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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to be available via Best Buy starting June 8th

It’s not the cool, geeky edition that was doled out recently at the Google I/O, but still geeky enough to be a decent tablet from Samsung.  The company has now announced that the 10.1-inch version of its popular Galaxy Tab will be available exclusively through Best Buy store on Union […]

T-Mobile picks up Samsung Exhibit 4G and Gravity Smart

T-Mobile today announced two additions to its current Android lineup – the Exhibit 4G and the Gravity Smart – both built by Samsung.  While the Exhibit 4G stands tall with a 1GHz processor, 21Mbps 4G network support, 5-megapixel lens and its 3.7 inch Super AMOLED screen, the Gravity Smart leans

Gingerbread update for the HTC Evo 4G on June 6th

Late last month, Sprint had mistakenly put the HTC Evo 4G on sale with Android 2.3 on its online store, but as it turned out, Froyo was still the OS onboard.  The carrier is now looking to rectifying this error by updating the Evo 4G for real, if an Engadget

Acer W4 with Windows Phone Mango spotted

Microsoft’s mobile OS savior, the Windows Phone Mango, was spotted running on an Acer phone at Computex Trade Show in Taipei recently.  Specwise, the Acer W4 is identical to the current crop of Android/WP7 devices with a 1GHz processor, 3.6-inch 800×460 WVGA display, 5MP autofocus camera, and 8GB of internal

LG Genesis to join US Cellular’s lineup on June 9

Like the HTC Merge that is joining the US Cellular ranks today, the LG Genesis is also a QWERTY-toting smartphone, but with a twist.  The device features two touchscreen displays – a 3.5-incher on the outside with the internal display measuring 3.2 inches, both capable of 480×800 pixel resolution.  What

T-Mobile goes official with the HTC Sensation 4G

The long-awaited HTC monsterphone, the Sensation 4G, has now been officially announced by T-Mobile along with a definite release date.  Starting June 15th, the Gingerbread device will be available in stores across the country and via the T-Mobile online store. The release is pretty close to what was rumored earlier,

US Cellular adds HTC Merge to its offerings

After a subdued release this month via third-party retailers for Verizon, the Merge has now made its way on to US Cellular.  The device is a mid-range Android phone that comes a 5MP camera, a 3.8-inch touchscreen display, an 800MHz processor with 512MB of RAM, 3G network support, aGPS, WiFi

Dell Streak gets an unofficial taste of Gingerbread

Currently at Android 2.2, the 1GHz-powered Dell Streak has come a long way from the Donut 1.6 OS that it came with originally.  Stephen Hyde over at MoDaCo has now given it a new breath of life, porting Gingerbread over to the aging device, calling it the StreakDroid 2.0.0 or

HTC Puccini 10.1-inch Android tablet being prepped for this summer

With Galaxy Tab 10.1 as its direct competitor, the HTC Puccini has a lot to live up to and if the reported specs are to be believed, it does in many ways.  Apparently, the tablet will boast of a Qualcomm dual-core 1.5GHz processor with an unspecified amount of RAM, which

Motorola CLIQ 2 getting updated, not Gingerbread

The update is reportedly not to Android 2.3, but to Android 2.2.2 and the Phandroid tipster test-driving the update also reported a few downsides to the deal: first off the phone can’t be rooted with z4root the standard way to root the phone…. Next they added alot bloatware Uno- The

Samsung Galaxy 5 gets a CM7 port

In demonstration of yet another trait that the dev community has in contrast to the big cellphone manufacturers, Cyanogenmod 7 has now been modded to play nice with the Galaxy 5, a middling Android phone that Samsung quickly forgot after its upgrade to Android 2.2.  The Gingerbread-based custom ROM is

Verizon LG Revolution gets its official badge, on sale from tomorrow

Dialing in at the No. 4 spot on Verizon’s growing 4G lineup, the LG Revolution was first shown off at the CES this year.  The device features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.3-inch touchscreen display, a 5MP camera (1.3MP front facing for video calling), 16 gigs of onboard storage and of

HTC Salsa and ChaCha official ROMs out now

We are not sure if any of you plan on buying either of these two “Facebook phones” but if there is an intention to do so, rest assured that there will be customized ROMs by the time you do buy them.  Both the Salsa and the ChaCha ROMs are European