The "Nobody knows what the hell's going on with the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab," saga continues today (see Part 1 and Part 2, Part 3) with the latest news now being that Samsung has no intentions of delivering a "Value Pack" upgrade. According to a Samsung source who spoke to The Next Web: Samsung "will not offer the update due to the hardware specifications of the older Galaxy devices,...
If the holiday season didn't manage to bait you into a new phone, this might be your chance: T-Mobile is having a three-day "New Year, New Phone" sale this weekend only, beginning on Friday, January 6. Sure, there are mail-in rebates involved, and you'll have to make a monthly payment ranging from $10 to $20 on the device itself, but a $49.99 down payment on a Galaxy S II or an Amaze...
You might want to look away if you just purchased a Honeycomb tablet for Christmas: 1saleaday.com has the 32GB Toshiba Thrive on sale today for a mere $299.99, a full $180 cheaper than the list price you'll find at Best Buy, Amazon, and other retailers. The 10-inch, Tegra 2-powered tablet is no slouch, as we discovered in our review back in August, and while it may not be the prettiest...
We heard last week that US Cellular would be carrying the Huawei Ascend II -- a 3.5-inch candy bar style Android phone running Gingerbread -- and today they have made it available at the low price of free on a new agreement and after rebates. While the Ascend II isn't a powerhouse (it has a Qualcomm MSM7627 at 600MHz) it has specs that make it more than acceptable to most folks. It's...
The Dell Streak 7 may never have been the most popular tablet ever released, and it may also be discontinued officially. That doesn't stop British retailer Currys shipping them right now for an online only price of £99.97 The listing still shows the Streak as shipping with Froyo, but Dell began rolling out Honeycomb for the device a couple of months back. At the £100 price point we're...
Sony Ericsson announced this morning that it has teamed up with cloud-based storage app Box to provide all Xperia owners with 50GB of free file storage and sharing for life. If you own an Xperia device (The Xperia X10 and all subsequent models are included), you can download Box from the Android Market and sign up for a free account right on your phone. Once logged in on your Xperia,...
Welcome to Day 4 of Google's 10-day, 10-cent, 10 billion app download celebration in which 10 apps will be sold for a dime. Here are the apps we're seeing on sale so far: Spirit HD Shazam Encore Sentinel 3: Homeworld Farm Frenzy Toddler Spanish Need for Speed Shift Jelly Defense Game Dev Story Baseball Superstars 2011 My Beach HD That's 10! Good...
We're onto the third day of Google's 10-day, 10-cent, 10 billion app download celebration in which 10 apps will be sold for a dime. No official word yet on exactly what's on sale today, but here's what we've found thus far: Talking Tom Cat 2 Reckless Getaway ADW EX Launcher Tetris Space Physics Can Knockdown 2 Homerun Battle 3D Toki Tori Kids Learn...
If you're in the market for a new smartphone on AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon, and aren't afraid to sign a new contract you might want to check out Radio Shack before you spend your cash. They're running a holiday promotion where they give away free phones (including some Android handsets) with a new agreement, and the list of devices changes every week. This week's offerings (good...
We're on Day 2 of Google's 10-day, 10-cent, 10 billion app download celebration in which 10 apps will be sold for a dime. Google hasn't updated its promotion portal yet today, but here are the new apps we're seeing on sale for 10 cents, as relayed by reader r007: NFL Rivals Reckless Racing Read it Later Pro Flick Golf Fruit Ninja Christmas HD live wallpaper...
Looks like Google's taken the lid off of this 10-cent app thing. The Android Market's now promoting 10 days of offers -- top premium apps -- 10 cents per app. Dive into that Market page and you see the "10 billion promo" page. That 10 billion's got to refer to app downloads -- a milestone if we've ever heard one. Here are the 10 apps on the 10-cent promotion for the next 10 days:...
Something interesting is going on in the Android Market this morning. A bunch of our favorite apps are suddenly going for a dime, with no real rhyme or reason for the discount. @dirkyd3rlc and @Pat_Huey on Twitter alerted us to SwiftKey and Minecraft on sale for 10 cents, and we've found others. (Update: And in the UK, the apps are going for 10p each, not 6p, which would be converted...
2D Boy's popular title World of Goo is now available in the Android Market for a cool 40% off sale price of $2.99 through December 5. Previously available on PC, Mac, Wii, and iOS, World of Goo is an physics-based puzzle adventure through the world of goo balls, which sounds slightly sillier than reality: the game won IGN's Wii Game of the Year along with MetaCritic's iPad Game of the...
With Black Friday coming there is going to be plenty of sales happening but -- why wait? U.S. Cellular is hosting their black Friday sales right now, where you can pick up a smartphone for $100 or less. So what devices can you get? Motorola Electrify, HTC Hero S - $100 HTC Merge - $80 LG Genesis - $50 Samsung Mesmerize, Samsung Repp - $0 w/ MIR HTC Wildfire S, LG...
Everybody knows Black Friday sales are coming but if you're a person like myself, who pretty much hates going to the mall ever -- let alone when it is crowded -- you likely enjoy when retailers change things up a little and start offering deals before Black Friday. T-Mobile is doing that this year by having announced "Magenta" Saturday. On Saturday, Nov. 19, T-Mobile USA, will have...
Kevlar, as law enforcement and military personnnel have known for quite some time, is a hell of a thing, stopping bullets and saving lives. So what's it doing on the back of a smartphone? In the case of the Motorola Droid RAZR, it's serving as a pretty cool spec, and it looks darn good, too. No, we're not going to shoot the RAZR. Pretty sure it'll lose that battle. And while it's not...
HTC has announced on its official Facebook page that thanks to its recent partnership with cloud storage provider Dropbox, the Dropbox app will come preinstalled on all HTC Android phones. HTC phone owners will also benefit from 5GB of free cloud storage, versus the standard 2GB normally given to free account holders. Dropbox has previously partnered with Sony Ericsson to bring pre-...
As part of its ongoing sale, O2 UK is now offering the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play on Pay As You Go for £149.99, just under a third of the price that the Play launched at back in May. That's an insanely low price for a phone with a 4-inch display, a 1GHz Snapdragon and 512MB of RAM, along with all the gaming benefits of the dedicated gamepad and PlayStation suite support. If you take O2...
Motorola this morning announced a special meeting Nov. 17 to vote on the merger agreement with Google -- that little deal announced in August. Maybe you heard of it. Stockholders have to be on the books as of Oct. 11, 2011, in order to vote. The meeting will be in San Diego. Full word's after the break. LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – Oct. 14, 2011 – Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI)...
Youtube link for mobile It's not every day that people go out shopping for appliances, but if you've been looking for a good reason to get a new stove, fridge or whatever for you home you might as well take advantage of the cool offer Samsung and Lowes has going on. For a limited time, Samsung and Lowes will give you a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch when you purchase a qualifying...