Posts Tagged ‘Launch’

Handset manufacturers are usually pretty good about holding their tongue about specific release dates until the launch date is a sure thing, so it’s not too often that we see delays in the mobile world. What’s even more rare than a delay, however, is something shipping way earlier than expected.
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 23:27 | 0 comments
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Remember Project Pink? Whatever Microsoft’s secret hardware initiative was? Well, it’s real and it’s coming to Verizon. You’ll see the Turtle, shown here, first, and it will be sort of a Sidekick that won’t run Windows Phone. Verizon will launch this like they did the Droid, aiming the might of [...]Read the whole story [...]

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 10:22 | 0 comments
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Ever since the announcement of the Motorola Cliq XT back at Mobile World Congress, every whisper and rumor has indicated that T-Mobile US would be picking it up come March 10th.
While that date is still in no way confirmed, it’s looking pretty likely that the launch can’t be too [...]Read the whole story @ [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 17:41 | 0 comments
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The last we heard the Nexus One was navigating its way through the FCC and Verizon was targeting a “Spring 2010″ launch. But now there’s a rumor floating around that states quite clearly that March 23, 2010 will be the launch date. Interesting…
We reached out to our Verizon contacts and [...]Read the whole story [...]

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at 17:50 | 0 comments
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Everything moves at a lightning pace in the mobile world – everything, that is, except network rollouts. Where as handsets can go from announced to old news in the blink of an eye, network upgrades.. can’t.
Take Verizon’s upgrade to 4G technology, for example: they announced the move to LTE in [...]Read the whole story [...]

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at 17:49 | 0 comments
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Everything moves at a lightning pace in the mobile world – everything, that is, except network rollouts. Where as handsets can go from announced to old news in the blink of an eye, network upgrades.. can’t.
Take Verizon’s upgrade to 4G technology, for example: they announced the move to LTE in [...]Read the whole story [...]

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 15:40 | 0 comments
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When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 just a few days ago at Mobile World Congress, the only sort of time frame they’d give for release was “by the Holidays”.
As it turns out, they may have meant Labor Day.
Engadget Chinese met up with LG during some sort of Chinese New Year [...]Read the whole story [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 13:35 | 0 comments
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If you’re reading this, chances are pretty good that you’re not on a 4G connection. Why? Because outside of a handful of cities, 4G connections just don’t exist yet.
Take Sprint’s WiMax network, for example: as of right this second, it’s still only available in about 27 cities [coverage map], primarily [...]Read the whole story [...]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 21:16 | 0 comments
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We may give AT&T a bit of grief for the fact that their network essentially curled up into a ball and cried for two years after the launch of the first iPhone, but they’ve been dumping a ton of change into improving things over the last 8 months — and [...]Read the whole story [...]

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 20:18 | 0 comments
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Online music service Grooveshark is today announcing the launch of a native app for devices running Palm webOS, or in other words the Palm Pre and Pixi phones.
With the app, Grooveshark users gain access to its vast on-demand song catalog – the number of tracks in there runs in [...]Read the whole story [...]

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 10:44 | 0 comments
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