, sometime at the end of July, for about €500.

Via Gizmos.es

Related posts

• Samsung Pixon 12’s price in Spain: €639, unlocked (0)
• Pink HTC Hero to be available in the UK this month (0)
• T-Mobile USA launch event scheduled for April 21. G2 announcement? (0)
• T-Mobile G1 hits new markets in the next few weeks: Austria, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany and Poland (0)
• Samsung M100S is the company’s prototypal Android 2.1 phone (0)

Great news for all those who have an iPhone 3G S and want to jailbreak it: a jailbreak for the brand new smartphone has just been released today by an independent developer named George Hotz.

Dubbed purplera1n, the iPhone 3G S jailbreak can be downloaded from this address.

Note that you’ll need a Windows PC (Windows 7 and Mac are not supported for the moment), an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware and the latest version of iTunes in order to install the jailbreak.

Also, keep in mind that the jailbreak is a beta version, so be sure to back up all your data before running it.

To read more about how exactly to run the iPhone 3G S purplera1n jailbreak, head on over to George Hotz’s blog.

Related posts

• iPhone 3GS 8GB ostensibly addicted by Rogers (0)
• Dev-Team teases v2.2-compatible iPhone 3G unlock for the New Year (0)
• China Unicom to forebode the iPhone today and move it in October (0)
• China Unicom oversubscribed over 100,000 iPhones since October (0)
• Apple orders 4th impact iPhone from Foxconn (0)

As crazy as it may sound, Canada’s Telus might release Apple’s brand new iPhone 3G S sometime in October this year.

Yes, we know, Telus is a CDMA carrier and the iPhone 3G S is a GSM/HSPA phone, so this doesn’t make sense, right? Well, wrong, because Telus is getting ready to roll-out a HSPA network across Canada, which should be functional in October.

So, theoretically, the third-largest Canadian carrier will be able to launch the iPhone 3G S. Of course, the new iPhone will first be offered by Rogers and Fido in Canada, but it looks like they don’t have exclusivity on it.

According to a post from Howard Forums, a Telus executive has confirmed that they will launch the iPhone 3G S.

If this turns out to be true, there will probably be many happy Telus subscribers and a few unhappy execs at Rogers & Fido.

Via Boy Genius Report

Related posts

• Verizon to finally launch an iPhone in 2010? (0)
• Verizon’s iPhone to ingest a Qualcomm chip (0)
• iPhone to effect T-Mobile army next? (0)
• iPhone Launch Planned by individual and Telus in November (0)
• Palm CEO says Europe gets Pre in the first half, too (0)

Need a tablet PC that’ll last all day, do ya? Care for one that you can also see whilst outdoors? Look no further than Motion’s brand new J3400, a rugged (albeit sleek) new tablet that comes equipped with dual battery compartments and an outdoor-visible LCD. Other specs include an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1.8-inch shock-mounted HDD (a 64GB SSD is a worthwhile option), 2 megapixel camera, GPS, a biometric sensor, multicard reader, Bluetooth 2.1, Qualcomm’s dual-mode Gobi WWAN chip, WiFi and a chassis that’s IP-52 rated and meets MIL-STD-810F specifications. In other words, a three foot tumble onto plywood won’t even faze it. This beauty can be yours to ruin in the field for the low, low starting price of $2,299, and yes, it’s ready to ship this very moment. Full release is after the break.

Related posts

• Toshiba Tecra A10, M10 laptops now available (0)
• Toshiba Portege M750 reminds us of a tablet we used to see now and then (0)
• MSI announces the VX600 15.4-inch notebook (0)
• Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 now shipping (0)
• HP Pavilion dv3 taken for a spin, comes back unfit but well-performing (0)

If you’re the type of Earth-loving individual who ain’t got nowhere to go in a hurry, RTEV’s ready and willing to take your order a brand new Wheego Whip. The company’s first street electric LSV (low speed vehicle) will begin shipping to early adopters in May, and it’s primed to carry up to two individuals and a few empty cola bottles anywhere you need to go — so long as there’s an AC outlet waiting at Point B. It’s retailing for under $19,000 and includes an MP3 stereo system, remote keyless entry, air conditioning and a sweet 10 percent Federal Tax credit. Of note, RTEV has plans to eventually produce a higher speed model of this very car, and there’s a trade-in program available (with terms that aren’t half bad) for those interested. For all the fine print, give that read link a tap.
Source

Related posts

• All-electric Wheego Whip hitting America in May… slowly (0)
• Cowon S9 firmware update adds Bluetooth speaker support (0)
• Yorozu’s milk carton speaker asks: “Have You Heard Me?” (0)
• Xtractaurs Lets Your Kids Play mark Park (0)
• XRoad G-Map iPhone navigation map gets reviewed, patted on the back (0)

Motorola and Universal Music singed a new agreement that allowed the handset maker to pre-load, on four of its MOTOROKR phones, U2’s brand new album called No Line on the Horizon.

