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Motorola has foregather addicted that AT&T’s prototypal Android smartphone, the Motorola BackFlip, module be acquirable play March 7, as rumored.

Also declared in China and Italy, the Moto BackFlip module outlay exclusive $99.99 with an AT&T alter accolade for digit eld and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

As mentioned individual nowadays before, the BackFlip runs Android (version 1.5, apparently) and features a 3.1 advancement HVGA touchscreen display, flooded QWERTY keyboard, MotoBlur with ethnic networking combining (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter), HSDPA connectivity, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera with diode flash, and a 1,500 mAh battery.

Here’s an grownup (official) recording advertisement of the Motorola BackFlip for AT&T:

AT&T capableness also move the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 with Android 1.6, but there are no belongings content most this at the moment.

Via Press release

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Verizon has foregather declared the prices of Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus – its prototypal WebOS smartphones, officially undraped digit weeks ago.

As expected, the prices are kindred to the prices of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi: $149.99 and $99.99, respectively (both on alter and after a $100 mail-in channel conventional “in the add of a entry card”). For $29.99 more, Pixi Plus buyers module add be flourishing to opt from different nonmandatory Pixi Touchstone Back Covers (in pink, orange, green, chestnut and black).

The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are slightly meliorate than Sprint’s devices: the Pre Plus has multiple the interior noesis and multiple the RAM (16GB, 512MB), patch the Pixi Plus comes with Wi-Fi.

Both handsets feature a built-in 3G Mobile Hotspot that crapper remuneration Wi-Fi inbound to up to another fivesome Wi-Fi confident devices (Verizon offers a 5GB monthly organisation at $40 for that).

Customers module be flourishing to acquire Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus play this weekday (January 25).

Via Press release

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To date, Sprint ease is the exclusive US individual to effect some add of 4G, and it likes this fact. Sprint likes to expose it in face of its competition. Tonight a infant 4G router was declared that module definitely be flaunted in face of Verizon’s MiFi technology. It’s named Overdrive and is prefabricated by Sierra Wireless. The router, as crapper easily be inferred, module avow nonnegative of Sprint’s WiMAX meshwork and information that meshwork communication to up to fivesome devices at a instance within your bag or office.

The Overdrive, of course, module control on EVDO 3G in cases that 4G only isn’t available.

Going on discernment Jan 10, the Overdrive module be for discernment at Sprint and Best Buy stores for $99 after $50 mail-in rebate. Expect the assist to outlay you $59 per mark on a digit assemblage commitment.

What feature you, everyone? Will this be worth the monthly outlay to have?

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Launched by Verizon on Nov 20 for $99.99 on contract, the BlackBerry Curve 8530 is today acquirable from Sprint, too.

The beatific information (for Sprint’s customers, anyway) is that the ordinal highest US individual offers the Curve 8530 for exclusive $49.99 on alter (after a $100 mail-in rebate).

Just aforementioned Verizon’s 8530, the smartphone is pretty much a CDMA edition of T-Mobile’s 8520. Its features include: 2.46 advancement QVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, inbound to BlackBerry App World, Facebook and MySpace integration, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill hold and – of code – a flooded QWERTY keypad.

Sprint offers the BlackBerry Curve 8530 exclusive in black for now, but a color edition should also be acquirable sometime soon.

Via Sprint

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Most belike sorry with the avow of popularity reached by Ovi Store until now, Nokia is intellection to mend it and promulgation a new, “refreshed” edition of it in outflow 2010 – when the prototypal Symbian^3 smartphone is plausible to be launched, too.

Introduced in May 2009, Ovi Store is Nokia’s acknowledgement to Apple’s hugely favourite App Store, but it someways not managed to accomplish its success.

Nokia recognizes that Ovi Store has problems: excruciate Linardos, the company’s media assemble nous of products, declared that their accumulation “had been outpaced by Apple after complaints on unchangingness and reliability.”

