If you like to hear things for yourself straight from the horses mouth you’re in luck HTC has posted their entire MWC press event, we have it here for your viewing pleasure.
Let us know what you think by sounding off in the comments.
Verizon Wireless has kicked off their Double Your Droid campaign, which unlike previous buy one get one offers, the Double Your Droid campaign allows you to get two Droids or two Eris’ for the price of one.
Are you going to Double Your Droid or wait for one of the rumored new devices to hit Verizon?
Nine Verizon smartphones with data plans will be able to make unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls, as well as calls to landline or mobile numbers.
The partnership brings Skype to both Blackberry and Android platforms on Verizon Wireless, which will start selling devices with Skype pre-installed in March . Skype over 3G will allow international calls at rates unavailable from traditional wireless carriers.
For example, calling Australia on Skype will cost $0.021 per minute, Verizon charges $0.17. The Verizon rate is over eight times the rate offered by Skype assuming the you’re paying the $3.99 monthly fee for an international calling plan. Without the plan, you’ll pay a whopping, $1.66 per minute. Read more…
HTC has confirmed via their Twitter account what Sprint has already told us about the upgrade to Android 2.1 for the Sprint Hero, they also included the Europe and Asia versions along with Verizon’s Droid Eris.
No word on when the updates will hit each device, but it’s nice to know that older HTC devices aren’t being left out in the cold! Read more…
The announcements are just pouring out of Twitter today.
Best Buy just announced via their Twitter account that the Motorola Devour with MotoBlur will be available in stores starting February 25th (that’s next Thursday), with pre-sales starting today.
Yesterday we told you HandMark announced via their Twitter account that an update to TweetCaster can be expected sometime this week, today they’re releasing details on what will be included in that update.
Here are some of the updates we can expect to see:
Old-school RT with commenting
Toggle betw real name & twitter name
Auto punctuation/capitalization
Picture preview
Reply all
+ a few others
They went on to say:
Very exciting news for those of us who use TweetCaster as our Twitter client. We’ve tweeted HandMark to see how the update will be delivered for those of you who installed TweetCaster via the HandMark Store and not the Android Market. As soon as we have more details we’ll let you know.
Today via their Twitter account Sprint announced they’re working with HTC and Samsung on options to upgrade the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment.
They also updated their release timeline from first half of 2010 to early second quarter of 2010 for an update to Android 2.1 for the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment. Considering we’re nearing the end of the first quarter and the fact that HTC debuted the HTC Legend and Desire both running Android 2.1 with the new Sense UI overlay and FriendStream widget, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an end of March/early April release of the upgrade for Sprint’s HTC Hero users. Read more…
CLIQ-XT is a keyboardless alternative to the existing Motorola CLIQ. Like the CLIQ, the XT runs the Android 1.5 operating system (it’s sad that it’s running 1.5 would have expected at least 1.6), using Motorola’s MOTOBLUR UI to keep your friends, pics, emails, SMS, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter happenings only a finger tap away.
The XT has a 3.1-inch, 320-by-480 screen touch-screen, below the screen, a touch pad helps you navigate the device. According to Motorola the CLIQ-XT improves call quality with dual-microphone noise cancellation. Other specs include a 1420 mAh battery for about six hours of 3G talk time, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, assisted GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, and a MicroSD memory card slot.
The Motorola CLIQ-XT arriving next month on T-Mobile’s U.S. network.
Today via Twitter Handmark announced a TweetCaster update coming this week. It’s unknown at this point what the update entails, we’ll keep you posted as we learn more.
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