The phones are MOTOROKR EM35, EM30, EM28 and EM25, and, unfortunately, they will be offered only in Latin America with the latest U2 album.

Apart from having all the tracks from No Line on the Horizon, the MOTOROKR handsets will also come with an exclusive digital song, the “Get On Your Boots” video, wallpapers and ringtones.

(MOTOROKR EM35)

This is not the first time when Motorola launches handsets with pre-loaded music in Latin America: back in September, the American company released the W388 and W231, both of which came with music from NXZero, a popular Brazilian rock band.

Via Motorola

Related posts

• Will HTC mathematician resile Android 2.0 raise and go direct to Android 2.1/Flan? (0)
• Verizon’s Motorola Droid to impart tethering in primeval 2010 (0)
• Verizon to Launch Droid, Droid Eris on Nov 6 (0)
• The prototypal Google Nexus One analyse shows up (0)
• The prototypal Google Nexus One analyse shows up (0)

If you were hoping for the  Palm Pre to be released this year via other US carrier than Sprint, it looks like your hopes are in vain.

Someone “familiar with the matter” told CNBC that the brand new Palm smartphone will be a US exclusive on Sprint at least until the end of 2009.

Of course, for the moment, an exact release date for the Pre is not known, but if Sprint manages to launch it in the next few months, then it will have quite a long exclusivity period.

First unveiled in January 2009, Palm Pre is not just one of Palm’s nicest devices ever, but also one of the most eagerly expected smartphones of the year, so it’s no wonder Sprint wants to sell it as long as it can with exclusive rights.

As for its availability in non-US markets, the Pre will probably be released sometime in mid-2009 in Canada and various European countries (details about the carriers to sell it are currently missing).

Related posts

• Sprint launching the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 too (0)
• Palm to kill PalmOS and focus on webOS, Windows Mobile (0)
• Verizon’s iPhone to ingest a Qualcomm chip (0)
• Verizon to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8530 Aries in February 2010 (0)
• Toshiba TG01 to hit the UK on July 9 (0)

A North American version of the brand new HTC Touch Cruise (also known as HTC Touch Cruise with Footprints or HTC Touch Cruise 09) was recently approved by the FCC, meaning that we might see it soon on sale in the US.

The NAM Touch Cruise comes with quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) and dual-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz). This makes it suitable for a release via AT&T – but, of course, it doesn’t mean the carrier will actually want to bring the handset into its family of products. 

According to its user manual, the Touch Cruise is sold together with a 1GB microSD card that includes “map content for bundled GPS software”, which is, obviously, a good thing.

As for the rest of Cruise’s specs and features, you can view them here.

The smartphone’s  European version (with 900 / 2100 HSDPA) will be available for purchase starting this spring, at a price that was not announced yet.

Via Cell Phone Signal

Related posts

• Sony Ericsson CS8 (C905) coming to T-Mobile USA (0)
• Nokia 6750 patterned with AT&T’s stylemark on it (0)
• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic launched by Rogers in Canada (0)
• HTC XV6175 for Verizon to have GSM and CDMA connectivity? (0)
• HTC Touch Cruise with Footprints officially announced (0)

Do you love the idea of reading books on your phone and hate the idea of spending loads of cash on a Kindle? Soon, Amazon hopes to bring you the best of both worlds.

Amazon, which is already expected to expand its Kindle brand to a new model sometime soon, has just made known its intent to also bring Kindle books to the mobile phone world.

The company has not announced which phones the Kindle collection will be offered on, and we are eager to hear. Frankly, we anticipate the iPhone to be one of the first phones since firstly Amazon already has an app available on the App Store, and secondly because of the popularity of iPhone e-book readers. It would be the perfect market to test out.

The only known fact at this point is that Amazon is planning on bringing the Kindle book collection to phones. Of course, we will be on top of this story and bring you the latest updates.

Question for the comments: When this is offered on your phone, will you be stepping up to purchase Kindle books?

via Register Hardware UK

Related posts

• [CES 2010] Ion Audio iType & iDiscover Keyboard (0)
• [CES 2010] First Look At Qualcomm’s Mirasol Displays (0)
• Yes, the iPhone went on sale at Walmart today (0)
• Telus to launch the iPhone 3G S in Canada? (0)
• Snow Leopard gets hip to CoreLocation and multitouch (0)