Nokia has already started to impact on a next-generation Ovi platform, based on suggestions dispatched by users. The papers module reportedly effect infant clog aforementioned a redesigned individual information and in-application payments. politico decentralised noesis and “recommendations based on friends’ app purchases” are also designed to be included in a forthcoming edition of Ovi Store.

It’s said that most 1 meg apps are downloaded lawful via Ovi Store, patch the Ovi Suite (including Ovi Maps, Ovi Mail and another services) has 80 meg active users.

Via Financial Times, Engadget

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AT&T has officially declared the LG eXpo (also famous as LG demesne and LG IQ), presented as the United States’ prototypal good to feature a 1GHz CPU, as substantially as the prototypal to effect an nonmandatory desegrated pico projector.

The eXpo is actually not a eventual phone, but a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and features a WVGA touchscreen display, flooded QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA, GPS, 5MP camera and MicroSD bill support.

Another gratifying feature of the eXpo is AuthenTec’s “Smart Sensor” blot recognition, “which delivers a infant avow of added sharp and individualized section different some another ambulatory good in the market.”

LG eXpo is the ordinal LG good declared by AT&T this mark (after the Shine II) and it module be acquirable play Dec 7. The smartphone is priced at $199.99 with a 2-yr alter accolade and after a $100 mail-in channel (a $69.99 organisation is required). The nonmandatory LG Mobile Projector should be acquirable presently after, for $179.99.

Via Press release

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Verizon’s Samsung Omnia II i920 is today eventually official, as Samsung Mobile has declared that the smartphone would be acquirable via the highest US individual play Dec 2.

Just aforementioned the Android-powered Motorola Droid, Samsung Omnia II costs $199.99 with a 2-yr alter accolade and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

As you belike already know, the Omnia II runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and has some gratifying features, including a 3.7 advancement AMOLED touchscreen display, Opera 9.5, DNSe technology, GPS, Wi-Fi and a 5MP autofocus camera with diode flash.

Verizon’s Omnia II is the prototypal Samsung good to be launched in the US with the Samsung Widget Store (providing inbound to “hundreds of free widgets”).

Via Press release

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First declared by AT&T at the prototypal of October, the Pantech Impact module be acquirable play this Sun (22 November).

The Impact is a unearthly messaging phone, featuring a “high-gloss faceplate” with haptic-enabled keys, and a flooded QWERTY keyboard. The good also has digit displays: a diminutive correct digit and a large interior one.

Other features allow 3G, GPS, penalization player, AT&T HTML ambulatory browser, equal camera, recording recording, and cushy inbound to IM and email.

Pantech Impact module be acquirable from AT&T in light chestnut and fleecy pink, for $99.99 with a 2-yr alter accolade and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

Via Press release

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Verizon’s newest Casio good is not the Brigade, as expected, but the Casio G’zOne Rock, a clamshell declared today by the highest US ambulatory carrier.

The Casio G’zOne is a clifflike good that features Triple Sensor profession and past G’zGear code which crapper control in sextet modes: Earth Compass, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset, Tides, Walking Counter and Thermometer.

The good also features Push To Talk, EV-DO Rev. A connectivity, GPS, biaural Bluetooth, touch-sensitive penalization controls, and a 2MP camera with shine and recording recording.

Casio G’zOne Rock module be acquirable at Verizon play Nov 20. The phone’s sound is $199.99 with a 2-yr alter accolade and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

Via Press release

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Appeared in some leaked photos backwards in the summer, the LG Shine II has foregather been officially declared by LG army and AT&T.

Like the older, example LG Shine, the infant Shine II comes to attain a “fashionably sharp evidence with its shiny exterior and varied utility.”

The phone’s features allow a 2.2 advancement display, AT&T Navigator, “music contestant with customizable equalizer, penalization acceptance and ringtone creator”, Java 2.0 hold and a 2MP camera with flash.

AT&T module move commerce the LG Shine II on Nov 22. The phone’s sound module be of $119.99 with a 2-yr alter accolade and after a mail-in channel – category of pricey if you conceive most the iPhone 3G, which costs $99.99 on contract.

Via Press release

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